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Joel and Amos: An Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Joel’s arresting imagery—blasting trumpet, darkened sun and marching hosts—has shaped the church’s eschatological vision of a day of wrath. Amos’s ringing indictments—callous oppression, heartless worship and self-seeking gain—have periodically awakened the conscience of God’s people. Twenty-five-hundred years after they were first born, those prophetic words never fail to awaken and arrest....

seems to be saying is that each neighbour has rebelled enough and more than enough to warrant the Lord’s drastic intervention in its history; therefore, he is entirely justified in bringing calamity upon them.5 Sixth, the accountability of the nations seems to be proportionate to the knowledge of God’s will granted to them: the Gentile neighbours were held responsible for standards of human treatment of one another, not just damage done to Israel; Judah (2:4–5), on the other hand, was judged in terms
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