After the swarm of locusts devour the people of God there is restoration in the new heaven and earth

Joel 2:25-27

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So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, the consuming locust, and the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you.” Joel 2:25 

The text portrays the swarming locusts as devouring God’s mighty army. This army is composed of those who live for God through Jesus Christ. The locusts symbolize the global culture of the beast that follows the entity that gives them their thoughts, words, actions, and emotions, “It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation.” Revelation 13:7 This verse refers to the beast that is associated with the image and the mark of the beast.

Joel 1:4 refers to the swarming and crawling locusts.

The years of restoration represent our eternal life in the new heaven and earth that will replace the current ones. This inheritance is reserved for those who do not follow the beast, “All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” Revelation 13:8

“You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, who has dealt wondrously with you; And My people shall never be put to shame. Then you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel: I am the Lord your God and there is no other. My people shall never be put to shame.” Joel 2:26-27

A simple way to understand who God’s people are is to say that we are those who come to Jesus Christ. This is quoted in the following scripture:

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name
And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise…
Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham…

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.

…let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’ Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:10-12

And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

John 1:12, Galatians 3:29, Galatians 3:7, Romans 2:28-29, Acts 4:10-12, Matthew 8:11-12

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1