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Joel 1:2

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Listen to this, elders; pay attention, everyone who lives in the land. Has anything ever happened like this before in your experience, or that of your forefathers?

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Wisdom to distinguish belongs to the old, and the ability to rightly discriminate belongs to those with long experience.

We have among us old, gray-haired people much older than your father!

Why do the wicked continue to live, to grow old and increasingly powerful?

Why don't you ask what previous generations discovered, examine what our ancestors found out? We were born yesterday and don't know anything!

Listen to this, everyone! Pay attention, people of the world—

Come close, you nations, and listen! You peoples, pay attention! Hear these words everyone who lives on earth, and all that comes from it!

The Lord will make you, your people, and the royal family experience a time unlike anything since the day Ephraim split from Judah. He will bring the king of Assyria to attack you!”

What a terrible day it will be—a day like never before! This is the time of trouble for Jacob's descendants, but they will be rescued from it.

Listen to this, you foolish, stupid people, who have eyes but don't see, who have ears but don't hear.

“At that time Michael the great prince, the protector of your people, will stand up and there will be a time of trouble like never before, since nations first existed. But at that time your people will be saved, all whose names are written in the book.

Hear the word of the Lord, people of Israel, for the Lord has an accusation against the inhabitants of the land! “There is no faithfulness, no loyalty, and no knowledge of God in the land.

“Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, house of Israel! Listen, members of the royal family!

Proclaim a fast; call a sacred assembly. Have the elders and all people of the land gather in the Temple, and cry out to your God, to the Lord.

It's a gloomy day of darkness, a day of thick clouds and heavy shadows. Like the dawn spreading over the mountains, an army appears, so large and powerful that there has never ever been anything like it before, nor will there ever be anything like it again.

People of Israel, listen to this message that the Lord has spoken against you—all of you, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt.

Listen to this message, you well-fed cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria, who oppress the poor and crush the needy, and who order your husbands, “Bring us drinks!”

Listen, people of Israel, to this funeral lament that I sing about you!

Listen, all the nations! Pay attention, everyone on earth! The Lord God testifies against you from the Lord's holy Temple.

Then I said, “Please listen, leaders of the descendants of Jacob, people of Israel. You are meant to know the difference between right and wrong,

Listen to me, leaders of the descendants of Jacob and the people of Israel, you who hate justice and distort all that is right.

Anybody who has ears should be listening!”

For at that time there will be terrible persecution—more terrible than anything that has happened from the beginning of the world up till now, and won't ever happen again.

If you have ears, listen to what the Spirit is telling the churches. I will give to those who are victorious the privilege of eating from the tree of life, which stands in the Paradise of God.




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