Book of Joel:
The word of the Lord, which came to Joel son of Pethuel.
2Hear this, you elders, and hearken, all you inhabitants of the land. Did this come about in your days or in the
days of your forefathers?
3Tell your children about it, and your children to their children, and their children to another generation.
4What the shearing locust left over, the increasing locust devoured, and what the increasing locust left over the
nibbling locust devoured, and what the nibbling locust left over the finishing locust devoured.
5Awaken, you drunkards, and weep; and wail, all you wine drinkers, concerning the strong wine, which has
been cut off from your mouth. :
6For a nation has ascended upon my land, mighty and innumerable; its teeth are like the teeth of an old lion, and
its molars are like those of a young lion.
7He has laid my vine waste, and my fig tree into a disappointment; he has peeled it and cast it off, its branches
have become white.
8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
9Meal offering and libation have been cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the ministers of the Lord,
mourn.
10The field has been plundered, the soil destroyed, for corn has been plundered, must has dried up, oil has been
cut off.
11Be ashamed, you plowmen; wail, you vinedressers, for wheat and for barley, for the harvest of the field is
lost.
12The vines have dried up, and the fig trees have been cut off; the pomegranates, also the date palms and the
apples, all the trees of the field have dried up, for joy has dried up from the sons of man.
13Gird yourselves and lament, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar; come, lodge in sackcloth, you minis-
ters of my God, for the meal offering and the libations have been withheld from the house of your God.
14Proclaim a fast, call an assembly; assemble, you elders, all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord
your God, and cry out to the Lord.
15Woe is to the day, for the day of the Lord is near, and like plunder, it will come from the Almighty.
16Is not the food cut off from before our eyes? From the house of our God joy and jubilation?
17Casks of wine have gathered mold under their bungs, the storehouses are laid desolate, garners are demol-
ished, for the corn has dried out.
18How the cattle sighs, herds of cattle are perplexed, for they have no pasture; also flocks of sheep are laid
waste.
19To You, O Lord, I call, for a fire has consumed the dwellings of the wilderness, and a flame has burnt all the
trees of the field.
20Also, the beasts of the field cry out to You for the springs of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the
dwellings of the wilderness.
The Shearing locust are not the Orthodox and Catholics, they actually preserve more that is needed for study con-
cerning scriptures. The Catholics have a more whole Canon than you ,but the Orthodox have a greater Canon
than the Catholic, at least the Ethiopian Orthodox not in union with the RCC do.
No doubt the Queens have some flaws (MINOR) but they do hold more truth than the Protestants . Your sect not only has re-
jected and done away with many Hebraic works, you also cut off the Rites and resort to dividing scripture
against scripture. Your denomination with its many sects removed most of all the meat from Christianity in
your teaching. You deny Christ's Real presents in His Supper, performed by a Holy Priest and teacher in Christ.
You deny the 3 ways of administering baptism which yes- includes one form that you accept. You make no
sense, you deny all the saints throughout Christian history, as though Christianity begins and ends with you. And most
importantly you deny the Theotokos and Ark of the New Covenant- The Mother of Christ and Mother to all
born again in Him.For she labored for us all in laboring for Him. For in His birth is the birth of all who are to be
called sons and daughters of God the Father. Thus , you reject true belief in the Incarnation because Christ was
Incarnated of her sanctified flesh. Cannot Confess that without His Mother's inclusion 1John 4 the Confessing (Incarnation)
.
Proof that your denial of past saints before your arrival is nonsense is in this for instance and FACT:........ Saint
Mark established the Coptic Church in Egypt. They too use the Title "Pope" for the head of their Church. Mark
was the FIRST POPE- (father=teacher) . I know your sect says Christ says "call no one father" that only proves
you know not the scriptures because the Holy Spirit is not with you. I will have to make this a long post obvi-
ously because of the amount and degree of error you cling to.
St. Mark is the first Pope of the Coptic Church. Upon his death by martyrdom, the torch was passed to St.
Anianus. St. Anianus was a Jew who lived in Alexandria Egypt. Proof of this is in a historical account that goes
like this: He was injured in a work place accident, where he severely injured his hand at which point he cried
"The Lord thy God is One".
Which was something only believed by the Jews. Upon hearing this St. Mark went to him and healed his hand.
He spoke to him about the Messiah Yeshua and Anianus converted to Christianity and followed Mark. Mark
would appoint him as the next Steward of the faith to preserve the faith in Egypt. Hence , Anianus became the
second Pope (father- teacher of the faith to have the Key of David placed upon his shoulder). You cannot ignore these historical facts.
Just as St. Peter established the church in Rome. What the weeds and wolves have done is on them! They arise everywhere amongst the faithful.