To argue, as one popular dispensational writer has, that the locusts of Revelation 9:3 are a premodern depiction of Bell UH-1B Huey helicopters is surely to wrongly divide the Word of truth.[10] Rather, a Christian should look to Exodus 10:1–20 and Joel 1:2–2:11 for interpretive help with the meaning of the locusts in Revelation. In agrarian societies, nothing was more destructive than locusts, which destroyed everything in sight. The first-century reader knew that locusts were symbols of judgment, not pictures of an unknown future technology.
