1. THE ROAD TO EMMAUS
Hosea & Joel

2. QUIZ Match each Minor Prophet with the key phrase Honest to God? (3:8)
Ninevah’s Nadir (1:1)
Lion from Zion (1:2)
Temple Toilers (1:14)
Harlot’s Husband (1:2-3)
Pentecost Prophesied (Acts 2:16-21)
Doom of Edom (1:1)
Worshipper’s Walk (6:8)
Fish Food (1:17)
Hind’s Feet on High Places (3:19)
Day of Destruction (1:14-18)
Messianic Moment (14:9-11)

3. QUIZ Match each Minor Prophet with the key phrase
Honest to God? (Malachi 3:8)
Ninevah’s Nadir (Nahum 1:1)
Lion from Zion (Amos 1:2)
Temple Toilers (Haggai 1:14)
Harlot’s Husband (Hosea 1:2-3)
Pentecost Prophesied (Joel; Acts 2:16-21)
Doom of Edom (Obadiah 1)
Worshipper’s Walk (Micah 6:8)
Fish Food (Jonah 1:17)
Hind’s Feet on High Places (Habbakuk 3:19)
Day of Destruction (Zephaniah 1:14-18)
Messianic Moment (Zechariah 14:9-11)

6. CONTEXT
Hos 1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

8. THEME OF THE MINOR PROPHETS
Indictment for sins
Judgment
Grace

9. THEME OF HOSEA
The people of Israel have broken the covenant like an adulterous wife, even though Yahweh has been a faithful husband to them.

10. MARRIAGE & ADULTERY
Hos 1:2 When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD.”

11. MARRIAGE & ADULTERY
Hos 1:9 And the LORD said, “Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.”
v Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, "You are not my people," it shall be said to them, "Children of the living God."
v And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint for themselves one head. And they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

12. MARRIAGE & ADULTERY
Rom 9: What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory--even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles? As indeed he says in Hosea, "Those who were not my people I will call 'my people,' and her who was not beloved I will call 'beloved.'" "And in the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' there they will be called 'sons of the living God.'"

13. MARRIAGE & ADULTERY
1 Pet 2: But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

14. JUDGMENT & MERCY
Hos 11:8-9 How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender. I will not execute my burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.
Ps 103: He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever. He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us. As a father shows compassion to his children, so the LORD shows compassion to those who fear him. For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.

15. JUDGMENT M E R C Y

16. APPLICATION Trust in the LORD See sin as God sees it
Jas 4:4 You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

17. APPLICATION Trust in the LORD See sin as God sees it
Glory in the grace of God
Hos 6:1-2 Come, let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up. After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him.
14:9 Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the LORD are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.

19. THEME
The Day of the LORD is prefigured in a locust plague, and in an invading army.

20. THE DAY OF THE LORD
Joel 1:4 What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.
vv Awake, you drunkards, and weep, and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth. For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and beyond number; its teeth are lions' teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness.

21. THE DAY OF THE LORD
Joel 1:15 Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.
2: The earth quakes before them; the heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining. The LORD utters his voice before his army, for his camp is exceedingly great; he who executes his word is powerful. For the day of the LORD is great and very awesome; who can endure it?

22. THE DAY OF THE LORD
Joel 2: "Yet even now," declares the LORD, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments." Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster. Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the LORD your God?

23. GLORY  MERCY
Joel 2:17 Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep and say, “Spare your people, O LORD, and make not your heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
v Then the LORD became jealous for his land and had pity on his people.

24. GLORY  MERCY
Joel 2: I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you. You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never again be put to shame.
v You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God and there is none else. And my people shall never again be put to shame.

25. THE RENEWED UNIVERSE
Joel 3:18 And in that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the streambeds of Judah shall flow with water; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD and water the Valley of Shittim.

26. THE TIMING OF THE DAY OF THE LORD
Joel 2: And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. Even on the male and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit. And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the LORD has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the LORD calls.

27. THE TIMING OF THE DAY OF THE LORD
Acts 2:1-4 When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
vv But Peter, standing with the eleven, lifted up his voice and addressed them: “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and give ear to my words. For these people are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day. But this is what was uttered through the prophet Joel…”

28. THE TIMING OF THE DAY OF THE LORD
1 Thess 5:1-5 Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, "There is peace and security," then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.

29. APPLICATION: EVANGELISM
Judgment is coming
Jesus has paid the price of judgment
We must repent and call on Jesus
Conversion happens through the Holy Spirit

30. APPLICATION: EVANGELISM
Joel 3: The LORD roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth quake. But the LORD is a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the people of Israel. “So you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.”

31. SCHEDULE
HOMEWORK:
Ask God in prayer if you have been faithful
Read Amos & Obadiah
NEXT WEEK: AMOS & OBADIAH