Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
3 prophecies in Joel
1. An army that is innumerable will come, he describes it is like an insect army, but this army will kill and devour like a lion. On the one hand it eats up all GDP of the economy and on the other it kills and devours flesh. It isn't a human army because it is "innumerable". This army is like a thief sneaking into windows and climbing up walls, he sees people doing the social distancing marching six feet apart and no one is pushing on another. So even though he likens it to locusts it isn't locusts since these things sneak into windows unseen. He says it will shut down the world's economy, it is God declaring a worldwide fast, and in particular it will shut down churches and schools, restaurants and public gatherings and celebrations. The description is exactly like the Pandemic we saw in 2020.
2. He says that this will come after the Jews return from captivity to Israel (1948) and after Jerusalem is returned to the Jews (1967) and after the US recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel (2017). So even though we have had the Bubonic plague and the Spanish flu he is not talking about those.
3. After the pandemic He will gather the nations to war because of the sin of child trafficking and moloch and Baal worship. The center for the cartels that specialize in human trafficking are in Kazakstan and Ukraine. So all the nations will be gathered to war there and then brought down to Jerusalem for the Ezekiel 38 war.
These events are designed to wake up those who are sleeping and sober up those who are drunk and the people of the Lord are supposed to proclaim that the day of the Lord is at hand and they are to prostrate themselves and pray to the Lord repenting for the sins and things that they should have done and have not done.
See Post #5,581 #5,582 #5,583 #5,590
https://christianchat.com/blogs/summary-of-bible-references-on-the-rapture.197802/page-280