The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Joel 2:1-7, “Blow a trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm on My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming; surely it is near,

2 A day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn is spread over the mountains, so there is a great and mighty people; There has never been anything like it, nor will there be again after it to the years of many generations.

3 A fire consumes before them and behind them a flame burns. The land is like the garden of Eden before them, but a desolate wilderness behind them, and nothing at all escapes them.

4 Their appearance is like the appearance of horses; and like war horses, so they run.

5 With a noise as of chariots, they leap on the tops of the mountains, like the crackling of a flame of fire consuming the stubble, like a mighty people arranged for battle.

6 Before them the people are in anguish; all faces turn pale.

7 They run like mighty men, they climb the wall like soldiers; and they each march in line, nor do they deviate from their paths.”

As noted in previous studies related to the Prophet Joel, his emphasis is upon “The Day of the LORD.” The prophet’s clear statement is: “There has never been anything like it, nor will there be again after it to the years of many generations” (v. 2). What the prophet identifies as coming can doubtlessly be identified as the early stages in our own time.

In multiple ways, we are living in “a day of darkness and gloom” and “of clouds and thick darkness.” Open, calculated hostilities result in deaths due to invidious disagreements. Nations war against each other, and innocent lives, caught in the crossfire, are surrendered to death in the process. What is occurring today was historically calculated and processed for us to read and absorb from the verses above.

If these are not those days, we have more to concern us than previously thought! Human ingenuity will not suffice! It has been “tried and found wanting.” The Creator Himself is the only Qualified One to predict the future (as in Scripture), and nothing else will exist to our prevail.

Please examine everything by the teachings of the Bible. It is our only Holy Safeguard!

Heartily in Christ,

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

United States of America

“We will never know that Christ is all that we need,

until He becomes all that we have.”

– Corrie ten Boom