• 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

• 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

• Feast of trumpets – New Year (Num. 29)

• Gather Israel (Exo. 19:13; Jdg. 3:27)

• To announce an invading army (Jer. 6:1; Eze. 33:3)

• Sounded on the day of atonement in the year of Jubilee– Lev. 25:8-12 – Release of land – v13– Release of servants – v54

“With the burning south winds (of Syria) there come from the interior of Arabia and from the most southern parts of Persia clouds of locusts, whose ravages to these countries are as grievous and nearly as sudden as those of the heaviest hail in Europe. We witnessed them twice. It is difficult to express the effect produced on us by the sight of the whole atmosphere filled on all sides and to a great height by an innumerable quantity of these insects, whose flight was slow and uniform, and whose noise resembled that of rain: the sky was darkened, and the light of the sun considerably weakened. In a moment the terraces of the houses, the streets, and all the fields were covered by these insects, and in two days they had nearly devoured all the leaves of the plants. Happily they lived but a short time, and seemed to have migrated only to reproduce themselves and die; in fact, nearly all those we saw the next day had paired, and the day following the fields were covered with their dead bodies.” (Voyage dans l'Empire Othoman, M. Olivier, 1807)

• Joel 2:7-8“They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.”

• Judges 7:22“And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man’s sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host:”

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

• Remove God through introduction of evolution

• Immorality introduced in popular culture– Layer upon layer built upon as we become

accustomed to one immorality• Institutionalize through education• Take over corporate culture• Slaughter those who are intolerant

• Heavens = rulership (Hag. 2:21-2)• Earth = nations (Hag. 2:21-2)• Sun, moon and stars dwell in the

heavens (rulership) – Isa. 13:9• Sun = political rulership (Jer. 15:9)• Moon = religious rulership• Stars = rulers

2 Peter 3 Joel 2Stir up your minds Blow the trumpetWillingly ignorant DrunkertsReserved unto fire a fire devours before them

since the fathers fell asleep hath this been in the days of your father

day of judgment day of darknessGod is long suffering who knoweth if he will repentday of the Lord day of the Lordcome as a thief like a thief

heavens pass away heavens tremble, sun, moon and sun darkened

587 BC – Babylonians “And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army: for his campis very great: for he isstrong that executethhis word:” Joel 2:11

AD70 – Romans “For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” Matthew 24:27

• “Who knoweth if he will return and repent?”– Joel 2:14

• “Who can tell if God will turn and repent?”– Jonah 3:9

“And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.”

• Isa. 9:13-14 “For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts. Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.”

• Jer. 5:3 “O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.”

• II Chr. 36:16 “they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy”

• Feast of trumpets – New Year (Num. 29)

• Gather Israel (Exo. 19:13; Jdg. 3:27)

• To announce an invading army (Jer. 6:1; Eze. 33:3)

• Sounded on the day of atonement in the year of Jubilee– Lev. 25:8-12 – Release of land – v13– Release of servants – v54