Well, shalom everyone. Thank you for your patience with us. I would like you please to go to the Old Testament today with me. I want you to turn to the prophet Yoel, as we call him in Hebrew. His English is Joel, in Hebrew is Yoel. And I would like to take for a few meetings together that prophet Joel. And the reason that I chose to take the prophet Joel, or as we call him in Hebrew, Yoel, is because of the previous messages that we have had concerning the Feast of Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks. The prophet Yoel is an essential book to study. And why he is very important in the mind of prophets is because Yoel is prophesying, is speaking forth concerning the future of the people of Israel.

Yoel was a prophet that proclaimed concerning a period of time which is known in the Bible, in the Hebrew Scriptures, as the day of the Lord, Yom Adonai. And I would like to follow up on this book because it will help us to distinguish and to understand the plans that God had for the nation of Israel and to see how it comes about. Yoel is very practical, Yoel is very up to date, very much realistic, loving the people of Israel, loving the God of Israel, loving the truth of the scripture, and he wanted to communicate with his people things concerning the future time. We are going to read a few verses first of all, if you open that book, we are going to read one point at a time, we are going to move through that book.

By the way, in the English, we have three chapters to the book of Yoel. In the Hebrew, it's a little bit different. We're going to talk a little bit about that as well. But we can see it's not a long book. It's one of the shortest books in the Old Testament. And yet, Yoel has much to say that will be very helpful for us. Listen to what we read in the first verses of the prophet Yoel, of the first chapter. The word of the Lord that came to Joel, Joel, the son of Petuel, hear this, ye old men, and give ear all ye inhabitants of the land.

Has this sin in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. That which the palm worm hath left hath the locust eaten, and that which the locust hath left hath the canker worm eaten, and that which the canker worm hath left hath the caterpillar hath eaten. Awake, ye drunkards, and weep, and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth. For a nation is come up upon my land, strong and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

He hath laid my vine waste, and abarked my fig tree. He has made it clean bare, and cast it away. The branches thereof are made white. And I'm going to stop here, because that is where the break is found in this first chapter. Let me give you some introduction concerning this book, Yoel, Joel. Joel, in the Hebrew scriptures, in the Tanakh, defined itself as one of the 12 minor prophets. It is called minor prophet not because it is not an important book, not because the message there is not important, but simply because the message and the book itself is not as long as other books such as Isaiah and Jeremiah and Ezekiel.

That's why it is part of what is called by the Jewish rabbis today as the minor prophets. There are 12 minor prophets and really chronologically the book of Joel was basically the second one that had been written in the history of Israel. Around 800-900 BC, that book had been written and proclaimed to the Jewish people. You know, it is interesting when we read the minor prophets that there were certain minor prophets prophesied to the people of Israel, the northern tribes. Certain minor prophets have prophesied to the people of Judah, the southern part of Israel. And certain minor prophets have prophesied to the people of Judah after Judah have come back from captivity.

Joel was preaching before the people of Judah went into captivity. His Hebrew name is Yoel. Yoel is two Hebrew words, Yah or Yo, and El. El means God. Yah or Yo is a really portion of the Hebrew name of God, Jehovah. Yoel really simply means Jehovah is God. The Lord is God. Verse 1 tells us that he was a son, in English it says, the word of the Lord that came unto Yoel, notice verse 1, the son of Petuel. Again, it is an abbreviation or short for two Hebrew words. Again, the word El is God, but Petu or Patuach may speak of the openness or the enlargement of God.

He was a man by the name of Yoel, who was the son of his father's name was Petu El. And some suggest that it simply means the enlargement or the openness of God's heart towards the nation of Israel. Now, we do not know much about him, because really, we don't read so much about the background where he was born and the rest of his family. The only thing that we read, that the word of the Lord came unto Yoel, the son of Petuel, his name and his father's name. His name is Yoel, his father's name is Petuel, the enlargement of God. Thirdly, by way of introduction, Yoel's prophecy was very important.

