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Verse 25. _I WILL RESTORE - THE YEARS_] It has already been remarked
that the _locusts_ not only destroyed the produce of _that year_, but
so completely ate up all _buds_, and _barked the trees_, that...
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AND I WILL RESTORE TO YOU THE YEARS THAT THE LOCUST HATH EATEN - The
order in which these destroyers are named not being the same as
before, it is plain that the stress is not on the order, but on 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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RESTORE: make good.
LOCUST, &c. See note on Joel 1:4.
MY GREAT ARMY. Here the symbol, and what is symbolized, are joined
together, and the army of men (verses: Joel 2:11; Joel 2:20) is
implied by the...
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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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Abundance in place of the deprivations of Joel 1:4.
_And I_ The discourse of the prophet passing imperceptibly, as often,
into that of Jehovah: cf. e.g. Isaiah 3:4; Isaiah 13:11;...
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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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AND I WILL RESTORE TO YOU THE YEARS, &C.— Concerning these _years,_
it said in chap. Joel 1:4 that _the locusts shall eat what the
palmer-worm hath left,_ &c. Chandler renders it, _I will recompense t...
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III. THE PURPOSE OF REPENTANCE IMMEDIATE BLESSINGS
TEXT: Joel 2:18-27
18
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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And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the
cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army
which I sent among you.
AND I WILL RESTORE TO YOU THE YEARS TH...
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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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I WILL RESTORE TO YOU THE YEARS — _i.e.,_ the years which would have
been necessary in the ordinary course of nature for the land to
recover from the ravages of the “great army.”...
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וְ שִׁלַּמְתִּ֤י לָכֶם֙ אֶת ־הַ
שָּׁנִ֔ים אֲש
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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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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 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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_Host. God could have hurled his thunderbolts, or mountains, to
destroy all mankind; but he chooses to shew their insignificance,
(Calmet) by employing the vilest insects, which they cannot withstand....
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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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_THE LOCUST-EATEN YEARS RESTORED_
‘And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten.’
Joel 2:25
I. THE COMING OF THE LOCUSTS WAS A DAY OF THE LORD; A DAY OF DARKNESS
AND GLOOMINESS; A...
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The Prophet confirms what he had previously said, and states what is
of an opposite character, — that God can as easily restore a rich
fruitfulness to the land as he had before rendered it barren by
s...
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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 RESTORE TO YOU THE YEARS THAT THE LOCUST HATH EATEN,.... Or
"I will recompense to you the years" m; give you fruitful ones, as a
full compensation for those in which the locust ate up the f...
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_And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten _ I
will compensate you, or make you amends, for what the locusts have
eaten in the foregoing years, by an extraordinary plenty of the f...
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And I will restore to you, make up, THE YEARS THAT THE LOCUST HATH
EATEN, THE CANKER-WORM AND THE CATERPILLAR AND THE PALMER-WORM, MY
GREAT ARMY WHICH I SENT AMONG YOU, the insects of 1:4 being named...
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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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I WILL RESTORE; make up to you, or compensate: the lean years of Egypt
did eat up the fat, but with you now the fat years shall feed and
enrich the lean ones. THE YEARS: by this it appears that this d...
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Joel 2:25 restore H7999 (H8765) years H8141 locust H697 eaten H398
(H8804) locust H3218 locust H2625 locust...
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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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Joel 2:25
I. The coming of the locusts was a day of the Lord; a day of darkness
and gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, a day of bustle
and heartrending calamity, of which fathers would...
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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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_I will restore to you the years which the locust hath eaten._
THE GREAT RESTORER
Locusts are happily unknown in England. We have only the harmless
grasshopper here. Where plagues of locusts are know...
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JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 2:25 Being human often means bearing loss. Yet the
same Lord who brings disaster when his people sin is also the Lord of
mercy and abundant grace. He is fully able to give back what...
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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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Joel 1:4; Joel 2:2; Zechariah 10:6...
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Restore — Make up to you....