Life-Study of Joel

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The Introductory Word and the Day of Jehovah _{msg. 1}

I. The introductory word
A. The meaning of the name Joel
B. The time of Joel’s ministry
C. The object of Joel’s ministry
D. The place of Joel’s ministry
E. The subject
F. The central thought
G. The revelation concerning Christ
1. In His coming with His overcomers as the mighty ones to defeat Antichrist and His Army
2. In His judgment of the nations
3. In His dwelling in the holy mountain of Zion within Jerusalem to reign among Israel
H. The sections
II. The day of Jehovah
A. The day of Jehovah in Joel being the day of the Lord in the New Testament
B. The Lord’s judgment for His governmental dealing
C. The day of the Lord being the day in which the Lord judges
D. The final day of Jehovah (the Lord) beginning at the sixth seal and ending at the judgment of the great white throne
1. The natural calamities of the sixth seal
2. The severer calamities of the first four trumpets
3. The first woe, the fifth trumpet
4. The second woe, the sixth trumpet
5. The third woe, the seventh trumpet
a. The evil and malignant sore of the first bowl
b. In the second bowl the sea becoming blood like that of a dead man
c. In the third bowl the rivers and springs becoming blood
d. In the fourth bowl the sun burning men with fire
e. In the fifth bowl the kingdom of Antichrist becoming darkened
f. In the sixth bowl there being the war of Armageddon
g. The unprecedented earthquake of the seventh bowl
6. All the calamities, plagues, and woes from the sixth seal to the seventh bowl constituting the great ribulation, the hour of trial
a. The religious Babylon the Great being destroyed
b. The two witnesses
c. Antichrist blaspheming God and making war with the saints and overcoming them
7. Satan being bound for a thousand years and cast into the abyss
8. Christ ruling the nations with an iron rod for one thousand years
9. The burning of the rebellious people and the casting of the devil into the lake of fire
10. The judgment of the great white throne
E. The heavens and the earth being renewed

The Content (1) _{msg. 2}

I. The plague of the locusts (the nations)
A. The seriousness of the prophecy
1. A message for the elders among the people and for all the inhabitants of the land
2. The cutting locust, the swarming locust, the licking locust, and the consuming locust
B. The coming up of a nation, mighty and without number, against the land of Jehovah
1. Likened to one kind of locust in four stages
2. Further likened to the great human image in four sections
3. Further likened to four beasts
4. Likened ultimately to four horns
5. To devastate the land of Jehovah
6. From Nebuchadnezzar, the first king of the Babylonian Empire, to the last Caesar of the Roman Empire

The Content (2) _{msg. 3}

II. The turn of Jehovah to His elect, Israel
A. Wanting them to turn to Jehovah their God
1. With all their heart
2. With fasting, weeping, and mourning
3. Rending their hearts and not their garments
4. Blowing a trumpet in Zion
5. Sanctifying a fast
6. Calling a solemn assembly
7. Letting the priests weep between the porch and the altar
B. Desiring to bless His own land
1. With the rich produce of the land
2. By the rains
3. By driving away from the people the enemies sent by God as His great army
C. Willing to save them
1. By pouring out His Spirit upon them
2. Through their calling on the name of Jehovah
3. Accompanied by the natural calamities of the sixth seal and the first four trumpets
4. Before the fifth trumpet, the first of the three woes
III. The judgment of Christ upon the nations
A. At the valley of Jehoshaphat
B. To recompense the nations’ mistreatment of Israel during the great tribulation
IV. The victory of Christ with His overcomers over the nations and His reign among Israel in the age of restoration
A. Christ with His overcomers defeating Antichrist and his armies at Armageddon
B. Christ reigning among Israel on the holy mountain of Zion within Jerusalem
C. Christ being a shelter and a stronghold to the children of Israel
D. In the restoration
1. The mountains dropping down fresh wine and the hills flowing with milk
2. All the waterways of Judah flowing with water
3. A fountain going forth from the house of Jehovah to water the land
E. All the surrounding enemies of Israel being punished

The Controlling Prophecy of the Four Locusts in the Book of Joel _{msg. 4}

The difference between Daniel and Joel
The four kinds of locusts denoting the four sections of human government
The four kinds of locusts consuming the nation of Israel
Through the roman locusts God’s redemption and the preaching of the gospel being carried out
The three things that are taking place on earth today
God and the Bible both being real
The need for a clear view concerning three matters
The present age
Where we are
Our goal as members of the Body of Christ
Taking the overcoming way

The Four Factors in the Book of Joel _{msg. 5}

The first factor — the consuming of the locusts
The second factor — the suffering of Israel
God’s purpose concerning the suffering factor
God’s use of the consuming factor
The third factor — the beneficiaries
The fourth factor — the principle of restoration

The Universal History According to God’s Economy—the Divine History within the Human History _{msg. 6}

Two histories — the history of man and the history of God
The divine history within the human history
God’s intention in His economy
The continuation of the divine history
Christ’s incarnation and human living
Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection
Christ’s coming back, the kingdom, and the New Jerusalem
The need for a clear view of the two histories
Born in the human history and reborn in the divine history to live in the divine history in the church life

The History with Man and the History of God in Man _{msg. 7}

The Minor Prophets — a key to understanding the Bible
The Bible being the history of God in two portions
The history of God with man
The history of God in man
The incarnation accomplishing two things
Bringing God into man
Making God one with man
Our involvement with the God-man
Man not taking God’s way
God coming in to chastise His chosen people and to punish the nations
God’s chastisement of Israel and His punishment of the nations affording a way for Christ to be manifested for the restoration of the fallen universe
The lesson for us today
Our failure
Our need for God’s chastisement

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