The Year of the Locust
In 1951, this article was published in the prestigious Time Magazine: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,814700,00.html . The bugs had come to the Middle East. In September, 2000, Australians were watching their own horizons with dismay. The conditions were ideal for an invasions "of biblical proportions" of their own local variety of locusts. But no invasion in recorded history has been as devastating as what occurred in 1875 in the north-central United States: http://www.hearthstonelegacy.com/when-the-skies-turned-to-black-the_locust-plague-of-1875.htm . When I read the book of Joel, and coincidentally, Revelation 9, which happened to be the New Testament portion of my devotional reading for today, locusts were the featured protagonists. Along with the picture you see to the right, in itself enough to give most of us the hebbie jebbies, came an interesting devotional thought about the benefits of locusts which gives an interesting sidebar to what Joel...