End Times Famine in America?: modern farming and God's Word

What scripture tells us of food and agriculture.

The modern industrial world has created systems to reliably supply food to humanity, and certainly to America, the land of plenty. The COVID pandemic, though, exposed fault lines in the American food supply, and the war in Ukraine and ongoing threats to that nation’s wheat production revealed the fragility of global food distribution. Scripture instructs that the End Times will witness a Third Horse as part of the Third Seal judgment, of famine. The United States is more vulnerable to food-supply disruption than is commonly perceived. 

A biblical view of humankind’s current food plight is both historical and agrarian. Scripture is saturated with imagery, parables, and stories involving farming and livestock, especially sheep and lambs. The pastoral life of the Israel in which both Abraham and Jesus walked strongly impacted the wisdom and understanding of humans, and every facet of economy and culture. This socio-rhetorical scriptural reference point is mostly foreign to today’s American consumers, who have become disconnected from food, farming, and God’s provision.

Jesus is likened in gentleness and humility to a lamb, but few in today’s culture fully appreciate just how incredibly gentle and vulnerable these pure-white critters truly are, or how literal Jesus was when he said in John 10:27  “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.” He is the Good Shepherd, who instructed Peter to “Feed my sheep.”  (John 21).