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  THE BLACK HORSE OF HYPERINFLATION AND FAMINE
  by Keith Malcomson
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Summary: This sermon delves into the biblical prophecy of the Four
Horsemen of the Apocalypse, focusing on the Black Horse of
Hyperinflation and Famine from Revelation chapter 6. It highlights the
historical rise of leaders like Hitler during economic crises, warns of
the present economic challenges, and emphasizes the need for faith,
trust in God, and storing up treasures in heaven amidst financial
uncertainties.

Duration: 1:17:33 Topics: "Faith in Economic Crisis", "Treasures in Heaven"
Scripture References: Luke 12:22, Matthew 6:19, Matthew 24:7, Revelation 6:5, Zechariah 6:2, Jeremiah 14:1, Job 30:30, Ezekiel 4:16, Luke 12:28, Luke 12:29, Luke 12:30

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This sermon delves into the biblical prophecy of the Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse, focusing on the Black Horse of Hyperinflation and Famine
from Revelation chapter 6. It highlights the historical rise of leaders
like Hitler during economic crises, warns of the present economic
challenges, and emphasizes the need for faith, trust in God, and storing
up treasures in heaven amidst financial uncertainties.

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I wanted you to turn with me to Revelation chapter 6 and we're
continuing our short series on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. This
is part four tonight. We've already dealt with two horses.

We're going to deal with the third horse here tonight. And my message,
my title is The Black Horse of Hyperinflation and Famine. The Black
Horse of Hyperinflation and Famine.

Reading from Revelation chapter 6 and verse 1. And I saw when the Lamb
opened one of the seals, and he heard as it were the noise of thunder,
one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw and behold the
white horse, and he that sat on him had a bow, and a crown was given
unto him, and he went forth conquering and to conquer. And when he had
opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.

And there went out another horse, and that was red. And power was given
to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they
should kill one another. And there was given unto him a great sword.

And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come
and see. And I beheld and lo, a black horse, and he that sat on him had
a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the
four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of
barley for a penny.

And see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. And when he had opened the
fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
And I looked and behold a pale horse, and his name that sat on him was
Death.

And hell followed with him, and power was given unto them over the
fourth part of the earth to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with
death, and with the beasts of the earth. Will you pray with me here
tonight? Father, we realize what an hour that we are living in a
critical, Lord God, history changing hour. And we pray that in the midst
of all that we are doing, Lord God, that life would be changed not only
for time, but for all eternity.

We do believe that you're a God who created all things, that you, Lord
God, not only give us the most accurate history of the past, but you
give us an absolute accurate history of the future, of what is
happening, what is about to happen in great detail. And we bow the knee
to you. You're not only the God of history that intervened in history
time and time again, but you're the God of prophecy who knows all
things, that works in the midst of all things, simply to bring men to a
knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ who died for them on the cross, that
you so loved them that you gave your only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.

Our messages, we come to this fourth part, or the third horse of the
apocalypse. I've named this black horse that we've just read about here,
the black horse of hyperinflation and famine. I believe you're going to
see here why I have actually called it that.

In the past two weeks, we have seen, first of all, the white horse ride
out, and we preached on that in detail. Then we see the red horse ride
out. Then third tonight, we see the black horse ride out.

We said that the first horse is the white horse of political, peaceful
deception, that very shortly a world government is going to be
established across the nations of the world, and it has been thoroughly
planned for a hundred years. In fact, more than that, it goes back to
the French Revolution, when all the French philosophers planned a
perpetual world peace that would come about the end of war. How did they
say it would happen? With a world government, by federating all the
nations of the world together.

That was the first white horse. It hasn't been released yet. It hasn't
gone forth.

It isn't COVID. But do you know what? That white horse is going to be
released in the earth, and then great events are going to happen. The
red horse, we said, was going to be not just war between countries and
between continents.

That isn't going to be the second red horse. The red horse represents
civil strife or rebellion within each nation. We saw that with the red
horse here in Revelation 6, it said that men shall kill one another, and
it is talking about within each nation, as a world government is brought
in, as the answer to world peace, and that this message of a global
government with ten world leaders, that you're going to see an uprising
and bloodshed of civil strife right across the nations.

Those two horses, the white horse, then the red horse, is going to lead
to the black horse. All of these horses follow one after the other, and
in fact, once the four horses ride forth into the world, one after the
other, they each represent events that are going to happen in the world.
They each represent a time frame that is going to happen, and in fact,
these four horses represent a period of three and a half years that the
Bible talks about as the 70th week or the last seven years predicted by
Daniel, the prophet.

And so we see that the white horse initiates a seven year period, but
also a three and a half year period where ten world leaders are ruling a
world government. Where is the antichrist? Where is the little horn?
Where is the one that's prophesied? Well what does the Bible say? It is
in that political government of world leaders that another king or
leader or political man is going to rise up. As soon as you see that
government, a world government of ten leaders, there's going to begin
the rise of a little man, insignificant at first, unnoticed in the
Middle East.

He's not going to rise in Europe or in America. He's neither Obama nor
one of these other men that people have tried to predict. Every time a
politician comes to say it's Obama or it's Trump or it's somewhere else.

All of that is foolishness. The Bible predicts that the antichrist, who
we know as the antichrist, will arise as a man of peace. When he first
comes on the political scene, he is an eloquent man.

He is a diplomat. He is a wonderful leader and for three and a half
years he begins his rise. He steps onto the scene of world history as a
peacemaker signing a seven year covenant with the nation of Israel.

He gives them their temple. He gives them back the right to make blood
sacrifices. Remember these prophecies were made 2,600 years ago and how
things would happen just at the end.

I predict to you there's going to come a world leader, a politician who
will sign a covenant with Israel and he'll give them peace in their
land, peace in the Middle East. He'll give them their third temple and
they'll start practicing blood sacrifice again upon the mount just in
Jerusalem. This is actually going to take place.

But from the white horse through to the fourth horse, you have the slow
rise of the antichrist. Now tonight you're going to see why I say this
and you're going to begin to understand what I'm saying about the four
horses. Antichrist will suddenly at the end of that three years grab
power from these ten leaders by uprooting three of them and displacing
them.

