Joel 2:28-32

The Lord Will Pour Out His Spirit

28 ^[a]¹"And it shall come to pass afterward, that ²I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; ³your sons and ⁴your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.

29 ⁵Even on the male and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit.

30 "And I will show ⁶wonders in the heavens and ⁷on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.

31 ⁸The sun shall be turned to darkness, ⁹and the moon to blood, ¹⁰before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes.

32 And it shall come to pass that ¹¹everyone who calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved. ¹²For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the LORD has said, and among ¹³the survivors shall be those whom the LORD calls.

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Joel 2:28-32 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOEL 2

In this chapter a further account is given of the judgment of the locusts and caterpillars, or of those who are designed by them, Joe 2:1-11; the people of the Jews are called to repentance, humiliation, and fasting, urged from the grace and goodness of God, his jealousy and pity for his people, and the answer of prayer that might he expected from him upon this, even to the removal of the calamity, Joe 2:12-20; a prophecy of good things, both temporal and spiritual, in the times of the Messiah, is delivered out as matter and occasion of great joy, Joe 2:21-27; and another concerning the effusion of the Spirit, which was fulfilled an the day of Pentecost, Joe 2:28-29; and the chapter is concluded with the judgments and desolations that should come upon the land of Judea after this, for their rejection of Christ, though the remnant according to the election of grace should be delivered and saved from the general destruction, Joe 2:30-32.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 13

1. ver. 28-32, citedActs 2:17-21
2. Isaiah 32:15; Ezekiel 39:29; Zechariah 12:10; John 7:39
3. [Acts 2:39]
4. [Acts 21:9]
5. [1 Corinthians 12:13]
6. [Matthew 24:30; Luke 21:11]
7. [Matthew 24:30; Luke 21:11]
8. See ver. 10
9. Revelation 6:12
10. Malachi 4:5
11. Cited Romans 10:13
12. Isaiah 46:13; Isaiah 59:20; Obadiah 17
13. Jeremiah 31:7; Micah 4:7; Zechariah 8:12

Footnotes 1

[a]. Ch 3:1 in Hebrew

The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.