842 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 2 Book 71 - Alas, the day of the Lord is at hand - 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 2 * BOOK 71 ALAS, THE DAY OF THE LORD IS AT HAND - 2 Joel 1:1-15 For those of you joining us on television, again, we just want to thank you from the depths of our heart for all your kind letters. My, I wish I could share our letters with everybody. You know the favorite theme? I may be 30 years old, some are 40, 50, 60, 70 years old, it doesn’t matter how old they claim to be – “For the first time in my life I am understanding the Bible! And I’m enjoying it.” Well, that thrills us; because that’s all we want to do, just help folks to study on their own. Don’t sit back and listen to what I say or what some preacher says, get into the Book. This is where it’s at. You know, I can twist things if I wanted to. Other people twist it, you know they do, but the Word is sure. It’s steadfast. It’s unchangeable. That’s what we hope we are accomplishing. Again, we want to thank you for your prayer support and your financial help. After all, we do have to pay for TV time. I think some people think they pay us. You know, that’s what my wife thought. When they called and asked if we would come up here to Channel 47, she thought, well, they pay all the comedians! Why don’t they pay you?! But, that’s not the way it works. We have to pay for our own TV time. So we do appreciate so much your financial help and your prayers. Anyway, we’re going to keep right on going this afternoon. I suppose if I want to title these four programs, Jerry, we can just title it as “The Day of the LORD.” This time of vexation, this time of devastation, death, destruction, and the wrath of God, however you want to put it. It’s coming. And don’t blame God. He gave the human race 6,000 years to give Him credit where credit is due, but they will not. So finally His wrath is going to be poured out. All right, we’re going to still basically use Joel as our jumping off place. Joel 1:15a Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is at hand,…” But since we ended the program the last half hour finishing with the verses in Psalms chapter 2, I’m going to jump up now in this half-hour to some of the other portions that deal with this same term – “The day of the LORD.” So for now, turn to Isaiah chapter 2. I’m going to start reading at verse 6. The term we’re going to head for is in verse 12. Let’s start reading in verse 6. Now remember, this is Isaiah. He writes almost a hundred years later than Joel. They are, of course, writing before the Babylonian captivity, which happened in about 606 B.C., but nevertheless, Isaiah is also going to use the same term. Isaiah 2:6-7 “Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers. 7. Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:” Isaiah 2:8-10 “Their land also is full of idols; (Speaking of, in this case, the Babylonians, I think.) they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: 9. And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not. 10. Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.” Isaiah 2:11-12 “The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. (Now, here it comes.) 12. For the day of the LORD (The same day of the LORD that Joel talked about, that Psalms 2 was foretelling, now Isaiah speaks of it.) for the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low.” In other words, even the kings and presidents and senators and emperors and generals are all going to come under this tremendous wrath of God. All right, it’s going to even affect the physical, verse 13. Isaiah 2:13-15 “And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, (the eastern country beyond present day Iraq) 14. And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, 15. And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,” In other words, this wrath of God is going to fall on everything and everybody. Now again, always go back to the analogy that we drew from the Book of Joel. Grasshoppers and locust destroying everything in their way – the bark off the trees, the wood off the houses, the water out of the creeks and rivers, everything goes! Well, that’s a symbolic picture of this horrendous day of the LORD. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible