JOEL

Joel Chapter 3

• Joel 3:1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 
• 2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. 

Take heed nations of the world including the United States, Britain, the United nations, France, Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Africa etc. We have no right to take away the land of Israel. We had no right to pressure Israel to send their people out of any land given to them by God recorded in the Old Testament.

I don't care what they have done or how any nation of people may think of them, God is their judge and He promised that land to Abraham and we have no right, neither Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George Bush, Obama, Trump, or any future American president to pressure Israel in any way. God is their judge, not us. Leave them alone. They must be allowed to make their own decisions on this and let God deal with them His way.

I know the bible says that nations will come against Israel and this will happen no matter what I say. I just pray the the United States will not be part of this because it will be judged severely by God if we go against Israel. More so because we know better. We've had the bible and many witnesses to what the bible teachers. There is no excuse. Please do not come against Israel or be high and mighty thinking we have any right to boss Israel around. 

When I see our presidents put pressure on Israel, I cringe. Who gave us that authority to think we are the boss of the world?

• Joel 3:3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink. 
• 4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Philistia? will ye render me a recompense? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompense upon your own head; 
• 5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things.
• 6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Greeks, that ye might remove them far from their border. 
• 7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head:

This is one of those prophecies that was partially fulfilled more than once. The first time was the carrying away captives to Babylon. Later 70 AD when the Jewish people were scattered to all parts of the world. They returned in 1948 and since then there has been a battle to remove them and oppress them once again. Final fulfillment of these prophecies will be in the future, and the way things are looking now, it may be the very near future. Even more so now in 2025.

Take heed nations of the world. What you do to Israel will return upon your own heads. Read history and discover what happens to any nation that has persecuted Israel? 

Did Hitler prevail? What happened to Babylon? Anti-Semitism is the downfall of many. Not because Israel is perfect but because God has a purpose for them, first to bring through them the Messiah, Jesus (Yeshua) the savior. When they temporarily rejected the Messiah, Jesus was preached to the Gentiles. Through their fall the gospel was sent to the Gentiles.

As things look right now among the nations especially the United States, the Gentile nations are starting to revert back to their heathen ways and reject Jesus Christ. To reject Jesus Christ does not just mean to reject Him as Son of God or savior but reject His teachings, His word and His holiness. This is what many in my own nation are doing in the name of love which is not real love that is of the truth or from God. It is a fake Pseudo love that is on the surface only. It is not the love that comes with the power of the Holy Spirit.   

Let us Gentiles take heed and not boast because the gospel is shortly to be given back to the Jews.

Be not high-minded against Israel. I don't care if they are still rejecting the gospel and reject Christians. Who can blame them for rejecting Christianity? The way the so-called Christians have treated them. We must pray that although they reject the Christian religion, they will not reject the Messiah, Jesus Christ.

They do not have to accept Christianity to be saved but they have to accept Jesus as savior just like we do. The Christian religion will not save anyone unless they preach the way of salvation through Jesus Christ and Him only. The blood of Jesus covers our sins when we repent and turn to Jesus for salvation. Nothing else is holy enough or good enough to save anyone from eternal damnation in hell.

We can build great hospitals, do good deeds, be baptized in every church available but it will not save us from sin if we have not turned from sin and turned to Jesus for salvation. We must be "born again" by the spirit of God. God does that when we come to Jesus and call upon His name.  No earthly person, church or being can do that on our behalf.  
 
Do not boast against Israel.

• Romans 11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 
• 27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. 
• 28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes. 

Back to the book of Joel.

• Joel 3:8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it. 
• 9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: 
• 10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. 
• 11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. 
• 12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. 
• 13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. 
• 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. 
• 15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. 
• 16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. 

This is prophecy is fulfilled at the end of the latter day tribulation and judgment of God against the armies that come against Israel. Don't be part of this army. The only army we are to be part of is the army of the Lord that preaches the gospel. We see here that the sun and moon will be affected at this battle. This part has not happened yet. In 70 AD the Roman armies surrounded Jerusalem and took over but that was only a preview of what was to come in the future. That will happen again in the latter days 3 1/2 years before 2nd coming of the Lord Jesus Christ comes to save Israel and set up His earthy kingdom. This last period of the reign of the wicked one we call the Antichrist is call the time of Jacob's trouble.

• Jeremiah 30:7  Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. 

• Joel 3:17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. 

Israel means Israel. The church does not replace Israel in the mind of God. The true believers will be part of the blessings promised to Israel but we are not replacements. When God says Israel, He means Israel. 

• Joel 3:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim. 

Here is the physical and spiritual restoration of Israel. I can only say, "Blessed be the name of the Lord." We must love the salvation of individuals and must love the restoration of Israel. 

• Joel 3:19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. 

This is judgment against those that did not recognize God's love for Israel and tried to destroy these people who God chose to bring us the Messiah and bring the gospel to save all who would believe. 

• Joel 3:20 But Judah shall dwell forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. 
• 21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion. 

Herein is the sum of the promises of God. They have not all been fulfilled as we see. As of August 27, 2025, all the book of Joel has not been fulfilled in full. Part of it has concerning the outpouring of the Holy Spirit but there is more to come. It will come to pass just as He said.

Removing this article from the web and silencing the warnings of those that proclaim the word of God will not stop it from coming to pass. Nothing will stop God's plan. If anyone tries to remove all Jews and all believers in Jesus, remove bibles, rewrite bibles and try to silence the truth, they cannot stop the will of God.

Persecution only strengthens the true believers. Stop one, and two rises up in their place. God's word will be fulfilled no matter what the president does, what laws are passed by Congress, no matter how great the armies that gather against Jerusalem are, no matter what the most powerful judge decrees, no matter what false prophets may say, no matter who tries to stop it whether it be the antichrist, the pope, any religion.

Nothing will stop God's word from being fulfilled. Atheism, Communism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity etc. cannot stop the will of God from coming to pass. Read the last two chapters in Revelation. The truth wins in the end. DC