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Joel 1:1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel: Hear this, you elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We know very little about the prophet Joel. All we are told concerning him is in Joel 1:1, \u201cThe word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.\u201d Joel means \u201cJehovah is God,\u201d and it was a very common name. There have been some people who have jumped to the conclusion that the prophet Joel was a son of Samuel because 1 Samuel 8:1\u20132 says, \u201cAnd it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel. Now the name of his firstborn was Joel \u2026\u201d But if we read further the next verse tells us, \u201cAnd his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment\u201d (1 Sam. 8:3). Samuel\u2019s son could not have been the same as the prophet Joel.<\/p>\n

Joel\u2019s theme is \u201cthe day of the LORD.\u201d He makes specific reference to it five times: Joel 1:15; 2:1\u20132; 2:10\u201311; 2:30\u201331; and 3:14\u201316. Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel all refer to the Day of the Lord. Sometimes they call it \u201cthat day.\u201d Zechariah particularly emphasizes \u201cthat day.\u201d What is \u201cthat day\u201d? It is the Day of the Lord, or the Day of Jehovah. Joel is the one who introduces the Day of the Lord in prophecy. Yonder from the mountaintop of the beginning of written prophecy, this man looked down through the centuries, seeing further than any other prophet saw\u2014he saw the Day of the Lord.<\/p>\n

The Day of the Lord is a technical expression in Scripture which is fraught with meaning. It includes the millennial kingdom which will come at the second coming of Christ, but Joel is going to make it very clear to us that it begins with the Great Tribulation period, the time of great trouble. If you want to set a boundary or parenthesis at the end of the Day of the Lord, it would be the end of the Millennium when the Lord Jesus puts down all unrighteousness and establishes His eternal Kingdom here upon the earth.<\/p>\n

The Day of the Lord is also an expression that is peculiar to the prophets of the Old Testament. It does not include the period when the church is in the world, because none of the prophets spoke about a group of people who would be called out from among the Gentiles, the nation Israel, and all the tribes of the earth, to be brought into one great body called the church which would be raptured out of this world. The prophets neither spoke nor wrote about the church.<\/p>\n

J Vernon MeGee: Study notes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joel 1:1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel: Hear this, you elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land! We know very little about the prophet Joel. All we are told concerning him is in Joel 1:1, \u201cThe word of the LORD that came to Joel the son … Continue reading “9. Hear this, you elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6913,984,180,2244,13209,13210,532],"class_list":["post-83490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-elders","tag-give-ear","tag-hear","tag-inhabitants","tag-joel","tag-pethuel","tag-word-of-the-lord"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83560,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83490\/revisions\/83560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}