The End Times Famine & Cost of Food Revelation 6:6 Revelation 6:5-6 are the key verses to focus on when trying to quantify the end time cost of food.
These verses give us information about the price of food items like wheat and barley:

“(5) 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.” (Revelation 6:5-6)

The Value of a Denarius in Christ’s Time We can get some idea of the significance of Revelation 6:6’s wheat price by examining how much bread a denarius could buy during Christ’s time.

We can figure out how much a loaf of bread cost back in the time of Christ by examining Mark 6:35-6:44. Before Christ performed a miracle to feed at least 5,000 people His disciples asked Him whether they should go buy 200 pennyworth (denarri-the plural for denarius) of bread to feed the people: “

(35) And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said, This is a desert place, and now the time isfar passed:

(36) Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.

(37) He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?

(38) He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.

(39) And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.

(40) And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties. (41) And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.

(42) And they did all eat, and were filled

. (43) And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.

(44) And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men.”

(Mark 6:35-44) When third seal of the apocalypse is opened, there will be hyperinflation in some parts of the world, and the price of wheat, in particular, will be such that a day’s wage will only buy barely enough to eat for one day It is also very interesting that China recently signed a trade deal with Russia to purchase both wheat and barley from Russia (ref. 2). Both wheat and barley are mentioned in

Revelation 6:6, which goes on to say “see thou hurt not the oil and the wine”. I read the “oil” to mean the anointed, as in Israel, and the “wine” to mean the winepress of God, as in the kings of the east, namely China and Russia. This surreptitious and timely deal between Russia and China means although wheat and barley are going to be scarce elsewhere, Russia and China should have sufficient amounts of wheat and barley, and presumably also other foods, to do everything that they must do for the LORD of hosts. Every army knows what the British military historian Saul David explains in his 2012 three-part documentary “Bullets, Bombs and Bandages: How to Really Win at War”: that the supply of food and ammunition and fuel is as important to an army as combat skill and firepower and manoeuvre. I should also remind that the rider of the pale horse, which is the fourth seal, will not only kill with the sword but also “with hunger”

ref. Revelation 6:8). This means across much of the world there will be famines. Already in Tigray Ethiopia, for example, there is famine (ref. 3). The war in Ethiopia is essentially between Islamists and Tewahado Christians. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

Matthew 24:7 Perhaps now is the time for all who are not on the side of Satan – that is to say, Jews, Christians, and atheists – to stockpile. The Bible prophesies that in time to come there will be price inflation as well as food shortages.

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