Revelation 9:10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. 

There is no escape from the ferocious locusts swiftly swamping the earth to cause hurt for 5 months.

In recently months, the locust plagues are causing great famine and devastation to large areas of land mass from Africa, to India and Pakistan and more recently reaching China.

A Living Nightmare: Defeating the Locust Plague of 2020

They are unpredictable. There is no real warning. But when they invade, they descend as an army of billions. In the darkness, the vicious predators feast on anything green, and within hours, any vegetation in its path is gone. This apocalyptic image is not a bad dream, but the current reality: A worldwide locust upsurge is hitting countries around the globe with East Africa and the Horn of Africa seeing the worst outbreak in decades – destroying hectares of farmland and putting millions at risk of hunger and famine.

Ravenous locust swarm clouds more than three times the size of New York City descended in northeast Kenya, which is battling its worst infestation in 70 years. In the Wachile region of Ethiopia, locust swarms forced more than 15,000 people to evacuate their homes in May. Swarms travelling from Pakistan into India made their way to the northern states for the first time since 1962. Alerts were issued in South America in late June as a 9 mile² swarm that entered Argentina from Paraguay headed towards Uruguay. Swarms continue to form in Yemen with breeding likely to prevail throughout August and extend to the Red Sea Coastal plains. Amid the COVID-19 crisis, farmers in some of the world’s most impoverished regions are fighting to stop locusts from decimating vital crops and grazing pastures and leaving vast populations food insecure. Without immediate action, in East Africa 4.9 million people could face starvation this summer. Pius Nyagah Muchenge, a Kenyan farmer hit by the upsurge, explains, I fear for my family and my community. Not having food because the crop was damaged by locusts, not having ready food to buy because of the same reason, and not having the money to buy if itis available is our greatest nightmare for now.

The situation is dire, but this isn’t a new problem: locusts are the oldest migratory pest in the world. Plagues of locusts are recorded as early as the Pharaonic times of ancient Egypt with perhaps the most famous reference in the Old Testament’s Book of Exodus. The largest plague in U.S. history was recorded in 1875 when a swarm of trillions of the now extinct “Rocky Mountain Locusts” measuring 1,800 miles long and 110 miles wide flew over the Midwest. Notable recent infestations include the outbreaks of 2003-05 in West Africa, 2013 in Madagascar, 2015 in Russia, 2016 in Argentina and 2019 in the Italian islands of Sardinia. [https://www.magazine.bayer.com/en/a-living-nightmare-defeating-the-locust-plague-of-2020.aspx]

At least, they do not attack men though causing menace by destroying crops causing famines. Until now, there is no known human solution against the locust plague. Much lest the calamity that will befall man as described in our text.

Their tails are like the scorpion’s sting capable of inflicting excruciating pain.

May God be merciful. Let these men be turned to God. Amen.