The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 200
200. Internal Meaning of Joel, Chapter 3
1 Then the church will be gathered together, (11, 17)
2 and then judgment will be executed upon those who have scattered the goods and truths of the church; (15)
4-8 upon those who are in knowledges [cognitiones] alone and in faith alone, and have thereby destroyed the truths of the Word and of doctrine. (15)
9-12 Combat of good and truth against evils and falsities at that time. (15)
13-15 Then evil is consummated. (3)
16-17 This is from the Lord, whom they will then also acknowledge, and from whom is the church. (11)
18-19 The Lord will then teach them the Word, and falsifications of the Word will be removed. (11)
20-21 Then the church will be the Lord's, and from the Word. (11)
Joel 3:4-8
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"Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.
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Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,
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and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.
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Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment on your own head;
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and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the men of Sheba, to a faraway nation, for Yahweh has spoken it."
