joel-2:28

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Joel 2:28-32

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 remarkable for the Holy Spirit, as its sign and substance. This gift shall be poured out in copious and refreshing showers upon all flesh, Jew and Gentile (Acts 10:44; Acts 11:17), upon servants and handmaids, the most degraded and despised (Acts 2:18). As the result, sons and daughters shall prophesy; dreams to... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Joel 2:28-32

DISCOURSE: 1182SIGNS OF THE MESSIAH’S ADVENTJoel 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, 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. And I will shew wonders in the heavens, and in the earth, blood and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Joel 2:28

afterward Cf. Acts 2:17 which gives a specific interpretation of "afterward" (Heb. acherith= "latter," "last"). "Afterward" in Joel Joel 2:28 means "in the last days" ( (Greek - ἔσχατος ), and has a partial and continuous fulfilment during the "last days" which began with the first advent of Christ Hebrews 1:2 but the greater fulfilment awaits the "last days" as applied to Israel. (See Scofield "Hebrews 1:2- :") , for phrase, "the last days." See Scofield "Hebrews 1:2- :". read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Joel 2:1-32

Chapter 2Now he uses this as the springboard and he begins to speak now of a yet future day of devastation that is coming from armies that are to invade the land. And in the second chapter, as he describes this invading army, it is interesting to notice the description that he gives, because it is not much of a stretch of the imagination for us to see that he is describing modern warfare. The things that he described were things that were totally unknown and unheard of in his day, but yet they... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Joel 2:1-32

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 light while flying through the air. More than twenty travellers are agreed on this subject. An army of locusts sometimes is a mile, and sometimes ten miles broad in the air. In a moral view, darkness implies the greatest of national disasters. Joel 2:3 . A fire devoureth before them. The... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Joel 2:28

Joel 2:28And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh.The new Gospel eraThe prophet had encouraged the nation to repentance by announcing the temporal blessings which would be consequent thereon. They would get the former rain, they would get the latter rain. The floors would be filled with wheat, and the fats would overflow with wine and oil. Desolation would vanish, plenty would return. This was the lower sphere of benediction consequent upon their... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Joel 2:28

Joe 2:28 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, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: Ver. 28. And it shall come to pass afterwards ] sc. In the days of the Messiah, which is called the "world to come," Hebrews 2:5 , but especially after his ascension, see Joh 7:37 Acts 2:17-21 , where this prophecy was fulfilled, and this place taken for the first text preached on by... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Joel 2:28

that I: Proverbs 1:23, Isaiah 32:15, Isaiah 44:3, Ezekiel 39:29, John 7:39, Acts 2:16-Job : upon: Isaiah 40:5, Isaiah 49:6, Zechariah 12:10, Luke 3:6, Acts 2:2-Numbers :, Acts 2:33, Acts 2:39, Acts 10:44-2 Corinthians :, Acts 11:15-Job :, Acts 15:7, Acts 15:8 your daughters: Isaiah 54:13, Acts 21:9, Galatians 3:28 dream: Genesis 37:5-2 Samuel :, Numbers 12:6, Jeremiah 23:28 Reciprocal: Numbers 11:17 - I will take Numbers 11:25 - they prophesied Judges 4:4 - General 1 Samuel 19:20 - when... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Joel 2:28

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, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:Afterward — After the return out of Babylon, after the various troubles and salvations by which these may know that I am the Lord.I will pour — In extraordinary gifts on the first preachers of the gospel, and in various graces to all believers.Upon all flesh — Before these gifts were confined to... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Joel 2:18-32

PROMISE OF JEHOVAH TO AVERT THE JUDGMENT AND TO BESTOW ABUNDANT BLESSINGS, Joel 2:18 to Joel 3:21. Though not expressly stated, it is implied that the prophet’s exhortation was heeded; the solemn assembly was held, the people turned to Jehovah in penitence, and as a result Jehovah altered his purpose. Now he promises to remove the locusts and to restore prosperity, such as has not been known before, until all will know that Jehovah himself dwells in the midst of the people (Joel 2:18-27). The... read more