SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/6/2015
10:18 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Introduction
to Joel 2:28-3:21
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Joel 2:28-32
Message of the
verses: “28 "It will come about
after this That I
will pour out My Spirit on all
mankind; And your sons and daughters will prophesy, Your old men will
dream dreams, Your young men will see visions. 29 "Even on the male and
female servants I will pour out My Spirit in those days. 30 “I will display
wonders in the sky and on the earth, Blood, fire and columns of smoke. 31 “The
sun will be turned into darkness And the moon into blood Before the great and awesome day
of the LORD comes. 32 "And it will come about that whoever calls on
the name of the LORD Will be delivered; For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem
There will be those who escape, As the LORD has said, Even among the survivors
whom the LORD calls.”
What I want to accomplish in this SD is to introduce the
last main point from the book of Joel which goes from 2:28-3:21, and then
introduce the portion from Joel 2:28-32.
We have mentioned that the theme of the book of Joel is “The Day of the
Lord,” and that theme is broken up into three categories: Dr. Wiersbe explains: “Joel’s message to Judah (and to us) is
reaching its conclusion. He has
described the immediate ‘Day of the Lord,’ the terrible plague of the
locusts. This led to a description of
the imminent ‘Day of the Lord,’ the impending invasion of the northern
army. All that remains is for him to
describe the ultimate ‘Day of the Lord’ when God will judge all the nations of
the earth. ‘For the Day of the Lord is
near upon all the heathen’ (Obad. 15).
“Joel describes a sequence of events relating to this ‘great
and terrible Day of the Lord’ (Joel 2:31), what will happen before that day,
during that day, and after that day.”
I have said that it is interesting that at the same time
that we are looking at the book of Joel and especially this portion that we are
also looking at the book of Revelation as we just finished chapter fifteen and
the introduction to the sixteenth chapter which goes right along with this
section of Joel for in those chapters the Day of the Lord is what is going on
as the Lord completes His wrath on planet earth and those unbelievers who live
on it with the final seven plagues which are the bowl judgments.
Dr. Wiersbe writes the following as his introduction to
the section which is quoted above from Joel 2:28-32: “In the Hebrew Scriptures, these five verses
from chapter 3 of Joel’s prophecy; and chapter 4 in the Hebrew Scriptures is
chapter 3 in the English Bible. The
Jewish scholars who arranged the Old Testament Scriptures evidently thought
that this paragraph was important enough to warrant a chapter by itself. However, now that we have a completed Bible, this
important passage must be studied both in its Jewish context and in the context
of the New Testament church.” We will
look at both of these contexts in our next two SD’s from the book of Joel.
I have to say that I was a big fan of reading “The Left
Behind” series and waited for the next book to come out as I could not wait to
see what happened to the characters in
the next book which seemed to me would never get here. Now one thing that I remember about one of
the books had to do with this prophecy from the book of Joel as one of the main
characters in the books had some dreams that showed him what will happen in the
future. The Tribulation Period will be
the most terrible time that earth will ever see and if it were not for the
return of Jesus Christ to planet earth when He does come back no flesh would be
left. This portion of the book of Joel
helps us better understand about this awful time that is about to come on
planet earth.
8/6/2015 10:40 PM
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