Chapter II.
"1. The message in the second chapter of Joel is appallingly more serious than the message in the first chapter:a. "Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their
children." Joel 1: 3. Here, from generation to generation, men were to "tell " of the approaching catastrophe.
b. "Blow ye the trumpet, . . . sound an alarm." Joel 2: 1. It is now present, not future, action.
c. The "palmerworm," "locust, ' "cankerworm," a n d "caterpillar" (Joel 1: 4) were only preliminary judgments, but each was precursor and pledge of the final great dissolution.
2. The ruin brought to view in the second chapter of Joel is greater than in Joel 1:
a. In the first chapter of Joel the ruin wrought by the seven last plagues pertains to things on the ground. Joel 1: 12, 17.
b. In the second chapter the ruin comes to cities, nations, races; even the heavens are affected. Joel 2:9, 6, 11, 13.
3. The greatest agencies of "that day" swing to view in Joel 2:
a. Surely the coming of the Lord could not be signalized alone by a locust invasion, whose swarms were to be swept into the sea (Joel 1:4-6)
b. Neither simply by the assault of heathen nations, who, in this earth, would bring down their crime on their own head. Joel 2: 20; 3: 4."
B.G.Wilkinson/1928
"1. The message in the second chapter of Joel is appallingly more serious than the message in the first chapter:a. "Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their
b. "Blow ye the trumpet, . . . sound an alarm." Joel 2: 1. It is now present, not future, action.
c. The "palmerworm," "locust, ' "cankerworm," a n d "caterpillar" (Joel 1: 4) were only preliminary judgments, but each was precursor and pledge of the final great dissolution.
2. The ruin brought to view in the second chapter of Joel is greater than in Joel 1:
a. In the first chapter of Joel the ruin wrought by the seven last plagues pertains to things on the ground. Joel 1: 12, 17.
b. In the second chapter the ruin comes to cities, nations, races; even the heavens are affected. Joel 2:9, 6, 11, 13.
3. The greatest agencies of "that day" swing to view in Joel 2:
a. Surely the coming of the Lord could not be signalized alone by a locust invasion, whose swarms were to be swept into the sea (Joel 1:4-6)
b. Neither simply by the assault of heathen nations, who, in this earth, would bring down their crime on their own head. Joel 2: 20; 3: 4."
B.G.Wilkinson/1928