LET THE ALARM BE SOUNDED, FOR THE LOCUSTS ARE PRECURSORS OF THE DAY OF
YAHWEH. Speaking in Yahweh's name the prophet bids the priests sound
the alarm from Mt. Zion, that all the community may realise that the
dreaded Day of Yahweh is approaching. All the mountains, which dawn
covers with light, are... [ Continue Reading ]
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 sincere
repentance, for which a ritual of humiliation is the symbol, not the
substitute. So gracious... [ Continue Reading ]
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.
Joel 2:21, which seems to interrupt the speech of Yahweh, may be
misplaced. Certainly Joel 2:25 would follow well o... [ Continue Reading ]
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 flesh so
that without distinction of age, sex, or social position, they shall
have the ecstatic vis... [ Continue Reading ]