The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 199
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)