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Verse 13. _REND YOUR HEART_] Let it not be merely a rending of your
_garments_, but let your _hearts_ be truly contrite. Merely _external_
worship and _hypocritical pretensions_ will only increase the...
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AND REND YOUR HEARTS AND NOT YOUR GARMENTS - that is, “not your
garments only” (see the note at Hosea 6:6). The rending of the
clothes was an expression of extraordinary uncontrollable emotion,
chiefl...
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II. THE COMING DAY OF THE LORD: THE REPENTANCE AND RESTORATION OF
ISRAEL
CHAPTER 2
_ 1. The alarm sounded and the day at hand (Joel 2:1) _
2. The invading army from the north (Joel 2:3)
3. The rep...
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EVEN YET HUMILIATION AND REPENTANCE MAY AVERT THE WORST. But even now,
though the calamity is so serious that it seems to be the precursor of
the Day of Dread, Yahweh bids the people turn to Him with...
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REND YOUR HEART. Compare Psalms 34:18; Psalms 51:17.
YOUR GARMENTS. Ref, to Pentateuch (Genesis 37:34). App-92. God.
Hebrew. _Elohim_. App-4.
HE IS GRACIOUS, &c. Reference to Pentateuch ...
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Nevertheless, it is still not too late to avert the judgement by
earnest penitence; for God is gracious and compassionate, and ready to
pardon those who turn to Him with their whole heart. Cf. Jeremia...
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_And rent your heart, and not your garments_ The rending of garments
was an expression of exceptional emotion, whether of grief, or terror,
or horror, upon occasion of some specially overwhelming misf...
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_THE LORD'S INVITATION TO REPENT -- JOEL 2:12-17:_ At that moment it
was not too late for the people to return to the Lord with all their
heart and to cry in repentance to him. They were told to fast...
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DISCOURSE: 1180
REPENTANCE URGED
Joel 2:12. Now, saith the Lord, Turn ye even to me with all your
heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: and rend
your heart, and not your garmen...
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AND REND YOUR HEART, &C.— The rending of garments was used by almost
all the ancients, as a token of deepest sorrow. The expression before
us is a proper Hebraism; and the truest sense of it is, _Rend...
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II. PLAN FOR REPENTANCE
TEXT: Joel 2:12-17
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Yet even now, saith Jehovah, turn ye unto me with all your heart, and
with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
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and rend your heart, and...
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2:13 loving-kindness, (d-27) See Exodus 34:6 ....
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REPENTANCE FOLLOWED BY RESTORATION
Joel 2:1 are another description of the locust plague. An alarm is
sounded as though the Day of Jehovah had come (Joel 2:1). The advance
of the locusts into the city...
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REND YOUR HEART] even as the Psalmist speaks of a broken heart (Psalms
51:17).
14. The divine will is neither arbitrary nor fixed, but is deeply
affected by human intercessions and conditions, and hen...
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THE DAY OF THE LORD
JOEL
_ROY ROHU_
CHAPTER 2
THE ARMY OF *LOCUSTS
V1 Blow the *trumpet in *Zion.
Tell the people on the *Lord’s hill to watch for trouble....
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REPENTETH HIM OF THE EVIL — _i.e.,_ in the sense that of His own
will He would not the death of a sinner. The judgments of God, like
His mercies, are conditional. As the “Lord repented (_i.e.,_
grieve...
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וְ קִרְע֤וּ לְבַבְכֶם֙ וְ אַל
־בִּגְדֵיכֶ֔ם ו
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THE LOCUSTS AND THE DAY OF THE LORD
Joel 1:2; Joel 2:1
JOEL, as we have seen, found the motive of his prophecy in a recent
plague of locusts, the appearance of which and the havoc they worked
are des...
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THE AVERTING OF JUDGMENT
Joel 2:12-27
To rend the garment is easy, but a broken and contrite heart can be
imparted only by the grace of the Holy Spirit. The love of God should
bring us to repentance....
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Having thus dealt with the actual visitation and its terrible
devastation, and having called the people into the place of
humiliation, the prophet rose to a higher level, and interpreted the
visitatio...
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And (i) rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD
your God: for he [is] gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of
great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
(i) Mortify yo...
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_Garments, as was customary in great distress. God will not be
satisfied with mere external proofs of repentance. (Calmet) --- Evil.
He will forego his threats if we do penance. (St. Jerome) --- He
pu...
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What a gracious invitation is contained in these words. How tenderly
the Lord reasons with his people. And what an encouraging assurance it
folds up with. Reader! do not fail to observe that this call...
