End time Bible Ezekiel 33:6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.
Americans are depending on food banks and pantries across the country more so than ever before because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Such heavy reliance also means these places are being depleted of resources quickly.
“Food insecurity is twice as high as before the pandemic.
We’ve had a lot of federal aid and that’s all going away at the end of the year,” Celia Cole, CEO of Feeding Texas. South Florida is currently facing similar challenges.
The CARES ACT program which has provided the food bank with $5 million per month in food since April, is set to expire on Dec. 31.
In New York City, an estimated 1.5 million people currently cannot afford food.
If federal funding isn’t renewed in the near year, the nation could be in for a devastating hunger crisis.
If rich countries cannot afford food then how much hunger will be in poor countries?
Acts 20:35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
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?
Luke 6:38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Proverbs 14:31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
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.