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🗓️ 12 September 2023
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible recap. |
0:13.3 | Today we finished our 31st book of the Bible. |
0:16.6 | It was written by the minor prophet Joel. |
0:18.9 | We don't know anything about him even when he lived, but based on context clues, we can |
0:23.5 | narrow it down to about a 300-year time frame with the most recent part of that being post-exile. |
0:29.5 | He makes references to the temple, so we just know it's either before 586 BC or after |
0:34.5 | 516 BC. |
0:36.4 | Some think this book prophesies the Babylonian invasion, so they place it pre-exile, in |
0:40.8 | the same time period as the prophets we've already been reading. |
0:44.4 | Others think this is written post-exile, because he addresses his letter to the elders, |
0:48.5 | not to a king, and that's who would have been in charge of things after they return |
0:51.6 | from exile. |
0:53.1 | But based on where it's placed in this plan, it seems like the people at Blue Letter Bible |
0:56.8 | who put the plan together lean more toward pre-exile. |
1:00.0 | So imagine this being written around the same time Ezekiel wrote his book. |
1:04.4 | Joel contains a lot of mystery. |
1:06.2 | In addition to not really knowing who he is or when he lived, he also tends to be more |
1:10.0 | vague than most other prophets. |
1:11.9 | He doesn't name any of Israel's sins specifically, unlike other prophets, and he barely mentions |
1:16.8 | which animations he's referring to. |
1:19.2 | As with most prophecy, this is going to be another zoom out book, where we look at |
1:23.6 | the big picture more than the details. |
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