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(The Economic Collapse Blog)—Will we soon see a major prophecy in the Book of Revelation be fulfilled? Global food prices have been skyrocketing and hunger has been spreading like wildfire all over the world. We desperately need 2024 to be a year of good harvests, but unfortunately weather patterns are not cooperating at all and bad news about harvest forecasts just continues to pour in from many of the planet’s most important agricultural regions. Global food supplies just keep getting tighter and tighter, and the agricultural price spikes that we are witnessing right now are definitely quite ominous. Could it be possible that the stage is now being set for the global food crisis prophecy of Revelation 6:6? In that verse, we are warned of a time when food prices will soar to absolutely frightening levels…
Then I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a day’s wages, and three quarts of barley for a day’s wages, and do not harm the oil and the wine.”
We certainly haven’t reached that point yet.
But are we on the way there?
In this article, I would like to share what has been going on with a number of our most important agricultural commodities recently.
For example, poor harvests in Brazil have caused the price of orange juice to approximately double over the past 12 months…
Prices of the breakfast staple have been climbing rapidly in recent years, partly driven by declining output in Florida — the main producer of orange juice in the U.S. — and climate-fueled extreme weather in the main orange producing areas of Brazil.
The South American agricultural powerhouse is the world’s largest producer and exporter of orange juice, which means it plays a hugely influential role in shaping the global industry.
The benchmark frozen concentrated orange juice futures, traded on the Intercontinental Exchange in New York, closed at $4.77 per pound on Wednesday. That’s nearly double the price registered a year ago.
Prices have gone so “bananas” that some orange juice producers are actually “considering turning to alternative fruits”…
Orange juice makers are considering turning to alternative fruits such as mandarins as wholesale prices have “gone bananas” amid fears of poor harvests in Brazil.
Prices of orange juice concentrate reached a new high of $4.95 (£3.88) a lb on futures markets this week after growers in the main orange producing areas of Brazil said they were expecting the harvest to be 24% down on last year at 232m 40.8kg boxes – worse than the 15% fall previously predicted.
The price of coffee is also going haywire.
So if you love coffee, I would stock up now while you still can.
Thanks to extremely dry conditions in Brazil and Vietnam, coffee prices were up “sharply” this week…
Coffee prices Tuesday rallied sharply, with arabica jumping to a 1-month high. Coffee prices soared Tuesday on concern that excessive dryness in Brazil and Vietnam will damage coffee crops and curb global production. Somar Meteorologia reported Monday that Brazil’s Minas Gerais region received 5.3 mm of rain or 69% of the historical average in the past week. Minas Gerais accounts for about 30% of Brazil’s arabica crop.
Last Wednesday, coffee trader Volcafe said Vietnam’s 2024/25 robusta coffee crop may only be 24 million bags, the lowest in 13 years, as poor rainfall in Vietnam has caused “irreversible damage” to coffee blossoms. Volcafe also projects a global robusta deficit of 4.6 million bags in 2024/25, a smaller deficit than the 9-million-bag deficit seen in 2023/24 but the fourth consecutive year of robusta bean deficits.
Wheat is specifically mentioned in Revelation 6:6, and Bloomberg is reporting that a confluence of factors has pushed the price of wheat to the highest level in 10 months…
Wheat briefly touched the highest in 10 months, as cold and dry weather in major producers and the ongoing war in Ukraine deepen supply concerns.
Futures climbed as much as 3.3% in Chicago, before paring some of the gain. Analysts have been cutting production estimates for top exporter Russia in recent weeks, while Ukraine is headed for its driest May on record. Historically low rainfall in Western Australia is also adding to nervousness.
Unfortunately, this is just the beginning.
I am entirely convinced that the price of wheat will soon go far higher than it is right now.
So if you think that the price of bread is high now, just wait until you see what is coming next.
Meanwhile, the price of beef just surged to another brand new all-time record high…
Beef prices skyrocketed to a new record high this Memorial Day weekend as industry experts warn costs could continue to rise even higher if current regulatory and economic conditions remain unchanged.
