The Bible Study Podcast, episode 748.

Today, the Bible Study podcast concludes the study of the book of Joel.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen.

Joel is one of the minor prophets, and by minor prophets,

we don't mean that what he said was any less important to the people he was saying it to or to us,

but we do mean that he didn't write as much. And so chapter three of Joel will conclude Joel,

and next week we'll go on to the book of Amos.

Chapter 3 of Joel, The Nations Judged.

In those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will put them on trial for what they did to my

inheritance, my people Israel, because they scattered my people among the nations and divided

up my land. They cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes. They sold girls for

wine to drink. Now what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon, and all you regions of Philistia?

Are you paying me for something I have done? Are you paying me back? I will swiftly and speedily

return on your own heads what you have done, for you took my silver and my gold and carried off

my finest treasures to your temples. You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem

to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland. See, I am going to rouse them out of

their places to which you sold them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done.

I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabians, a nation far away.

The Lord has spoken.

Proclaim this among the nations.

Prepare for war, rouse the warriors.

Let all the fighting men draw near and attack, beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears.

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