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Lectures on the Minor Prophets.
W. Kelly.
"The word of Jehovah that came to Joel the son of Pethuel." Like
Hosea, Joel is one of the earliest prophets (being earlier even than
Jonah), but differs ess...
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He then subjoins, _Rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to
Jehovah your God. _The Prophet again repeats that we ought to deal
sincerely with God; for all those ceremonies, by which men ima...
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Joel 2:1 sounds the alarm, because the day is near. The day is then
described as the invasion of a people, the like of whom had never been
seen by Israel or the land. It was, in fact, the army of Jeho...
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AND REND YOUR HEART, AND NOT YOUR GARMENTS,.... Which latter used to
be done in times of distress, either private or public, and as a token
of grief and sorrow, Genesis 37:34; nor was it criminal or u...
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And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD
your God: for he [is] gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of
great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
Ver. 13. _And rend...
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_Therefore, also now_, &c. Or, _Nevertheless, also now, saith the
Lord_, &c. Here a method is pointed out, whereby they might still have
hopes of avoiding the calamity denounced against them, namely,...
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THE PROPHET URGES REPENTANCE...
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and rend your heart, in a true and unfeigned sorrow, AND NOT YOUR
GARMENTS, for the latter may be done also by hypocrites, AND TURN UNTO
THE LORD, YOUR GOD; FOR HE IS GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL, SLOW TO AN...
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1-14 The priests were to alarm the people with the near approach of
the Divine judgments. It is the work of ministers to warn of the fatal
consequences of sin, and to reveal the wrath from heaven aga...
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REND YOUR HEART; lay them open, as chirurgeons lay open putrefying
sores that they may be thoroughly cleansed; remove iniquity from your
heart, as the Chaldee paraphrast. AND NOT YOUR GARMENTS; as hyp...
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Joel 2:13 rend H7167 (H8798) heart H3824 garments H899 Return H7725
(H8798) LORD H3068 God H430 gracious...
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YHWH'S APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE TO REPENT AND TURN TO HIM (JOEL 2:12).
This is probably to be seen as all in the words of YHWH in spite of
the change to the third person half way through and the question...
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JOEL CALLS THE PRIESTS AND PEOPLE TO REPENTANCE IN THE HOPE THAT YHWH
WOULD TURN AWAY HIS JUDGMENT (JOEL 2:12).
The call to repentance divides into two sections, the first an appeal
to the people by...
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REPENTETH
(_ See Scofield) - (Zechariah 8:14). _...
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CONTENTS: Day of vengeance upon Israel. Invading hosts and awful
scourges. Repentance of the Jewish remnant and Jehovah's response and
deliverance.
CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Joel.
CONCLUSION: The...
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Joel 2:1. _Blow ye the trumpet in Zion,_ to convoke a solemn assembly
for fasting and humiliation. Numbers 10:2.
Joel 2:2. _A day of darkness, nigrum esse._ The army of locusts
obscured the light whil...
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_Therefore also now, _saith the Lord, turn ye even to Me with all your
heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.
THE CHARACTERISTICS AND ENCOURAGEMENTS OF TRUE REPENTANCE
I. That...
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HOW TO BE SORRY
Rend your heart, and not your garments. Joel 2:13.
“Rend your heart, and not your garments.” That sounds strange
advice! Some of you know plenty about rending your garments, and I
e...
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JOEL 2:1 Army Invasion: The Arrival of the Day of the Lord. Joel
describes the coming of an army, whose arrival may yet be prevented by
a wholehearted return to the Lord. Verses Joel 2:1 describe the...
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JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 2:13 REND YOUR HEARTS is an expression of internal
anguish. This response, along with wholehearted devotion (v. Joel
2:12), is similar to the circumcised heart describe
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
JOEL 2:12. THEREFORE] repent with HEART undivided, and with FASTING,
for heinous sins demand extraordinary penitence. MOURNING] Lit.
beating on the breast, like the publican (Luke 18:...
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EXPOSITION
JOEL 2:1
These verses contain a further description of the calamity occasioned
by the locusts and the appearance presented by them; the calling of a
congregational meeting for penitence a...
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Now he uses this as the springboard and he begins to speak now of a
yet future day of devastation that is coming from armies that are to
invade the land. And in the second chapter, as he describes thi...
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1 Kings 21:27; 1 Timothy 4:8; 2 Kings 22:11; 2 Kings 22:19; 2 Kings 5
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And repenteth him — He turneth from executing the fierceness of his
wrath....