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DECEMBER 12
26 You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, 2 I will also gather all nations,
And praise the name of the LORD your And bring them down to the Valley of
God, Jehoshaphat;
Who has dealt wondrously with you; And I will enter into judgment with
And My people shall never be put to them there
shame. On account of My people, My heritage
Then you shall know that I am in the Israel,
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midst of Israel: Whom they have scattered among the
I am the LORD your God nations;
And there is no other. They have also divided up My land.
My people shall never be put to shame. 3 They have cast lots for My people,
“And it shall come to pass afterward
28 Have given a boy as payment for a
That I will pour out My Spirit on all harlot,
flesh; And sold a girl for wine, that they may
Your sons and your daughters shall drink.
prophesy,
Your old men shall dream dreams, 4 “Indeed, what have you to do with Me,
Your young men shall see visions. O Tyre and Sidon, and all the coasts
of Philistia?
Will you retaliate against Me?
But if you retaliate against Me,
2:28 afterward. The abundance of material Swiftly and speedily I will return your
blessings would be followed by the outpour- retaliation upon your own head;
ing of spiritual blessings. When coupled with 5 Because you have taken My silver and
the other temporal phrases within the pas- My gold,
sage (“in those days” [v. 29] and “before the And have carried into your temples My
coming of the great and awesome day of the prized possessions.
LORD”[v. 31]), the term points to a Second 6 Also the people of Judah and the
Advent fulfillment time frame. all flesh. Since people of Jerusalem
the context is “your sons and your daughters,” You have sold to the Greeks,
“all flesh”best refers to the house of Israel only. That you may remove them far from
The nations are the recipients of God’s wrath, their borders.
not the effusion of His Spirit (3:2,9ff.).
“Behold, I will raise them
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Out of the place to which you have sold
And also on My menservants and on them,
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My maidservants And will return your retaliation upon
I will pour out My Spirit in those days. your own head.
8 I will sell your sons and your daughters
30 “And I will show wonders in the Into the hand of the people of Judah,
heavens and in the earth: And they will sell them to the Sabeans,
Blood and fire and pillars of smoke. To a people far off;
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, For the LORD has spoken.”
And the moon into blood,
9 Proclaim this among the nations:
Before the coming of the great and “Prepare for war!
awesome day of the LORD.
32 And it shall come to pass Wake up the mighty men,
Let all the men of war draw near,
That whoever calls on the name
Let them come up.
of the LORD 10 Beat your plowshares into swords
Shall be saved. And your pruning hooks into spears;
For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’ ”
there shall be deliverance, 11 Assemble and come, all you nations,
As the LORD has said, And gather together all around.
Among the remnant whom the LORD Cause Your mighty ones to go down
calls. there, O LORD.
3 “For behold, in those days 12 “Let the nations be wakened, and come
and at that time,
up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
When I bring back the captives For there I will sit to judge all the
of Judah and Jerusalem, surrounding nations.

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