00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:05 Discussion on Joel Osteen's Book

00:48 Upcoming Sermon and Events

02:00 Daytripper and Podcast Talk

02:48 Addressing Negative Feedback

04:51 Introduction to the Book of Joel

06:15 The Locust Invasion and Its Significance

09:58 Call for Repentance

11:55 God's Judgment and Mercy

13:43 The Millennial Kingdom

14:07 Prophecy and the Day of the Lord

18:44 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

Hey, everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition of

the daily Bible podcasts and Joel.

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In Joel, Joel Osteen's book.

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That's right.

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Is it.

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He wrote this.

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Well, if he did, yeah, he fell

far from the original source.

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Okay, well, That's fair.

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Yeah, because this is not

about your best life now.

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You know what interestingly enough

Joel's book is, is really not about.

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I'm not your best life now.

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Even a little bit not it's

about the day of the Lord.

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Quite a bit.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And, uh, the day of the

Lord is not a pretty scene.

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It's not something that we,

uh, are eagerly anticipating.

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I mean, at least, I guess, as believers

in extent we are, it goes both ways.

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Yeah.

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I'm not anticipating it.

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And that I don't want my

friends, family relatives judged.

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On the other hand, I do want

Jesus to come back right.

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Yeah, but before we get there, Uh, I guess

preacher tonight in student ministry.

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That's right.

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Uh, Louis Azuma, uh, are recently married.

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Ah, man.

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So Haman, Shay, you guys might know him.

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Shay, Shay, previously,

Tomaselli now Zuma.

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Now our here at our church and he's

plugged into true north and he's

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going to be preaching tonight for us.

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And the sermon is called.

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So what it's, it's really clever.

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It's cause it's sow.

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So.

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And he's going to be talking

about Galatians six and what

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that, what that should look like.

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And I mean, I've seen the outline.

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Uh I'm I'm excited to hear it.

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I think it's going to be really fun.

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So I'm excited.

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I'm excited for him.

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Excited for the students is

going to be a great night.

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That's a clever title.

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I'm on the way.

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To a secret location.

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It's two and a half hours away.

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And it may or may not be related to

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Yes.

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We're already planning and I

can't wait to, to let you know,

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hopefully more in the future if

it works out, like I hope it does.

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This could be huge for us.

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You said summer camp location,

and your words were so close

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together that I thought you

coined a new word complication.

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I was like, what does it complication?

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Oh, yeah, I do talk fast and sometimes

the words do no they're together.

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But camp location.

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Location.

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Way more sense.

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Hey, by the way, Daytripper.

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You got you guys listen to that guy.

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You.

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He's awesome.

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I just discovered them recently.

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Oh, you know about it.

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I had no idea who he was.

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How did you, how did we

not talk about him already?

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I don't think we've talked about him.

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How did you know that?

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I I've watched him because my

wife talked to your wife and she

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was like, oh yeah, we know him.

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We've been to some of his places.

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Oh yeah.

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We've we've been following up on all

of his leads, basically at any place.

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Anytime we have a place I want to go

like, oh, what does Daytripper say.

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And so we love this stuff.

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Yeah.

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Oh, so he's basically hired by the

Texas tourism industry to say, go.

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Go to these cities.

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Yeah.

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Find the best spots, put it on your TV

show and then let people know about it.

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But.

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But did you know, I'm about to drop

some info on you that you probably.

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He goes to Preston?

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Nope.

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He has a podcast.

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Oh, does he?

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That's fine.

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Boom.

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Ha you didn't know that.

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And he talks about a lot of these

things that he's been been to in

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places that he's gone on a podcast.

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It's fascinating.

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One of the things he does on the podcast

though, I thought maybe we should do res

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no, he, uh, he reads the feedback and

criticism from people that write into him.

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Ah, and so he reads the negative comments.

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We never get any negative comments.

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So we've got a couple.

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We never get any.

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Yeah, we've gotten a couple.

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I've gotten, I've deleted every

single one and then we never get them.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Well, good.

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Did you delete it all?

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But he does it in such a lighthearted way.

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Googling.

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One of the most recent ones he did, it was

some guy wrote in, was like, Hey check.

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The star of the show was Texas.

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Not you, nobody wants to watch

you eat food that you're getting

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for free and all these places.

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And so.

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You know, he's, he's

good natured about it.

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He's.

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Probably more so than I

would be, but yeah, I.

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You know what I would like to read them.

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Yeah.

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And see you react to, that would

be my favorite part of this.

