"Prophesy unto the wind . . ."

I love the above painting by H Mandel.  It is a representation of the account of Ezekiel's Vision in the 'valley of dry bones' (Ezekiel 37).  In context, the Biblical narrative is a prophecy concerning the restoration of Israel as a nation (which began to be fulfilled in 1948).  Yet, I believe it also has a deeper meaning.

locusts

a swarm of locusts

So it begins.  'Locusts' of all kinds are arising in swarms to overflow America.  And those swarms are hungry to devour.  As in so many Biblical accounts of God's judgments against rebellious nations, America has at length come under divine sentence of judgment, evidently, involving invading hordes of...