Tag: Wheat

6.u. And I looked, and behold, a black horse!

Revelation 6:5   When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a black horse! And its rider had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine!”

A black horse and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand: The scales symbolized the need to carefully measure and ration food. This speaks of a time of scarcity.  A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius: These prices are about twelve times higher than normal. It means that it would cost a day’s wage to buy the ingredients for a loaf of bread. This describes “a time of famine when life will be reduced to the barest necessities.” Yet there seems to be oil and wine for those who can afford it.  This time is following the one who conquers and the one who takes peace away and where people give little thought to human life.  Those who seem to have survived this time will now face the uncertainty of basic daily necessities.  Think about all that is to come, shouldn’t it drive us to be more thankful, grateful, and want to give praise, honor, and glory to Jesus Christ for what we currently have?  We should not be too busy to be thankful.  We shouldn’t be complacent and neglectful and forget the grace, mercy, and love given to us through Jesus Christ.  If all you have is taken away – what do you have left?  Those who trust in Christ have eternity, hope, faith, and perfect peace even though what they have is gone.  Those who remain on earth after the seals begin to be opened will have a very difficult time wrapping their minds around what is happening and only a small number of them will realize they rejected Jesus and will be saddened by that fact.  The rest will go about life from one tribulation (seal) opened to another.  they will see the beginning of the end approaching and will not even know it.  They will be searching for things in this world that will no longer be.  For sure there is a time of judgment coming.

Choose this Day

How many times in our life do we chase after riches (more stuff) or get caught up in the cares of this world over living in victory above it all?  Is it possible to see fruit with yields hundredfold from the way we are living?  There is so much in our culture that is a constant pull away from a life that honors and glorifies God.  I wonder if we truly believe a time is coming when we will be held accountable.  If we choose to want to see fruit in our lives we will need to deny self and listen and obey. Desire time with God.  Seek His purpose for your life.  Listen for His leading.  Obey His direction.

Matthew 13:22
As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.

Matthew 13:30
Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn

Matthew 3:12
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire

Malachi 4:1
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall. And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts