Week 3 - Joash, Joel, and Jonah

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Week 3 - Joash, Joel, and Jonah

• Life and Times of the Minor Prophets

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Life and Times of the Minor Prophets

• Last Week -
• The Divided Kingdom
• The Times of Elijah and Elisha

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Life and Times of the Minor Prophets

• Athaliah mother of Ahaziah
• 2Ki 111 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw
  that her son was dead, she proceeded to destroy
  the whole royal family.

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Life and Times of the Minor Prophets

• Joash hidden from Ahaziah
• 2Ki 113 He remained hidden with his nurse at
  the temple of the LORD for six years while
  Athaliah ruled the land.
• Preserved David's lineage of kings

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Joash Before death of Jehoiada

• 2 Kings 122 Joash did what was right in the
  eyes of the LORD all the years Jehoiada the
  priest instructed him. 3 The high places,
  however, were not removed the people continued
  to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.

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Joash Before death of Jehoiada

• 2 Kings 124 Joash said to the priests, Collect
  all the money that is brought as sacred offerings
  to the temple of the LORDthe money collected in
  the census, the money received from personal vows
  and the money brought voluntarily to the temple.
  5 Let every priest receive the money from one of
  the treasurers, then use it to repair whatever
  damage is found in the temple.

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Joash After death of Jehoiada

• 2 Chronicles 2417 After the death of Jehoiada,
  the officials of Judah came and paid homage to
  the king, and he listened to them. 18 They
  abandoned the temple of the LORD, the God of
  their ancestors, and worshiped Asherah poles and
  idols. Because of their guilt, Gods anger came
  on Judah and Jerusalem. 19 Although the LORD sent
  prophets to the people to bring them back to him,
  and though they testified against them, they
  would not listen.

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Joash After death of Jehoiada

• Joash kills Zechariah, son of Jehoiada
• II Chronicles 24 23 At the turn of the year, the
  army of Aram marched against Joash it invaded
  Judah and Jerusalem and killed all the leaders of
  the people. They sent all the plunder to their
  king in Damascus. 24 Although the Aramean army
  had come with only a few men, the LORD delivered
  into their hands a much larger army.

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835 B.C.
40 yrs.
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Joel - Overview

• Probably the first of the so called writing
  prophets, Joel spoke to the southern kingdom of
  Judah.
• Unique Features
• Joel uses many literary devices such as
  alliteration, metaphors, similes, and
  parallelism.
• Plague of locusts Figurative or literal?
• Prediction of the outpouring of God's Spirit on
  all flesh (Joel 228-32) and the wonders that
  would follow.

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Joel - Overview

• Joels name means Jehovah is God. He has been
  called the John the Baptist of the OT.
• The fact that no king is mentioned may be due to
  the book having been written when Jehoiada the
  high priest was regent (in the boyhood years of
  Joash, who reigned between 835796 B.C.) just
  after Queen Athaliahs wicked reign.
• The key phrase of the book is "the Day of the
  Lord," found five times (115 21, 211, 231
  314).

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Joel Outline - Chapter 1

• DESCRIPTION OF THE LOCUST
• PLAGUE
• A. Its Unprecedented Severity (11-4)
• B. Its Effect Upon (1) Drunkards
• (15-7) (2) Priests (18-10, 13-16)
• (3) Farmers (111, 12, 17, 18)

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Joel - Chapter 1

• 2b Has anything like this ever happened in your
  days or in the days of your ancestors? 3 Tell it
  to your children,    and let your children tell
  it to their children,    and their children to
  the next generation. 4 What the locust swarm has
  left    the great locusts have eaten what the
  great locusts have left    the young locusts
  have eaten what the young locusts have left
     other locusts have eaten.

