JOEL OUTLINE

A. Ralph Johnson

Key thought: Punished by Locust Plague. 

Concerning Judah, the Southern Kingdom. 

Date unknown.  Barnes Notes places it around 800 BC.  Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Commentary, B.C. 870-865.

CHAPTERS &

KEY WORDS

OUTLINE

3ch(2) (brief)

1: Locusts

INTRO: (1:1)

I.        LOCUST PLAGUE   (1:1—2:27)

A.      Sound the alarm

1.        Hear this ye old men (2-4)

2.        Awake ye drunkards (5-7)

3.        Lament like a virgin for the husband of her youth (8-12)

4.        Gird yourselves and lament (13-14)

5.       Alas for the day of Jehovah is at hand (15-20)

2: Trumpets

6.        Blow the trumpets in Zion (1-3)

B.       Enemy described (4-11)

C.       Call to repentance (12-32)

1.        Turn and repent (12-14)

2.        Call a solemn assembly (15-17)

3.        Then Jehovah will remove the plague (18-20)

4.        Jehovah will restore the rain and the crops (21-27)

 

II.      COMING DAY OF SALVATION (2:28—3:21)

A.      Promise of the coming of Jehovah’s Spirit (28-32)

[MESSIANIC] See Acts 2:16-21.

3: Captives
  1. God will rescue his people from captivity of their enemies (1-8)
  2. Warning: Jehovah is coming to fight! (9-13)
  3. The day of Jehovah is near (14-17)

“Multitudes in the valley of decision”

  1. Triumph and cleansing for Judah and Jerusalem (18 -21)