{"id":8764,"date":"2026-08-18T11:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/biblical-locust-swarm-blackens-the-sky-over-russia\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T11:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:13:11","slug":"biblical-locust-swarm-blackens-the-sky-over-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/biblical-locust-swarm-blackens-the-sky-over-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Biblical Locust Swarm Blackens the Sky Over Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q5O4QtrTVV8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>A massive locust swarm turned the sky black over Dagestan, Russia in August 2026 \u2014 with viral footage drawing comparisons to the biblical plagues of Exodus. We break down what actually caused the outbreak, how bad the damage is, and why this region keeps getting hit.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 The swarm that blocked out the sky<br \/>\n1:30 What caused it (it&#8217;s not random)<br \/>\n3:00 The &quot;gregarious phase&quot; \u2014 how locusts go from harmless to apocalyptic<br \/>\n4:30 The biblical comparisons online<br \/>\n5:30 What&#8217;s next for the region<\/p>\n<p>#Russia #LocustSwarm #Dagestan #NaturalDisaster<\/p>\n<p>Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: https:\/\/streamyard.com\/pal\/d\/5759717953503232<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive locust swarm turned the sky black over Dagestan, Russia in August 2026 \u2014 with viral footage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lisa-cabrera"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hqdefault-205.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}