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What's Next? 2008-2009
First, Pharaoh's warning was simple: famine is coming. His problem was one-dimensional. Recall our Ancient Egyptian history lesson, if you will. The society he ruled was agricultural. based on food production and dependent on the Nile from top to bottom-so much so that low floods caused widespread famine and political crises several times during Egypt's history. Today, we face a multi-faceted warning. The world in which we live is entirely different than that of Pharaoh. Our society is a largely complex, interconnected web of economic industries and sectors, spanning the entire globe! This web is completely integrated, induding agriculture, biotechnology, chemical industry, computers, defense, emerging markets, environmental services and technologies, financial services, food industry and services, health care, information technologies, intellectual property, manufacturing, nanotechnology, retail, telecommunications, transportation, and much, much more! Therefore, there is no "one size fits all" solution to the situation; what will work for me most likely will not work for you. Second, God revealed information to Pharaoh indirectly' via two dreams. He never spoke directly to Pharaoh. After all, he had no established relationship with God. Rather, God sent a prophet who would minister and speak personally to Pharaoh for the duration of this fourteen-year crisis. Your situation is much different. It is not very likely that God will send you your own personal prophet to advise you exclusively for years! However, that does not leave us any worse off. After all, you and I have a one-on-one relationship with God. The mo-