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“I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten—the great locust and
the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm—my great army
that I sent among you. You will have plenty to eat, until you are full, and
you will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has worked wonders
for you; never again will my people be shamed. Then you will know that I
am in Israel, that I am the LORD your God, and that there is no other;
never again will my people be shamed.”
(Joel 2:1–27)
Be attentive, take heed, read and understand. Reflect on the truth revealed
long ago, but ask this question: has this already happened, or is it yet to
come upon the world? I tell you, it’s right at the door—it is imminent!
These prophecies and all others pertain to perfect justice, and they are a
warning about the things that are to happen. God reveals the details of such
events in an ominous way, but this is obvious to those who possess the
wisdom to comprehend. To all others, they seem mysterious until they
happen precisely as given. Perfect justice extends mercy to all who accept it,
but perfect justice also enacts the total effects of those predictions on
everything and everyone not vindicated by His mercy. Those who are
vindicated comprehend and, as such, are delivered beforehand.
The time of great tribulation is close at hand—right at the door— humanity
is ill prepared. Are you prepared and even conscious of what is foretold for
the time in which we live? The people of Joel’s time thought the time was
near, but did it happen as they thought? Hindsight is 20/20, and in this
case, it can be used accurately to predict our future.
Prepared and saved, the delivered will experience the third Passover. Then,
the following words in Joel will have come true: “And afterward, I will pour
out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your
old men will dream dreams; your young men will see visions. Even on my
servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days. I
will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and
billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to
blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD. And
everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount
Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has said,
among the survivors whom the LORD calls.”
(Joel 2:28–32)
Afterward pertains to the time period following the resurrection of Jesus.