Chapter III.
"Verse 16: "The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of His people."--
a. Christ shall descend from heaven with a shout (1 Thess. 4: 16), and then shall Antichrist, with his myriads, be destroyed by the brightness of His coming. 2 Thess. 2: 8.
b. When Moses saw Mt. Sinai shaking and rolling its billows of flames to the sky, he said, "I exceedingly fear and quake." Heb. 12: 21.
c. In the terrible hour, now before us, God will be "the hope of His people."
Verse 17: Then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.--Dogs, whoremongers, and sorcerers are without the city. There shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth. Rev. 22: 15; 21: 27.
Verses 18-21: "In that day . . the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk." By the words "in that day " Joel would make a fresh beginning.
True to the keynote sounded in chapter 1, he has carried us down from generation to generation, especially through the scenes of the last days, to the day of the Lord.
Now, the rejoicing saints, victorious, shall feed on the glories of that day. Egypt and Edom, typifying this earth, shall be ruins,— a desolation and a desert, because they " have shed innocent blood." But for one thousand years in Jerusalem above, and after that, when the Holy City descends, for eternity, the church of God shall enjoy her eternal possessions."
B.G.Wilkinson/1928
"Verse 16: "The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of His people."--
a. Christ shall descend from heaven with a shout (1 Thess. 4: 16), and then shall Antichrist, with his myriads, be destroyed by the brightness of His coming. 2 Thess. 2: 8.
b. When Moses saw Mt. Sinai shaking and rolling its billows of flames to the sky, he said, "I exceedingly fear and quake." Heb. 12: 21.
c. In the terrible hour, now before us, God will be "the hope of His people."
Verse 17: Then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.--Dogs, whoremongers, and sorcerers are without the city. There shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth. Rev. 22: 15; 21: 27.
Verses 18-21: "In that day . . the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk." By the words "in that day " Joel would make a fresh beginning.
True to the keynote sounded in chapter 1, he has carried us down from generation to generation, especially through the scenes of the last days, to the day of the Lord.
Now, the rejoicing saints, victorious, shall feed on the glories of that day. Egypt and Edom, typifying this earth, shall be ruins,— a desolation and a desert, because they " have shed innocent blood." But for one thousand years in Jerusalem above, and after that, when the Holy City descends, for eternity, the church of God shall enjoy her eternal possessions."
B.G.Wilkinson/1928