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Joel
A a 1:5.
New wine cut off.
b 1:8-13.  Israel's harvest spoiled.
B 1:14 to 2:14.
Israel a desolation.
C 2:15-20.
The gathering of Israel.
D 2:21 to 3:1.
I will restore.
C 3:2.
The gathering of nations.
D 3:2-8.
I will plead.
A
b 3:9-17.
Gentile harvest.
a 3:18.
New wine restored.
B 3:19-21.
Egypt and Edom a desolation.
The whole prophecy deals with the nation, and the nations. It looks to the Day of the Lord, and has no room for,
or reference to, a church in which there is neither Greek nor Jew.
Peter's specific reference is to Joel 2:28-32. Where Joel reads `Afterward' Peter says `in the last days': the
words come to the same thing, and Kimchi makes the same observation when dealing with Joel 2:28. The quotation
made by Peter is divided into two parts. The first was actually fulfilled on the day of Pentecost: the second would
have followed had Israel repented. They did not repent, and consequently the signs in heaven await the day of the
Lord, with which the book of the Revelation is prophetically concerned. What should intervene between the two
parts of Joel's prophecy it was no part of Peter's ministry to explain. He confessed later, when writing to the same
dispersion, that they would find help regarding this interval in the writings of Paul (2 Pet. 3:15,16).
We must now indicate the relation of the two parts of Joel's prophecy, quoted by Peter, showing the present
interval. This of course was not mentioned by Peter, for the times and the seasons which the Father had put in His
own power had not been revealed to him. We, too, only know that a new dispensation fills the gap, because Paul,
the prisoner of Jesus Christ, has made known the fact.
Joel 2:28-31.
A I will POUR out of My Spirit.
(1)
Upon all flesh.
(2)
Sons.
(3)
Daughters.
The last days. Seven-fold beginning
(4)
Old Men.
at Pentecost.
(5)
Young Men.
`The powers of the age to come'.
(6)
Servants.
(7)
Handmaids.
B
Present Interval - Israel not repentant.
B
Future Day - Israel repent and look upon Him
whom they pierced.
A I will SHOW wonders.
(1)
Heavens.
(2)
Earth.
(3)
Blood.
Seven-fold conclusion.
(4)
Fire.
Wonders, as spoken of in the
(5)
Pillars of smoke.
Apocalypse, and Isaiah 13:9,10.
(6)
Sun.