Hi, and thank you for reading my blog at 144Judah! As always, I give All Praises to The Most High God! Continuing on from our last post, we are going to rewind, so to speak, and start where I mentioned Famine.
Sign 3: Famine
The next sign listed in Matthew 24:7 is “there will be famines.”
These famines are described in Revelation 6:5-6:
And when He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, “Come!” And look! A black horse! And he who sat on it had a balance in his hand. I heard a voice in between the four living creatures saying, “A liter of wheat for a denarius, and three liters of barley for a denarius! But don’t damage the oil and the wine!”
When John saw this vision, a denarius was the wage for about one day of work (Matthew 20:2). The major wars of the second seal will quickly lead to widespread inflation, famine, and many people starving.
(We have had a lot of famine over the years. Prices have risen higher and higher, and in today's age, we are seeing them go even higher. I believe that it is only going to get worse. Inflation has been going out the roof. Gas has climbed significantly in the last year, and now that the war is in Israel, I believe that we are going to be hit again.
From: Global hunger crisis: Famine closes in | World Vision
The world faces one of the most cruel and devastating crises of our time: Hunger.
Soaring food prices driven by the war in Ukraine, persistent drought and other extreme weather events, and the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have escalated extreme hunger worldwide.
Today, nearly 45 million people in 37 countries are at risk of starvation. Due to a lack of adequate nutrition, 22 million children are suffering from wasting — severe weight loss that can lead to death if not treated. This number is equal to the combined populations of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, and Philadelphia.
A humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in the Horn of Africa: Across Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia, nearly 4.9 million girls and boys are acutely malnourished in drought-affected areas and need urgent care.
When the children are hungry, they will start crying, asking for food and will not stop.—Hawa, a mother in Somalia
In Somalia alone, about 6.7 million people will likely face acute food insecurity, and experts predict famine in two districts, Baidoa and Burhakaba — where at least 300,000 people are already living with “catastrophic” levels of food insecurity.
More go hungry, and malnutrition persists
Hunger has exacted a heavy toll on women and children in Baidoa. According to a doctor at Bay Regional Hospital, which offers free medical care to Somalis experiencing severe malnutrition, one to two children are dying daily. Children who recover from malnutrition continue to receive outpatient services, including through World Vision–supported therapeutic clinics and mobile health and nutrition outreach programs.
“When the children are hungry, they will start crying, asking for food and will not stop. When I have water, I give [it to] them to stop crying but it will be … a moment before they start again, demanding for food,” says Hawa, a 30-year-old mother living in an internal displacement camp in Baidoa.
Almighty God, You are our sustainer, especially in the most challenging times. We pray for You to give the hungry their daily bread (Matthew 6:11) and end their persistent hunger. We ask You to restore health, well-being, and livelihoods. We know no emergency or crisis is too much for You to relieve.
From USAFacts.org
More than half a million people experienced homelessness in America last year. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) counted around 582,000 Americans experiencing homelessness in 2022. That’s about 18 per 10,000 people in the US, up about 2,000 people from 2020.
Did you know that the Pacific Islanders and Native Hawaiians face the biggest Homelessness in America?
Who is homeless in America?
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islanders are 1.8% of the homeless population despite being just 0.26% of the US population. They have the nation’s highest rate of homelessness at 121 per 10,000 people.
Twenty-four percent of all homeless people identify as Hispanic. This is higher than the national proportion of the Hispanic population: 19%.
One reason Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders have such high rates of homelessness could be because of Hawaii’s lack of affordable housing. Many native Hawaiians are also on wait lists for homeland leases.
Veterans also experience homelessness at a slightly higher rate than the overall population. Twenty out of every 10,000 veterans are homeless, compared to the nation’s overall rate of 18 per 10,000.
It is now even worse in America with the border being in near shambles. We don't have room for our own people and now we are taking on an even bigger problem.
What does this have to do with food? We have too many people coming through, our country is printing money with nothing to back it up, and the drugs and child trafficking that is coming through is at an all-time high. We have powerful people buying the US farmland and not farming. We have government regulations on everything...food, energy, big pharma. And now, Biden, "the resident", is talking about getting rid of gas stoves. The prices are going up everywhere, the pipelines have been shut down. Trucks were shut down for a while last year, and the production/people working is at a major low. PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO WORK ANYMORE.
People are starting to wake up to the fact that they have been slaves.
Does this sound familiar? Could it be that the Israel that God talks about in the Bible isn't in fact a state, but a people? YES. It is in the Bible, after all. He also talks about the people that say they are Jews but are not and are nothing but the SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN.
COULD THIS BE OUR VERY OWN EXODUS? GET OUT OF HER! GET OUT OF BABYLON!
What does that mean?
Get out of her?
Get out of Babylon?
IT means get out of the world. Get out of the false doctrines. Where your heart is there lies your treasure...
Matthew 6:20-25
"But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Yet, another clue that we are indeed in the end times... the birthing pains are getting bigger.
In other words, if you have an eye toward The Most High God, you won't be in darkness. You won't fear. If your treasure lies in money, fame and fortune, you aren't looking toward what really matters. GOD. That doesn't mean you won't have anything; it just means that you won't place those things above God. No idols, remember? That includes people... even your husbands, wives and kids... Nobody or anything in life is more important than God.
