UN chief Antonio Guterres warned Monday that the world must act to prevent a “hurricane of hunger and a meltdown of the global food system” following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“Ukraine is on fire” and “the country is being decimated before the eyes of the world”. he told the media in New York.
Even before the war, he said, developing countries were “struggling to recover from the pandemic with record inflation, rising interest rates, and looming debt burdens.”
“Now their breadbasket is being bombed,” Guterres said “This war goes far beyond Ukraine. It is also an assault on the world’s most vulnerable people and countries,” Guterres said.
In total, 45 African countries and least developed countries import at least a third of their wheat from Ukraine or Russia 18 of these countries import at least 50%.
They include Burkina Faso, Egypt, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.
Revelations 6:4 And there went out another horse 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.
Revelations 6:5 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.
Revelations 6:6 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.
“A measure of wheat for a penny is a days wage”
Revelations 6:7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
Revelations 6:8 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.
The pandemic has made the situation even worse, as the breakdown of supply chains has left the World Food Programme and other United Nations agencies struggling.
The commercial airline industry has all but shut down, making it hard to get the supplies and experts out to where they are needed.
Now the war in Ukraine will cause severe malnutrition and even starvation around the world. Many experts on global food security, are saying how heavily the rest of the world relies on Ukraine and Russia for wheat and a slew of other essential commodities.
Over the last four or five years we’ve actually seen rising percentages, there are currently about 276 million people worldwide are in the midst of a hunger crisis with 44 million of them “one step away from famine.
If we cannot assist them they will die. It’s that simple.” WFP’s Husain says.
Around 8 million people die of hunger each year, and most of them are children.
Proverbs 19:17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
2 Corinthians 9:7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
1 John 3:17 But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
It’s Christians from around the world to help feed these people. When you don’t help them it’s like you didn’t do it to Jesus.
Matthew 25:31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
Matthew 25:32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
Matthew 25:33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
Matthew 25: 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
Matthew 25:35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
Matthew 25: 40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
Matthew 25:42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
Matthew 25:44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Matthew 25:45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
Matthew 25:46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Matthew 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work sin.
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