(End of the American Dream)—For most Americans, it is impossible to imagine a famine in the United States. Ever since the days of the Great Depression, our grocery stores have been absolutely packed with food. Up until the past several years, it was actually very affordable, but of course that has now changed.
Even though food is now significantly more expensive, there is still plenty of it. So the idea that we could someday be facing a full-blown famine seems like nonsense to a lot of people. I completely understand that. But the Bible is very clear on this matter. Apocalyptic famines are in humanity’s future, and vast numbers of people will die from starvation.
In Matthew 24, Jesus specifically identifies “famines” as one of the signs that we should be watching for in the days just prior to His return…
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
The Book of Revelation gives us more details about the famines of the end times.
In Revelation 6, you can read about the opening of the first six seals.
Once the third seal is opened, annual crops such as wheat and barely become very expensive.
And once the fourth seal is opened, famine is one of the plagues that kills a substantial portion of the global population…
5 When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there was a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 Then I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a day’s wages, and three quarts of barley for a day’s wages, and do not harm the oil and the wine.”
7 When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” 8 So I looked, and there was a pale horse, and the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed him. Power over a fourth of the earth was given to them, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth.
As I have been doing research for the new book that I am writing, I have been coming across lots of people that have been given supernatural glimpses of the famines that are in humanity’s future.
And some of them have been given supernatural glimpses of the great famine that is coming to America.
Not everything that I am about to share with you will necessarily make it into the new book.
As I go through the editing process, some stuff gets added and some stuff gets cut out.
But I wanted to share some of the raw research that I have been doing in order to give you an idea of what I have been working on.
In the spring of 1973, evangelist Joan Schmitz had two supernatural visions.
In the first vision, she was given a couple glimpses of America’s coming famine…
While in intercession in the Spring of 1973, I received two visions. What I saw and heard I now write, as the Lord has confirmed that this is His time for me to write them down, for they are for the Body of Christ.
Scene 1 As the vision opened I saw myself digging in a garbage bag. This so surprised me that out of my spirit I said, “Lord, what am I doing digging in a garbage bag?” It was then that a man appeared before me. He was skin and bones, having hollow eyes. The Lord spoke into my spirit – “FAMINE.”
Scene 2 The next scene that came before me was a street scene. The atmosphere was somewhat dark, but I could see people gathered on the corner. At this point I was made aware that there was fighting and great turmoil. It was then that the Lord spoke in my spirit that “many would die by the sword and famine.”
Needless to say, the time of that famine has not arrived yet.
But hunger is certainly on the rise in the United States.
Demand at food banks is at record levels, and 27 percent of Americans are now skipping meals on a regular basis.
In March 2010, Michael Boldea had a remarkable series of famine dreams. On the third night, he was told that “the world will know hunger, the faithful will know the power of their God”…
I dreamt I stood in front of a large wheat field. By the golden hew the wheat stalks had taken on, in my dream, I knew that it was close to harvest time, either late summer or early autumn. It was beautiful and peaceful watching the wheat sway gently in the breeze under a picture perfect blue sky.
As I grew familiar with the scene before me, I began looking around and saw three men, evenly spaced at the edge of the field. One man stood on the left corner of the rectangular field, the second man stood in the middle, and the third man stood on the far right edge.
All three men were dressed in white, and since I was seeing them from behind I could not make out their faces. Each of the three men held something in their right hand. The man on the left held a burning torch, the man in the middle held something that looked like a wineskin, and the man in the far right corner held an old fashioned sickle, and a basket lay on the ground next to him. I recognized the sickle, because I used to play with one in my adolescence while living in Romania.
As I stood and watched this strange scene before me, the man on the far left tipped his torch slightly, and touched one of the wheat stalks with the lit torch. Suddenly about one third of the entire wheat field burst into flame. The fire went out as quickly as it began a sudden burst of flame, followed by the scorched remnants of a once beautiful wheat field.
As I continued watching, the second man uncorked the wineskin, raised it about shoulder level, and tipped it slightly. One solitary drop of water poured out of the wineskin, but as it made contact with the wheat another third of the field was leveled as though a great wave had just swept through it.
I did not understand what I was seeing but I continued to watch the scene unfold. I was expecting the third man to do something as dramatic as the first two, but instead he simply bent from the waist, grabbed a handful of wheat stalk with his left hand, and with a practiced swing of the sickle cut through it. He then laid the wheat he had cut in the basket. Although there was a solemnity in the actions of all three men, the gentleness and care with which the third man laid the wheat in the basket stood out for some reason. The man continued the process of cutting wheat and putting it in the basket until it was full, then with practiced ease, tied the wheat into a small bushel with a piece of twine he removed from his waist. He laid the bushel aside, and returned to swinging the sickle and filling the basket. This went on for some time as the man methodically and quickly made bushel after bushel of wheat.
For the first two nights, this is where my dream ended, and as I knew this could not be the end of it, I began to pray that I might either see the conclusion of the dream, or receive the interpretation.
On the third night, the dream began as the previous two nights, with the first man setting fire to one third of the field, the second man flooding one third, and the third man meticulously harvesting the last third, I thought it would be the same dream yet again, until the man with the sickle turned, looked at me and said, ‘the world will know hunger, the faithful will know the power of their God.’ I recognized him; I had seen him in both my dreams and my visions before.
I woke up, and went about my day thinking that I would have the dream again that night, but the dream did not return.
A lot of people think of famine as something that occurs on the other side of the planet.
But it will be coming here too.
