The Locusts of Revelation 9 - Detail Given in Book of Joel
Joel 1:2-7
2 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?
3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
God asks if this event has happened yet, and tell your children, and your children's children about it until the generation comes that it will happen to.
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.
Four different species of locusts are the intent there. What one type doesn't eat, the next type takes over, and then the next type, and then the next type. It represents a complete consumption. But God is only using those locusts to represent something else which He reveals in verse 6 below.
5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
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.
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.
KJV
In Rev.9 we were shown the locusts there having the teeth of lions. This is where our Lord Jesus was pulling that symbol from. It's not about real natural locusts, it's about A NATION, a certain people at the end. And they symbolically lay the vine of God's people to waste, remove the bark off their fig tree making it clean bare, and make its branches white. Even the "new wine" is cut off from God's people by those locusts which represent a certain people, a NATION.
How does that apply in reality for the end upon God's people?
What did Jesus mean that you don't put 'new wine' into old bottles lest they break? The "new wine" represents an understanding in God's Word that one must put in new bottles (or new wine skins) so that It has room to expand. That is cut off for the majority by these locusts at the end, and it's even shown by how men's doctrines today plant confusion into the mind so as to get even this simple locust symbol God uses with their instead thinking it's about literal locust monsters, or military helicopters for the end.
Joel 1:10-16
10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
This is not simply about the nation state of Israel either. God's people today make up both God's concept of spiritual Israel, and the seed of Israel, of which both are scattered among all nations today. So is this happening upon all nations today by these locust controls over the earth? You bet it is. It's about literal takeover of the whole world by this certain people God calls "a nation". (If you don't understand how God's land includes the historical western Christian nations and their allied Christian territories in other parts of the world, then you've got a lot of Bible history to catch up on.)
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.
14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
The Scripture is saying basically to pray... to God about this sad situation upon His people.
15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
KJV
Just to let us know what timing this is for, the "day of the Lord" is what will END this sad state of the locusts upon His people. The above destruction so far here is by those locusts first, then comes the "day of the Lord" destruction by God's Hand on the final day of this world.
Joel 2:1-10
2:1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in My holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
The day of the Lord has not come yet at this point in the Scripture. God is only warning that it is soon to come at this point. He's going to describe more detail of what the locusts are going to do first before the "day of the Lord" comes upon them.
2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
There's those locusts again, as "a great people and a strong" this time. So it's not about real locusts, it's about a certain people on the earth working against God's people like how real locusts do, stripping us of our resources and wealth blessings from The LORD. It aligns with the time in Daniel when we were told about the power of the holy people being overcome by the wicked in the last days.
3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
They reap the wealth and control over God's people like a fire entering into a land paradise that leaves it like a desert when they've left.
4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.
Here's another one of the Rev.9 symbols our Lord used for this locust army. They're like horsemen running to battle.
5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
Here's more of the Rev.9 metaphors our Lord Jesus used for the locust army. It doesn't mean these locusts are literal military armies. It means that's how complete they work and get control over God's people at the end, and over all their wealth. This is about the world globalist controllers of today, joining together to get control over all nation's governments and wealth.
6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:
The idea here, nothing can stop them, except our Lord Jesus Himself, when He comes. Their control over all peoples and nations will be a complete control.
8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
There is how we know the locust army is NOT about a literal military army. When a real soldier falls upon a sword it DOES wound them. So you know by their not being wounded that means this is not about a literal military army. God is only using the idea of how an army works, taking by force, for HOW these locusts work upon His people for the end.
9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
What enters your home's windows like a thief? All the garbage ideas coming from the world controllers who try to brainwash you and your family. TV, media, music, magazines, all those kind of things they use to push their propaganda against Christ and His people.
10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
11 And the LORD shall utter His voice before His army: for His camp is very great: for He is strong that executeth His word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
KJV
When this happens, it means Christ Jesus coming with His great army to defeat this locust army, on "the day of the Lord", the final day of this world. Don't confuse Christ's army with the locust working, for the locust working is prior... to that "day of the Lord" timing on the final day when our Lord Jesus returns.
Joel 2:17-21
17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, "Spare Thy people, O LORD, and give not Thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, 'Where is their God?'"
When the locusts get total control, this is especially what we should be praying, asking our Heavenly Father and His Son to save us.
18 Then will the LORD be jealous for His land, and pity His people.
19 Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto His people, "Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.
21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.
KJV
If you studied the Book of Ezekiel, then you should know who that "northern army" represents, and what timing that is for. It's about the final battle of Armageddon. God gave us a list of nations involved in that "northern army" that comes upon Israel for the last day of this world when Christ will step in and destroy that northern army coming out of the northern quarters (see Ezek.38 & 39).
Joel 2:24-27
24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
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.
26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, That hath dealt wondrously with you: and My people shall never be ashamed.
27 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and My people shall never be ashamed.
KJV
In that 25th verse, God calls the locust army, "My great army which I sent among you". He says He will restore to His people what they ate up. The big lesson in that is, that God is even in control of that locust army He sends upon the earth in the last days over His people to steal their wealth and blessings and subdue. It is not Christ's army from Heaven that some here have it confused with. That locust army has Satan as its commander in chief, with God only using it for the end.
When all that from Joel is put together when studying Rev.9 more closely, the theme is NOT all out chaos and literal war by a military army. It's about a certain NATION, a certain people on this earth taking control over all nations and peoples on the earth, including their wealth and resources. It's about the beast kingdom working of Rev.13 when the "dragon" is given power over God's people, and over all nations for 42 months (tribulation time). This is why Christ showed us in Rev.9 that the locusts are not allowed to hurt any green thing on earth, but only sting those NOT sealed for five months. And then even when the 6th Trumpet - 2nd Woe period comes, their working is LIKE an army, but their power is in their 'mouths', meaning the killing they will do is BY what comes out of their MOUTHS. And what is that friends? It's WORDS that cause deception, and to the destroying of one's soul, because that is about the tribulation time which is to be one of the worse times in man's history on the earth of falling away to false worship of the coming false messiah/Antichrist.
