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Joel 1:1-12

The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel:

Hear this, you elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers? Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation. What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten. Awake, you drunkards, and weep, and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth. For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and beyond number; its teeth are lions’ teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness. It has laid waste my vine and splintered my fig tree; it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down; their branches are made white. Lament like a virgin wearing sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth. The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the Lord. The priests mourn, the ministers of the Lord. The fields are destroyed, the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the wine dries up, the oil languishes. Be ashamed, O tillers of the soil; wail, O vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. The vine dries up; the fig tree languishes. Pomegranate, palm, and apple, all the trees of the field are dried up, and gladness dries up from the children of man.

What is a Prophet?

Who were “The Prophets”?

Joel

Suffering the Wrath of God

GROUP STUDY

MEMORIZE

Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.
Joel 1:3

READ

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REVIEW

What are the five elements of a prophet?

What separates an ancient prophet from a modern pastor?

Who were the Old Testament prophets?

What are some differences between Joel and the other prophets?

REFLECT

Go through the four acts of suffering and share how you’ve seen this in your life.

Share one thing you learned or were encouraged by through this week’s passage.

RESPOND

What’s one thing you can implement this week from the sermon?