1 / 12

Impending Disaster

Impending Disaster. Joel 2.1-17. Egypt’s Invasion.

lumina
Download Presentation

Impending Disaster

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Impending Disaster Joel 2.1-17

  2. Egypt’s Invasion • Pharaoh Neco put him in chains at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah and changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, and there he died. Jehoiakim paid Pharaoh Neco the silver and gold he demanded. In order to do so, he taxed the land and exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land according to their assessments (2 Kgs 23.33-35; cf.Joel 3.5).

  3. Antiquated Emergency Broadcast System • “‘Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy hill’” (2.1; cf. 2.15). • “Jerusalem, like nearly all ancient cities, had watchmen stationed on its walls to give early warning of danger (Ezek 33:2-4). Here Yahweh is the watchmen’s commander (‘my holy mountain’ cannot point to Joel) ordering them to blow the alarm so that the population of the city will realize its danger. That danger is the long-awaited great Day of Yahweh, when he will intervene not on behalf of, but against Israel” (Stuart 1987: 250).

  4. Day of the Lord

  5. Military Force • innumerable (v.2b), destructive as fire (v.3), strong and agile (vv.4-5), terrifying (v.6), organized (vv.7-8), aggressive (v.9), and devastating • “The LORD thunders at the head of his army; his forces are beyond number, and mighty are those who obey his command” (2.11). • “YHWH’s army will be even more efficient [than the locusts]…[there is] active involvement of YHWH in leading the mighty army” (Crenshaw 1995: 117).

  6. A Repentance How-To • “‘Even now,’ declares the LORD… (2.12a) • ‘return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning’” (2.12).

  7. Bridegroom and Bride • “[chamber] refers to an inner room whose remoteness permitted privacy essential for lovers (Cant 1:4) and whose darkness make it ideal for (clandestine) sexual activity (cf. Judg 15:1; 2 Sam 13:10)” (Crenshaw 1995: 140). • “The exclusionary provision in Deut 20:7 and 24:5 (in legislation) permitting an engaged man, or a newly married man, to postpone military service for a year is nullified under these special circumstances imperiling the Judean community” (Crenshaw 1995: 140).

  8. A Repentance How-To • “‘Even now,’ declares the LORD… (2.12a) • ‘return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning’” (2.12). • “Rend your heart and not your garments” (2.13a). • “Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the ornamented robe she was wearing. She put her hand on her head and went away, weeping aloud as she went” (2 Sam 13.19); • “At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship (Job 1.20).

  9. Grain offerings & Drink offerings

  10. Projecting into the New Testament

  11. Day of the Lord • Joel • “…the day of the LORD is coming. It is close at hand—a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness…the sun and moon are darkened, and the stars no longer shine… The day of the LORD is great; it is dreadful. Who can endure it?” (2.1b-2, 10b, 11c). • Peter • “But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare” (2 Pet 3.10).

  12. Day of the Lord • For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather. Immediately after the distress of those days ‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’ At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other (Mt 24.27-31).

More Related