Many have guessed at what the locusts represent in the book of Joel. Some think it’s an invading army or even a virus while others think they are actual bugs. Could it be a plague that empties our grocery aisles? The answer is yes, but not in the way that you think!
The locusts represent those who took possession of the Words of God and ruined it. They convinced people that certain things didn’t need to be done and in doing so they removed the Will of God. What does Christ say about the Will of God?
“But He said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.” Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?” Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work." John 4:32-34
The Will of God is our food. If someone takes the bible and convinces people that we don’t need to do things that God requires, then they have stripped us of our food. These are the locusts. Those who first received the bible did this. These were the Jews. They heavily saturated the Instructions of God with their own rules and began the first stripping of our food.
“making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do.” Mark 7:13
The Word of God was then scooped up by the Romans. Constantine stripped it even more. He removed all Laws that did not align with his pagan lifestyle. He made his own version of a ‘Christian’ where His ‘Jesus’ approved of Constantine’s personal morality. For example, this Jesus would still have to bow to the sun god Sol Invictus whom Constantine still dedicated temples long after his so-called Christian conversion. The Saturday Sabbath was one of these Laws which Constantine’s ‘Christians’ would not tolerate. Sol Invictus was a sun god and so the Sabbath was switched to Sunday.
“Christians must not Judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day, rather honouring the Lord’s Day; and, if they can, resting then as Christians. But if any shall be found to be Judaizers, let them be anathema from Christ.” Canon XXIX Council of Laodicea, A Select library of Nicene and post-Nicene fathers of the Christian church. Second series, Vol. 14, p. 148
They labelled anyone who wanted to do God’s Will as a Judaizer and told everyone that Judaizers are separated from Christ. They stole the Words of God from the very mouths of those who wanted to do God’s Will.
Constantine’s ideas became the doctrine of the Catholic Church who continued to pick and choose what laws the people do or do not follow. They inserted their own morality to replace God’s. We see this in the Roman calendar even, as the names of the week and months are saturated with false gods. More churches branched out from the Catholics but kept the Catholic blueprint. Generation after generation stripped more and more of God’s Instructions. We can see this in the prophecy where God so cleverly put it in plain sight.
“Tell your children about it, Let your children tell their children, And their children another generation.” Joel 1:3
There are four generations indicated. You have the father telling his children which is 2 generations. Then those children tell their children which is a 3rd and those children tell their children which is a 4th. Now look at the generations of locusts in the verse immediately after it.
“What the chewing locust left, the swarming locust has eaten; What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten; And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten” Joel 1:4
Four generations of children, and four generations of locusts. This is intentional. It shows that as the generations go by, each is left with less and less of what is God’s Will. What started out as a solid book of Instructions has had pieces torn away. Successively the leftovers are picked through and more is destroyed. The bits and pieces of God’s Laws are mere crumbs today. This is what the churches of today provide to their people.
Because of this, we see the results of Joel's prophecies.
“The grain offering and the drink offering Have been cut off from the house of the LORD; The priests mourn, who minister to the LORD.”Joel 1:9
The grain offering is no longer possible, the grain represents the teachings of God. When those are taken from us, we have nothing to show God. If we had the food of God, the seeds of His Word, then we could make bread and show Him. We could plant and reap a crop, but our seed was stolen from us and destroyed.
The drink offering is wine. It represents suffering. If we understood what God requires of us then we could suffer for God in obedience during testing like Christ, thereby proving our faith. But God’s Will is no longer known because the people have removed so many Laws that there is very little possibility for suffering. It is either gone or watered down because so little of it was for God. Isaiah mentions the diluted wine.
“Your silver has become dross, Your wine mixed with water.” Isaiah 1:22
The locusts are the leaders of the churches and their followers, who keep destroying the Word of God. The plague of the locusts is happening right now. Constantine’s Christianity has spread all over the earth, destroying the seeds that God left for us. Destroying the fruit, the trees, the crops… everything. They have taken what was meant for God and left everything desolate. Even the churches, who want to follow Torah, have learned from Christian churches and so continue in error because of false doctrines. The bibles are in those churches but there is no understanding to go with it. Christ said it best,
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.” Matthew 23:15
It is the Christians and Jews who have, each in their own way, ruined God’s Word. This plague of locusts is ongoing until the return of the real Christ. He will set everyone straight and punish those who have starved the world of God’s Will.
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