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 the day of judgment.
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...
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...
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...
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...
THE TERRIBLE, &c. This is the time for the fulfilment of Joel's prophecy. Compare Joel 2:1; Joel 2:11; Malachi 4:5....
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...
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...
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...
__ 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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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....
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...
_[Joel 3:4]_ הַ שֶּׁ֨מֶשׁ֙ יֵהָפֵ֣ךְ לְ חֹ֔שֶׁךְ...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
The sun shall be turned into darkness, being changed into a dark and cold mass, AND THE MOON INTO BLOOD, as bloody wars and devastations would occur on the earth, BEFORE THE GREAT AND THE TERRIBLE DAY...
God's Promise of Temporal and Spiritual Blessings...
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...
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...
Joel 2:31 sun H8121 turned H2015 (H8735) darkness H2822 moon H3394 blood H1818 Before H6440 coming H935 ...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Isaiah 13:10; Isaiah 13:9; Isaiah 34:4; Isaiah 34:5; Joel 2:10;...