Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals. (Revelation 5:1)
The “Scroll” is the Title Deed to earth and its people! Adam and Eve lost the earth to sin and to Satan. It is Satan’s earth right now. The book of Revelation is the story of how God takes back the earth and its people.
And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?” But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll . . . I wept because no one was found worthy to open the scroll.
Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.” Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing in the center of the throne. (Revelation 5:2-6)
Christ is revealed as the only one who is qualified to redeem the earth by opening the scroll! He is the Lion who has the power. The Lamb is the rightful heir. Jesus purchased the world and its inhabitants with His shed blood on the cross.
The Third Seal Is the Rider on the Black Horse, Who Represents Famine and Economic Collapse.
When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a day’s wages, and three quarts of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!” (Revelation 6:5-6)
The black horse represents famine.
Famine means that it takes an entire day’s wages just to buy a quart of wheat. Famine means that the “balances” to measure out food are scarce. We don’t worry about weighing food in times of plenty—Why? The garbage cans of America contain more than enough food to feed multitudes of starving people.
But worldwide famine is not hard to imagine now. Millions die of starvation every day. In the event of serious crop failure, no part of the world is more than one year away from critical starvation, and the rich U.S. is only two years away.
Black Horseman Scales of Commerce. Economic Collapse.
Russia and Iran close to causing ‘disorder in the global shipping community’
https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-latest-russia-iran-close-172216435.html
China’s sliding yuan could be next ‘black swan event’ for markets, hedge fund EDL says
https://news.yahoo.com/finance/news/chinas-sliding-yuan-could-next-114250052.html
The greatest Chinese threat is an economic implosion
https://news.yahoo.com/lifestyle/greatest-chinese-threat-economic-implosion-100006455.html
China’s State Developers Warn of Losses as Crisis Spreads
https://news.yahoo.com/finance/news/china-state-developers-warn-major-230000020.html
China’s Evergrande Files for Bankruptcy – World Economy in Dangerous Shape
Major shipping routes are struggling with water shortages. El Niño could make it worse.
Argentina’s economy teeters on verge of collapse
World economy on the brink as Chinese firm worth £189bn is close to collapse
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1802181/china-country-garden-contagion-risk
China’s Worsening Economy Is Hurting Corporate America
China facing ‘downward spiral’ as property crisis deepens
https://news.yahoo.com/finance/news/china-facing-downward-spiral-property-185034615.html
China’s property crash is becoming more dangerous by the day
https://news.yahoo.com/china-property-crash-becoming-more-182158542.html
China’s economy in trouble
China’s economy in trouble (msn.com)
China’s Stalling Economy Puts the World on Notice
https://news.yahoo.com/china-stalling-economy-puts-world-141731036.html
Black Horseman Scales of Commerce. Food Scarcity.
Global food security is at a crossroads as rice shortages and surging prices hit the most vulnerable
https://apnews.com/article/rice-prices-shortage-india-ban-a7364dbdb6fd04934090bd2943e24bbd
Horn of Africa drought trends said worse than in 2011 famine
Rice crops are being threatened by El Nino after grain supplies were disrupted by the war in Ukraine
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-el-nino-rice-ukraine-c094d60a613a9bb861505130fb4958c4
Global food prices rise after Russia ends grain deal and India restricts rice exports
Poland ready to fight EU over Ukrainian grain – media
https://www.rt.com/news/581572-poland-grain-ban-retaliation/
China’s Northern Farmers Brace for More Heavy Rains and Floods
https://news.yahoo.com/finance/news/china-northern-farmers-brace-more-053652680.html
‘This is going to get worse before it gets better’: Panama Canal pileup due to drought reaches 154 vessels
Third of Ukraine Crop Exports Wiped Out After Black Sea Block
https://news.yahoo.com/finance/news/third-ukraine-crop-exports-wiped-070000581.html
‘At least 700’ people die from starvation in Ethiopia following food aid suspension
Haiti: 97% of households in some areas suffering from severe hunger
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/aug/18/haiti-hunger-crisis-mercy-corps
United Nations warns of food insecurity in Niger amid political instability
Price Surges and Food Scarcity: How Heatwaves Impact the Rise of Food Prices
The United Nations World Food Programme is still on the ground providing critical food assistance to people affected by conflict in countries like Ukraine, Afghanistan, and South Sudan.
https://secure.wfpusa.org/donate/Taboola-UKR_OADS
UN: North Korea is increasing repression as people are reportedly starving in parts of the country
https://news.yahoo.com/un-north-korea-increasing-repression-181809414.html
North Korea’s Kim visits typhoon-hit farmlands amid food shortage concerns
https://news.yahoo.com/north-koreas-kim-visits-typhoon-003621571.html
Exclusive: India faces record low August rains, threatening summer crops
25 Countries, Housing One-quarter of the Population, Face Extremely High Water Stress
https://www.wri.org/insights/highest-water-stressed-countries
China warns floods could aggravate crop diseases, infestation in northeast
How India’s ban on some rice exports is ricocheting around the world. India’s decision to ban exports of some rice was based on domestic reasons, but it’s had a global impact.
From too wet to bone dry: Indonesian coffee crop faces El Nino jolt
South America’s scorching winter is decimating crops and threatening lives
https://www.axios.com/2023/08/15/south-america-heat-wave-extreme-weather
World rice prices near 15-year highs. Indian export restrictions and dry weather in Thailand have disrupted the global food market
https://www.rt.com/business/581143-world-rice-prices-skyrocket/
Middle East’s groundwater shortage: Will it soon run out? As rivers dry up and rainfall declines, water stored underground is more important than ever in the climate-change-impacted Middle East. The problem is: Nobody really knows how much is left.
https://www.dw.com/en/middle-easts-groundwater-shortage-will-it-soon-run-out/a-66534880
Food prices in France surge
https://www.rt.com/business/581213-france-prices-surge-inflation/
China Faces Early Attack From Crop Pests After Extreme Weather
https://news.yahoo.com/finance/news/china-faces-early-attack-crop-000000869.html
Why India is trying to tame rising wheat prices
https://news.yahoo.com/why-india-trying-tame-rising-113937726.html
Typhoons seen to crimp 2023 rice production
‘Completely out of whack’: Winter storms in August have destroyed half of this French farmer’s crops
El Nino’s back — prepare for drought, hunger and diseases
https://tv.guardian.ng/news/world-news/el-ninos-back-prepare-for-drought-hunger-and-diseases/
UK will face greater food insecurity as climate crisis deepens, say analysts
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/uk-face-greater-food-insecurity-073219847.html
Putin’s Hunger Games: The Ukraine War Is Forcing Millions to Face Starvation and ‘Look Death in the Eyes’
https://news.yahoo.com/putin-hunger-games-ukraine-war-140702881.html
Prolonged drought deepens Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis
Authorities warn of famine among displaced Yemenis as UN limits supplies
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2359011/middle-east
But how can they call on him (Jesus Christ) to save them unless they believe in him (Jesus Christ)? And how can they believe in him (Jesus Christ) if they have never heard about him (Jesus Christ)? And how can they hear about him (Jesus Christ) 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.