Joel 2:30-32

30 “And I will show ¹wonders in the heavens and ²on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.

31 ³The sun shall be turned to darkness, ⁴and the moon to blood, ⁵before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.

32 And it shall come to pass that ⁶everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. ⁷For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among ⁸the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.

Joel 2:30-32 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.

Cross References

• 1. 2:30 [Matt. 24:30; Luke 21:11]
• 2. 2:30 [Matt. 24:30; Luke 21:11]
• 3. 2:31 See ver. 10
• 4. 2:31 Rev. 6:12
• 5. 2:31 Mal. 4:5
• 6. 2:32 Cited Rom. 10:13
• 7. 2:32 Isa. 46:13; 59:20; Obad. 17
• 8. 2:32 Jer. 31:7; Mic. 4:7; Zech. 8:12