Bible Torture Locust Monsters Become Symbols Of Trump’s Christian Nationalism

Christianity keeps a monster in its closet.

The torture locust fiends of chapter 9 of the Book of Revelation have come to symbolize the openly cruel religious fanaticism of Donald Trump’s Christian Nationalist fascism.

The Terrible Arthopod of God

Progressive Christians often wonder why so many fellow Christians continue to fervently support Donald Trump. They shake their heads, asking whatever happened to the biblical teachings of loving one's neighbor. It just doesn’t make any sense to them. How could Christians align themselves with such obvious nonsense, and such cruelty!

Then, in the next breath, liberal Christians will cite their Holy Bible as a source of moral clarity, with a coherent vision of a loving religion.

Have they actually read the Bible? Have they grappled with the strange and violent content of their religion’s central text?

Have they read, for example, chapter 9 of the Book of Revelation?

F.G. Fitzer, author of The Demonic Bible, argues that the difficulty liberal Christians have reconciling the Christian Nationalism of Donald Trump with their own religious experience stems from their habit of ignoring the parts of the Bible that don’t fit with their individual morality. Fitzer urges these progressive Christians to consider the full character arc of the New Testament.

Abaddon, the king of God’s torture locusts that prepare the way for the coming of Jesus Christ in the Bible

While the early teachings of Jesus from the Gospels emphasize love, Fitzer points out that as the New Testament progresses, Jesus becomes consumed with an obsessive pursuit of violence and cruelty. The ultimate expression of this shift is found in the Book of Revelation, and specifically, the horrific biblical character known as the torture locust.

The Book of Revelation is the final book of the Christian Bible and is presented as the resolution of all theological questions proposed throughout the other books. It is in Chapter 9 that Jesus, as a manifestation of God, sends an angel to unleash a massive swarm of these monsters.

The violent revenge prophecies detailed in the Book of Revelation provide the ideological foundation for the extremist Christian Nationalism that has brought Donald Trump and his followers to power. By examining the actions and appearance of these bizarre monsters in Revelation Chapter 9, the sources suggest that Christianity concludes not with peace, but with a terrifying vision of divine torture.

The sequence begins when the fifth angel of God sounds his trumpet, causing a star to fall from heaven to earth, carrying the key of a bottomless pit. When the angel of God opens the bottomless pit is, a terrible thick smoke rises, darkening the sky so that the sun can no longer be seen. Out of this smoke emerge immense swarms of the torture locusts of God.

Jesus Christ encouraging the attacks of the locust monsters of the Book of Revelation

The Bible explicitly identifies these torture locust monsters as angels sent by God. They are not demons sent by Satan, but are a punishing army working to advance the power of Christianity on Earth by devastating non-Christians.

Verse 11 of Chapter 9 of the Book of Revelation says of the torture locusts: “They had a king over them, the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon.” Verse 4 of this chapter states that the angel who blew the fifth trumpet of the Apocalypse “commanded to them”. These monsters are working for God, and for Jesus.

Jesus stands by and allows them to engage in sadistic attacks without mercy. Gone is the question of who threw the first stone. Jesus is done turning the other cheek. At this point of the Bible, Jesus is out for vengeance.

Doesn’t that remind you of Donald Trump? Trump is a lifelong Christian.

Jesus smiles while watching one of God’s locust monsters torturing a non-Christian

The Bible’s description of these monsters is flamboyant and bizarre: They look like horses prepared for battle. On their heads, they have crowns made of gold. The torture locusts have men’s faces but women’s hair. Their teeth are like the teeth of lions. The monsters wear iron armor around their enormous arthropod bodies, and the sound of their insect wings is tremendous, like the sound of chariots or warhorses rushing to battle. They possess scorpions’ tails, with venom that exists only to cause people pain.

God’s Plan Is To Inflict Agony

The instruction given to the locusts highlights their singular purpose: torment. They are told not to hurt the grass, any green thing, or any tree. Their sole target is "only the men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads". Their mission is to persecute non-Christians.

The torture locusts are not permitted to kill anyone. Instead, they are ordered instead to torment people for five months. This torment is compared to the sting of a scorpion. The suffering inflicted is described as being so severe that its victims will desperately search for a way to die. Most cruelly of all, God will not allow them to die. “Death will flee from them,” says the Bible. Jesus approves of this torment and never attempts to stop the suffering.

