JOEL CHAPTER 1
1The word of Jehovah that occurred to Joel,
[the] son of Pethuel:
2 Hear this, you older men, and give ear, all you
inhabitants of the land. Has this occurred in your days, or even in the days of
your forefathers?
3
Concerning it give an account to your own sons, and your sons to their sons, and
their sons to the following generation [3
fulfilments, Jewish, 1st presence and 2nd presence].
4 What
was left by the caterpillar, the locust has eaten; and what was left by the
locust, the creeping, unwinged locust has eaten; and what the creeping, unwinged
locust has left, the cockroach has eaten.
5 Wake
up, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, on account of
sweet-wine [as in Pentecost], for it has been cut off from your mouths.
6 For
there is a nation that has come up into my land, mighty and without number. Its
teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it has the jawbones of a lion.
7 It has
set my vine as an object of astonishment, and my fig tree as a stump. It has
positively stripped it bare and thrown [it] away. The twigs of it have become
white.
8 Wail,
as a virgin girded with sackcloth does over the owner of her youth.
9 Grain
offering and drink offering have been cut off from the house of Jehovah; the
priests, ones ministering of Jehovah, have mourned.
10 [The]
field has been despoiled, [the] ground has gone to mourning; for [the] grain has
been despoiled, [the] new-wine has been dried up, [the] oil has faded away.
11
Farmers have felt shame; vinedressers have howled, on account of wheat and on
account of barley; for the harvest of [the] field has perished.
12 The
vine itself has shown dryness, and even the fig tree has faded away. As for
[the] pomegranate tree, also [the] palm tree and [the] apple tree, all the trees
of the field, they have dried up; for exultation has gone ashamed away from the
sons of mankind.
13 Gird
yourselves, and beat your breasts, you priests. Howl, you ministers of [the]
altar. Come in, spend the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God; for from
the house of your God grain offering and drink offering have been withheld.
14
Sanctify a time of fasting. Call together a solemn assembly. Gather together
[the] older men, all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of Jehovah [which
was in existence throughout the disaster] your
God, and cry to Jehovah for aid.
15 Alas
for the day; because the day of Jehovah is near, and like a despoiling from the
Almighty One it will come!
16 Has
not food itself been cut off before our very eyes; from the house of our God,
rejoicing and joyfulness?
17 Dried
figs have shriveled under their shovels. Storehouses have been laid desolate.
Barns have been torn down, for [the] grain has dried up.
18 Oh how
the domestic animal has sighed! [How] the droves of cattle have wandered in
confusion! For there is no pasturage for them. Also, the droves of the sheep
have been the ones made to bear guilt.
19 To
you, Oh Jehovah, I shall call; for fire itself has devoured the pasture grounds
of [the] wilderness, and a very flame has consumed all the trees of the field.
20 The
beasts of the field also keep longing for you, because the channels of water
have dried up, and fire itself has devoured the pasture grounds of the
wilderness.
JOEL CHAPTER 2
1 Blow a
horn in Zion, Oh men [for the first true
religion of a presence], and shout a war cry in my holy
mountain. Let all the
inhabitants of the land get agitated; for the day of Jehovah is coming, for it
is near!
2 It is a
day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick gloom, like light of
dawn spread out upon the mountains. There is a people numerous and mighty; one
like it has not been made to exist from the indefinite past, and after it there
will be none again to the years of generation after generation.
3 Ahead
of it a fire has devoured, and behind it a flame consumes. Like the garden of
Eden the land is ahead of it; but behind it is a desolate wilderness, and there
has also proved to be nothing thereof escaping.
4 Its
appearance is like the appearance of horses, and like steeds is the way they
keep running.
5 As with
the sound of chariots on the tops of the mountains they keep skipping about, as
with the sound of a flaming fire that is devouring stubble. It is like a mighty
people, drawn up in battle order.
6 Because
of it, peoples will be in severe pains. As for all faces, they will certainly
collect a glow [of excitement].
7 Like
powerful men they run. Like men of war they go up a wall. And they go each one
in his own ways, and they do not alter their paths.
8 And one
another they do not shove. As an able-bodied man in his course, they keep going;
and should some fall even among the missiles, the [others] do not break off
course
9 Into
the city they rush. On the wall they run. On the houses they go up. Through the
windows they go in like the thief.
