The short book of Joel is often treated as a prelude to the Book of Revelation — a smaller prophetic storm hinting at a larger one. As explored in the previous essay, Revelation is not a geopolitical forecast but a portrait of the spiritual commotion within a person. Joel belongs to the same tradition of inner apocalypse, but it approaches the human soul from a different angle. Joel is the apocalypse of the wounded inner self. Joel reveals the personal psychology of the spiritual battle — the locusts that slowly eat away at joy, the famine of the inner life, the return to honesty, and the valley where God confronts the internal enemies that have ruled a person’s story. Joel not only prepares you to understand Revelation, Joel exists to help you understand yourself.