GOD, HUSBAND/WIFE, then kids. Concentric Circles of importance.
From Rapture Forums...
In a vision, God revealed to Daniel that in “the time of the end,” travel and knowledge will increase: “But you, Daniel, keep this prophecy a secret; seal up the book until the time of the end. Many will rush here and there, and knowledge will increase.” Daniel 12:4 (NLT)
According to the book of Daniel, two things will increase in “the time of the end” – travel and knowledge.
Is this the case now?
At the time the Book of Daniel was written, horses were the world’s the fastest mode of transportation.
In fact, horses remained the world’s fastest mode of transportation for over 2,000 years until the Industrial Revolution spawned such innovations as the steamboat, the locomotive, and the horseless carriage.
Prior to the 20th Century, most people rarely traveled more than 30 miles from where they were born. Today, people routinely travel from one continent to another within the same day. My own family has traveled across the United States in a week during our roadtrip in 2021. It was nothing to drive a 15 hour drive and have fun along the way.
Today’s world is definitely not “the way it’s always been.”
Frequency and speed of travel have markedly increased!
WHO GAVE US THIS TECHNOLOGY?
What about knowledge?
In Daniel’s time, few people received a formal education. In fact, basic literacy was a foreign concept to all but an elite minority of the world until the past 100 to 150 years.
Yet, in the past century alone, human knowledge of science, biology, technology, and countless fields of endeavor has exploded. And the advent of the Internet has created a worldwide archive of human knowledge that far exceeds even the wildest dreams of the great ancient civilizations.
WHO GAVE US THIS KNOWLEDGE?
Is humanity’s knowledge base today “the same as previous generations?”
Absolutely not. Human knowledge has also markedly increased.
Given that all this can be ascertained from mere observation, how can anyone say with a straight face that “things today are the same as they’ve always been?”
Not only do we have the internet, but we have virtual reality games, cell phones and computers that keep getting smaller and smaller. Video game systems. We went from barely any phones in the 90s to an explosion in the 2000s. We went from a gigantic box computer, and even not long before that a computer that was as big as a room, to your phone being the fastest computer--something that can be held in the palm of your hand. In a few seconds you can get hard to answer questions from your phone, Alexa or Google without breaking a sweat.
And here I thought dictionaries and encyclopedias were pretty cool to have back in high school. My kids have never had to use an actual map, a phone book or an encyclopedia. EVERYTHING is at our fingertips!
WHAT TIME ARE WE IN? ARE WE IN THE SECOND COMING OR ARE WE IN THE LITTLE SEASON?
Revelation 6:7-8 says: "And when He opened the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature saying, “Come!” And I looked and look! A sickly-green horse! And the one who sat on it, his name is Death, and the grave follows with him. And authority was given to him over one-fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, and with famine, and with death, and by the wild animals of the earth."
War and famine will lead to widespread disease. Packs of wild animals, including former pets, will roam the streets looking for food (this is also mentioned in Leviticus 26:22). Earthquakes will add to the death toll.
The compounding effects of the first four signs will cause one-quarter of humanity to die. When you see 25% of the world population die, you will know that the fourth sign has been fulfilled.
Matthew 24:8 says, “But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.”
Next, Jesus explained what would happen to His followers: "At that time they will hand you over to oppression, and will kill you. And you will be hated by all the nations because of My name." (Matthew 24:9)
As a false Christianity rises in power, it will seek to suppress true Christianity.
This will be a time of sifting among the followers of Christ. Some will hold on to their beliefs and boldly proclaim the truth. Others will abandon their faith and betray their friends and relatives (Matthew 24:10-13).
During this time, the true followers of Jesus Christ will finish preaching the true Gospel to the whole world. Jesus told His followers, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to all the creation” (Mark 16:15). Matthew 24:14 says, “And this good news of the Kingdom will be proclaimed in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.”
So look for those who preach the real Good News to the whole world. Look for those who are “hated by all nations” when they do not follow the false Christianity that will be popular at the end of the age. Those will be the real followers of Christ—a group you might want to be a part of.
Evangelist, other Christians in Uganda Assaulted
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Hard-line Muslims at an open-air evangelistic event in eastern Uganda on Aug. 11 assaulted a preacher and more than 20 other Christians for his teaching about Christ’s divinity, sources said.
On the third day of a five-day event planned by an undisclosed church from another town, Miya cited passages from the Koran as examples that acknowledge the uniqueness of Christ, and said the Bible affirms His uniqueness as the Son of God who grants forgiveness by virtue of His death and resurrection.
Muslims began chanting the jihadist slogan, “Allah Akbar [God is greater],” and a Muslim leader known in the area to be hard-line sheikh, Hiisa Mubaraka, rushed to the podium and pulled the evangelist down, said the eyewitness.
Christian Evangelists Attacked for Preaching to Muslims in Uganda
Both sustain knife wounds.
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Two evangelists in eastern Uganda were beaten and slashed with knives after leading several Muslims to Christ, sources said.
And that is just a tiny bit... Christians are being persecuted all over the globe. The news site where I got this information above has a ton of listings just like this.
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