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I Will Pour Out My Spirit: Restoration After Ruin and a Shepherd's Warning | Joel 2–3; Amos 1
Episode Overview
Today we finish Joel and begin Amos. Joel 2 sounds an alarm—a day of the Lord approaching, dark and dreadful. Then the passage pivots on a single word. Even now, God says, return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning. Rend your heart and not your garments. The tearing of clothes was the visible sign of grief; Joel asks for the thing the sign was supposed to represent.
What follows is a promise of reversal so specific it is almost startling: I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten. Not merely an end to the disaster, but restoration of…
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