{"id":2496,"date":"2024-01-13T16:10:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T15:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lionofjudah.info\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2026-06-02T09:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:43:07","slug":"introduction-joel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lionofjudah.info\/?p=2496","title":{"rendered":"Introduction Joel"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn.kb-btns2496_19eabd-42{gap:var(--global-kb-gap-xs, 0.5rem );justify-content:center;align-items:center;}.kt-btns2496_19eabd-42 .kt-button{font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;}.kt-btns2496_19eabd-42 .kt-btn-wrap-0{margin-right:5px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn.kt-btns2496_19eabd-42 .kt-btn-wrap-0 .kt-button{color:#555555;border-color:#555555;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn.kt-btns2496_19eabd-42 .kt-btn-wrap-0 .kt-button:hover, .wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn.kt-btns2496_19eabd-42 .kt-btn-wrap-0 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.kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-2496_c170f1-fb\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2496_a5933a-ed, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2496_a5933a-ed[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading2496_a5933a-ed\"]{text-align:center;font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2496_a5933a-ed mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2496_a5933a-ed[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading2496_a5933a-ed\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2496_a5933a-ed img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2496_a5933a-ed[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading2496_a5933a-ed\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<h1 class=\"kt-adv-heading2496_a5933a-ed wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading2496_a5933a-ed\">Introduction to the prophet Joel<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">The 29th book of the Bible, consisting of 4 chapters<br>A call to repentance and return to God \u2013 The \u201cDay of the LORD\u201d is coming<\/h2>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-2496_9ccbbf-1d .kt-block-spacer{height:50px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-2496_9ccbbf-1d .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-2496_9ccbbf-1d\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Joel, whose name means \u201cThe LORD\u2014YHWH is God,\u201d was the second of the so-called \u201cMinor Prophets\u201d in order of appearance; he succeeded the prophet Obadiah in the southern kingdom of Judah.<br>His book is also the second in the sequence of the Twelve Prophets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From Hosea, we go back nearly a century to Joel\u2019s calling.<br>At the beginning of Joel\u2019s ministry, the prophet Elisha was still active in the Northern Kingdom, and toward the end, the prophets Jonah and Amos appeared there. It is around the second half of the 9th century B.C., and there is great distress in Israel as Joel grows up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joel feels with the people \u2013 he is, after all, a part of them himself \u2013 but he must nevertheless proclaim to them, in God\u2019s name, the coming judgment for all their transgressions.<br>God is just, and persistent clinging to sin cannot remain without consequences.<br>In doing so, the prophet Joel calls out with love for repentance\u2014for the people of God to turn back\u2014for only in this\u2014returning to God\u2019s path\u2014lies life and salvation, for every individual but also for entire nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prophet Joel thus proclaims judgment upon Israel\u2014but not upon the Northern Kingdom, where he lived and which was destroyed by the Assyrians in 722 B.C.<br>Subsequently, even its inhabitants were taken into exile and \u201creplaced\u201d by foreign peoples. These peoples intermingled, and their respective beliefs blended with the remaining remnants of the 10 tribes of Israel to form the \u201cpeople\u201d of the Samaritans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joel prophesies about his own age and also beyond this \u201ctime of the nations.\u201d<br>In the short book of Joel, we find the announcement of the \u201coutpouring\u201d of God\u2019s Spirit\u2014<br>the first \u201cChristians\u201d saw a foretaste of this prophecy fulfilled a good eight centuries later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nor does Joel have to proclaim judgment upon the entire people of Israel, together with the tribes of Judah and Benjamin\u2014for David\u2019s royal dynasty apparently came to a definitive end with the conquest of Jerusalem in 586 BC by the Babylonian ruler Nebuchadnezzar, and the time of the nations, the time in which Israel was ruled by foreign peoples, began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the Jewish Feast of Weeks, Shavuot, the origin of our Pentecost, in the year 32 AD, when his disciples gathered in Jerusalem and began to speak in tongues\u2026<br>This is recounted in the \u201cNew Testament,\u201d in the Book of Acts, following the Gospels \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the judgment on Israel described by the prophet will not take place until the \u201cGreat Tribulation,\u201d following this \u201cTime of the Nations.\u201d<br>The prophet foretells not only another catastrophic drought for the entire land during these three and a half years, but also an invasion.<br>A literal overrun of Israel by a massive army invading from the north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also prophesies deliverance from this great tribulation for our entire planet and its end\u2014the coming \u201cDay of the Lord.\u201d<br>The Messiah\u2014the Christ\u2014the Savior will come, destroy the enemy, and lead the remnant of Israel, as well as the remaining \u201cremnant\u201d of the world, into the 1,000-year Kingdom of Peace \ud83d\ude42<br>This is where Joel\u2019s vision ends.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-2496_401c9e-c2 .kt-block-spacer{height:30px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-2496_401c9e-c2 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-2496_401c9e-c2\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Outline of the Book of Joel:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Although the Book of Joel is so short that the introduction almost covers it all, I would still like to organize each chapter as a separate section and use the table of contents \ud83d\ude42<\/h6>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-2496_000697-13 .kt-block-spacer{height:30px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-2496_000697-13 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-2496_000697-13\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><strong>Chapter 1<\/strong><br>    I. A terrible locust plague as a foreshadowing of the Assyrian attack<br>        Call to repentance in the face of the \u201cDay of the LORD\u201d<br><br><strong>Chapter 2<\/strong><br>    II. Army of Destroyers \u2013 Call to Repentance \u2013 Answered Prayer<br>        The army of the destroyer on the \u201cDay of the LORD\u201d<br>        Call to God\u2019s people to repent<br>        Answered prayer; God\u2019s comforting promise of Israel\u2019s restoration after the judgment of the nations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 3<\/strong><br>    III. The Day of the LORD<br>        The Outpouring of God\u2019s Spirit Upon the People<br><br><strong>Chapter 4<\/strong><br>    Judgment Upon the Nations<br>    Blessings Upon Israel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-2496_2c6ad4-b2 .kt-block-spacer{height:50px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-2496_2c6ad4-b2 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-2496_2c6ad4-b2\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2496_d5e1f1-c6, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2496_d5e1f1-c6[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading2496_d5e1f1-c6\"]{text-align:center;font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2496_d5e1f1-c6 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2496_d5e1f1-c6[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading2496_d5e1f1-c6\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2496_d5e1f1-c6 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2496_d5e1f1-c6[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading2496_d5e1f1-c6\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<h4 class=\"kt-adv-heading2496_d5e1f1-c6 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading2496_d5e1f1-c6\"><strong>Content of the prophet Joel<\/strong>:<\/h4>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-2496_ad6ac9-1e .kt-block-spacer{height:30px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-2496_ad6ac9-1e .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-2496_ad6ac9-1e\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lionofjudah.info\/?p=1529#joel-chapter-1\"><strong>Joel chapter 1<\/strong><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/lionofjudah.info\/?p=1529#joel-chapter-2\"><strong>Joel chapter 2<\/strong><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/lionofjudah.info\/?p=1529#joel-chapter-3\"><strong>Joel chapter 3<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-2496_f853fa-0d .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-2496_f853fa-0d 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