THREE AND ONE HALF YEARS OF BLESSING. All because of her kindness in response to the man of God. The widow had little and was about to fix the meal of death when Elijah appeared on the scene. His first request was for water <Spirit> . Then for a small cake of bread <the Word>. May we always have a hunger for things spiritual. Her commitment to the Prophet of the little that she had was to result in a sufficiency for as long as the drought was on. A little oil and a little flour. 1 Kin. 17:12-16 The miraculous supply never failed. The Bride will have the best supply ever in the wilderness. Our God will supply all your needs. Phil. 4:19
THE FOURTH SEAL. THE SEAL OF DEATH. Death by whatever means. Death rides throughout the world. Rev. 6:8 This is to be a fourfold mode of taking the lives of mankind. This horse is shown as having a rider whose name is Death and Hell followed with him. Once again, if the sequence in the opening of the seals stands at fourteen years, this seal would have been opened in 1942. Keep in mind that the seals once opened have a period of time allotted them before they climax. Death and Hell will have power and authority and will effect one-fourth of the population of the earth. THE SWORD, or war, rebellions, riots, insurrections, now acts of terrorism. All methods of warfare that produce slaughter and death are to be included in the fulfillment of this seal. Murders are often committed with weapons that are used in war. How can it be denied that we are now living under an opened fourth seal? HUNGER, while today the lack of food reaching certain areas of our world where famine exists. The future fulfillment of this phase of the fourth seal will be because of a great failure of crops in the food producing areas of the world. Sometimes it is drought, floods, crop failure, insects all these are having an effect on the availability of food in the world. Remember, that under the third seal the price of food stuffs increased. We are seeing this develop now. Once there is a crop shortage and inevitably the price is raised, when the crops come in again the price stays up. Consistently the cost of living increases. WITH DEATH, It is morbid but a fact of life that death prevails. Diseases are taking a great toll. HIV and aids are running rampant in some areas of our world, even causing the death of children who were infected by their parents. Strange and unusual diseases, of which little is known and there is no known cure. Transportation is a great boon to our modern day life. Yet cars, trains, busses, ships, boats and airplanes all are a cause of death that would not exist if it were not for our use of them. BEASTS OF THE EARTH, amazingly here too, we find an increase of people who are killed by the wild, even venomous animals of the earth. Might we include here, the beast like nature of man as he violates those of his own species? In view of all this please do not forget the command to <hurt not the oil and the wine> Rev. 6:8 There is a Divine provision and protection.