20:1–13), the prophet calls upon the priests to lament, and proclaim a fast, and gather the people in solemn assembly to bewail the awful day that is coming as a destruction from Shaddai. After the manner of Jehoshaphat, when the combined forces of Moab, Ammon, and Seir were marching against him (2 Chron. It is thus a habit of apocalyptics to represent punitive judgments in a fourfold manner. 24:7 Luke, 21:10, 11, and the four horses of Rev. 6:1–8, the wars, famines, pestilences, and earthquakes of Matt. As a beginning of sorrows in the impending day of Jehovah, this fourfold scourge should be compared with the four riders on different colored horses and the four horns of Zech. One swarm leaves behind another devour (verse 4) until all vegetation is destroyed, and the whole land is left in mourning. 10:1–6, Joel is commissioned to announce a fourfold plague of locusts. The first may again be subdivided into four sections, the second into three, as follows: These two parts may be entitled appropriately: (1) Jehovah’s impending judgments (2) Jehovah’s coming triumph and glory. The second part goes over a portion of the same field again, but delineates more clearly the blessings and triumphs which shall accompany the day of Jehovah (chapters 2:28–3:21 Hebrew text, chapters 3 and 4). Each revelation is accompanied by words of divine counsel and promise (chapters 1:1–2:27). The first part consists of a twofold revelation of judgment. His prophecy is arranged in two leading divisions. We first direct attention to the apocalyptic form and method of the Book of Joel.
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