Welcome to the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now we're going through the entire Bible to understand it is one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one's about Joel.

I'm looking at something right now, right here in front of me, that is very troubling,

disturbing even given the conversation we are having.

I'm going to keep eyes on that while we talk, and I will tell you more about that in a minute.

We're talking about the book of Joel this time around, which is kind of an outlier

in terms of what we're seeing pattern-wise with all of these Old Testament prophetic books.

One, it's very, very short.

It's only three chapters long.

You can read it probably faster than you can listen to this conversation that we're about

to have.

Two, we don't really know anything about the guy who wrote it other than what his dad's name

is.

Three, there's nothing to orient by, in terms of where we fit historically here.

You know how in all the other prophetic books we've looked at so far, we get some kind of

thing about like in the fifth year of King such and such, of the land of such and such,

the word of the Lord came to this prophet guy, and so you know what's going on politically

in the background, and it makes it a lot easier to read through those prophets and be like,

ah, that's an image for this, and that's a reference to that, and oh, that's fulfilled

over here.

Well, in Joel, we don't really get that.

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