Today is the 9th day of December. Welcome to the Daily Audio Vival. I am Brian, it is great

to be here with you around the Global Camp Fire today. As we gather together to take the

next step forward, I am so glad to be here today. It, this time of year is hectic time of

year, isn't it? It is so easy to be distracted instead of having this anchor or this place around

the Global Camp Fire is awesome and so I am grateful that I could have a place around this Global

Camp Fire together with everybody else and then we can move forward together. Our moving forward

today essentially has us moving into completely new territory, both in old and new testaments.

And so in the Old Testament, we will actually read an entire book today. Another one of the

minor prophets, this will be the Book of Joel and then when we get to the New Testament today,

we will be moving into completely different territory but we will also be embarking on the

final journey in the New Testament and that will be the Book of Revelation which will take us to

the end of the year. So we'll talk about both of them as we get to them and as it turns out, we are

at the threshold of the Book of Joel which is another one of the books that are grouped together

known as the minor prophets and nobody really knows definitively with super clear clarity.

Who Joel even was? There's other people in the Bible with the name Joel but scholars don't

believe any of those people are the author of this prophetic book and there are not ton of clues.

Joel has a similar language style with some of the other prophets. For example, like Ezekiel or

Jeremiah or Amos or Micah or Zafinaia which leads some scholars to conclude that maybe Joel isn't

the work of a person named Joel, a single work by a single person but more of a collection of different

prophetic works but there's others that say no the similarities with the other prophets are because

there was like a prophetic culture and there was training and so there were prophets and kind of

like schools of prophets and so they learned how to write this way and so they there are similarities

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