Day of the Lord Message:
Joel 2:6—Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
Rev. 11 shows that the people rejoice over the witnesses when they are killed, because they had tormented the people who dwelt on the earth.
Joel 2:9—They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
Here is the coming like a thief. Here is where we are tearing down the ‘wall’ of old whore Babylon.
Isaiah 33:v1–tells the Babylon, treacherous dealers (false church)–that when they finish dealing treacherously, they will be dealt treacherously with. That is when we do to them as they have done.
v2–God’s people ask for his protection in time of trouble.
v3–shows this is the lifting up of Jesus as he scatters the nations.
v4—And your spoil shall be gathered LIKE the gathering of the caterpillar: as the running to and fro of LOCUSTS shall HE run upon them.
Now, this shows God’s people doing as the caterpillar of Joel one did; it shows us running to and fro as in Joel 2:9-
See that it said Jesus would run on them AS LOCUST? This is the locust of Rev. 9.
v5—He hath filled Zion (the Church) with judgment and righteousness.
v14–shows the hypocrites and sinners in Zion are afraid. v15- shows that the righteous are the ones who can dwell with this fire.
Isaiah 13 also deals with this ministry of the witnesses.
v2–tells us to go into the gates of the nobles.
v3—I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones (Joel’s army of cp. 2)–for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
v4–The noise of a MULTITUDE (now see, this does away with this theory of the witnesses being just 2 people)—in the mountains, like as of a GREAT PEOPLE; (look back at Joel 2–the greatest people ever)— a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together; the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
v5—They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to DESTROY the WHOLE LAND.
v6—Howl ye; for the DAY OF THE LORD is at hand; it shall come as a DESTRUCTION FROM THE ALMIGHTY.
Now, here is another Scripture describing the Day of the LORD as a day of destruction; not a day of the week for worship.
v8—And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; (their travail) they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
v9—Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, CRUEL both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall DESTROY the sinners thereof out of it.
v10—(this happens under the 6th seal)— For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in HIS going forth, and the moon shall not cause HER light to shine.
v11–And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity…
this is the wrath of the Lamb.
Jere. 50:v9–tells of Jesus calling up his mighty people against Babylon. said “their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
This is Joel’s army. Check it and see.
v10—shows this is the spoil Jesus was taking in Isa. 33.
v17–identifies those who drove God’s people away as being lions.
c25—The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord God of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
Now, see how this says what Isa. did that we are the ‘weapons’ of the Lord. Both prophets say the same thing.
v29—calls together the archers against Babylon (same as Joel’s mighty army).
v42—identifies this group as those on the horses.
The next few chapters all deal with this; you should study all of this together if you want to really see this.
to be cont.