Romans 10:14 “But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them?”

Matthew 9:37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.

Luke 10:2 He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.

Revelation; Chapter SIX (6), the ‘start’ of the Tribulation when Christ, the Lamb, opens the first seven (7) SEALS of wrath or judgement against evil man’kind (6).

The following is my discernment and teaching. The Apocalypse is a ‘REVEALING’ or showing what is coming. Chapter six is a 70,000 foot view or general recap of the coming seven (7) year tribulation. It starts off with the revealing of the Beast or Antichrist and ends with the Armageddon battle on the Day or our Lord’s Return to Earth, to ‘rule the nations with an iron rod.’

6 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

(Commentary; Christ, the Lamb was the ONLY ONE WORTHY in heaven, to have the authority to ‘open’ the seals and start the tribulation)

Revelation 6:2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

Commentary; the rider is the ‘beast’ or ‘antichrist’. His being clothed in white suggests ‘3’ false righteousness, false peace and false authority. He has a bow, but no arrows. He rules with lies and threats, but no military or arms. He conquers and subjugates, not with force but with ‘5’ lies, deception, false covenants and false agreements and false promises. He is the world’s greatest ‘political’ leader and deceiver. He is the one who ‘confirms the false covenant of seven years with Jacob’ which starts the tribulation. You should know now of who I speak. His ‘crown’ represents authority, rulership and position. It even literally represents his ‘position’ as Crown Prince, once the tribulation begins. My discernment is that the ‘white horse upon which he sits’ is symbolically a white Arabian stallion.

3 And when he had opened the second (2) seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.

4 And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

Commentary; ‘Rumours and Threats of Wars’ are no longer threats, but reality. War will literally ‘break out’ across the earth as nations wage war against one another. This is NOT Armageddon or WWWIII. They are fighting each other, not a common enemy or common threat. Different countries have differences between each other, and no one in particular … except perhaps for the ‘King of the East.’ This is my discernment. ‘Great Sword’ suggests great military technology, as a sword is a reference to military arms. Humanity has more destructive military power at its fingertips now than at any point in human history.

5 And when he had opened the third (3) 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.

Commentary; balances are symbolic for economic transactions and ‘prices’ for things such as wheat and barley grain, bread, olive oil, wine, various food commodities. These are common throughout the world and are considered by most as the ‘staples of life or living.’

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.

Commentary; The world will have reached a point of ‘climate apartheid’ where only the wealthy can afford basic food resources in the face of fatal droughts, famine, locust swarms and heatwaves, while the rest of the world suffers. Only the extreme rich can afford expensive cooking oil, baked pastries and loaves of multi-grain breads, fancy wines and related luxurious food stuffs. Yet, the ‘average peasant’ has to work for an entire day’s wages just to be able to buy enough wheat to make a loaf of bread. Great and severe income inequality is rampant worldwide. The ‘few’ own a massive disproportion of the earth’s wealth and bounty. Billionaires vs billions of poor. The ‘Crown Prince’ owns 60,000 (6) tonnes of wheat in his store houses or graineries while the few grain silos in the Port of Lebanon were destroyed and its people are threatened with expensive grain shortages that require humanitarian assistance.

7 And when he had opened the fourth (4) seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.

8 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.

Commentary; ‘pale’ suggests disease, death and dying. Disease and death are the normal results for those subjected to endless warring. Cholera, famine, infection, no clean water, no housing, no medicine, no hospitals, etc., all play a part in continuing to kill those who were not killed in direct fighting. These are normally the ‘innocent’ or the civilians, not the military. Hell follows, why? Because the vast majority of peoples in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere have rejected the gospel of salvation by Jesus Christ for just over 2,000 years. They follow Satan’s lies (Islam) and deceptions with other false religions (Hindu deities) and various deceiving doctrines. Even though they appear ‘innocent’ by the world’s standards, they are none-the-less ‘unsaved’ because of their rejection of Christ. Time is up, they unfortunately die because of the effects of war, in an unsaved state … hence ‘hell awaits them’. This is truth.

‘This field will not bounce back:’ Drought has Rhode Island farmers praying for rain. Top five (5) droughts in 70 (7) Years.

Linda Borg, The Providence Journal Fri, July 22, 2022 at 1:24 PM

EXETER — Milan Adams runs his hand over the parched grass. The earth is hard. The grass, what’s left of it, doesn’t look like timothy hay.

“The ground here is pure dust,” he said Wednesday. “This field will not bounce back. We’ll have to reseed.”

His father, Earl, told him that this is the “worst drought he’s seen in 42 years.”

The Adamses, fourth-generation farmers who own 700 acres in Exeter, 150 in hay, say they haven’t seen any rain since May. Their first cut of hay was 30% below average, and, unless they get some drenching rain soon, they won’t have a second cut.

“We’re in this little pocket where the rain goes around us,” said Milan, who is 31 and has two young children.

Past drought: R.I. emerges from its ‘most intense period’ of drought in years

Water restrictions imposed in some towns

The National Weather Service says nearly all of Rhode Island is in a moderate drought, the second level of the five categories, ranging from abnormally dry to exceptional. (The state’s south coast and Block Island are listed as abnormally dry, but not yet in drought.)

A moderate drought is characterized by some damage to crops, voluntary water restrictions and streams and wells running low.

Through Thursday, the Weather Service says, Providence has received less than half an inch of precipitation in July, about a quarter of what it would normally receive.

Water restrictions are in effect for parts of South Kingstown and Narragansett; Warwick has announced similar measures. 

