Are We Ready?
"Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready." (Revelation 19:7)
This year of 2025 seems to have sped past and it seems incredible that the Opening Night service of this year's Feast is just a little over three weeks away – the evening of Monday October 6th. Those who have been given the job of organising a Feast site would tell you how much thought and how many hours of work goes into making the eight days profitable and enjoyable for all. And of course for some there are visas to apply for, plane tickets to buy, permission to take time off work or school etc etc. Yes, so much goes into getting ready for the Feast. But if we are not careful, all the physical "must-do's" can take precedence over what is really more important for us to consider and plan for. So let's do an analytical "What, How, When and Who" of this vital subject.
Ready ... for What?
- For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
- For every one that useth milk is unskilful [Gk: inexperienced] in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
- But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use [Gk: habit, custom] have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. (Hebrews 5:12-14)
Having the priceless understanding of what and why humanity is on the earth, we know full well that the Feast is not a holiday the way the world looks at it, but depicts a crucial part of a seven thousand year Plan – the millennial reign of Christ and how we can be an integral part of it (Revelation 5:10):
... God cannot start the Kingdom of God until He first trains teachers. And He has called you and me to become those teachers! THAT’S WHY WE’RE THE FIRSTFRUITS. WE ARE CALLED TO BECOME TEACHERS! And it is, let’s see, I believe it’s the 5th chapter of Hebrews (Isn’t it?), where the apostle Paul says to them, “You ought now to be able to be teachers, and you have to be taught just the kindergarten truth about the Kingdom of God. You haven’t learned. You should have been better students.”
WE are NOT CALLED just for salvation; and, if it were for salvation, we wouldn’t have been called at all. You wouldn’t have been called at all just to get you into the Kingdom. THAT’S NOT WHY YOU WERE CALLED. You were called to become a student. You were called to learn how to save others when God’s Kingdom comes, when Jesus is sitting on the throne on this Earth. Brethren, YOU DON’T GET IT ... (Why The Firstfruits – 26 May 1985)
Do we get it - even now? Is it possible to be a member of God's church for decades, and still not be qualified to teach? It certainly appears that just before Christ returns, some will have to go through additional and even intense training and personally experience the Great Tribulation and heavenly signs, in order to get them "up to speed" with aspects of the Way of God that are missing in their lives. Even the apostle Paul didn't take for granted that he "had it made" for the first resurrection ...
- Do you not know that in a race, though all run, only one man gains the prize? Run so as to win the prize.
- Every athlete practises self-restraint all round; but while they do it to win a fading wreath, we do it for an unfading.
- Well, I run without swerving; I do not plant my blows upon the empty air –
- no, I master my body, in case, after preaching to other people, I am disqualified myself. (I Corinthians 9:24-27 Moffatt)
Even understanding the overall Plan of God, plus discerning the implications of Mr. Armstrong as the end-time apostle may not be sufficient depending on HOW we are living! Are we putting to daily use the understanding we have? Are we plugged into the vine, realising that without God's Holy Spirit, we are "poor, blind and naked"?
We need therefore to ask ourselves: Am I fulfilling my calling? Am I ready to teach? You see, before long you won't be sitting in the audience or listening via a computer to that opening night service ... it will be YOU giving it! I don't think that registers with us very often. It certainly didn't with me when I was a student at Ambassador College, but during those four years I was being trained for that very opportunity. And so are you. You may never have had the benefit of the two years of Speech Class that I had, but actually the mechanics of public speaking can be learnt fairly easily. What Mr. Armstrong understood was that knowledge on its own - whether public speaking or even if gleaned from the Bible classes - can be worthless, unless it is also used correctly! Under Mr. Armstrong's direction, the final two years of AC were focused on developing character. And it is this character that has to be built in our lives which will make our Opening Night sermon worthwhile.
WHAT will we teach?
