Chapter 15.4
End Time Locust
The Four Stages – Palmer Worm – Canker Worm –
Caterpillar - Mature Locust
The Four Moral Plagues – Lust, Gluttony, Love of
the Flesh and Self-exaltation
Hidden Manna – Eating God’s Word – Valley of
Decision - Smoke of Deception
First Word
The Book says if we seek out His Word, He will give us HIDDEN MANNA, [1]
understanding and the Holy Spirit will guide us into ALL TRUTH and declare to us the things that are to come.[2]
The Lord
gave a message to the prophet Joel as an example of the upcoming judgment upon
judgment, scourge upon scourge upon man, until man either yields or
perishes. Joel said; “Hear this, you leaders of the people.
Listen, all who live in the
land.
In all your history, has ANYTHING like this happened before?
Tell your
children about it in the years to come.[3]
Let your
children tell their children.
PASS THIS STORY DOWN FROM
GENERATION TO GENERATION.”
Tell your children the story of THE TIME OF THE LOCUST, a period of FIVE
MONTHS[4] which is from May through September.
(This is a fact of a time in nature for locust activity and may or may
not be a specific period of time for the End Time Tribulations.)
Most
of us do not live in a land that is arid, where you live season to season
depending on crop to crop for your substance. Joel expresses the Locust, the weakest and most
contemptible creature, so as to take away the comforts of man and applies it to
the destruction of a country. The locust
are one of God’s ordinary punishments for sin that come in wave after
wave. What one wave leaves behind the
next wave destroys. Locust numbering in the hundreds of
millions have darken the sky like a
cloud, eating many times their weight in one day devastating every living green
plant in their path.[5]
Note: Make no mistake, the Locust judgement of Joel is a Covenant CURSE from God,[6]
they are His great Army. THEY DO NOT EAT anything GREEN, not even a tree; they only attack mankind,
specifically those who DO NOT have the Seal of God on
their foreheads.
The SEAL
OF GOD is
the knowledge and Wisdom of the Word
of God implanted in the MIND (the forehead) of mankind by the Holy Spirit, protecting them
from the
lies and deceptions of Satan
that are to come in the final End Times. Believers are sealed before this terrible
tribulation even begins.
Locust do their devastating work in successive
WAVES, there are about 90 different sorts of locust.
The Book records FOUR Hebrew words
implying FOUR stages, species
or names;
1)
Palmerworm,
2) Cankerworm,
3) Caterpillar and the 4) Locust[7]
which are all
named for their peculiar properties of destruction.
Consider
the
Seals,
Trumpet and vials of “Revelation” that are poured out one
after another, each one worse than the one before; but between each WAVE there is a time for repentance. The Book binds
repentance
and forgiveness
together; REPENT AND BE FORGIVEN, if we don’t repent, we cannot be
forgiven.
Sidebar: there were FOUR successive waves
of invaders of Judah that came WAVE after WAVE; the Assyrians, Chaldeans, Macedonians and the Romans.
Time of the Locust
Three
times God has used Locust as a vehicle of judgement. We read that Moses unleased a plague of Locust
on Egypt. In Joel we read about how Locust are used to utterly
destroy and in the great “end of time” book of Revelation, we read Locust
are released from the Abyss at the sound of the fifth trumpet to destroy. One square mile of locust will contain 100 to 200 MILLION of these creatures with such a dense
multitude that the blackened ground[8]
seems to ungulate as if it were moving, living behind only bare and barked
twigs.
The
Locust army
that appears on the scene in the book of Joel, with “CROWNS” on their head
are symbolic
of powerful strong MEN; great multitudes
of PEOPLE without number
that strip bare the vine. The vine they
are stripping away is the Church of Believers... remembering Jesus
telling Peter that Satan wanted to “SIFT HIM LIKE WHEAT”.
The FOUR STAGES of the Locust are emblems of
the progression of SIN in our life that germinates
and then explodes EATING AWAY at our existence, consuming
our harvest; devouring our
promised blessings. Locust and Sin do not run the course of four
stages and then stop, it replicates, repeating at each stage along
the way, never ending; a succession of destroyers, over
and over; consuming WAVE after WAVE, each more
fatal than the preceding wave.
