And while I was setting out this afternoon reading. I thought…I happened to turn over to Joel, and I thought…The Lord just spoke to me, something about Joel there and that palmerworm, cankerworm, caterpillar, and locust. And how it had stripped the tree. Now, that tree was represented again in Matthew 24, when Jesus spoke of the tree. The tree is always…The Jewish Church has always been the fig tree. We are the…That’s the tame tree and the wild tree. And we were the wild tree which was grafted into the tame tree. And Jesus spoke up there in Matthew 24, “When you see the olive tree—or the fig tree, rather, putting forth buds, you know that spring’s nigh.” Likewise, see, when you begin to see the Jews returning to Palestine, in other words, know the time is nigh, even at the door.

Palmerworm, Locust, Cankerworm, Caterpillar, 1953-06-12, Connersville, IN, §38