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Yoel 3

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1 וְהָיָה אַחֲרֵי־כֵן אֶשְׁפֹּוךְ אֶת־רוּחִי עַל־כָּל־בָּשָׂר וְנִבְּאוּ בְּנֵיכֶם וּבְנֹותֵיכֶם זִקְנֵיכֶם חֲלֹמֹות יַחֲלֹמוּן בַּחוּרֵיכֶם חֶזְיֹנֹות יִרְאוּ׃

2 וְגַם עַל־הָעֲבָדִים וְעַל־הַשְּׁפָחֹות בַּיָּמִים הָהֵמָּה אֶשְׁפֹּוךְ אֶת־רוּחִי׃

3 וְנָתַתִּי מֹופְתִים בַּשָּׁמַיִם וּבָאָרֶץ דָּם וָאֵשׁ וְתִימֲרֹות עָשָׁן׃

4 הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ יֵהָפֵךְ לְחֹשֶׁךְ וְהַיָּרֵחַ לְדָם לִפְנֵי בֹּוא יֹום יְהוָה הַגָּדֹול וְהַנֹּורָא׃

5 וְהָיָה כֹּל אֲשֶׁר־יִקְרָא בְּשֵׁם יְהוָה יִמָּלֵט כִּי בְּהַר־צִיֹּון וּבִירוּשָׁלִַם תִּהְיֶה פְלֵיטָה כַּאֲשֶׁר אָמַר יְהוָה וּבַשְּׂרִידִים אֲשֶׁר יְהוָה קֹרֵא׃

   

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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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