- In Joel 2:1 is the sounding of the shofar a joyous sound in this instance or otherwise?
- What is “My holy mount”?
- And is the “yom Adonai” a good day or some other?
- Indeed, how does the very next verse describe the day of God?
- Who or what accompanies this “day”?
- Is it before the enemy or before God that the fire goes forth?
- Would the description of the invading “horde” in Joel 2:3-9 indicate a powerful, well-equipped and competent enemy?
- Would Joel 2:6 indicate that this enemy has already conquered other lands/peoples?
- And, at any point, is there any “dating” of this attack or any indication of which land (Judea or Israel) is being attacked?
- Would Joel 2:11, which refers to the enemy as “His military,” imply or explicate that these are “supernatural” warriors or, rather, that they are fulfilling “God’s mandate”?
- And, if there were any question about the meaning of “yom Adonai” how does Joel 2:11 resolve it?
- In Joel 2:12 what are some of the modes of “returning to God”?
- But, in Joel 2:13, is this “return” primarily through externalia or primarily within the individual?
- Does Joel 2:13 indicate that there is any hope of “mercy”?
- Does Joel 2:14 provide assurance that there will be mercy or that there is “a possibility”?
- Unlike the usual sounding of the shofar what does the shofar indicate in Joel 2:15?
- What is the “groom’s room” and the “bride’s hupah”?
- Would Joel 2:17 indicate that, indeed, the Temple is still standing?
- Joel 2:19 indicates what response from Divinity?
- What assurance is given to nature itself (Joel 2:21)?
- Does Joel 2:23, with its optimistic tenor, indicate any time or any place?
- And, in this verse is the “moreh” a teacher of righteousness or is it, rather, the early rain which comes in God’s justice?
- Will there be full restoration in the unspecified time and place (Joel 2:25)?
- And, in that “end of days” will there ever be a recurrence of the devastation described in Joel 1 and earlier in this chapter?
- In Joel 2:27, what is meant by “I am in the midst of Israel” and how translate “eyn od” — there is none other or there is no other Eternal?
- Finally, what will be the lot of the Jew when that “happy day” has come?
