Joel
Yahveh is God
Yahveh is God
Part 1 ~ The Locust Army:
Joel 1:2-3 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Wake up folks....has our world ever been as it is today? Do the elderly remember anything like today? Then start warning...be a watchman.
1:4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
All stages of the locust. Sometimes they work underground...destroying from the roots. Sometimes they surface devouring everything in their sight. Sometimes they swarm....millions of them and they can't be stopped. These refer to people...people devouring the land - us. Some work undercover...the powers behind the throne, and that is a very dangerous stage, and some are elected to the highest office wielding great power. Some are sent in planes to destroy buildings while others strap bombs to their bodies to destroy innocent people. Some work in banks, places of learning, entertainment...and churches. Politics, Finance, Education and Religion....all strongholds for the locusts and their king.
And, they have been here for years...[2:25] And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, My great army which I sent among you. They're here for many years, beginning, I believe, at the fifth trump, but it is only the last five months of this age that they are given great power. It is important to understand that Satan is a servant of God and this IS God's "great army" that He Himself sent.
These "locusts" are men and on their heads are crowns like gold. Biblical "heads" are mountains and mountains represent nations [Rev.17:7-9]. The locust leaders of these nations wear crowns that are "like gold," not the real thing...fake crowns on unholy people. If the crowns represent false leadership then who is the real leader? To whom do they give their allegiance? To their king...the angel of the bottomless pit....written of in 9:11 and the king of the 9/11 terrorist attack.
And, they have been here for years...[2:25] And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, My great army which I sent among you. They're here for many years, beginning, I believe, at the fifth trump, but it is only the last five months of this age that they are given great power. It is important to understand that Satan is a servant of God and this IS God's "great army" that He Himself sent.
Revelation 9:1-5 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
9:6-11 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. (9:11) And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
9:6-11 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. (9:11) And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
These "locusts" are men and on their heads are crowns like gold. Biblical "heads" are mountains and mountains represent nations [Rev.17:7-9]. The locust leaders of these nations wear crowns that are "like gold," not the real thing...fake crowns on unholy people. If the crowns represent false leadership then who is the real leader? To whom do they give their allegiance? To their king...the angel of the bottomless pit....written of in 9:11 and the king of the 9/11 terrorist attack.
1:6 For a nation is come up upon My land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
A nation, as used here, is a "swarm of locusts," upon His land. His cheek teeth, his fangs, are as a great lion. Not the lion of the tribe of Judah but...the fake lion, the pretender.
1:7 He hath laid My vine waste, and barked My fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
Barked ~ "snapped, splintered, leaving it bare." Israel (house of Judah and house of Israel) is God's fig tree that has been barked. There are two ways to look at this. The locusts bark the fig tree through their political powers of taxation and control...stripping us financially. The other way is the consideration of the spiritual aspect. The fig tree...His children, His nation are those that are to produce fruit but they are stripped of truth through the deception and workings of the locusts.
The locusts and their deception, twisting of God's truths, are already at work. The fig tree, believers, are covered in leaves...they read the pages (leaves) of His Word and yet that is all...leaves only, no fruit, for they don't have Him, the Spirit of the Word and without Him they will not bear fruit....
11 Thessalonains 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth [will let], until he be taken out of the way.
Matthew 21:18-20 Now in the morning as He returned into the city, He hungered. And when He saw a fig tree in the way, He came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away. And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away!
The locusts and their deception, twisting of God's truths, are already at work. The fig tree, believers, are covered in leaves...they read the pages (leaves) of His Word and yet that is all...leaves only, no fruit, for they don't have Him, the Spirit of the Word and without Him they will not bear fruit....
John 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing.
1:13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of My God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
Gird yourself for battle if you are called and chosen to be priests and ministers. Those that wear sackcloth, mourning clothes, are the two witnesses, the two groups of witnesses for there are many of us and we are being called! Notice the time given in this prophecy...."all night." The night is Satan's time, his great tribulation, and we are to teach, to prophesy, all during this time for truth is being withheld. Deception is being taught. His fig tree is being laid bare.
Revelation 11:3 And I will give power unto My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Continued....
