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Joel 3

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1 "Poslije ovoga izlit ću Duha svoga na svako tijelo, i proricat će vaši sinovi i kćeri, vaši će starci sanjati sne, a vaši mladići gledati viđenja.

2 Čak ću i na sluge i sluškinje izliti Duha svojeg u dane one.

3 Pokazat ću znamenja na nebu i zemlji, krv i oganj i stupove dima."

4 Sunce će se prometnut' u tminu a mjesec u krv, prije nego svane Jahvin dan, velik i strašan.

5 Svi što prizivaju ime Jahvino spašeni će biti, jer će na brdu Sionu i u Jeruzalemu biti spasenje, kao što Jahve reče, a među preživjelima oni koje Jahve pozove.

   

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The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #199

  
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199. Internal Meaning of Joel, Chapter 2

1-2 The Lord will come and will execute judgment (1, 15)

2 when falsity and evil from the sensual has destroyed the whole church. (3)

4-9 Falsity of evil will destroy all things of it by various insanities. (3)

10 All good and truth has been dispersed, together with the knowledges [cognitiones] of them. (3)

11 The Lord will fight with them. (7)

12-17 Exhortation to be converted to Him, to repent, and to be wise. (2)

18-19 The Lord will establish the church, to which He will give its goods and truths, (11)

20 and will remove falsities of evil, and thus hell. (11, 17)

21-25 They will have trust in the Lord, from which they will have goods and felicities, (11)

26-27 and acknowledgment from the heart. (11)

28-29 By His Divine the Lord will fill those who are of that church with all things and will vivify them. (11, 12)

30-31 Falsities of evil and evils of falsity will dissipate influx on the day of judgment, (3, 15)

32 but those who acknowledge and worship the Lord will be saved. (17)

  
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Joel 2:21-25

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21 Land, don't be afraid. Be glad and rejoice, for Yahweh has done great things.

22 Don't be afraid, you animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness spring up, for the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.

23 "Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before.

24 The threshing floors will be full of wheat, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

25 I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you.