“It’s bad, and we’re only in the beginning of it,” said Henry Wright, president of the Rhode Island Farm Bureau. “We’ve got to finish July, and then we have all of August and September.

“This will be one of the top five droughts since 1950, and I’m 77 years old,” he said. “This didn’t come on us with a vengeance, like two years ago. It’s been slowly building.”

According to the National Weather Service data, precipitation has been below normal in Providence every month since March, with the exception of June.

The Scituate Reservoir is approximately 91% full, slightly below the historical average for this time of year. Providence Water experienced similar water levels during the summers of 2018 and 2020. Both times, the reservoir recovered fully and was full for the following spring.

Since the Adamses’ farm didn’t get much rain this winter and April was a bust, the growing season began with a deficit and it’s only gotten worse.

The orchard grass, while still green, should be 2 feet tall by now, but it’s as short as a crew cut.

Which parts of RI have been hit hardest?

“Most of the dramatic situations are in the southern part of the state,” said Ken Ayars, chief of the Rhode Division of Agriculture and Forest Environment, part of the state Department of Environmental Management.

As the drought deepens, Ayars is reaching out to farmers and nursery owners to determine what, if anything, they need in advance of any state or federal drought designations.

Farms in southern Rhode Island have been particularly hard-hit because storms that move from west to east are consumed by the ocean, which eats up the moisture. A tropical storm, however, pulls the rain right in.

“That’s why farmers are looking for a tropical storm,” Wright said. “It’s the nature of where we live.”

The Adams family (it’s a multigenerational operation) doesn’t irrigate because it’s too expensive.

“We can’t rebound without water,” Milan Adams said. “We have a wetter field. This is the first time it’s come up dry.”

A one-two punch for farmers: Drought plus high fuel costs

If southern Rhode Island stays dry, he predicts the price of hay will go through the roof.

Factor in the skyrocketing price of diesel fuel — up from $2 a gallon to $6 — and farmers are watching their profits disappear into their tractors’ tanks.

Farmers in Rhode Island are not in it for the money. Most, like Adams, who sells insurance to farmers, have second jobs.

So why does he do it?

“The love of sitting on a tractor,” Adams said. “We work as a team. My dad and I are on tractors, my mom is running supplies, and my wife and kids are running food and water. People like to take vacations. We do this.”

‘Like when you are standing on a cliff and an earthquake is coming’

Richard Manfredi raises 40 acres of sweet corn, tomatoes and strawberries in Westerly. He said it’s not that bad yet, then paused and said, “It’s like when you are standing on a cliff and an earthquake is coming.

“I’ve seen it so dry, you can’t see the wheel marks of a tractor,” he said.

But his pond went dry last weekend, and he relies on drip irrigation to water his crops — he pumps 500 gallons a minute. Luckily, the state Department of Environmental Management allows farmers to dig out their ponds to get the water flowing again. That’s what Manfredi did.

“We took a couple hundred yards out of the bottom,” he said. “It’s like a well. The more you use it, the more water you get.”

Manfredi, a third-generation farmer, said finding labor is the biggest challenge.

“No one wants to farm,” he said, a sentiment shared by Adams. “We do it with me, my daughter and my son. To hire a laborer, you’d be babysitting them.”

Still, at 73, Manfredi has to pace himself.

“I work from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m.,” he said. “I’ve been known to take a nap in the afternoon, hide in the cooler, and take a cold-water break.”

A farmer is subject to the vagaries of nature — the depredation of birds and coyotes, the wind and rain, the 90-plus degree temperatures.

“You learn to take it on the chin or you wouldn’t still be farming,” Manfredi said. “We’re not in it to get rich. It’s a lifestyle, something you grow up with. The hard work doesn’t bother us. We don’t go to the beach and say it’s too hot.”  

This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal: RI drought affecting farmers could get worse water restrictions

“But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them?” —Romans 10:14

In His Service,

Night Watchman

Paul Rolland

Night Watchman Ministries

Make Your Decision for Christ NOW!!!!!!! Time is Up!!!!!!!

Jesus Christ’s Offer of Salvation:

The ABCs of Salvation through Jesus Christ (the Lamb)

A. Admit/Acknowledge/Accept that you are sinner. Ask God’s forgiveness and repent of your sins.

. . . “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23).

. . . “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one.” (Romans 3:10).

. . . “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” (1 John 1:8).

B. Believe Jesus is Lord. Believe that Jesus Christ is who He claimed to be; that He was both fully God and fully man and that we are saved through His death, burial, and resurrection. Put your trust in Him as your only hope of salvation. Become a son or daughter of God by receiving Christ.

. . . “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John 3:15-17). For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:13).

C. Call upon His name, Confess with your heart and with your lips that Jesus is your Lord and Savior.

. . . “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” (Romans 10:9-10).

. . . “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.” (John 1:8-10).

. . . “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. (John 2:2).

. . . “In this was manifested the love of god toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.” (1 John 4:9, 14-15).

. . . “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” (Romans 5:8-10).

. . . “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23).

. . . “Jesus saith unto them, I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (John 14:6).

. . . “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth.” (Romans 1:16).

. . . “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts: 4:12).

. . . “Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth for there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” (1 Timothy 2:4-6).

. . . “For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Thessalonians 5:9).

. . . “But as many as received him, to them gave the power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.” (John 1:12).

True Church / Bride of Christ Spared from God’s Wrath:

 Romans 5:8-10. “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.”

Romans 12:19. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 1:10. And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

1 Thessalonians 5:9. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

Romans 8:35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Jeremiah 30:7. Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.

Revelation 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.