At that time, having recently gone through the greatest time of trial that has ever been on this world, our Feast audience will no doubt be very receptive! What must be made clear to them at the outset is that the root cause of this cataclysmic, worldwide devastation was a SPIRITUAL problem – and one that reared its ugly head perhaps millions of years ago. In fact it has been the source of every minor conflict, every major war, every personal and every family's heartache ever experienced in the history of mankind. And to show this, we will no doubt go right back to the beginning:
Now once again, there are the Two Trees. If I mention it, someone’s going to get up and walk out and say “There’s Mr. Armstrong getting back to those Two Trees.” You betcha! And I’m going to do it again, and again, and again – because you can’t understand salvation, you can’t understand what Christ is doing, you can’t understand the Church, you can’t understand the world or what’s wrong with it, you can’t understand ANYTHING unless you understand the lesson of those Two Trees and the incident of the forbidden fruit. (Transcript – Sermon (1983-04-04) – Sin)
The two ways of life, Give versus Get. One way brought disaster to the world and the other way of life – if kept – will lead to utopia. We'll explain how mankind was created to need another spirit to join with his human spirit. That his mind was designed to be plugged into the spirit of God – the Tree of Life – but it was rejected and instead plugged into an opposing spirit. The satanic broadcast that we have all been subject to and influenced by produces a certain frame of mind, moods, attitudes and feelings, which result in negative, destructive words and actions. That is what has produced the kind of world that mankind has lived in, and the apocalyptic events they will have very recently lived through.
We'll explain that our forefathers, Old Testament Israel, was given the Ten Commandments – a perfect law for humanity, but it didn't benefit them as it should, and didn't bring them peace, happiness and security. So how will the millennium – the reality of this Feast – be any different? It will be because of a different spirit! A heart of flesh replacing the heart of stone, and the love of God made available to all:
"But in the last days [and we’re right in those last days now, in the last days] it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains [that is the nation of God will be established over all of the nations because it’ll rule over all nations] and it shall be exalted above the hills; and many nations will flow unto it. Many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the [nation, it is, or] mountain of the [Eternal], and to the house of the God of Jacob; and HE WILL TEACH US HIS WAYS! [It’s a matter of a way of life. And He will teach us that way of life – the way of give.] And we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion [that’s the law – it is a spiritual law – the way of outflowing love, go forth of Zion,] and the Word of the LORD from Jerusalem. And he shall judge amongst many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off [a world-ruling government] and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." (Micah 4:1-3) (The Two Ways Part 1)
HOW we are being taught NOW
- Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
- And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
- And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
- And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. (Deuteronomy 6:4-7)
The first two verses above are called the Shema in Jewish circles and apparently are still recited daily in their prayers. But what I want you to notice are the next two verses, because that gives us the approach that will work best for our students in the Millennium – and it so happens to be the way God teaches US, His children, now. Christ assures us: " In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you." (John 14:2) and it stands to reason that in the meantime, He and the Father are preparing us for that place – by teaching us when we walk in the way, when we lie down and when we rise up.
Currently we have weekly Sabbath services but God expects us to take what we have learnt and put it into practice in every day life and in each and every situation we are faced with. That is why we're not "whisked off to heaven when we accept Christ", but are generally given a lifetime in which to experience life on the physical level, and learn – more often than not – what doesn't work. Our varied life experiences and even the trials are vital teaching tools, used for our ultimate good. On a personal note, living with Parkinsons for many years now has opened my eyes to the difficulties and hardships – both physical and mental – in the life of a disabled individual. And my wife has agreed that she has a far better appreciation now of the role of a carer. Only someone who has been widowed for example, can really know the intense grief accompanying bereavement – and will be well suited to help the bereaved in the future. These temporary adversities – as painful as they are – are allowed for an eternal purpose (Hebrew 12:7-11) ... so we can be refined and purified, perfected and ready for the job at hand (Malachi 3:18).
