a locust is a type of grasshopper that migrates in huge numbers quickly eating the plants in their path, or a hardwood tree with fragrant white flowers.
The 8th plague sent by God on Pharaoh and Egypt. Exodus 10:1-20
Exodus 10:14 And the locust went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
Exodus 10:19 And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
Listed as a clean meat to be eaten.
Leviticus 11:22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
Moses speaking to Israel: Blessings when obeying the Lord, curses when Israel disobeyed the Lord (Deuteronomy 27-28)
Deuteronomy 28:38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
Deuteronomy 28:42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
King Solomon’s prayer for Israel:
1 Kings 8:37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
A reminder to Israel of the Plagues sent upon Egypt (Psalm 78:43-51)
Psalm 78:46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
David’s cry for mercy (Psalm 109:21-26)
Psalm 109:23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
One of the 4 little things on earth that are exceedingly wise:
Proverbs 30:27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
Joel warns Israel of impending judgement.
Joel 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.
But obedience will bring Blessing.
Joel 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.
Remember Leviticus 11:22, Locust were good meat for food.
Matthew 3:4, Mark 1:6 And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
A repeat of the 8th Plague that God sent to Egypt by Moses.
Revelation 9:3 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.
Part of the horrors to occur during the Tribulation.
Revelation 9:7 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.
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