There were often times that Israel was made to congregate and assmeble before God for different purposes (feasts, worship, sacrififce, repentance, etc.) (See Lev. Scarcity of food resulting from the swarm's attack would bring the population to subsistence intake or less, would make the spread of disease among a weakened populace easier, would eliminate any trade from surplus food products, and would stimulate high inflation in the costs of food products.'*Accessed online at Such outbreaks had serious consequences for the health and mortality of an affected population and for a region's economy. It is difficult for modern Western people to appreciate the dire threat represented by a locust plague in earlier periods. 'For example, in 1988 the civil war in Chad prevented international cooperation in attacking the hatch, and a destructive swarm spread throughout North Africa devastating some of the poorest nations and threatening Europe as well.

Joel 2:25Raymond Dillard*, in his commentary on Joel, tells of the indestructible and destructive nature of locusts. Joel 1:4“I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten- the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm-my great army that I sent among you. 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. 14:3*Megiddo is beleived to be the location for the battle of Armageddon (see Rev. 4 On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem Zec. 12:10-11Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights on a day of battle. On that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be as great as the weeping of Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.* Zec. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son. 9:9-13'And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. His rule will extend from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth.As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you. Zechariah exemplies the Messiah's first and second coming.Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem!See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious,lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.I will take away the chariots from Ephraim and the warhorses from Jerusalem, and the battle bow will be broken.He will proclaim peace to the nations.

Jewish Apocalyptic literature often depicted a Mesisanic Figure who would redeeem Israel and bring judgment on the world.

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