The cicada goes underground for 17 years. The biblical word is locust, meaning, “to point to the Most High,” (first revelation teaching), which is what Jesus did. Jesus disappears from scripture between the ages of 13 and 30, for 17 years, spending time in that spiritual ground called the heart. And what Jesus gave the world was spiritual corn—spiritual truth, the literal Word of God written in a symbolic language, preserving this spiritual knowledge for over thirty-five hundred years. It’s a language that is foreign to the religious ear, which is why Joseph’s brothers didn’t understand his language, and why the Pharisees didn’t understand Jesus’ parables. But when the famine waxed sore in all the land, the brothers of Joseph went down into Egypt to buy corn, as our religious brothers will eat of the spiritual corn when they enter their spiritual famine, of which the prophet Amos spoke: “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the the words of the Lord” (8:11). The masses have been hearing the words of the Lord, but not through the orator of spiritual truth.  The only perspective with regard to the literal Word of God has been a religious one, which was established 17 hundred years ago by the Council of Nicaea; a group of political and religious leaders that formed a government-sanctioned religion for the people to follow. The return of Jesus that so many are waiting for is a return of spiritual truth after 1700 years of religious iniquity, the veil that has prevented those of religion from seeing the spiritual truth of God’s Word.