- For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
- For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
- While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. (II Corinthians 4:16-18)
HOW we will teach THEN
But teaching won't stop at sunset of a Sabbath – as it shouldn't for us now – but we will have the privilege of working alongside our students during their everyday lives; on their farms, their vineyards, their workshops, their family homes ... it is going to be a day-by-day, hour-by-hour and a totally hands-on experience for us, as born sons of God! When they need advice, all they need to do is call:
- And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
- For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
- And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
- And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. (Isaiah 30:18-21)
No doubt there will be sermons at that millennial Feast on practical applications of "the Way" ... the Give approach, rather than the Get, which we have all been subject to. Sermons on how family life can be transformed – so that broken homes will be a thing of the past and divorce will never again be the dreadful curse in society it has been for millennia. (Malachi 2:13-16) No more abusive, violent and unruly children (Isaiah 54:13, Psalm 112:1-3). No more prisons, murders, thieves (Romans 13:9). No more dependence on the medical profession for healing (Exodus 15:26, Psalm 103:3). And instead of famine and food shortages, by applying the Give approach to the land as explained by the Sabbatical year, agriculture will be blessed and not cursed as it is today (Exodus 23:11, Amos 9:13,14). No more worries about inflation, rising prices, making ends meet or having a roof over one's head, as the prophet Micah brings out:
- But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it. (Micah 4:4)
God's way of life is the sensible way to live. God's Word gives practical directions for successfully managing finances, building and beautifying marriages and even maintaining good health. Simply stated, God's Law is the way to all the good things in life – to peace, happiness and ultimately an eternal life of satisfying accomplishment! (Bible Correspondence Course Lesson 12 – Christianity is a Way of Life)
WHO will be the teachers?
At the beginning of Millennium it will be "the elect" ... those who have qualified to teach, because if there are no capable teachers, then this world is in dire trouble: "And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened." (Matthew 24:22) But along with the now resurrected elect, there will be physical leaders to aid us, possibly our children/grandchildren as Psalm 45 indicates: "Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth." (Psalm 45:16)
As Mr. Armstrong brings out in his sermon "The True Gospel", May 1981:
After that, [Atonement] the Feast of Tabernacles, picturing the thousand years with Satan gone and Christ ruling here. And we will be God beings ruling with Christ and. And then everybody still living on earth will go on and they'll be having children. And in a couple hundred years the earth will be very thickly populated again and everybody will have the Holy Spirit offered to them then, just like it was offered to Adam. But there won't be any Satan around to tempt them. And we will be here to help them then .
Now, this thought came to me. A lot of the teenagers, a lot of children younger, they say, well, if Christ is coming soon and the Great Tribulation and all these troubles, what hope is there for me? Why should I go to school? Why should I do anything? Listen, you young children, if you're here today, you will be the men and women growing up at that time and helping to lead the others, and you'll be leaders.
What a wonderful opportunity for you. The children of other parents will not. You will be. You are sanctified, set apart by God. If one of your parents even is a member of this church, that is, if they have the Holy Spirit of God. (The True Gospel, 1981)
The whole thrust of the millennium is to train the trainers, so we'll be explaining to our students their future role as teachers, and how important it is therefore to grasp the spiritual nature of God's laws – the principle – so they will be able to teach them to the billions and billions of human beings, raised to physical life and given their first chance to understand what life is all about in the Great White Throne Judgment period. (Ezekiel 37 – the Valley of Dry Bones)
And if those raised in the second resurrection accept wholeheartedly and "run" with God's way of life, they too will be made immortal and along with the Bride of Christ and those changed in the millennium, will have the mind-numbing opportunity to take this eternal and all-encompassing way of life to the rest of the universe ... whatever is out there!
- And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people. (Isaiah 51:16)
- And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
- And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
- And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. (Daniel 12:1-3)
Learning and teaching will be a way of life for eternity! Are we gaining in the process of "making ourselves ready" now? There may not be much more time in which to do so, and the opportunity for YOUR Opening Night service could come sooner than you think.
Reliant on the rest of the world for food; vulnerable to volatile food and energy prices; vulnerable to volatile oil and fertiliser prices:
Is Britain…
One Shock From A Crisis?
June 2022: “The UK is one global shock away from a food crisis, experts have warned, as the country is overly reliant on the rest of the world for staple goods. Britain’s dependence on imports had made it increasingly vulnerable to volatile food and energy prices, they said, criticising the Government for not taking its food security ‘seriously’.
