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People still get saved from the The Thief in the Night movie, but it is not biblically correct.
BYWORD IN THE BIBLE MOVIE
“I wish we’d all been ready.” Larry Norman wrote a song about that for a the movie called The Thief in the Night, but he pulled the phrase out of context. The appearance of the thief in the night is to judge! - Not to deliver by means of the rapture. The Problemįor those who are alive at the Second Advent of Christ to the earth, what will keep them from being surprised by the “thief-in-the-night” appearance of the Son of Man who will execute His judgment upon the unbelievers of that time? The time of arrival for the Son of Man is unknown as is likened to a thief arriving in the middle of the night. As in the previous parable, watchfulness is the byword of belief. Then, after all were inside the ark and the door was shut, it started to rain for the first time in history. So, when Noah said it was going to flood, they thought he was crazy. The days of Noah with the sudden judgment is used as the illustration of the danger of being caught off guard by the unexpected time of its arrival. But Israel did not (Matthew 23:37,38).īible authors affirm that the prophetic promises that failed to be fulfilled to ancient Israel’s because of its unfaithfulness, will be fulfilled to spiritual Israel which is the New Testament Church (Romans 2:28, 29 Galatians 3:29).Discussion about Tribulation, Second Coming of Christ, parable of the fig tree, then the discussion about the days of Noah. Had the literal nation of Israel been faithful to God, they would have been liberated from their problems. The recent devastation was a foretaste of a coming judgment on Israel and a later judgment upon the whole earth (Joel 2:28).īeside the natural catastrophe, part of this prophecy was fulfilled when Israel was defeated by its enemies and taken into exile. It is possible that the prophet Joel employed a recent catastrophe of locusts that affected ancient Israel as an illustration to the Judgment Day. Scholars say that the time of the fulfillment of this prophecy was likely around 845 B.C. Whether we adopt the literal or allegorical view, the eschatological teachings of the book of Joel remain the same.
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(2) The allegorical view, which holds that the description of the plague was merely a figure of a coming general judgment on the nation of Israel. (1) The literal view, which states that Joel is describing a mainly distressing scourge of locusts, and that the prophet makes this disaster the time of a call to repentance the deliverance from the natural plague is then made an event for speech on the future day of the Lord, when God’s people will be saved from all their foes. In general, two interpretation have been held regarding the plague of locusts in Joel 1: Therefore, the prophet Joel called all the people to fast and pray (Joel 1:14) to avoid further judgements. All food resources were destroyed except for flesh foods.Ĭonsequently, every citizen was affected: drunkards (Joel 1:5-7), inhabitants of Jerusalem (Joel 1:8-10), farmers (Joel 1:11-12), and priests (Joel 1:13). There was loss of: grapes (Joel 1:5), figs (Joel 1:7), grain (Joel 1:9 Joel 1:10), wheat and barley (Joel 1:11), the fruit from trees (Joel 1:12, olives (Joel 1:13), and the food for the livestock (Joel 1:18). The devastation of the locust’s swarm was extensive. He said, “What the chewing locust left, the swarming locust has eaten what the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten and what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten” (Joel 1:4). The prophet Joel wrote about four types of locusts that caused destruction to the agriculture of Israel.
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You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it” (Deuteronomy 28:37-38). Moses had warned Israel of the consequences of disobedience saying: “You will become a thing of horror, a byword and an object of ridicule. God used locusts in the time of Joel the prophet as a punishment to call ancient Israel to repent of its wickedness. A locust swarm can be a plague that cause economic catastrophe to an agricultural province.