Joel 1:1-3 God's Message to Joel son of Pethuel: 2 Attention, elder statesmen! Listen closely, everyone, whoever and wherever you are! Have you ever heard of anything like this? Has anything like this ever happened before — ever? 3 Make sure you tell your children, and your children tell their children, And their children their children. Don't let this message die out. The Bible tells us to pass the message to our children but do we?