It will become a tyranny of one leader, a one world leader, a global
leader who will initiate some of the worst days in all of history. You
see last week we looked at under the red horse that they would kill one
another. There is going to be many things happening in the nations.

The word kill there means slaughter, to violently put down, to massacre.
It's not the great tribulation that's going to come under antichrist.
This begins paving the way for him to arise.

It's not the contents of the trumpets or the vials that is laid out in
the book of Revelation. All of that follows. I'm talking here about four
seals in a unique three and a half year period and they come in this
order.

First a peaceful world government for the first time in our world. Then
you're going to have all this civil bloodshed and then for tonight we're
going to see following on the heels of that red horse is a black horse
and that black horse represents hyperinflation and famine. Through
bloodshed, through the economic system, all of these things is going to
lead to the rise of antichrist.

Let me give you my message here tonight and my first point here, I'm
going to plunge right into our text. My first point is identify the
black horse and its rider. I've told you what I believe it is but I want
to prove it to you tonight.

Identify the black horse and its rider in verse five and in verse six.
In verse five it says, and I beheld and lo a black horse and he that sat
on him. As we've seen in the previous week, these horses represent
something.

Their color represents something and the rider on each of them
represents something. The first week as we began to deal with this, we
look back into the Old Testament to Zechariah chapter six and verse two
and it says, and in the second chariot black horses, these are the four
spirits of heaven which go forth from standing before the Lord of all of
the earth. And we saw in Zechariah six that that chariot led out with
black horses was actually going to affect nations.

It was going to stir everything up in the nations. It was God's judgment
upon the world. And we saw that the black horse and the chariot being
led by it was one of the four spirits of heaven that stir everything up
in our world.

Now what does this black horse represent? What does the color black
represent in the Bible? That's the first thing we want to look at. I
believe black represents famine. When you see a black horse, black, the
color black, represents famine.

Listen closely for a second in Jeremiah chapter 14 and verse one, it
actually says there, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah concerning
the dearth, the famine. It was an hour of hard times. And so the word of
the Lord comes to Jeremiah, a prophecy talking about that hour.

The next verse, chapter 14 and two, it says, Judah mourneth, or is black
in the original, and the gates thereof languish. They are black unto the
ground, and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. And so the word of the Lord
comes to Jeremiah about this dearth, this languishing, and it describes
it by the color black.

It actually talks about Jerusalem under this terrible condition, an hour
when famine is going to come, when a scarcity of goods is going to come.
Listen again to what Jeremiah says in Lamentation chapter four and verse
eight. And it's speaking in Lamentations four, again, about a hard time
coming to Jerusalem, a terrible time, a time of famine, a time of
dearth, a time of trouble.

Listen to what it says, their visage, talking about the Nazarites who
used to look good in good days. It says their visage or their appearance
is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets.

Their skin cleaveth to their bones. It is withered. It has become like a
stick.

They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain
with hunger. For these pine away, stricken through for want of the
fruits of the field. And so again, Jeremiah speaking, he actually says
that these men and women experiencing famine, they have become thin.

Their skin is literally clinging to their bones. And you know what
they're marked by? They're called black. Their appearance is actually
black.

Their visage or their countenance has become black. And you know what it
says? It's worse than dying in a war. It's far worse to have to walk
through a time of famine.

Again, in Lamentation chapter 5 and 10, it says our skin was black like
an oven because of the terrible famine. And so we see that famine is
marked by people being called black. When we see the black horse, black
represents something.

We are going to see as we look closer at this horse and its rider and
everything about this prophecy that this horse and its rider does denote
famine. Not just in one thing. I'm going to confirm it time and time
again here.

But the color black does represent where you see the color black on a
horse. That's what it's representing is a very hard time. Job in Job 30,
he also says, my skin is black upon me and my bones are burned with
heat.

And many other scriptures describe this. And so when we see this third
horse following after the red horse of war. You see, what follows after
war? One of the most common things that comes on the back of war are
bloodshed or civil disobedience and revolution is usually famine.

The Bible has shown us in a short period of time, the entire global
atmosphere in which one little politician is going to rise to ultimate
power. First, a world government, then bloodshed, and then third of all,
a famine or hyperinflation, as we're going to see. And this black horse
rides out after the red one.

Once the red one has ruled across the nations, then the black one rides
out across the nations as well. Look at verse five. What else it says?
That he that sat on him, on the black horse, see each black horse
represents a movement, a set of political events, something socially
that affects the entire world.

He that sat upon him had a pair of balances in his hand. You remember
the first white horse? He had a bow in his hand. You remember the red
horse? He had a great sword in his hand.

Now the rider of this black horse, he has a pair of balances in his
hand. The word balances here means a pair of scales, a way in scales,
where you weigh things out very, very deliberately. And in fact, when
you see this rider ride out onto the nations with balances on hand, do
you know what it begins to mean? That we're going to begin to weigh
very, very precious things, expensive things.

You don't weigh what isn't important. When there is an abundance, when
there's lots of it, when it's cheap and nasty and everybody has it, you
don't weigh it. You only weigh what is most expensive, what is most
important, or what is very rare.

Not a grain must be lost at this time. The balances here in this
prophecy are an emblem of scarcity, of things that are going to become
rare or hard to get. Things are not carefully measured in good times.

It was Candice's father pointed out to her, and I picked that up, was
that how companies, if you notice over the years, we've noticed it in
our lifetime, how the product looks the same on the outside. It's the
same container. But all of a sudden, it gets smaller and smaller, or
when you open the same size packaging, what is inside there? There's
hardly anything.

Have you ever had a packet of crisps and you open it, and you used to
go, there used to be an awful lot more in this crisp packet than there
is now. They actually fill it with a bit of air, a bit of oxygen. And so
you think you're getting a full crisp packet, nothing of the sort.

You see, that is a sign that the economy is affected. In the 80s and 90s
up to 2000, that didn't happen. It's the same with flights.

You could fly anywhere in the world, it was without limitation. But from
2001, they began to push seats and flights closer together. Prices began
to increase.

