Prophecy 2: “There will be food shortages. Fulfillment: Famine caused more than 70 million deaths in the 20th century and continues to be a global problem. What the evidence reveals: ● According to the United Nations, hunger is the world’s greatest health risk, and 1 in 7 people worldwide currently do not have enough to eat. ● “Today’s food shortages are not the result of one-time, weather-driven crop failures but rather of four critical long-term trends: rapid population growth, loss of topsoil, spreading water shortages and rising temperatures.”—Scientific American. Greed—What Is It Doing to Us? GREED is wrecking the lives of millions. It is dehumanizing the greedy and bringing pain and grief to their victims. In your life you may well be feeling the effects of greed. Even common shoplifting increases the prices of what you buy. If your wages are low and the cost of daily essentials is beyond your reach, you are probably a victim of someone else’s greed. The Hungry and the Dying Greedy national self-interest impedes governments’ efforts at effectively helping the poor. As far back as 1952, scientist and nutrition expert Sir John Boyd Orr said: “Governments are prepared to unite men and resources for a world war but the Great Powers are not prepared to unite to banish hunger and poverty from the world.”—Food Poverty & Power, by Anne Buchanan. Hunger Amid Plenty Because of technical and scientific advances in agriculture, more food is now actually being harvested than the world needs. Yet, the number of hungry people in the world increased to 512 million in 1985. “The increase in hunger is coming at a time when the world is awash with cheap surplus food,” reports The New York Times. Children suffer the most. According to the United Nations World Food Council, an estimated 40,000 children die every day from hunger-related causes. Two thirds of those undernourished are found in Asian countries, some of which now export food that increasing numbers of their people cannot afford to buy. “Today hunger is less the result of absolute food shortages than of political situations and policy decisions,” says the Times. Sadly, the results of human efforts are often only partial and not decisive. But the Bible makes a comforting promise concerning a permanent solution to the problem of hunger. “There will come to be plenty of grain on the earth,” says Psalm 72:16. Under God’s Kingdom, people will be able to say of Jehovah God: “You have turned your attention to the earth, that you may give it abundance . . . You prepare their grain, for that is the way you prepare the earth.”—Psalm 65:9. THATS NOT ALL! earthquakes in one place after another...
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