Joel

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Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe
Scripture: Joel

CHIASTIC STRUCTURE
Joel 1 — LAMENT | Looking Back on the Locust Plague
Joel 2:1-11 — WARNING | Looking Forward to the Northern Army
Joel 2:12-19 — RETURN | Remembering the Covenant of the Lord
RESCUE and RESTORATION
Joel 2:28-32 — The Promise of BLESSING
Joel 3 — The Promise of JUDGEMENT

Duane Garrett
Joel used the immediate crisis facing the original audience to move toward eschatological and ultimate issues.

Malachi 3:2 (ESV)
But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.

Hebrews 12:28 (ESV)
Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe,

Psalm 51:17 (ESV)
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Psalm 34:17–18 (ESV)
When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears
and delivers them out of all their troubles.
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted
and saves the crushed in spirit.

Acts 2:37–39 (ESV)
Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”

Romans 5:8 (ESV)
but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Philippians 1:6 (ESV)
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.