10 Before
it [the] land has become agitated, [the] heavens have rocked. Sun and moon
themselves have become dark, and the very stars have withdrawn their brightness.
11 And
Jehovah himself will certainly give forth his voice before his military force,
for his camp is very numerous. For he who is carrying out his word is mighty;
for the day of Jehovah is great and very fear-inspiring, and who can hold up
under it?
12 And
now also, the utterance of Jehovah is, come back to me with all your hearts, and
with fasting and with weeping and with wailing.
13 And
rip apart your hearts, and not your garments; and come back to Jehovah your God,
for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abundant in loving-kindness,
and he will certainly feel regret on account of the calamity [of
the day of Jehovah, which is the manifestation of a presence, when the focus of
'everyone' turns to God].
14 Who is
there knowing whether he will turn back and actually feel regret and let remain
after it a blessing, a grain offering and a drink offering for Jehovah your God?
15 Blow a
horn in Zion, Oh men [into the second true
religion, this time announcing the day of Jehovah has arrived]. Sanctify a time of fasting.
Call together a solemn
assembly.
16 Gather
[the] people together. Sanctify a congregation. Collect [the] old men together.
Gather children and those sucking the breasts together. Let [the] bridegroom go
forth from his interior room [most holy], and [the] bride from her nuptial
chamber [holy].
17
Between the porch and the altar let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep
and say, 'Do feel sorry, Oh Jehovah, for your people, and do not make your
inheritance a reproach, for nations to rule over them. Why should they say among
the peoples: Where is their God?'
18 And
Jehovah will be zealous for his land and will show compassion upon his people.
19 And
Jehovah will answer and say to his people, 'Here I am sending to you the grain
and the new-wine and the oil, and you people will certainly be satisfied with
it; and I shall not make you anymore a reproach among the nations.
20 And
the northerner I shall put far away from upon you, and I shall actually disperse
him to a waterless land and desolated waste, with his face to the eastern sea
and his rear section to the western sea. And the stink from him will certainly
ascend, and the stench from him will keep ascending; for He will actually do a
great thing in what He does.'
21 Do not
be fearful, Oh Ground. Be joyful and rejoice; for Jehovah will actually do a
great thing in what He does.
22 Do not
be fearful, you beasts of the open field, for the pasture grounds of [the]
wilderness will certainly grow green. For the tree will actually give its
fruitage. The fig tree and the vine must give their vital energy.
23 And,
you sons of Zion, be joyful and rejoice in Jehovah your God; for
he will be
bound to give you the autumn-rain in right measure, and he will bring down upon
you people a downpour, autumn-rain and spring-rain, as at the
first.
24 And
the threshing floors must be full of grain, and the press vats must
overflow with new-wine [2NC saints reserves
are the overflow] and oil [General
old priests, so they must have been JWs, they are no new wine so they must
already be sanctified so they are 1NC saints, reserves are the overflow].
25 And I
will make compensation to you for the years that the locust, the creeping,
unwinged locust, and the cockroach and the caterpillar have eaten, my great
military force that I have sent among you.
26 And
you will certainly eat, eating and becoming satisfied, and you will be bound to
praise the name of Jehovah your God, who has done with you so wonderfully; and
my people will not be ashamed to time indefinite.
27 And
you people will have to know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am
Jehovah your God and there is no other. And my people will not be ashamed to
time indefinite.
28 And
after that it must occur that I shall pour out my spirit on every sort of flesh,
and your sons and your daughters will certainly prophesy. As for your old men,
dreams they will dream. As for your young men, visions they will see.
29 And
even on the menservants and on the maidservants in those days I shall pour out
my spirit.
30 And I
will give portents in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns
of smoke.
31 The
sun itself will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the
coming of the great and fear-inspiring day of
Jehovah.
32 And it
must occur that everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will get away safe;
for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will prove to be the escaped ones, just
as Jehovah has said, and in among the survivors, whom Jehovah is calling.
JOEL CHAPTER 3
1 For,
look! in those days and in that time, when I shall bring back the captive ones
of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 I will
also collect together all the nations and bring them down to the low plain of
Jehoshaphat; and I will put myself on judgment with them there on account of my
people and my inheritance Israel, whom they scattered among the nations; and
they apportioned out my own land.
