Peter Rubiro :
Where many miss the weight of this passage is in what God Himself calls the invading force: “My great army.” The locusts, the great locust, the young locust, and the other consuming insects described in Joel are not presented as an autonomous force operating outside the sovereignty of God. God declares that they are “My great army, which I sent among you” (Joel 2:25).
That statement should sober us.
We are often quick to attribute every affliction, loss, attack, or season of devastation to the devil, while Scripture repeatedly demonstrates that God remains sovereign even over instruments of judgment. In Joel, the devastation is not merely agricultural; it is covenantal. The calamity becomes a divine summons for God's people to return to Him: “Now therefore,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning” (Joel 2:12).Therefore, when adversity comes, discernment should lead us beyond merely asking, “How do I defeat this attack?” It should also lead us to ask, “Is God calling me to repentance, correction, obedience, or deeper dependence upon Him?”
Because sometimes what we call an attack may actually be a divine alarm.
Sometimes God allows the field to be stripped so that the heart can be searched.
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