Yoel's prophecy was speaking about coming judgment upon the people of God, upon the nation of Israel. Remember, always bear in mind, that privilege comes with responsibility. It is applied to Israel historically. It is also applied to us today. We oftentimes have to say that we like privileges, but we do not like responsibility. This is a problem that always exists. It exists in our life individually. It exists in our families. It exists in a local church, a local assembly. It exists in an entire church. We like privileges, but we oftentimes neglect responsibility. Well, here we find out that Joel, or Yoel, was speaking to the nation of Israel.

His prophecy was concerning coming, future judgment that God will have to pour out upon Judah, his people whom he loved dearly but he must discipline and judge and his prophecy is essential because he's going to be teaching them from practical things that have happened in the time where they were living you remember Jesus often time we are sure the Messiah when he was speaking to his disciples he was walking with his disciples in Galilee for example and all of a sudden he's come up with a parable. He says, for the kingdom of heaven is like a man goes up to sow seeds. Some fail by the wayside.

Some fail among thorns. Some fail in a rocky ground. Some fail upon good ground. This is a Jewish or a biblical way of telling things. You look at the natural, you look at the experiential, you look at the things that actually did exist, and you take those things and you apply them spiritually or you show them how those things are coming about what Yeshua was speaking to his disciples he also meant spiritually just like the Israeli sower went down in Galilee and sow seeds and Yeshua could point to them and he says look at these seeds they fell in this kind of ground look at these seeds fell in among thorns you see what he was telling them physically that actually happened at that time spiritually he wanted to show them that's the way it is spiritually as we go around and saw the word of God the word of God will fall upon various grounds rocky grounds among thorns and by a wayside and good ground It is only the good ground that the seeds will fall into, that there will be fruit, that there will be something for God.

And just like you and I would go and present the message of the Messiah today, the word that God used us to proclaim will fall upon various ground. Some will fall also among good ground and bring forth much fruit. Yoel right now is showing the people of Judah about an invasion of locusts that occurred among the people of Israel, and he's showing them just like this invasion of locusts that took place in the land of Israel and destroyed all the crop. That's the kind of invasion that is going to come in a future day and will totally destroy the crop and man will be destroyed because of the rejection of God.

And you will see this as we are going to follow this one step at a time. So it's just like there was a destruction of the crop in the land of Israel because of the invasion that happened historically, also there is coming a day where there will be invasion that will come upon the people of Israel. And so this is the prophecy that Yoel is going to speak about. Another thing that is important by way of introduction that we have to bear in mind here, the theme of the book really, of the book of Yoel, is the day of the Lord. The day of the Lord.

I mentioned it before and I'll mention it again. Every time in the Old Testament, in the Hebrew scripture, in the Tanakh, the word the day of the Lord is mentioned. It is always in connection with the time of trial and troublous time. It's not in connection with pleasant things. The day of the Lord, biblically, is a day of judgment. It's a day of what we know today in the New Testament language is tribulation. It's a ratiakov from the prophet. Tribulation, a time of trial. And that is the theme of the book. Notice for a moment, in chapter 1 and verse 15, which we didn't read today, says alas for the day of the lord is at hand notice chapter 2 and verse 1 blow the trumpet in zion sound an alarm in my holy mountain let all the inhabitants of the land tremble for the day of the lord cometh notice chapter 2 and verse 11 and the lord shall utter his voice before his army for his camp is very great for he is strong and executed his word for the day of the lord is great and very terrible and who can abide in it notice in verse 31 of chapter 2 verse 31 the sun shall be turned into darkness the moon into blood before the great and terrible day of the lord come notice chapter 3 and verse 14.

Multitudes in the valley of decision, for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. This is very clear. Every time Yoel is speaking about the day of the Lord, it is associated with trouble. It is associated with judgment. It is associated with God unleashing his wrath upon mankind here in this world. A holy and a righteous God is judging a world that refused to accept what he offered to him. Now, one more point, or actually two more points that we want to mention. in the New Testament, in the New Covenant, in the Brit Chedashah, twice this book, Yoel, is being quoted.

One time we've already dealt with when we studied the Feast of Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks, in Acts chapter 2, verses 17 to 21. You can look at it in your own time at home. The second time that it is mentioned, it's mentioned in Romans chapter 10, And verse 13, Romans chapter 10 and verse 13, and I just want to read that verse, Romans 10 verse 13, For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. The book of Yoel is being quoted two times in the Brit HaChadasha, and every time it is quoted, it is very interesting, It is quoted in a section that specifically has to do with the people of Israel.