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Locust Invasion Description

• In 1915 a devastating plague of locusts covered
  what is modern-day Israel and Syria. The first
  swarms came in March, in clouds so thick they
  blocked out the sun. The female locusts
  immediately began to lay eggs, 100 at a time.
  Witnesses say that in one square yard, there were
  as many as 65,000 to 75,000 eggs. In a few weeks
  they hatched, and the young locusts resembled
  large ants. They couldnt fly yet, and got along
  by hopping. They marched along 400 to 600 feet a
  day, devouring every speck of vegetation along
  the way. After two more stages of molting they
  became adults who could fly - and the devastation
  continued.

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Joel - Chapter 1

• 2b Has anything like this ever happened in your
  days or in the days of your ancestors? 3 Tell it
  to your children,    and let your children tell
  it to their children,    and their children to
  the next generation. 4 What the locust swarm has
  left    the great locusts have eaten what the
  great locusts have left    the young locusts
  have eaten what the young locusts have left
     other locusts have eaten.

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Joel - Chapter 115-16

• 15 Alas for that day!    For the day of the Lord
  is near    it will come like destruction from
  the Almighty.
• 16 Has not the food been cut off     before our
  very eyes joy and gladness     from the house
  of our God?

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Outline of Joel Chapter 2

• II. DESCRIPTION OF THE
• ENEMY INVASION (21-11)
• DIVINE APPEAL TO JUDAH TO
• REPENT (212-14)
• IV. DECLARING A FAST (215-17)

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Joel 2 Call to True Repentance

• 12 Even now, declares the LORD,    return to
  me with all your heart,    with fasting and
  weeping and mourning.  
• 13 Rend your heart    and not your garments.
  Return to the LORD your God,    for he is
  gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and
  abounding in love,    and he relents from
  sending calamity. 14 Who knows? He may turn and
  relent    and leave behind a blessing grain
  offerings and drink offerings    for the LORD
  your God.

Intensity
Emotion
Inward, not Outward
Trusting in Gods goodness
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Outline of Joel Chapter 2-3
Up to that verse, Joel has been speaking of the
desolation that would come on Judah. From this
verse on, God tells of the deliverance which He
will bring to the nation.

• DIVINE DELIVERANCE PROMISED (218-
• 321)
• A. Material Prosperity (218, 19, 21-27)
• B. Destruction of Enemy (220)
• C. Pouring out of God's Spirit (228, 29)
• D. Signs Preceding Christ's Second Coming
• (230-32)
• E. Judgment of Gentile Nations (31-16a)

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Joel - Chapter 2

• 25 I will repay you for the years the locusts
  have eaten     the great locust and the young
  locust,    the other locusts and the locust
  swarmmy great army that I sent among you

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Joel - Chapter 2
This was fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost when
the disciples gathered in the upper room, waiting
in Jerusalem for the outpouring of the Holy
Spirit that Jesus promised would come (Acts
14-5).
Acts 214 Then Peter stood up with the Eleven,
raised his voice and addressed the crowd Fellow
Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me
explain this to you listen carefully to what I
say. 15 These people are not drunk, as you
suppose. Its only nine in the morning! 16 No,
this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel

• 28 And afterward,    I will pour out my Spirit
  on all people. Your sons and daughters will
  prophesy,     your old men will dream dreams,
      your young men will see visions.29 Even on
  my servants, both men and women,    I will pour
  out my Spirit in those days.

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Jonah - Overview

• Jonah (Heb. for dove) is the only one among the
  prophets whose prophecy does not consist of what
  he said but rather of his own life and
  experience.
• Jonah's mission to Nineveh, the capital of
  Assyria, took place when Assyria was threatening
  the Northern Kingdom during the reign of its
  mightiest monarch, Jeroboam II (2Ki_1423), who
  ruled from about 793 to 753 B.C
• The book is a commentary on Romans 329.

