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(April 25, 2008)  The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, addressed the issue of the rising costs of food, “This steeply rising price of food — it has developed into a real global crisis,” (UN secretary-general calls food price rise a global crisis) Another United Nations official noted that the UN food agency, World Food Program, needs 755 million dollars to help offset the rise in food prices. (UN food agency needs hundreds of millions for hungry)

On another front, it appears that biofuels (a solid, liquid, or gas fuel consisting of, or derived from recently dead biological material, most commonly plants. This distinguishes it from fossil fuel, which is derived from long dead biological material – Wikipedia) are contributing to food shortages around the world. (Food Crisis Starts Eclipsing Climate Change Worries) This article reports, “‘One factor being blamed for the price hikes is the use of government subsidies to promote the use of corn for ethanol production. An estimated 30% of America’s corn crop now goes to fuel, not food…’ A study by a Washington think tank, the International Food Policy Research Institute, indicated that between a quarter and a third of the recent hike in commodities prices is attributable to biofuels.” The reporter mentions that some governments of the world could collapse if food prices don’t recede.

A contributing writer for the Wall Street Journal, Brett Arends, suggests that Americans should start storing up food, “I don’t want to alarm anybody, but maybe it’s time for Americans to start stockpiling food.” (Load Up the Pantry) The point of the article is that people should purchase non-perishable food items now before the prices increase and therefore lessens your money’s current purchasing power.

I am not suggesting the hoarding of food by anyone. I used these news stories to illustrate the possibility that we will experience a global famine which biblical prophecy declares will occur in the End-Times. Whenever this prophetic famine occurs, I believe that the Antichrist will use it to rise to power. In the first news article listed above, there is an interesting statement made by the reporter that is unrelated to the food crisis. The Associated Press writer briefly mentioned the background story for the occasion of the UN Secretary-General’s address: “He spoke to reporters at U.N. offices in Austria, where he was meeting with the nation’s top leaders for talks on how the United Nations and European Union can forge closer ties.” It is biblically possible (see Ch. 10 of my book Even at the Doors ch.10 – Armageddon) that the Antichrist will come to prominence via the European Union. It may be that he will then consolidate his power through the United Nations.

Related posts:

1. Americans hoard food, food rationing, limit rice buying, hungry Japan, era of cheap food ends (April 23, 2008) Worldwide food prices and shortages continue to increase. As a result of this, a Washington Times article states that some Americans have resorted to hoarding food: "Farmers and food executives appealed fruitlessly to federal officials yesterday for regulatory steps to limit speculative buying that is helping to...
2. Oil prices spark food riots in Egypt (May 14, 2008) As I have pointed out in other news stories, oil prices affect the costs of almost all commodities including food. In Egypt the price of bread is skyrocketing and leading to violence over the increasing costs of food staples. (OPEC Stands Silent While Oil Prices Spark Food...
3. World feels oil pressure and crisis (June 8, 2008) In a May 31 article the British newspaper, The Independent, enumerated the problems the world is facing because of the oil crisis. (Shocked! How the oil crisis has hit the world) The article reports on the situations various segments of societies around the world are experiencing, "British...
4. European leaders call for a United Nations global economic body (January 8, 2009) At a European economic conference, France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair declared that the current global financial crisis needs a global solution. (Sarkozy, Merkel, Blair call for new capitalism) The article reports various points the leaders are making,...
5. Worldwide famine in the near future? (April 18, 2008) The last couple of months global food prices and shortages have been in the news. The price of the world's food staple, rice, is soaring to all-time highs. (Jump in rice price fuels fears of unrest) Rising prices affect over 2.5 billion people in Asia alone. Egypt...
6. Oil Prices to double by 2012 (April 24, 2008) According to a Canadian study the price of oil is likely to rise to 150 dollars a barrel by 2010 and 225 dollars by 2012. (Oil prices to double by 2012: Canadian study) The article states, "'Despite the recent record jump in oil prices, oil prices will...
7. Michael Savage calls Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the Antichrist but… (September 24, 2007) Mr. Savage took it a step further and called him the Antichrist. He also said that he thought that Ahmadinejad would be assassinated by his own people in Iran... ...
8. Foreclosures a sign of hard economic times ahead? (March 11, 2008) USA Today reports that home foreclosures are having a rippling effect on the U.S. economy. (Foreclosure crisis has ripple effect) The foreclosure crisis in the U.S. is spreading to other areas of American society. According to this USA Today article: "The mortgage foreclosure crisis has caused a...
9. Technology, Government Monitoring, Economic Crisis (May 6th, 2010) There have been several news stories recently that may be prophetically related to the global government and economic devastation John saw in the Book of Revelation...God revealed the End-Times to His servant John and told him to write down the things he saw occurring on the earth...
10. U. S. Comptroller General warns that America parallels the fall of the Roman Empire (August 14, 2007) "Drawing parallels with the end of the Roman empire, Mr Walker warned there were 'striking similarities' between America’s current situation and the factors that brought down Rome, including 'declining moral values and political civility at home, an over-confident and over-extended military in foreign lands and fiscal irresponsibility...

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