Acts chapter 2 has to do with the Jewish people, you remember, who gathered together at the birth of the church. And Peter used this as an object lesson to speak to them. And in Romans chapter 10 and this verse, verse 13, it has to do with, you remember, that Paul is longing for the restoration of Israel. And he said, brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel that they might be saved. And he's using a certain portion, a verse, one verse from Joel, where he's quoting, Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Very interesting the way in which these two verses have been quoted in a new covenant, in a Brit HaChadasha.

Now, this is by way of introduction. Basically, beloved brothers and sisters, when we are going to study, you notice that Yoel is going to speak about three invasions. Number one is something that occurred in his time. Number two, something that will occur in the tribulation. And number three is something that will occur again in the tribulation at the end of the tribulation time. Let me add to it. Number one, the first invasion will be, or is, locusts' invasion. Invasion of insects, which destroyed the land of Israel. Number two, he's going to speak about invasion in the tribulation period, which is a demonic invasion. We're going to get to that in due time.

And number three, he's going to speak about the third invasion that has to do with human invasion. Insect, locust invasion, demonic invasion, and human invasion. All these invasion of the land are mentioned here somehow in the text. And also we can connect it with other passages which we are going to go through as we are following step by step through the book of Yoel. By the way, in Hebrew, locusts is arbe in Hebrew. And often time in the Bible, arbe, the locusts, have been mentioned as a judgment that God will bring upon mankind. And I'll show you this as we are going to follow up verse by verse.

So, verse 1 is simply the introduction or the beginning where we are learning about the call or the word that the Lord had given or came to Yoel, the son of Petuel. So now, if you turn back to this chapter right now, Joel chapter 1, in verses 2 and 3 and 4, we have the message that is being declared to the people of Judah. Look at the message. He began by questioning in verse 2, and he says, Hear this, ye old men, and give ear ye, or all ye inhabitants of the land. Has this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? Tell it to your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

That which the palmer worm has left has the locusts eaten, and that which the locusts have left has the canker worm eaten, and that which the canker worm has left has the caterpillar eaten. In verses 2, 3, and 4, Yoel is asking the older men of the people of Judah a question. He's asking them a question in verse 2, and he says, Heal ye this old man, and give ear all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? The question is, what is the word this? What does he mean when he says, Hath this been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

You see, what he was telling them is this. At that present time, when Yoel was still there preaching to the people of Judah, apparently what happened, there was a swarms of locusts who came over the land of Judah. The swarms of locusts came, and they destroyed completely everything that had life there. We're going to see that as we are going to move on. the locusts came and one after another they destroyed every living thing that existed in the land. And you know, it left the land in such a condition that the famine came into the land. The people were hungry. The people were in great need.

The people began to mourn and to weep and the condition had been so bad among the people of Israel, the people of Judah because swans of locusts came and you see Yoel asking the old man and maybe people were perhaps a hundred years old or ninety years old I don't know I'm just giving an illustration in our age somebody who is older person that when you and I were not even born that person remembers certain things that he can tell us and he's asking them old man tell me did it happen in your days something that happened today here or these days in our land?

Tell us, he said, or he said, what about your fathers or before you? Do you remember your family or your forefathers ever telling you of events that have happened such as these events? Apparently, it didn't happen in the time of the old men before then. It happened at that time, but they could not. There was nothing like that have happened before. And he's telling them in verse 3, he's telling tell it to your children and let your children tell their children and let their children tell to their children. In other words, what he's saying is whatever have happened today in our land, the land of Israel, you tell it to your children so they will tell it to their children and so they will tell it to their children, the third and the fourth generation.

He said, you better tell them so they can pass it along that nothing like they'd have happened before. The judgment of God came. And he's giving them the process in which it happened. He's giving them, in verse 4, he's showing them the four waves of locust invasion. One after the other that came and destroyed all the land, all the crop in the land of Israel. It says, by the way, you notice in verse 4, it says, that which the palmer worm has left has the locusts eaten. That which the locusts have left has the canker worm eaten. That which the canker worm has left has the caterpillar have eaten.

