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QUESTION: “WHAT
MODERN DAY
EVENTS DID JOEL SEE?”
Part 2 of 2
ANSWER: He
sees …
1. (THE) GREAT
TRIBULATION Joel 2:28-32
2. THE POURING OUT OF THE
HOLY SPIRIT
ON ISRAEL IN THE 7 YEAR
3. THE REMOVAL RUSSIA &
ARAB
NATIONS IN 1ST HALF OF THE SEVEN YEAR
4. ARMAGEDDON Joel 3:1-17
5. MILLENNIUM
Joel
3:18-21
Following are the
scriptures for numbers 4 and 5
1 For, behold, in those days, and
in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and
Jerusalem,
2 I will also gather
all
nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat,
and will
plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom
they have
scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
3 And they have cast
lots for my
people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for
wine, that
they might drink.
4 Yea, and what have ye
to do with
me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render
me a
recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return
your
recompence upon your own head;
5 Because ye have taken
my silver
and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant
things:
6 The children also of
Judah and
the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might
remove
them far from their border.
7 Behold, I will raise
them out of
the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence
upon your
own head:
8 And I will sell your
sons and
your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall
sell them
to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
9 Proclaim ye this among
the
Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war
draw
near; let them come up:
10 Beat your plowshares
into
swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am
strong.
11 Assemble
yourselves, and
come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about:
thither cause
thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.
12 Let the heathen be
wakened, and
come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all
the heathen
round about.
13 Put ye in the sickle,
for the
harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats
overflow;
for their wickedness is great.
14 Multitudes,
multitudes in the
valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of
decision.
15 The sun and the moon
shall be
darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
16 The LORD also shall
roar out of
Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth
shall
shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of
the
children of Israel.
17 So shall ye know that
I am the
LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem
be holy,
and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
5. MILLENNIUM
Joel 3:18-21
18 And it
shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down
new wine,
and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall
flow with
waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD,
and shall
water the valley of Shittim.
19 Egypt shall be a
desolation, and
Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the
children of
Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 But Judah shall
dwell for
ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21 For I will
cleanse their
blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.
Along with invading armies, leprosy and locusts
were the cause of absolute terror to the Jew, with leprosy bringing
personal
physical destruction in the form of an ‘incurable’ disease, while
locusts
brought a national starvation calamity; and Joel opens his account,
with the
devastations brought about by locust eggs, pupae, caterpillars and
adults, each
signifying the successive stages of the destruction of crops,
that is, symbolic of the successive stages of the destruction of
Israel.
So it is with the analogy of the locust, that Joel,
the first of the prophets, calls Judah to attention just after Athaliah
was
killed around 830 BC.
One cannot imagine a blacker description of
hopelessness and devastation than Joel with his fire, virgins
mourning,
beasts groaning, no food or drink, corrupt priests, invading armies,
rivers
dried up, no pastures, thick darkness, withered corn, rotten seed,
drunkenness,
chariots, dark moon, desolate wilderness, the coming day of the Lord,
withered
trees, the flame of fire and stubble, pain, the sword and so on.
Joel’s account is divided into several parts,
with the first from Joel 1:1 – Joel 2:17, the second from
Joel 2:18 – Joel 2:27, the third Joel 2:28-30, the fourth Joel 3:1 -Joel 3:15, the fifth Joel 3:16-21 .
His account covers about 3,000 years from 930BC to the
seven year tribulation and Armageddon.
The
1st
of
Judah’s 11 prophets.
The locust plagues herald the up-coming
day of the Lord.
1. (The) Great
Tribulation Joel 2:28-32
2. Pouring
out of Holy
Spirit on Israel in the 7 year tribulation Joel 2:28-32
3. Removal
Russia &
Arab nations in 1st half of the tribulation Joel 2:20
4. Armageddon Joel 3:1-17
5. Millennium Joel 3:18-21
Harley
Hitchcock
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QUESTION:
“WHAT DID THE PROPHETS SEE?”