Russia, short of food, is forced to buy wheat from U.S.
Canada sells grain to starving China.
50,000 drought-stricken square miles of Brazil goes up in flames in 1963.
Drought returns to U.S. What does it all mean?
TODAY the world faces a major population explosion. Over three billion people now inhabit the globe. Last year the world's population increased by 60 million! That's 60 million more births than deaths!
Yet, almost one third of the earth's surface is DESERT! And that desert is increasing by hundreds of square miles each year!
More Dangerous Than Hydrogen Bomb
Statesmen and world leaders are just beginning to wake up to the threat of mass starvation. It's more serious than the threat of hydrogen-bomb warfare.
At this very moment one quarter a earth's inhabitants are directly suffering from droughts, floods, famines, and other natural catastrophes. And in the wake, an unparalleled spread of diseases from the dead and dying.
Hundreds of millions of others are chronically undernourished. In Africa and Asia superstition so grips the native mind that millions of sickly children are denied milk even though it may be readily available. In many of these lands milk is considered a vile excrement of cattle — more loathsome than urine or dung!
The tragedy of it all is that the world has waited TOO LONG. It is TOO LATE to turn back and undo the events that have pushed humanity to the brink of mass starvation. Only God can save now!
What most people do not realize is that the present crisis is new. The world has not always been this way. Only a few centuries ago the population was only a fraction of what it now is. The rich soils of China, India, and the Russian Ukraine were providing the needed food supplies. Minor periodic catastrophes were easily weathered.
Today the world is different. The land in underdeveloped countries is no longer capable of supplying the needs of its mounting inhabitants. The surplus food supplies of Europe, North America and Australia would vanish in a few months if evenly distributed to the billion in need.
Now we face the return of drought to the United States, and its continued threat in Australia. Our own supplies of food are precariously small. Other than cotton, America's much-touted surplus would last the nation hardly more than a year. That is how close the whole world is to catastrophe!
Have we forgotten the lesson of Joseph in Egypt?
Joseph warned the Pharaoh of Egypt, in time of prosperity and abundance, to lay up for the day of natural catastrophe! The warning of Joseph, prophetically, has been beamed around the world on The WORLD TOMORROW broadcast. The message of Joseph has been sent, but where is the Pharaoh who heeds?
Perhaps you thought this was a meaningless little Bible story? It is not. It's a prophecy for us today! If it had no meaning for us today, God would have left it out of the Bible! But it is there — as a final warning today of impending disaster.
Don't Be Fooled
Despite the admissions of weather reporters and scientists, most news articles on the weather are soft-pedaling the TRUTH. A definite campaign is being waged which aims at discrediting the real significance behind the momentous changes in weather patterns.
Many scientists are frankly frightened, but too scared to admit it. They are afraid to face realities! They are afraid to recognize that the WORST IS YET TO COME!
All the freaks in the weather in 1963 are merely forerunners — advance warnings of a horrifying period of drought such as has NEVER OCCURRED SINCE RECORDED HISTORY BEAN. This is a bold statement — but it is true — and it is time we faced realities and quit fooling ourselves.
For years we have been warning this nation — and the world — of the devastating weather changes which are occurring before YOUR VERY EYES! Science has no real solution — no guaranteed way — to protect your home from flood, drought or famine.
It's time you wake up! It's time you learn WHY weather changes are occurring — and what God expects you to do about it!
Fulfillment of Prophecy
These weather changes are only the fulfillment of prophecy, believe it or not! In His Mt. Olivet prophecy, Jesus warned of this revolution in nature. Study it in Luke 21:11 and 25; then compare it with Revelation 6:5-8.
Here it is, plainly revealed. First, came the great conspiracy by Simon Magus.
He plotted to destroy the true Church of God which Jesus founded. He had his men secretly pose as Christians, profess the name of Christ, then introduce their ancient Babylonian mystery religion in the guise of Christianity. It deceived millions. That's the little-understood origin of today's Babel of competing sects and denominations all calling themselves Christian, but none practicing what Christ taught or believing what He preached!
Second, said Jesus, would come the wars that would eventually destroy the Roman Empire. They began in 256 A.D. This was followed, beginning around A.D. 300, by centuries of drought and famine and flood, climaxing 600 years ago in Europe. From A.D. 1300 to 1400, Europe suffered such climatic storms as had never been equaled since the so, called "Ice Ages"! Frightening disease epidemics immediately followed. Then the great religious persecution of the Middle Ages.
But Jesus' prophecy is DUAL. It is being repeated once again. First came the second spread of false teachers, beginning 1517 in the Protestant Reformation. Then World Wars, beginning in 1914. And now Cold War.
Now turn again to the prophetic warning in Luke 21. As a result of present-day drought, HORRIFYING FAMINES will rage. Gigantic tropical storms at sea will sweep onto the land with devastating force, obliterating entire communities, causing untold hundreds, and even thousands, to perish from heart failure — from stark fear of what's coming! These events are just beginning to happen NOW!
Observe that the climax of this prophesied revolution in the weather ends not in the Middle Ages, but with this PRESENT AGE WHEN GOD IS ABOUT TO INTERVENE IN WORLD AFFAIRS BY SENDING JESUS CHRIST "WITH POWER" TO RULE THE NATIONS AND TO BRING PEACE AT LAST. "Then shall they see the Son of Man coming in a cloud, with POWER and great glory" (Luke 21:27).
History always repeats itself. THOSE PAST EVENTS WERE ONLY THE FORERUNNERS OF MORE DEVASTATING WEATHER CHANGES now beginning to take place. Duality is found in almost every prophecy. The former fulfillment is only a TYPE of the cataclysmic age-end destructive forces set in motion by man and nature. Specialists who study weather understand this principle. Said Dr. James E. McDonald, of Iowa State College, a few years ago: "It has at some time in the past been as bad, or worse — and will be as bad, or worse, again."
Today's REVOLUTION in WEATHER
But how did the present world come to face such a tragedy as is now upon us? Here, in simple form, is the scientific answer.
Forests are a major factor in altering the weather. They provide natural watersheds, prevent floods, modify the extremes of climate and temperature, increase humidity, decrease evaporation, and hold and conserve soil moisture. In America over two fifths of the original forest area is gone! — destroyed by man! In a lust for quick wealth, much of this area has been unwisely turned into farmland.
Forests reflect the heat. Farmed lands absorb heat. This absorption of heat raises the temperature of the countryside. Little wonder that hot winds last year destroyed our forests at a record rate. And the trees that are not droughted out are burned in constantly increasing forest fires — many set deliberately by man!
Without forests, rain waters become floods. They are no longer absorbed into the soil. The water level naturally drops. Many farming communities find that deep wells must be bored deeper! The nation today is not only preventing waters from being stored in the soil, but we are borrowing the water of future generations by removing what little remains in the soil!
Why don't we wake up to the calamity we are bringing on ourselves!
Deserts are fast expanding — in the U.S.A., Africa and Asia. Severe droughts are occurring in the virgin lands of Siberia — in the highlands near the equator — all because the climate is changing. The great Sahara is, in some areas, expanding at 30 miles per year! Vast areas are drying up — at the same time other regions are having their worst floods in 600 years!
Even wildlife is on the march!
The REVOLUTION in weather is witnessing the mass migration of trees, grains, vegetables, bugs, fish, birds and animals to more northern zones. England's supply of fish is greatly diminished by migration to warming northern waters. The hardwood trees of the northern U.S.A. and southern Canada are becoming sick because they can't stand the rise in temperature. Insects and diseases are increasing in areas where the established plant life can't accommodate itself to a warmer climate.