6 Prophecies that are undergoing fulfillment today 2

[Robert Gwin]

Prophecy 2. Famine
“There will be food shortages.”—MARK 13:8.

WHAT DO THE FACTS SHOW? Worldwide, almost 1 person in 7 does not get enough to eat each day. The numbers are worse in sub-Saharan Africa, where 1 in 3 is considered chronically hungry. To put that figure in perspective, imagine a family consisting of a father, a mother, and a baby. If there is only enough food for two of them, who will go hungry? The father? the mother? the baby? This is the choice that such families must make on a daily basis.

WHAT IS A COMMON OBJECTION? The earth produces more than enough food for everyone. Earth’s resources just need to be better managed.

IS THAT OBJECTION VALID? True, farmers can produce and transport more food than ever before in history. Ideally, human governments should be able to manage earth’s food supply to solve the hunger problem. However, even after decades of trying, they have been unable to do so.

WHAT DO YOU THINK? Is Mark 13:8 being fulfilled? Despite advances in technology, are food shortages afflicting mankind on a global scale? Earthquakes and famine often precede problems that arise from another facet of the sign of the last days.

 

[Jay Ross]

Mark 13:5-8: - 5 And Jesus, answering them, began to say: "Take heed that no one deceives you. 6 For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am He,' and will deceive many. 7 But when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be troubled; for such things must happen, but the end is not yet. 8 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be earthquakes/turmoil in various places, and there will be famines and troubles. These are the beginnings of sorrows.​

Why will there be a lack of food such that there will be famine in many places around the world? It is because of the weather. In Australia, we are facing one of the wettest periods in a very long time an as a result of this food has become very expensive as we face a lack of available food to eat.

Is not famine used by God to encourage people when they turn away from Him to turn back to Him. Is not the ability of the ground to produce crops dependent on whether or not we get rain in their right seasons and does not God make the heavens like bronze such that it will not rain because of our unbelief and turning away from Him to worship idols. Even churches today are like idols for some people.

Your solution given above sounds like you are encouraging people to turn away from God and act God like with no dependency on God for our every need.

What is needed is for people to humble themselves and repent of their sins before God such that they come once more into relationship with Him. The signs you are suggesting like famine have been there since the beginning of time to bring people back to being fully dependent on Him.

Shalom