1. What the Minors Say About Our Majors
Joel 2:12-13
“Even now”, declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning. Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.”

2. Background for Understanding
Speaking to Judah; Amos to Israel
From his present day to the end of time
Appealing to the “priests”
The spiritual “caretakers”
Responsible for the temple worship

3. Background for Understanding
Under judgment for sin
Scourge of locusts and drought
There are not four locusts, rather
The first came (Fall) laid eggs
The second (Spring) are stages of development (hatching, unwinged, winged)
The locusts are the four nations
Tyre, Sidon, Philistia – followed by Assyria

4. Joel’s Day Sound the Alarm – two purposes: Give warning
The Day of the Lord is coming
Call an assembly – repentance
Recover what is lost
Jesus: Sheep, coin, the son
Return to me with all your heart
Rend your heart; not your garments

5. Joel’s Day God’s Character Gracious and compassionate Slow to anger
Abounding in loving kindness
Relenting of evil

6. Our Day Need for Spiritual Leadership
Call for fasting and a solemn assembly
Repentance
John the Baptist – Prepare the Way
We are the End-of-Time Church

7. Our Day “Priests” assert their dutiful position “Early” Church
“Latter” Church

8. Our Day Weep between the “porch and the altar”
From the point of entry to place of ministry
“In Remembrance of Me” – the purpose of the sacrifice is to remember our sin
We focus on grace, not His mercy!
Therefore, we live as we want, not as we ought.

9. The End of Time I will send you grain, new wine and oil (2:18-19)
“You will be satisfied”
“never again reproach among the nations”
We need to hear this with all going on in Islam
His Church is a glorious church

10. The End of Time The latter rain
I will pour out my Spirit on all mankind
Your sons and daughters will prophesy
Your old men dream dreams
Your young men will see visions
Even on servants I will pour out my spirit
Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be delivered

11. The End of Time
I will gather the nations to the valley of Jehoshaphat (3:2)
God will overthrow the powers of darkness
He defeated Satan
He overpowered death and grave

12. The End of Time Spiritual warfare – 3:10
“Beat your plowshares into swords
Your pruning hooks into spears”

13. The End of Time We are a warring Church!
Our warfare is not carnal, but spiritual
Putting on the full armor of God
Having Done all STAND!
We must take the kingdom from Satan in Jesus’ Name
“the ‘violent’ take it by force”

14. Application Satan knows our weak spot
We cannot win the battle with sin in our lives!
God is loving and compassionate – not bent on judgment
Let’s return to the Mercy of God!
“Be merciful to me a sinner. . .”

15. Application Let’s do our spiritual battle
Believing for the Latter Rain
Fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit
Let’s look for the “New thing”
The outpouring will not look like the past!