If firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

If you take a step back and look at the timeline of history, you see that we're all moving towards a series of events still in the future.

And the Bible speaks often of this as prophecy.

Welcome to Through the Bible.

In our study, our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee traces a thread through the Old Testament book of Joel to describe an event that's still

in the future. Have you heard the term the day of the Lord? Do you know what it means? If not,

stay tuned as we discover what it was in Joel's time and what it will be for all of mankind in the

future. I'm Steve Schwartz, your host on our five-year journey through God's entire word.

And as you find your spot in Joel, chapter two,

we're going to read a couple of letters from our fellow passengers on the Bible bus.

First, here's one from Dr. McGee that he enjoyed receiving a long time ago.

It says, first, may I thank you for your insistence on the truth

that Israel is indeed Israel in the Old Testament and the

new. Thank you for your clear distinction between Israel after the flesh and spiritual Israel.

Now this party says, I thought you might be interested in the procedure of the

orthodox Sephardic wedding as practiced still, particularly in Jerusalem. And I gave this

some time ago in connection with First Thessalonians, the fourth chapter, and John 14, in

particular, that on the background of a wedding of the first century, the Lord Jesus spoke in John 14.

Now, this is quite interesting, and I'll read just a few excerpts here.

It says the seven days of the wedding are enormously important.

During that time, the groom negotiates and procures everything he desires.

Job, house, position in the community, funds, alliances, etc.

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