Rev. 6:6 – “Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a day’s wages, and three quarts of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!”
As we near the end times, the separation between the average person and the extremely wealthy will continue to grow. The economic struggles we are currently experiencing and will continue to experience through the end, is currently driving this divide wider each day.
The above scripture mentions a “quart of wheat” or “three quarts of barley” for a days wage. In that time, these amounds of grain were considered enough food to feed a single person for a day. What it is saying is that as things get worst and climax during the tribulation, the common man will be working a full day, just to provide food for himself, let alone his family and children.
The second part of the verse “do not damage the oil and the wine!” represents the wealthy class and the fact that through this they will not be experiencing the same problems of survival. I believe a lot of these will be the “ruling class”, like it was in Jesus day. Today, that would be our government officials and workers.
Stats were released today that show the average salary for a public worker is $120k. In contrast the average salary for a private worker is $60k. The public worker has officially doubled the pay, on average, of the private worker, who is actually the one paying for the public workers salary. This will only get worse, today, Obama has requested for 2011 that all public workers get an across the board pay increast of 4.1%.
The article below I believe another good example of how we are trending toward that even today. Contrast the type of living the public officials have with what your summer vacation plans were.
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The Obama presidency increasingly resembles a modern-day Ancien Régime: extravagant and out of touch with the American people from UK Telegraph
What the great French historian Alexis de Tocqueville would make of today’s Obama administration were he alive today is anyone’s guess. But I would wager that the author of L’Ancien Régime and Democracy in America would be less than impressed with the extravagance and arrogance on display among the White House elites that rule America as though they had been handed some divine right to govern with impunity.
It is the kind of impunity that has been highlighted on the world stage this week by Michelle Obama’s hugely costly trip to Spain, which has prompted a New York Post columnist Andrea Tantaros to dub the First Lady a contemporary Marie Antoinette. As The Telegraph reports, while the Obamas are covering their own vacation expenses such as accommodation, the trip may cost US taxpayers as much as $375,000 in terms of secret service security and flight costs on Air Force Two.
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It is just a sign that we need to prepare our families for the comming birth pains. We do not know when Christ will return to rapture His church, so we must prepare and remain watchful, continuing to do His will on earth while we are here. Make sure you are standing behind Him, and He will protect us. He has prepared a place for us in heaven and has promised to keep us from the worst, so fret not but prepare.
I would suggest checking out getting stored food for your family. Check out the sites and then pray about it. It is amazing the piece of mind it can give you, in these uncertain times.
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