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Threatenings of Judgment. . 1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand; 2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. 3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. 5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. 6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. 7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: 8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. 9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief. 10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: 11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it? Here we have God contending with his own professing people for their sins and executing upon them the judgment written in the law ( Deuteronomy 28:42 ), The fruit of thy land shall the locust consume, which was one of those diseases of Egypt that God would bring upon them, Deuteronomy 28:60 ; Deuteronomy 28:60 . I. Here is the war proclaimed ( Joel 2:1 ; Joel 2:1 ): Blow the trumpet in Zion, either to call the invading army together, and then the trumpet sounds a charge, or rather to give notice to Judah and Jerusalem of the approach of the judgment, that they might prepare to meet their God in the way of his judgments and might endeavor by prayers and tears, the church's best artillery, to put by the stroke. It was the priests' business to sound the trumpet ( Numbers 10:8 ), both as an appeal to God in the day of their distress and a summons to the people to come together to seek his face. Note, It is the work of ministers to give warning from the word of God of the fatal consequences of sin, and to reveal his wrath from heaven against the ungodliness and unrighteousness of men. And though it is not the privilege of Zion and Jerusalem to be exempted from the judgments of God, if they provoke him, yet it is their privilege to be warned of them, that they might make their peace with him. Even in the holy mountain the alarm must be sounded, and then it sounds most dreadful, Amos 3:2 . Now, shall a trumpet be blown in the city, in the holy city, and the people not be afraid? Surely they will. Amos 3:6 . Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; they shall be made to tremble by the judgment itself; let them therefore tremble at the alarm of it. II. Here is a general idea given of the day of battle, which cometh, which is nigh at hand, and there is no avoiding it. It is the day of the Lord, the day of his judgment, in which he will both manifest and magnify himself. It is a day of darkness and gloominess ( Joel 2:2 ; Joel 2:2 ), literally so, the swarms of locusts and caterpillars being so large and so thick as to darken the sky ( Exodus 10:15 ), or rather figuratively; it will be a melancholy time, a time of grievous affliction. And it will come as the morning spread upon the mountains; the darkness of this day will come as suddenly as the morning light, as irresistibly, will spread as far, and grow upon them as the morning light. III. Here is the army drawn up in array ( Joel 2:2 ; Joel 2:2 ): They are a great people, and a strong. Any one sees the vast numbers that there shall be of locusts and caterpillars, destroying the land, will say (as we are all apt to be most affected with what is present), "Surely, never was the like before, nor ever will be the like again." Note, Extraordinary judgments are rare things, and seldom happen, which is an instance of God's patience. When God had drowned the world once he promised never to do it again. The army is here describe to be, 1. Very bold and daring: They are as horses, as war-horses, that rush into the battle and are not affrighted ( Job 39:22 ); and as horsemen, carried on with martial fire and fury, so they shall run, Joel 2:4 ; Joel 2:4 . Some of the ancients have observed that the head of a locust is very like, in shape, to the head of a horse. 