Fireinfolding
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Great posts on the locusts !
the locusts seem to signify prideful men
thats what I got from it and in Joel 2 the army of God will battle with the locusts out of the pit or darkness / ignorance and the smoke/ self righteouness
Peace . C
Hi C!! Yeah Im sorta seeing it like that when you look at the peices surrounding it all, for instance Paul speaks of a crown (corruptible and incorruptible) the same as the wisdom of men and the wisdom of God (Christ) theres a crown LIKE gold and a crown of PURE gold in scripture also, the locusts are wearing one LIKE gold.
So I was looking at this (letting script lead where it might)
1Cr 9:25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
Then the crown of PRIDE (which goes before "destruction" the interpreted name of the king over the locusts
Isaiah 21:3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
Given the crown is on the "head" or where the MIND is Paul spoke of having humility of MIND, not letting our MINDS be corrupted, or to pull down ever HIGH THING that exalts itself over the knowledge of God.
2Cr 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ
Job 41:34 He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.
Rev 9:11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, (destruction) but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon (destroyer)
Prov 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Lifted up in pride (the devils condemnation)
I believe that humility of MIND to be SOBERMINDED and to gravitate to those of LOW estate speak to the same because the crown of pride seems more like HIGHMINDED and as with Ephraim relates to drunkards (the oppisite of soberminded) and thinks itself of a HIGH estate.
But yeah, the CROWN on the HEAD and the corruption as it pertains to them all as well as THE MIND and the two kinds of "wisdom" as well. Afterall the wisdom from ABOVE is first PURE even as one crown speaks of being PURE gold verses being LIKE gold (of those coming up from BENEATHE).
Just lots of various connections I cant even write them all though I thought it would be fun to do that here.... no one seems into it I guess
Hugs sis
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