Editor's Note:  The rider of the black horse carries with him famine and economic collapse, signified by the weighing scales and the exorbitant prices for food.

“Catastrophic calamities are coming upon the earth, not one of these days in the distant future, but soon—now! Torrential rains, unsettling weather patterns, violent storms, floods, famines, droughts, earthquakes increasing in frequency and intensity, volcanic eruptions, and a host of other signs of the times Jesus told us to watch for are happening now.”

-Jim Bakker in “Prosperity and the Coming Apocalypse”

The heavy rain and strong winds of Hurricane Sandy has devastated the crops of Haiti to the point aid workers are predicting a serious food shortage across the country.

Officials report that 70% of the nation’s crops were destroyed by the storm. Food shortages were already a concern but now that the banana, plantain and corn crops have been mostly wiped out a famine seems all but certain.

Food prices in the past have triggered violent protests and prices are already reaching the same levels that causes unrest.

Officials also say that the flooding could cause a serious increase in cholera cases.

At least 54 people died in Haiti after what Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe described as a disaster “of major proportions.” Many more are at risk from unsanitary conditions caused by the flooding. A cholera epidemic has already been ravaging Haiti since late 2010 and the current conditions would increase the likelihood of the disease growing in rural areas.