People will be

Buying and selling

Marrying and baring

Children

Wars will be fought

In the name of

Hate?

The finacial system

Will be made a mess

Dreams will be crushed

Wars will be waged

Promising of peace

But at the end of that peace

Years of tribulation

Like we've never seen.

Copyright Michelle R Kidwell

Oct.14.08

6:28 P.M PST

 Joel 1

1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel.

An Invasion of Locusts

 2 Hear this, you elders;
       listen, all who live in the land.
       Has anything like this ever happened in your days
       or in the days of your forefathers?

 3 Tell it to your children,
       and let your children tell it to their children,
       and their children to the next generation.

 4 What the locust swarm has left
       the great locusts have eaten;
       what the great locusts have left
       the young locusts have eaten;
       what the young locusts have left
       other locusts ^[a] have eaten.

 5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!
       Wail, all you drinkers of wine;
       wail because of the new wine,
       for it has been snatched from your lips.

 6 A nation has invaded my land,
       powerful and without number;
       it has the teeth of a lion,
       the fangs of a lioness.

 7 It has laid waste my vines
       and ruined my fig trees.
       It has stripped off their bark
       and thrown it away,
       leaving their branches white.

 8 Mourn like a virgin ^[b] in sackcloth
       grieving for the husband ^[c] of her youth.

 9 Grain offerings and drink offerings
       are cut off from the house of the LORD.
       The priests are in mourning,
       those who minister before the LORD.

 10 The fields are ruined,
       the ground is dried up ^[d] ;
       the grain is destroyed,
       the new wine is dried up,
       the oil fails.

 11 Despair, you farmers,
       wail, you vine growers;
       grieve for the wheat and the barley,
       because the harvest of the field is destroyed.

 12 The vine is dried up
       and the fig tree is withered;
       the pomegranate, the palm and the apple tree—
       all the trees of the field—are dried up.
       Surely the joy of mankind
       is withered away.

A Call to Repentance

 13 Put on sackcloth, O priests, and mourn;
       wail, you who minister before the altar.
       Come, spend the night in sackcloth,
       you who minister before my God;
       for the grain offerings and drink offerings
       are withheld from the house of your God.

 14 Declare a holy fast;
       call a sacred assembly.
       Summon the elders
       and all who live in the land
       to the house of the LORD your God,
       and cry out to the LORD.

 15 Alas for that day!
       For the day of the LORD is near;
       it will come like destruction from the Almighty. ^[e]

 16 Has not the food been cut off
       before our very eyes—
       joy and gladness
       from the house of our God?

 17 The seeds are shriveled
       beneath the clods. ^[f]
       The storehouses are in ruins,
       the granaries have been broken down,
       for the grain has dried up.

 18 How the cattle moan!
       The herds mill about
       because they have no pasture;
       even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

 19 To you, O LORD, I call,
       for fire has devoured the open pastures
       and flames have burned up all the trees of the field.

 20 Even the wild animals pant for you;
       the streams of water have dried up
       and fire has devoured the open pastures.