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I would read them to you.

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You've never seen them before.

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And then you don't know if it's a

good feedback or a bad feedback,

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then we'll see how you respond to it.

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Fair enough.

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Let's do it.

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Yeah.

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No.

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I, the one I remember is, is,

is pertinent to this weekend.

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Cause somebody told me that I need

to humble myself and wash feet.

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And so you remember that one?

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No.

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We talked about washing feet.

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And I said, it's not about washing feet.

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And they said, uh, you need to humble

yourself and wash people's feet.

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I wonder if that guy's still listening.

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If he is, Hey, send us another email.

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I haven't washed anybody's

feet in the meantime.

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So, but this weekend, but

this weekend you might be, uh,

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you know, As an illustration.

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Uh, probably not.

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Louis has Zuma, speaking of volunteered

his feet to be used as part of

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your illustration for washing feet.

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Okay, well, I'm not going to, so, but

if you decide to as, as kind of an

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illustration of what you're talking about,

no, but I did tell Kelly, I said we should

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get bowls of water and soap and rags and

put them on our everybody's seat so that

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when they show up at church this week,

when they figure out what passage I'm

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preaching on, they can just feel really

uncomfortable for the rest of the sermon.

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Yeah, that would be really funny.

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Do you really?

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But then yeah.

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Then the summer would lose its impact.

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I don't know.

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It may cause they'd be tense

the whole time they would be.

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And your point number three can be

wash and then everything else is blink.

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Yeah.

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And then, you know, I have

to wait till the third point.

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Yeah.

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People getting up and walking

out halfway through point to you.

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I'm out.

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I got two out of three.

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I'm good enough.

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Bye-bye.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Well, let's jump into something

that's not about foot washing or

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complaints or criticism at all.

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And that's the book of Joel.

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Joel.

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All right.

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What do we know about Juul?

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Well, uh, not a lot, not a lot

is known about Joel at all.

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He's the son of a guy named

Well, what do we know about?

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Bethuel less than we know about Joel.

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Um, because Bethuel did not write any

Bible, so we don't have anything from him.

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So we don't know.

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As we know much.

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And the other thing that's difficult

about Juul is there's no time

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references given in the introduction.

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He's not saying, Hey, I'm receiving

this word on this month of this

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year of this reign of this king.

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He just, he just jumps right in true.

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Um, internal evidence.

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If we could draw any conclusions about

it, we might look to something like

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Joel, three, two, uh, which reads this.

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I will gather all the nations and bring

them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat.

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And I will enter into judgment with

them there on behalf of my people and

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my heritage Israel, because they have.

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Past tense, scattered

them among the nations.

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So we might conclude from that, that this

is either during the XL or post exilic,

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uh, that Joel is writing this prophecy.

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And so that Joel three, two might

give us some inclination there that

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we can't be a hundred percent sure as

to even when this book was written.

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So Joel is a difficult book in that sense.

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But it's also a difficult book

because of the subject matter is

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dealing with the day of the Lord.

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In dealing with the day of

the Lord, he really does.

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Uh, a couple of things here.

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He talks about two forms

of judgment, at least.

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Well that's I guess the question,

is it two forms of judgment?

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Is it one form of judgment?

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The opening chapter is

about innovation of locusts.

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And so when the locusts show

up, they are devastating.

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So this is chapter one,

verses two through 20.

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Uh, this seems to be.

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A literal invasion of locust and they

wreak havoc on the land as an omen of

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the judgment that was going to come

at the hands of Israel's enemies.

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And the reaction from the people.

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Uh, after this is one of mourning

and sorrow and fasting and lamenting.

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Uh, the destruction in the

foreboding, Dave, the Lord that

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was going to eventually come.

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And so this invasion of locus,

locus, significant for Israel.

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Uh, they'd be significant for us too.

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I mean, it would devastate the

agriculture of our country, but Israel

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is particularly an agrarian culture.

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It's a culture that thrives

on farming and they, they are

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dependent on that for their.

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Their wellbeing today, as much as it

was back then, but especially back then.

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Uh, and so this would have been a

devastating blow to the people of

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Israel and their wellbeing here.

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And that was kind of the

point of chapter one.

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Hey.

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Uh, listen, this is a sign.

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This is an omen of what's coming.

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In fact, it's going to

be way worse than this.

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This is going to be bad, but

this is going to be way worse.

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Uh, chapter one includes as well in.

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In response to this, a call for mourning

and sorrow and lament and repentance.

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Less they end up.

