The book of Joel tells of a great plague of insects that came upon the land of Judah as a judgment from God against sin. In the law, God had promised material prosperity to His people for obedience, and adversity for disobedience.
The period described in the opening prophecy was one of famine and suffering because an enormous hoard of insects had eaten much of the vegetation. The distress in Judah because of this judgment is seen as a foreshadowing of greater distress in a coming day of greater judgment. That yet future period is described as "the day of Jehovah".
This phrase may be considered as the theme of the book. "The day of Jehovah" is the time of God’s judgment upon the earth in connection with the second coming of Christ.
Man has always seemed to be on the winning side in this world. He prospers, gains, and is almost unchallenged by God. Amid the temporary triumph of evil in Judah, 28 long centuries ago, God speaks during the usurpation of Athaliah. As this woman of wickedness seizes the throne of Judah, a lone voice is raised: Joel the prophet.
The prophecies of God’s oracle Joel are so foundational to the entire prophetic Panorama that to understand them is to start to comprehend the whole of God’s plan for the Ages. Truly the Day of the Lord, portrayed in this short prophetic oracle’s revelation through God’s Spirit, is a day that is to be heeded.
God clearly demonstrates the need for repentance and the physical disaster that must follow moral disintegration.
Three times God uses Locusts as a vehicle of judgment. Each is a plague of horrible proportions.
1. In Exodus 10:4, 12-14, and 19, Moses unleashes an 8th plague -locusts that HORRIBLY DEVOUR.
2. In Joel 1 and 2 God sends a plague of locusts that HORRIBLY DESTROY.
3. In Revelation 9:3 and 7, the 5th trumpet sounds the release of HORRIBLE DEMONIC HORDES like locusts from the Abyss
From OTI-29 – Joel (961030WE)
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