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Locust Army and Their Stages
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Joel 1:2-4
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.
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.
In this study
we are going to look at the difference between the Locust army in the
5th trump and the 6th trump.
Revelation 9:1-12
1 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.
2 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.
3 And there came out of the smoke LOCUSTS (Arbeh, Arab`s, Joel 1 verse
4) upon the earth: and unto them was given power,
as the SCORPIONS of the earth have power.
Locust
Strong’s Concordance Hebrew Dictionary
697
'arbeh (ar-beh'); from OT:7235; a locust
(from its rapid increase):
KJV - grasshopper, locust.
From primitive root
7235
rabah (raw-baw'); a primitive root; to
increase (in whatever respect):
KJV - [bring in] abundance (X -antly),
archer [by mistake for OT:7232], be in authority, bring up,
continue, enlarge, excel, exceeding (-ly), be full of, (be, make)
great (-er, -ly, -ness), grow up, heap, increase, be long, (be,
give, have, make, use) many (a time), (any, be, give, give the, have)
more (in number), (ask, be, be so, gather, over, take, yield) much
(greater, more), (make to) multiply, nourish, plenty (-eous),
process [of time], sore, store, thoroughly, very.
4 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.
5 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.
6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and
shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
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,
(crowns= turban`s, Arab`s) and their faces were as the faces of MEN
(because they are men)
8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the
teeth of lions.
9 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.
10 And they had tails like unto SCORPIONS, and there were stings in
their tails: and their power was to HURT MEN FIVE MONTHS.
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.
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
Joel 1:6
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.
Joel 2:4
4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as
horsemen, so shall they run.
Habakkuk 1:8
8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce
than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves,
and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle
that hasteth to eat.
Joel 2:7 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:
Joel 2:25
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.
So we see here that God is in control of
the LOCUST ARMY because God sent them.
The four stages of the locusts are:
Gnawer`s remnant,
Swarmer eats:
Swarmer`s remnant,
Devourer eats;
(these last stages are when the fallen angels (supernatural) join the
men (Arbeh, Arab`s)
Devourer`s remnant
Consumer
eats.
So we see that in the 5th trump, the Locust army are (Arbeh, Arab`s)
men and they were to hurt men 5 months.
Image from Book of Joel, Companion Bible
side notes
Recommended study: Swarmers PO 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_dQBhngxhk
Now
lets go to the 6th trump, this has a direct tie into the KINGS
OF THE EAST.
Revelation 9:13-19
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four
horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four
angels which are BOUND in the great river EUPHRATES.
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour,
and a day, and a month, and a year, for to SLAY the third part of men.
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred
thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them,
having BREASTPLATES OF FIRE, AND OF JACINTH, AND BRIMSTONE; (different
ones then the 5th trump): and the heads of the horses were as the
heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued FIRE and SMOKE and
BRIMSTONE. (these are supernatural).
18 By these THREE was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and
by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their
tails were like unto SERPENTS, and had heads, and with them they do
hurt.
2 Corinthians 11:14-15
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of
light.
15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed
as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to
their works.
Revelation 16:12-14
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river
EUPHRATES; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the
kings of the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of
the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of
the false prophet.
14 For they are the spirits of devils, (Demons) working miracles,
which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to
gather them to the BATTLE OF THAT GREAT DAY OF GOD ALMIGHTY.
So we see that the Locust Army of the 5th
trump are MEN and in the 6th trump the locust army are men and fallen
angels that make up the locust army.
Recommended study: Kings of the East
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