“Responding to God’s Faithful Intervention” Series (Part One)
Lesson Five: “The Dark Day of Gloom”
Joel chapters 2 and 3

Conquerors Sunday School Class – Sunday, June11, 2023 

Our Lesson’s Theme Verse is found in this passage of Scripture…
“And rendyour heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.”
Joel 2:13
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Today’s Lesson Thought can be summed up in this one simple Statement…
 “Be Not Deceived; God Is Not Mocked!”
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Lesson: ‘The Dark Day of Gloom’

I           : Invasion of the Northern Army

            A: The Identity of the Army (Joel 2:1)

                        1: An Army of Locusts

                        2: An Army of People

            B: The Darkness of the Day of the Lord (Joel 2:2)

            C: The Destructiveness of the Army (Joel 2:3)

            D: A Description of the Army (Joel 2:4-9)

            E: The Army of God (Joel 2:10-11)

II         : A Call To Repentance

            A: The Author of the Call (Joel 2:12-14)

            B: Those Addressed by the Call (Joel 2:12-14)

            C: Those Addressed by the Call (Joel 2:15-17)

III        : The Promise of Blessing (Joel 2:28-32)

IV        : Judgment of the Nations

            A: The Regathering of Israel (Joel 3:1)

            B: The Judgment of the Gentiles (Joel 3:2-17)

V         : Restoration of Israel (Joel 3:18-21)

Conclusion:

Oh, dear Conqueror’s Class members…are you truly on the winning side today?

Do you truly know the Lord Jesus Christ as your own personal Saviour?

If so, who is on the Lord’s side, and who will stand unashamedly for the Lord even in such a wicked and perverse day as we live in today?

Are there any areas of compromise that you need to repent of and make right with God before our Lord returns and the day of the Lord comes to pass even as the Scriptures foretell?

Then, even as Joel pleaded with his own people on God’s behalf, so I plea with you today, turn ye even to the Lord God with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil!

Do it today, dear child of God, and remember what God said in Galatians 6:7, “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”