Joel

Question 1

Two subtitles:

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“locusts and last days” “The prophet of the day of the Lord”

Question 2

Main content:

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During Joel’s ministry, Judah was struck by a horrible Locust plague. Joel uses the memory of what this plague was like to describe how terrible and how much worse God’s coming judgments were to be if Judah did not repent. He compared the invading locusts to future invading armies.

Question 3

Keyword:

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The day of the Lord

Question 4

Purpose:

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To call Judah to repentance by warning them of the judgment of the coming day of the Lord

Question 5

Importance and distinctives:

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While Obadiaj was the first to mention, Joel was the first to develop the prophetic theme of the day the Lord. The day of the Lord refers prophetically to the time of God’s judgment of the nations during the great tribulation and at the battle of Armageddon, as well as to His establishment of His millennial kingdom after this event. Generally the day of the Lord may prefer to several pass judgments of God on nations which pre-figure the coming judgment, but specifically, it refers to the future judgment of God on the world.

Question 6

Why is Joel known as the prophet of Pentecost?

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Because his words are quoted by Peter on that occasion. Joel speaks of the tribulation, the battle of Armageddon, Christ return, and the millennial reign of Christ.

Question 7

Be familiar with the day of the Lord in Joel: the day of judgment

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A day of morning a day of judgment a day of history including judgments on Israel and Judah judgments on Gentile nations

Question 8

Be familiar with the day of the Lord in Joel: the day of prophecy including

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Judgment on Russia and her allies the great tribulation the battle of Armageddon the return of Christ the millennial reign of our lord

Question 9

Know the meaning of the former and latter rain inJoel 2:23

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God will restore the land of Israel physically. At God’s hand the desert shell blossom as the Rose. God will transform the deserts of Israel into a virtual garden of Eden. This refers both to the immediate healing of the land after the Locust plague and route and to the later total restoration of the land during the millennium.

Question 10

It should be noted that the former and latter rains of verse 23, referral in context to

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literal rain. These are the fall October and spring April rains essential to growing crops they had been absent during this drought and we’re going to be restored after Israel’s repentance, as promised in Deuteronomy 11:13–14

Question 11

Be familiar with the great outpouring of the Spirit in Joel: the time of this prophecy

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And it shall come to pass afterwards. After God removes the northern invasion of Russia which occurs after the rapture. After Israel is restored to God spiritually which occurs at the end of the tribulation. After God restores Israel physically which occurs at the beginning of the millennium.

Question 12

Be familiar with the great outpouring of the Spirit in Joel: the outpouring of this prophecy

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I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh. Joel hear from us is a universal outpouring of the Holy Spirit at the beginning of the millennial kingdom. All the people of the world will receive this divine outpouring accompanied by visions, dreams and prophecies. Christ will speak directly with all the inhabitants of the earth during the kingdom age.

Question 13

Be familiar with the great outpouring of the Spirit in Joel: When the fulfillment of this prophecy takes place

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The for filament of this prophecy is there for at the beginning of the millennium, after the rapture, after the tribulation, after Armageddon, and after the second coming.

Question 14

The four outpouring of the Spirit

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The omnipresent spirit ministering from creation to Pentecost is his old testament ministry primarily on the nation of Israel. The spirit out ford on the church at Pentecost is his new testament ministry the spirit and the church removed from carrying out his new testament ministry at the rapture. The spirit outpoured and Israel and all flash after the second coming at the beginning of the millennial kingdom in an improved old testament type ministry

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Be familiar with the great outpouring of the Spirit in Joel: the judgments of this prophecy

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I will show wonders in the heavens the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the day of the Lord. These events clearly occur during the tribulation. The common Pentecostal charismatic interpretation of this passage as referring to their movement as being the latter rain of 2:23 is therefore seem to be Erroneous.

Question 16

The Pentecostal charismatic view of latter rain cannot be correct for the following reasons:

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Joel’s outpouring will not occur until after Jerde the rapture, the tribulation, the second coming, the repentance and restoration of Israel, and the beginning of the millennium. This outpouring will be on all flash and can DOS only occur at a time when all the inhabitants of the earth will be saved. This cannot be for filled until the beginning of the millennium, when all the lost have been cast into hell.

Question 17

The rain in verse 23 refers, as we have seen, to literal rain and it’s not a part of the prophecy about the outpouring of the Spirit because

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It is rather a prophecy of the physical restoration of the land of Israel. Supernatural agricultural blessings are promised during the millennium.

Question 18

When will Armageddon be fought

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Four, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I should bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem. Answer at a time when Israel is restored from captivity.

Question 19

What date did Israel become a nation again

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The first step of this restoration of Israel took place on May 14, 1948