Agricultural Revolution Needed.

Earth’s population will grow by 25 percent, to more than nine billion, by 2050 (Deutsche Welle, January 20, 2014). With this increase will come a far greater need for food. “Experts assume that global food production must increase by 70 percent in order to meet the world’s changing dietary habits” (ibid.). “What hasn’t been sufficiently discussed is that we cannot achieve this type of expansion or production… At least not under the current conditions,” noted the executive director of the UN Environment Program. “Today, agriculture already uses two-thirds of the global water supply. In the past 100 years, we have dried out 50 percent of all the wetlands in the name of progress” (ibid.). Experts recommend more fertilizer and genetic modification in order to boost food production to the level needed—ultimately, “nothing short of a revolution in agriculture” (ibid.).

But, are chemicals and genetic modification the solution? The Bible contains powerful agriculture principles that will, in the future, result in harvests that feed far more than nine billion people! Scripture presents a land-Sabbath approach designed to completely renew the soil every seven years (Leviticus 25). God will ultimately change the global climate by lowering and repositioning mountains (Revelation 6:14), resulting in “rain in its season,” even in the deserts (Leviticus 26:4)! And, farmers will face an exciting agricultural dilemma when the “plowman shall overtake the reaper” (Amos 9:13), due to the abundant harvest. All this will occur without excessive chemical fertilizers or genetic modification.

For more on this exciting time, be sure to read our article “Can You Picture the Millennium?”