Revelation 19:10
And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God:
for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
and...
Hosea 9:7
The days of visitation are come,
(Hello UAP)
the days of recompence are come;
(Don't get mad or jealous)
Israel shall know it:
(True believers,
not geographical boundaries/political entities)
the prophet is a fool,
the spiritual man is mad,
for the multitude of thine iniquity,
and the great hatred.
Rev 11:10
The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because t
hese two prophets
had tormented those
("No more prophecy Andrew!"
Yeah...good luck wit dat :-).
who live on the earth.
Not even started yet BTW.
Not even close.
from Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary
on Joel chapter two.
(Written 1708-1710)
"It is the day of the Lord (as it was called, v. 1), for in this war we are sure he carries the day; it must needs be his, for his camp is great and numerous. Those whom he makes war upon he can, as here, overpower with numbers;
and whoever he employs
to execute his word,
as the minister
of his justice,
is sure to be made strong
and par negotio—
equal to what he undertakes;
whom God gives commission to
he girds with strength
for the executing of that commission.
"There's army's of you
There's army's of you
There's army's of you."
"Thus you must answer the end and intention of the judgment; for it was sent for this end, to convince you of your sins, to humble you for them, to reduce you to your right minds and to your allegiance.’’ God brings us into straits, that he may bring us to repentance and so bring us to himself. 2. "Thus you may stay the progress of the judgment. Things are bad with you, but thus you may prevent their growing worse; nay, if you take this course, they will soon grow better.’’
"The Lord will do great things for his people, as the enemy has done great things against them, to convince them that wherein they deal proudly he is, and will be, above them, that, what great things soever they did, they did no more than God commissioned them to do;"
"Note, It is a good sign that God has mercy in store for a people when he sends them teachers of righteousness, pastors after his own heart."
"When God restores to us plenty after we have known scarcity, as it is doubly pleasant to us, so it should make us the more thankful to God."
(Tell me about it)
"Note, We should labour to grow in our acquaintance with God by all providences, both merciful and afflictive"
"We often read in the Old Testament of the Spirit of the Lord coming by drops, as it were, upon the judges and prophets whom God raised up for extraordinary services;
but now the Spirit shall be poured out plentifully in a full stream, as was promised with an eye to gospel-times,..."
"Hitherto divine revelation was confined to the seed of Abraham, none but those of the land of Israel had the Spirit of prophecy; but, in the last days, all flesh shall see the glory of God (Isa. 40:5 ) and shall come to worship before him, Isa. 66:23 .
(1.) The Spirit shall be poured out upon some of each sex. Not your sons only, but your daughters, shall prophesy; we read of four sisters in one family that were prophetesses, Acts. 21:9 . Not the parents only, but the children, shall be filled with the Spirit, which intimates the continuance of this gift for some ages successively in the church. (2.) Upon some of each age: "Your old men, who are past their vigour and whose spirits begin to decay, your young men, who have yet but little acquaintance with and experience of divine things, shall yet dream dreams and see visions;’’ God will reveal himself by dreams and visions both to the young and old.
"Prophecy does not reside on any but such as are wise, valiant, and rich, not upon the soul of a poor man, or a man in sorrow"
Rev 10:7
"But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel,
when he shall begin to sound,
the mystery of God should be finished,
as he hath declared to his servants the prophets."
I've had how the information got in the DNA molecule (generated by black holes,
transmitted by quantum tunneling)
how consciousness works outside of ourselves
(by frequencies)
and just heer this past week?
The shape of the universe
More on that one in a separate post.
But how much do you really need?
Matthew Henry commentary
on Joel 2:28-29
"The effect of this blessing: They shall prophesy; they shall receive new discoveries of divine things, and that not for their own use only, but for the benefit of the church. They shall interpret scripture, and speak of things secret, distant, and future, which by the utmost sagacities of reason, and their natural powers, they could not have any insight into nor foresight of."
Ezekiel 37:26
"I will make a covenant of peace with them;
it will be an everlasting covenant.
I will establish them and increase their numbers,
and I will put my sanctuary among them forever."
(Matthew Henry's commentary on Ezekiel 37:26)
He will make a covenant of peace with them
and in pursuance of that covenant
he will place them, and multiply them.
Note,
Temporal mercies are doubly sweet
when they come from the promise of the covenant,
and not merely from common providence.
(Yeah
They really are.
Believe that.)
More From Matthew Henry's commentary on
Joel 2:
"There is a great and terrible day of the Lord coming, which shall be ushered in with wonders in heaven and earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke, the turning of the sun into darkness and the moon into blood."
"Those on whom the Spirit is poured out shall foresee and foretel that great and terrible day of the Lord, and expound the wonders in heaven and earth that go before it; for, as to his first coming, so to his second, all the prophets did and do bear witness, Rev. 10:7"
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible
Joel 2
"The priests were to alarm the people with the near approach of the Divine judgments. It is the work of ministers to warn of the fatal consequences of sin, and to reveal the wrath from heaven against the ungodliness and unrighteousness of men. The striking description which follows, shows what would attend the devastations of locusts, but may also describe the effects from the ravaging of the land by the Chaldeans. If the alarm of temporal judgments is given to offending nations, how much more should sinners be warned to seek deliverance from the wrath to come! Our business therefore on earth must especially be, to secure an interest in our Lord Jesus Christ; and
we should seek to be weaned from objects
which will soon be torn from all
who now make idols of them.".
"More yet" my friend says :-).
from Matthew Henry's commentary on Joel 2.
"The pouring out of the Spirit will be very comfortable to the righteous; but let the unrighteous hear this, and tremble. There is a great and terrible day of the Lord coming, which shall be ushered in with wonders in heaven and earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke, the turning of the sun into darkness and the moon into blood. This is to have its full accomplishment (as the learned Dr. Pocock thinks) in the day of judgment, at the end of time, before which these signs will be performed in the letter of them,"
"The judgments of God upon a sinful world, and the frequent destruction of wicked kingdoms by fire and sword, are prefaces to and presages of the judgment of the world in the last day. Those on whom the Spirit is poured out shall foresee and foretel that great and terrible day of the Lord, and expound the wonders in heaven and earth that go before it; for, as to his first coming, so to his second, all the prophets did and do bear witness, Rev. 10:7
"It is the day of the Lord, the day of his judgment, who knows how to separate between the precious and the vile."
Now on Genesis 6:22
Note, When God gives warning of approaching judgments, it is our wisdom and duty to provide accordingly. See Ex. 9:20, 21; Eze. 3:18. We must prepare to meet the Lord in his judgments on earth, flee to his name as a strong tower (Prov. 18:10), enter into our chambers (Isa. 26:20, 21), especially prepare to meet him at death and in the judgment of the great day, build upon Christ the Rock (Mt. 7:24), go into Christ the Ark. 4. As intended for warning to a careless world; and it was fair warning of the deluge coming. Every blow of his axes and hammers was a call to repentance, a call to them to prepare arks too. But, since by it he could not convince the world, by it he condemned the world, Heb. 11:7.
Yeah...all that...
