So how do you have hope when you feel surrounded by darkness? What are God’s people to do with life seems hopeless and joy is dried up? God through his prophet Joel is proclaiming about what he was going to do for his people in the last days when the Christ would come. We noticed in our last lesson that the apostle Peter stood up with the other apostles on the day of Pentecost and proclaimed that was happened was exactly what Joel had written (cf. Acts 2:15). Joel proclaimed that the Spirit would be poured out on all flesh (Joel 2:28-29). At the same time when the Spirit was poured out, God would also bring judgment (Joel 2:30-31). John the Baptizer preached this message in the first century, declaring that when Jesus came, he would bring a baptism of the Spirit and a baptism of fire (Matthew 3:10-12). This is why Joel said that only those who called on the name of the Lord would be saved (Joel 2:32). The apostle Peter then preached that everyone needed to repent and be baptized to be able to be forgiven of their sins and to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit that had been promised to all that the Lord calls to himself (Acts 2:38-39). Joel pictured this hope as a restoration of all that had been lost. God would return and live with his people, restoring the relationship and blessings that had been taken away because of their sins (Joel 2:18-27)…

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