Rev 6:5,6 NCV When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a black horse, and its rider held a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard something that sounded like a voice coming from the middle of the four living creatures. The voice said, "A quart of wheat for a day's pay, and three quarts of barley for a day's pay, and do not damage the olive oil and wine!"
Editor's Note: Exacerbating the effects of famine brought on by the galloping of the black horse will also be economic chaos and inflationary prices, which is what is indicated by the phrase “a quart of wheat for a denarius” (Rev. 6:6 NASB). In biblical times, a denarius was equal to a day’s wages. The implication is that we could spend a day’s wages for a loaf of bread. In his book, Prosperity and the Coming Apocalypse, Jim Bakker refers to the 1929 stock market crash and a time when the people who had placed their faith in Wall Street and their trust in money and material things, literally jumped out of windows. He has repeatedly said on the show that this time will come again when the money systems of this world fail.
A sharp increase in suicides in Greece is causing social stress leading up to the May 6th elections.
The rise in suicides was punctuated by a 77-year-old pharmacist who said he was reduced to fishing through garbage cans for sustenance and thus found suicide to be a “dignified end” to his life.
A leading psychoanalyst told Reuters that the crisis is causing many mental problems for Greeks.
“The crisis has triggered a growing sense of guilt, a loss of self-esteem and humiliation,” Nikos Sideris said. “Greek people don’t want to be a burden to anyone and there’s this growing sense of helplessness.”
According to the Greek Health Ministry, there was a 40 percent rise in suicides in the first half of 2010, the most recent time period with validated data available.
