If God is Blessing Russia, Are They The Bad Guys?

[Benjamin Müller]

Wheat Farmland Under Threat Worldwide As USDA Reveals Dismal Grain Outlook | ZeroHedge

Across the world, top wheat-producing regions are experiencing adverse weather conditions that could threaten production. In places like Ukraine, a military invasion by Russia has slashed production significantly. All of this suggests the world is on the cusp of a food crisis.

Droughts, floods, and heatwaves have plagued farmland in the U.S., Europe, India, and China. As for Ukraine, the world's largest wheat producer, the war could slash production by upwards of a third. There's one exception: Russia, which is expected to have a bumper crop as wheat prices soar.

"If there was ever a year where we needed to see optimum conditions and strong yields around the world, this was going to be it.

"Clearly that situation is not being seen. It adds more risk to this highly volatile situation,"

The American Wheat Crop Futures

Dryness plaguing the U.S. Central Plains has already led some growers to write off parched hard red winter wheat, used by millers and bakers for bread flour. Harvests in top producer Kansas start next month, and output will fall "well below" the five-year average, said Aaron Harries, vice president of research and operations for Kansas Wheat. Crop insurance agents expect some fields to yield zero to five bushels an acre, versus the normal 35 to 40 bushels, he said.

The supply pinch threatens to send elevated grain prices even higher, worsening inflation across supply chains and hurting U.S. exports. "Everything west of the Mississippi River needs rain," Harries said. "If we don't have those regular showers, the size of the crop will get smaller every day."

Meanwhile, excessive rains further north are making it tough to plant spring wheat used to make bagels and pizza. Minnesota farmer Tim Dufault estimates his state has already lost about 5 bushels per acre in yield potential from the delays. Sowing in North Dakota has been "painfully slow," with only 8% seeded versus nearly two-thirds at this time last year, according to the state's wheat commission.

Versus Russia

Soil moisture is satisfactory in Ukraine, buoying yield prospects. But the war will curb production, and there's worries about where to store the crop as backlogged exports leave silos bulging with last year's grain.

Russia has also seen favorable weather and could reap a near-record harvest. That's bolstered shipment prospects, although freight and insurance costs are high and some merchants are shunning its commodities.

So, Russia who is anti-gay and clinging to Christian values is being blessed with near-record wheat crops, whereas in America who is morally degenerating is facing a dismal wheat harvest.

Deuteronomy 28:15 If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: [16] You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country. [17] Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed. [20] The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him. [21] The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess. [22] The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish. [23] The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron. [47] Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance, [48] you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

See also Leviticus 26; Isaiah 5


So, if God uses famine to destroy the wicked and America has become a godless, moral degraded nation, facing one of the worst wheat harvests on record--is God with us? Likewise, if a country is turning to God and embracing Christian values and experiencing record harvest yields, is God with them? And if God is with them, wouldn't it be sin to be against them? Else we'd find ourselves even at odds with God?

So I have a simple question: if God is blessing Russia and cursing America (and other Western Countries), who are the bad guys?

 

[Blade]

America made a convent with God. God will always keep that. We the righteous are still here. These are not OT days. Christ died on the cross.. there is no curse. Its the man in office God looks at and Putin is not clinging to Christian values.

 

[Unqualified]

the food industry, backed by the state. The Kremlin granted a record $189bn in subsidies to the sector in 2014, which contributed to a record 105.3mn-tonne grain harvest the same year, according to Agriculture Minister Nikolai Fyodorov

 

[Halbhh]

Russia who is anti-gay and clinging to Christian values is being blessed with near-record wheat crops,

Most Ukrainians are in the same Eastern Orthodox general church as are Russians, and have the same beliefs.

But that didn't stop Putin from aggressively killing these Orthodox believers.

That's suggestive that it may be that Putin doesn't actually believe in God.
Also, it's not obviously clear that Kirill does. Where are the signs that he does?

John 13:35 By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another."

If Kirill believes, then why can't we see that he does?....

facing one of the worst wheat harvests on record

Weren't a lot of those bad wheat harvests actually in the dust bowl?

" US wheat and maize production crashed by 32% in 1933 and continued to fall for the rest of the decade as more droughts hit."

It seems to me you just got eager to prove a thesis here at this point, and got carried away with trying to argue for it.

 

[DragonFox91]

He causes rain to fall on the righteous & the unrighteous.

Everything works for his glory.

 

[Halbhh]

Wheat Farmland Under Threat Worldwide As USDA Reveals Dismal Grain Outlook | ZeroHedge



The American Wheat Crop Futures



Versus Russia



So, Russia who is anti-gay and clinging to Christian values is being blessed with near-record wheat crops, whereas in America who is morally degenerating is facing a dismal wheat harvest.

