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THE MESSAGE
Joel 3:1
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Yes, in those days and at that time,
"For, behold, in those days, And in that time, When I restore the fortunes of Yehudah and Yerushalayim,
For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
"For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
"For behold, in those days and at that time, When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
"In those days and at that time, when I will make things better for Judah and Jerusalem,
"For behold, in those [climactic] days and at that time, When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
For beholde, in those dayes and in that time, when I shal bring againe the captiuitie of Iudah and Ierusalem,
"For behold, in those days and at that time, When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
"For behold, in those days and at that time,When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
Yes, in those days and at that time, when I restore from captivity Judah and Jerusalem,
At that time I, the Lord , will make Judah and Jerusalem prosperous again.
"After this, I will pour out my Spirit on all humanity. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions;
For behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall turn again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
"Yes, at that time I will bring back the people of Judah and Jerusalem from captivity.
FOR behold, in those days and in that time, when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem.
The Lord says, "At that time I will restore the prosperity of Judah and Jerusalem.
For look! In those days, and in that time, when I will return the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
For, behold, in those days and in that time, when I bring again the exiles of Judah and Jerusalem,
For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
For in those days and in that time, when I let the fate of Judah and Jerusalem be changed,
[4:1] For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
For behold, in those dayes and in that time, when I shall bring againe the captiuitie of Iudah and Ierusalem,
For beholde, in those dayes and in that time when I shall bryng agayne the captiuitie of Iuda & Hierusalem,
For, behold, in those days and at that time, when I shall have turned the captivity of Juda and Jerusalem,
For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
"For, behold, in those days, And in that time, When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
For lo! in tho daies, and in that tyme, whanne Y schal turne the caitifte of Juda and of Jerusalem,
For, look, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
For behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
For look! In those days and at that time I will return the exiles to Judah and Jerusalem.
"For behold, in those days and at that time, When I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem,
"At the time of those events," says the Lord , "when I restore the prosperity of Judah and Jerusalem,
"In those days and at that time, I will return the riches of Judah and Jerusalem.
For then, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
For lo! in those days, and at that time, - when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
For behold in those days, and in that time when I shall bring back the captivity of Juda, and Jerusalem:
"For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
For lo, in those days, and in that time, When I turn back [to] the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
For take hede: In those dayes & at ye same tyme, when I turne agayne the captyuite of Iuda & Ierusale:
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
in those: Joel 2:29, Daniel 12:1, Zephaniah 3:19, Zephaniah 3:20
when: Deuteronomy 30:3, 2 Chronicles 6:37, 2 Chronicles 6:38, Psalms 14:7, Psalms 85:1, Isaiah 11:11-16, Jeremiah 16:15, Jeremiah 23:3-8, Jeremiah 29:14, Jeremiah 30:3, Jeremiah 30:18, Ezekiel 16:53, Ezekiel 37:21, Ezekiel 37:22, Ezekiel 38:14-18, Ezekiel 39:25, Ezekiel 39:28, Ezekiel 39:29, Amos 9:14
Reciprocal: Psalms 53:6 - bringeth Psalms 126:1 - turned again Jeremiah 28:8 - prophesied Joel 2:31 - sun Zechariah 14:12 - the plague wherewith
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"The serpent seduced me," she said, "and I ate."
At that time God will unsheathe his sword, his merciless, massive, mighty sword. He'll punish the serpent Leviathan as it flees, the serpent Leviathan thrashing in flight. He'll kill that old dragon that lives in the sea.
"Stay alert. This is hazardous work I'm assigning you. You're going to be like sheep running through a wolf pack, so don't call attention to yourselves. Be as cunning as a snake, inoffensive as a dove.