FOUR MORAL PLAGUE WAVE STAGES:
1) LUST that creeps
upon man with all its body.
2)
GLUTTONY and eating for SELF gratification and satisfaction
3) LOVE OF THE FLESH, love of human
praise, love of ambitious desires; resisting holiness.
4)
SELF-EXALTATION, flies and leaps with vain glory and empty
presumptions.
The locust
descend upon earth coming in the SMOKE of deception just like Sin.[9] The SMOKE darkens the understanding of the whole
world; cutting,
stripping, devastating and devouring.
Take notice of how the Christian influence
has already been “stripped” away with the removal of the TEN COMMANDMENTS and PRAYER in schools and
public places. The advocating of the
murder of unborn babies through abortion, calling it Pro-Choice instead
of Pro-Life.
“Blowing Smoke”,
calling Homosexuality
just an alternate
lifestyle instead of an abomination. Like Locust, Sin travels great distances and affects generation
after generation.
This generational CURSE can be broken through
confession, repentance and a change of one’s lifestyle.[10]
1st stage: This stage is in the spring, the locust have
just emerged from the egg without wings or legs and have the peculiar
properties of cropping or sheering off of leaves and fruits; it’s
known as the Palmer Worm stage.
ü PALMER WORM -
“Gazam”
its voracity; the devourer of
the leaves cutting short the stems
preventing the future harvest of good fruit or making the remaining fruit
rotten. They are the Chewing Cutting Gnawing Locust.[11]
This state is a World System that perverts, twists and manipulates the message of Jesus
Christ and bends
the words of the
Holy Bible. Renouncing the
supernatural; the virgin birth and the resurrection, reducing Jesus Christ to
just to another good man and Christianity to just one of the many religions. Like NOW
2nd stage: This stage SIN is hopping like fleas, busy gnawing and licking
up with its tongue and consuming
anything green as well as bringing forth a vast increase of multitudes of larva
in the pupa stage without legs or wings. The gnawing,
arguing, debating, disagreeing, distracting, wearing you down
process of annoyance that prevents the full growth of the Word and stopping you
from prospering; this stage is known as the Cankerworm.
ü CANKERWORM “Yelek” it’s licking up; the young Hopping Crawling
Devouring Locust.[12] It’s about False Teachers and
Preachers
calling EVIL GOOD; perverting the
word of God; teaching pro-Choice NOT pro-Life... Affirming Homosexuality
as another lifestyle NOT an abomination to God;
it’s about Mother
Earth NOT Father God; it’s about the god inside, NOT the God above.
3rd stage: This stage is
casting off the old skins and now with small wings encased in sacks and are
able to jump
and leap with the properties of consuming and wasting
of all that is in their path; this stripper before growing it wings in its
final stage attempts to remove the outer bark (our Flesh)
that protects the inner live bark (our Soul), which
is our mind and will, our emotions and
sight, our ability to smell, touch and hear; the breaking down of the
protective bark causing death to the tree (our Spirit). This happens through alcoholism, drugs, pornography, homosexuality, lust, and gluttony.
It’s known as the Caterpillar
stage.
ü CATERPILLAR “Chasil” its destructiveness; the Stripping
Consuming Locust.[13] It’s money changers selling religious good
luck artifacts and amulets, making the house of God a den of thieves, it has
now become an entertainment center; NOT a house of prayer.
Projecting Social
functions NOT praise
and worship,
entertainment NOT enlightenment of the Word. The world is shouting that it doesn’t matter
what you believe as long as you
are SINCERE.
4th stage: This stage is
now a matured enumerable multitude of winged destroying locust about 1 to 1¾
inches long, that consume whatever remains in
its path that has not already been consumed. The actually heads of these flying
invading locust are shaped in the form of a “little horse”; reminiscent of the
four CONSUMING horses that ride forth in the end of
times; White, Red, Black & Pale Green.
