• 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

• Relationships thrive on communication1. Relationship with God

• Read His word and He talks to us

• Pray and we talk to Him

2. Relationship with our brothers & sisters• “Exhort one another daily while it is called

today”

• Consider = fix our minds upon

• Provoke = Incite or irritate

Hebrews 10:23-25

• The Alarm of the Day of the Lord– Verses 1-2

• The Advance of the Invading Army– Verses 3-11

• The Plea for Repentance– Verses 12-17

• The Promise of Restoration– Verses 18-32

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

Zech. Ezek. Joel12–14 38–39 2

Sinful state of Jews in the land 13:2, 9 39:22, 26 2:12–13Israel invaded 12:2, 9 38:16 2:1–2God deliberately brings the invader 14:02 38:04 2:11

Successful attack 13:8 14:2 38:9, 16 39:10, 12

2:3, 9

Jews repent and cry for help 13:09 2:17Terrible destruction of invader by: 12:09 39:1–4 2:20Earthquake 14:4, 10 38:20Plague 14:12 38:22Confusion 14:13 38:21Afterward Jews will no more pollute God’s name

14:11 39:7, 22, 29 2:19, 26–27

• Nation purged – first Judah then Israel – sins forgiven – become his people again in fullest sense.

• Zech. 13:8-9“And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.”

• Ezek. 37:23“Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.”

• Mic. 7:19“He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.”

• Hos. 2:23“And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.”

Faith in the Last Days, Bro. John Thomas

““The grace” designed for the saints, purposed to come through Jesus Christ, was not intended to be revealed all at one time. The grace, or gift of Holy Spirit, was to be rained upon the saints at two different periods. The Spirit in Joel shows this. “Be glad,” saith He, ”ye children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh your Elohim, for He hath given you the former rain moderately, and He will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain the first month.”

The original of this text is quite remarkable. The Hebrew reads, “For he hath given to you the Teacher of Righteousness, and he shall cause to descend for you a rain; a teacher and a latter rain in the first month.”—(Chap. 2:23.) This Teacher hath been given in the person of Jesus, and the Father who gave him caused to descend upon the children of Zion, the saints, “a rain,” when on Pentecost He poured out His Spirit upon the apostles and their brethren. This, as the substitute for Jesus, guided them into all the truth and showed them things to come. Christ is “the Lord the Spirit,” “a quickening Spirit;” and from him Holy Spirit-rain came in the third month, or fifty days after the passover and crucifixion.

But there is to be “a teacher and a latter rain in the first month.” That is in the month Nisan, or when the passover shall be fulfilled in the kingdom of God—(Ezek. 45:21; Luke 22:15–18.) The result of the appearing of this teacher in the time of the latter rain will be that the sons of Zion will “eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of Yahweh, and hear Elohim that hath dealt wondrously with them; and His people shall never be ashamed. And they shall know that I am in the midst of Israel; and that I—the Spirit made flesh and glorified, and so both Lord and Christ, personal and mystical—am Yahweh your Elohim, and none else; and my people shall never be ashamed.”

But the people of Yahweh, political and spiritual, are now put to shame. Israel after the flesh is a bye-word and a proverb; and so is Israel after the spirit, or the saints, who have been, are, and will be prevailed against by the enemy until the Ancient of Days shall be revealed in power and great glory. Joel’s prediction, then, has not yet been fulfilled, and the latter rain of the spirit in the first month is yet in the future.”

Joel 2:23 Fulfillment

Former rain moderately Christ’s first advent

Rain Outpouring of spirit gifts in the 1st century

Former rain (teacher) Christ’s second advent

Latter rain in the 1st

monthOutpouring of spirit gifts in the 21st century

Amos 8:11-12“Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: and they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.”

Luke1:15

John – be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

1:35 Mary – Holy Spirit shall come upon thee …born of thee… the son of God

1:41 Elisabeth – was filled with the Holy Spirit, and spake with a loud voice

1:67 Zacharia – was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied

1:80 John – waxed strong in Spirit

2:25 Simeon – and the Holy Spirit was upon him – revealed unto him by the Holy Spirit, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Messiah – he came by the spirit into the temple

2:40 Jesus – waxed strong in Spirit, filled with wisdom.

And the great and terrible day of the LORDJoel 2:31

Conversion & Blessings of Judah

Between the day of the LORD Joel 2:1

Whosoever calls upon the name of the LORDJoel 2:32

Judgment of scattered Israel & the nations

The great and terrible day of the LORDJoel 2:31

• Whosoever calls upon the name of the LORD will be saved.

• Peter– This applied to “the men of Israel” – Acts 2:21-

22– Learnt that it applied to Cornelius – Acts 10:34-

43• Paul

– There is neither Jew nor Greek – Rom. 10:12-13