Joel 2:1
"Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm
in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of
the land tremble: for the day of the LORD
cometh, for it is nigh at hand;"
We know nothing of Joel beyond this book. He was content to be God’s mouthpiece and remain unknown. His message was one of woe. The memory of God’s loving kindness ought to have kept His people faithful and loyal, but since grace and love had failed to affect them, awful judgments were announced. A small insect, the locust, was to lay flat man’s boasted power. The four kinds of locusts here described and which doubtless devastated the country, were also symbols of the four world empires, Assyria, Babylon, Greece, and Rome, which were to destroy the Holy Land. Such judgments call for acts of repentance, such as fasting, humiliation, and intercession.
There are days in national experience when we ourselves have became encircled in moaning and weeping. Where there has been infidelity to the great Lover of souls, when the visible Church or the individual member has turned from Christ to the evil way's of this world, then joy withers away. At that point spiritual worship ceases, and there can be neither peace nor safety until there has been repentance and return.
Amen!
Reading: Joel 2:1-11
Ref: HG SB
There are days in national experience when we ourselves have became encircled in moaning and weeping. Where there has been infidelity to the great Lover of souls, when the visible Church or the individual member has turned from Christ to the evil way's of this world, then joy withers away. At that point spiritual worship ceases, and there can be neither peace nor safety until there has been repentance and return.
Amen!
Reading: Joel 2:1-11
Ref: HG SB
May God Bless You
And Your Family
Minister Robert Lail Sr.
The Cross Life Ministry
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