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[JPS translation and verse numbering throughout, unless otherwise noted] Joel is a short book (just three or four chapters depending on how their broken up), rich with themes of eschatology, repentance, redemption and a very sardonic description of famine: Awake, ye drunkards, and weep, and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for ...

The bridge that connects Jesus the Nazarene as "Yahweh" is Isaiah 8:13-14, which both Paul (in Romans 9:33) and Peter (in 1 Peter 2:6-8) use to make the nexus between "calling on Jesus" and "calling on Yahweh" to be saved. First, in Psalm 118:22 we find an unqualified mention of a stone "which the builders rejected" that in turn "became the chief ...

It's hard (impossible?) to be sure, because there are no temporal anchors in the text itself. The Wikipedia article, citing Leslie Allen (The Books of Joel, Obadiah, Jonah & Micah), outlines four scholar-supported options based on textual analysis: 9th century BCE c. 670-587 BCE, contemporary with Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Habakkuk c 520-500 BCE, ...

[JPS translation and verse numbering throughout, unless otherwise noted] Chapters 1 and 2 - Locust Chapters 1 and 2 describe a plague of locust: What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten; what the great locusts have left the young locusts have eaten; what the young locusts have left other locusts have eaten (1:4). ...

Your question seems to be rhetorical. Most likely, of course, Jesus knew the prophecy of Joel. Did he quote it? Very likely, even if we can not pin it down. Not all is written down. The book Revelation quotes it often. (It is said to be inspired by him. Apk 1, 1) There is a difference between the two situations in which persons would call on the Name of ...

The first two valleys use the word "emek". The names appear to be purely symbolic in context though the Jehosaphat valley might be associated with a historical event connected with the king of the same name, see Wikipedia. Most of the traditional commentators say that the valleys in 4:12 and 4:14 (Yehoshaphat and "Decision") are the same valley. The name in ...

In his epistle Peter mentions again the immanency of "the end times" (1 Pet 4:7), and of course the imagery of the Book of Revelation captures in vivid imagery the end of the world. In other words, the end of the world is part of the Day of the Lord, to which Peter alludes in Acts 2:16-21. As in the imagery of day in the Bible, the beginning of the day ...

The phrase "in the last days" is the sign that Peter sees his words as an end-times prophecy. This is an interpretive take on Joel 2:28 because both the original Hebrew and Greek Septuagint say "And it shall come to pass afterwards..." (As an aside, this means that Luke is not working from the Septuagint here to put words in Peter's mouth.) The paraphrase ...

I'm currently reading Edmund P. Clowney's Preaching Christ in All of Scripture. In it he quotes C. H. Dodd: Wherever the term Kyrios, Lord, is applied to Jehovah in the OT, Paul seems to hold that it points forward to the coming revelation of God in the Lord Jesus Christ.—The Epistle of Paul to the Romans, 169. Note that Kyrios is a Greek word, ...

When we seem to face contradiction, it sometimes comes from different meanings of words. (I also appreciated sarah's pointing out the grammar in the Y that came to precede the Hoshea which became in transliteration Iesous (Septuagint Greek for Joshua and Greek for Yehoshua, that is Jesus)). An important aspect to consider may be this one, in addition: ...

It could simply be a physical description of what the moon looks like. Have you ever seen the moon during a lunar eclipse (when the moon moves into the shadow of the earth)? It becomes red (or brown or yellow) because some of the sunlight passes through the earth's atmosphere and bends around the earth to reach the moon. The actual colour of the moon ...

The heavens is often used to express powers of governments while the earth is the populations under them. For example, long after the heavens and earth were literally established, God uses the same phrase in establishing Israel: And I have put my words in your mouth and covered you in the shadow of my hand, establishing the heavens and laying the ...