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Falling prey to an even greater

judgment and an even greater

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degree of judgment when God.

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Uh, it comes upon them in the future.

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Dave, the Lord.

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Yeah, I would agree with you.

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This is, uh, this forecast that

the judgment that is yet to come.

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So consider it maybe a pre

shock instead of an aftershock.

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The low rumbling that God is using to

awaken his people, to the coming wrath.

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That is to be poured out.

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One thing I noticed though, in the

second half of chapter one is that as he

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says, look, the day of the Lord is near.

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This is an evidence of that.

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But in verse 18, he says,

look how the beast grown.

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The herds of the cattle are perplexed

because there was no pasture for them.

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Even the flocks of the sheep suffer.

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Uh, verse 20, even the beast of the

field pant for you because the water

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Brooks are dried up and fire has

devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

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I see an innate connection

between man's destiny N uh,

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creations, the animal's destiny.

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And I don't think that there are

parallel in terms of importance.

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Obviously, we talked about that.

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Mankind is unique in that

we possess the image of God.

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But God has wrapped up our destiny

with the animals, destiny, and saying,

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look, when the day of the Lord comes,

it's not just going to affect you.

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It's going to affect all creation,

the animals, the plants, the

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trees, and everything else.

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Because remember in Genesis chapter three,

when God cursed, man, he also cursed the

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ground and that included all of creation.

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So the animals are wrapped

up in mankind's destiny.

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I think that's interesting

and worth noting.

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Chapter two, then turns a corner.

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It turns a page and introduces an perhaps.

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Another scene here where, uh,

you have, uh, another army of

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destruction that perhaps is not

the locus, but is the people.

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And so there's, the commentators are

split on this PR curious to get your

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thoughts on this, but something that this

is just a continuation of the locusts.

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Others think this is no, this is the army.

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This is a literal army.

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That's being depicted in chapter two.

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Um, where do you fall on that?

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I think this is a

continuation of the locust.

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That was my initial read.

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I can see that now that

you mentioned that night.

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Yeah.

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It's been a minute since I've

dug into that, but I think it's

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a continuation of the locusts.

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Yeah.

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In.

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And either way it.

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I don't think there's error

or there's there's danger.

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If you're reading, somebody

says, no, I think this is people.

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And you're like, oh, okay.

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Um, it's it's interesting.

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Verse four there, their appearance is like

the appearance of horses, like or horses.

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They run.

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Like a powerful army drawn up for battle.

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And so the metaphor is there

a verse seven, like warriors,

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they charge like soldiers.

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They scale the wall.

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They March on his way.

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They do not swerve from their paths.

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And so that metaphorical language may

imply that, yeah, this is still the locust

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that they're not, they aren't warriors,

they aren't soldiers, they aren't horses.

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They aren't the powerful army, but

they're like all of those things.

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And so that's, that's possible.

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Uh, Verses 12 through 13, then

more significantly in chapter

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two, Judah is implored to repent.

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Yet even now declares the Lord return

to me with all your heart, with fasting

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weeping morning, and that with all your

heart is important, that that comes

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before the fasting, weeping and mourning.

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Because if it was just the fasting weeping

morning and rending of the garments and

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Israel had done that before, but it was

the internal that God was after, right?

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The broken spirit and a contract

heart, a Lord, you will not despise.

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And so in chapter 12, The UR verse 12.

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The call for repentance with

the whole heart is important.

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More so than the fasting, weeping

and mourning, the fasting weeping

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and mourning are born out of the

right heart before God there.

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And then verse 13, he can continue

to return to the Lord, your God for

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he's gracious and merciful and slow to

anger and abounding in steadfast love.

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And he relents over disaster.

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It almost stood out to me as, as like,

this is out of place in this book.

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And in this chapter, this idea of God is

gracious and merciful, slow to anger and

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abounding in steadfast love relenting

over disaster because it doesn't.

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Fit with the rest of the damage

and the destruction and judgment

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that is so prevalent in the rest

of, of at least chapter two.

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Yeah, I think Joel is communicating a

connection of continuity to the covenant.

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Whenever you see someone cite this in

the old Testament or even in the new.

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Uh, this language is always referring

back to the Exodus 34 communication.

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The Lord passed before Moses and

proclaimed the Lord, the Lord God

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merciful and gracious, slow to

anger and abounding in steadfast.

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Love and faithfulness.

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Keeping steadfast love for

thousands for getting iniquity

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and transgression and sin.

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But who am I?

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No means clear the guilty.

