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Verse Joel 2:30. _WONDERS IN THE HEAVENS AND IN THE EARTH_] This
refers to those dreadful sights, dreadful portents, and destructive
commotion, by which the Jewish polity was finally overthrown, and...
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AND I WILL SHEW WONDERS - Each revelation of God prepares the way for
another, until that last revelation of His love and of His wrath in
the Great Day. In delivering His people from Egypt, “the Lord...
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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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I WILL SHEW. Compare Matthew 24:29; Mark 13:24.
BLOOD, AND FIRE. These are symbols of Divine, judgment; not of
salvation by grace....
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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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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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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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AND I WILL SHEW WONDERS, &C.— Whoever will be at the pains to
compare our Saviour's prophesy of the destruction of Jerusalem,
Matthew 24 with the present passage, will have no doubt concerning the
app...
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III. THE PURPOSE OF REPENTANCE (cont-'d)
FUTURE BLESSINGS
(GOD PREPARING A NEW PEOPLE)
TEXT: Joel 2:28-32
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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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2:30 shew (f-4) Lit. 'give.'...
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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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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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And I will shew (s) wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood,
and fire, and pillars of smoke.
(s) He warns the faithful what terrible things would come, with the
intent that they should not loo...
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Wonders. Many prodigies preceded the persecution of Epiphanes, the
death of Christ, the ruin of the temple, and more will be seen before
the day of judgment. Though we cannot prove the same with respe...
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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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The Prophet seems here to contradict himself; for he had hitherto
promised that God would deal kindly and bountifully with his people;
and every thing he has said tended to elevate the spirits of the...
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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 I WILL SHOW WONDERS IN THE HEAVENS AND IN THE EARTH,.... This, and
what follow, refer to the prodigies seen in the air, and done in the
earth, a little before the destruction of Jerusalem r; when...
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And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and
fire, and pillars of smoke.
Ver. 30. _And I will show wonders in the heavens_] _Prodigia
beneficia credentibus, malefica et horrifi...
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_And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth_, &c. Whoever
will be at the pains to compare this prediction with the prophecy of
Christ, Matthew 24., and Luke 21., will have no doubt concer...
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God's Promise of Temporal and Spiritual Blessings...
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And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, strange and
terrifying portents, BLOOD AND FIRE AND PILLARS OF SMOKE, miracles in
the sky above and signs of His majesty on the earth beneath,...
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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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AND I WILL SHOW WONDERS; as he promiseth such grace to believers, so
he warneth them that they should not be surprised with those alarming
prodigies which in those days God would show, which would ush...
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Joel 2:30 show H5414 (H8804) wonders H4159 heavens H8064 earth H776
Blood H1818 fire H784 pillars H8490 smoke...
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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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Acts 2:19; Acts 2:20; Genesis 19:28; Joshua 8:20; Judges 20:38;...
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Wonders — They who read what historians report of these times, will
see this fulfilled in the very letter. Blood — Possibly eruption of
blood, as some fountains have been reported to have run with blo...