29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the
God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,
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Outline of Jonah Chapter 1

• I. THE DISOBEDIENCE OF THE PROPHET
• A. Jonah's Missionary Call (11, 2)
• B. Jonah's Flight to Tarshish (13)
• C. The Storm at Sea (14-10)
• D. Jonah Thrown Overboard and Swallowed by a
  Great Fish (111-17)

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1 The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of
Amittai 2 Go to the great city of Nineveh and
preach against it, because its wickedness has
come up before me.
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Nahum 3

•  1 Woe to the city of blood,    full of lies,
  full of plunder,    never without victims! 3b
  Many casualties,    piles of dead, bodies
  without number,    people stumbling over the
  corpses 4 all because of the wanton lust of a
  prostitute,    alluring, the mistress of
  sorceries, who enslaved nations by her
  prostitution    and peoples by her witchcraft.

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Assyrian Boasts

• I cut off their heads and formed them into
  pillars
• Bubo, son of Buba, I flayed in the city of
  Arbela and I spread his skin upon the city wall
• I cut off the limbs of the officers, the royal
  officers who had rebelled
• 3,000 captives I burned with fire

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3 But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for
Tarshish.
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117 Now the Lord provided a huge fish to swallow
Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish
three days and three nights.
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Philippians 14-6

• 4 In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray
  with joy 5 because of your partnership in the
  gospel from the first day until now, 6 being
  confident of this, that he who began a good work
  in you will carry it on to completion until the
  day of Christ Jesus.

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Outline of Jonah Chapter 2

• II. THE DELIVERANCE OF THE PROPHET
• A. Jonah's Prayer (21-9)
• B. God's Answer (210)

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22  In my distress I called to the Lord, and he
answered me.From deep in the realm of the dead I
called for help,    and you listened to my cry.
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Outline of Jonah Chapter 3

• III. THE DECLARATION OF GOD'S MESSAGE THROUGH
  THE PROPHET
• A. The Threat of Judgment (31-4)
• B. The City-Wide Repentance (35-9)
• C. The Judgment Averted (310)

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Jonah 34-5

• Jonah began by going a days journey into the
  city, proclaiming, Forty more days and Nineveh
  will be overthrown. 5 The Ninevites believed
  God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from
  the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.

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Outline of Jonah Chapter 4

• IV. THE DISPLEASURE OF THE PROPHET
• A. Jonah's Petulant Prayer (41-3)
• B. God's Searching Question (44)
• C. Jonah Sulking Outside the City (45)
• D. Object Lesson on God's Sovereign Mercy
  (46-11)

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Jonah 41-4

• But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he
  became angry. 2 He prayed to the Lord, Isnt
  this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home?
  That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to
  Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and
  compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in
  love, a God who relents from sending calamity.
  3 Now, Lord, take away my life, for it is better
  for me to die than to live.
• 4 But the Lord replied, Is it right for you to
  be angry?

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Lessons from Jonah

• The primary lesson of Jonah is what he proclaimed
  before being freed from the great fish Salvation
  is of the Lord (Jonah 29), and not of any race
  or nation or class.
• God is committed to working on/with us till the
  end! He who began a good work in us will carry
  it on to completion!

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Upcoming Schedule

• May 6     No Bible class on International
  Sunday   May 13   No Bible class on Mothers'
  DayMay 20 Joe Washington  (Amos, King
  Uzziah of Judah, King Jeroboam II of Israel)

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The End

• Life and Times of the Minor Prophets

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Locust Invasion Description

• In 1915 a devastating plague of locusts covered
  what is modern-day Israel and Syria. The first
  swarms came in March, in clouds so thick they
  blocked out the sun. The female locusts
  immediately began to lay eggs, 100 at a time.
  Witnesses say that in one square yard, there were
  as many as 65,000 to 75,000 eggs. In a few weeks
  they hatched, and the young locusts resembled
  large ants. They couldnt fly yet, and got along
  by hopping. They marched along 400 to 600 feet a
  day, devouring every speck of vegetation along
  the way. After two more stages of molting they
  became adults who could fly - and the devastation
  continued.