The prophet Joel also predicts this drought. “These (the Two Witnesses) have power to shut heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy” (Revelation 11:6). Revelation 11 implies that during the time when the Two Witnesses will be giving the last message to the world there will be a severe drought, which usually results in a more general financial crisis. Her ruin will bring global trade to an end: “And the merchants of the earth… who became rich by her… will weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise anymore… Alas, alas, that great city, in which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! For in one hour she is made desolate” (vs. This chapter even lists in detail the luxury items that Babylon had been purchasing, and how “the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury” (Revelation 18:3). However, she will be judged and her wealth destroyed: “In the measure that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow… she will be utterly burned with fire” (vs. This theme is expanded in Revelation 18, the fall of Babylon, which pictures the whole world getting rich off the global trade that Babylon generates.
This verse predicts that “in the last days” the rich will “heap up treasures” by exploiting the poor, but that the Lord will take note and their treasures will be “a witness against” them. Indeed, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord” (James 5:1-5). You have heaped up treasures in the last days. The apostle James wrote, “Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you… your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. Although it is impossible to know in advance if the current financial crisis has anything to do with prophecy, the Bible does predict an end time crisis that will include global economic disaster. Whenever a financial crisis strikes it seems like the end of the world for those who are most affected, as they lose their jobs, their savings, their homes and their sense of security.
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