As Elliot would say, (it's about all he can coherently say),
GOOD STUFF!
Joel is only 3 chapters long - check it out, yo! I had a knot in my stomach looking at pics of the Haitian debacle and reading this was a balm.
Hey Joel, you the balm, baby! :-))
I don't know about y'all, but I cannot wait until Christ returns and things like this are no more.
Peace!!!
R.J.
Joel 2:1-13 ESV
Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm
on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the
day of the LORD is coming; it is near, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds
and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a
great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be
again after them through the years of all generations.
Fire devours before them, and behind them
a flame burns. The land is like the garden of Eden before them, but behind
them a desolate wilderness, and nothing escapes them. Their appearance is like the appearance
of horses, and like war horses they run.
As with the rumbling of chariots, they
leap on the tops of the mountains, like the crackling of a flame of fire
devouring the stubble, like a powerful army drawn up for battle. Before them peoples are in anguish; all
faces grow pale.
Like warriors they charge; like soldiers
they scale the wall. They march each on his way; they do not swerve from
their paths.
They do not jostle one another; each marches
in his path; they burst through the weapons and are not halted.
They leap upon the city, they run upon
the walls, they climb up into the houses, they enter through the windows
like a thief.
The earth quakes before them; the heavens
tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their
shining.
The LORD utters his voice before his
army, for his camp is exceedingly great; he who executes his word is powerful.
For the day of the LORD is great and very awesome; who can endure it?
"Yet even now," declares the
LORD, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping,
and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your
garments." Return to the
LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding
in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.