And so we see here, the rider is weighing something in his balances. And
it's shown there's a scarcity of certain things. There's a prophecy in
Ezekiel chapter 4, in the past, in history.

And it talks about Jerusalem being under siege of her enemies. And God's
speaking to Ezekiel. He actually says, I want you to do something, and
I'm going to show you what's going to happen.

And he told him what to do. And he told him what was going to happen,
that the people were going to have to cook their food by using the fuel
of dung. Animal dung was going to have to be used literally to make
their meals.

But listen to prophecy. In Ezekiel chapter 4, 16, Son of man, behold, I,
that is God, will break the whole staff of bread in Jerusalem. The staff
of bread is the basic food you need to live.

Here, God is saying an hour of judgment is coming in which the staff of
bread is going to be broken in Jerusalem. And they shall eat bread by
weight. So you know bread is being broken.

The staff of bread is being broken. Famine is coming when they shall eat
bread by weight. And so Ezekiel was told that the bread was going to be
weighed before you'd eat it.

When men begin to weigh bread, it means the bread is going to be broken
or become very scarce. And it says they will eat it with care. And they
shall drink water by measure and with astonishment.

So Ezekiel was actually warned that the bread was going to be weighed
and it was going to be done with great care. That's what the balances
are symbolizing. Do you realize that after a world government's in place
and after there's been national bloodshed, here comes the black horse
and men are going to begin to weigh carefully the basic food that they
have.

It's going to be with great care. It's going to be measured out. It also
says in Ezekiel chapter 5 and 16, I will increase the famine upon you
and I will break your staff of bread.

In Leviticus 26 verse 26, it says, when I have broken the staff of your
bread, 10 women shall break your bread in one oven and they shall
deliver you your bread again by weight and he shall eat and not be
satisfied. And so we begin to see when bread is weighed or measured or
when you've got 10 women using the same cooker instead of what they
would have before, you are in a serious time. Do you know what these
balances speak of? The commerce, the economy, the trade, the business
world, the marketplace where you buy things, the shops around you, the
banks where you keep your money.

It's looking at these balances that suddenly food is going to become
very, very scarce. What happens in a famine? Usually there's a lot of
corruption. There is great poverty.

There's a lot of debt, inflation. Things become very expensive. There's
a boom and bust within the economy.

There is great unemployment and there's financial loss. All of this
we're seeing in this third horse of the apocalypse. It's a very serious
thing.

This black horse is riding out and the man is holding the balances.
Remember what I said about each of the riders? They are spiritual beings
or creatures. I believe it's a fallen angel.

This is a fallen angel holding the power of the economy in his hand and
initiating a movement that brings judgment on the nations. We also read
here a bit further on in verse 6, and I heard a voice in the midst of
the four beasts say, so as this horse rides out and John is looking at
the vision, you hear a voice speak out from the midst of the beasts, the
four beasts, the cherubims that we mentioned last week. This voice,
whose voice is it? It's God.

In other words, God himself is intervening with this seal in this horse
to explain what it means. It's not enough just to see the black horse
that represents famine and the scales that begin to show us a warning.
God himself begins to speak here and begins to explain exactly what's
going on in verse 6. What do we hear? A measure of weight for a penny.

A measure of weight. What are you looking at, at this black horse with
the balances? This is the explanation. This is what happens in our
world, and I believe it's in the future, shortly in the future.

It's going to be in an hour. This is going to be a part of how
antichrist comes to power in the world. It's going to be in an economic
crisis.

It's going to be in an hour where people are just glad to feed
themselves. He is going to maneuver himself as a man of peace. Remember,
it's going to be the 10 world leaders who are going to be blamed for
this.

They'll be blamed for the red horse. They'll be blamed for the black
horse. And then they're going to be blamed for the horse that we're
going to deal with next week.

Government always gets blamed, whether they've done it or whether they
didn't do it. And in this hour, governments are to blame for an awful
lot. I want to assure you.

And so God begins to tell you what is going on here. A measure of weight
for a penny. What is a measure of weight? The word measure here is the
Greek word koiniks.

It can mean about a litre of weight. Think about a litre of coke. So he
says you will pay a penny for about a litre of coke, or a litre of
bread, I should say.

I won't go through all the measurements. You can look it up for
yourself. But basically what it's saying is that you're going to pay one
penny for enough bread to feed you for one day.

That's what you're going to do. In other words, you'll pay a penny for
working all day. You're going to get this litre of bread, this amount of
bread that you can hold in your hands.

You're going to work all day long, and all you'll get for it is that
amount of bread. That's all you'll get. So you'll work all day long,
every day, just to get enough food to feed you for one day.

Not your family, not anyone else. One man, one hard working man. And so
we see that God is explaining what is going on in this third seal.

That a measure of weight is going to cost you one penny. It's talking,
when it talks about weight, it's talking about essential basic food to
survive. What is necessary? The fact that it is being measured out and
the balances are weighing it.

Do you know what that represents? Government rationing, or the control
of prices. So that there is a power here, holding back, restraining and
limiting. In order to get that measure of weight, you'll have to pay a
penny.

How much is a penny? The word in the Greek here is denarius. And a
denarius was a Roman silver coin. It's mentioned nine times in the New
Testament, or in eight different verses.

What is a denarius? Or what is a penny in the New Testament? It was an
entire day's wage. Jesus in his parable in Matthew chapter 20, about the
laborers going out in the field to work for a day, or to work for an
hour. Listen to what he says.

And when he had agreed with the laborers for a penny a day, how much
were they working for? A penny, or a denarius a day. He sent them into
his vineyard. He says, are you willing to work all day for one penny?
They said, yes.

That was the value of one penny. And so we see that one penny is the
equivalent of one man's hard day's work. Working all day long.

And in fact, if you go back to the first century, a Roman soldier worked
every day for one denarius. That was his wage, or a hard worker. You're
not just talking about casual work here, or popping and doing something.

You're talking about a hard day's work was one penny. And it's saying
here that when this happens, one day's hard grafting, or work, will only
get you a measure of weight. That's all you will get.

A denarius was a person's wage for one day's labor, but only for one
person's food. Let me move this into our day. I tried to do the
calculations on this, because I wanted it simple.

