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Prophet of the Coming Day of the Lord: The Message of Joel is unavailable, but you can change that!

For such a short book, the prophecy of Joel deals with weighty matters that continue to have significance even today. The certainty and severity of God’s judgments that are to fall first on God’s own people and then on all the nations of the world, and the prominence of the Day of the Lord in the purposes and plans of God, all display the Lordship of God in human history. Joel summons God’s...

How should a person respond to the announcement that this day is coming? In particular, what should God’s own people do in anticipation of this coming day of judgement? Presumably this day came in Joel’s lifetime just as the word of the Lord predicted. But what should be done in anticipation of the fact that the Day of the LORD will come again in its fuller, more definitive form? Joel provides straightforward instructions: God’s people should repent and return to the Lord. Nothing else will serve
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