‘When it comes to food we are massively dependent on other countries,’ said Professor Timothy Lang, emeritus professor of food policy at the University of London. ‘If you look at nutrient value, Britain doesn’t even produce half of its food. We export meat and dairy and import that which is good for health – namely, fruit and vegetables.’ Government figures show Britain imports 46 per cent of its fresh vegetables and 84 per cent of its fresh fruit.
In the past three years, food prices in the UK have been shaken by Covid, Brexit and now Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The impact on food is already being felt by people across the country.
The most recent blow has been Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The two countries together accounted for 29 per cent of international wheat annual sales, while Ukraine grew enough food for 400 million people. Russia is also a major fertiliser exporter, and the surge in its pricing – linked to a surge in the price of gas – has impacted British farmers.
‘George Eustice, the UK Secretary of State for Defra, said we don’t need to worry about Ukraine. I don’t know what on earth is going on in Defra for the Secretary of State in charge of food supply to be so inaccurate and inappropriate,’ Professor Lang said. ‘Ukraine has rocketed world food prices, oil and fertiliser prices, grain and edible oil prices.’
Food ‘Used As A Weapon’
In the past four months, Russia has also blockaded exports from Ukrainian ports and bombed food stores. It is estimated that as much as 25 million tonnes of grain is now rotting in silos, unable to leave the country. ‘We are seeing the ruthlessness of food being used as a weapon of war,’ Professor Lang said.
But Russia’s invasion alone could not be blamed for the UK’s precarious situation, Professor Lang added. ‘Britain was already in a risky situation before the war,’ he said. ‘There are serious issues around Brexit. Britain gets the vast majority of what it imports from the EU. The government says it has left the EU – it hasn’t, the EU feeds us.’ Government figures show the UK imports 46 per cent of its vegetables, the vast majority of which come from the EU.
Professor Lang pointed to Monmouthshire’s Our Food 1200 initiative, which is aiming to rebuild the local food economy by creating a network of small-scale growers serving local communities on three to five acre plots. The aim is to grow fruit and vegetables on a total of 1,200 acres and create 1,200 jobs.
‘We need a three to five year strategy to build up horticulture in the short term, on a devolved level, but we also need to be thinking in terms of a 30-year horizon. We need to rebuild the horticulture industry we have allowed to die,’ he added.
But Professor Lang warned: ‘Be prepared for shocks – we’ve seen the beginning of this with Covid and it’s going to get much worse.’ Professor Lang said the UK must ‘stop assuming other people should feed us’ and start by rebuilding horticulture.” (telegraph.co.uk)
UK ‘Criminally’ Unprepared To Feed Itself In Crisis
August 2025: “With threats to our food supply increasing, Tom Bradshaw says, the UK has a ‘criminal’ dependence on foreign countries to source some of its food. The UK is no better prepared to feed its population during wars, pandemics and climate disasters than before the COVID outbreak, the head of the National Farmers Union says.
With threats to our food supply increasing, Tom Bradshaw says, the UK has a ‘criminal’ dependence on foreign countries to source some of its food. He warns if Britain continues down this road for another decade, it will be too late to ‘turn the tap back on’. ‘We’re living in probably some of the most volatile geopolitical times we’ve known,’ he says.
In the past five years, we’ve witnessed major wars in Ukraine and Gaza, an aggressive trade policy overhaul by the world’s biggest economy and numerous climate disasters. Britain needs to consider what happens to its food supply if the chaos continues at this rate, says Professor Tim Benton, former UK food security ambassador and distinguished fellow at Chatham House.
‘Increasingly, it’s easy to imagine a prolonged acute problem that would arise out of some significant geopolitical impact,’ he says.
‘Governments all over the place are starting to worry about how do you ensure that there is enough food in the country to keep the country going.’
Since the 1980s, politicians have handed responsibility for food to the free market to save money, says Benton.
Food companies themselves have moved to fragile, just-in-time supply chains, while consumers shop more precariously too, often visiting the supermarket every day rather than filling up a larder.
‘Our Achilles’ heel is really fruit and vegetables,’ says Benton. Britain grows just 15% of its own fruit and 53% of its vegetables.