I wanted you to understand. At this present time in Ireland, they say
that minimum wage in Ireland per hour, per day, is 10 euros an hour.
That's the minimum wage, or thereabouts.

They're trying to up it. But that's the basic, basic wage that they say
you should be working for, 10 euros an hour. But really, in Ireland,
they say the average amount is 25 euro an hour.

That's on average. It can go way above that, and sometimes a bit lower
than that. But that is average, 25 euros an hour.

If that is true, listen for a second as I apply this. Do you know what
that would mean if that horse, that black horse rode out now, and this
happened right now, the same thing of charging a penny, an entire day's
work, for enough bread to feed you for one day, for a measure of weight.
If that happened, it would mean whatever you can make, you men, you
hardworking men, working all day long, whatever money you can make in
one day, you would spend for enough bread to eat.

Only you, not your family. That means that a loaf of bread in our day,
or enough bread to eat throughout the day, maybe three loaves to cover
three meals, and that's all you have, it would cost you either, at the
low end of the scale, 100 euro, or on average, 250 euro, just to eat a
few basic loaves of bread in one day. The average person would be
spending that in this crisis.

It'll cost you 250 euro every single day for two or three loaves, and
you don't even get to feed your family. That's what this prophecy is
talking about. Well, it talks about wheat and barley in this.

The wheat is wild cereal. We know it's a wild cereal, and it produces
grain or flour or good bread, a good loaf of brown bread. Some of you in
here, you like your white bread.

You know what? You've been shortchanged. They've stolen all the good out
of it, and they leave you with this white thing that we all love. I used
to love white bread growing up.

I wouldn't eat anything else. It had to be white bread. Little do you
know that you're being shortchanged.

All of the good is taken out, but when I'm talking about wheat bread,
I'm talking about healthy, good quality bread. You would be paying 250
euros per day. I assure you, you wouldn't do that in this hour.

You know why? It's bountiful. It's everywhere, and yet in our hour, if
it doesn't keep rolling through, you could end up without it. If you
want to eat well or healthy, you'll pay 250, and that's not covering any
other bills, any other clothes, any other thing you want to do, or for
your electric or for fuel.

This is only for eating day by day. It goes a bit further in verse six,
and it says, and three measures of barley for a penny. So one measure
for wheat, three measures you get for barley.

I would personally go for the barley, but you see, when you go for
barley, that was the poor man's food, usually used for making beer, or
it's horse fodder. They usually use barley to make mixtures, to give to
our animals, to keep them well and feed them, and here we see that you
get three times as much barley as you would wheat. So I would go there,
but it's not as good as wheat.

You're actually going down a level. So in other words, if you want to
feed your family, if you want to work all day, every day from morning to
night, hard and feed your family, you're going to take a drop to the
most common food or bread, just to put food on the table. You could feed
your small family, not large family, a small family.

You could just survive by doing this. And in fact, it often is that
barley is twice you get twice much, but here it says three times as
much. One working man, working all day, provides only for a small
family, only bread, nothing else, no other purchase, no other bills.

Do you know what this was? This was the food of a slave in the first
century, and that's the picture we have here. To feed a family daily,
you will need to go to a lower quality. You will not have a high
expectation like you maybe do today.

And notice what else it says in verse six. And see thou hurt not the oil
and the wine. All these things are happening with this third horse in a
very short period of time, within a year, within a year.

All four horses ride out over a period of three and a half years. Look
what's happened in the last year and a half. Weren't we shocked by what
happened to our world? In one and a half year, our world has changed.

The economy, the workplace, school education, society, everything
changes in a year and a half. Can you imagine these horses? As soon as
one has done its work, then the Lord says, next, next. It's going to be
like rapid firing bullets, one after the other coming.

But notice what the Lord says. And see thou hurt not the oil and the
wine. Now the oil and the wine were luxuries.

Wheat and barley are the necessary basics for life. But wine and oil,
that's an expense. That's a liberty.

And this could have two meanings I'm going to give to you here. First of
all, it could mean that the rich are unaffected under this particular
seal. Under the sixth seal, very shortly, the rich are going to suffer
terribly along with the poor.

But the fact that God says, don't touch the oil and the wine, leave them
alone, could actually mean that you've got the common people are going
to suffer terribly economically. While the rich and the powerful and the
famous, they're going to say, we're still dying on oil and wine. We're
unaffected by this.

And you're going to have this break in society. What a tragedy. Do you
realize why this little horn is able to arise? If he's smart and
eloquent, he's going to come up through the system.

But also the wine and the oil comes from olives and grapes. Where do you
mostly get olives and grapes? In the Mediterranean, around the
Mediterranean Sea or in the Middle East or in the nation of Israel. You
remember during this three and a half years as the world is experiencing
the white horse and then the red horse and then the black horse.

Do you know what's happening in Israel? They have peace. They have a
unique, a political, a guaranteed peace. They're in prosperity.

They're not fighting any wars. Hamas is not firing rockets at them.
There is an actual peace.

And in fact, there's a revival for the first time in thousand years of
their blood sacrifices in the city of Jerusalem. They ended in AD 70.
But very shortly, they're going to come back in again.

I'm not for it. You know what? If they build a third temple, I won't go
there and worship there. That is not a good thing.

It is actually going to be a trick of the Antichrist. He is going to be
pandering to Israel and they'll say, look at this political leader. He's
given us peace.

He's given us a third temple. He has given us our religion back, a
restored Orthodox Old Testament legal religion. Isn't he great? Do you
see how the whole stage is set? So while the world is falling into an
economic crisis, I believe Israel is going to be getting preserved.

The oil and the wine could be meaning not. But Israel, the Mediterranean
is unaffected while the nations of the world are in a terrible
condition. That's my first point here as an explanation of this black
horse.

I hope you understand what the fourth horse is. Second of all, let me
give you a lesson from history. History is very important.

History is very, very important. And we live in a generation where
people have forgotten what's happened in history. That's why they say,
oh, that's a conspiracy theory.

Because you know what? I know all of our politicians and all of our
institutions and all of these, they would never conspire. All of our
politicians are so perfect. None of them are corrupt.

