LOCUST PLAGUE BEFORE PASSOVER2013
March 5, 2013: This update brings the past into the present. Appendix A, I include a one-page study sheet from June 11, 2010:“Summary of the Plagues of Ancient Egypt and the Plagues of the Tribulation Period”
Here are excerpts from two recent news articles from The Jerusalem Post:
Egypt Struck by Swarm of Locusts Ahead of Passover
By Hana Levi Julian -- First Publish: 3/3/2013
The locust plague struck over the weekend in the Giza region, home to a cluster of famous pyramids, according to reports in Arab media.
Officials estimated that at least 30 million of the insects have swarmed on to the fields and farms about 15 miles southwest of Cairo. The locust swarm is causing massive damage to agriculture in the area, Alwatan News reported.
Residents were warned not to try to drive away the locusts themselves in order to avoid creating further damage. Instead, “Egyptian armed forces and border guards are attempting to fight the swarm with all means at their disposal,” said Egyptian Agriculture Minister Dr. Salah Abd Al Mamon. In some parts of the Middle East, however, locusts are used for food – and one particular ancient type, known to Yemenite Jews, is actually considered kosher.
Mamon noted the weather forecasters have predicted strong winds are soon to come, which he hopes will take the locusts towards the Red Sea, and Saud Arabia. The department also plans to use crop duster planes to address the infestation.
My Note: They hope the locusts will go towards Saudi Arabia? – …now that’s funny! The timing of the locusts is amazing--Abba is sending a message. The Word shows us that in the tribulation period, all the plagues of Egypt will return. But, this particular one carries a powerful message for us now.
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Israel on alert as locusts cross in from Egypt
By TIA GOLDENBERG | Associated Press – 5 hrs ago
March 4, 2013
JERUSALEM (AP) — A swarm of locusts crossed into Israel from neighboring Egypt Monday, raising fears that Israel could be hit with a biblical plague ahead of the Passover holiday.
Israel sent out planes to spray pesticides over agricultural fields to prevent damage by the small swarm, which numbers about 2,000 locusts, said Dafna Yurista, a spokeswoman for the Agriculture Ministry. The ministry also set up an emergency hotline and asked Israelis to be vigilant in reporting locust sightings.The locust alert comes ahead of the weeklong Passover festival, which recounts the biblical story of the Israelite exodus from Egypt. According to the Bible, a huge swarm of locusts was the eighth of 10 plagues God imposed on Egyptians to persuade Pharoah to free the ancient Hebrews from slavery. Pharaoh did not agree to let them go until after the 10th plague, the death of the first born in every Egyptian family.
This year Passover begins March 25.
Locusts can have a devastating effect on agriculture by quickly stripping crops. Farmers told Israeli media they were worried about a potential onslaught."(The locusts) may not have ruined Pharaoh, but they could ruin us," Tzachi Rimon, a farmer, told Israel's Channel 10 TV.
Yurista said the number of locusts was relatively small, but "just because they aren't many doesn't mean we are ignoring them."
Locusts are known to move with the wind, and the swarm was swept eastwards from Egypt, said Amir Ayali, who heads Tel Aviv University's zoology department, on Channel 10 TV. The last time Israel experienced a major locust outbreak was in 2004.
Egypt's state news agency MENA said more than 17,000 locusts were exterminated in an area spanning more than 84,000 acres.
My note: If the locust don’t have proper passport documentation to cross into Israel, they should be arrested and held for dinner. Maybe John the immerser would like to have them. I know, I see the humorous side of this, but the implications of the return of this particular plague at this time are HUGE! The 10 plagues will all return in full force during the next two years.
Also, refer to the complete study on the plagues, also attached: “The Plagues
on Ancient Egypt, the Future Tribulation Judgments, and The Final Judgment of the Pagan Gods”/June 11,2010
The following excerpt is from the above mentioned study-article of mine on the plagues, which gives the past and future plagues, and shows how Yahuweh punished specific Egyptian gods by the plagues.
***My update March 5, 2013: In reading this excerpt about the locusts plague happening now, take note that it refers to the son of Nimrod/Osiris/Apollyon--who comes up out of the earth and reincarnates, who thinks of himself as god. Watch! He is possibly “the One” who is about to come to Jerusalem six days before rabbinic Passover, March 20-22, 2013, to once again try to force Israel to divide their land, the land given to them by Yahuweh.He has been referred to numerous times as the “sun god”. Egyptians have labeled him “the new world Pharaoh”/2009. Also, as you will read, these locusts are a sign of the coming of the false prophet, the next pope (“Petrus Romanus”) who also is a Beast that comes up out of the earth. (Revelation 9:11 and 13:11-18) Notice the message of Yahuweh!
Regarding the locusts, page 12ff:
The Eighth Plague on Egypt: Locusts Exodus 10:4-19
One Pharaoh of the XIIth Dynasty, Amenemhet, classed a plague of locusts as a calamity similar to a civil war, or to famine resulting from the failure of the Nile. The god Senehem is pictured in ancient Egypt as a locust.
Exodus 10:4-5: “…if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I am
bringing locusts within your borders. And they shall cover the surface of the land, so that no one is able to see the land. And they shall eat the rest of what has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and they shall eat every tree which grows up for you out of the field”.
