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Joel 1:7

Lesson # Joel 1:7 Study Material - Joel 1:7 You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source, of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth. Joel 1:7 7 He hath laid [suwm] my vine [gephen] waste [shammah] , and barked [qatsaphah] my fig tree [ta'en] : he hath made it clean [chasaph] bare [chasaph] , and cast it away [shalak] ; the branches [sariyg] thereof are made white [laban] . KJV-Interlinear 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. NASB The attack of the locusts, by biting and gnawing, had stripped off the bark, or by their excessive weight had broken off the branches of the vines and the fig trees. They could reduced each to the value of a mere splinter. They are now worthless. The locusts are represented as a warlike people, because they invade a land that does not belong to them and they devastate the land like a hostile army. They take an give nothing in return. The vine and fig tree are often mentioned as the noblest productions of the land, which God has given to His people for their inheritance, and for their use and pleasure. The vine and the fig tree carry with them, two connotations. The first is for the commerce, productivity, and economies of a nation. The second, is for the spiritual strength of a nation. When freedom exists, there are opportunities to advance in ones spiritual life and in ones temporal life. Since all blessings come from God, then when the spiritual strength of a nation is great, blessing from God is great. This overflows into the economy of a nation. Prosperity abounds. When the spiritual status of a nation is low, the blessing from God is low and the nation is basically left to its own devices. Failure inevitably occurs since mankind cannot sustain his own existence. Man is not the source of his own sustaining power. Lacking power, the nation falls into difficulties. Prosperity is squandered. It cannot even keep the pestilence's of the world away from itself. The locusts, a little thing, bring the nation, a great thing, to its knees. So it is in the life of the individual. Prize spiritual growth and blessings will pursue you. Reject, ignore, pretend, compromise your spiritual life and trouble will pursue you. On your own, you cannot sustain your existence. You cannot keep a job if the world turns against you. You cannot keep your health if the world turns against you. You cannot prevent your death. You cannot make your physical body greater than it is - dust of the earth. When God is ignored then you in effect turn your back against Him and His support. That leaves you to your own ability to support yourself and the world is too great for any of us - even in mass. When we are invaded (no means of preventing the invasion) and destroyed, then we have no commerce, no freedom, and no blessing. The time to learn Gods Word and grow up is better done, certainly easier done, when there is no pressure on us. However, when trouble falls all around us, then if we are still breathing, then there is always the opportunity (though it is more difficult) to turn to Gods Word, and grow up spiritually and recover. But why wait for difficult times? Why wait for the bottom to fall out of our lives? Why wait to do that which is so easy to do now, when life is relatively easy for us? Why? Well, too many folks do not see - no, I mean they 'refuse' to see their shortfall in their spiritual life. They do not take the spiritual life seriously. Their priorities in life exclude, or at least they relegate the spiritual aspects, to some lower position on the priority ladder. There is always something more important to do. There is always the procrastination and the rationalization that one can get to the spiritual side of life later on when other things get 'caught up.' Other things being anything and everything else in life. Things never get caught up, however. The Bible has proven that spiritual growth in life does not take much effort. Just a few minutes a day, and then your thinking in life will eventually turn around toward what God wants you to think (the transformation of your mind), rather than thinking the way the world would have you think. But people choose to ignore their Bible study and time passes with little repercussion apparent. Then life falls apart. Where did that come from? What happened? Why does God allow this to happen? What is next? Well that study begins tomorrow. End of lesson. Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth.

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