Joel 2:1-14

Have you ever received an Amber Alert on cell your phone?

It’s so loud and annoying, there’s no way you can ignore it
- this is the sort of attention-getter Joel calls for in verse 1
“Blow the ram’s horn in Zion,
 sound the alarm on my holy mountain”
• sentinels were posted on Jerusalem’s walls,
◦ and Joel tells them to sound the shofar and alert the people
◦ because a massive, hostile army was approaching the holy city
• after what we read last week, the danger Joel announces seems a little strange
◦ we expect him to warn of the “locust plague,” but instead he warns of , “the day of the LORD”
- now because of what we’ve been told in past decades, this needs a bit of explaining