Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

whole. you home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues with the

plague of the locusts as we pick up in Joel chapter 1 verse 1. And now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck. So we turn in our Bibles to the book of Joel.

Joel is a prophet of which we have no light of his background except what he gives to us.

He is the son of Pethuel, but who Pethuel is we don't know. So it really doesn't help us that much.

Joel was a prophet to Judah, that is the Southern Kingdom.

He probably was familiar acquainted with Elijah

and no doubt was well acquainted with Elisha

because the time of his prophecy

pretty much corresponds to the time that Elisha was prophesying to Israel, the

northern kingdom. Joel was prophesying in Judah the Southern Kingdom and in those days they did have

schools for the prophets where the prophets would gather together in these

schools Elisha conducted a would gather together in these schools.

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