A Call to Harvest and Hope; Joel 3:13-16
A Call to Harvest and Hope
Joel 3:13-16
I. The Command to Confront the Crisis “Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe” (Joel 3:13)
A. The Call to Capture the Crop
B. The Command to Confront the Crisis
II. The Decision in the Valley of Dilemma “Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision”(Joel 3:14)
A. The Description of the Mournful Masses
1. The Valley of Decision
B. The Destiny of the Deciding Dwellers
1. The Nearness of the Day of the Lord
III. Divine and Cosmic Disasters “The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining” (Joel 3:15)
A. The Cosmic Catastrophe
1. The Darkness as a Warning
B. The Divine Disruption
IV. Deliverance and Dominion “The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people”(Joel 3:16)
A. The Roar of the Righteous Ruler
B. The Promise of Divine Preservation
V. The Call to Courageous Commitment
A. The Urgency Action
B. The Urgency of Unyielding Faith