The third seal...
5 When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard 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; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” Revelation 6
If we follow the pattern we were given in the letters to the seven churches, we would now be in the years between 450 and 750AD and in the time leading up to, and after the fall of the Roman empire. It was during this time that the world had experienced great food shortages due in part to extreme climate changes….
Dendrochronologists studying oak trees preserved in Irish bogs discovered what they believe to be a disastrous climate event occurring in the late 530’s AD. It was described as a disaster of catastrophic proportions, with indications of crop failures and widespread famine around the world. It was during this timeframe when plague spread throughout Europe, that dynasties began to collapse in China, Mexico and elsewhere, and that Christianity began to take a firm hold in Ireland.
Copyright 1996-2009 by Dennis Walsh
"Now tree-ring data, published by Professor Mike Baillie of Queens University of Belfast, has brought catastrophes almost into modern times. The tree rings show that in the mid 530s -- just about the time civilisation on Earth suffered a sharp setback -- there was a sudden decline in the rate of tree growth which lasted about 15 years. Clearly, something dramatic had happened.
There were two other factors at play here during this time in human history. One, there were massive plagues the struck the entire globe, which is heavily recorded in European history…
In AD 542 a plague struck Constantinople that was so overwhelming, it changed the face of history forever. This plague occurred in the 15th year of the emperor Justinian's reign. At the height of the contagion's rampage, the daily death toll may have reached 10,000 or more. Justinian himself, was stricken with this disease. The final death count is not clearly known, but some historians feel that it may have reached into the upper hundreds of thousands.
Much of the information that is known about this plague comes from Procopius. Procopius was the legal advisor to the general Belisarius. He accompanied Belisarius on his missions throughout the Mediterranean Basin at the time that the plague erupted. It is through his accounts that the course of the disease, and the reality of the suffering became public to Europe.
Edited by: Allyson C. Mauck
Researched by and Written by: Christopher F Malek
December 2, 1996
Text copyright 1996-9 by David W. Koeller. All rights reserved.
Then the second factor was the fall of the Roman empire. The fall of this great empire brought about a huge change in commerce around the entire globe. For as the old saying goes…’all roads lead to Rome’
Famines were common in the Roman Empire after 500 BC, and increased again after 500 AD following Rome’s collapse. Famine almost certainly played a role in the fall of Rome (Scrimshaw, 1987). Many of Rome’s famines were transportation famines, since Rome was a city dependent upon transportation of basic cereals from distant production sites, usually North Africa and Spain. Little staple food was produced on the Italian peninsula. Also, it was in the Emperor’s interest to transport food to the far-flung legions stationed abroad. Thus, any failure in transport to Rome or to its army elsewhere led to severe famine. France experienced more than 75 famines between 501 and 1500. Famines were frequent inEngland, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Germany, Denmark and Sweden.
Saving Lives Through Agricultural Research
by Donald L Plucknett
The bible is dead on with human history. The black horse of the 3rd seal in the book of Revelation; is world wide famine.
If we follow the pattern we were given in the letters to the seven churches, we would now be in the years between 450 and 750AD and in the time leading up to, and after the fall of the Roman empire. It was during this time that the world had experienced great food shortages due in part to extreme climate changes….
Dendrochronologists studying oak trees preserved in Irish bogs discovered what they believe to be a disastrous climate event occurring in the late 530’s AD. It was described as a disaster of catastrophic proportions, with indications of crop failures and widespread famine around the world. It was during this timeframe when plague spread throughout Europe, that dynasties began to collapse in China, Mexico and elsewhere, and that Christianity began to take a firm hold in Ireland.
Copyright 1996-2009 by Dennis Walsh
"Now tree-ring data, published by Professor Mike Baillie of Queens University of Belfast, has brought catastrophes almost into modern times. The tree rings show that in the mid 530s -- just about the time civilisation on Earth suffered a sharp setback -- there was a sudden decline in the rate of tree growth which lasted about 15 years. Clearly, something dramatic had happened.
There were two other factors at play here during this time in human history. One, there were massive plagues the struck the entire globe, which is heavily recorded in European history…
In AD 542 a plague struck Constantinople that was so overwhelming, it changed the face of history forever. This plague occurred in the 15th year of the emperor Justinian's reign. At the height of the contagion's rampage, the daily death toll may have reached 10,000 or more. Justinian himself, was stricken with this disease. The final death count is not clearly known, but some historians feel that it may have reached into the upper hundreds of thousands.
Much of the information that is known about this plague comes from Procopius. Procopius was the legal advisor to the general Belisarius. He accompanied Belisarius on his missions throughout the Mediterranean Basin at the time that the plague erupted. It is through his accounts that the course of the disease, and the reality of the suffering became public to Europe.
Edited by: Allyson C. Mauck
Researched by and Written by: Christopher F Malek
December 2, 1996
Text copyright 1996-9 by David W. Koeller. All rights reserved.
Then the second factor was the fall of the Roman empire. The fall of this great empire brought about a huge change in commerce around the entire globe. For as the old saying goes…’all roads lead to Rome’
Famines were common in the Roman Empire after 500 BC, and increased again after 500 AD following Rome’s collapse. Famine almost certainly played a role in the fall of Rome (Scrimshaw, 1987). Many of Rome’s famines were transportation famines, since Rome was a city dependent upon transportation of basic cereals from distant production sites, usually North Africa and Spain. Little staple food was produced on the Italian peninsula. Also, it was in the Emperor’s interest to transport food to the far-flung legions stationed abroad. Thus, any failure in transport to Rome or to its army elsewhere led to severe famine. France experienced more than 75 famines between 501 and 1500. Famines were frequent inEngland, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Germany, Denmark and Sweden.
Saving Lives Through Agricultural Research
by Donald L Plucknett
The bible is dead on with human history. The black horse of the 3rd seal in the book of Revelation; is world wide famine.