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Verse Joel 2:31. _THE SUN SHALL BE TURNED INTO DARKNESS_] The Jewish
polity, civil and ecclesiastical, shall be entirely destroyed.
_BEFORE THE GREAT AND THE TERRIBLE DAY OF THE LORD COME._] In the...
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BEFORE THE GREAT AND TERRIBLE DAY OF THE LORD COME - o: “The days of
our life are our days wherein we do what we please; that will be the
“Day of the Lord,” when He, our Judge, shall require the accou...
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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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THE PORTENTS OF THE DAY OF YAHWEH. The deliverance from the locusts is
but a harbinger of the time coming when Yahweh will impart His spirit
to all Jews for to such the context evidently restricts all...
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THE TERRIBLE, &c. This is the time for the fulfilment of Joel's
prophecy. Compare Joel 2:1; Joel 2:11; Malachi 4:5....
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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 signs of approaching judgement which will then appear.
_shew_ lit. _give_, as Exodus 7:9; Deuteronomy 6:22.
_wonders_ better (for the word used has no connexion with those
commonly rendered _wond...
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Celestial portents. The imagery may be suggested partly by eclipses
(cf. on Amos 8:9), partly by unusual obscurations of sun or moon
through atmospheric disturbances, for instance, sand-storms, cyclon...
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Prophecy pointing to Pentecost -- Joel 2:28-32: The last verses of
Joel two are a very famous prophecy quoted by Peter on the day of
Pentecost on which the church was established. (Acts 2:17-21) Th...
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DISCOURSE: 1182
SIGNS OF THE MESSIAH’S ADVENT
Joel 2:28. And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out
my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall
prophesy, your old m...
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III. THE PURPOSE OF REPENTANCE (cont-'d)
FUTURE BLESSINGS
(GOD PREPARING A NEW PEOPLE)
TEXT: Joel 2:28-32
28
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit
upon all flesh; and...
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And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and
fire, and pillars of smoke.
As Messiah's manifestation is full of joy to believers, so it has an
aspect of wrath to unbelievers,...
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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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THE SUN... AND THE MOON. — These words, recalling some of the
portents in the ancient history of the Jews (especially as instanced
in some of the plagues of Egypt) are taken up by our Lord Himself, as...
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_[Joel 3:4]_ הַ שֶּׁ֨מֶשׁ֙ יֵהָפֵ֣ךְ לְ
חֹ֔שֶׁךְ...
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2. THE OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT
Joel 2:28
Upon these promises of physical blessing there follows another of the
pouring forth of the Spirit: the prophecy by which Joel became the
Prophet of Pentecos...
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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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“THE VALLEY OF DECISION”
Joel 2:28-32; Joel 3:1-21
Having stated the outward blessings that would follow repentance, Joel
unveils the extraordinary spiritual blessings that were in store. The
outpour...
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Finally the prophet moved on to a yet higher level, and dealt wholly
with things to come. The great word introducing the section is
"afterward." Some of the things foretold have now been fulfilled, so...
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The (t) sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,
before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
(t) The order of nature will seem to be changed because of the
horrible affl...
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But here we have the sum and substance of the whole in one of the
richest promises ever made, as the effect of salvation, and most
comprehensive of all blessings. It is impossible to err in the
explan...
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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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We now see why the Prophet adds here this sad catalogue, and how well
these things harmonize together, — that God would testify his
paternal love by the manifestation of Christ, — and that he would
ex...
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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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THE SUN SHALL BE TURNED INTO DARKNESS, AND THE MOON INTO BLOOD,....
Not by eclipses, as Aben Ezra; but by the clouds of smoke arising from
the burning of towns and cities, which would be so great as t...
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The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before
the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Ver. 31. _The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into
blood_] By s...
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_The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,_ &c.
Particular judgments upon kings and nations are often described in
such terms as properly belong to the general judgment and
confl...
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28-32 The promise began to be fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, when
the Holy Spirit was poured out, and it was continued in the converting
grace and miraculous gifts conferred on both Jews and Gent...
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Having mentioned the prodigies which were to be wrought on earth, now
the prophet specifieth what shall be done in heaven, where the great
luminaries shall be wonderfully affected. THE SUN SHALL BE TU...
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Joel 2:31 sun H8121 turned H2015 (H8735) darkness H2822 moon H3394
blood H1818 Before H6440 coming H935 ...
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THE PROMISE OF GREAT SPIRITUAL BLESSING YET TO BE ‘POURED OUT' AND
PORTENTS OF JUDGMENT TO COME (JOEL 2:28).
And as a result of their restoration to Him through repentance and
their turning to Him, He...
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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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_And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and
fire, and pillars of smoke._
THE SIROCCO SUGGESTING PROPHETIC FIGURES
We have two kinds of sirocco--one accompanied with violent w...
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JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 2:30 Some scholars believe that the events of
judgment described here, which did not take place at Pentecost (see
notes on Acts 2:17; 2:19–21), will still take place sometime in the...
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
JOEL 2:28. AFTERWARD] These outward things are only a type of
spiritual gifts, a prospect of richer blessings; and a grander
dispensation is held out, a dispensation remarkable for th...
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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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Isaiah 13:10; Isaiah 13:9; Isaiah 34:4; Isaiah 34:5; Joel 2:10;...
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The sun — Having mentioned the prodigies which were to be wrought on
earth, he now specifies what shall be done in heaven. The terrible day
— The unholy day of the destruction of Jerusalem; typifying...