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Joel Introduction

Lesson # Joel Introduction Study Material - Joel Introduction 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 Introduction The book of Joel is not easy to date since he makes no mention of kings, foreign nations, or other references to history which would indicate when he lived. He does however discuss the same topics as are described in Amos, which implies that these two prophets are relative contemporaries, with Amos living in the northern kingdom or Israel, and Joel in the southern kingdom of Judah. The prophet Joel recorded the devastation caused in Judah by drought, fire, and a massive invasion of locusts. Then the prophet used those temporal judgments to warn of the even more devastating judgment of the Day of the Lord. In Joel 3:12-13 that judgment is described using the same imagery found in Rev. 14. A call went out to turn to the Lord and Gods answer followed that response. Wherein God promises to remove the locusts and then restore all that was taken from the people by the locusts. The overall breakdown of Joel follows this simple outline: I. The desolations made by hosts of insects is described, ch. 1 and part of ch. 2. II. The people are called to repentance, ch. 2. III. Promises are made of the return of mercy upon their repentance (ch. 2), and promises of the pouring out of the Spirit in the latter days. IV. The cause of Gods people is pleaded against their enemies, whom God would reckon with in due time (ch. 3); and then glorious things are spoken of the gospel-Jerusalem and of the restoration of prosperity and the perpetuity of it. Outline of the Book of Joel title verse: The Author of the Prophecy. 1:1. I. The locust plague as the harbinger of the Day of the Lord. 1:2-2:17. A. A threefold calamity: locusts, drought, and conflagrations. 1:2-20. 1. The invasion of the locusts. 1:2-12. 2. A call to repentance. 1:13,14. 3. The terrors of the Day of the Lord. 1:15-20. B. The scourge as the forerunner of the judgment day. 2:1-17. 1. A vivid picture of the coming judgment. 2:1-11. 2. An exhortation to repentance. 2:12-17. II. The averting of judgment and bestowal of blessings. 2:18-3:21. A. The blessings in the immediate future. 2:18-27. B. The outpouring of the divine Spirit. 2:28-32. C. Judgment upon the nations. 3:1-17. 1. The avenging of wrongs committed against the Jews. 3:1-3. 2. Judgment upon Phoenicia. 3:4-8. 3. World Judgment. 3:9-17. D. The blessings following the judgment. 3:18-21. 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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