Recently released data shows that “all fresh beef retail value,” a composite value based on choice beef, other beef, and hamburger retail prices, shot up to $794.90 in April, according to the Economic Research Council, the highest price on record.
The size of the U.S. cattle herd is the smallest that it has been in decades, and one rancher named Shad Sullivan recently warned that beef will soon be a luxury that only the wealthy will be able to afford on a regular basis…
“We are seeing prices at an all-time high, and it is getting close to that point when the consumer is going to say, I can’t do this anymore; it’s just too costly,” said Mr. Sullivan.
“They (officials and regulators) are trying to push these high prices as a new norm where meat is only a treat for the wealthy. That is where they are pushing us, and that is where we are going.”
You may be thinking that if beef gets too expensive you will just eat more chicken and turkey.
Sadly, chicken and turkey prices are poised to go a lot higher thanks to H5N1.
A fresh wave of the bird flu is sweeping across the nation, and Iowa Republican Governor Kim Reynolds just declared a state of emergency in one county in her state due to an outbreak there…
Iowa Republican Governor Kim Reynolds signed a disaster proclamation on Tuesday for one of her state’s counties as public health officials prepare to euthanize more than 4 million chickens exposed to a highly contagious bird flu.
The order comes after a case of avian influenza was confirmed among a large flock of egg-laying chickens in Sioux County on Tuesday by state and local agriculture officials, according to a report from CBS News.
As a result, the animals will be destroyed and their remains will be isolated in an attempt to prevent the further spread of the contagion.
In total, some 4.2 million chickens will be put down.
Just think about that last sentence for a moment.
What do you think that losing 4.2 million chickens will do to egg prices?
Everywhere you look, there are signs of trouble. Unfortunately, this is all happening at a time when foreigners have more control over our food supply than ever before.
Foreigners now control more than 43 million acres of U.S. farmland, and this should deeply alarm all of us…
A recent map has revealed the alarming trend of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) acquiring vast swaths of American farmland, raising serious national security concerns.
Foreign ownership of U.S. agricultural land expanded to approximately 43.4 million acres in 2022, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
According to the USDA, Chinese investors’ ownership of U.S. agricultural land has skyrocketed from merely 13,720 acres in 2010 to an astounding 346,915 acres by 2022 out of the 43 million acres.
Chinese entities hold ownership of farmland across 29 of the 50 U.S. states.
I have been warning for many years that global food supplies would get tighter and tighter.
Now it is happening right in front of our eyes, and hundreds of millions of people are going to bed hungry every single night.
I wish that I could tell you that things will soon get better, but I can’t.
We really are living in the end times, and the things that are written in the Book of Revelation really will take place.
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I have been thinking that since this roaring HyperBidenstagflation began. Mene. Tekel. Peres. Trump 2024! America First! ULTRAMAGA!
The events of Revelation 6 will not occur until after Messiah’s bride has been fully removed from the earth and taken to the wedding chamber on the Feast of Trumpets. After that happens, the Antichrist will be revealed to the world, and ten years later, Messiah Yahoshua will return to the earth in judgment at Armageddon on the Feast of Atonement.
https://wayofthetabernacle.com/rapture.htm
Sorry, Dean, but that simply isn’t true. Christians will go through the Tribulation just like everyone else. Ask yourself this: What will you do when you discover you’re in it? Will you retain your Faith, or will you abandon it because you feel God abandoned you?
Be prepared to endure the Trib and please, keep your Faith. Teach non-believers about Jesus as you go through it together, and help bring them into the sheepfold before the return of our Savior.
I don’t have to wonder about such things, because the Holy Spirit has illuminated my heart and mind to understand His truths. Those who do not know and understand the Father’s traditions have no clue about the prophetic texts of scripture. Apparently, like most who are lost in the false teachings of christianity, you have no understanding of these things.