2. Very loud and noisy-- like the noise of chariots, of many chariots, when driven furiously over rough ground, on the tops of the mountains, Joel 2:5 ; Joel 2:5 . Hence is borrowed part of the description of the locusts which St. John saw rise out of the bottomless pit. Revelation 9:7 ; Revelation 9:9 , The shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared to the battle; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots, of many horses running to the battle. Historians tell us that the noise made by swarms of locusts in those countries that are infested with them has sometimes been heard six miles off. The noise is likewise compared to that of a roaring fire; it is like the noise of a flame that devours the stubble, which noise is the more terrible because that which it is the indication of is devouring. Note, When God's judgments are abroad they make a great noise; and it is necessary for the awakening of a secure and stupid world that they should do so. (3.) They are very regular, and keep ranks in their march; though numerous and greedy of spoil, yet they are as a strong people set in battle array ( Joel 2:5 ; Joel 2:5 ): They shall march every one on his ways, straight forward, as if they had been trained up by the discipline of war to keep their post and observe their right-hand man. They shall not break their ranks, nor one thrust another, Joel 2:7 ; Joel 2:8 . Their number and swiftness shall breed no confusion. See how God can make creatures to act by rule that have no reason to act by, when he designs to serve his own purposes by them. And see how necessary it is that those who are employed in any service for God should observe order, and keep ranks, should diligently go on in their own work and stand in one another's way. 4. They are very swift; they run like horsemen ( Joel 2:4 ; Joel 2:4 ), run like mighty men ( Joel 2:7 ; Joel 2:7 ); they run to and fro in the city, and run upon the wall, Joel 2:9 ; Joel 2:9 . When God sends forth his command on earth his word runs very swiftly, Psalms 147:15 . Angels have wings, and so have locusts, when God makes use of them. IV. Here is the terrible execution done by this formidable army, 1. In the country, Joel 2:2 ; Joel 2:2 . View the army in the front, and you will see a fire devouring before them; they consume all as if they breathed fire. View it in the rear, and you will see those that come behind as furious as the foremost: Behind them a flame burns. When they are gone, then it will appear what destruction they have made. Look upon the fields that they have not yet invaded, and they are as the garden of Eden, pleasant to the eye, and full of good fruits; they are the pride and glory of the country. But look upon the fields that they have eaten up and they are as a desolate wilderness; one would not think that these had ever been like the former, and yet so they were perhaps but the day before, or that those should ever be made like these, and yet so they shall be perhaps by to-morrow night; yea, and nothing shall escape them than can possibly be made food for them. Let none be proud of the beauty of their grounds any more than of their bodies, for God can soon change the face of both. 2. In the city. They shall climb the wall ( Joel 2:7 ; Joel 2:7 ), they shall run upon the houses, and enter in at the windows like a thief ( Joel 2:9 ; Joel 2:9 ); when Egypt was plagued with locusts, they filled Pharaoh's houses and the houses of his servants, Exodus 10:5 ; Exodus 10:6 . The locusts out of the bottomless pit, Satan's emissaries, and missionaries of the man of sin, do as these locusts. God's judgments too, when they come with commission, cannot be kept out with bars and bolts; they will find or force their way. V. The impressions that should hereby be made upon the people. They shall find it to no purpose to make opposition. These enemies are invulnerable and therefore irresistible: When they fall upon the sword they shall not be wounded, Joel 2:8 ; Joel 2:8 . And those that cannot be hurt cannot be stopped; and therefore before their faces the people shall be much pained ( Joel 2:6 ; Joel 2:6 ), as the merchants are in pain for their trading ships when they hear they are just in the mouth of a squadron of the enemies. "One is in pain for his field, another for his vineyard, and all faces gather blackness, " which denotes the utmost consternation imaginable. Men in fear look pale, but men in