Prophet Joel

The Prophet Joel Joel is the second of 12 Minor Prophets in the Old Testament of the Bible. He is placed between the prophets Hosea and Amos; this information can be used later in determining the time in which his book was written. The book of Joel is divided into four chapters. In the book there is no reculation about Joel himself, except his name and his father’s name. The theme of the Book of …

…of the biggest impacts on the biblical world. Joel is best explained by Smith when he states that “we may, therefore, conclude that the allegoral and mystical interpretations of Joel are impossible; and that the only reasonable view of our prophet is that which regards him as calling upon his contemporaries to repent in face of a plague of locusts, so unusually severe that he feels it ominous of even the Day of the Lord” (388).