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Is God responsible for natural disasters? Some would say that He punishes us by sending storms and floods. In Joel’s time, Judah was suffering the after-effects of a severe plague of locusts. Joel was in no doubt that God had sent the locusts to chastise the people of Judah for their sinful lifestyles, an indication of the coming “great and dreadful day of the Lord.” Speaking of the judgment that...

The people of Judah must surely have been cowering under the hammer blows of Joel’s warnings when he passed on God’s declaration, ‘The day of the LORD is great’ (v. 11). They certainly could not ignore these words—particularly after the great calamity that had already descended on them through the swarms of locusts. It would have been understandable if the Lord had turned his back on them. Yet, immediately following the solemn warnings of future judgement, he
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