joel - images

Joel has a wonderful way of painting a picture when he writes this book. Right off the bat, he paints a picture of the locust. "What the gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; And what the swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten; And what the creeping locust has left, the stripping locust has eaten". Joel uses a couple of adjectives in this such as creeping, swarming, stripping. These adjectives are what make paint the picture. As i said in the last blog, Joel has a way of painting a picture using little words. "The herds of cattle wander aimlessly". This is another line that stuck out to me, maybe its because i used to work on a farm and i understand cattle somewhat, but i can literally picture herds of cattle just wandering in all directions, having no clue where to go. "For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness". In this line, i can picture the fire, devouring the wilderness, which i already picture as dry and easily burned. "The land is like the garden of Eden before them But a desolate wilderness behind them". I quoted this phrase last blog, but i had to do it again, because of the picture that is painted with these words. The garden of Eden is so beautiful, or so i would think, and it would be green and sunshine and wonderful. But a desolate wilderness sounds so baren and brown and dry. It sounds empty and lonely. "Their appearance is like the appearance of horses; And like war horses, so they run. With a noise as of chariots They leap on the tops of the mountains, Like the crackling of a flame of fire consuming the stubble, Like a mighty people arranged for battle". This quote obviously paints a picture. ""I will display wonders in the sky and on the earth, Blood, fire and columns of smoke. "The sun will be turned into darkness And the moon into blood". I have no idea what exactly each thing in this quote means such as the blood and the smoke, but it certainly paints an amazing picture. i can picture the columns of blood, smoke and fire. Fire is an amazing picture painter, as fire is vivid and bright. "Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears".  For some reason, this quote reminds me of a movie called Lord of the Rings. In this movie, the army beats the iron into spears and this quote painted a picture of this all over again in my mind. "The mountains will drip with sweet wine, And the hills will flow with milk". This quote seems to be the most magnificent of all of them, because i can see hills flowing with milk and mountains dripping with wine. I am almost certain that the author did not mean this literally, but it still makes an amazing image in the mind.