Post by professorc on Oct 8, 2015 11:11:40 GMT -5
TRICKY VOCAB WORDS IN JOEL AND THEIR IMPORTANCE
Fig Trees
Hebrew word : teenah
Fig trees were valued for their fruit and their shades.
They were a symbol of security and prosperity (1 Kings 4:25; Micah 4:4; Zechariah 3:10).
At full height, they could reach 30ft. The leaves were large enough to serve as coverings for Adam and Eve (Genesis 3:7).
Used for food and a poultice.
Priests
Hebrew word: Kohen
The priests and High Priests served as REPRESENTATIVES. They represented the people BEFORE God as they led in worship and at the altar. They also represented GOD BEFORE the People as they taught and explained His laws.
Ministers
Hebrew word : shârath
These people simply served or worshiped. They contributed to the worship. Menial servants.
Agriculture: Earning a Living
When the Jewish people entered Canaan and took up agriculture after the seminomadic life of 40 years in the wilderness, they were entering into work that went back in their own history for 100s of years and into a country that was extremely rich in plants.
The two most important grains were wheat and barley. The cycle of grain production began when the former rains came in October/November and softened the soil.
It was most economical for a village to invest in its own VINEYARD.
Vine Symbolism
The vine was of GREAT IMPORTANCE in the religion of Israel. It was used as a symbol of the religious life of Israel itself, and a carving of a bunch of grapes often adorned the front exterior of the synagogue.
Israel was suppose to be God’s Vine (Isaiah 5). As the fulfillment of all that Israel should be to God, Jesus was the TRUE VINE (John 15:5-7).
The vine was also important because it brought out teaching about right and wrong usage. Wine was one of the good things that God gave and as such was to be offered back to him in thanksgiving.
Olive Oil
Olive oil took the place of butter and cooking fat and so was CRUCIAL for diet (Ezekiel 16:13). It therefore formed part of the meal offering (Leviticus 2:1). It was used as fuel for lamps and when boiled with soda it formed soap.
Oil was used for skin and hair to make them shine.
Oil was used for ANOINTING and CONSCRATING things and people.
Oil was also used for Healing.
SACKCLOTH
Hebrew word is saq. This was a mesh material, to allow for liquids for flow out. Very coarse material.
This is sometimes called a Tunic. They were made of goat’s hair. They were very uncomfortable, and caused skin irritation. They were therefore worn in times of mourning and repentance.
THRESHING FLOOR
Threshing was the separation of the grain from the straw. This process was done on a threshing floor. This could be any hard, compacted surface. It may have been made of smoothed rock.
Threshing was done by beating the grain with a flail, a long flexible stick. Oxen were the other means of threshing grain.
The root meaning of the Hebrew for “thresh” is “to trample.”
In biblical days there was no machinery, so after the harvest, the grain was separated from the straw and husks by beating it manually. First there had to be a flat surface that was smooth and hard, and this was known as the threshing floor. The process of threshing was performed generally by spreading the sheaves on the threshing floor and causing oxen and cattle to tread repeatedly over them, loosening the edible part of cereal grain (or other crop) from the scaly, inedible chaff that surrounds it (Deuteronomy 25:4; Isaiah 28:28). On occasion, flails or sticks were used for this purpose (Ruth 2:17; Isaiah 28:27). Then winnowing forks were used to throw the mixture into the air so the wind could blow away the chaff, leaving only the good grain on the floor.
CONSECRATE
Make it holy….set it apart.
To sanctify a fast is to exhibit abstinence of the flesh, meet toward God, with other good. Let anger cease, strife be lulled. For in vain is the flesh worn, if the mind is not held in from evil passions
consecrate a fast, proclaim a time of restraint; that is, of total abstinence from food, and from all secular employment. All the elders of the land and the representatives of the people were to be collected at the temple to cry unto the Lord, to confess their sins, and pray for mercy. The temple was not yet destroyed. This prophecy was delivered before the captivity of Judah.
DAY OF THE LORD
The Day of the Lord involves God’s special intervention in the affairs of human history. Three facets of the Day of the LORD are discernable:
1. The historical, that is God’s intervention in the affairs of Israel (Zeph. 1:14-18; Joel 1:15) and heathen nations (Isaiah 13:6; Jeremiah 46:10
2. The Illustrative, whereby an historical incident represents a partial fulfillment of the eschatological Day of the Lord (Joel 2:1-11’ Isaiah 13:6-13
3. The Eschatological. This eschatological “day” includes the time of the Great Tribulation (Isaiah 2:12-19; 4:1); the 2nd Coming of Christ (Joel 2:30-32) and the Millennium (Isaiah 4:2, 12; 19:23-25; Jeremiah 30:7-9
RECOMPENSE (Chapter 3)
God is talking about the Judgment of the Nations at the 2nd Coming of Christ.
