Blow the Trumpet

The Day of the LORD

Joel chapter two verse one

 1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD come, for it is nigh at hand;

•  What is blown in Zion?______________
• What is sounded in God's holy mountain?_________________________
• Why are the inhabitants of the land trembling?_______________________

Joel chapter 2 verse 17

Joel chapter Two verse Seventeen

 Yahweh is God

 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?

• Who are the ministers of the LORD?_____________________
• Where are they weeping?_____________________
• What are they saying?_______________________
• What is it that they do not want the heathen to get?________________________

Sanctification

Joel chapter Two verses fifteen - Sixteen

  Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
  Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

• Tell me, Who is the bridegroom?_______________________________
• Tell me, Who is the bride?_______________________________
• They sanctify a fast, they called a solemn assembly, they sanctify the congregation, Can you tell me what the people are doing here in this verse?_____________________________________

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