White Robed Believers
Great Tribulation Chaos
Sword, Hunger, and Death
Is Preparing to come on Man
Mankind is not prepared for It
Fourth Part of Earth to Know It
But Martyrs Go up to be Out of It
To join Souls in Heaven Awaiting It
April 28, 2008
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One of the terrible things associated with the great tribulation period,
preparing to eventually come on the earth in full force, is the dreaded third rider of the black horse of famine, who brings great hunger to the earth. I first began to warn of this future event in the seventies, a time of financial prosperity and full stomachs for most of mankind, but the Scriptures indicated mankind was headed for a time when no matter how much money you had to place on one side of the scale to pay for food, it would not be enough, because there simply would not be enough to feed an ever increasing population.
Revelation 6:5,6 – And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. [6] And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
We are now slowly entering a time when there will not be the very great prosperity and full stomachs of the final forty years of the last century, but rather ever declining prosperity and empty stomachs. We earn more money per unit time than at any time in history, but the interest rates and high taxes make it seem as if we have pockets with holes in them, and the money disappears as fast as we put it in them. It requires more and more to pay for the identical weight of food on the other side of the balance than it did the month before. As in the time of Ezra, Nehemiah, Zerubbabel (the governor of Judea), and the two post exile prophets Zechariah and Haggai, our labor will reach the point when it can no longer feed and clothe us.
Haggai 1:5-7 – Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. [6] Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. [7] Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.
A Great Tribulation Is Coming On Earth As Martyrs Wait In Heaven!
Once it begins many martyrs, their fellow servants, will be martyred on the earth in the great tribulation period.
Revelation 6:8-12 – And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. [9] And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: [10] And they cried with a loud voice, s
aying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? [11] AND WHITE ROBES were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. [12] And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
This group in Chapter Six represents the martyrs of all the ages “that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony they held.” There are countless numbers of men and women who have been martyred for this from the cross until now, particularly in the dark ages, and a vast number will be martyred for the same thing during the great tribulation period, perhaps more than in the dark ages. They represent the fellow servants who will “be killed as they were” in the great tribulation period that is about to come on the earth. We find the fellow servants of verse 11 in heaven in Chapter Seven, after they have suffered their martyr’s deaths during the great tribulation period. They also have received the white martyr’s robes like those received by the martyrs in Chapter Six.
The fellow servants in Revelation 6:11 are martyred in the beginning of the great tribulation period in Revelation 6:12, and we find them joined in with the martyrs of all the ages in Revelation 7:9, which is a countless number of martyred saints with white robes.
Revelation 7:9-14 – After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which NO MAN COULD NUMBER, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, CLOTHED WITH WHITE ROBES, and palms in their hands; [10] And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. [11] And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, [12] Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen. [13] And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? [14] And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Their souls will be martyred to heaven as they physically die for their testimony up to the sounding of the seventh trumpet, at which time all the remaining saved will be caught out before the seven vials of God’s wrath are poured on the earth.
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International Herald Tribune
Dying waves of grain
By Norman E. Borlaug
Sunday, April 27, 2008
DALLAS:
With food prices rising drastically throughout most of Asia, Africa and Latin America, and shortages threatening hunger and political chaos, the time could not be worse for an epidemic of stem rust in the world’s wheat crops. Yet millions of wheat farmers, small-scale and large, face this spreading and deadly crop infection.
The looming catastrophe can be avoided if the world’s wheat scientists pull together to develop a new generation of stem-rust-resistant varieties of wheat.
But scientists must quickly turn their attention to replacing almost all of the commercial wheat grown in the world today. This will require a commitment from many nations, especially the United States, which has lately neglected its role as a leader in agricultural science.
Stem rust, the most feared of all wheat diseases, is capable
of turning a healthy crop of wheat into a tangled mass of stems that produce little or no grain.
The fungus spores travel in the wind, causing the infection to spread quickly across national borders.
It has caused major famines since the beginning of history. In North America, massive grain losses occurred in 1903 and 1905 and from 1950 to ’54.
During the 1950s, I and other scientists, first in North America and later throughout the world, developed high-yielding wheat varieties that were resistant to stem rust and other diseases.
These improved seeds not only enabled farmers around the world to hold stem rust at bay for more than 50 years but also allowed for greater and more dependable yields.
Indeed, with this work, global food supplies rapidly increased and prices dropped.
From 1965 to 1985, the heyday of the Green Revolution, world production of cereal grains (wheat, rice, corn, barley and sorghum) nearly doubled, from 1 to 1.8 billion metric tons, and cereal prices dropped by 40 percent.
Today, wheat provides about 20 percent of the food calories for the world’s people. The world wheat harvest now stands at about 600 million metric tons.
In the last decade, global wheat production has not kept pace with rising population, or the increasing per capita demand for wheat products in many newly industrializing countries.
At the same time, international support for wheat research
has declined significantly. And as a consequence, in 2007-08, world wheat stocks (as a percentage of demand) dropped to their lowest level since 1947-48. And prices have steadily climbed to the highest level in 25 years.
The new strains of stem rust, called Ug99 because they were discovered in Uganda in 1999, are much more dangerous than those that, 50 years ago, destroyed as much as 20 percent of the American wheat crop. Today’s lush, high-yielding wheat fields on vast irrigated tracts are ideal environments for the fungus to multiply, so the potential for crop loss is greater than ever.
If publicly funded international researchers move together aggressively and systematically, high-yielding replacement wheat varieties can be developed and made available to farmers before stem rust disease becomes a global epidemic.
The Bush administration was initially quick to grasp Ug99’s threat to American wheat production. In 2005, Mike Johanns, then secretary of agriculture, instructed the federal agriculture research service to take the lead in developing an international strategy to deal with stem rust. In 2006, the United States Agency for International Development mobilized emergency funding to help African and Asian countries accelerate needed wheat research.
But more recently, the administration has begun reversing direction. The State Department is recommending ending American support for the international agricultural research centers that helped spark the Green Revolution, including all funding for wheat research. And significant financial cuts have been proposed for key research facilities, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s essential rust research laboratory in Minneapolis.
This shocking short-sightedness goes against the interests not only of American wheat farmers and consumers but of all humanity.
It is tantamount to the United States abandoning its pledge to help halve world hunger by 2015.
If millions of small-scale farmers see their wheat crops wiped out for want of new disease-resistant varieties, the problem will not be confined to any one country. Rust spores move long distances in the jet streams and know no political boundaries.
Widespread failures in global wheat production will push the prices of all foods higher, causing new misery for hundreds of millions of the world’s poor. Ug99 could reduce world wheat production by 60 million tons.
But a global crop failure of this magnitude can be avoided. Before it is too late, America must rebuild, not destroy, the collaborative systems of international agricultural research that were so effective in launching the Green Revolution.
Norman E. Borlaug, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2006, is the distinguished professor of international agriculture at Texas A&M University.
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