Chickens More Valuable than Human Life

Wednesday, 05/20/26 at 11:36
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May 20, 2026

Several years ago, not too long after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, on the web I came across video footage taken by a group of Ukrainian soldiers who were documenting the surrender of a handful of Russian soldiers in a small rural farm compound. Each one of these disarmed Russian prisoners lay face down on the ground in a courtyard between farm buildings. An assortment of free-ranging chickens paid no attention to the goings on of war and some even walked between the prisoners.

After a short time lapse, the video continued, revealing a scene where every single one of these surrendered Russian soldiers lay dead, executed in the very same place they had lain face down minutes before. After the noise of the shooting and the danger had passed, the chickens had returned and were continuing their foraging among the newly dead. In this war setting, where in this instance Geneva Conventions were not respected, it was safer to be a chicken.

When the video ended, immediately I heard the rhema words, “A time will come in America, when chickens will become more valuable than human life.” The Holy Spirit did not specify the cause—whether it was war, famine, plague, natural disaster, or a combination of them—that would create this future scenario.

Believers, we live on God’s timing, at His mercy. Our days are numbered. Draw closer to God and make these days count. Step up to work in the Harvest while you still can.

Scripture:

Job 14:5 (NIV)

5 A person’s days are determined;
you have decreed the number of his months
and have set limits he cannot exceed.

Psalm 39: 4-7 (NIV)

4 “Show me, Lord, my life’s end
and the number of my days;
let me know how fleeting my life is.
5 You have made my days a mere handbreadth;
the span of my years is as nothing before you.
Everyone is but a breath,
even those who seem secure.

6 “Surely everyone goes around like a mere phantom;
in vain they rush about, heaping up wealth
without knowing whose it will finally be.

7 “But now, Lord, what do I look for?
My hope is in you.”

Psalm 90: 12 (NIV)

12 Teach us to number our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Psalm 139: 15-16 (NIV)

15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.

Daniel 12: 3 (NIV)

3 Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.

Matthew 9: 35-38 (NIV)

35 Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. 36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. 38 Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

John 4: 34-38 (NIV)

34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 35 Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. 36 Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37 Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. 38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”

1 Corinthians 3:5-9 (NIV)

5 What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. 6 I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. 7 So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 8 The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor. 9 For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building.

Galatians 6: 9-10 (NIV)

9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.