And also (better, even) upon the servants.... — The result of which promise, according to St. Peter’s interpretation, is “They shall prophesy.” “The promise is to you and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call” (Acts 2:39).
Verse 29. _AND ALSO UPON THE SERVANTS AND UPON THE HANDMAIDS_] The gifts of teaching and instructing men shall not be _restricted_ to any one _class_ or _order_ of people. He shall call and qualify t...
AND ALSO UPON THE SERVANTS - God tells beforehand that he would be no respecter of persons. He had said, that He would endow every age and sex. He adds here, and every condition, even that of slaves,...
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...
SERVANTS, &c. Any whom God might call. Elisha was. ploughman, Amos. herdsman....
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...
Even those holding menial positions will share in the same spiritual illumination (comp. in the N.T. 1 Corinthians 12:13; Galatians 3:28; Colossians 3:11)....
__ 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 also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. AND ALSO - And even. UPON THE SERVANTS AND UPON THE HANDMAIDS IN THOSE DAYS WILL I POUR OUT MY SPIRIT. T...
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....
_[Joel 3:2]_ וְ גַ֥ם עַל ־הָֽ עֲבָדִ֖ים...
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...
_Handmaids. Septuagint of St. Jerome and St. Peter read, my handmaids. "My," is omitted in both places in Complutensian and Hebrew and the latter word in the Roman Septuagint._...
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...
_YOUTHFUL SEERS_ ‘Your young men shall see visions.’ Joel 2:28 I long and pray for the _ young men who see visions_. Never were they more needed than just now. I. THERE IS THE VISION FOR THE PERS...
As the particle גם _gam _amplifies in Hebrew, it seems singular that the Prophet now limits to a few a gift common to all; for he had previously said, “Upon all flesh will I pour out my Spirit;” and n...
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...
AND ALSO UPON THE SERVANTS AND UPON THE HANDMAIDS IN THOSE DAYS WILL I POUR MY SPIRIT. Men servants and maidservants should partake of the gifts and grace of the Spirit in great, abundance; and many o...
And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. Ver. 29. _And also upon the servants_] They shall be the free men and women of Jesus Christ, 1 Corinthians 7...
_And it shall come to pass afterward_ Some versions begin the third chapter with this verse; and indeed the subject which is begun here is of so different a nature from what goes before, that it seems...
and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids, upon the lowliest of the land, IN THOSE DAYS WILL I POUR OUT MY SPIRIT, all social distinction being abandoned in the New Testament era as far as the...
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...
AND ALSO, with equal freeness, upon the servants and upon the handmaids, upon the meanest believers: see GALATIANS 3:28 COLOSSIANS 3:11. MY SPIRIT, of sanctification and adoption....
Joel 2:29 menservants H5650 maidservants H8198 out H8210 (H8799) Spirit H7307 days H3117 Pour - PtC H50007...
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...
JOEL—NOTE ON JOEL 2:28 POUR OUT MY SPIRIT. Just as God will send life-giving rain (vv. Joel 2:18), so also will he pour out his Spirit on his people in the future....
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...
1 Corinthians 12:13; Colossians 3:11; Galatians 3:28...
My spirit — Of adoption and sanctification....