Now there is one area yet untouched and that would be the word "drought," for with it are conjured up all kinds of things mostly having to do with meteorological events, however has anyone considered GOD in any of these? I dear so No! Nota! For throughout the dark ages there was a drought that was the world over, which was not only of lack of rain, grains and the such but of the spirit also. Man walked about in spiritual darkness not hearing GOD, His voice or knowing Him or His Word of will and direction for life. This has carried over to today also for the same reasons. So that being so, I want to look at this famine as a result of sin. To begin I will turn to Leviticus 26:14-46 as it is here that we find the penalties of disobedience. And remember it is the LORD God, ie. Christ in Jesus speaking by His old testament character. Here is a little known key, where it speaks of rain we can say, grace is withheld.
Drought as in Famine of, the result of sin,
Leviticus 26:26 of 14-20, 21-22, 23-26, 27-33, 34-39, 40-45, 46 "'But if you will not listen to Me and will not do all these commandments, if you spurn My statutes, and if your soul abhors My rules, so that you will not do all My commandments, but break My covenant, then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. I will set My face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you. And if in spite of this you will not listen to Me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins, and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. And your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.'
'Then if you continue to walk contrary to Me and will not listen to Me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins. And I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that your roads shall be deserted.'
'And if by this discipline you are not turned to Me but walk contrary to Me, then I also will walk contrary to you, and I Myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins. And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. When I break your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.'
'Now if in spite of this you will not listen to Me, but walk contrary to Me, then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and I Myself will discipline you sevenfold for your sins. You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters. And I will destroy your pagan high places and cut down your pagan incense altars and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your pagan idols, and My soul will abhor you. And I will lay your cities waste and will make your pagan sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pagan pleasing aromas. And I Myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be appalled at it. And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a pagan waste.'
'Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths. As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest that it did not have on your pagan vial and evil Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it. And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies'. The sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues. They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies. And you shall perish among the pagan nations, and the land of your pagan enemies shall eat you up. And those of you who are left shall rot away in your enemies' lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.'
'Now if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their vail treachery that they committed against Me, and also in walking contrary to Me, so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and I will remember My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. But the land shall be remain abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned My rules and their soul abhorred My statutes. Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break My covenant with them, for I am the LORD their God. But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their GOD: I am the LORD.'
"These are the statutes and rules and laws that the LORD made between Himself and the people of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai."
Deuteronomy 28:53 of 49-57 "The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the ([Iran-Iraqi-Saudi Arabia] Asia under Islam and then Germany under Hitler) eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand, a hard-faced nation who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young. It shall eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.They shall besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land,' which the LORD your God has given you. 'And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. The man who is the most tender and refined among you will begrudge food to his brother, to the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left, so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces, to her son and to her daughter, her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.'"
Jeremiah 14:16 of 13-18 "Then I said: "Ah, LORD (YHWH) GOD, behold, the prophets say to them, "You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place." And the LORD said to me: 'The prophets are prophesying lies in My name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds. Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name although I did not send them, and who say, "Sword and famine shall not come upon this land:" 'By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed. And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword, with none to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out their evil upon them. You shall say to them this word:' "Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people is shattered with a great wound, with a very grievous blow. If I go out into the field, behold, those pierced by the sword! And if I enter the city, behold, the diseases of famine! For both prophet and priest ply their pagan trade through the land and have no knowledge."
Ezekiel 4:16 of 1-3, 4-8, 9-17 (the LORD God is speaking) "'And you, son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and engrave on it a city, even Jerusalem. And put siegeworks against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast up a mound against it. Set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around. And you, take an iron griddle, and place it as an iron wall between you and the city; and set your face toward it, and let it be in a state of siege, and press the siege against it. This is a sign for the house of Israel.
Then lie on your left side, and place the punishment of the house of Israel upon it. For the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their punishment. For I assign to you a number of days, 390 days, equal to the number of the years of their punishment. So long shall you bear the punishment of the house of Israel. And when you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the punishment of the house of Judah. Forty days I assign you, a day for each year. And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm bared, and you shall prophesy against the city. And behold, I will place cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, till you have completed the days of your siege.'
'Then you, will take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it. As your food that you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from day to day you shall eat it. And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from day to day you shall drink. And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung.' And the LORD said, 'Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the pagan nations where I will drive them.' Then I said, "Ah, LORD God! Behold, I have never defiled myself. From my youth up till now I have never eaten what died of itself nor was torn by beasts, nor has tainted meat come into my mouth." Then HE said to me, 'See, I assign to you cow's dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.' Moreover, HE said to me, 'Son of man, behold, I will break the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay. I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and look at one another in dismay, and rot away because of this their punishment.'"
Ezekiel 5:12 of 5-12, 13-17 "Thus says the LORD God: 'This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her. And she has rebelled against My rules by doing wickedness more than the pagan nations, and against My statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected My rules and have not walked in My statutes.' Therefore thus says the LORD God: 'Because you are more turbulent than the pagan nations that are all around you, and have not walked in My statutes or obeyed My rules, and have not even acted according to the rules of the pagan nations that are all around you,' therefore thus says the LORD God: 'Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the more pagan nations. And because of all your pagan abominations I will do with you what I have never yet done, and the likes of which I will never do again. Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds. Therefore, as I live,' declares the LORD God, 'surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable pagan things and with all your pagan abominations, therefore I will withdraw. My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity. A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.'
'Thus shall My anger spend itself, and I will vent My fury upon them and satisfy Myself. And they shall know that I am the LORD—that I have spoken in My jealousy—when I spend My fury upon them. Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the pagan nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by. You shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the pagan nations all around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious rebukes—I am the LORD; I have spoken—when I send against you the deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and break your supply of bread. I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will rob you of your children. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you.' I am the LORD; I have spoken.'"
Ezekiel 6:12 of 7, 8-10, 11-17 "'And the slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the LORD.'
'Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the pagan nations some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries, then those of you who escape will remember Me among these nations where they are carried captive, how I have been hurt and broken over their whoring hearts that have departed from Me and by their eyes that go whoring after their harlot idols. Then they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their pagan abominations. And they shall know that I am the LORD. I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them.'
Thus says the LORD God: 'Clap your hands and stamp your foot and say, "Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. He who is far off shall die of pestilence, and he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he who is left and is preserved shall die of famine. Thus I will spend My fury upon them. And you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their pagan idols around their pagan altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing pagan aroma to all their pagan idols. And I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land desolate and waste, in all their dwelling places, from the wilderness to Riblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.'"
Revelation 18:8 of 4-8, of 17-18 "Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, 'Come out of her, My people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues; for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and GOD has remembered her iniquities. Pay her back as she herself has paid back others, and repay her double for her pagan deeds; mix a double portion for her in the cup she mixed. As she glorified herself and lived in luxury, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning, since in her heart she says, "I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and mourning I shall never see." For this reason her plagues will come in a single day, death and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for mighty is the LORD God Who has judged her.'"
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