AN INVASION OF LOCUSTS

Joel 1:1-14

The word of the Lord that came to Joel son of Pethuel.

2 Hear this, you elders; listen, all who lie in the land.

Has anything like this ever happened in your days

Or in the days of your forefathers?

3 Tell it to your children,

And let your children tell it to their children,

And their children to the next generation.

4 WHAT THE LOCUST SWARM HAS LEFT

The great locusts have eaten;

What the great locusts have left

The young locusts have eaten;

What the young locusts have left

Other locusts have eaten.

5 WAKE UP YOU DRUNKARDS, AND WEEP!

Wail, all you drinkers of wine; wail because of the wine,

For it has been snatched from your lips.

6 A NATION HAS INVADED MY LAND,

POWERFUL AND WITHOUT NUMBER;

It has the teeth of a lion,

The fangs of a lioness.

7 It has laid waste my vines

And ruined my fig trees.

It has stripped off their bark

And thrown it away,

Leaving their branches white.

8 MOURN LIKE A VIRGIN IN SACKCLOTH

GRIEVING FOR THE HUSBAND OF HER YOUTH.

9 Grain offerings and drink offerings

Are cut off from the House of the Lord.

The Priests are in Mourning

Those who minister before the Lord.

10 THE FIELDS ARE RUINED,

THE GROUND IS DRIED UP;

The grain is destroyed

The new wine is dried up, the oil fails.

11 Despair, you farmers,

Wail, you vine growers;

Grieve for the wheat and the barley,

Because the harvest of the field is destroyed.

12 The vine is dried up and the fig tree is withered;

The pomegranate, the palm and the apple tree--

All the trees of the field—are dried up.

SURELY THE JOY OF MANKIND

IS WITHERED AWAY

(Joel 1:1-14)

[This is a picture of The Time of The END

And its devastation.]