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    Joel—“the Day of the Lord”

    The date of the writing of the book of Joel has occasioned much speculation. Many expositors believe that the internal evidence indicates that the country had been successively devastated by locusts, drought, and fire. The prophet, who lived in Jerusalem, graphically pictures the suffering of man and beast, and summons the inhabitants to fasting and prayer that God might send them relief. In answer to their repentance and prayers, God again blessed the land, sending the early and the latter rain in their season, and granting abundant harvests of fruit and grain.AGP 135.2

    But there was a deeper message in the book for future generations. In describing the revival and refreshing which occurred in his own day, he used language that clearly foretells the pouring out of God’s Spirit upon all flesh, bringing to the church of Christ the early and the latter rain. These words were quoted by Peter as partly fulfilled at Pentecost. Acts 2:16-21.AGP 135.3

    “The day of the Lord” is an expression used by Joel, as a time of divine retribution, imminent and present in his own day. But his prophetic eye also took in that great “day of the Lord” when the nations of earth are to assemble in “the valley of Jehoshaphat,” and where they will be destroyed by God’s “mighty ones.” For these awful times, the assurance is granted that “the Lord will be the hope of His people.” Joel 3:16.AGP 136.1

    This prophecy closes with a picture of the peaceful scenes of the new earth, when God’s people, cleansed and purified, shall “dwell forever, … from generation to generation.”AGP 136.2

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