None of them would work for their own richness. They're actually working
for your good and your benefit. And they're thinking of you rather than
their career.

We don't believe in conspiracy theories in this hour. Then you might as
well chuck 6,000 years of history in the bin. Because anybody who mocks
conspiracy theories or says you shouldn't be questioning and you
shouldn't be looking and you shouldn't be scrutinising and you just need
to trust.

Do you know what? They need to be, they're stupid. They're certainly not
historians. They certainly don't have any scholarship.

They certainly haven't learned any lessons from history. My second
point, a lesson from history. I want to show you how Adolf Hitler arose
in Nazi Germany.

See, it's shocking. How could a man like that arise in Europe, in
Germany? It's a shocking thing, especially if you knew the German
people. But I believe with Adolf Hitler and his rise, we see an example
of what happens under this third horse.

And I want to show you it here. Do you remember with the First World
War? It went from 1914 to 1918. And in November of that year, the war
ended.

It was called the war to end all wars. Because they were going to bring
in a governmental system that was going to stop all wars. Then just a
few months after the end of the war, in January 1919, these governments
held the Paris Peace Conference.

27 nations gathered in Paris to reorganise the political situation of
the world, dominated by four nations. Great Britain, France, the US and
Italy. These four countries were the main influences on it.

They elected and raised up a council of 10 men over this Paris
Conference. One of them was Lord Milner, who was a notorious Englishman.
And for six months in Paris, Paris became the capital of the world, the
headquarters of a temporary world government, which wrote up new
international treaties, scrapped old entire empires, created new
countries, and reshaped the world map.

These men literally done it for six months. And historians say this is
the only time in modern history that we had a provisional world
government that dictated, that changed borders, that changed our entire
society and culture. These 10 men sitting there in Paris done that, and
an awful lot more happened there that I could tell you about.

I could keep you for 10 hours just telling you the details of things
that are affecting our world now, that were planned during those six
months. It was a remarkable time. Now I'm telling you how we got to a
Nazi Germany.

In June 1919, 44 nations signed the Peace Covenant of Paris, which
created the League of Nations. They wanted the League of Nations to be
the first world government in modern society. That was their plan, but
America pulled out, and Germany carried on to cause much problems.

At its peak in the 1930s, the League of Nations had 58 member countries.
It was the first intergovernmental organization of its kind, and it was
created with the purpose of preventing another war, a provisional global
association of nations that would stop war coming about. We knew the
League of Nations failed.

America wouldn't get involved with it. Other nations wouldn't come in on
it. Notice the time scale here of what I'm talking about.

In 1919, Hitler was back from the war he'd fought. He'd been a corporal
in the German army, injured on the battlefield, and so he was retired,
injured, dissolution. He comes back to his country, and in the year
1919, he joins a political movement, and he is the 555th member of that
political movement.

It's small. It's radical. It's mocked and laughed at.

People say they're crackpots. They'll never get anywhere in the nation.
No one will ever vote for them.

Within three years, he became the Führer of that organization. Three
years it took him to become the leader. Between 1919 and 1934, a period
of 14 years, Hitler arose to ultimate power in the entire nation of
Germany.

Do you realize during his rise to power, he needed a tremendous amount
of money? I mean a remarkable amount of money, which certainly wasn't in
Germany. The nation didn't have that sort of money, and in fact, he
realized that money could subvert and undermine the democratic process
within any individual nation. So what happened to bring a rise to
Hitler? In the 1920s, terrible inflation hit Germany, wiping out the
entire savings of the entire middle class in Germany over a few short
years.

Do you know what happened at first? Germany, at the council in Paris,
legislation was laid down. They had to pay back France and Germany and
America and Belgium. Every year they were going to have to pay.

They managed in just one year to pay their war debts. But what happened
in late 1922? They couldn't pay. They didn't have the money.

They missed out on paying their debts. When they miss out on their
debts, then those countries have outstanding bills. It creates a
problem.

So what did France and Belgium do? They sent their soldiers into Germany
to take over the industrial areas, the factories, the big companies in
Germany, and brought all the wealth of that into their own countries. As
a result, across Germany, there was great national strikes and strife
amongst the population. Revolutions began to break out.

In Berlin, there was a revolution called the Spartacus Revolution that
began to arise. Communism began to arise in the streets of Germany. So
what did the German government? It couldn't go to war again.

It couldn't reject its own people. So what did it do? It began to print
more money, more paper money. The more it printed, the more inflation
went up because the prices of everything went.

You cannot print more money and put it into society without inflation
coming. What have we been doing for a year and a half? We have been
printing. What did the Bank of England do at the end of last year? They
just pressed a button.

You don't print anymore. You just press one button and they put 50
million, what was it, whatever, push of a button and it goes straight in
there out of thin air. They've created it.

It's not real money. You're actually looking at inflation as soon as
banks start to do that. And in Germany, the more they printed, the
higher the prices went.

Then this turned into hyperinflation. Now listen carefully. This is what
I want to get you to.

An example from history. At that time in 1923, when the crisis hit
Germany, a loaf of bread, which cost 250 marks, in January 1923 at the
beginning of the crisis, one loaf, 250 marks. It rose to, and you're not
going to believe this, 200 million marks by November that same year.

This is extreme hyperinflation. By mid-1923, the nation's central banks
were using more than 30 factories, paper factories to print more money.
Almost 1,800 printing presses and 133 companies to print the new
banknotes.

Every time you issued the banknote, you had to print more to keep up
with the pace. Everything was changing so quickly. Do you know what the
largest banknote they ever printed during this year of crisis? It was a
hundred trillion banknote.

A hundred trillion written upon it. There's the stories of men and women
with a wheelbarrow with all of their cash in it, wheeling it to the shop
to buy bread. A wheelbarrow.

That's what you had to take there. There's another story of a lady. She
packed all of her money for a loaf of bread and a few basics into a
suitcase.

She went down and she was silly enough to set it down outside the shop.
Then she began to look in the window. Someone stole her suitcase.

Not for the money. They emptied all the money out and stole the
suitcase. It was worth more than all of the money, all of the notes
within it.

