Joel
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Absurdities in Joel

  1. The animals are perplexed and cry out to God after he torments them by burning their food and drying up the rivers.  1:18-20

  2. "The day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand." 1:15, 2:1, 3:14

  3. "A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness"
    "The day of the Lord" will be dark and gloomy -- like a northern Idaho spring day. 2:2

  4. On "the Lord's day", God's magical soldiers will not die when mortally wounded. 2:8

  5. On "the day of the Lord" there will be earthquakes, the sun and the moon will be dark, and the stars will no longer shine. 2:10

  6. God says he will repay Israel for the damage the locusts caused -- which he sent! And they will "praise the name of the Lord." 2:25-26

  7. "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood." These "signs" were a lot more impressive before the causes of solar and lunar eclipses were understood. 2:31

  8. The Lord will roar and the heavens and earth will shake. 3:16