Isaiah 46:9-10 "Remember the former things of old for  I am God and there is none else....declaring the END from the BEGINNING and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying my counsel shall stand..... "                                           . .      .   . Job 33:14 "For God speaketh once, yea TWICE, yet man perceiveth it not........"..                                                           .      ...Job11:5-6 " But oh that God would speak... and would show thee the secrets of wisdom that they are DOUBLE......"                .   Gen 41:32 " For the dream was DOUBLED unto Pharoah TWICE ; it is because the thing is established by God and God will shortly bring it to pass ...."                                             .  .                   .                                                                                      It makes sense that the rather lengthy story of Joseph's 7 year famine, found in the BEGINNING BOOK, would contain  details of the END time events. This is both logical and confirmed by the Isaiah citation. A new believer living in this end time age  should naturally start his search at the beginning book, Genesis. The story of the 7 year famine , employing the TWICE SPEAK  technique described by Joseph at the beginning of the story,(the dream being "doubled" TWICE) is  permeated with repeated words and phrases , not just twice but 3 and fourfold. These TWICE spoken phrases would seem to indicate an additional end time application. Note "FAMINE" repeated 4 times in Gen 41:54-57 .Note "money faileth" 4 times in Gen 47:15-18.  Those are just two examples. Many examples exist both in Old and New  Testament and in every instance I can find, always seem to add detail and relate to the end time days at hand . Leaving that aside, the thrust of Joseph's message is that when you see the 7 year famine coming, you should prepare. Joseph describes how ; set aside food. These 7 years do not seem to be the same seven years as those described in Revelation , being divided 2 years plus 5 years (Gen. 45:6)  where Revelation is split in equal halves. The years of Joseph's 7 year famine must preceed and perhaps even overlap somewhat those years of Revelation. If we are now six months  into the first two years of Joseph's 7 year famine, then we can expect a total failure of the financial and banking system at the two year mark, "no more buying and selling" , "no money",  if Joseph's description is going to be repeated. Given the huge increase in the money supply currently being pumped into the world dollar market, the timing appears to be  about on course as it takes a year to 18 months for an increase in money supply to show up as inflation. A hyperinflation at mid 2010 could collapse the bond markets and destroy the dollar as money. That would leave a worldwide need for a new financial system, something based  upon a "mark" perhaps ? I suppose that would take some time to set up, even with a world pleading for a solution and in famine of extreme measure, no end in sight.  It would be an extreme temtation to take the "mark" as your family suffers in famine.                                                         .                    .        .     .                                                         .     . John Tng had noted recently that Leviticas 27:10, describing the "beast" has a gematria tied to the word "Barak" ; I can not help but note that "change" and "beast" are repeated, TWICE SPOKEN, in that short verse. Is this not a second witness to the gematria and what  one word best describes Barak  but "change" ?