despair look black; the whiteness of a sudden fright, when it is settled, turns into blackness. What is the matter of our pride and pleasure God can soon make the matter of our pain. The terror that the country should be in is described ( Joel 2:10 ; Joel 2:10 ) by figurative expressions: The earth shall quake and the heavens tremble; even the hearts that seemed undaunted, so firm that nothing would frighten them, as immovable as heaven or earth, shall be seized with astonishment. Or when the inhabitants of the land are made to quake it seems to them as if all about them trembled too. Through the prevalency of their fear, or for want of the supports of life which they used to have, their eye shall wax dim and their sight fail them, so that to them the sun and moon shall seem to be dark, and the stars to withdraw their shining. Note, When God frowns upon men the lights of heaven will be small joy to them; for man, by rebelling against his Creator, has forfeited the benefit of all the creatures. But, though this is to be understood figuratively, there is a day coming when it will be accomplished in the letter, when the heavens shall be rolled together like a scroll, and the earth, and all the works that are therein, shall be burnt up. Particular judgments should awaken us to think of the general judgment. VI. We are here directed to look up both him who is the commander-in-chief of this formidable army, and that is God himself, Joel 2:11 ; Joel 2:11 . It is his army; it is his camp. He raised it; he gives it commission; he utters his voice before it, as the general gives orders to his army what to do and makes a speech to animate the soldiers; it is the Lord that gives the word of command to all these animals, which they exactly observe. Some think that with this cloud of locusts God sent terrible thunder, for that is called, The voice of the Lord, and was another of the plagues of Egypt, and this made the heavens and the earth tremble. It is the day of the Lord (as it was called, Joel 2:1 ; Joel 2:1 ), 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. And this makes the great day of the Lord very terrible to all those who in that day are to be made the monuments of his justice; for who can abide it? 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> 시온에서 나팔을 불고 나의 거룩한 산에서 경보를 울려라! 여호와의 날이 오고 있으니, 이 땅에 사는 모든 사람들아 떨어라. 그날이 가까이 다가왔다. 그날은 어둠과 음침함의 날이요, 구름과 짙은 흑암의 날이다. 산 위에 동이 트듯 퍼져 오는 크고 강한 백성이 있으니, 예부터 그와 같은 일이 없었고 앞으로도 대대로 다시는 없을 것이다. 그들 앞에서는 불이 삼키고 그들 뒤에서는 화염이 타오른다. 그들 앞의 땅은 에덴동산 같으나 그들 뒤의 땅은 황폐한 광야가 되니, 그들에게서 벗어난 자가 하나도 없다. 그들의 모습은 말과 같고, 군마처럼 그렇게 달려간다. 산꼭대기 위를 달리는 병거 소리처럼 그들이 뛰며, 검불을 삼키는 불꽃 소리처럼 진을 친 강한 백성처럼 나아간다. 그들이 나타나면 뭇 민족이 괴로워하고 모든 얼굴이 새파랗게 질린다. 그들은 용사처럼 달리고 전사처럼 성벽을 기어오른다. 저마다 자기 대열을 지켜 행진하며 길에서 벗어나지 않는다. 서로 부딪치지 않고 저마다 자기 길로 행진하며, 방어선을 뚫고 나아가도 대열을 흩뜨리지 않는다. 그들이 성읍으로 돌진하고 성벽 위를 달리며 집들로 기어올라 도둑처럼 창문으로 들어온다. 그들 앞에서 땅이 진동하고 하늘이 떨며, 해와 달이 어두워지고 별들이 그 빛을 거둔다. 여호와께서 그 군대 앞에서 음성을 우레같이 발하시니, 그분의 군세가 심히 크고 그분의 명령을 따르는 자가 강하기 때문이다. 여호와의 날이 크고 심히 두려우니, 누가 그날을 견디겠는가? (욜 2:1-11)
여기서 하나님이 자기 백성들인 그분의 고백자들과 그들의 죄에 대해 논쟁하시며, 율법에 기록된 심판(신 28:42)을 집행하신다. 즉 메뚜기가 땅의 소산을 먹어 치우는 것인데, 이는 이집트의 재앙 중 하나로 하나님이 그들에게 내리겠다고 하신 것이다(신 28:60).
**첫째, 전쟁이 선포되었다(욜 2:1).** 시온에서 나팔을 부는 것은 쳐들어오는 군대를 집결시키는 것이 아니라, 유다와 예루살렘에 심판이 다가옴을 알려 하나님의 심판의 길에서 그분을 만나도록 준비시키며, 교회의 가장 강력한 무기인 기도와 눈물로 재앙을 막으려는 것이다. 나팔을 부는 것은 제사장들이 할 일이었다(민 10:8). 주목하라. 죄의 치명적 결과를 하나님의 말씀에서 경고하고, 하늘에서 사람들의 불경건함과 불의에 대한 그분의 진노를 드러내는 것이 사역자들의 일이다. 시온과 예루살렘이 하나님의 심판에서 면제되지는 않지만, 경고를 받는 것은 그들의 특권이다. 거룩한 산에서도 경보가 울려야 한다. 나팔이 거룩한 성읍에서 울렸는데 백성이 두려워하지 않겠는가(암 3:6)? 이 땅의 모든 사람들이 떨게 하라. 심판 자체가 그들을 떨게 만들 것이니, 경보 앞에서 먼저 떨게 하라.
**둘째, 전쟁의 날에 대한 전반적인 묘사가 있다(욜 2:2).** 여호와의 날, 곧 그분의 심판의 날이다. 글자 그대로는 어둠의 날로, 메뚜기와 풀무치의 무리가 너무 빽빽하여 하늘을 어둡게 했다(출 10:15). 아니면 비유적으로, 슬픔과 극심한 고통의 때이다. 아침빛이 산에 퍼지듯이 갑자기, 저항할 수 없이, 멀리까지 번져 갈 것이다. 주목하라. 비상한 심판은 드문 일이며 자주 일어나지 않는다. 이것은 하나님의 오래 참음의 증거이다.
**셋째, 군대가 전열을 갖춘다(욜 2:2, 4-10).** 주목할 것들이 있다.
1. 매우 대담하고 용감하다. 전투에 달려드는 군마처럼(욥 39:22), 군마의 불과 열정으로 달려간다(욜 2:4). 고대인들은 메뚜기의 머리가 말의 머리와 모양이 매우 닮았다고 지적한 바 있다.
2. 매우 시끄럽고 요란하다. 산꼭대기를 미친 듯이 달리는 많은 병거 소리 같다(욜 2:5). 이것이 요한이 본 무저갱에서 나온 메뚜기 묘사의 일부로 사용되었다(계 9:7, 9). 역사가들은 메뚜기 떼가 들끓는 나라들에서 그 소리가 때로 10km 밖까지 들렸다고 전한다.
