Joel 1:15

"Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty."

Key Reflection

This verse conveys a sense of impending judgment, where the coming day of the Lord brings destruction. It reflects the intense fear and sorrow associated with divine wrath, signaling a time when natural order breaks down, mirroring the catastrophic consequences of God's intervention in human affairs.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Alas for the day! for the Day of the Lord is at hand -The judgment of God, then, which they were to deprecate, was still to come. : “All times and all days are God’s. Yet they are said to be our days, in which God leaves us to our own freedom, to do as we will,” and which we may use to repent and turn to Him. “Whence Christ saith, ‘O Jerusalem - if thou hadst known in this thy day the things which belong unto thy peace’Luke 19:42. That time, on the contrary, is said to be God’s Day, in which He doth any new, rare, or special thing, such as is the Day of Judgment or vengeance.” All judgment in time is an image of the Judgment for eternity.

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