From the Book of Exodus    109 

before, nor ever shall be again. For they covered the face of the whole land, 

so that the land was darkened, and they ate all the plants in the land and all 

the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; not a green thing remained, 

neither tree nor plant of the field, through all the land of Egypt.   

(Ex 10:14 15). 

    The next affliction which God sent was a plague of locusts, which ate all 

of the green plants and the fruits, so that nothing remained. They also 

harassed the Egyptians directly,  and they shall fill your houses, and the 

houses of all your servants and of all the Egyptians....  (Ex 10:6). Only the 

Egyptians had the plague of locusts in their homes; the Israelites were spared 

from this. 

    During the time described in the book of Revelation (near the end of the 

Forty Years), something like locusts will be sent by God to punish evildoers 

(Rev 9:3 6). But the servants of God who have God's seal on their foreheads 

will be spared from this plague. These will not be actual locusts, which Holy 

Scripture says will never again come upon the earth with the same intensity 

(Ex 10:14) this is also clear from their description (Rev 9:7 11). These 

locusts will not eat any green growth; their only purpose will be to punish 

those without the seal of God. 

Three Days of Darkness (Ex 10:21 29) 

     Then the L

ORD

 said to Moses, `Stretch out your hand toward heaven 

that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt.' So 

Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness 

in all the land of Egypt three days; they did not see one another, nor did any 

rise from his place for three days; but all the people of Israel had light where 

they dwelt.  (Ex 10:21 13). 

    The darkness which came upon the Egyptians was darker than the darkest 

night. People could not see one another. There was no light whatsoever, not 

from fires, not from lamps, and not from the sun, moon, or stars. Yet the 

Israelites had light. 

    The darkness which God sent on the Egyptians is a foreshadowing of the 

Three Days of Darkness which will come upon the world (in late 2039 or 

early 2040) during the punishment of the unrepentant, at the end of the 

Church's great suffering. The plagues sent upon Egypt, in general, 

foreshadow sufferings which will be sent upon the earth at both the end of 

the Forty Years and the end of Antichrist's reign (25th century  A.D.). For 

this reason, I tell you that this time of darkness occurs twice, once at the end 

of the Forty Years and again  after the end of the  Antichrist's reign (Rev 

16:10). However, I am not certain how long the time of darkness at the end 

of Antichrist's reign will last (it may be longer than three days).