The female locust drills thousands upon thousands of holes in the earth
laying its Multiplier’s or Swarmer’s eggs that have a short
incubations period of just one week to two months, and like SIN,
they seems to be ALWAYS BE EMERGING; Sin
covering up more Sin .
Our enemy Satan; looks for ways to drill holes or opening into our life
by exposing us in our early age to something that later in life will come back
to restrain us from our maturity as a Christian. Things such as physical abuse, alcoholism,
adultery and even gossip. The enemy Satan strategically sows SEEDS OF CAPTIVITY in your early
life that remains dormant till years later, where it is awakened to give birth
to more SIN. It is known as the Locust stage.
ü LOCUST “Arbeh” its
multitude;
to multiply with immense increase; the Swarming Locust. The Book was written for another century; it does not
apply today, just LOOK INSIDE yourself, you have
everything that you need already inside of you to be all that you can be; save yourself.
The Book says that at the
return of Christ it will be just like in the time of Noah, with the Nephilim taking wives;
producing hybrid children, DESECRATING mankind that is made in the very image of God.
NOTE: Do
not miss this. The Babylonian army
advanced against Jerusalem in SUCCESSIVE
WAVES;
cutting,
stripping, devastating and devouring. Joel’s specific locust in reality are armies of Men sent by God to spank mankind; to get their dependency
for a physical and spiritual life back on HIM;
the tribulation period is a second chance to find God before you die; then
after that it’s the judgement.
It’s God’s WILL
that none should perish. It’s in the Book
Joel’s Look
Inside[14]
ü In that day the fields will be ruined with the land
stripped bare.[15]
The grain will be destroyed[16]
and the grape vines will have shriveled, the olive oil will be gone. All the fruit trees will have dried up and
withered.[17]
ü The animals and herds of cattle will wander
about confused moaning with hunger because they have no pasture.[18]
The flocks of sheep and goats will bleat in misery.[19]
ü The seeds in the parched ground will die; the
grain crops will fail and the barns will stand empty with the granaries
abandoned.[20] Your joy will dry up within you as the food
supply disappears right before your very eyes.[21]
ü There will be no joyful celebrations held in the
house of God because there will be no grain or wine to offer God, [22] because the wheat and barley crops of the
field are ruined.
ALERT: Call
ALL
the church leaders together for a solemn meeting in the temple of
God with all the members and announce a time of fasting.[23] Dress yourselves in burlap and weep
and wail
in despair; CRY OUT to God in repentance
for His Mercy,
Relief and Compassion.
Eat My
Words
The
Prophets Ezekiel[24] and Jeremiah[25] as
well as John
the Revelator[26] were
all told to EAT the WORD of God. God commands us to consume His SWEET words even
though some words are BITTER to the taste.
To the Believer the words of God are SWEET, but to the unbeliever they
are BITTER and they HATE them.[27] In the end, knowing the SWEET from the BITTER will save your
very soul.
The Take Away
Joel paints a picture of Sin that emerges
from the Smoke; the deception of the
mind and soul from false teachers with
false teachings that cut, strip, chew, gnaw, crawl, hop and fly to distract us from the TRUTH of God’s Word. This distraction contains moral WAVES of 1) Lust, 2) Gluttony, 3) Love of the
Flesh and 4) Self-exaltation.
SIN like Locust
starts very tiny, but later comes WAVE after WAVE, replicating itself over and over till it strips
our very soul of its last breath.
The prophet
Joel points
to a valley; the same valley where Jehoshaphat fought his battle, where the Messiah
would soon destroy the armies of the nations and establish His kingdom. Joel
called it The
Valley of Decision.
We have that same Valley today; THE VALLEY OF DECISION; why would you
fight in the battle of Armageddon down in the valley as a participant, when you could sit up
on the mountain top as a spectator watching it all unfold? Why would you drive a defective car for 10
years, then finally fix it in order to sell it when you could have fixed it in
the beginning and enjoyed it for 10 years? Don’t wait for the tribulations to find Jesus
Christ, find
HIM NOW and enjoy HIM today and then for eternity.
Life
is Choice Driven; the choices you make on this side of eternity have eternal
consequences.
