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 spiritual gifts (Joel 2:18-32); His judgment will alight only upon the nations who are their foes; His own people will dwell for ever securely under the protection of His presence (ch. 3).
THEN WILL THE LORD BE JEALOUS FOR HIS LAND - Upon repentance, all is changed. Before, God seemed set upon their destruction. It was His great army which was ready to destroy them; He was at its head,...
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...
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....
JEALOUS FOR HIS LAND, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:36). App-92. These remind us of the concluding words of the "Song of Moses", and sum up the object and outcome of all the events which...
_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...
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. 19 And Jehovah answered and said unto his people, Behol...
Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people. THEN - when God sees His people penitent WILL THE LORD BE JEALOUS FOR HIS LAND - as a husband jealous of any dishonour done to the...
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...
ARV 'Then was Jehovah jealous for his land and had pity on his people.' It is implied that the fast and solemn assembly were held, and that Jehovah responded to the cry of His people with the promises...
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....
וַ יְקַנֵּ֥א יְהוָ֖ה לְ אַרְצֹ֑ו וַ יַּחְמֹ֖ל
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...
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....
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...
Then will the LORD be (m) jealous for his land, and pity his people. (m) If they repent he shows that God will preserve and defend them with a most fervent affection....
_Zealous. Indignation is excited when a person perceives any thing contemned which he loves. So God resented the injuries done maliciously by the Gentiles towards his people; though he often punished...
I beg the Reader to remark with me, what a most beautiful and finished representation is here of a praying assembly, and what blessings might not be expected to follow, where the Lord gives grace to t...
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...
The Prophet here again repeats, that prayers would not be in vain, provided the Jews truly humbled themselves before God. Then God, he says, will be jealous for his land and spare his people. He confi...
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...
THEN WILL THE LORD BE JEALOUS FOR HIS LAND,.... Or "zealous" for it; for the honour of it, and the good of its inhabitants, and for the glory of his own name, it being the chief place in the world for...
Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people. Ver. 18. Then will the Lord be jealous (or, zealous) for his land] Then _dicto citius_ straight upon it: no sooner shall you repent (a...
_Then will the Lord be jealous for his land_ If you do what I propose to you, if you sincerely humble yourselves before God, confess your sins, and truly repent of them, turning to God in newness of l...
God's Promise of Temporal and Spiritual Blessings...
Then, when the Lord saw that His people were truly penitent, WILL THE LORD BE JEALOUS FOR HIS LAND, be filled with the zeal of His love, rather, He was so filled and acted accordingly, and pity His pe...
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...
THEN, when you follow my advice, saith Joel. and heartily you of your sins, and turn to God, &c., WILL THE LORD BE JEALOUS, will show his love and zeal, for the credit of his land, the land of Canaan,...
Joel 2:18 LORD H3068 zealous H7065 (H8762) land H776 pity H2550 (H8799) people H5971 be -...
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...
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...
_Then will the Lord be Jealous for His land, and pity His people._ THE DIVINE ATTITUDE TOWARDS REPENTANT SOULS I. Toward repentant souls God is strict in the manifestation of a jealous regard. “Then...
JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 2:18 The Mercy of the Lord and Judgment against the Nations. The change from prophetic utterances to more of a conversational tone marks the beginning of the second half of Joel....
CRITICAL NOTES.] JOEL 2:18. THEN] No longer threatenings, but promises. JEALOUS] of dishonour to them, love and pity for their welfare. JOEL 2:19.] Renewed fertility and removal of the cause of desol...
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...
Deuteronomy 32:16; Deuteronomy 32:36; Deuteronomy 32:43; Hosea 11:8;...