The Fruit Crop Destroyed

Joel 1:1–12 (NKJV)





This prophecy begins with an announcement of how extreme the prophesied destruction will be to Israel.  It will have historical significance, worse than perhaps any other event in Israel’s time, so much so that they will be telling their children about it for generations.  The locusts are coming!  While this may be a metaphorical grouping of locusts, this prophecy still speaks to the devastation that will come through the land.  One group will eat the fruit, the next the foliage, the next the branches, and finally the trees and vines will be destroyed down to a stump.




This passage describes the devastation in detail.  The nations will attack like a swarm of locusts, with everything in their path being destroyed.  They will devour the land like a lion with fangs.






The Lord describes the devastation even further, including its effects.  The nation should lament and mourn, for even worship has been cut off, as the grain and drink are no longer available for an offering to the Lord.  Therefore, they should be ashamed, the no more fruit is growing, and joy has left the nation.  When sin enters a nation, a church, a family, or an individual, it welcomes the onslaught of the enemy, and then the spiritual productivity is hampered.  Fruit ceases to be produced in the life of a person or people, and then the joy of the Lord is sapped from that life.  Don’t allow sin to take away your fruit!

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