An Addendum About Oil & Wine

Category: Articles, Doctrine
Author: John Malone
Date: 1st May, 2006 @ 02:31:26 AM

Revelation 6:6 “And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beats say, ‘A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny, and see that thou hurt not the oil and the wine.’”

The previous article addresses these conditions more fully, but a few more thoughts may be helpful.

The above conditions represent a condition where fruits such as grapes will grow nicely, but there will be a shortage of grains. Fruits and grains are in different harvests, late and early respectively, so it is unlikely that drought produces these conditions.

My viewpoint about oil as fuel, and therefore encompassing crude, is detailed in my previous entry.

I recently learned that if the entire 2005 US corn crop - 11.8 billion bushes (172 million metric tons) - were used to produce ethanol, it would only have replaced 25% of present gasoline consumption.

Remember this: just because the world’s known reserves of crude oil are increasing at increasing rates, and that there is a superabundance of the stuff under the earth’s crust DOES NOT MEAN that man will not somehow sell a foolish agenda to consume irreplaceable foodstuffs on transportation.

I am of the studied viewpoint that all of the evil conditions of the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalpse” will be the consequence of human endeavor, as well as Divinely visited.

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