Pseudo-Servants of God Will you put up with a little foolish aside from me? Please, just for a moment. The thing that has me so upset is that I care about you so much—this is the passion of God burning inside me! I promised your hand in marriage to Christ, presented you as a pure virgin to her husband. And now I'm afraid that exactly as the Snake seduced Eve with his smooth patter, you are being lured away from the simple purity of your love for Christ. It seems that if someone shows up preaching quite another Jesus than we preached—different spirit, different message—you put up with him quite nicely. But if you put up with these big-shot "apostles," why can't you put up with simple me? I'm as good as they are. It's true that I don't have their voice, haven't mastered that smooth eloquence that impresses you so much. But when I do open my mouth, I at least know what I'm talking about. We haven't kept anything back. We let you in on everything. I wonder, did I make a bad mistake in proclaiming God's Message to you without asking for something in return, serving you free of charge so that you wouldn't be inconvenienced by me? It turns out that the other churches paid my way so that you could have a free ride. Not once during the time I lived among you did anyone have to lift a finger to help me out. My needs were always supplied by the believers from Macedonia province. I was careful never to be a burden to you, and I never will be, you can count on it. With Christ as my witness, it's a point of honor with me, and I'm not going to keep it quiet just to protect you from what the neighbors will think. It's not that I don't love you; God knows I do. I'm just trying to keep things open and honest between us. And I'm not changing my position on this. I'd die before taking your money. I'm giving nobody grounds for lumping me in with those money-grubbing "preachers," vaunting themselves as something special. They're a sorry bunch—pseudo-apostles, lying preachers, crooked workers—posing as Christ's agents but sham to the core. And no wonder! Satan does it all the time, dressing up as a beautiful angel of light. So it shouldn't surprise us when his servants masquerade as servants of God. But they're not getting by with anything. They'll pay for it in the end. Let me come back to where I started—and don't hold it against me if I continue to sound a little foolish. Or if you'd rather, just accept that I am a fool and let me rant on a little. I didn't learn this kind of talk from Christ. Oh, no, it's a bad habit I picked up from the three-ring preachers that are so popular these days. Since you sit there in the judgment seat observing all these shenanigans, you can afford to humor an occasional fool who happens along. You have such admirable tolerance for impostors who rob your freedom, rip you off, steal you blind, put you down—even slap your face! I shouldn't admit it to you, but our stomachs aren't strong enough to tolerate that kind of stuff. Since you admire the egomaniacs of the pulpit so much (remember, this is your old friend, the fool, talking), let me try my hand at it. Do they brag of being Hebrews, Israelites, the pure race of Abraham? I'm their match. Are they servants of Christ? I can go them one better. (I can't believe I'm saying these things. It's crazy to talk this way! But I started, and I'm going to finish.) I've worked much harder, been jailed more often, beaten up more times than I can count, and at death's door time after time. I've been flogged five times with the Jews' thirty-nine lashes, beaten by Roman rods three times, pummeled with rocks once. I've been shipwrecked three times, and immersed in the open sea for a night and a day. In hard traveling year in and year out, I've had to ford rivers, fend off robbers, struggle with friends, struggle with foes. I've been at risk in the city, at risk in the country, endangered by desert sun and sea storm, and betrayed by those I thought were my brothers. I've known drudgery and hard labor, many a long and lonely night without sleep, many a missed meal, blasted by the cold, naked to the weather. And that's not the half of it, when you throw in the daily pressures and anxieties of all the churches. When someone gets to the end of his rope, I feel the desperation in my bones. When someone is duped into sin, an angry fire burns in my gut. If I have to "brag" about myself, I'll brag about the humiliations that make me like Jesus. The eternal and blessed God and Father of our Master Jesus knows I'm not lying. Remember the time I was in Damascus and the governor of King Aretas posted guards at the city gates to arrest me? I crawled through a window in the wall, was let down in a basket, and had to run for my life.
The same goes for you husbands: Be good husbands to your wives. Honor them, delight in them. As women they lack some of your advantages. But in the new life of God's grace, you're equals. Treat your wives, then, as equals so your prayers don't run aground.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For, behold, in those days, and at that time,.... Which Kimchi refers to the times of the Messiah; and is true of the latter times of the Messiah, of his spiritual reign yet to come:
when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem: not from the Edomites, Tyrians, and Philistines, that had carried them captive in the times of Ahaz; nor from Babylon, where they had been carried captive by Nebuchadnezzar; for nothing of what is after foretold followed upon the return of these captivities: but this designs the present captivity of the Jews, and the restoration of them to their own land; of which see Isaiah 52:8.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For, behold - The prophet by the word, “for,” shows that he is about to explain in detail, what he had before spoken of, in sum. By the word, “behold,” he stirs up our minds for something great, which he is to set before our eyes, and which we should not be prepared to expect or believe, unless he solemnly told us, “Behold.” As the detail, then, of what goes before, the prophecy contains all times of future judgment on those who should oppose God, oppress His Church and people, and sin against Him in them and all times of His blessing upon His own people, until the Last Day. And this it gives in imagery, partly describing nearer events of the same sort, as in the punishments of Tyre and Sidon, such as they endured from the kings of Assyria, from Nebuchadnezzar, from Alexander; partly using these, His earlier judgments, as representatives of the like punishments against the like sins unto the end.
