0 Joel : Absurdity

How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed. 1:18

Trivia: According to Joel 3, where does God live?

Joel : Absurdity (12)

  1. "Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth." 1:5
  2. "He hath ... barked my fig tree." God hates figs. 1:7
  3. "Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth." 1:8
  4. "Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth." 1:13
  5. The animals are perplexed and cry out to God after he torments them by burning their food and drying up the rivers. 1:18-20
  6. "A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness"
    "The day of the Lord" will be dark and gloomy -- like a northern Idaho spring day. 2:2
  7. There will be earthquakes, the sun and the moon will be dark, and the stars will no longer shine. 2:10
  8. "Therefore also now, saith the LORD ... rend your hearts, and not your garments." 2:12-13
  9. God says he will repay Israel for the damage the locusts caused -- which he sent! And they will "praise the name of the Lord." 2:25-26
  10. "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood." These "signs" were a lot more impressive before the causes of solar and lunar eclipses were understood. 2:31
  11. "The day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand." 1:15, 2:1, 3:14
  12. The Lord will roar and the heavens and earth will shake. 3:16

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