War, Drought and a Super El Niño Converge to Drive Global Food Crisis

A Middle East war blocking the Strait of Hormuz has driven diesel and fertilizer prices sharply higher, with economists warning that a severe global food price crisis is imminent — compounded now by a forecast 'Super El Niño' potentially more destructive than the one that killed 50 million in 1877. Scripture repeatedly identifies famine as a key sign of the end times, and these converging pressures align with the sequence of crises Jesus described as birth pangs preceding His return. Revelation 6:6 depicts the third horseman of the Apocalypse presiding over catastrophic food scarcity — 'a quart of wheat for a denarius' — a picture that echoes with striking relevance today.