Isa 30:26, 54:7-10, Jer 23:5-8, Eze 36:35, Joe 3:18-21, Amo 9:15, Hag 2:6-9 | TSK | STEP

17; Eze 48:35; Re 21:3 CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE BOOK OF JOEL. It is generally supposed, that the prophet Joel blends two subjects of affliction in one general consideration, or beautiful allegory; and that, under the devastation to be produced by locusts in the vegetable world, he portrays the more distant calamities to be inflicted by the armies of the Chaldeans in their invasion of Judea. These predictions are followed by a more general denunciation of God's vengeance, delivered in such language as to be in some measure descriptive of the final judgment of mankind. The prophet intermingles these declarations with earnest exhortations to repentance, and with promises of returning prosperity productive of Gospel blessings; foretelling, in the clearest terms, the general effusion of the Holy Spirit under the Christian dispensation, and the awful consequences of obstinately rejecting the sacred influence, especially to the Jews. The state of this nation at the present day, fully attests the Divine inspiration of the prophecy.

Amos 9:15

they shall.As the Jews, after their return from Babylon, were driven from their land by the Romans, this can only refer to their future conversion and restoration, and to the security and peace of the church.

Isa 60:21; Jer 24:6; 32:41; Eze 34:28; 37:25; Joe 3:20; Mic 4:4

Haggai 2:6-9

Yet.

21,22; Heb 12:26-28

it is.

Ps 37:10; Isa 10:25; 29:17; Jer 51:33; Heb 10:37

and I.

Isa 34:4; Jer 4:23-26; Eze 38:20; Joe 2:30-32; 3:16; Mt 24:29,30

Mr 13:24-26; Lu 21:25-27; Ac 2:19; Heb 12:26; Re 6:12-17; 8:5-12

Re 11:9; 6:2-17

I will shake.

Eze 21:27; Da 2:44,45; 7:20-25; Joe 3:9-16; Lu 21:10,11

and the.

Ge 3:15; 22:18; 49:10; Zec 9:9,10; Lu 2:10,11,27,46; Ro 15:9-15

Ga 3:8

I will fill.

Ex 40:34,35; 1Ki 8:11; 2Ch 5:14; Ps 80:1; Mal 3:1; Lu 19:47; 20:1

Lu 21:38; Joh 1:14; 2:13-17; 7:37-39; 10:23-38; Col 2:9

1Ki 6:20-35; 1Ch 29:14-16; Ps 24:1; 50:10-12; Isa 60:13,17

glory.

Ps 24:7-10; Joh 1:14; 2Co 3:9,10; 1Ti 3:16; Jas 2:1

saith.Whoever compares the description of the temple of Solomon, in the first book of Kings, with the most splendid accounts of the second temple, however adorned with costly stones and other magnificent decorations in after ages, must perceive that the former, being wholly overlaid with pure gold, was incomparably more glorious than the latter in its greatest magnificence; and the Jews themselves allow that the ark of the covenant, fire from heaven, the {Urim} and {Thummim,} the anointing oil, the {Shechinah,} or visible glory, and the spirit of prophecy, which distinguished the former temple, were wanting in this. In nothing, in fact, could the second temple excel the first in glory, except in the personal presence of "the Desire of all nations," He who is "the glory of the Lord," and the true temple, "in whom dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily," and who was the true {Shechinah,} of which that of Solomon's temple was merely a type. And if it be admitted that the presence of the promised Messiah was intended, then it will follow that "Jesus of Nazareth" was He; for the second temple, in which as the "Prince of peace" he preached peace and reconciliation with God, has been utterly destroyed for upwards of seventeen hundred years.

give.

Ps 85:8,9; Isa 9:6,7; 57:18-21; Mic 5:5; Lu 2:14; Joh 14:27

Ac 10:36; Eph 2:14-17; Col 1:19-21