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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....

(2:28–3:21), Yahweh both calls on the people to recognize his presence in their midst (the recognition formula, you shall know that …; cf. Ezek. 2:5; 5:13; 6:7, 10, 13–14, etc.) and introduces himself to them in exclusive terms (the self-introduction formula, I am Yahweh, your God; cf. Isa. 45:5–6, 18, 22; 46:9; Hos. 12:9; 13:4; note the there is none else claim to absolute sovereignty). The uniqueness of God and his presence among his people—these are the solid joys and lasting treasures which only
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