Zion is another name/term for Jerusalem.
Fig Trees
Hebrew word : teenah
Fig trees were valued for their fruit and their shades.
They were a symbol of security and prosperity (1 Kings 4:25; Micah 4:4; Zechariah 3:10).
At full height, they could reach 30ft. The leaves were large enough to serve as coverings for Adam and Eve (Genesis 3:7).
Used for food and a poultice.
Priests
Hebrew word: Kohen
The priests and High Priests served as REPRESENTATIVES. They represented the people BEFORE God as they led in worship and at the altar. They also represented GOD BEFORE the People as they taught and explained His laws.
Ministers
Hebrew word : shârath
These people simply served or worshiped. They contributed to the worship. Menial servants.
Agriculture: Earning a Living
When the Jewish people entered Canaan and took up agriculture after the seminomadic life of 40 years in the wilderness, they were entering into work that went back in their own history for 100s of years and into a country that was extremely rich in plants.
The two most important grains were wheat and barley. The cycle of grain production began when the former rains came in October/November and softened the soil.
It was most economical for a village to invest in its own VINEYARD.
Vine Symbolism
The vine was of GREAT IMPORTANCE in the religion of Israel. It was used as a symbol of the religious life of Israel itself, and a carving of a bunch of grapes often adorned the front exterior of the synagogue.
Israel was suppose to be God’s Vine (Isaiah 5). As the fulfillment of all that Israel should be to God, Jesus was the TRUE VINE (John 15:5-7).
The vine was also important because it brought out teaching about right and wrong usage. Wine was one of the good things that God gave and as such was to be offered back to him in thanksgiving.
Olive Oil
Olive oil took the place of butter and cooking fat and so was CRUCIAL for diet (Ezekiel 16:13). It therefore formed part of the meal offering (Leviticus 2:1). It was used as fuel for lamps and when boiled with soda it formed soap.
Oil was used for skin and hair to make them shine.
Oil was used for ANOINTING and CONSCRATING things and people.
Oil was also used for Healing.
SACKCLOTH
Hebrew word is saq. This was a mesh material, to allow for liquids for flow out. Very coarse material.
This is sometimes called a Tunic. They were made of goat’s hair. They were very uncomfortable, and caused skin irritation. They were therefore worn in times of mourning and repentance.
THRESHING FLOOR
Threshing was the separation of the grain from the straw. This process was done on a threshing floor. This could be any hard, compacted surface. It may have been made of smoothed rock.
Threshing was done by beating the grain with a flail, a long flexible stick. Oxen were the other means of threshing grain.
The root meaning of the Hebrew for “thresh” is “to trample.”
In biblical days there was no machinery, so after the harvest, the grain was separated from the straw and husks by beating it manually. First there had to be a flat surface that was smooth and hard, and this was known as the threshing floor. The process of threshing was performed generally by spreading the sheaves on the threshing floor and causing oxen and cattle to tread repeatedly over them, loosening the edible part of cereal grain (or other crop) from the scaly, inedible chaff that surrounds it (Deuteronomy 25:4; Isaiah 28:28). On occasion, flails or sticks were used for this purpose (Ruth 2:17; Isaiah 28:27). Then winnowing forks were used to throw the mixture into the air so the wind could blow away the chaff, leaving only the good grain on the floor.
CONSECRATE
Make it holy….set it apart.
To sanctify a fast is to exhibit abstinence of the flesh, meet toward God, with other good. Let anger cease, strife be lulled. For in vain is the flesh worn, if the mind is not held in from evil passions
consecrate a fast, proclaim a time of restraint; that is, of total abstinence from food, and from all secular employment. All the elders of the land and the representatives of the people were to be collected at the temple to cry unto the Lord, to confess their sins, and pray for mercy. The temple was not yet destroyed. This prophecy was delivered before the captivity of Judah.
DAY OF THE LORD
The Day of the Lord involves God’s special intervention in the affairs of human history. Three facets of the Day of the LORD are discernable:
1. The historical, that is God’s intervention in the affairs of Israel (Zeph. 1:14-18; Joel 1:15) and heathen nations (Isaiah 13:6; Jeremiah 46:10
2. The Illustrative, whereby an historical incident represents a partial fulfillment of the eschatological Day of the Lord (Joel 2:1-11’ Isaiah 13:6-13
3. The Eschatological. This eschatological “day” includes the time of the Great Tribulation (Isaiah 2:12-19; 4:1); the 2nd Coming of Christ (Joel 2:30-32) and the Millennium (Isaiah 4:2, 12; 19:23-25; Jeremiah 30:7-9
RECOMPENSE (Chapter 3)
God is talking about the Judgment of the Nations at the 2nd Coming of Christ.
Zion is another name/term for Jerusalem.