In those days and in that time - The whole period of which the prophet had been speaking, was the time from which God called His people to repentance, to the Day of Judgment. The last division of that time was from the beginning of the Gospel unto that Day. He fixes the occasion of which he speaks by the words, “when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem.” This form was used, before there was any general dispersion of the nation. For all captivity of single members of the Jewish people had this sore calamity, that it severed them from the public worship of God, and exposed them to idolatry. So David complains, “they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the Lord, saying, go serve other gods” 1 Samuel 26:19. The restoration then of single members, or of smaller bodies of captives, was, at that time, an unspeakable mercy. It was the restoration of those shut out from the worship of God; and so was an image “of the deliverance from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God” Romans 8:21, or of any “return” of those who had gone astray, “to the Shepherd and Bishop of their souls 1 Peter 2:25. The grievous captivity of the Jews, now, is to Satan, whose servants they made themselves, when they said, “we have no king but Caesar; His Blood be upon us and upon our children.” Their blessed deliverance will be “from the power of Satan unto God” Acts 26:18. It is certain from Paul Romans 11:26, that there shall be a complete conversion of the Jews, before the end of the world, as indeed has always been believed. This shall probably be shortly before the end of the world, and God would here say, “when I shall have brought to an end the “captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,” i. e., of that people “to whom were the promises” Romans 9:4, and shall have delivered them from the bondage of sin and from blindness to light and freedom in Christ, then will I gather all nations to judgment.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER III
The prophecy in this chapter is thought by some to relate to
the latter times of the world, when God shall finally deliver
his people from all their adversaries; and it must be confessed
that the figures employed are so lofty as to render it
impossible to restrain the whole of their import to any events
prior to the commencement of the Christian era. The whole
prophecy is delivered in a very beautiful strain of poetry; by
what particular events are referred to is at present very
uncertain, 1-21.
NOTES ON CHAP. III
Verse Joel 3:1. For, behold, in those days — According to the preceding prophecy, these days should refer to Gospel times, or to such as should immediately precede them. But this is a part of the prophecy which is difficult to be understood. All interpreters are at variance upon it; some applying its principal parts to Cambyses; his unfortunate expedition to Egypt; the destruction of fifty thousand of his troops (by the moving pillars of sand) whom he had sent across the desert to plunder the rich temple of Jupiter Ammon; his return to Judea, and dying of a wound which he received from his own sword, in mounting his horse, which happened at Ecbatane, at the foot of Mount Carmel. On which his army, composed of different nations, seeing themselves without a head, fell out, and fought against each other, till the whole were destroyed. And this is supposed to be what Ezekiel means by Gog and Magog, and the destruction of the former. See Ezekiel 38:1-29.
Others apply this to the victories gained by the Maccabees, and to the destruction brought upon the enemies of their country; while several consider the whole as a figurative prediction of the success of the Gospel among the nations of the earth. It may refer to those times in which the Jews shall be brought in with the fulness of the Gentiles, and be re-established in their own land. Or there may be portions in this prophecy that refer to all the events; and to others that have not fallen yet within the range of human conjecture, and will be only known when the time of fulfilment shall take place. In this painful uncertainty, rendered still more so by the discordant opinions of many wise and learned men, it appears to be my province, as I have nothing in the form of a new conjecture to offer, to confine myself to an explanation of the phraseology of the chapter; and then leave the reader to apply it as may seem best to his own judgment.
I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem. — This may refer to the return from the Babylonish captivity; extending also to the restoration of Israel, or the ten tribes.
