Joel 1:2-5

Has earth ever experienced as many natural disasters as it has in this decade? Every nation has been affected by the devastation wrought by them. We have to wonder what does all this mean? Is it due to man’s failure to take care of what God created and turned over to him to tend OR should we be accessing the times and looking up knowing the time of the end is nearing? Regardless, wisdom would tell us there is an end and God controls eternity and He want no one to perish.....go tell it on the mountains before the new wine of the Holy Spirit and the fruit that only He can produce in man is taken away......  Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation! 

The calamity of recent days was unprecedented in the memory of the people. Many interpreters have viewed this locust swarm as foreign armies that attacked Judah in successive waves—Assyria, Babylon, Greece, and Rome. Yet literal locust plagues were one of the judgments promised if the people disobeyed God and broke their covenant with Him. Further, Joel’s description of the damage done by the locusts compares with eyewitness reports. The impression given is one of overwhelming devastation.

Joel 1:2-5

The Land Laid Waste

² Hear this, you elders, 

And give ear, all you inhabitants of the land! 

Has anything like this happened in your days, 

Or even in the days of your fathers? 

³ Tell your children about it, 

Let your children tell their children, 

And their children another generation. 

⁴ What the chewing locust left, the swarming locust has eaten; 

What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten; 

And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten. 

⁵ Awake, you drunkards, and weep; 

And wail, all you drinkers of wine, 

Because of the new wine, 

For it has been cut off from your mouth.