Posted on 06/12/2010 11:33:04 AM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta
The worst locust plague in more than two decades is threatening to strike Australia, the world’s fourth-largest wheat exporter, after rainfall boosted egg-laying by the insects in major crop growing regions.
“Bug out!”—Sherman Potter
No the worst plague is right here, right now
in America
ping
Too bad we couldn’t come up with a tasty recipe for those critters.
I’m sure there are sufficient naysayers around to insure that the locusts will have no effect on the wheat crop and no contribution to the looming world famine they insist is nonexistent.
/sar
I’m waiting....
THX THX
Millennial Madness
“Revelation 20 is the ONE AND ONLY place in ALL of Scripture that suggests a thousand year reign of Christ. And it happens to appear in the MOST FIGURATIVE book in all of the Bible.
The thousand year reign of Christ is simply another image for the kingdom of Christ - - and in a book FILLED with non-literal images. All interpreters recognize abundant symbols in Revelation.
Do we not see creatures filled with eyes (Rev 4:6)? Locusts with faces of men, teeth of lions, crowns of gold, and tails like scorpions (9:6)? Lion-headed, scorpion-tailed horses belching fire and smoke (9:17)? Fire breathing prophets (11:5)? A seven-headed red dragon with ten horns and seven crowns who pulls stars down from heaven (12:3-4)? A woman with eagles’s wings standing on the moon (12:14)? A serpent vomiting a river of water (12:15)? The seven-headed beast compounded of four carnivores (13:2)? Frogs coming out of the mouth of a dragon (16:13)? A prostitute riding the seven-headed beast while she is drunk on blood (17:6)? Christ returning with a sword in his mouth and on horse from heaven (19:15)? A city the size of a 1500 mile high cube floating down out of heaven (21:10, 16)?
THIS is the type of book establishing the premillennial construct!
The thousand year reign of Christ is another image for the kingdom of Christ. After all, it is the KINGDOM that is prophesied by the Old Testament prophets; it is the kingdom that is declared by Christ and the Apostles. Neither the Old Testament prophets nor the New Testament apostles speak of a “millennium” (except in the single, debated, figurative passage in Revelation). AND the thousand year reign of Christ is most definitely a “kingdom,” in that Christ “rules and reigns” in it. Why is the millennium not the kingdom prophesied in the OT and declared in the NT? Why not the very kingdom that Christ himself established in the first century?
In fact, this connection is virtually assured by comparing Christ’s teaching in Matthew 12 and John’s in Revelation 20. The “binding” of Satan in Revelation 20 issues forth in the kingdom rule of Christ. But Jesus informs us in the first century that he has ALREADY bound Satan and therefore has ALREADY established his kingdom rule. Indeed, the binding of Satan is the PROOF the kingdom has come: “But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the KINGDOM of God has come upon you. Or how can anyone enter the strong man’s house and carry off his property, unless he first BINDS the strong man? And then he will plunder his house” (Matt. 12:28-29).
And if this is not enough, the very opening verses of Revelation declare the PRESENT rule of Christ with his kingdom of priests. Revelation 20:6 informs us of the millennial rule: “Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.” But Revelation 1:6 informs us: “He HAS MADE us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father; to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.”
The Bible speaks only of a “second” eschatological coming. Hebrews 9:28 says: “So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the SECOND time without sin unto salvation.” In regard to His physical coming to earth, the Bible speaks of His coming again (Acts 1:11), not of His “comings” or His “coming again and again” or of a “third coming.”
And there are various angles whereby we may see that the Bible allows for only one eschatological resurrection at the end of history, a resurrection of both the saved and the lost.
(1) The resurrection is to occur on the last day. “And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day” (John 6:39-40). Christ says the resurrection will be simultaneously of “all who are in the graves” (John 5:28). John’s gospel record is quite clear on this matter (John 6:44, 54; 11:24). The resurrection occurs in conjunction with “the end” and at the “last trump” (1 Cor. 15:23-24, 52).
(2) The Lord’s teaching in the Kingdom Parables demands a general resurrection. “But he said, `No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. `Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn” (Matt. 13:29-30; see also vv. 49-50). If anything this parable teaches that the resurrection of the wicked precedes that of the righteous!
(3) Since there is but one resurrection, there is no resurrection centuries from the end. “There will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust” (Acts 24:15). “The hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation” (John 5:28-29).
(4) The resurrection is that which signals the destruction of death: “But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming. Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be destroyed is death” (1 Cor. 15:23-26). Clearly the “last enemy” is destroyed at “the end,” and both occur in conjunction with the resurrection. ...” Kenneth Gentry
Already a delicacy in Thailand.
As well as other insects.
Many people in Thailand enjoy eating insects as a snack food.
I love maeng da. Very aromatic. The word means gigolo in Thai.
Hank
He eats 'em all the time, when he can get 'em....
Mark
This event hasn't taken place yet, just suspected that it might.
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