{"id":24798,"date":"2024-02-09T15:05:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T23:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=24798"},"modified":"2024-02-09T15:05:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T23:05:34","slug":"locusts-swarm-skies-of-mexico-leaving-people-fearing-the-world-is-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/locusts-swarm-skies-of-mexico-leaving-people-fearing-the-world-is-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"Locusts swarm skies of Mexico leaving people fearing the world is ending"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was on a cool Tuesday afternoon that the residents of Sinanch\u00e9, a small town in southeastern\u00a0Mexico<\/a>, first heard the hissing.<\/p>\n

Looking out their windows, the\u00a0leaves of the fruit trees in their back gardens had been licked clean<\/a>, while chewed-on lemons, oranges and hoya covered the grass.<\/p>\n

But not a single one of Sinanch\u00e9\u2019s some 3,100 residents had to look far for the culprit \u2013\u00a0or culprits, rather<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All they had to do was look up.<\/p>\n

Miles-long clouds of locusts have been blanketing the skies above the state of Yucat\u00e1n this week, flying through shopping plazas, smacking into the windows of apartment complexes and gobbling up anything green in local parks.<\/p>\n

Social media users and the Mexican press both asked the same question: Is this a sign the world is coming to an end?<\/p>\n

In Exodus,\u00a0locusts were the eighth of 10 plagues sent to carpet Egypt.<\/p>\n

One\u00a0regional outlet<\/a>\u00a0even quoted the Book of Revelation 9:3, which reads: \u2018And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.<\/p>\n

\u2018And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.\u2019<\/p>\n

Except these locusts certainly have certainly hurt any and every green thing in sight.<\/p>\n

Farmers have said the blizzard of bugs has nibbled on their cornfields in the middle of harvest, though officials say the swarm will unlikely lead to any major losses to the agriculture sector.<\/p>\n

Some farmers have tried to douse crops with pesticides in a bid to kill the insects.<\/p>\n

With not enough vegetation to go around, the famished swarms have buzzed into urban areas to eat trees, bushes and flowers.<\/p>\n

Read more at: metro.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was on a cool Tuesday afternoon that the residents of Sinanch\u00e9, a small town in southeastern\u00a0Mexico, first heard the hissing. Looking out their windows, the\u00a0leaves of the fruit trees in their back gardens had been licked clean, while chewed-on lemons, oranges and hoya covered the grass. But not a single one of Sinanch\u00e9\u2019s some … Continue reading Locusts swarm skies of Mexico leaving people fearing the world is ending<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6rY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24799,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24798\/revisions\/24799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}