FAMINE AND THE MESSIAH
This unprecedented global famine is described as a precursor to the Messianic era.
The Talmud (Sanhedrin 97a) describes a precise schedule of increasing famine based on the seven-year Shemitta (Sabbatical) cycle that presages the Messiah. The Talmud cites the Prophet Amos’ prediction of bizarre rain:
I, therefore, withheld the rain from you Three months before harvest time: