Joel 2:30 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. ”

• Joel 2:30 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And I will shew wonders - Each revelation of God prepares the way for another, until that last revelation of His love and of His wrath in the Great Day. In delivering His people from Egypt, “the...

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• Joel 2:30 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And I will shew (s) wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. (s) He warns the faithful what terrible things would come, with the intent that they should not lo...

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• Joel 2:30 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Portents of the Day of Yahweh. The deliverance from the locusts is but a harbinger of the time coming when Yahweh will impart His spirit to all Jews for to such the context evidently restricts...

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• Joel 2:30 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  I will shew. Compare Matthew 24:29 ; Mark 13:24 . blood, and fire . These are symbols of Divine, judgment; not of salvation by grace.

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• Joel 2:30 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  The Prophet seems here to contradict himself; for he had hitherto promised that God would deal kindly and bountifully with his people; and every thing he has said tended to elevate the spirits...

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• Joel 2:30 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1182 SIGNS OF THE MESSIAH’S ADVENT Joel 2:28-32 . And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,...

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• Joel 2:30 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. Wonders in the heavens and in the earth - This refers to those dreadful sights, dreadful portents, and...

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• Joel 2:30 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And I will shew wonders, &c.— Whoever will be at the pains to compare our Saviour's prophesy of the destruction of Jerusalem, Matthew 24 with the present passage, will have no doubt concernin...

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• Joel 2:30 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. As Messiah's manifestation is full of joy to believers, so it has an aspect of wrath to unbeliev...

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• Joel 2:30 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Repentance followed by Restoration Joel 2:1-17 are another description of the locust plague. An alarm is sounded as though the Day of Jehovah had come ( Joel 2:1-3 ). The advance of the locusts...

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• Joel 2:30 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The sun ... and the moon. — These words, recalling some of the portents in the ancient history of the Jews (especially as instanced in some of the plagues of Egypt) are taken up by our Lord Himsel...

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• Joel 2:30 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  PROSPERITY AND THE SPIRIT Joel 2:18-32 "THEN did Jehovah become jealous for His land, and took pity upon His people"-with these words Joel opens the second half of his book. Our Authorized Vers...

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• Joel 2:30 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “The Valley of Decision” Joel 2:28-32 ; Joel 3:1-21 Having stated the outward blessings that would follow repentance, Joel unveils the extraordinary spiritual blessings that were in store. The...

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• Joel 2:30 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Finally the prophet moved on to a yet higher level, and dealt wholly with things to come. The great word introducing the section is "afterward." Some of the things foretold have now been fulfilled, s...

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• Joel 2:30 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  But here we have the sum and substance of the whole in one of the richest promises ever made, as the effect of salvation, and most comprehensive of all blessings. It is impossible to err in the expla...

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• Joel 2:30 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth ,.... This, and what follow, refer to the prodigies seen in the air, and done in the earth, a little before the destruction of Jerusalem r; wh...

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• Joel 2:30 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. Ver. 30. And I will show wonders in the heavens ] Prodigia beneficia credentibus, malefica et horri...

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• Joel 2:30 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth , &c. Whoever will be at the pains to compare this prediction with the prophecy of Christ, Matthew 24 ., and Luke 21 ., will have no dou...

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• Joel 2:30 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Promise of Mercy. B. C. 720.       28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pou...

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• Joel 2:30 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  And I will show wonders; as he promiseth such grace to believers, so he warneth them that they should not be surprised with those alarming prodigies which in those days God would show, which would...

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• Joel 2:30 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Promise Of Great Spiritual Blessing Yet To Be ‘Poured Out' And Portents Of Judgment To Come ( Joel 2:28-32 ). And as a result of their restoration to Him through repentance and their turning t...

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• Joel 2:30 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.] Joel 2:28-32 . Afterward ] These outward things are only a type of spiritual gifts, a prospect of richer blessings; and a grander dispensation is held out, a dispensation remar...

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• Joel 2:30 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Joel 2:1 . Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, to convoke a solemn assembly for fasting and humiliation. Numbers 10:2-3 . Joel 2:2 . A day of darkness, nigrum esse. The army of locusts obscured the...

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• Joel 2:30 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sirocco suggesting prophetic figures We have two kinds of sirocco--one accompanied with viole...

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• Joel 2:30 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Joel 2:1-29 These verses contain a further description of the calamity occasioned by the locusts and the appearance presented by them; the calling of a congregational meeting for...

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• Joel 2:30 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  God's Promise of Temporal and Spiritual Blessings

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• Joel 2:30 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 2:19 ; Acts 2:20 ; Genesis 19:28 ; Joshua 8:20 ; Judges 20:38 ; Judges 20:40 ; Luke 21:11 ; Luke 21:25 ; Luke 21:26 ; Mark 13:24 ; Matthew 24:29 ; Revelation 18:18 ; Revelation 18:9...

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• Joel 2:30 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Wonders — They who read what historians report of these times, will see this fulfilled in the very letter. Blood — Possibly eruption of blood, as some fountains have been reported to have run with...

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