Joel 1:1-2.
There is mourning for the loss of the first love of the Gospel of Christ.
Joel 1:8-12.
Joel speaks about people being seen as objects and used like merchandise to achieve personal gain
Joel 3:3. Traits of psychopathy dehumanizes human beings, sees people as objects, and uses for personal gain.
The branches of Jesus Christ have been stripped bare by the “man of sin”.
Joel 1:7.
The teeth and fangs of a fierce lion have come against the Kingdom of God.
Joel 1:6.
The Apostle Peter quotes Joel 2:28-32 and excludes the Jewish people from that quote.
The Apostle Peter excludes the Jewish people from the event of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
The remission of sin through Jesus Christ has been cut off.
Joel 1:5.
The global culture devours the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Joel 1:4. What the swarming locusts have left, the crawling locusts have eaten.
Humanity has never experienced what is happening in the world today.
Joel 1:1-3.
The phenomenally powerful global culture destroys the earth in quest of their worldly Garden of Eden.
Joel 2:2b.-9. The Holy Spirit gives Joel a description of the global culture of today.