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The reversal of the whole former sentence is continued up to man. The
beasts of the field “groaned, were perplexed, cried” unto God; now
they are bidden, “be not afraid;” before, “the pastures of the...
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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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JOEL 2:18 Joel 3:21. YAHWEH'S GRACIOUS RESPONSE TO THE PRAYER OF
INTERCESSION.
Joel 2:18. The Locusts shall be Destroyed and the Inhabitants of the
Land Rejoice in Renewed Prosperity....
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BE NOT AFRAID, &c. Figure of speech _Apostrophe_ (App-6), as in Joel
2:21. Compare Joel 1:18; Joel 1:20.
PASTURES, &c. Compare Joel 1:19.
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The beasts of the field, whose sufferings were described in Joel 1:18;
Joel 1:20 need now fear no longer: the "pastures of the wilderness,"
which but recently were burnt up (Joel 1:19), will now soon...
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Part II. Chap. Joel 2:18 to Joel 3:21
Jehovah's answer to His people's prayer of penitence. He will remove
from them the plague of locusts, and bestow upon them an abundance of
both material and spir...
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The prophet here speaks himself; and developing in jubilant tones the
promise of Joel 2:19, first of all (Joel 2:21) bids in turn the land,
the beasts of the field, and the children of Zion, exult on...
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_THE LORD WILL BLESS HIS PEOPLE -- JOEL 2:18-27:_ The People of Judah
would spend seventy years in Babylonian captivity. Even while they
were there the Lord was deeply concerned about the land and He...
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III. THE PURPOSE OF REPENTANCE IMMEDIATE BLESSINGS
TEXT: Joel 2:18-27
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Then was Jehovah jealous for his land, and had pity on his people.
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And Jehovah answered and said unto his people, Behol...
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Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great
things.
FEAR NOT, O LAND ... BE NOT AFRAID, YE BEASTS OF THE FIELD ... BE
GLAD THEN, YE CHILDREN OF ZION. In an ascending gradatio...
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2:22 increase. (a-30) Lit. 'strength.'...
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BE NOT AFRAID] of famine. DO SPRING] i.e. are renewed with fresh
grass: cp. Joel 1:7; Joel 1:12; Joel 1:18., where the desolation is
described....
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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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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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אַל ־תִּֽירְאוּ֙ בַּהֲמֹ֣ות שָׂדַ֔י
כִּ֥י דָשְׁא֖וּ...
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PROSPERITY AND THE SPIRIT
Joel 2:18
"THEN did Jehovah become jealous for His land, and took pity upon His
people"-with these words Joel opens the second half of his book. Our
Authorized Version rende...
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1. THE RETURN OF PROSPERITY
Joel 2:19
"And Jehovah answered and said to His people: Lo, I will send you corn
and wine and oil, And your fill shall ye have of them; And I will not
again make you a rep...
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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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Here comes in what all along seems to have been intimated, how
gracious the Lord would deal with his people. This is ever the case.
When the Lord is coming forth to bless, he puts his people to pray....
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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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Here the Prophet turns his address to the beasts; not that his
instruction suited them; but it was a more efficacious mode of
speaking, when he invited the very beasts to a participation of the
people...
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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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BE NOT AFRAID, YE BEASTS OF THE FIELD,.... Which before groaned, and
were perplexed for want of pasture, and cried because of the drought,
Joel 1:18; perhaps the Gentiles may be here designed, in the...
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Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the
wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and
the vine do yield their strength.
Ver. 22. _Be not afraid, ye bea...
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_Fear not, O land_, &c. “In the former part of this prophecy the
land is elegantly represented as mourning, the beasts groaning, and
the herds of cattle as greatly distressed; the rivers of water drie...
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Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field, which had been so sorely in
need of food supplies; FOR THE PASTURES OF THE WILDERNESS, of the
great prairies of the South, DO SPRING, once more verdant with an
a...
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God's Promise of Temporal and Spiritual Blessings...
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15-27 The priests and rulers are to appoint a solemn fast. The
sinner's supplication is, Spare us, good Lord. God is ready to succour
his people; and he waits to be gracious. They prayed that God wou...
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BE NOT AFRAID, YE BEASTS OF THE FIELD. In JOEL 1:18, the poor beasts
were represented as in greatest perplexity, for want of pasture they
were like to perish; but now they are (as if capable of fears...
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Joel 2:22 afraid H3372 (H8799) beasts H929 field H7704 open H4057
pastures H4999 up H1876 (H8804) tree...
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HAVING ACCEPTED HIS PEOPLE'S REPENTANCE YHWH PROMISES TO DELIVER THEM
FROM THE PLAGUES OF LOCUSTS BY CASTING THE LOCUSTS INTO THE SEAS ON
BOTH SIDES OF THE LAND AND THAT HE WILL THEN RESTORE THE FRUIT...
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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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JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 2:22 The Hebrew verb represented by ARE GREEN is
found elsewhere in Scripture only at Genesis 1:11. Perhaps Joel wants
his readers to imagine the restoration of th
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
JOEL 2:21. FEAR NOT] as in ch. 1, on account of judgments, but rejoice
in the destruction of the hosts.
JOEL 2:22.] Verdant pastures and trees laden with fruit shall be
given. Beast...
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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 Corinthians 3:7; Amos 9:14; Amos 9:15; Ezekiel 34:26; Ezekiel 34:27
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Their strength — Bring forth as much as they are able to stand
under....