3. 매우 질서 정연하고 대열을 유지한다(욜 2:5, 7-8). 수가 많고 먹이에 굶주렸음에도 훈련된 군사처럼 대열을 지켜 행진하며 한 명도 다른 이를 밀치지 않는다. 하나님이 자신의 목적을 이루기 위해 사용하실 때, 이성이 없는 피조물도 규율에 따라 행동하게 하실 수 있음을 보라.
4. 매우 빠르다(욜 2:4, 7, 9). 성읍 안에서 좌우로 달리고, 성벽 위를 달리고, 집 위로 기어오른다. 하나님이 땅에 명령을 내리시면 그분의 말씀이 매우 빠르게 달린다(시 147:15).
**넷째, 이 무시무시한 군대가 가하는 끔찍한 피해이다(욜 2:2-3, 7-10).**
1. 시골에서. 그 앞에서는 불이 삼키고(욜 2:3), 그 뒤에서는 화염이 탄다. 아직 그들이 침입하지 않은 곳을 보면 에덴동산처럼 아름답고 좋은 열매가 가득하다. 그러나 그들이 먹어 치운 곳은 황폐한 광야가 된다. 아마 전날만 해도 저 곳과 같았는데, 내일이면 이 곳도 저렇게 될 것이다. 어느 것 하나도 먹이가 될 수 있는 것은 남겨 두지 않는다. 자기 몸이나 땅의 아름다움을 자랑하지 말라. 하나님은 둘 다 쉽게 변하게 하실 수 있다.
2. 성읍에서(욜 2:7-9). 그들은 성벽을 기어오르고, 집 위를 달리고, 도둑처럼 창문으로 들어온다. 이집트가 메뚜기 재앙을 당할 때 바로의 집과 신하들의 집에 가득 찼다(출 10:5-6). 하나님의 심판도 명령을 받으면 빗장으로도 막을 수 없다. 길을 찾거나 억지로 뚫고 들어갈 것이다.
**다섯째, 이것이 백성에게 미치는 영향이다(욜 2:6, 8).** 저항해도 소용없음을 알게 된다. 이들은 상처를 입히지 않아 막을 수도 없다. 그들 앞에서 백성이 몹시 괴로워하고(욜 2:6), 모든 얼굴이 새파랗게 질린다. 흰 얼굴 빛깔의 갑작스러운 두려움이 자리를 잡으면 검은 빛으로 변한다. 하나님이 사람의 자랑과 기쁨을 고통의 원인으로 만드실 수 있다. 이 심판은 무한한 혼란을 나타내는 표현으로 묘사된다(욜 2:10). 땅이 진동하고 하늘이 떨며, 마음이 강했던 사람들도, 하늘과 땅처럼 흔들리지 않던 사람들도, 경악으로 사로잡힌다. 또는 백성이 떨 때 그들에게는 주변 모든 것이 흔들리는 것처럼 느껴진다. 생명을 유지해 주던 것들이 없어지면 해와 달도 그들에게는 어두운 것처럼 보인다. 주목하라. 하나님이 사람들에게 찡그리시면 하늘의 빛들도 그들에게 작은 기쁨이 된다. 그러나 이것이 비유적으로 이해되더라도, 하늘이 두루마리처럼 말리고 땅과 그 위의 모든 것이 불에 탈 날이 올 것이다. 개별 심판들은 마지막 날의 심판을 일깨워 준다.
**여섯째, 이 무시무시한 군대의 총사령관이 되시는 분을 바라보도록 인도한다(욜 2:11).** 그분은 하나님 자신이다. 이것은 그분의 군대이며 그분의 진영이다. 그분이 이것을 일으키셨다. 그분이 그들에게 명령하신다. 그분이 앞에서 음성을 발하신다. 마치 장군이 군사들에게 무엇을 할지 명령하고 그들을 용기 있게 하는 연설을 하듯이. 여호와의 날이니(욜 2:1), 이 전쟁에서 그분이 반드시 이기신다. 그분의 진영이 크고 많으니 그분의 것일 수밖에 없다. 그분이 전쟁하시는 자는 수적으로 압도당하고, 그분의 명령을 집행하도록 보내진 자는 누구든 그 임무에 충분한 힘을 받는다. 주목하라. 하나님의 진노의 권능을 아는 사람, 혹은 알지 못하는 사람이 어디 있겠는가? 하나님의 진노의 체포에서 벗어날 수도, 그 힘에 맞설 수도, 그 무게를 견딜 수도 없다(삼상 6:20; 시 76:7).
