From the Associated Press: Oil Prices Hit $53 a Barrel Then Retreats. True enough, this sort of thing is as old as the economy of man, as once-plentiful commodities grow scarce. The usual solution is that man finds something else to use instead.

But in this case the supply of the commodity involved, which is petroleum, is under the control of the same people who hate the people of Israel worst of all. Even before Western man finds another source of energy, war may come--and with it, the perfect excuse that the Beast from the Sea [Revelation 13] needs.

Get ready for the Black Horse of the Apocalypse [Revelation 6:5-6] and eventually for Armageddon [Revelation 16].