Deuteronomy 28:15 If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: [16] You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country. [17] Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed. [20] The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him. [21] The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess. [22] The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish. [23] The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron. [47] Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance, [48] you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

See also Leviticus 26; Isaiah 5


So, if God uses famine to destroy the wicked and America has become a godless, moral degraded nation, facing one of the worst wheat harvests on record--is God with us? Likewise, if a country is turning to God and embracing Christian values and experiencing record harvest yields, is God with them? And if God is with them, wouldn't it be sin to be against them? Else we'd find ourselves even at odds with God?

So I have a simple question: if God is blessing Russia and cursing America (and other Western Countries), who are the bad guys?

While both Russia and Ukraine seem to be getting enough rain....

Here is one thing that does stand out a lot, different between Ukraine and Russia.

Ukraine's surprising successes.

And the unexpected, truly surprising amount of big disasters that have happened to Russia in the war....

Not simply that Ukraine is fighting better, but the unlikely disasters have happened to Russia, like the total failure of the air defenses of the large capital flagship Moskva.

Moskva was an especially strong air defense ship good at shooting down air attacks like cruise missiles such as the 2 Neptune missiles that struck it.

Moskva had 3 layers of air defenses. And 2 of them should have worked.

And they all 3 failed.

So, this is becoming noticeable. How many warnings do Putin and Kirill need to turn back from their evils they are doing?

 

[Maria Billingsley]

Wheat Farmland Under Threat Worldwide As USDA Reveals Dismal Grain Outlook | ZeroHedge



The American Wheat Crop Futures



Versus Russia



So, Russia who is anti-gay and clinging to Christian values is being blessed with near-record wheat crops, whereas in America who is morally degenerating is facing a dismal wheat harvest.

Deuteronomy 28:15 If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: [16] You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country. [17] Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed. [20] The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him. [21] The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess. [22] The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish. [23] The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron. [47] Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance, [48] you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

See also Leviticus 26; Isaiah 5


So, if God uses famine to destroy the wicked and America has become a godless, moral degraded nation, facing one of the worst wheat harvests on record--is God with us? Likewise, if a country is turning to God and embracing Christian values and experiencing record harvest yields, is God with them? And if God is with them, wouldn't it be sin to be against them? Else we'd find ourselves even at odds with God?

So I have a simple question: if God is blessing Russia and cursing America (and other Western Countries), who are the bad guys?

Anyone not doing the will of God.
Blessings

 

[Douger]

Russia is morally degenerate too. They're breaking Jesus' laws in Ukraine right this minute.

Rain falling on a country doesn't mean that God is pleased with it's politics. Thinking such a thing is just superstition.

 

[Presbyterian Continuist]

Wheat Farmland Under Threat Worldwide As USDA Reveals Dismal Grain Outlook | ZeroHedge



The American Wheat Crop Futures



Versus Russia



So, Russia who is anti-gay and clinging to Christian values is being blessed with near-record wheat crops, whereas in America who is morally degenerating is facing a dismal wheat harvest.

Deuteronomy 28:15 If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: [16] You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country. [17] Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed. [20] The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him. [21] The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess. [22] The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish. [23] The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron. [47] Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance, [48] you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

See also Leviticus 26; Isaiah 5


So, if God uses famine to destroy the wicked and America has become a godless, moral degraded nation, facing one of the worst wheat harvests on record--is God with us? Likewise, if a country is turning to God and embracing Christian values and experiencing record harvest yields, is God with them? And if God is with them, wouldn't it be sin to be against them? Else we'd find ourselves even at odds with God?

So I have a simple question: if God is blessing Russia and cursing America (and other Western Countries), who are the bad guys?

The references quoted are for Israel exclusively. They cannot be related to Russia or any other country of the world. It is important to conduct accurate exegesis to see why the reference was written and who it refers to, otherwise it is eisegesis and faulty hermeneutics to read into the reference the author never intended, nor understood by his contemporary hearers.

The only nation that God chose as the promised land is Israel. All His past, present and future prophecies are for Israel and nowhere else. God still views all other nations as pagan and not Christian. Therefore He is not blessing or cursing Russia or the United States.

 

[Thomas White]

America made a convent with God. God will always keep that. We the righteous are still here. These are not OT days. Christ died on the cross.. there is no curse. Its the man in office God looks at and Putin is not clinging to Christian values.

Who told you America made a covenant with God?

 

[dms1972]

America made a convent with God.

Lot of nuns in American then?

 

[dms1972]

Who told you America made a covenant with God?

In the biblical covenants, they are covenants God made with certain people, or with Israel eg. God made a covenant with Abram, not Abram made a covenant with God. So I don't know where the idea of America making a covenant with God came from.

 

[dms1972]

Moskva had 3 layers of air defenses. And 2 of them should have worked.

Where did you read it had three layers of air defences? I read the Moskva was designed to pack a punch, but because of that it had more limited defences than other warships.

 

[Halbhh]

Where did you read it had three layers of air defences? I read the Moskva was designed to pack a punch, but because of that it had more limited defences than other warships.

It was a video about trying to figure out how it could be possible that the multi layer air defenses of the Moskva failed.

But an article should be easy to find also. Lemme search one up.

Here, at the top of the list:

• MOSKVA is equipped with the SA-N-6 surface-to-air missile, which has the ability to shoot down ASCMs.[vi]
• MOSKVA is equipped with AK-630M close-in weapon system (CIWS), which has the ability to shoot down ASCMs.[vii]
• MOSKVA is equipped with the Rum Tub and Side Globe electronic warfare (EW) system and two PK-2 DL chaff and flare launchers, all of which are assumed to have some capability to defeat ASCMs.

https://www.realcleardefense.com/ar...kva_and_how_not_to_sink_a_cruiser_827840.html

Normally, such a 2 sub sonic cruise missile attack would not be likely at all to work.

In the article they calculate that at least 11 simultaneous missiles would be needed to even have a reasonable chance to do real harm.

But notice what's next (!!) --
After the very unlikely event of just 2 missiles fired and then still making a direct hit:

"This analysis shows that the MOSKVA, while likely to be severely damaged, should not have been sunk. "

And that's part of what I though about above also: see, after the amazing success of the 2 sub sonic cruise missiles to get through and hit, and the fire, and then the crew abandoning ship.

And then the Moskva under tow back to port.... It should not have sank.

...then a storm came up and sank it.

That ship was going down.

 

[Ignatius the Kiwi]

There's one thing I know for sure, God is not on the side of the Global American Empire.

 

[Unqualified]

Nor is He on the side of the Russian world empire.

 

[Justin-H.S.]

There's one thing I know for sure, God is not on the side of the Global American Empire.

As a GWOT veteran I realized:

I was a tool for Babylon.

 

[Tom 1]

Wheat Farmland Under Threat Worldwide As USDA Reveals Dismal Grain Outlook | ZeroHedge



The American Wheat Crop Futures



Versus Russia



So, Russia who is anti-gay and clinging to Christian values is being blessed with near-record wheat crops, whereas in America who is morally degenerating is facing a dismal wheat harvest.

Deuteronomy 28:15 If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: [16] You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country. [17] Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed. [20] The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him. [21] The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess. [22] The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish. [23] The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron. [47] Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance, [48] you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

See also Leviticus 26; Isaiah 5


So, if God uses famine to destroy the wicked and America has become a godless, moral degraded nation, facing one of the worst wheat harvests on record--is God with us? Likewise, if a country is turning to God and embracing Christian values and experiencing record harvest yields, is God with them? And if God is with them, wouldn't it be sin to be against them? Else we'd find ourselves even at odds with God?

So I have a simple question: if God is blessing Russia and cursing America (and other Western Countries), who are the bad guys?

You don’t think it has anything to do with the climate, perhaps?

Between them Russia and Ukraine produce about 30% of the world’s wheat. How well crops grow in a given region is the result of various factors, and there is always some variation year on year.

You might just as well conclude that your neighbour is more ‘blessed’ than you because you see him wearing some shiny shoes one day, rather than considering the actually reasons why his shoes might be shinier than yours.

 

[Benjamin Müller]

There's one thing I know for sure, God is not on the side of the Global American Empire.

Nor is He on the side of the Russian world empire.

Joshua 5:13-14 "And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries? And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?"

But the question isn't whose side is God on, but who is God blessing. Call it the lesser of the two evils. If God disapproves of how the West is treating Russia and is blessing them while we curse them, are we right and or justified in what we're doing and our hatred towards Russia?

 

[Benjamin Müller]

You don’t think it has anything to do with the climate, perhaps?

Who controls the weather, except God?

You might just as well conclude that your neighbour is more ‘blessed’ than you because you see him wearing some shiny shoes one day, rather than considering the actually reasons why his shoes might be shinier than yours.

That's exactly what I'm trying to figure out, but on a spiritual level. Why is Russia being blessed and America is not? What is Russia doing to deserve shiny shoes, while God is taking away our shoes.

Isaiah 9:18 For wickedness burns as the fire; it shall devour the briers and thorns, and kindle in the thickets of the forest; they shall mount up like rising smoke. 19 Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land is burned up, and the people shall be as fuel for the fire; no man shall spare his brother. 20 And he shall snatch on the right hand and be hungry; he shall devour on the left hand and not be satisfied; every man shall eat the flesh of his own arm. 21 Manasseh shall devour Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh; together they shall be against Judah. For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

We will suffer famine and we will suffer hunger and yet God's anger isn't turned away and his hand is outstretched still, meaning we don't repent.