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Additional historical examples create a fuller picture of what is to come—bringing to life Bible passages that warn of looming mass starvation:
Germany: During the Thirty Years’ War in central Europe, famine struck. “By 1630, western and eastern Germany and nearby lands had been embroiled in 10 years’ fighting…Famine and pestilence had cut [Germany’s] population from some 70000 to only 16000. People had survived by eating rats and chewing hides; in one reported case a woman dined upon a soldier who had perished in her home” (Catastrophe and Crisis, Jeremy Kingston and David Lambert).
The Soviet Union: The following quote, describing Ukranian children in the early 1930s, helps present the horrible picture of starvation: “And the peasant children! Have you ever seen the newspaper photographs of the children in the German camps? They were just like that: their heads like heavy balls on thin little necks…one could see each bone of their arms and legs protruding from beneath the skin, how bones joined, and the entire skeleton was stretched over with skin that was like yellow gauze…the children’s faces were aged, tormented, just as if they were seventy years old” (Forever Flowing, Vasily Grossman, pp. 156-157).
Also, after the German army invaded the USSR during World War II, it quickly encircled Leningrad, beginning a 900-day siege of the city. In the end, about one million died. The conditions of the city during the blockade show how quickly human conduct can shift during famine.
In his book The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad, Harrison Salisbury pieced together the accounts of those who lived during the Nazi siege. He states: “More and more, Leningrad seemed to its residents to have become the city of the white apocalypse where humans fed on humans and the very water which they drank carried the sweet stench of human corpses.” Because of all the bodies being dumped into the rivers and canals, the water tasted “faintly sweet, faintly moldy, tainted with the presence of death.”
Ancient Israel: Flavius Josephus describes an account of Jerusalem when it was under siege by the Romans in the first century. From Josephus’ The Wars of the Jews comes this: “Now, of those that perished by famine in the city, the number was prodigious; and the miseries they underwent were unspeakable…” The account describes the dearest friends fighting over scraps of food. Even while people lay dying of starvation, thieves would search them to be sure they were not feigning death, hiding food in their clothing.
Josephus describes, “These robbers...gaped for want, and ran about stumbling and staggering along like mad dogs, and reeling against the doors of the houses like drunken men; they would also, in the great distress they were in, rush into the very same houses two or three times in one and the same day. Moreover, their hunger was so intolerable, that it obliged them to chew every thing, while they gathered such things as the most sordid animals would not touch, and endured to eat them; nor did they at length abstain from girdles and shoes, and the very leather which belonged to their shields they pulled off and gnawed: the very wisps of old hay became food to some…”
Worse, he describes, “a certain woman that dwelt beyond Jordan; her name was Mary” who was trapped in the city. After it was “impossible for her any way to find any more food” and “famine pierced through her very bowels and marrow…She then attempted a most unnatural thing, and, snatching up her son, who was a child sucking at her breast, she said, ‘O thou miserable infant. For whom shall I preserve thee in this war, this famine, and this sedition? As to the war with the Romans, if they preserve our lives, we must be slaves. This famine also will destroy us even before that slavery comes upon us…Come on; be thou my food, and be thou a fury to these seditious varlets, and a byword to the world, which is all that is now wanting to complete the calamities of us Jews.’
“As soon as she had said this, she slew her son, and then roasted him, and ate the one half of him, and kept the other half by her concealed.”
These horrific events are in the past, but they are at the same time a sobering glimpse of things to happen again. God paints a powerful picture of the coming famine—and of which nations will suffer the most.
Famine Like No Other
God declares that He “will make you [the American and British peoples] waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about you, in the sight of all that pass by” (Ezek. 5:14). What should this startling punishment mean to the rest of the world?
First let’s read more: “When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread: so will I send upon you famine…I the Lord have spoken it” (Eze 5:16-17).
Make yourself understand that these are things God says HE will do. Notice how many times God uses the word “I” to declare what HE will bring to pass. This is another moment in the book where the reader is left to decide whether he believes God.
As the black horse and rider of famine intensifies, drastic changes will come to an interconnected modern world. No more will there be vast exports to other nations. No more will supermarket shelves brim with abundance. No more will wealthy nations be able to assist countries stricken with drought and famine.
These will all be replaced by daily ration lines, starving men, women and children scouring garbage heaps for meager scraps of food, while infants die from malnourishment.
Worse, it will pit parents against children for food, with hunger also driving people to eat the unthinkable. It means repeating horrors from history a final time—for the worst time ever.
This is not my opinion—it is straight from your Bible!
The white horse of false Christianity gives rise to war, which invites famine. When starvation ravages millions of human bodies, the result is always the same…