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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.

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