3 And for
my people they kept casting lots; and they would give the male child for a
prostitute, and the female child they sold for wine [actual
wine], that they might drink.
4 And,
also, what do you have to do with me, Oh Tyre [WSS]
and Sidon [GNS] and all you regions of
Philistia [fleshly sub administrations]? Is it the treatment that you are giving me as a reward? And if you
are giving such treatment to me, swiftly, speedily I shall pay back your
treatment upon your heads [by the laying
on of hands].
5 Because
you men have taken my own silver and my own gold, and you have brought my own
desirable good things into your temples;
6 and the
sons of Judah [All: second generation sons of
the JAC] and the sons of Jerusalem [Literal:
Jerusalem. Word1 and Word2: FDS1 and then FDS3, 1NC saint administrations]
you have sold to the sons of the Greeks [Literal:
Greeks. Word1 and Word2: second generation water baptised in the TCC],
for the purpose of removing them far from their homeland [Literal:
after
Alexander];
7 here I
am arousing them [to come] from the place where you have sold them, and I will
pay back your treatment upon your own heads.
8 And I
will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah [Slavery
to Jesus under the hand of the sons of the JAC, FDS1 with 5 presidents. Word1:
1NC saints in Heaven. Word2: 1NC saints in heaven], and
they must sell them to the men of Sheba [Literal
and Word1: The decoders of FDS2. Word2: The decoders of FDS4], to a nation far
away [from Tyre and Sidon]; for Jehovah
himself has spoken [it].
9
Proclaim this, you people, among the nations, 'Sanctify war! Arouse the powerful
men! Let them draw near! Let them come up, all the men of war [spiritual
war]!
10 Beat
your plowshares into swords and your pruning shears into lances. As for the weak
one, let him say: I am a powerful man.
11 Lend
your aid and come, all you nations round about, and collect yourselves
together.' To that place, Oh Jehovah, bring your powerful ones down.
12 Let
the nations be aroused and come up to the low plain of Jehoshaphat; for there I
shall sit in order to judge all the nations round about [sanctification
to sealing in spirit testing].
13 Thrust
in a sickle, for harvest has grown ripe [wheat
and barley are Christians]. Come, descend, for [the] winepress has
become full. The press vats actually overflow; for their badness has become
abundant [too many saints, false claimers, at
the end of the sealing].
14
Crowds, crowds are in the low plain of the decision, for the day of Jehovah is
near in the low plain of the decision.
15 Sun
and moon themselves will certainly become dark, and the very stars will actually
withdraw their brightness.
16 And
out of Zion Jehovah himself will roar, and out of Jerusalem he will give forth
his voice. And heaven and earth certainly will rock; but Jehovah will be a
refuge for his people, and a fortress for the sons of Israel.
17 And
you people will have to know that I am Jehovah your God, residing in Zion my
holy mountain. And Jerusalem must become a holy place; and as regards strangers,
they will no more pass through her.
18 And it
must occur in that day that the mountains [national
administrations] will drip with sweet-wine [Literal:
Advanced Christian understandings. Word1 and Word2: Decoded understandings], and
the
very hills [congregational administrations]
will flow with milk [elementary literal
Christian understandings], and the very streambeds of Judah will all flow
with water. And out of the house of Jehovah there will go forth a spring [Elijah:
John, Paul, Gordon] and it
must irrigate the torrent valley of the Acacia Trees [1AC
trees, rooted in the wilderness].
19 As
regards Egypt [The commercial world], a desolate waste
[spiritually] it will become; and as regards
Edom [The old true religion, Esau was Jacob's
brother], a
wilderness of desolate waste it will become, because of the violence to the sons
of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
20 But as
for Judah [the sons of the JAC], to time indefinite it will be inhabited, and Jerusalem
[the FDS] to generation
after generation.
21 And I
will consider innocent their blood that I had not considered innocent; and
Jehovah will be residing in Zion.
Wheat (1), Barley (1), Oil (3), New-Wine (3), Sweet-Wine (2), Wine (1), Milk (1), Mountains (2), Hills (1), Egypt (1), Edom (1), Judah (1), Spring (1), Greeks (0), Sheba (0), Jerusalem (3/4).