Tyson Foods' Warning and that of the UN Should be Heeded

   With the morning's news, comes the future's warning: "Tyson Foods warns that 'the food supply chain is breaking' as plants close."

   Don't know that we should not wonder if there has ever been a more ominous headline.

   I look across the screen of my computer, and see another headline, "UN warns of famines of biblical proportions due to lockdown caused by COVID-19 Pandemic." That's from about five days ago.

   Remember the day -- March 11 -- when Rudy Gobert tested positive, and they called off the game moments before tip-off, and then within hours called off NBA games altogether. A shocked nation shut down much of everything and we scurried to our homes.

   This morning's warning from Tyson Foods might not frighten us as much, but perhaps it should. We do not know what will happen. The food supply might survive just fine despite the warnings. Or, all the famine might be in foreign lands.

   But, if the food supply in the U.S. does falter? If it does collapse, even partially? We read of farmers not being able to get workers for their fields. We read of crops being dumped because the markets have collapsed. Can we take this warning, and act on it? Can we take it, and say, Let's do something?

   Or, do we say, "I will not have the UN as my prophet?" You know, of course, that there are calls for the World Health Organization (WHO) to have its head delivered on a platter, so to speak. Rather than listening to UN, we are outraged at it and calling for investigations.

   The UN might not be a prophet, but there is a likeness to when prophets warned of calamities, only to be derided for doing so and tossed in jail. 

   All I will say, is that the UN has warned us the food supplies of the world are in jeopardy. Famines could take hold within months. We might not look at it as a 'prophecy,' but it is a prediction with all the severity of a prophecy.

   We are living in the last days -- somewhere in the last days, although we don't know how far we are along that timeline. The Bible does warn of famines. More than that, for some of us, modern prophets have advised us to store up food against the hour.

   I look at all this, and read the morning's headline, of the food supply collapsing, and wonder if this should be a Rudy Gobert moment, a moment that galvanizes us to do something. I, for one, do not intend to let the day pass me by without buying a little of that food storage that real prophets have warned that I should have. They have called for this and other preparations, and I consider that I should heed their warnings better. I should not only do something for food storage, but should make sure I have oil in my lamp in other ways, as well.

(Note: Blog was written in the morning. Before day's end, did buy a little food for storage.)