Sound the alarm in Jerusalem! Let the blast of the warning trumpet be heard upon my holy mountain! Let everyone tremble in fear, for the day of the Lord’s judgment approaches.
It is a day of darkness and gloom, of black clouds and thick darkness. What a mighty army! It covers the mountains like night! How great, how powerful these “people” are! The likes of them have not been seen before, and never will again throughout the generations of the world!
11 The Lord leads them with a shout. This is His mighty army, and they follow his orders. The day of the judgment of the Lord is an awesome, terrible thing. Who can endure it?
And it shall come to pass afterward, ( after what?)..... After all the above has happened....(so, think, has it happened yet?) that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my Spirit.
Joel is a Jewish prophet so he is talking to HIS people, the Jews. ! Joel is referring to the terrible things that will happen to his people, “and afterwards “ God speaking, “I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my Spirit.”
So we have to stop saying that it is talking to us, here and now. Sure, it says All flesh...but where was this ALL flesh..... mainly in the middle east...
All our countries were not known nor heard off, the rest of the world were all pagans at that stage...
So in reality, Joel is talking to his very own People. That does not mean that some people here and now, won’t have dreams and visions..... but that is not what the above is talking about!
Blessings...
Yaddy
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