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People talk about the 'day of the Lord' in Joel. Yet we are told that Joel was written almost 3,000 years ago. There was 'a day of the Lord' that took place when Babylon conquered Jerusalem. Even when they were working on the temple mount they found arrowhead from that invasion around 500 bc. Also there was a 'day of the Lord' in 70 AD when the temple was destroyed and Jerusalem was scattered to the nations. If this is not enough there is talk about a future day of the Lord that has not happened yet. That can not happen until the end of the final harvest. As the Good New of Jesus is going to be taken to the ends of the world one more time for this generation. Even there are people that say this will be the greatest time to be alive as this is going to be the greatest move of the Holy Spirit during this dispensation.
One thing I wonder about is all the isolated events that if you are living there at the time would seem a whole lot like the day of the Lord for them. Recently Paradise California was destroyed. Was that not the day of the Lord if you lived in Paradise? Sometimes disaster is very close but somehow they get though it. Like the Oroville Dam Crisis that came so close to disaster but was avoided when they managed to repair enough of the damage to keep the dam from breaking.
Perhaps this is why we are told that there are archetypes in the Bible and when a pattern is established this can be repeated at different times and different places. Joel is the first to talk about this day of the Lord, even if the event did not happen for 500 years. So is there going to be a day when the entire world will be destoryed. Or is the day of the Lord just an isolated event that could strike anyone, anywhere, anytime.
One thing I wonder about is all the isolated events that if you are living there at the time would seem a whole lot like the day of the Lord for them. Recently Paradise California was destroyed. Was that not the day of the Lord if you lived in Paradise? Sometimes disaster is very close but somehow they get though it. Like the Oroville Dam Crisis that came so close to disaster but was avoided when they managed to repair enough of the damage to keep the dam from breaking.
Perhaps this is why we are told that there are archetypes in the Bible and when a pattern is established this can be repeated at different times and different places. Joel is the first to talk about this day of the Lord, even if the event did not happen for 500 years. So is there going to be a day when the entire world will be destoryed. Or is the day of the Lord just an isolated event that could strike anyone, anywhere, anytime.