It’s much better at producing meat, potatoes and wheat, but calories alone aren’t enough without the vital micronutrients found in horticultural products.
A major long-term shock to imports could lead to malnutrition that overwhelms the NHS, says Benton. Bradshaw, of the farmers’ union, asks: ‘Why are we less than 20% self-sufficient in fruit? That is criminal.’ Just 1% of farmland is used to grow fruit and vegetables, DEFRA figures showed the following year.
‘Growing - it’s one of the riskiest businesses you can do,’ says Walgate. ‘It really is not for the faint-hearted.’ Take an apple: A tree is a 20-year investment, but contracts with retailers are usually much shorter, meaning growers don’t know what market will exist for their product when it’s ready. Retailers can also find cheaper options abroad because the cost of energy and labour in the UK often outstrips savings on transport. External investors are hard to come by because the climate is increasingly unpredictable, meaning returns are uncertain.
Thanet Earth is a rare example of a grower that is expanding, producing 300 million tomatoes, 33 million cucumbers and 20 million peppers each year. But the complex technology needed to overcome the industry’s obstacles has cost the company tens of millions of pounds. They buy gas and use Dutch-inspired combined heat and power engines to burn it, producing heat for the greenhouses, CO2 for the crops and electricity to sell back to the grid.
The 50-hectare site is 70% water self-sufficient, thanks to tech that collects and reuses rain and condensation, and covered in special screens to prevent sun-scorch. Thanet Earth’s seventh greenhouse, currently under construction, will cost £20 million. Britons aren’t paying enough to make investing sustainable, suggests NFU chief Bradshaw.
Without capacity at home, Britain looks abroad to make up the shortfall in its food supply - mostly to Europe (28%), as well as Africa, Asia and North and South America (14%). Of the 10 nations the UK is most reliant on for food, feed and drink, the Netherlands, France and Ireland are in the top three spots.
While European allies dominate the table in terms of total product value, some of Briton’s staple foods come from further afield, like rice from India, fish from China or apples from South Africa. Dependence on countries like these risks disruption by trade barriers, geopolitics or extreme weather, the UK’s Food Security Report found.
It’s not just temperatures that are out of control. International conflict also threatens food security. Russian blockades against Ukrainian wheat, a key ingredient in chicken feed, may have contributed to egg shortages in British supermarkets in 2022. ‘If global trade falls apart because of some climate impact, countries will start being more muscular about insuring their food supply,’ he says, be it more aggressive trade tactics, blockades or even invasions.
Between 2021 and 2023, vegetable production decreased by 13% due to extremely rainy or hot weather that delayed planting, hampered growth and encouraged disease. Britain has become more susceptible to weather events, according to Benton.” (news.sky.com)
God Is Correcting His People But They Are Not Listening!
“ And I also have given you cleanness of teeth (famine) in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places:
Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest:
…Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: …Your fig trees and your olive trees …the palmerworm (locust) devoured them:
Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword…
Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah:
…Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel:
And because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.” (Excerpts from Amos 4:6-12)
Consumer Expectations Vs Growing Realities
“Bradshaw noted: ‘We’ve got used to more exotic diets… We expect strawberries on the shelves 365 days a year,’ despite a growing season of just eight months. He further noted that UK sweetcorn can only be grown for six to eight weeks annually, onions for 42 weeks, and broccoli between May and October.
John Walgate, CEO of the British Growers Association, observed: ‘Bananas are a staple fruit — they’re not going to grow in the UK any time soon.’” (fpcfreshtalkdaily.co.uk)
Farmers Struggling After ‘Devastatingly Dry’ Growing Season
“After months of drought and sunshine British peas harvested this year will be ‘exceptionally’ sweet. But for farmers in the driest parts of the country, it is shaping up to be a bitter harvest. Martin Williams, 60, a third-generation arable farmer on the River Wye, in Herefordshire, said the ‘devastatingly dry’ growing season had led to a 50 per cent drop in his cereal and potato crop yields, and between a 70 and 80 per cent drop in grass grown for animal feed.
