Annotated Outline of Joel

Joel

1. Immediate desolation of Judah by Babylon (Joel 1:1-14)  (1:1-20)
   1. Title, author and a call to hear  (1:1-3)
   2. The destroyers: symbolic  (1:4)
   100. Call to awake: Babylonian invasion of Judah  (1:5-7)
   4. Lament: reason  (1:8-10)
   5. Howl: reason  (1:11-12)
   6. Howl and lament: reason  (1:13-14)
   7. The day of the Lord (Isa. 2:10, refs.)  (1:15-20)
      1. Destruction in the day of the Lord  (1:15-20)
2. Call to alarm  (2:1-32)
   1. Supernatural armies of God at Armageddon described (2 Th. 1:7-10; Rev. 19:11-21; Jude 14; Zech. 14:5)  (2:2-11)
   2. Future restoration of Israel (Joel 2:12-3:1)  (2:12-17)
      1. Call to repentance (Zech. 12:10)  (2:12-17)
   100. THEN: sixfold restoration  (2:18-19)
   4. THEN: destruction of enemies  (2:20)
   5. THEN: fourteenfold restoration of land and people  (2:21-27)
   6. AFTERWARD: fivefold spiritual restoration of all peoples  (2:28-29)
   7. Signs preceding the second advent of Messiah and the day of the Lord  (2:30-32)
3. Battle of Armageddon  (3:1-21)
   1. Judah and Jerusalem restored  (3:1)
   2. Mobilization of the nations (Zech. 14:1-3; Rev. 16:13-16; 19:19)  (3:2)
   100. Reasons for judgment on the nations  (3:3-8)
   4. Tenfold proclamation for mobilization and war  (3:9-12)
   5. Tenfold destruction of the armies of Antichrist (Ez. 38-39; Zech. 14; Rev. 14:14-20; 19:11-21; Isa. 34)  (3:13-16)
   6. Future restoration of Israel after the Battle of Armageddon  (3:17)
      1. Lord reigning in Zion  (3:17)
   7. Material blessings of Israel  (3:18)
   8. Israel avenged on her enemies  (3:19)
   1. Judah an eternal people  (3:20-21)