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So sometimes I think an author will

allude to a passage and tending to

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say, remember all of that, bring that

context into what we're saying here.

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So I think he's always trying to

communicate, look, God is merciful and

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gracious and God is willing to forgive.

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If you're willing to repent.

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I don't think that's going to happen.

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Obviously Israel has a long and sorted

history of an unwillingness to repent, but

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I think that's always in the background.

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And I think often the prophets utilize

that language and say, look God.

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So God's always here.

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Always willing.

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Are you willing?

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Yeah.

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Uh, rest of chapter 2, 18 32, then.

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God is going to remember his

people and act out of jealousy

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for his name on their behalf.

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So as much as the day of the Lord was

a terrifying thing and that would come.

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The local store there.

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You also had the short-term day, the

Lord with the judgment coming from the

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nations against Israel, that they were

suffering and exile, but the future day,

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the Lord with, with, uh, the antichrist

in the tribulation period and everything

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else, that's going to come in the future.

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But, but still.

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Oh, God is going to remember as people

like you were talking about that

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covenant love of the Lord for his people.

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And he was going to act out of

jealousy for his name on their behalf.

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And he makes that clear.

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He says, look, when I do these things,

no that I'm not doing it for you and

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for your sake, but I'm doing it for,

for my name that all might see that

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I'm the Lord, their God, your God.

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And there's no one else.

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And so.

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Um, got us is not going

to turn his people over.

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This is not complete devastation

and complete hopelessness for the

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people, but there is a hope there in

the second part of chapter two, that

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God is going to act for his people.

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And for his name.

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Chapter three then, uh, verses one

through 16 in accordance with that,

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the Lord is going to judge the nations

for their sins against his people.

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Um, and so he talks about that

there and what that judgment is

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going to look like against those

nations and what they had done.

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So he's not mentioning names

that we've read before.

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Uh, The tire insight.

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And Philistia, uh, some of those

that are showing up there that, that

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he's saying he's going to judge them.

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And by the way, he mentioned the

valley of Jehoshaphat in verse two.

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That's.

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Uh, we don't exactly know entirely what

that is or where that is, but Jehoshaphat

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is, is an idea of, of judgment.

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Um, and it's associated with his

judgment and his final judgment.

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And so that could be, uh, the value

of genome that could be the, the, the

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valley there, where the bodies are

going to be stacked up in the end,

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as we've read another prophecies.

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But we're not exactly sure where

that particular value is going to

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be located in the entire, but God

is going to judge the nations.

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That's the point there in the first

part of chapter three, at least.

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Last part of chapter three,

then is the millennial kingdom.

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At verses 17 through 21 is a description

of what life is going to be like there.

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What the, what the future of Judah

is going to be like during that time

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she's going to be holy Jerusalem is

Judah is going to be inhabited forever.

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Verse 20 Jerusalem to all generations,

he's going to avenge their blood.

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Uh, it's, it's a picture of God's

restorative mercies in, in grace, upon his

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people there in the end of chapter three.

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All right.

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So a couple of follow up questions here.

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Uh, let me go back to

chapter two for a second.

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Here.

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Some people are going to use this

section, which Peter cites in his sermon.

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Uh, and it's the famous section and

it shall come to pass afterward.

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This is verse.

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28 and chapter two, it shall come to

pass afterward that I will pour out

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my spirit on all flesh, your sons

and your daughters shall prophesy.

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Your old men shall dream dreams.

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Your young men shall see visions.

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Even on the male and the female servants

in those days, I will pour out my spirit.

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So this clearly is forecasting.

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The future.

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Peter takes it and says, this is

being fulfilled among you now.

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Some people read this and say, well,

doesn't this kind of speak to the fact

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that God is going to empower men and

women to, to be leaders in the church.

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If that's the spirit is

filling both of them equally.

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Why would we say that?

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Only men are qualified to

shepherd it to be pastors.

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What would you say to someone like that?

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Not to be turning.

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She can never really live, but I would

say the answer is because the new

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Testament tells us that that's what it is.

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And what I mean by that is we have

to allow scripture to be governed

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by scripture and we have to let

scripture interpret scripture and

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help us understand what scripture.

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It is intending to mean here.

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Yeah.

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You could take that and apply that and

make that argument and run with it.

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But you'd be neglecting Paul's

instructions to Timothy.

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You'd be neglecting the, the.

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The order of operation within the

church and what God has called

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them, what God has instituted,

what God has put in place here.

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And so, um, we have to understand that.

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And then we're dealing also

with an eschatological.

