Shalom brothers and sisters,
Grace and peace to you in the name of YAHUAH.
What I’m about to share is not meant to scare or overwhelm you, but to cautiously bring awareness to something urgent we need to pay attention to in this hour.
Today I bring you a timely message titled:
Can I ask you something? When was the last time you felt spiritually full? Not just busy or entertained, but truly overflowing with the presence of YAHUAH?
If I’m honest with myself, I believe I would say, “It’s been a while.” There’s a dryness beginning to settle in. Joy is withering. Prayer feels heavy. The fire that once burned brightly in my prayer closet, my worship, and love for the Word feels dim at times.
If that’s you, hear this: You are not alone. You are not crazy. The Word of YAHUAH spoke of this very reality through the prophet Joel.
THE CRISIS JOEL REVEALS (Joel 1:1-12)
Joel ministered during a time of total devastation; not one swarm of locusts, but four.
Jol 1:4 “What the gnawing locust left the swarming locust has eaten, and what the swarming locust left the crawling locust has eaten, and what the crawling locust left the consuming locust has eaten.”
Wave after wave. Crops destroyed. No grain meant no bread. No vine meant no wine. No oil meant no light. Even Temple worship stopped.
When Joel says “the new wine has failed,” he’s pointing to more than literal drink. In Hebrew, châdâsh yayin (new wine) symbolizes joy, blessing, and YAHUAH’s favor. Its failure meant the nation’s joy had withered.
Yet through this natural disaster, YAHUAH painted a picture of a deeper spiritual reality.
THE LOCUSTS IN OUR DAY
When you read Joel chapter
Jol 1:6 “For a nation has come up against My land, strong, and innumerable. Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it has the fangs of a lioness.”
This was more than insects. It was judgment. An invasion.
I believe we can see similar locusts in our generation; eating away at the new wine. Here are four major areas:
1. Environmental/Biological locusts:
We see fields parched by excessive drought where crops should grow. The National Weather Service and forecasters are warning of "flash droughts" across the West right now, and conditions are severe. I don't know if you're aware of this, but Lake Mead and the Hoover Dam are struggling at critically low levels, threatening hydroelectric power for millions in the region. Above us, our skies are being manipulated through geoengineering programs, sprayed to block the sun, to manipulate weather patterns and what falls from those operations lands on us, our animals, and our crops.
We see fields parched by excessive drought where crops should grow. The National Weather Service and forecasters are warning of "flash droughts" across the West right now, and conditions are severe. I don't know if you're aware of this, but Lake Mead and the Hoover Dam are struggling at critically low levels, threatening hydroelectric power for millions in the region. Above us, our skies are being manipulated through geoengineering programs, sprayed to block the sun, to manipulate weather patterns and what falls from those operations lands on us, our animals, and our crops.
In other places, communities are being drowned by record rains that the soil cannot absorb, with some areas getting a year's worth of rain in just a few days. At the same time, we're witnessing the rise of pests like ticks carrying Lyme disease, Alpha-gal syndrome, and other new threats creeping into homes, homesteads, and farming communities where they were never seen before. It's shocking and consuming. Farmers are calling it ruin.
Creation is groaning (Romans 8:22). These are birth pains (Matthew 24:8). The vine and fig tree of our age are being laid waste.
2. Economic Locusts
Empty shelves. Fractured supply chains. Rising costs for food and fuel.
This echoes Revelation:
Rev 6:6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A measure of wheat for a denarius, and three measures of barley for a denarius. And do not harm the oil and the wine.”
A denarius was a day’s wage for a common laborer. One day’s work for barely enough to feed one person.
3. Technological locusts:
Systems of surveillance expanding. Cameras, data, facial recognition. Public authorities press into private lives in ways our fathers never imagined. Privacy is stripped bare like the vine in Joel’s day. The draw of AI and the destructiveness it causes, job loss, spiritual replacement even deaths.
Systems of surveillance expanding. Cameras, data, facial recognition. Public authorities press into private lives in ways our fathers never imagined. Privacy is stripped bare like the vine in Joel’s day. The draw of AI and the destructiveness it causes, job loss, spiritual replacement even deaths.
4. Financial Locusts
The push toward digital currencies and centralized control. Revelation 13 warns clearly about who will control the ability to buy and sell.
While a denarius once bought a day’s bread, today we see a deeper scarcity spreading.
Not just of wheat and barley, but of truth, righteousness, and the fear of YAH.
Spiritual invaders are creeping in through the broken windows of our society, our homes, and our hearts: sin, fear, compromise, materialism, and unclean spirits…exactly as Joel warned:
Jol 2:9 “They rush on the city, they run on the wall. They climb into the houses, they enter at the windows like a thief.”
They are snuffing out the lamp of YAH in our midst. The new wine is failing… and it will progress even more unless we respond.
THE SHOFAR: ARE WE HEARING THE ALARM?
Yet in the middle of it all, the shofar is sounding.
