The Minor Prophets Part 1 The Early Prophets: Obadiah, Joel and Jonah Joel ~ יֹואֵל Date: Between 850~835 B.C.
The Minor Prophets
The Minor Prophets Joel’s message: Repent Method: Applied local event to a global occurrence (the immediate was a template of that which was far off) Key Phrase: The Day of The Lord Key Text: Joel 1:13~14 Joel’s “progressive lens”: He used the immediate as a “lens” to reveal the future
The Minor Prophets Israel was experiencing a plague of locusts Joel 1:2~4
The Minor Prophets Israel was experiencing a plague of locusts Joel 1:2~4 Joel 1:4 What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten. Joel 1:5-7
The Minor Prophets Rodney “Gypsy” Smith “Find a piece of chalk, and find an empty room. Go into that room and shut the door. Draw a circle on the floor with that chalk, kneel down in that circle, and ask God to start revival right there.”