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Wenstrom Bible Ministries Marion, Iowa Pastor-Teacher Bill Wenstrom www.wenstrom.org. Tuesday October 25, 2011 Journey Through The Bible Series: Joel 1:1-2:11 Lesson # 1. Please turn in your Bibles to Joel 1:1.

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  1. Wenstrom Bible MinistriesMarion, IowaPastor-Teacher Bill Wenstromwww.wenstrom.org

  2. Tuesday October 25, 2011Journey Through The Bible Series: Joel 1:1-2:11Lesson # 1

  3. Please turn in your Bibles to Joel 1:1.

  4. The book of Joel is the second book of the Minor Prophets, which are called the Book of the Twelve in the Hebrew Bible.

  5. The internal evidence indicates that the book was written in 835 B.C.

  6. The theme of the book of Joel is “the day of the Lord,” which is “not” a literal twenty-four period.

  7. Rather, it is a period of time beginning with God’s dealing with Israel after the rapture, beginning with Daniel’s Seventieth Week, extending through the Second Advent and the millennial age unto the creation of the new heavens and the new earth.

  8. The term “Day of the Lord” and the phrases “that day” or “the day” or the “great day” are used with reference to Daniel’s Seventieth Week (Isaiah 13:5-6; Ezekiel 30:3; Joel 1:15; 2:1, 11, 29, 31; 38:10-19; 39:11, 22; Obadiah 14-15; Zephaniah 1:14, 18; 2:2-3; Zechariah 12:3-4, 6, 8-9; Malachi 4:5), the Second Advent of Christ (Zechariah 12:11; 14:4, 6, 8), millennium (Ezekiel 45:22; 48:35; Joel 3:18; Zechariah 14:9; Zephaniah 3:11), and the creation of the new heavens and earth (2 Peter 2:10).

  9. Therefore, a comparison of these passages indicates that the “day of the Lord” is “not” a literal twenty-four hour period but rather, it is an extended period of time.

  10. If the Day of the Lord did not begin until the Second Advent, since that event is preceded by signs, the Day of the Lord could “not” come as a “thief in the night,” unexpected, and unheralded, as it is said it will come in 1 Thessalonians 5:2.

  11. The only way the “day of the Lord” could break unexpectedly upon the world is to have it begin immediately after the rapture of the church, which is imminent.

  12. The following is a list of characteristics of the Day of the Lord: (1) Imminency (Isa. 13:6; Ezek. 30:3; Joel 1:15; 2:1; Obad. 15; 1 Thess. 5:2). (2) Judgment (Obad. 15, Joel 1.15; Isa, 2:11; Jer, 46:10; Amos 5:20; Zeph. 1:7ff; Ezek. 13:5; Mal. 4:1. (3) Terror (Isa. 2:19-21; 13:7-9; Zeph. 1:14-15; Joel 3:16. (4) Repentance (Zeph. 2:2-3; Joel 2:12-17). (5) Restoration (Joel 1:15; 3:9-21; Isa. 1; 11-12; Amos 9:11-15; Hos. 2:18-23; Mic. 4:6-8; Mal. 4:5.

  13. The book of Joel is attributed to Joel, the son of Pethuel according to Joel 1:1.

  14. Joel 1:1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel. (NASB95)

  15. The name “Joel” means, “the Lord is God.”

  16. Joel's frequent references to Judah and Jerusalem suggest that he lived and ministered in the Southern Kingdom (cf. 1:2, 9, 13-14, 16; 2:1, 14-15, 17, 23, 32; 3:1-8, 12, 14, 17-21).

  17. Joel 1:2 Hear this, O elders, and listen, all inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this happened in your days or in your fathers’ days? 3 Tell your sons about it, and let your sons tell their sons, and their sons the next generation. 4 What the gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; And what the swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten; And what the creeping locust has left, the stripping locust has eaten. (NASB95)

  18. Joel opens this book with a rhetorical question that demands an emphatic negative response.

  19. There was nothing in the experience of Joel’s generation or that of their ancestors which could match the magnitude of this locust plague.

  20. The prophet appeals to the citizens of Israel with emphasis upon the leaders of Israel to consider the uniqueness and significance of the disaster which had come on them.

  21. The elders were civil leaders who played a prominent part in the governmental and judicial systems (cf. 1 Sam. 30:26-31; 2 Sam. 19:11-15; 2 Kings 23:1; Prov. 31:23; Jer. 26:17; Lam. 5:12, 14).

  22. The prophet wants the leaders of Israel and its citizens to consider the devastation because it is the direct result of their disobedience.