A.C. Valdez Jr., the son of the famous preacher A.C. Valdez, had a very powerful supernatural experience in which he was shown a number of things about our future.
At one point during that supernatural experience he was shown the tremendous suffering that a lack of food will cause during the end times.
He was told that a “great famine shall sweep the whole earth”, and he was also told that “millions shall die”…
Then I was carried by the Spirit into a great city; and it was like walking into a mammoth morgue. It was a city of death; for the people were starving to death because of a great world–wide famine that had hit the country. People walked the streets like human skeletons: their eyes sunken in, their cheeks sunken in and hollow. They were pale and gruesome, silently walking down the streets of this huge city, starving to death.
I shall never forget seeing a woman that looked like a skeleton, with a little baby clutched to her breast, with her bony fingers clutching the little infant baby in her arms. The little baby looked like a skeleton. It was a most sickening, gruesome looking sight. This baby looked into my eyes. I never saw such a sight in my life. It looked like a skeleton with skin stretched over it – a little baby starving to death – a ghastly looking sight!
Then I heard the Lord saying, “My son, hearken; for these things shall verily come to pass; for I have called upon the children of men. I sent My Son, Jesus Christ, to die for the world. The Gospel has been preached. Men and women have heard the Gospel, but they have not hearkened unto the Lord their God. They have followed in their own selfish ways. They have left the house of the Lord.
They have turned away from the God of their fathers. They have gone on in their selfish ways. They have been disobedient. Yea, my son, My wrath is kindled against the children of disobedience.
“A great famine shall sweep the whole earth; and depression shall come. Depression greater than ever, shall come on the face of the earth, and millions shall die; for it is the Lord that hath spoken. But, my son, go to the uttermost parts of the earth, tell men and women everywhere that these things shall come; for surely, my son, I have spoken, and surely it shall be. It shall come, but, verily, they that love Me, they that serve Me, and they that worship Me, they that are the sheep of My fold, I will protect them in the hollow of My hand, and not a hair of their heads shall be harmed.”
That sounds absolutely terrifying, and that is because it will be absolutely terrifying.
We really are moving into the most apocalyptic times in human history.
There is one more example that I wanted to share with you in this article.
In 1979, Sarah Hoffman had a near death experience during which God showed her many apocalyptic events that are in our future.
One of the things that she saw was that people in this country will literally be digging into the ground for worms because they are so hungry…
There was a tremendously long winter that lasted into summer. It caught everyone by surprise and started the full famine. Actually, I realized that the long winter actually just increased the famine greatly to its full measure, because the famine had already been in progress because of the storms, droughts, floods and other plagues that had been happening over the few years leading up to the long winter. It seemed then that the year following the long winter was when everything started to go down hill very quickly or things piled up one on top of the other without any breaks. The sense of time though was not very clear because I was seeing several things that seemed to happen all at the same time or very close together. During and after the long winter, the disease spread everywhere and increased in severity. The economy was completely gone and the electricity was also gone. There was complete chaos and anarchy all over the United States. There was no government, just a total breakdown. There was no food at all. I saw people trying to get food and were completely panicked because there was no food. I saw people digging in the ground for worms and eating them because they were so hungry.
Can you imagine being so hungry that you are literally digging around in the dirt for worms?
According to Hoffman, there will be many Americans that will be willing to kill for food.
But there will also be good people that will band together during those incredibly difficult times…
Others killed for food or for things but the people who killed just to kill were absolutely terrible. They seemed like beasts, animals completely out of control as they raped, looted, burned and butchered people. I saw them go into people’s homes and drag families out who were hiding there and rape them and butcher them. There was such a fear and hatred that came upon the people — families, wives, husbands — loving ties no longer mattered; it became survival only. Husbands would kill their wives and children for food or water. Mothers would kill their children. It was absolutely horrible beyond description. The air seemed to be filled with smoke as many buildings and cities burned and no one put them out. As I looked upon the scene of chaos, destruction and smoke, I noticed that there were these little pockets of light scattered all over the United States. There were, I would guess, about twenty or thirty of them. I noticed that most of these places of light were in the western part of the United States, with only three or four in the East. These places of light seemed to shine through the darkness and caught my attention and so I concentrated on them, asking, “What are these things?” I could then see that they were people who had gathered together and they were on their knees and they were praying. The light was coming from them and I understood that it represented their goodness and love. I understood that they had gathered together for safety and that they cared more for each other than for themselves. Some of the groups were small, with only a hundred people or so, but in other groups there were what seemed several thousand. I realized that somehow many, if not most of these cities of light had been established just before the disease attack and that they were very organized. It was like they had known what was coming and had prepared for it. I didn’t see who or what had organized them, but I saw many people struggling to get to them with nothing but what they could carry. These cities of light had food and were sharing their food with those who joined them in their groups. There was peace and safety in the groups. They were living in tents, all kinds of tents, many of which were just blankets covering poles. I noticed that the gangs left these groups alone, choosing to pick on easier targets and unprotected people. They also preyed on the people who were trying to get to the cities of light. Many people in these cities of light had guns to defend themselves with and so the gangs left them alone but it seemed that the gangs just didn’t want to come against them.
I realize that it can be very troubling to read such things.
But if we really are living in the end times, the Bible is very clear that famine is in our future.
It won’t just be a few people that starve to death.
It is going to happen on a massive scale.
Just because most unbelievers won’t listen doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t be warning them about what is coming.
There will be at least a few that will heed our warnings, and for them that could make all the difference.
Michael’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.
Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