Standing in the middle of a desert-dry field of brittle yellow grass, which has yielded nothing worth harvesting for animal fodder this summer, Williams said: ‘In 2024 we had 192mm of rain between March 1 and August 1, and this year I have had 71mm and its still not raining and we have a dry forecast for another two weeks.” (thetimes.com)
Farmer Issues “Catastrophic” Drought Warning
“It can’t carry on! Farmers across the UK are grappling with extreme conditions across the country, as five areas are officially in drought, and six more are experiencing prolonged dry weather. A Lincolnshire farmer has labelled the situation as ‘catastrophic’ due to a significant decrease in crop yields. ‘The lack of rain has been catastrophic, especially to spring crops,’ he told GB News, adding that he also faces selling his wheat and barley for less than the price more than 10 years ago.” (express.co.uk)
Here Come The Grasshoppers…
“It was just a matter of time before the grasshoppers joined the party. In 2023, global crops have been devastated by plague after plague. Farmers in the US and elsewhere have had to deal with seemingly endless drought, unprecedented heat, nightmarish flooding and horrifying outbreaks of disease. In fact, citrus greening disease is one of the primary reasons why the orange harvest in Florida is only going to be about half as large as it was last year.
It has just been one thing after another for our farmers, but ravenous hordes of insects has been one plague that has been noticeably absent from the list. Unfortunately, that has now changed. Just recently, a swarm of grasshoppers that was so enormous that it was actually spotted by weather radar systems descended upon Tooele, Utah… Global food prices have risen to crazy levels, and they will soon go even higher.” (endoftheamericandream.com)
Inflation
“USA - Vegetables Are Up 38.9%, Coffee is Up 25%, And Electricity Prices Are Rising Twice As Fast As Inflation. Do you feel knots in your stomach due to financial stress? If so, you certainly have lots of company. All of a sudden, everyone is talking about the cost of living and prices are rising by double-digit percentages all around us.
There are so many people out there right now that feel like they are ‘drowning’ because no matter how hard they try there simply isn’t enough money for everything. Unfortunately, we are being warned to brace ourselves for even more inflation in the months ahead.
When I heard that the cost of vegetables in the United States had gone up by 40 percent in one month, I thought that there was no way that it could be true. So I looked it up, and I discovered that the cost of vegetables in the United States didn’t go up by 40 percent in one month. The real figure was 38.9 percent… How can the cost of vegetables go up by 38.9 percent in a single month?” (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
Bible Prophecy - An End Of The Age Problem:
‘Survival food for a day’s wages’
“And I heard a voice from among the four living beings say, ‘A loaf of wheat bread or three loaves of barley will cost a day’s pay. And don’t waste the olive oil and wine.’” (Revelaton 6:6, NLT)
UK Food Price Inflation Jumps To 17-Month High
“Food price inflation in the UK has accelerated to a 17-month high this month, worrying policymakers at the Bank of England and worsening the cost of living pressures on British households. The BRC said the biggest increase in prices was for ‘staple’ items such as eggs and butter, while chocolate prices rose after poor cocoa harvests.” (thetimes.com)
Waste
How Much Food Does The World Waste Each Year?
“According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, about 2.9 trillion pounds (or a third of the food in the world) is lost or wasted every year. Fruits, vegetables, roots, and tubers make up the most-wasted foods. In industrialized countries, this all amounts to $680 billion in food. In developing countries, it’s $310 billion.
The food lost or wasted in Latin America each year is enough to feed 300 million people. In Europe, it could feed 200 million people, and in Africa, it could feed 300 million people.” (dailymail.co.uk)
A Time Of Famine, And A Time Of War…
“The tremendous suffering that we are seeing all over the world right now is only just the beginning. As I have documented repeatedly, we are in the midst of the worst global food crisis in modern history, and we haven’t seen this many countries engaged in military conflict since World War II.
In other words, this is a time of famine, and it is a time of war.” (endoftheamericandream.com)
A Rebellious People
Our people are rejecting God, and God is going to correct them.
“Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.” (Isaiah 30:8-13)
But there is good news for those who seek God:
“And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: BLESSED ARE ALL THEY THAT WAIT FOR HIM.” (Isaiah 30:18)
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