What we really see here, I know in the English it gives us four different types of names of insects. It gives us palmer worm, locusts, canker worm, and caterpillar. But in Hebrew, in the Hebrew language, it is written so interesting, and it doesn't give us name of insects except one, and that is the locusts, but it gives us a progression whereby things have happened. He doesn't tell us that four different groups of insects came, but he tells us that there is one type of insect, the arbed, the locusts, but they came in four stages. Look at the way the Hebrew is saying. Wherever it says here, that which the palmer worm has left in Hebrew, the word palmer worm is gazam.

Gazam simply means the biter, the one that bites. The gazam, the first group came and they bited. The first wave of locust came and the gazam. Gazam means somebody who's chewing and chewing and chewing and chewing and chewing. And he's moving on. He chews and he chews and he chews. The second thing, it says the locusts, in the Hebrew it is arbe, the swarmer, the one who is swarming through, coming through the land and taking the leftover that the first group didn't take. Then the next thing he says, the canker worm in Hebrew is the word yalek. It's from the lelakek, from the tongue, where you lick everything that is left, like a dog will lick everything that is left.

In other words, the third wave of rocusts have licked what the second group have left. And finally, in the next point, the caterpillar in Hebrew is the word chasil, And chasil means simply the devourer. In Hebrew, chasil means lechasil, to finish, to devour everything. And I would just visualize with me, dear brothers and sisters, here is a period of time in the history of Israel where God has sent the locusts to destroy all the crops. So one wave came and did what they wanted. They just chewed and took as much as they could. and they flew, continue forward. As they continue forward, the next group is coming.

The next wave of locusts are coming. What do they do? They are swarming through. They take their portion, and they move on. Then the third group is coming of locusts, and what do they do? They leak everything that is left over. And finally, the fourth group is coming, And we call them lechassel or chassil and they devour anything that is left behind. That's what we really learn here. And you know what he's saying to the people of Judah? He says, you know what? Tell it to your children, the judgment of God. That they will tell it to their children of the judgment of God. That they will tell it to their children about the judgment of God that we have never experienced in the past.

It's happened at that present time. And you notice how often time the Bible shows us, it talks about third and fourth generation. You know, it's very rare, it's very rare for a father to see his son alive, and then his grandson still was born, and then his great-great-son. This is a great privilege to see the third and the fourth generation, to have grandchildren and great-grandchildren. But it's very rare to go beyond the fourth generation. You find it in the scripture, oftentimes with God speaking about judgment upon the third and the fourth generation. It is a Hebraic way whereby God oftentimes taught the people of Israel concerning various generations.

I want you to see this, please, with me in other passages in the Bible. Please turn to Psalm 78, please. Psalm 78, in the first few verses, we have the same thought. Psalm 78, verses 1 to 7. I'll just read that. Not going to comment so much here. Psalm 78, the first seven verses, it says like this. Give ear, O my people, to my law. Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in parable. I will utter dark sayings which we have heard and known and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generations to come the praises of the Lord and His strength and His wonderful works which He has done.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, he appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children, that the generations to come might know them, even the children which should be born, who should arise and declare them to their children. that they might set their hope in God. You see, the psalmist, Asav, is speaking and he says, you know, God wants us to share with our children and their children and their children what God has done to the people of Israel, how God has dealt with our people. Sometime the way he drew us and he saved us and protect us.

Sometime as a loving father, he chastened us and he had to discipline us. Tell it to your children so they can tell it to their children. And that they in turn tell it to their children and that they will set God as their hope. Wonderful to see that. We see it also here in Yoel, exactly the same. Exactly, tell it to your children. And they will tell it to their children, and that their children will tell it to the next generation. That's the way God operates. He wants us to share it with the next generation, that they will ultimately come to know the Lord, to know the God of Israel, and for us today as believers, that they would come to know the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah.