  23. This devastating locust plague in Joel’s day was a fulfillment of the Lord’s promise He made through Moses in Deuteronomy 28:38 and 42, namely that if Israel was unfaithful to Him, then he would destroy the land with a locust plague.

  24. Thus, in Joel’s day, the nation of Israel was suffering the consequences of her disobedience to God and His laws and precepts.

  25. Joel 1:5 Awake, drunkards, and weep; and wail, all you wine drinkers, on account of the sweet wine that is cut off from your mouth. 6 For a nation has invaded my land, mighty and without number; Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it has the fangs of a lioness. 7 It has made my vine a waste and my fig tree splinters. It has stripped them bare and cast them away; Their branches have become white. (NASB95)

  26. Joel commands the alcoholics to mourn because there would be no alcohol because the vineyards, which produce wine are all destroyed.

  27. There would be no grapes to produce sweet (the most favored) wine for them to drink (cf. Isa. 5:11-12, 22; 22:13; 28:1, 7; 56:12; Hos. 4:11-19; 7:5, 13-14; Amos 2:6-8; 6:6; 9:13; Mic. 2:11; Acts 2:13, 15).

  28. Joel 1:8 Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth. 9 The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the Lord. The priests mourn, the ministers of the Lord. 10 The field is ruined, the land mourns; For the grain is ruined, the new wine dries up, fresh oil fails. (NASB95)

  29. The virgin in this passage refers to Jerusalem since this city is often compared to a virgin daughter in the Old Testament (e.g., 2 Kings 19:21; Lam. 1:15; cf. Joel 2:1, 15, 23, 32).

  30. The reason for Jerusalem's mourning was the locusts' destruction of grain, wine, and oil, blessings from God and the products needed to worship Him in the daily temple burnt offerings (cf. Exod. 29:38-42; Lev. 2; 6:14-18; 9:16-17; 23:18, 37; Num. 15:5; 28:3-8).

  31. Grain, wine, and oil represent the three major types of vegetation in Israel: grasses, shrubs, and trees.

  32. Joel 1:11 Be ashamed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley; Because the harvest of the field is destroyed. 12 The vine dries up and the fig tree fails; The pomegranate, the palm also, and the apple tree, all the trees of the field dry up. Indeed, rejoicing dries up from the sons of men. (NASB95)

  33. The farmers are to mourn because that which they produced is destroyed resulting in a total loss of profits.

  34. Joel 1:13 Gird yourselves with sackcloth and lament, O priests; Wail, O ministers of the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth O ministers of my God, for the grain offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your God. (NASB95)

  35. The priests were to mourn because they no longer could offer grain and drink offerings because the locust plague destroyed the crops which provided for these offerings.

  36. Joel 1:14 Consecrate a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly; Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord. (NASB95)

  37. Fasting was done by nations as a sign of sorrow in the wake of a national tragedy (Judges 20:26; 1 Samuel 31:13; 1 Chronicles 10:12; 2 Samuel 1:12; 3:35); Esther 4:3; Jeremiah 14:1-12; Joel 1:14; 2:12-15).

  38. It was also done by individuals of course who experienced sorrow or suffering (1 Samuel 1:7-8; 20:34; Job 3:24; Psalm 42:3; 102:4; 107:17-18).

  39. Fasting was also a sign of repentance from national or corporate sins and was an act of seeking forgiveness from God as a nation (1 Samuel 7:6; Ezra 9:1-10:17; Nehemiah 9:1; Zechariah 8:16-19).

  40. Here in Joel 1:14, the prophet is calling Jerusalem and Judah to fast in order to express sorrow in the wake of the national tragedy caused by the locust plague.

  41. He is calling for a national repentance for their corporate sins.

  42. The fasting was to be an outward expression of inward condition, which is taught later in the book of Joel by the Lord (Joel 2:12-17).

  43. Joel 1:15 Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty. (NASB95)

  44. “Near” denotes immanency indicating that the day of the Lord was imminent in Joel’s day or in other words great destruction was coming to Judah and Jerusalem in Joel’s day.

  45. It also foreshadows an eschatological day of the Lord, which will bring destruction not only to Israel but the entire world.

  46. “The Almighty” denotes God’s ability or power to bring about a great destruction of Israel.

  47. The destruction caused by the invasion of locusts foreshadows the invasion of the world’s armies of Israel during the Tribulation period and served as a harbinger of the day of the Lord.

  48. The prophet Joel introduces the dominant theme of the book but then goes on to further describe how terrible the suffering was during his day after the locust plague.

  49. However, he knows that an even greater day of destruction will take place in Israel later on in her history.

  50. In chapter two, he will describe that period.

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