The Last Sunday After Trinity Year C

The Last Sunday After Trinity

Joel 2.23–end
2 Timothy 4.6–8, 16–18
Luke 18.9–14

The harvest and the law court are the lenses through which the prophet gazes, wide-eyed, into God’s future. Rain in abundance – easy to forget, in northern Europe, what a relief that would be in the Middle East – and the barns and vats will be overflowing. The sinister, almost surrealist, army of locusts which had ravaged Israel at the command of her God in the previous chapters has gone. The years that the locust had eaten will be restored to them, in a promise destined to become proverbial in its own right...