The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Like ghostly spectres, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse appeared to the apostle John in vision at the close of the first century A.D. What do these four horsemen really represent? Were they merely a vivid nightmare of the elderly John's imagination? Or are they a living prophecy soon to unfold in our generation? Here is how Jesus Christ himself revealed the true meaning---for our day, right now---of the four mysterious riders of the book of Revelation!
Part 11 of 17 Famines of the Past
Historical famines are, by definition, "cyclical famines," meaning that they are caused by unusual weather conditions, plagues, animal or insect infestation or a similar interruption of normal cycles. These cyclical famines are far different from the "structural famines" which much of mankind is experiencing today.
Even righteous Abraham suffered temporarily from such cyclical famines (Gen. 12:10). When Canaan's rains failed, he went to Egypt for food. In the days of his great-grandson Joseph, the rains and rivers everywhere failed for seven years, "and the famine was over all the face of the earth" (Gen. 41:56).
The historical books of the Bible speak frequently of "a famine in the days of David," "a sore famine in Samaria," or a "great famine was throughout the land" (II Sam. 21:1, I Kings 18:2; Luke 4:25). One very graphic incident is described in II Kings 6:25-29: "There was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver [about $50], and the fourth part of a cab [a pint] of dove's dung for five pieces of silver [about $3]."
Between A.D. 1050 and 1350, severe famines struck all known lands, becoming especially severe in Egypt around A.D. 1065 and 1200, England around A.D. 1314, and all of Europe during the so-called "Black Death" of the 1350s.
Around 1065, the combined ravages of war and drought caused a famine in Egypt which must have rivaled in severity the seven-year famine under Joseph, approximately 2800 years previous. During the famine of 1065, a single cake of bread sold for about $40 (modern equivalent), eggs $30 a dozen, and bushel of grain for more than $50. One woman, according to a historian of the time, gave a necklace worth thousands of dollars for a mere handful of flour. Others flung their jewels into the street.
Finally, the desperate Egyptians resorted to cannibalism. Butchers of men actually "fished" for their victims, letting down ropes attached to meat hooks in search of unwary pedestrians. After the shrieking victims were "hooked" and cooked, they were sold on the open market to the most desperate of Egypt's hungered masses.
In the England of Edward II, a great famine struck in 1314 as a kind of prelude to the upcoming "Black Death." Food was so scarce that even the king had a hard time securing food for his table. Men ate dogs, horses, cats, and tragically, human babies as well. Thieves and cannibals were arrested, but when a new criminal was thrown into jail, he was quickly seized upon by the starving inmates and literally torn to pieces for food.
Fuck It I'm totally in favor of Goldman Sachs Bank or America and all hedge fund managers making over 10 million 
Clearly they are the ruling class and most important in any society 
To think otherwise means you gotta agree w/ JC or any other bullshit religious philosophy, since common sense and interpretation are clearly absurd ideas in this World 
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