Reading for November 1st

 Read Joel 2.18-27. In 2.18-27: God's renewal of the land. Joel anticipates new harvests to replace those the locusts have destroyed. Each crop ruined in 1.1-2.17 is to be restored. In verse 20: The northern army in Hebrew is simply "the northerner," used for the locust here because it is a traditional designation of the enemy, since enemies invaded from the north, or because the locusts themselves came from the north, as did the first swarms in the 1915 plague in Jerusalem. the eastern sea in the Dead Sea and the western sea is the Mediterranean Sea. Comments or  Questions..