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Minor Prophets, Part 2: Babylonian Crisis

  1. Lesson One
    Nahum
    23 Activities
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    3 Assessments
  2. Lesson Two
    Zephaniah
    22 Activities
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    3 Assessments
  3. Lesson Three
    Habakkuk
    19 Activities
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    4 Assessments
  4. Lesson Four
    Joel and Josiah
    24 Activities
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    2 Assessments
  5. Lesson Five
    Interpreting Prophecy
    34 Activities
    |
    7 Assessments
  6. Course Wrap-up
    Course Completion
    1 Activity
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    1 Assessment

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Minor Prophets, Part 2: Babylonian Crisis Joel and Josiah In Front | Workbook: Your Greatest Fear
Lesson 4, Activity 21

In Front | Workbook: Your Greatest Fear

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[Record your answers in the workbook provided at the beginning of this course.]

The locust was the Israelite farmer’s greatest fear. Joel’s reference to this creature would have recalled the passage we looked at earlier from the Pentateuch: 

The LORD will send upon you curses, confusion, and rebuke, in all you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Me . . .The cricket shall possess all your trees and the produce of your ground.
Deuteronomy 28:20, 42-43 NASB

The invasion of locusts (or “crickets”) was evidence of God’s judgment, and this judgment was evidence that Israel was committing “evil deeds” and forsaking YHWH. God used the fear of Israel’s ancient agricultural economy to get their attention, to get the people’s focus back on Him and their failure of His covenant.

  1. What’s your greatest fear? Consider especially those forces that threaten our security and success.
  1. When you sense fear coming on, could it be that God is using it to get your attention? What might God be doing in your life with the things you fear? In what ways might He be trying to get your focus back on Him? 
  1. Josiah led a great revival, but his life ended prematurely when he took matters into his own hands—presumably out of fear. Are there any episodes in your life where you have tried to protect yourself from what you fear, only to make yourself more vulnerable to risk? Describe in your workbook.