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 vision and utterance which mark the prophetall Yahweh's people shall be prophets. The earth shall be filled with the bloodshed of war, and from burning cities shall columns of smoke ascend; the very luminaries shall be dark and lurid at the approach of the dread Day of Yahweh. But from its terrors all the worshippers of Yahweh shall escape.

Joel 2:28. spirit: the divine life-energy. For the conception cf. Numbers 11:29.

Joel 2:32. shall call on the name of the Lord: rather, does call. The expression, meaning to invoke Yahweh, is the technical one for describing the worshippers of Yahweh. It is these, whom Yahweh calls not such as in terror call to Yahweh for help who shall be saved.

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