Recently I wrote an article which I gave the title” Are you hungry yet?” It was about the many evils we are witnessing as stage-setting for fulfillment of prophecy – the signals of the coming Apocalypse –the Tribulation, etc.

All of that examination I hoped elicited stimulation of the believer’s Spiritual appetite for the moment we all sit down together at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. I.e., I hope it made you, the reader who is a believer, look forward with great anticipation to that magnificent Banquet – as do I.

Our Appearance before our Lord and Savior in the clouds of Glory could be in the very next moment, and we will then find ourselves before the BEMA –the Judgment Seat of Christ.

With the Rewards Presented by Christ to God’s children for the work we did in His Holy Name while in life here on earth, we will then accompany our Bridegroom and Lord of all lords in a most exhilarating Mission. We will go with the King of all kings to put an end to Armageddon and the wickedness that has, by that time, completely engulfed Planet Earth.

There will then take place the greatest of all banquets on a supernaturally refurbished planet. We will sit down at the Marriage Supper in honor of Jesus Christ, the Son of God Who died for us and resurrected so that we could be redeemed from sin, thus to be the Heavenly Father’s and His Intimate Family for all of eternity.

This great Promise from God’s Word is contrasted in that Word by what will first take place. The great famine that is already in view will eventuate in being just the opposite of the Blessed Marriage Supper Filling, which will satisfy every need and will satiate every hunger forever.

Every person, individually and collectively, who turns their back on God and his Righteous Rx for living will experience famine. This is a principle understood through God’s archetype people/nation, Israel. The following describes what happens to a people who become anti-God in comportment, instead going their own way, adhering to doing what is right in their own eyes.

“Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it. In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again” (Amos 8:11-14).

The prophetic pronouncement above did indeed take place on God’s chosen people. They have refused to hear God’s Word and have suffered –are still suffering to this day— a Spiritual famine. And we know they suffered immensely a literal famine in the holocaust through starvation and every sort of atrocity, as they are prophetically scheduled to again suffer during that last 7 years before Christ’s Return. They have a disease that has blinded them to their true Messiah and his Love for them. This we see in Romans chapter 11.

But it is not only a spiritual famine that is coming for those who reject God’s Call and prescription for life on His planet. There is coming a famine of the literal sort. And, according to Jesus’ own Words, it will be the worst of famines. It will be the worse time in all of human history. The hunger it will produce will be deadly, but that hunger will be only part of the Tribulation that God-rejecters will suffer.

That hunger is symbolically described as the third horseman and his black steed found in Revelation chapter 6.

The spiritual famine is already underway. Dr. David Jeremiah reported in his morning broadcast the other day that 52% of evangelical Christians no longer believe the Bible is inerrant. So it is not hard to extrapolate by/from that astonishing statistic the degree that anti-Bible attacks are occurring and that will soon be underway by the unbelieving world.

As Dr. Jeremiah said, questioning spiritual authority is in vogue; heritage is being lost. He said that Mark Twain, even in his day, said, “The Bible is a book praised, but rarely read.”

So mankind is well down the broad way of Biblical famine that leads to hunger, starvation, and, ultimately, eternal separation from the Creator-God Who has moved heaven and hell to bring them the only Truth that can provide Sustenance that Assures Eternal Life.

Again, the best proof I can think of that shows specifically where the world is at present in that regard is this matter of Pride Month.

The entire world is caught up at the moment –in this month of June 2023—in activity that can only be described as like in the days of Lot. Those with the loudest media voices declare through the trans-sexual and homosexual rants that God doesn’t have the right to declare the gender or deportment of His human creation.

This nation is guilty to the maximum extent in this wickedness. That is, America is, as I see it, at the very heart of this Sodom-like festival on a global scale. America is leading the way in pride, fully showing out in total anti-God, back-turning as never before.

Again, David Jeremiah reminded that spiritual appetite for God’s Word has been greatly damaged on this fallen sphere. Mankind has thus lost the moral compass meant to keep humanity from starvation, both spiritual and literal.

The Bible is now being called hate speech by even governmental auspices and court systems here in the United States. Atheists now have stickers they place on Bibles in hotels and other places that proclaim: “Caution, this book is hazardous to your health.”

But God is not mocked, as Paul proclaims.

“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting” (Galatians 6:7-8).

The horseman of the Apocalypse are about to mount their terrifying steeds. These will go forth to put an end to the mockery of the God of heaven and His Beloved Son Jesus Christ.

You don’t want to be a part of this increasing spiritual famine, nor the coming literal famine which the Blackhorse of Revelation chapter 6 will bring. Here is how to be kept from that horrendous time of judgment and Wrath and instead sit down at the Marriage Supper to be filled with all of God’s Righteousness and be within God’s Family Forever.