The literal Hebrewexpression in verse 5 is: “the eye of the earth” is now darkened by the locusts. This is significant in view of the frequent references such as “the eye of Horus”, and the “eye of Amen-Ra”, the sun god. As the locusts darkened the sun’s light, the “eye of the earth” was darkened. The Egyptian version of the pagan sun god, Amen-Ra, was discredited. It is interesting to note that in ancient drawings Amen-Ra is dressed in the same hat and cloak that the Roman Catholic Pope wears, holds the same staff that the Pope carries, and that his garments are covered totally with the ancient fertility symbol of the Tau cross. (Tau is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet and is the T or t. The cross symbol also stands for the name of the first sun god--Tammuz).
It is also interesting that the “eye of Horus” appears above the pyramid on the back of the U.S. dollar bill also.
The Tribulation Plague:
In Revelation 9:1-11, we have a description of the tribulation “locusts”. They
come out of the deepest pit of the earth. Verses 3-5, 11: “And the sun was darkened, also the air, because of the smoke of the pit. And, out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth and authority was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth possess authority. And it was given to them that they shall not harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of Elohim upon their foreheads…their torture was like the torture of a scorpion when it stings a man. And, they have over them a sovereign, the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has he name Apollyon”.
[My insert March 5, 2013: Could the locusts of our day be a spiritual sign of the coming of Apollyon to rule the world? Locusts destroy crops – food – bringing famine. The world is in famine conditions now. The very word “Apollyon” or “apolia” in II Thessalonians 2:3, in describing the first Beast of Revelation 12, means “destroyer”. Think about that! Is this plague announcing some One – the destroyer, the son of Lucifer, the reincarnated Nimrod?]
The verses in between may describe modern warfare equipment--helicopters for example. The sting could be from some modern technology. These locusts are not like the locusts in Egypt--they don’t eat green things. They could also be demons. Demons have been known to literally sting people, producing welts on their bodies, to the point where they want to die. But, in this tribulation plague, Yahuweh makes sure that no one can die, even if they want to. The tribulation “locusts” are designed to torment those who have taken “the mark of the beast”, for five months. Only those marked by Yahuweh, because of their allegiance to Him, are saved from this torment.
What modern gods are discredited by the stinging locusts of the tribulation?
The “god-man” is discredited! He cannot even control his own death. He
gnaws his tongue in pain, and cannot control anything. (Revelation 16:10-11)
The belief that man is god, from the Garden of Eden, is exposed as a hoax. All of man’s Gnostic dreams from Lucifer’s tree of the knowledge (gnosis) of good and evil, to produce a world of his making, to rule with power and wealth, is destroyed totally. The great “Arian” race, which he has tried to invent, is now reduced to survival at best. All of man’s knowledge in the sciences and medicine is useless. Yahuweh is in control, and no man can do anything about it. His gods and idols--Lucifer, power, wealth, his pagan gods of nature, his belief in his own self as god, is gone forever. Isaiah 2:7-22 is a powerful picture of how Yahuweh humbles the loftiness of man. Verse 17: “And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the pride of men shall be brought low. And Yahuweh alone shall be exalted in that day”.
AMEN, AMEN!!!
Yedidah, March 5, 2013
APPENDIX A:
Summary of the Plagues of Ancient Egypt
and the Plagues of the Tribulation Period
Exodus 12:12: “Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute Judgment! I am Yahuweh!”
EGYPT PLAGUES TRIBULATION
Exodus 7:18 -21 Water turning to blood-- Revelation 8:8-9; 16:3-4
Psalm 78:3-4 defilement--and fish dying Revelation 16:3, 6; 8:9
Psalm 105:27
Exodus 8:1-14 Frogs Revelation 16:13-14
Psalm 78:45
Psalm 105:30
Exodus 8:16-19 “Lice”: stinging, fastening Deuteronomy 14:19
Psalm 105:31b gnats (insects) on man and beasts Revelation 6:8
bringing pain and defilement Revelation 9:5-6
of the blood
Exodus 8:21-24 Flies: swarming, biting insects Revelation 6:8
Psalm 78:45 of all types, bringing disease Ezekiel 14:15-16
Psalm 105:31a and defilement of the blood
Exodus 9:2-6 “Murrain”: pestilence on livestock Revelation 6:8
Exodus 9:8-15 Boils Revelation 16:2, 11
Exodus 9:18-34 Hail mingled with fire-- Revelation 6:5-6
Psalm 78:47-49 destruction of crops and Revelation 8:7
Psalm 105:32-33 livestock in the fields, trees Revelation 16:21
and all green things
Exodus 10:13-19 Locusts Revelation 9:3
Psalm 78:56 Joel 1:4; 2:35
Psalm 105:34-35
Exodus 10:21-23 Darkness Revelation 8:12; 9:2;
Psalm 105:28 16:32; Joel 2:30-31
Exodus 11:5: 12:12 Sinners die Revelation 6:8; 9:15, 18
Psalm 78:50-51 in judgment Zechariah 13:8-9, 14:12
Psalm 105:36