Do you know what we have had in history? Very serious things happen.
That same year, there was a five billion Deutschmark postmark stamp.
That's what was on the stamp.

You'd get a letter in America and you'd be going, what? What? It's
crazy. Just before World War I, one US dollar would get you four
Reichmarks. One dollar, four Reichmarks.

Do you realise where this is going to go? By the end of 1920, just after
the war, this had increased to 70 Reichmarks. In the year of crisis,
three years later, in 1923, the exchange rate for one US dollar
skyrocketed to 48,000 Reichmarks. Within a period of a few short years,
several years, you go from four Reichmarks straight through to this
unbelievable 48,000.

That was January. Then by June, it was 192,000. Then by October, it was
170 billion.

And then by November, it was four trillion. This is history. And do you
know what? The entire nation was in absolute chaos.

But do you know what was happening at that time? Suddenly, Hitler begins
to rise to power. He's speaking out, I'll fix your economy. I'll fix
your nation.

I'll restore our nation. I'll fix the problems. That's what is going to
happen again in the future.

When this world government's in place and there's bloodshed, and there's
an economic crisis, you're going to have one man who arises. He's not at
the top, but he'll say, I've got an answer. I know how to fix all of
this.

In 1923, at this terrible crisis, Hitler made a bid for a coup. He tried
to grab the entire government. He failed, and he ended up in prison for
about two years.

But he actually attempted to snatch everything in that same year. Well,
everything settled down. They restored it again.

They calmed the whole situation down. And when he got out of prison, the
situation had calmed. He'd missed his opportunity.

But Hitler was preparing. He says, I will take power. So while the
German government was trying to fix their nation, quell rebellions,
watching communism, watching the fascist Nazi party arise, all of this
was going on.

Do you know what happened in 1929? There was the American Wall Street
crash. When in one day, the market lost 10% of its value. Months later,
the second largest Austrian bank next to Germany went insolvent.

Then that was followed by the largest Belgian bank. It was a serious
time in the world. But do you know what? Wall Street balanced out again.

By the way, do you know who was financing Hitler during all this time?
He's rolling in money while his nation's in serious trouble. I'll tell
you in a second. You've actually got all of this situation going on in a
very extreme way.

In 1931, catastrophe hit Germany once again. In fact, it was called one
of the biggest financial catastrophes of modern history. It wasn't the
Wall Street crash of 1929.

That happened then. It was stabilized within a few months. Everything
was going to work out well.

But in 1931, when the German economy again had a terrible crisis, it
affected every single nation. Remember, they're paying back all their
war debts. Other nations are relying upon them paying their money.

It was called the worst crisis in a century. From 1929 to 1932, the
world industrial production declined by 36%. World trade declined by two
thirds.

German industrial privatization fell by 50%. Germany went into a third
of its working force unemployed. America was the biggest loaner to
Germany, while Germany was the biggest creditor nation in debt.

It was the most in-debt nation in the entire world. If Germany
collapses, everyone goes with it. On top of this, Germany borrowed 31
million from other foreign banks, from Wall Street and from other
nations like England and other nations around them.

What did I say? Who's financing Hitler? Oh, yes. Henry Ford in America.
Wall Street.

I'm reading a book at the minute. All the bank statements of all the
Wall Street American financers, all through the 20s, putting large
amounts of money into Hitler's hands. Then up into the 1930s, the exact
same.

The same financiers who was actually feeding money to Lenin and Trotsky.
But it's a whole other story. When you begin to look at all of this,
1931 led to a global panic.

Foreign debt went through the roof. Lower wages within Germany. Higher
taxes.

Financial crisis out of control that affects everyone on the street. A
destabilised country. 1931.

What about Hitler? What's he doing now? He's had another 10 years to
prepare. He's been slowly getting highly financed by other powers. In
September 1930, just before this happened, he only had two of the German
votes in the entire nation.

One year before this financial crisis, 2% of the vote. That jumped to
18% of the vote overnight. Then in July 1932, he had 37% of the vote.

Within one year of this crisis, just months really after the crisis,
suddenly he gets half of the vote of the entire nation. And within one
year after that, the Nazis were Germany's biggest party and they seized
power in January 1933. Months after that, he makes himself a tyrant.

He puts down all other power, takes the military power and says, we can
make any laws and change any laws. The world now is on a collision
course with Hitler. Do you realise a financial crisis led to the rise of
Hitler? His preparation, his notoriety and his sudden rise.

A 1931 financial crisis raised up a radical Marxist fascist. It was
unbelievable how that man came to power. And yet at the very same time,
even into the 1930s, in just one year, Henry Ford gave Hitler between $1
and $3 million of his own personal money.

And that was nothing compared to the other amounts. Third of all, let me
give you a warning from the present. A warning from the present.

So we've looked forward into the future, what's going to happen at some
point in the future. We've looked back in the past history. Now let's
look at what is happening at this present time.

A warning from the present. You see, all of you, I hope your attention
has been caught in recent times, something is going on in our world.
It's really going on.

I'm hearing from England how gas has gone up 200 or 250% since the
beginning of the year. I'm listening to friends who for weeks now can't
get fuel anywhere. All of a sudden, remember just over a year I warned
you about this.

I said on the back of COVID is coming the greatest financial crisis we
have ever possibly imagined. And I'm going to prove it's not just me
saying that, it's not just me. Jesus speaks in Matthew 24 and he says
there are 10 signs of the beginning of sorrows just before he comes
back.

One of those signs in verse 7 it says, then there shall be famine in
diverse places. What is a famine? It is a lack. It is not having the
basic food that it takes for you to survive.

It is just like this black horse. And Jesus said just before, now this
isn't the seals, this is the generation leading into these six seals.
Remember Hitler had his 1923 crisis that he rose in and then he had his
1931 crisis he rose in.

I believe it's the same in our hour. I believe the financial crisis of
our hour is preparing the stage for things that are going to happen
very, very shortly. Jesus said, then there shall be famine.

It's going to be a very noted mark. Do you know in recent years, we've
had the greatest worldwide famine before COVID. I preached on this.

I told you about one of the signs before COVID ever came three years
ago. I preached on this and I told you we're in the midst of the
greatest famine worldwide we've ever had in history. In other words,
famine is notorious.