Now, I want you to read with me another verse in the book of Timothy. Turn to 2 Timothy. Check in Timothy chapter 2, here again, Paul, a Jewish believer in the Messiah, telling Timothy, a younger Jewish believer in the Messiah, both of them, Messianic or Christian as we know it in English today, followers of Yeshua the Messiah, Hebrew Christians of first century. Look how Paul is speaking to Timothy in 2 Timothy chapter 2, verses 1 and 2. Look what he does. Same thing. Thou therefore my son, be strong in a grace that is in Messiah Yeshua, in Christ Jesus. And the things which thou hast heard of me, among many witnesses, the same commit to faithful men who shall be able to teach others also.

You notice that? Here he is not so much speaking about children in the flesh. Here he is speaking about children in Messiah. Because he shared the gospel, Paul, and he won someone like Timothy to the Messiah. And he calls Timothy, my son. Now, Timothy was not his son in the flesh. Oh, yeah, both of them were Hebrews, both of them were Jewish, but he was not a son in the flesh. He was not a child in the flesh of Shaul, of Paul. Timothy was his son in Messiah, in the faith. And you know what he's telling to Timothy? He says, Timothy, or he says, my son, he called him.

It says, be strong in the grace that is in the Messiah, Yeshua, and the thing which you have learned of me. Timothy, I have taught you things. You now, I have taught you those things. You committed to other faithful men what I have taught to you. And that they, in turn, will teach others as well. Paul, Timothy, other men, faithful men, who will teach others also. One, two, three, four. That is the way whereby we communicate things to others. You know how important for us, beloved brothers and sisters, what the truths that the Lord have taught you and I, spiritual truths that he taught us from the Bible, we are responsible to teach us to others, not to keep it for ourselves.

Mind you, it's a blessing to have it for ourselves. but it's not had been given to us that we might hold it to ourselves and say, you see, I'm better than you, I'm greater than you. No, the very information, the very spiritual lessons that we have learned from the Word of God is given to us so we might pass it to other men, to other brothers, to other sisters, and the gospel, we are to pass it along to other people around us that they might come to know the Lord Jesus, the Lord Yeshua, as their Lord and Savior. It is rather sad when we don't use what the Lord had given to us and share it with other people.

It is extremely sad. Not only that we don't give them the benefit, but we also ourselves don't feel the joy in our own hearts and souls because of the very privilege for us to share the things of God with the next generation. Now, whether they will accept it or not, this is another story. But there is the responsibility that Joel was challenging Israel, the older men, and the Lord is challenging us today to share what God had given us with others so they might benefit and share it with the next people. Now, another thing that I want to mention here, as we are talking about verses 2, 3, and 4, the message to the people that he is declaring, That an invasion of locusts was already warned by God.

Israel was warned by God through Moses many years before of a judgment that may come when Israel is departing from his word. Turn with me now to Deuteronomy chapter 28 and I'm going to show you this from there. Deuteronomy chapter 28 gives us the choice that God had given Israel to either follow him or not. God had given Israel a choice to make. In chapter 28, he says to them in verse 1, And it shall come to pass, if you shall hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord your God. Then in verse 2 he says, all these blessings shall come upon thee and overtake thee. Verse 3 says, blessed you shall be in the city, blessed you shall be in the field, blessed you shall be the fruit of thy body.

Verse 5, blessed shall be thy basket. Verse 6, blessed shall thou be when thou comest in and blessed shall thou be when thou comest out and so on. Blessing a promise to the people of Israel, to our people of all, had and when they follow the commandments of the Lord. But then in verse 15, it's kind of changing. And in verse 15 he said, But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God to observe to do his commandments and his statutes, which he commanded you. Notice what it says in verse 16. Cursed shalt thou be in the city. Cursed shalt thou be in the field.

Verse 17. Cursed shall thy basket and thy store. Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body. Verse 19. Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. And then he's telling them in these verses, verse 38, look what he says to them. Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in. Why? Because the locusts shall consume it. Notice in verse 42. All thy trees and the fruit of the land shall the locusts consume. God said to Israel through Moses, Long time before they entered into the land, he gave Israel the warning and he said, Israel, if you will follow my instruction, you will be blessed.

Israel, if you will not follow my instruction, you will be judged, you will be cursed. And eventually, the locusts will come and will destroy everything that you have raised. It says here, thou shalt carry much seed into the field, and shalt gather but a little. You might sow and sow and sow and sow in the field, but very little crop will come. You know why? Because the Arbe, the locust, will come and will destroy all the things, all the fruit that come up from the seeds that you have sown. Now, another point here, before I'm going to move to the next verses, I have to remind you that one of the ten plagues that God had placed upon Egypt was the Arbe, the locusts.