First, there was never anything in the first century (or in scripture) called a jesus. That name didn’t exist until the 17th century.
Now, if you don’t know who are the members of the bride, who are the friends of the Bridegroom, who are the friends of the bride, and who are the wedding guests, you don’t know the prophetic calendar.
If you don’t know who are the barley harvest, who are the wheat harvest, and who are the grape harvest, you don’t know the prophetic calendar.
And, finally, yes most of what calls itself “christians” WILL go into the tribulation, because that is a term of reproach coined by the Greeks at Antioch, and it meant “little messiahs.” Nobody in the New Testament ever called himself a “little messiah.” Nobody adopted the term of shame for themselves until christianity, the counterfeit of the true faith, was being invented after all the NT apostles had died, and the false religion wasn’t codified until the 4th century by the sun-worshiping emperor Constantine (which is why christianity’s holydays come from Babylonian sun worship–SUNday assembling, christ-mass, easter/ishtar, etc.).
BTW–did you even read the article I wrote and posted with my first comment? I’m thinking you didn’t. There is only ONE true faith (Ephesians 4:4-6), and when Paul wrote that, there was no such thing as christianity.
https://wottblog.com/index.php/why-do-some-believe-there-is-no-rapture-before-the-tribulation/
Here’s a question for you:
https://wottblog.com/index.php/if-the-bride-is-not-raptured-then-why-the-144000/
To think that the prophecies put forth in the Bible are 100% correctly understood might not be the best road to walk down. If you will allow me to make a few statements for your discerning consideration:
Most people think that the famine depicted in Revelation is something that is wholly derived by nature, in that they don’t consider that this famine that is depicted in Revelation may end up being something that is created by people on earth that want to destroy a population.
The other thing that people always conclude is that all events depicted in Revelation are going to impact the entire world’s population. But, with the Bible being a religious text for mainly Christians, might it be that this famine that is depicted in Revelation might end up being focused on just the Christian population? And with that being said, how would that happen? Is it worth considering that perhaps a social credit scoring system might be the dominating variable when it comes to bringing about a famine for a specific group of people – Christians?
It’s pretty common knowledge that when the fourth seal is opened that the final portion of the Tribulation, which is know as the Great Tribulation, takes place. But what is not common knowledge is when the first portion of the Tribulation takes place, or starts.
The first three seals, or horses, in Revelation 6 depict pestilence, war, and famine, but let’s take a closer look at one of them, pestilence, for example:
“I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.”
Notice that three events take place related to the first horse:
1) The rider holds a bow
2) The rider is given a crown
3) The rider rides as a conqueror bent on conquest.
What is interesting is that everyone considers that this horse’s arrival is a one-time event, where all three of these characteristics of the first horse all happen all at once. But I’d like you to consider that perhaps this is not the case – perhaps this first horse, along with the 2nd and 3rd horse don’t just come once, rather they come three times.
Look at the 2nd and 3rd horses. Please note that for these two horses that there are exactly three events tied to each of them as well.
In other words, the first three horses come as a group three times, and during each arrival they each fulfill one of the three variables related to them.
when they come the second time, they fulfill the second set of variables related to each of them. Again, when they come for the third time, the final variable related to each of them is fulfilled.
I’m pretty sure this is how these passages need to be understood, and with that being said we can also consider that with each iteration of the three horses showing up that the severity of each instance increases from the first to the 3rd arrival.
Just some food for thought for all you thoughtful people that will admit that perhaps the Book of Revelation is not completely 100% accurately understood.
There is much more I could say but Christians are not interested in hearing anything that disagrees with what they’ve already concluded. Plus, the more I say, the most the anti-Christ elements in this world benefit and they learn of how events will really play out in the Bible.
If anyone really wants to know more, prepare for a discussion that will take days to properly complete. Write to Michael if you want to get in touch – he has my email…
The reason that the orange juice production from Florida has gone down is because what formally used to be orange groves has been planted in Yankees.
It’s like a biblical plague of locusts that won’t stop coming.