At the present time, they say at least seven, at least 10 million people
die every year from famine. They don't have enough food to survive.
About three or four million of them are children.

But that's not all. One billion, one in seven of world population is in
the famine realm of our world. One out of seven people wake up every
day.

They do not have enough food to feed themselves or water to consume that
day. We are in the midst, Jesus said one of the marks of approaching the
end is going to be worldwide famine. But he doesn't just say famine.

He says in diverse place, in unusual places, in lots of different
places. I actually believe that they're in this present crisis. During
COVID over the past year and a half, things have got increasingly worse.

There are increasing famine. Those dying of famine, those not having,
Jesus warned it would be the beginning of sorrows. But what is happening
this year? We are watching Britain and we're watching what is happening
there.

It is in trouble and they're creating us. They're bringing in the Green
Deal. They're saying we'll get rid of oil and diesel and petrol by the
year 2030.

I'm not saying it, they're saying it. They're saying you'll need to get
rid of your cars. You're going to have to change the heating in your
homes.

Our nation is going to have to radically change. Now this winter, what
are they saying for Ireland? There could be power outages. There could
be a lot of troubles.

You know, I'm seeing pictures from England at the moment and they're
going in and the shelves are empty. This far worse than it was a year
ago. Remember a year ago, there was a bit of a scare.

Now they're actually saying in England, you won't have power, you won't
have heating, you won't have electric. They're trying to take them down
to a three-day work. There's so many unemployed and it's not only that
nation.

This is a worldwide event. You can't have a COVID lockdown like we did
last year and not have the economic consequences. We are in a very, very
serious time and I traced this throughout history.

And I want to tell you, one year ago, I warned you. Right on the back of
this, we're going to see the biggest financial crisis that you or I have
ever imagined. By the year 2000, the International Monetary Fund with
its SDR, that's its digital currency or its own currency that it would
like to bring in.

Remember why the IMF was created? It was as a compromise when they
created the United Nations. They wanted a one-world currency. American
Britain wanted a one-world currency and it wanted a one-world bank and
people wouldn't have it.

They said, no way. When it got out and it appeared in the Times in
England, there was a cry. So they had a compromise.

What was the compromise? One of the compromises was creating the IMF and
it's laid silent for many decades until about 2000. Then in the 2007
financial crisis, which began in New York, it hit the world stage in
2008, affecting Ireland, you and I. It crippled banks around the world.
It was the economy on a life support machine.

The economy has never recovered since 2008. If you notice the rise of
socialism in America, radical socialism, do you know where that came out
of? This financial crisis. If you trace it back politically to affecting
America, it directly come out of the 2008 crisis that affected people.

There was a movement arose and that's what happens in our world. I
assure you what's just about to happen, our world's going to change in
many different spheres and I believe it's going to be a spiritual
movement as well. Since then, the economy has been on a life support
machine.

It died in 2008, but it's being sustained. The world bankers know it,
the IMF know it, the world governments know it and since then, they have
gone into terrible debt. In 2008, the IMF loaned 200 billion to Greece
of all countries.

It was down and out and it couldn't help it. It was the largest amount
lent in history to the most bankrupt state in all of Europe. It was a
crime against logic.

Banks, unlimited printing of money. Do you realize how much debt we've
gone into? The IMF found itself back at the very center of the world
financial and political stage. Remember what I said to you before, if
you want to change the entire political system, you've got to change the
economy, the money system.

That's why Biden has been saying, I've been listening over the past
month and he said, we are going to change the entire American economy.
We are going to build back better with the economy. We are going to
change things in a very radical way.

Do you know what that is doing? It's going to change the political
system. Let me quote here for a second, from the IMF quoted by Klaus
Schwab of the World Economic Forum. Overnight, the IMF was transformed
into the most powerful economic political institution on the planet,
how? Through an economic crisis.

This institution, what does it do? It gets all nations in debt that you
can never get out of. It embroils people. By November 2009, it had lent
85 billion to 18 countries.

It had promised another 80 billion to three other countries. And the
same year, the EU and the G20 undertook to raise the IMF financial
resources to 750 billion. It's remarkable what is happening.

By the end of 2019, all of this was in place. In January 1920, the
world's debt rose to 250 trillion. A record high.

Sorry, 2020. A record high. An increase of 40% since 2008.

So since 2008, up until just before this crisis, debt increased 40%.
Trillions. The nations of the world.

That's before this crisis. The pandemic is being used as a cover. It was
COVID that created this.

No, it wasn't. It was 2008. And the banking political answers to this,
it's been kept on life support machine, and it's going to collapse at
some point.

Big time. Big time. Do you see how we can look back in history? I can
tell you what's going to happen in the future, but I'm telling you
what's happening at the minute.

How the stage is being set to actually change our world. Remarkable
things are happening. An awful lot is changing in our entire world, and
we need to be ready for it in this hour and generation.

You see, that black horse has ridden out more than once, more than twice
in world history. It is going to prepare the way for Antichrist, but I'm
telling you there is an economic crisis here and now. People are worried
about their jobs.

Look what's happening. You have a worldwide pandemic crisis. You have
several lockdowns, which you said would happen at the beginning.

Now you begin to enforce. If you don't take two jobs, which will lead to
more, you won't work. You can't work here.

They want to bring it in to England or to the UK by December. I'm
hearing from people all over the world, Australia, America, I'm going to
lose my job. I don't feel at ease over this.

What am I going to do for my home, my work, my family, my food? Then
they're extending it further. A lot of powers come in. Why would you do
that? Why would you allow the price of basic things to go through the
roof? And it's building.

A lot of things are building. What are you going to do as a Christian?
My fourth and final point. Since I'm warning you about history, about
the future, about this hour, we are in the midst of a financial crisis
that's going to be used, really used.

I've got no doubts about that. And your trust shouldn't be in gold or
silver or Bitcoin or property or moving to Hungary. All of those things
and many other.

Well, I'm just going to move out into the countryside and get some cows
and chickens and I'll be self-supporting. Wonderful. But that isn't the
answer for a Christian.

