Will you please give an explanation, through the columns of your paper, of Joel 2:2-12? I would like to know to what army this refers. B. B. P. We do not know that the army of Joel 2, as well as Joel 1, refers to anything else but just what God says. In verse 20 He says, "I will remove far off from you the northern army," and in verse 25, "I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the canker-worm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, My great army which I sent among you." It is a prophecy of the many devouring pests of the last days. The caterpillar and the canker-worm and the palmer-worm and the locusts are types, so to speak, of all the various devouring insects which we have at the present time, and to meet which millions upon millions of money is expended every year. There is probably nothing more costly in America to-day, at least in large sections of America where fruit is grown especially, than the meeting of these various pests. It is one constant fight during much of the year to obtain perfect fruit at all. Some have used these locusts as types of armies of men, as they are doubtless used in Revelation 9. That, however, is a highly symbolical prophecy, while this itself seems to be a literal one. We have the war spirit and the war preparations mentioned in Joel, but these are not brought in through figurative language; nor do we understand that these locusts are figurative. They are what men are actually meeting to-day and will meet more and more in the future. The old earth is twisted and warped and degenerate; and its smallest creatures, multiplying in vast numbers, become the most formidable of foes.