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.

‘A Measure of Wheat for a Penny’: Fields of grain gone in ’30 seconds.’ Locust plague in Africa being described in biblical proportions. Beginning of Sorrows.

By WND Staff Published February 14, 2020 at 6:47pm

Hollywood gave a movie about stealing cars, starring actor Nicolas Cage and Angelina Jolie, the title “Gone in 60 Seconds.”

And it’s fact that car thieves can get away with a car in that time, under many circumstances.

But Hollywood has nothing on the locusts infesting vast swaths of African cropland now, because they can make a field of food disappear in 30 seconds.

It is the CBC that described the alarm expressed by the United Nations about the locusts swarms that “are so bad in some parts of Kenya that entire fields of crops are being devoured in as little as 30 seconds.”

Just a week ago, there were no locusts in some areas of eastern Kenya, including Kitui County.

“Now, entire farms have been destroyed,” the report said.

Moses Omondi, of the organization called Farm Radio that works to bring news to agricultural interests in that part of the world, was interviewed by the CBC.

He warned of the potential for catastrophe.

“Today one farmer [told me] all of his crops have already been consumed. He is affected psychologically to the extent of telling me that, ‘If worst comes to worst, I can even commit suicide.’ The reason being, this is the source of his income. He’s been taking his kid to school using farm produce. He’s been paying bills using farm produce. So according to him, he [says], ‘Moses, if this continues — if the government is not coming to act — then I’m thinking of committing suicide,'” he reported.

The farmers are desperate, and have been blowing whistles, pressing motorbike horns, shooting guns and shouting to try to scare the locusts away, he said.

The Express in the U.K. noted biblical scholar Melvin Sandelin has pointed to prophecies about the end times.

“See that you are not troubled, these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilence and earthquakes in various places,” he quoted.

That report cited locust swarms “as big as a major city” that were “wreaking havoc in Africa and experts say it could grow 400 times the size by June, spreading to Uganda, South Sudan and further North, threatening the Middle East.”

The report continued, “The popular Christian novelist Joel Rosenberg, who in recent years has led trips of evangelical leaders to meet with leaders in the Middle East, said that while he is cautious about saying that prophecies from the Bible are unfolding right now, he takes those forecasts from the Old and New Testaments seriously.”

WND previously reported that the U.N. was warning that the impacted regions of Africa “cannot afford another major shock.”

Earlier, the AP had reported swarms of billions of insects are destroying crops in Kenya, the country’s worst outbreak in 70 years. Somalia and Ethiopia also are are experiencing the same problem.

“There is the risk of a catastrophe,” U.N. humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock said in New York at a briefing at the time.

Lowcock said Monday that 13 million people already face severe food insecurity, with 10 million of them in places affected by locusts.

A medium-size swarm of locusts “in one day can eat the same amount of food as everybody here in the tri-state area, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York,” said Keith Cressman, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization’s senior locust forecasting officer

“So not taking action in time — you can see the consequences,” he said, according to AP.

It could get a whole lot worse, the U.N. officials said, if immediate action isn’t taken before more rainfall provides more vegetation for new generations of locusts.

Five-hundred times worse, they warned, if unchecked before the dry weather comes.