THE LOCUSTS ARE COMING (1 OF 3)
by Steve Wagers
Scripture: Joel 1:1-20
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Title: The Locusts are Coming (1 of 3)
Series: A Closer Look at the Book: JOEL
Author: Steve Wagers
Text: Joel 1
At 7:38 A.M., December 26, 2004, tectonic plates, off the north-western tip of Indonesia sprang apart with the force of 1000 atomic bombs, triggering 36 earthquakes. It generated a series of tsunami's, at 500 mph, that tore into the coastline of 11 countries.
A UN spokesman said, "This was the greatest natural catastrophe in the world's history." One survivor said, "It is as if someone had pulled out the plug to the earth. If there is, or was a God, it is now mad or dead."
There is a God. He is not mad or dead, but He is Holy, Righteous and when He speaks, we better sit up and pay attention.
Prophets:
?
FORTH-Tellers - INSIGHT
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FORE-Tellers - FORESIGHT
Lamoyne Sharpe: "They appeared at times of crisis in their nation's history as the champions of righteousness. They were the moral conscience of their age. The prophets were men of their time, for all time."
ORIGINAL Prophet - Enoch
OFFICIAL Prophet - Time of Samuel
PRIEST - WORSHIP - SACRED TASK
PROPHET - WARNING - SPOKEN TRUTH
Prophet - "to speak in place/on behalf of another."
PROPHECY is NOT merely PREDICTION.
It is DIRECT INSPIRATION/DIVINE REVELATION
(2 Peter 1:20-21) "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. (21) For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost."
SPEAKING Prophets - Elijah/Elisha
WRITING Prophets - Major (Longer)/Minor (Shorter) Books
There are NO Prophets/Apostles today. God no longer speaks with dreams/visions/signs/wonders.
(Hebrews 1:1-2) "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spakein time past unto the fathers by the prophets, (2) Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds."
We ...
Series: A Closer Look at the Book: JOEL
Author: Steve Wagers
Text: Joel 1
At 7:38 A.M., December 26, 2004, tectonic plates, off the north-western tip of Indonesia sprang apart with the force of 1000 atomic bombs, triggering 36 earthquakes. It generated a series of tsunami's, at 500 mph, that tore into the coastline of 11 countries.
A UN spokesman said, "This was the greatest natural catastrophe in the world's history." One survivor said, "It is as if someone had pulled out the plug to the earth. If there is, or was a God, it is now mad or dead."
There is a God. He is not mad or dead, but He is Holy, Righteous and when He speaks, we better sit up and pay attention.
Prophets:
?
FORTH-Tellers - INSIGHT
?
FORE-Tellers - FORESIGHT
Lamoyne Sharpe: "They appeared at times of crisis in their nation's history as the champions of righteousness. They were the moral conscience of their age. The prophets were men of their time, for all time."
ORIGINAL Prophet - Enoch
OFFICIAL Prophet - Time of Samuel
PRIEST - WORSHIP - SACRED TASK
PROPHET - WARNING - SPOKEN TRUTH
Prophet - "to speak in place/on behalf of another."
PROPHECY is NOT merely PREDICTION.
It is DIRECT INSPIRATION/DIVINE REVELATION
(2 Peter 1:20-21) "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. (21) For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost."
SPEAKING Prophets - Elijah/Elisha
WRITING Prophets - Major (Longer)/Minor (Shorter) Books
There are NO Prophets/Apostles today. God no longer speaks with dreams/visions/signs/wonders.
(Hebrews 1:1-2) "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spakein time past unto the fathers by the prophets, (2) Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds."
We ...
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