Let me close here of what the answer and this economic hour are. People
are suffering. What are you going to do? As I close here, can I give you
a reminder of an entire series I preached a few years ago? My question
to you here is, and you online, is did you take heed of that? I know
what I'm saying.

I know what I'm talking about. Three years ago, I preached on how to
store up true riches in heaven. We went through that in detail.

I went into it in great detail, showing you how to do it. Warnings from
Jesus about not storing up on earth. Where robbers break in and moths
can eat your nice suit and all of the rest.

In Luke chapter 12, Jesus gives a very serious warning. In Luke chapter
12, he talks about such an hour. In verse 33, he says, sell like you
have and give alms.

Provide yourself bags. By the way, switch off at this point if you don't
want Christ's answer. In fact, can I ask you to shut your ears? If you
don't believe this is the word of Christ and the word of God and a
command.

If you don't believe that, it's better you shut your ears. Because to
have heard messages and teaching like this and not believe it is very
dangerous to your spiritual good. Not physical, spiritual good.

He says, provide for yourself bags which wax not old. A treasure in the
heavens that faileth not. Do you want security, financial security? Do
you want economic security? Do you want peace of mind? Where no thief
approaches, neither moth corrupteth.

For where your treasure is, there is your heart also. I know where your
heart is. All of you in this room, if I sit and I know the questions to
ask and if I look at your financial situation and I look at how you
connect your life, I know where your heart is.

I mean, I know where you believe in passionately. I could tell you. And
you'll say, oh no, no, no.

I believe in God. Not by what you do with your money. And you know we
never ask for a penny here.

Never. I'm just telling you about your good in this hour. We're facing
an economic crisis and it's going to intensify.

By all means, go out and buy a generator. By all means, I told you one
year ago, make sure you store up basics. Tin food.

One year ago, I've never done that in my entire life. I've seen lots of
scares come and go. I've heard preachers say, store up 2,000.

They said it. I said, no, nothing's going to happen. I told you last
year, you better have all the basics at home.

You better have basics. I'm not telling you about being stupid. If you
don't have the money, fine.

Trust God. But have the basics. Be wise.

Take care for the future. I'm going to make sure there's a pile of wood
stocked up before this winter. It's common sense.

But listen as I close. Jesus talking about storing up in heaven. He
gives four dangers in an hour like this.

An economic crisis that's going to hit us very hard. It will hit the
world. Because you know what they want to bring out of this? What the
antichrist is going to bring out.

They want to raise up a political institution. The white horse. This
economic crisis is going to lead to that first white horse.

This is the lead in. Jesus gives four dangers. First of all, the danger
of anxiety.

Verse 22. And he said to his disciples, take no thought for your life.
What you shall eat, neither for the body or what you shall put on.

For the life of man is more than meat and the body is more than raiment.
Be not anxious. That means careful, deeply disturbed, fretful, worrying.

Jesus says, do not worry. Do not worry. Second of all, the danger of
little faith.

He says in verse 28, O ye of little faith. That's the second danger.
First of all, in this hour, you're not to worry.

I'm telling you the facts, not that you worry. I'm telling you these
facts so you're prepared. So I can stand here and at that hour and say,
don't worry.

Don't worry. Don't let your mind be pulled anxious. What am I going to
do? I've had people ask me, what are you going to do if you can't buy
food? I'll fast for a few days.

I'll pray. I'll walk with Jesus. I'll encourage my wife.

I'll preach to you. We'll have a revival. Little faith is a danger.

Little, tiny, puny, unexercised faith. You better have faith in that
hour. You've been exercising all along.

If you haven't, you better do something. Third of all, the danger of
having a double mind. Verse 29, and seek not what you shall eat or what
you shall drink.

Neither be you of a doubtful mind. It means to lift up or suspend in the
air or keep in suspense, to put sails up. It's talking about a mind that
is out there projected, a doubtful mind, not knowing whether to do this
or that.

You must not have a doubtful mind. This is an hour to act. If you don't
act now, when are you going to act? Fourth and finally, the danger of a
worldly attitude.

He says in verse 30, for as these things do the nations of the world,
you seek after something else. The nations of this world crave after
security, finance. They think of their body, their house, themselves.

I get very worried over Christians in this hour. They think of
themselves. I'll move to Hungary.

I'll move out into. I'll get out of this. What about the souls of men?
We've got an entire city.

When crisis hits this city, I'm going to be in the midst of this city.
I'll be right in the boot with everyone else and I'll say, I've got an
answer for you. I do have an answer.

We need a revival in this city of people really meeting the Lord Jesus
Christ. You know, every crisis in history has led to a spiritual
revival. The greatest revivals that have changed our world have come out
of terrible financial crisis.

The 1859 revival in New York, it came out of an absolute economic crisis
and all the businessmen went to prayer and they say 2 million people
came to Jesus in one year. 2 million people just turning to the Lord
Jesus Christ. All over the world, in the north of Ireland, you had
100,000 come in in six months.

All over the world, Scotland, England, Wales, spiritual revivals and in
Europe. You know why? Because mammon, they'd lost confidence in mammon
and they go, we need something that will never fail us. Can I ask you as
we close, the black horse one day is gonna ride out across our world.

But I'm asking you now, is your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ or is it
in some money in a bank or some other plan? Or is it really in the Lord
Jesus Christ? Let's pray here. Father, I do thank you for the word of
God. I thank you our security is in the Lord Jesus Christ.

My God, I thank you that in this book, you tell us what is gonna come,
you tell us how it's gonna happen. You give us precise details, you give
us facts and Lord God so accurately that we cannot doubt what is gonna
happen. As we see the nations of the world, Lord God, you've revealed to
us in a very short period of time, what is gonna happen globally that we
are gonna see the white horse let loose.

The 10 world leaders, regional leaders are going to form a government
and claim to bring in world peace. And yet we're gonna see bloodshed and
a terrible economic crash preparing the way for Antichrist. Lord God, we
pray for a spiritual revival.

Give us the souls of men, make us rich in heaven as we win men to
Christ, as we put our faith in you, as we do not worry, but we have
confidence in the written word of God in Jesus mighty name.

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