Jesus does nothing to stop the torture of nonChristians by God’s monster insects

The Book of Revelation promises that only 144,000 people will be spared from this excruciating pain, having been granted the approval from God. The New Testament describes Jesus and God inflicting five straight months of the worst imaginable torture on the vast majority of humanity. If interpreted literally as an event taking place in early Christianity, this represents 99.93 percent of the people alive at that time. If you think the Christian End Times are about to arrive now, it’s an even smaller percentage of the global population that is spared the wrath of Jesus.

Do the math. The Bible is saying that 99.93 percent of humanity is so wicked that almost the entire human species deserves to be brutalized by the torture locusts of God for nearly half a year. Furthermore, after these five months of agony, further waves of torture and death are promised to target non-Christians, all so that Jesus can become king of the entire planet, an absolute ruler with an iron scepter in his hand, ready to strike down all dissent.

Jesus, in the end, is not a nice guy any longer. He has been transformed by his crucifixion into a perpetrator of terrible violence.

At the end of the New Testament, Jesus has become a connoisseur of brutality

Divine Atrocities

The torture locust symbolizes the cruelty and violence embedded in the final message of Christianity. The locust monsters of God are clearly associated with Jesus, who watches as non-Christians are persecuted, tortured, and killed. In the end, Christianity is not a religion of peace and love, but one of violence and fear. This violence is what enabled Christianity to spread around the world, first through the Roman Empire, then through ruthless medieval monarchs, and finally through European colonization.

After his resurrection, Jesus harbored a vengeful spirit in his heart. When Jesus rose from the grave, he became dedicated to the pursuit of power, then used that power to punish every person who stood in his way.

Christians like to talk about the six hours Jesus suffered on the cross. Six hours of torment is a terrible thing. That’s undeniable, but in the name of Jesus, the torture locusts of God inflict five straight months of agony on hundreds of millions or even billions of people. That violence isn’t the end of God’s campaign of terror in the Book of Revelation. Other tortures promised by Jesus include crushing people to death in a giant winepress and burning in an eternal lake of fire.

The relatively brief pain of Jesus results in lopsided cosmic injustice, in which Jesus inflicts long-lasting and in many cases unending pain. The crucifixion doesn’t save humanity from suffering. To the contrary, the crucifixion of Jesus amplifies the barbaric insanity of God, unleashing a global bloodbath, with Jesus leading the violence.

The rage of Jesus can’t even be blamed on revenge. Almost none of the victims of the torture locusts could have had anything to do with Jesus’ crucifixion. The torture inflicted in order to make Jesus the ruler of the Kingdom of Heaven is nothing more than an instrument of political domination.

The love of Jesus is torture that forces the world to obey his commands

Donald Trump’s Vengeful Christian Ideology

Is there really any honest question of where the cruelty of American Christians under Donald Trump came from? The inherent violence and sadism exemplified by the torture locusts of the Book of Revelation is the spiritual root of Christian Nationalism in our time.

For Americans who wonder how Donald Trump's Christian supporters can disregard the early teachings of Christ, the answer lies in the later, violent teachings of Jesus. The torture locusts represent one of the final lessons of Jesus: That freethinking is not allowed, and that dissidents will suffer excruciating pain as punishment for refusing to join in Christian worship. This divine model of domination and persecution is strikingly similar to the sadistic ideology of Donald Trump.

There is a clear parallel between the vengeful nature of the biblical end-times and Trump’s political movement:

Expression of Vengefulness: Donald Trump’s MAGA ideology is an expression of an inherently Christian obsession with vengeance, not an abnormality within the religion.

The Death of the Rule of Law: In the final, bloody lessons of the Book of Revelation, Jesus teaches followers that all his promises can be broken. This final teaching of Jesus is powerful leaders can violate any law they want to. Jesus shows that rules are for the little people. Is it any wonder that Donald Trump learned this Christian moral relativism from his church?

A Very Christian President: The cruelty and sadism of Revelation chapter nine 9 is closely aligned with Trump’s political tactics. Donald Trump is both the most cruel, hateful and violent politician in American history and the most Christian President ever. Trump isn’t cruel despite his Christianity. Trump is cruel because of his Christianity.

Jesus offers no mercy as God’s monsters torture humanity