“Revelation 6 says an entire day’s wages will barely buy enough food to survive”
Venezuela
Egypt
etc.
Here, sooner or later.
(ps. Gold and silver could be used but, Rome and England successfully debased their silver currency in the past)
Rev 6 says
Rev. 6:5–6. 5 When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” And I saw, and behold, a black horse, and its rider had a balance in his hand; 6 and I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; but do not harm oil and wine!”
Josephus described the state of Jerusalem before it fell: “The madness of the seditious did also increase together with their famine, and both those miseries were every day inflamed more and more; for there was no corn which anywhere appeared publicly, but the robbers came running into, and searched men’s private houses; and then, if they found any, they tormented them, because they had denied they had any; and if they found none, they tormented them worse, because they supposed they had more carefully concealed it. . . . [A] table was nowhere laid for a distinct meal, but they snatched the bread out of the fire, half-baked, and ate it very hastily.”
It is also interesting that oil and wine are not to be harmed. Wheat is harvested during Pentecost, during the spring harvest. Yet, oil and wine are not affected indicating that the later harvest, associated with the Feast of Booths, has not been hurt. Thus, the famine is severe but does not last the whole year. The judgments of the seven seals, therefore, are escalating, but have not climaxed yet.
Those climaxed in 67 AD.
Jerusalem was under siege. And the Judeans at that time IN THE city started a civil war.
Can you believe that? You’re under siege by the most powerful army in the world and you decide to have a civil war?
And the three factions burnt each others grain stocks, resulting in a severe famine.