“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).

Author’s Note: The article this week is one written way back in February of 2006. But it is pertinent to this advanced time because I’ve been receiving a number of reports of dreams that indicate the dreamers/vision recipients have prophetic words directly from the throne room of God. Specific destruction within exact date parameters is often given in these dreams and visions. This is not to ridicule anyone who believes they are receiving such prophetic directives. I, again–as in the following that was written so long ago—want only to caution against falling for false prophecies.

The foretellings in God’s love letter to mankind are more than enough to perk up our spiritual ears and eyes in these times when Christ’s call to believers must be so near.

God’s Prophecy Not Enough?

People have, over the years—following the completed Word of God, with its sixty-six books—made predictions based upon dreams and, less frequently, upon visions.

Despite all of the twisting of logic and rewriting of historical record, both recent and of the past, that is far removed from the present, the non-biblical dreams and visions have proved to be non-events.

Oh, people can find things supposedly fulfilled within the quatrains written by the French “seer” Nostradamus. His and others’ “prophecies” are declared by many as having come to pass, as demonstrated by the rise of Adolf Hitler and the advent of other “foretold” regimes and events.

I have heard stories of blazing fires in the major cities of the U.S., “prophesied” by both well-known and lesser-known preachers of various stripes. America was going to be judged and destroyed by God’s mighty hand in the 1960s, ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s. Now there are predictions—and I get them constantly through e-mail—of the most horrendous fate imaginable for the United States, based upon dreams of the most detailed variety. The dream date-setters missed January 23, 2006, on just such a prediction. A married couple saw all of the things we’ve been warned about: American cities aflame, getting exactly what the nation deserves.

They saw dreams that were almost identical, so the story goes, that January 23 was to be America’s judgment day. Defenders of the couples missing the target are saying their appeals for prayers that the Lord would spare the nation and give America another chance were likely the reason the dreams didn’t become reality.

Now, folks, may I say this as gently as possible? What sort of fodder does such dream stuff—which is always claimed to emanate from the very throne of God—give Satan’s army in this fallen world that he so effectively rules already? Is it not time to stop disseminating these bad cases of nocturnal indigestion during somnolence—or whatever is prompting such utter nonsense? Do we never learn that these are not from the Lord our God, after every single one of the “prophecy dreams” has failed to produce a single proof of their validity?

I get them every week. If each one I’ve been sent just since January 1 of that year came true within the time allotted, you wouldn’t be reading this. But I wouldn’t be writing it, either! We would all be finished! A bit of prayerful and well-studied speculation is within the realm of being good “watchmen,” as Jesus exhorted in Mark 13:37 and Luke 21:28. But dreams and visions that are extrabiblical are not right to either issue or receive. They are either bad spaghetti, absolute falsehoods, or “dreams and visions” that emanate from somewhere other than from the throne room of God.

God’s “dreams and visions,” you see, ALWAYS COME TRUE!

My apologies for screaming at you, but we’ve got to realize that dreams and visions that are not already in God’s Word are, well, not from His Son, Jesus Christ, the Living Word. His prophecy ALWAYS comes true—every time, without exception. And that prophecy is based upon the consistent principles laid out plainly in the Word He left us.

“We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction” (2 Peter 1:19–21).

I know the cry that will be forthcoming.

That same Bible says, “And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams” (Acts 2:17).

Agreed. Very strong proof text that these dreams will again be in effect, following the Bible’s completion, when the last prophet wrote the last prophecy.

But to understand Acts 2:17, we must also understand that the following, in this New Testament passage, is taken from the Old Testament, which puts it in proper context.

“And it shall come to pass afterward, [that] I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions” (Joel 2:28).

This is what is meant by the above Scripture, “Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.” Scripture must be interpreted by Scripture. Scripture must be looked at in total context; it cannot be dissected and used any way the reader wishes.

So, what does this earlier passage in Joel say to give context to the latter in Acts? The key is given by the words: “And it shall come to pass afterward…”

Specifically, the operative word is “afterward.”

The Word of God plainly teaches in the preceding twenty-seven passages and before that the Day of the Lord—the Tribulation—must first have taken place. These wondrous “dreams and visions” for a time yet future are for the glorious days of the Millennium!

Still, I realize I will get all kinds of arguments about this. So, let me just ask those who would do the rock throwing: “Where are your dreams and visions that have come 100 percent—or even 10 percent—true by Bible standards, God’s standards?”

These exercises in hyperbole and sensationalism must stop for the sake of the Gospel of Christ. Let us simply watch and try to determine the times and seasons we are in, so far as God’s prophetic timeline is concerned. But let us do so through God’s microscope of Bible truth. Let’s not try to build personal reputations upon false prognostications—or bad pizza.