America is once again beginning to shed jobs - and it's doing so on a massive scale. Moreover, the jobs that remain are being relentlessly "down-waged" - creating in the process a growing class of "WORKING POOR" that's unprecedented insofar as the experience of most modern Americans is concerned.
All this lends a certain awful credibility to the saying of the rider of the Black Horse of the Apocalypse, a terrible personage in whose hands is a pair of balances, and out from whose lips issues a fearful warning:
"A measure of wheat for a penny [literally - denarius, a Roman coin which represented a WHOLE DAY'S wages], and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine." (Revelation 6:6)
NOTE: The meaning of this is that the condition of man at the "end of the age" will be reduced to such that he will have to labor a whole day simply to buy a loaf of bread or three measures of barley. But the second part of the saying ["... and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine ..."] means that the destitution of these days will not extend to what might be called a "global elite of worthies" who have evidently allied themselves with the anti-Christ - only the rich in the ancient world could afford oil and wine.
The inexorable press of the American economic system in the direction of Revelation 6:6 augurs ill for all those Christians in the United States who want to hold onto the "Good-Life" and Christ at the same time. ,,, read more
