The Day of the Lord: Divine Judgment and Present Warning

The prophet Joel intimates that the destruction caused by the flight of locusts over the land of Judah was but the commencement of calamity, and that it was a tupos (type) of judgments more awful in the future. All judgments which come upon men in the present are indicative of the final judgment which is to come, and are warnings of that awful event, so that we may not be unprepared to meet it.…