The Book of Joel The Locusts Are Coming
The Book of Joel The Locusts Are Coming!
Joel prophesies locusts are coming to destroy Israel! 11. The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. 2. “Hear this, you old men, and give ear, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? Tell your children, 3. . and let your children tell their children, are sameanother locusts that come and. These their children generation. ” up from the abyss in Rev. 9
The Hebrew Reveals the Identities of the Locusts 4. “That which the palmerworm has left, Palmerworm = gazam is same root as Gaza Today Gaza is home of Hamas the locust has eaten; and that which the locust has left…” arbeh is the same root as Arab
“…the cankerworm has eaten; and that which the cankerworm has left, Cankerworm = laqlaq …the caterpillar has eaten”. Caterpillar = khasal= Hezbollah “The party of allah”
5 “Awake your drunkards and weep; and howl (yel allah), all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut of from your mouth. ” a 6 “For a nation is come up upon my land (Israel), strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the cheek teeth (meth allah) of a great lion. ” 7 “He has laid My vine (Israel) waste, and barked My fig tree (Israel): he has made it (Israel) clean, bare, and cast (Israel) it away; the branches thereof are made white. ”
Joel Chapter 3 - End Time War Against Jerusalem! 3: 1 “For behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem. ” The 1 st Destruction - King Nebuchadnezzar The King of Babylon laid siege to Jerusalem from 606 to 586 BC. The Jews were massacred or taken as captives to Babylon for 70 years. Solomon’s magnificent Temple was destroyed; Jerusalem was burned. This 1 st Destruction was God’s judgment for idolatry & not keeping the Shemitah for 490 years - fulfilling Daniel Chapter 9: 2426 Exactly on time in 516 BC, God sent Ezra and Nehemiah to rebuild the Temple. The Jews returned, Jerusalem was rebuilt but God’s Chosen People again returned to idolatry!
The 2 nd Time was 70 AD – Rome’s Destruction of Jerusalem! Exactly 40 years after Jesus was crucified, the Roman Prince Titus and the 10 th Legion laid siege to Jerusalem in 70 AD. . The Jews were slaughtered; the 2 nd. Temple was burned, and the city Jerusalem razed to the ground - just as Jesus had prophesied in Matthew 24: 2, exactly on the same day! The Temple Treasure was taken to Rome as spoils of war The remaining Jews were scattered to the nations for almost 2000 years, Hosea 6: 1, 2.
The Second Return Spoken by Joel was May 14, 1948. The collective guilt from the Holocaust, the League of Nations voted “in one day” to give the Jews a land of their own - Israel! “Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in 1 day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. ” Isaiah 66: 8
“and Jerusalem”…… Israel regains control of Jerusalem the 2 nd time on June 7, 1967 after the “Six Day War” Against all odds, tiny Israel conquered her enemies and regained her Holiest place, The Temple Mount - for the 1 st time in almost 2000 years!
Joel 3: 2. “I will gather all nations and will bring them down into the Valley of Jehoshaphat” The Valley of Jehoshaphat is the Kidron Valley right outside Jerusalem and part of the plains of Meggido. Joel is describing the Battle of Armageddon. It is also called The Valley of the Shadow of Death.
“And I will plead with them there for my people and my heritage Israel whom they have scattered among the nations and have parted My land. ” “Parting my land” is the Middle East Peace Process
“And they have cast lots for My People (Israel); and they have given a boy for a harlot and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink. ” The End Time Beast is Islam The Harlot drinking the wine Mystery Babylon Revelation 17 -18
“Yes and what have you to do with Me, O Tyre and Zidon? ” Joel 3: 4 - This is Lebanon - Home of Hezbollah - Shiite Terrorists
“. . . And all the coasts of Palestine”… The Phillistines “Will you render to me a recompence? And if you recompence Me, swiftly & speedily will I recompence you upon your own head. ” This is Gaza now occupied by Hamas
Joel 3: 11 “Assemble yourselves and come all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about. Cause your mighty ones to come down here, O Lord”. “And He gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon” - Rev 16: 16
Joel 3: 12 -13 “”Let the heathen be awakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; For there I will sit to. Judge all the heathen round about. ” “Put in the sickle for the harvest is ripe. Come, get you down: for the press is full, the vats overflow; For their wickedness is great. ”
“Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision. For the day of the Lord is near… The sun and the moon shall be darkened and the stars shall withdraw their shining. ” “The Day of the Lord” Joel 3: 14 -15 God is describing Solar and Lunar Eclipses: • Joel 2: 30; 2: 10 • Isaiah 13: 9 -10; 24: 21 -23; 60: 19 • Ezek 32: 7 • Matt 24: 29 • Mark 13: 24 • Luke 21: 25 -28 • Acts 2: 19, 20 • Rev 6: 12, 13
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