The locust was one of the judgments that God placed upon the Egyptians when the Egyptians did not want to allow the people of Israel, the Hebrews, to come out of the land. So, in the first four verses we learn the introduction, who is Yoel, the son of Petuel? Verses 2, 3, and 4 give us the message that was declared to the people by Yoel himself. And the message was, you see what happened to you now? Tell it to your children, that they will tell it to their children, that they will tell it to their children, because here is a judgment that came, because we have not been faithful to the Lord.

And now, in the next verses, verses 5 to 7, here he is telling them to mourn and to weep and to cry. Who is speaking, first of all, to those who are drunkards? Look at this. He says in verse 5, 6, and 7, he says this. lion. He has laid my vine waste, and he barked my fig tree. He has made it clean, bare, and cast it away. The branches thereof are made white. You know what he does, first of all? You know, he's beginning to talk to the people, the drunkards among the people of Israel there. And you know, he's telling them in verse 5, you're not going to have any more wine to drink.

He says in verse 5, he says, awake ye drunkers and weep, why? How? Because, he says to them, of the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth. You see, unfortunately, at that time as well, many of them end up getting drunk. And when they got drunk, they could not any longer get drunk. Can you imagine for a person who is an alcoholic not to have the possibility to get what he desperately needs? And so he's telling them, you wake up, he says to them, you begin to wake and we begin to cry because you are in trouble. You are not going to have what you are seeking after so much because of the swarms, of the locust waves that destroy the crop.

In verse 6 he says that the locusts were like a nation together. It says in verse 6, he says, "For a nation is come up upon my land, strong and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. You know, the locusts came like as a nation, like as a multitude. They came and they went all over the land of Israel, and they destroyed everything that they have seen. As it says here, whose teeth are as the teeth of a lion, and he has the cheek teeth of a great lion. You You know, oftentimes the Bible describes to us the locusts like a nation.

The Bible shows us this. If you please now, for another verse, please go to the book of Proverbs, quickly. Proverbs chapter 30, and you see what Shlomo, the king of Israel, says. Proverbs chapter 30, verse 25, 26, and 27. Shlomo says in verse 25, Solomon the king of Israel said in verse 25, The locusts have no king, yet go forth all of them by bands, in order, together. Verse 27. The locusts have no king, yet they go forth, all of them, by bands. they go like in groups in bands even though they have no king they are going in order together and can you imagine they were marching through the land and they were devouring everything that have existed there in the field of the land and so what happened everything had been destroyed and you know how do we know that yoel himself have experienced this because he says here in verse 7 that it's not only happened to the rest of the nation of Israel but it happened unto him as well it says in verse 7 of Joel 1 he hath laid my vine waste and he barked my fig tree he has made it clean bare and he cast it away the branches thereof are made white you see beloved brothers and sisters when god had punished his people you know who had to go alongside with the punishment of the people none else but also the prophet himself you know the prophets of israel had to go through the experience of the whole nation and you know how it is so biblical because the new Testament also shows us when one member suffer, all the members suffer with it.

When one member receive glory or honor, all the members are to rejoice and be blessed through it. Well, that is exactly what happened to Yoel here. Yoel lost his own crop as well. As it says here in verse 7, And so, so far, beloved brothers and sisters, verses 2, 3, and 4, the message of Joel to the people of Israel, and verses 5, 6, and 7, we find out the weeping of the drunkards. they are to weep because of the condition that existed there in the land now for time's sake I'm not going to go anymore for time's sake I'm going to stop right here because from the verses 8 on we have the additional lamentation and weeping that is going on here by the rest of the people of Israel we're going to see that and then we are going to move to the next point which is the actual warning about future future swarms this time it will not be of locusts but the invasion that's going to come upon the land by the demonic activity and also eventually by human who desire to destroy the nation of Israel I'm going to stop with this right now so for time's sake and I'm looking at the clock next week in the will of the Lord we're going to continue from verses 8 on