Chapter Sixteen/Four Horsemen at the Gallop! - A Black Horse Plunges Forth - Continue

 What does John see, then, as the third summons to "Come!" is answered?  "And I saw, and, look! a black horse; and the one seated upon it had a pair of scales in his hand." (Revelation 6:5b) Stark famine! That is the dire message of this prophetic scene. It points forward to situations early in the Lord's day when food was rationed out by scales.  Since 1914 famine has been a continuing worldwide problem. Modern warfare brings famine in its wake. For resources normally used in feeding the hungry are often diverted to supplying war weapons. Farm workers are conscripted, and battle-scarred fields and scorched earth policies curtail food production. How true this was during the 1930's, five million perished in just one famine in the Ukraine.  The second world war brought in its wake more food shortages and famines. As the black horse continued its gallop, The World Food Council reported in mid-1987 that 512 million humans were starving and that 40,000 children die of hunger-related causes every day. 

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