• Class 1 – “There was no remedy”

• Class 2 – “Alas for the day!”

• Class 3 – “Blow the trumpet in Zion”

• Class 4 – Call on the name of the LORD

• Class 5 – A valley of Judgment

• Class 6 – Roaring out of Zion

• Psalm 106:34-391. Did not cut off the influence of the world

2. Socialized with neighbors, co-workers, school

3. Joined in on their activities

4. Made their neighbors priorities their own

5. Children adopt parents priorities

6. Children stop coming to meeting

• Thus were they defiled … and the wrath of God was kindled against His people.

Siege ~ Year King of Judah Carried away References1st 600 BC 8th year of

Jehoiakim

II Kg: 24:1

2nd 597 BC 11th year of

Jehoiakim

Temple vessels

Daniel & friends

3023 captives

II Kg 23:36, 24:2

II Chr: 36:6-7

Dan: 1:1-4

3rd 596 3rd month of

Jehoiachin

King, princes, servants,

officers, treasure,

17000 captives, Ezekiel

& Mordecai

II Kg: 24:8-17

Eze: 1:2

Est: 2:6

4th 587 9th – 11th year

of Zedekiah

Zedekiah, soldiers

Left poor of the land

Later temple burned

II Kg: 25:1

II Chr: 36:11-20

Jer: 52:1-11

Joel

• The Circumstances of Desolation– Verses 1-4

• The Call to Humiliation– Verses 5-14

• A Sign of Divine Judgment– Verses 15-18

• Joel’s Cry for Deliverance– Verses 19-20

• Hebrews 12:5-6“And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: for whom the Lord lovethhe chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.”

• Hosea 2:6-14

• Exodus 10:13-15"And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all thatnight; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.”“…that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.”

Fourfold fulfillment of Joel’s plague of locusts

Literal plague of locusts – Jer. 14

Joel’s day – Babylon – Joel 1-2

AD 70 – Rome – II Peter 2

Latter days – Russia – Ezekiel 38-39

• Exodus 34:6-7

• “Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this (the Babylonians) upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did.” II Kings 24:3

KJV Definition Literal

Palmerworm creeping locust without wings – to pluck off chewing locust

Locust to be/become great, be/become numerous swarming locust

Cankerworm from a root meaning to lick up devouring locust

Caterpillar from a root meaning to consume, finish off consuming locust

Siege ~ Year King of Judah Carried away Locust1st 600 BC 8th year of

Jehoiakim

Chewing locust

2nd 597 BC 11th year of

Jehoiakim

Temple vessels

Daniel & friends

3023 captive

Swarming locust

3rd 596 3rd month of

Jehoiachin

King, princes, servants,

officers, treasure,

17000 captives, Ezekiel

& Mordecai

Devouring locust

4th 587 9th – 11th year

of Zedekiah

Zedekiah, soldiers

Left poor of the land

Burned temple & city

Consuming

locust

• Psalm 80:8“Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.”

• Isaiah 5:1-7“Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.”

• John 15 – “I am the vine – abide in me”

• Jeremiah 24:5,8“Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.”“And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saiththe LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:”

• Matthew 21:19,21“And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.”“Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain (Mt. Olives), Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.”

• A great multitude against Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Jehoshaphat– (II Chr. 20:1-2)

• The King proclaimed a fast (v3)• All the families of Judah participated (v13)• Jehoshaphat prayed to God (v6-12)• “Stand still and see the salvation of Yahweh”

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Joel 1:15 - the day, the day of the LORD is at handJoel 2:1 - the day of the LORD is comingJoel 2:2 - a day of darkness

- a day of clouds and thick darkness- the day of the LORD is great and terrible

Joel 2:31 - before the day of the LORD comeJoel 3:14 - the day of the LORD is near