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What Does the Locust Mean in the Bible?
Locust = thoughts that come in swarms and strip the mind bare — small, many, and devouring. Not insects in this book; what a crowd of unchecked thoughts does to you.
How it shows up in the Bible
One locust is nothing. A swarm leaves a field with no green thing in it. That is precisely how a crowd of small unchecked thoughts works on a person: individually harmless, collectively devastating. John eats locusts because he has learned to live on what would strip anyone else.
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