Seasons of locust plagues in Africa can seem distant to us, with our comforts and the knowledge that there is an ocean between us insulating us from the idea that we could also suffer. Likewise. the church in the West is asleep and largely ignorant of the cosmic battle being waged around us. Demons are making America’s playground their home.

Newspaper articles this past week have had titles such as “End of the world: Coronavirus panic and African locust plague spark Bible apocalypse fears” and “Like Something Out of the Book of Exodus.” They are reporting on the fact that locust armies are ravaging large portions of eastern Africa and the Middle East.  

We are being told that these locust armies “are unprecedented in size and scope.” The numbers do stagger the imagination. They travel in swarms that can reach 40 miles in width, with each locust able to eat the equivalent of its own body weight every day. One writer stated that the recent locust plague “is a nightmare of epic proportions, and it is just getting started. It could get 500 times bigger by June.” A medium-size swarm of locusts can eat the same amount of food in a day as the entire population of Kenya! Even this morning it is being reported that a swarm has crossed the Red Sea and entered western China. Watch this BBC video clip to see this phenomenon explained.

Revelation 9:1-11 describes a plague of locusts as the fifth trumpet of God’s judgment is blasted.

Then the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the key of the bottomless pit was given to him. He opened the bottomless pit, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit. Then out of the smoke came locusts upon the earth, and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. They were told not to hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

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