SwordPlay - S2E11 (ep.47) - Joel 1

- Who wrote the book of Joel? When?

- Who was Joel written to?

- What was the occasion and purpose of the book?

- What New Testament connections are there in Joel?

- Why are they commanded to tell multiple generations? (v.3)

- Why are there so many types of locusts described? Are these real locusts? (v.4)

- Who are the drunkards? Why would they weep? (v.5)

- Why are the locusts described like a nation and a lion? (v.6)

- What is Yahweh’s vine? (v.7)

- What significance is there in the bridegroom metaphor? (v.8)

- In which Temple are the priests ministering? (9, 13-14)

- Why are the farmers and vinedressers to be ashamed? (v.11)

- Why are they called the “sons of men?” (v.12)

- What significance is there to Yahweh being called “your God?” (v.13ff)

- Why are priests and elders singled out among all the inhabitants of the land? (v.13-14)

- How is the day of the Lord “near” to Joel’s audience? When did it come? (v.15)

- Why is it “food” and not “sacrifice” that is cut off from God’s house? (v.16)

- Why would barns be torn down because of no grain? (v.17)

- Why are cattle and sheep focused on, but not other animals that would suffer? (v.18)

- Why is the phrase “fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness” mentioned twice? (v.19-20)

- Are these actual plagues of locust, drought, famine, and wildfires? When did these things happen?

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