Jol 2:1 Blow a shophar in Tsiyon, and sound an alarm in My set-apart mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the earth tremble, for the day of יהוה is coming, for it is near:
This shofar was never just music. It was the ancient air-raid siren: “Wake up! The enemy is at the gate!”
Joel describes an advancing unstoppable army, leaving desolation behind. I believe we are living in the tension between Joel 1 and Joel 2. The warnings are loud: through droughts and floods, shortages and surveillance, a world accelerating toward unprecedented times, and most of all…the absence of truth, righteousness, and the fear of YAH.
Can you hear it?
Do you see it?
Do you feel the urgency in your spirit?
Or have we become so numb to the alarm that we roll over and keep sleeping?
This is why Joel’s next words carry such mercy.
REND OUR HEARTS (Joel 2:12-14)
After describing total devastation, YAHUAH speaks some of the most hopeful words in Scripture:
Jol 2:12 “Yet even now,” declares יהוה, “turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”
Even now , after the locusts, after the failure, after the compromise; mercy is still extended.
YAHUAH is not impressed with torn garments or outward religious shows. He wants something deeper:
YAHUAH is not impressed with torn garments or outward religious shows. He wants something deeper:
Jol 2:13 “And tear your heart and not your garments, and turn back to יהוה your Elohim, for He shows favour and is compassionate, patient, and of great loving-commitment, and He shall relent concerning the evil.”
What does it mean to “tear your heart”?
It means raw, gut-level honesty before Elohim and no more hiding. It means refusing to wait for the world to change before you do.
Tearing your heart is also rejecting surface-level understandings of scripture. It is a full, unreserved return to YAHUAH with a broken and contrite spirit that He has promised not to despise (Psalm 51:17).
Lay down the distractions, not just obvious sins, but the subtle ones: anxiety over the news, trading privacy for convenience, and numbing the dryness with empty activity instead of seeking His face.
The call is clear: Ask. Seek. Knock. Return actively to YAHUAH and Yahusha HaMashiach.
THE PROMISE: RESTORATION & OUTPOURING (Joel 2:18-32)
When we return, YAHUAH responds with power:
Jol 2:18 “And let יהוה be jealous for His land, and spare His people.”
Jol 2:25 “Then I shall repay you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, and the consuming locust, and the gnawing locust, My great army which I sent among you.”
Only YAHUAH can restore years, the time anxiety stole, the joy compromise ate, and the peace fear devoured.
And then the greatest promise:
Jol 2:28 “And after this it shall be that I pour out My Spirit on all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men dream dreams, your young men see visions.”
We see that this actually began in Acts 2, but it is not finished. Fresh outpourings await those who rend their hearts.
CLOSING
1. Recognize and name the locusts eating your new wine.
2. Rend your heart in sincere repentance, not a show, but a surrender.
3. Return fully to YAHUAH through Yahusha HaMashiach, He is the Door.
4. Believe His promise of restoration, rain on dry ground, bread for empty tables, and freedom in the midst of pressure.
You may have noticed I highlighted four areas. In Scripture, the number four often speaks of completeness, the four corners of the earth, the four winds, and the totality of creation under YAHUAH’s control. These pressures show the fullness of the groaning in our day… yet YAHUAH remains sovereign.
May we have ears to hear what the Ruach HaQodesh is saying in this hour.
May we have ears to hear what the Ruach HaQodesh is saying in this hour.
ENDURE TO THE END
Brothers and sisters, what is coming will be even greater than what we see now. The locusts are only the beginning. The birth pains will intensify. But take courage.
As Yahusha warned in
Mat 24:13 “But he who shall have endured to the end shall be saved.”
Endure in repentance.
Endure in prayer.
Endure in tearing your heart and returning to Him daily.
Endure in keeping the new wine flowing by staying filled with the Ruach HaQodesh.
Endure in tearing your heart and returning to Him daily.
Endure in keeping the new wine flowing by staying filled with the Ruach HaQodesh.
This is our final stand. Not in our own strength, but in total dependence on YAHUAH and Yahusha HaMashiach.
Hold fast. The One who promised restoration and outpouring is faithful. He will carry us through. May we be found enduring when the shofar sounds its final note.
Prayer
YAHUAH Elohim, we hear the sound of the shofar. We see the locusts in our land and in our hearts. We rend our hearts before You right now… not our garments, but our hearts.
Restore the years the locust has eaten. Pour out Your Set-apart Spirit upon us.
YAHUAH Elohim, we hear the sound of the shofar. We see the locusts in our land and in our hearts. We rend our hearts before You right now… not our garments, but our hearts.
Restore the years the locust has eaten. Pour out Your Set-apart Spirit upon us.
In the mighty name of Yahusha HaMashiach we pray.
HalleluYAH Amen 🙌🙏🕊️
Christine Schraufnagel
Blog at: kmsr1700am.com
(Reflections drawn from the Book of Joel/Biblical references TS2009)
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