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Joel 1 · Grade 5

Cry to Yahweh

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Joel 1 opens with a disaster no one had seen before. Hear this, you elders, and listen, all you inhabitants of the land! Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers? Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation. Joel wanted the lesson remembered for generations.

Joel describes the plague in waves: What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten. He compares the swarm to an invading nation: For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. The field is laid waste. Even the offerings at the temple stopped, because there was no grain or wine. Joy has withered away from the sons of men.

Joel calls for repentance: Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Yahweh, your God, and cry to Yahweh. He warns, Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand. The day of Yahweh means a day when God acts in judgment. Joel leads by example: Yahweh, I cry to you.

Show What You Know

  1. What did Joel want remembered?

  2. What waves of insects does Joel name?

  3. Why did the temple offerings stop?

  4. What does the day of Yahweh mean?

  5. How did Joel lead by example?

Crossword

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Across

  1. for the wheat and for the ____
  2. What the swarming ____ has left

Down

  1. Hear this, you ____

Think About It

  1. Joel compared the locusts to an invading army. How can a hard time become a reason to return to God?

  2. Joel told the elders and everyone to gather and cry to Yahweh. Why does God call people to pray together and not only alone?

Memory Verse

“Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Yahweh, your God, and cry to Yahweh.”

Joel 1:14 (WEB)

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Prayer

Dear God, thank You for hearing us when we cry to You. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • What would it show about your heart if your comforts were suddenly gone?
  • When can your family talk to God together?
  • What is one way you could live out this chapter this week?

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