Joel 2:1 (ESV): “Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming; it is near.” The day of the Lord is a phrase that should put the fear of God into the heart of man. It refers to divine wrath and judgment. Don’t wait to get right with God. The trumpet is sounding—take the warning to heart! Joel is given revelation concerning the wrath to come. He defines the day of the Lord as a time o

Joel 1:13-14 (ESV): “13   Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God. 14  Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.” Repentance is the way back into fellowship with God. We are not saved by rep

Hosea 13:14 (ESV): “I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol; I shall redeem them from Death. O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.” God is all-powerful—nothing is too hard for Him. Just as He can speak things into existence, so too can He rob the grave of those who inhabit it. Death has no power over Him. The Lord, speaking through Hosea, reveals the detriment of sin. It produces death—both spiritually and physic