Hungry increase Millions to Billions!
Revelation 6 Black Horse still Galloping
Prophesied Hunger Spreading Across Globe
Some One Billion now appearing on Hunger Roll
Some Two Billion likely to appear on roll before 2015
June 14, 2009
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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.
Begin 2006 Archive Blog, a Supplement to Archive Prophecy Update Number 20, which was issued in 2001.
Famine Affected Some 130 Million in 2005!
Supplement to Archive Prophecy Update Number 20
Luke 21:11 – And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and FAMINES and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
In the past the major culprits that have always been responsible for famines were war and drought. However, as I indicated in my first book in the seventies, the world population explosion was beginning to be an ever increasing factor and, in time, would be the major culprit.
Please take a look in our Prophecy Archives at Update Number 20. The ever increasing population factor is now in full gear.
According to the World Food Program (WFP), hunger is the number one cause of death in the world today.
The WFP announced recently it had fed 130 million people in 2005, and that this was the largest number of beneficiaries since the agency was formed 42 years ago.
According to a February 2, 2006 article in the Guardian Unlimited, the United Nations figures show “Sub-Saharan Africa is in the grip of an extraordinary hunger crisis, with more than 40-million people needing emergency food aid across 36 countries.” It has risen to that figure in Sub-Saharan from 21-million in 1995.
Some say don’t worry, agricultural technology will solve the famine problem.
No way! The latest U.N. study found ten percent of the world’s soil profile badly damaged. The three-year study accessed soil conditions on a global scale, and involved more than 250 soil scientists. It marked the first time since World War II that soil profiles had been assessed on a global scale.
As reported by Larry B.
Stammer in the Los Angeles Times, the study found that “about two-thirds of all seriously eroded land is in Asia and Africa, home to most of the world’s poor.” The article, using the report as its basis, stated: “Despite the much acclaimed green revolution of the past several decades, which produced unprecedented gains in food production through the introduction of fertilizers and hybrid grains, the per-capita food production has declined in about eighty developing countries in the past decade.”
The report, “Vital Signs 1993: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future,” as reported by David Brisco in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette of July 18, 1993, stated: “This new report shows the first clear sign that population is outpacing the food available for humans. The trend is mostly because of record world population growth, but also reflects a slowdown in decades of increasing food supplies.
The main sources of food – farms, ranches, and oceans – all appear to be approaching, or may have reached, their maximum per-capita output, according to Vital Signs 1993.” The simple truth is this, the world’s maximum food production, in the 21st century, has not been able to keep up with the stork, and the ever increasing population will cause it to fall farther and farther behind. Earthquakes, pestilence, and famine will continue to increase the pain of God’s creation while it awaits the manifestation of his sons at the appearance of his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ.
Begin Excerpt from Reuters June 12, 2009
UN warns of catastrophe as hungry people top 1 billion
International body’s World Food Program says hunger spreading across globe, nipping at one billion people; urges G8 states to pledge urgent aid
Reuters
June 12, 2009
High food prices have pushed another 105 million people into hunger in the first half of 2009, the head of the UN World Food Program said Friday, raising the total number of hungry people to over 1 billion.
Urging rich nations at a meeting of G8 development ministers not to cut back on aid, Josette Sheeran said the world faced a human catastrophe as more people struggle to eat a decent meal.
“This year we are clocking in on average four million new hungry people a week, urgently hungry,” Sheeran told Reuters.
“For the first six months of this year, 105 million people have been added,” she said, citing figures to be released by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization next week that will raise the total number of undernourished people to over 1 billion.
In 2008, FAO said the world’s hungry numbered 963 million.
The WFP needs $6.4 billion this year for food aid, but donors’ contributions have fallen way behind that level – it had around $1.5 billion at the end of last week.
The agency said it has had to cut food aid rations and shut some operations in eastern Africa and North Korea because of the credit crunch.
“I know it seems a big figure, but if you compare it with the global stimulus package, it means that for less than 1 percent of that we could help meet the urgent human crisis that is unfolding, and that is just as essential to the stability of the world,” Sheeran said.
She said despite a decline in most food prices from record peaks last year, they remained high in developing countries, while global food aid was at a 20-year low.
The financial crisis has made things worse, and in terms of staple food, people in poorer countries today can only afford about a third of what they could afford three years ago.
Aid promises
In a statement after a two-day meeting in Rome, G8 ministers reaffirmed their commitment to honor existing aid promises and the head of USAID said President Barack Obama wanted to double US aid funds to $52 billion by 2015.
“(This) sends a signal, I think, to the rest of the world that we cannot pull back on our support,” USAID Acting Administrator Alonzo Fulgham told Reuters.
But a report this week said the G8 was collectively off course in delivering on a pledge – made at a G8 summit in Scotland in 2005 – to more than double aid to Africa to $25 billion a year by 2010.
The report, by anti-poverty body ONE, was particularly critical of Italy, saying Rome was trailing far behind other nations in meeting aid targets and that undermined its credibility as G8 president this year.
“We have confirmed our commitment to find the resources this year to bring us back on track and fulfill our undertakings,” Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini told reporters on Friday, responding to the report.
ONE said Italy had delivered only three percent of the aid increase to Africa pledged by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi four years ago.
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