Blog note. Jesus indicated that ‘fearful sights’ (various natural disasters) would occur leading up to the time known as the Tribulation and Great Tribulation (a combined seven year period of great destruction on earth). Although these types of things have occurred in the past for centuries and thousands of years, they could be identified as the ‘season of the times’ due to the ferociousness of these events. They would be occurring in greater intensity, severity, frequency, size, duration, scope … just like the pains that a woman experiences in labor the farther along she is in the labor process. We are in the ‘season of the times’ that comes just before the seven (7) year Tribulation/Great Tribulation period

… And great earthquakes shall be in diverse places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. (Luke 21:11).

… And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; (Luke 21:25)

… Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken; (Luke 21:26)

… This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. (2 Timothy 3:1)
Jesus is giving a series of prophecies about what to look for as the age of grace comes to a close. These verses are several of many such prophecies from throughout the Bible. 2017 was the worst year in recorded history for the intensity, frequency, severity, duration and occurrence of a large number of severe natural disasters worldwide. Earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones, torrential flooding, unprecedented wildfires in unusual places, devastating droughts, excessive/scorching heat setting records everywhere, record snowfalls in Europe and Russia. Snow in the Arabia. This list can go on. Most studied Eschatologists believe these ‘fearful sights’ and massive natural disasters are all part of the ‘CONVERGENCE’ of signs that this Biblical and prophetic age is closing. Most people who study prophecy are familiar with the routine reference(s) made that these things will be like a woman having labor.

Bible-like plague: ‘Billions’ of locusts in swarms the size of cities ‘eating everything in sight.’ Could get ‘500 (5) times’ worse creating horrific famine.

By WND Staff Published January 29, 2020

Billions of locusts, in swarms the size of cities, are eating “everything in sight” in East Africa, and experts fear the plague could get “500 times” worse.

The ZeroHedge blog reported “ravenous locust swarms that are ‘the size of cities’ are consuming crops at a staggering pace, and this could potentially cause famine on the African continent that is unlike anything we have ever seen before.”

Al Jazeera previously reported locusts “dense clouds of the ravenous insects, each of which consumes its own weight in food every day” that have spread from Ethiopia and Somalia into Kenya.

“The U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization estimated one swarm in Kenya at around 2,400 square kilometers (about 930 square miles) – an area almost the size of Moscow – meaning it could contain up to 200 billion locusts,” the report said.

It’s being described as the biggest locust invasion in Ethiopia and Somalia in 25 years.

“Even cows are wondering what is happening,” Ndunda Makanga of Kenya said in the Al Jazeera report. “Corn, sorghum, cowpeas, they have eaten everything.”

The threat hasn’t diminished.

“If unchecked, locust numbers could increase 500 times by June, spreading to Uganda and South Sudan, becoming a plague that will devastate crops and pasture in a region which is already one of the poorest and most vulnerable in the world,” the report said.

The plague followed a drought in 2019 that later turned into “one of the wettest rainy seasons in four decades.” Floods killed hundreds.

“We must act immediately and at scale to combat and contain this invasion. As the rains start in March there will be a new wave of locust breeding. Now is, therefore, the best time to control the swarms and safeguard people’s livelihoods and food security, and avert further worsening of the food crisis,” David Phiri, FAO subregional coordinator for Eastern Africa, said in the report.

The Economic Collapse blog said, “It would be hard to overstate what this is going to mean for the region.”

Food supplies are threatened.

“We have seen starvation in Africa before. In fact, there was a time when our airwaves were filled with images of starving African children,” the report said. “But if this plague continues to get even worse, the stage is being set for a famine that is far greater than anything that any of us have ever witnessed.”

The blog reported Save the Children’s regional director for East and Southern Africa, Ian Vale, said in a statement that his staff in Kenya is battling swarms so thick they can barely see through them.

“The impact on crops and pastureland will be severe. We are very concerned that this will place vulnerable children even closer to the brink of starvation,” he reported.

Aerial spraying is being done, but the African nations have only a few aircraft capable of providing that service, the reports said.