It’s in the
Book
Joel 3:9-14 – THE VALLEY OF DECISION
9 Proclaim this
among the nations: PREPARE FOR WAR!
Rouse the
warriors! Let all the fighting men draw near and attack.
10 Beat your
plowshares into swords
and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling say, `I am strong!
11 Come quickly,
all you nations from every side, and assemble there. Bring down your warriors,
O LORD! Let the nations be roused;
12` let them
advance into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there
I will sit to JUDGE ALL THE NATIONS on
every side.
13 Swing the
sickle, for the
harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full
and the vats overflow-
SO GREAT IS THEIR WICKEDNESS!
14 MULTITUDES, MULTITUDES IN THE VALLEY OF
DECISION!
For the day of
the LORD is
near
in the VALLEY OF DECISION.
NIV
THE END TIME LOCUST ARE COMING
You are in the Valley of
Decision,
I can only show you the
door, you must choose to walk through it.
[1] Revelation 2:17 – To the one who overcomes,
God has HIDDEN MANNA to give &
a white stone, with your new name written on it.
[2] John 16:13 – The Holy Spirit will guide us into ALL TRUTH;
He will declare to you the things that are to come.
[3] Joel 1:1-3 - Tell the Story of the Time of the Locust to your children PASS THE STORY
DOWN from generation to generation
[4] Revelation 9:1-12 – The locusts came from the smoke to torment men for FIVE MONTHS
[5] Deuteronomy 28:38-40 – You will plant much but harvest little for LOCUSTS WILL EAT
YOUR CROPS
[6] Joel 2:25 – The Locust are GOD’S
great army which He SENT
AMONG YOU -- Deuteronomy
28:38 – COVENANT CURSE from God YOU WILL PLANT MUCH BUT
HARVEST LITTLE,
FOR LOCUSTS WILL EAT YOUR CROP
[7] Joel 1:4 – 1) PALMERWORM –2)
LOCUST – 3) CANKERWORM – 4) CATERPILLAR
[8] Exodus 10:14-15 – So many locust the land was darkened
[9] Revelation 9:3 – locusts came from the
SMOKE and DESCENDED ON THE EARTH; Smoke is a cloud of
deception
[10] 1 Kings 8:37-38 – Pray to God for relief of your Locust troubles
[11] Joel 2:25 – Swarming – Crawling – Consuming -
Chewing
[12] Joel 2:25 – Swarming – Hopping – Stripping -
Cutting
[13] Joel 1:4- Cutting
– Swarming – Hopping - Striping
[14] Joel 1:15 – HOW TERRIBLE THAT DAY will be; THE DAY OF THE LORD
[15] Joel 1:10 - The fields are ruined,
the land is stripped bare. Grain destroyed, Grapes shriveled, Olive oil gone
[16] Joel 1:11 – Farmers wail, Growers weep; wheat
& barley ruined
[17] Joel 1:12 – Fruits, grapevines, fig trees
pomegranate trees, palm trees, and apple trees all dried up and withered
[18] Joel 1:11 – Farmers wail, Growers weep; wheat & barley ruined
[19] Joel 1:18 – The Animals will moan, sheep and goats bleat is misery; there
is no pasture
[20] Joel 1:17 – Parched ground where Seeds
die, Grain crops fail and Barns empty
[21] Joel 1:16 – Food disappears before
your very eyes, your Joy is stolen
[22] Joel 1:13 – There are No offerings to give to the Lord, it’s a time to
weep and wail
[23] Joel 1:14 – Announce a
SOLEMN
MEETING A time of fasting to cry
out to the Lord for help
[24] Ezekiel 3:1-3 – EZEKIEL was told to eat and
digest His Words: EAT THIS SCROLL!
[25] Jeremiah 15:16 – JEREMIAH
devoured God’s Word with delight
[26] Revelation 10:10 - JOHN
told to eat God’s Word; it is Sweet and Sour
[27] John 17:14 – I HAVE GIVEN THEM YOUR WORD and
THE WORLD HATES THEM The World hates the Word of God
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