Sounds like Republican primary season to me. You saw the hair on those people -- Trump, Gingrich, Bachmann, Palin, Rick Perry.
@2, locust plagues were pretty much an annual pestilence in the farming regions of the world until less than a hundred years ago. You should see the way people wrote about them on the Plains back before the Depression -- the Fear of God is nothing on comparison. They were truly horrific; miles upon miles of crops obliterated in seconds. People like to talk about how healthful and clean our grandparents' food was compared to today, but in reality it was drenched in arsenic and lead.
Kind of funny that Protestants blindly accepted the Book of Revelation, despite the protests of folks like Martin Luther. News flash: Revelation is nothing more than anti-Roman propaganda-turned-pro-Roman propaganda. The Roman church adopted it 150 years after the other books because it justified the use of violence to suppress the heathen barbarians that threatened Rome in the 4th and 5th century. "Saint" Augustine led the political movement to adopt Revelation into the canon, and then subsequently used it to help support his Just War theory in City of God. Soldiers have been doing God's work ever since...
I have see the Ten Commandments move, and one of the Jesus movies, but filmmakers, listen up! These are the chapters that deserve movies. I'd pay at least 3 dollars to watch a biblical movie made by people who literally believe every word, and think every word deserves 3D (but the popcorn better be good). Will no one draw this creature?
These didn't make it into The Cabin in the Woods. Even with killer clowns, disemboweling unicorns, rampaging robots and face-munching mermaids sharing the screen, they would still look too ridiculous by comparison.
My parents must have missed this part when they were trying to use Revelation to leverage me out of my heathen and childish ways.
Like many Christians they were selective readers.
@2, locust plagues were pretty much an annual pestilence in the farming regions of the world until less than a hundred years ago. You should see the way people wrote about them on the Plains back before the Depression -- the Fear of God is nothing on comparison. They were truly horrific; miles upon miles of crops obliterated in seconds. People like to talk about how healthful and clean our grandparents' food was compared to today, but in reality it was drenched in arsenic and lead.
This is the key phrase that tells us the whole thing is a metaphor for Ansel Herz's slog "locusts", or posts.