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Eschatological passage, which partial

fulfillment on the day of Pentecost.

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Yes.

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And historically we look back at

that and we say, okay, that was

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taking place historically on that

day, those things were happening.

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And that's why they say today, this

has been fulfilled in your hearing.

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There's the partial

fulfillment taking place there.

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That doesn't mean that

that's going to be normative.

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And especially in the book, like,

uh, A book, like the book of acts.

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There's the question we have

to ask is this descriptive or

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prescriptive and we'll get there.

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And then not too distant future

in the next couple of months,

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we'll get to the book of acts.

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Uh, but we'll talk about, is this

descriptive or is this prescriptive,

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in other words, is this descriptive

of a unique time and dispensation

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in the life of the church?

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Or is this prescriptive?

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This is something that's supposed to be

normative at all times in all places.

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And I think when you're looking at the

day of Pentecost for a lot of reasons,

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other things included, not just this.

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Uh, that we would point to the events

of the day of Pentecost and say that's

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not prescriptive, but descriptive

of what took place during that time.

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Thank you for that answer.

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Now, following up with that here.

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Uh, and the verses that follow

that particular passage where

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the spirit is poured out.

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Um, Joel says it all show wonders

in the heavens and on the earth,

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blood and fire and columns of smoke.

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The sun shall be turned to darkness

and the moon to blood before the great

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and awesome day of the Lord comes.

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Uh, are we supposed to be

looking for these signs?

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Is there going to be a full moon that

is red and therefore we should kind of

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freak out and expect that God's going

to come and things are going to change.

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W what, what is this referring to?

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And should we be concerned right now?

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You know, Jesus tells us in the

new Testament, Matthew 24, 25,

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I think the Olivette discourse.

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He's talking about the

discerning the times.

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And in.

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So doing w the, the point is that

we would be ready for his return.

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The point whenever we're called to discern

the times, whenever we're called to look

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and find out what's coming in the future,

when we're, whenever we're called to.

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To think about the wars and rumors

of wars and so forth and so on.

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It's never so that in the

end that we would be afraid

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and frightened and panicking.

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But it really is in the end that we

would be ready for the return of Christ.

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And so if we're going to look to the

skies and say, is there a blood moon?

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Is there anything else like that?

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Uh, th th the point is not,

let's write another best seller

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for the eschatological playlist.

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The point is, Hey, no, we need to be ready

for the return of Christ at any time.

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That's his whole point.

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And even in the parables that he

tells, he tells the parable about the.

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The unwise virgins that didn't

have their lamps ready to wait

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for the coming of the bridegroom.

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He talks about the, the wicked servant.

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That's not found doing what his master

called him to do when he left him that

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when he returns, he's going to find his

wicked servant or the slumbering servant.

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Th th that's that's our point

about the, in times we need to be

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ready for the return of Christ.

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And so as you're looking around

going, oh, no, I heard on the news.

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There's going to be a blood moon.

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Oh, I need to be afraid.

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You don't need to be afraid if you're

in Christ, you don't need to be afraid.

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You need to be ready for his return

and found doing what he wants

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you to do, which is the church.

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It was to be faithful,

to carry out his mission.

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Well, I take comfort in the fact that

those signs, if they do show up, if

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we were to be witness to them, it says

that they're going to happen before the

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great and awesome day of the Lord comes.

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So let's suppose that

we do see those things.

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Um, all the wars, the rumors of

wars, the blood moons and whatever

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else there is happening out there.

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As you said it's to help prompt

us to make sure that we are ready.

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We're always ready.

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Uh, Jesus said like a thief in the night.

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He would he be coming, so we need to

be ready in the same way that we'd

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be ready for a thief in the night.

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We don't know when he's coming.

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We don't know what time he's coming.

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We shouldn't be ready all the time and

the way that we get ourselves ready

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by being men and women of the word,

studying it, understanding it being

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men and women of prayer, actively

engaged in our church in hastening.

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The day of Jesus Christ.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Well, speaking of that, let's pray.

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And then we will be done with another

episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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God, we thank you for your word.

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And we thank you for the surety

and the certainty of your future.

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Uh, return for your bride, the church.

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And we look forward to that day and yet

we want to be found ready for that day.

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We don't want to shrink

and shame at that day.

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We want to be found doing

what you've called us to do.

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So we pray that you would

enable us to do that.

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And we pray that it would be found

faithful doing that when you do.

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come back and we pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep it in your Bibles tune in tomorrow

for another episode of the daily Bible

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