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J O E L. CHAP. II. In this chapter we have, I. A further description of that terrible desolation which should be made in the land of Judah by the locusts and caterpillars, Joel 2:1-11 . II. A serious call to the people, when they are under this sore judgment, to return and repent, to fast and pray, and to seek unto God for mercy, with directions how to do this aright, Joel 2:12-17 . III. A promise that, upon their repentance, God would remove the judgment, would repair the breaches made upon them by it, and restore unto them plenty of all good things, Joel 2:18-27 . IV. A prediction of the setting up of the kingdom of the Messiah in the world, by the pouring out of the Spirit in the latter days, Joel 2:28-32 . Thus the beginning of this chapter is made terrible with the tokens of God's wrath, but the latter end of it made comfortable with the assurances of his favour, and it is in the way of repentance that this blessed change is made; so that, though it is only the last paragraph of the chapter that points directly at gospel-times, yet the whole may be improved as a type and figure, representing the curses of the law invading men for their sins, and the comforts of the gospel flowing in to them upon their repentance. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verses-1-11" class="com-number"
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요엘 2장에는 네 단락이 있다. 첫째, 메뚜기와 풀무치로 유다 땅이 입을 끔찍한 황폐함을 더욱 상세히 묘사한다(욜 2:1-11). 둘째, 이 혹독한 심판 아래 놓인 백성에게 돌아오고 회개하며 금식하고 기도하여 하나님의 은혜를 구할 것을 진지하게 촉구하고, 그 방법을 가르친다(욜 2:12-17). 셋째, 그들이 회개하면 하나님이 심판을 거두시고, 재앙으로 입은 모든 손실을 회복하시며, 온갖 좋은 것들로 가득 채워 주시겠다고 약속하신다(욜 2:18-27). 넷째, 마지막 날에 성령을 부어 주심으로써 메시아의 왕국이 이 세상에 세워질 것을 예언한다(욜 2:28-32). 이처럼 이 장의 시작은 하나님의 진노의 표적들로 인해 두렵고 떨리지만, 그 끝은 그분의 은혜에 대한 확실한 약속으로 위로가 가득하다. 이 복된 변화가 일어나는 길은 회개이다.
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Exhortation to Repentance. . 12 Therefore also now, saith the LORD , turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: 13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. 14 Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God? 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: 16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. 17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD , weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD , and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God? We have here an earnest exhortation to repentance, inferred from that desolating judgment described and threatened in the Joel 2:1-11 : Therefore now turn you to the Lord. 1. "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." Here is a gracious invitation, I. To a personal repentance, exercised in the soul, every family apart, and their wives apart, Zechariah 12:12 . When the judgments of God are abroad, each person is concerned to contribute his quota to the common supplications, having contributed to the common guilt. Every one must mend one and mourn for one, and then we should all be mended and all found among God's mourners. Observe, 1. What we are here called to, which will teach us what it is to repent, for it is the same that the Lord our God still requires of us, we having all made work for repentance. (1.) We must be truly humbled for our sins, must be sorry we have by sin offended God, and ashamed we have by sin wronged ourselves, both wronged our judgments and wronged our interests. There must be outward expressions of sorrow and shame, fasting, and weeping, and mourning; tears for the sin that procured it. But what will the outward expressions of sorrow avail if the inward impressions be not agreeable, and not only accompany them, but be the root and spring of them, and give rise to them? And therefore it follows, Rend your heart, and not your garments; not but that, according to the custom of that age, it was proper for them to rend their garments, in token of great grief for their sins and a holy indignation against themselves for their folly; but, "Rest not in the doing of that, as if that were sufficient, but be more in care to accommodate your spirits than to accommodate your dress to a day of fasting and humiliation; nay, rend not your garments at all, unless withal you rend your hearts, for the sign without the thing signified is but a jest and a mockery, and an affront to God." Rending the heart is that which God looks for and requires; that is the broken and contrite heart which he will not despise, Psalms 51:17 . When we are greatly grieved in soul for sin, so that it even cuts us to the heart to think how we have dishonoured God and disparaged ourselves by it, when we conceive an aversion to sin, and earnestly desire and endeavor to get clear of the principles of it and never to return to the practice of it, then we rend our hearts for it, and then will God rend the heavens and come down to us with mercy. (2.) We must be thoroughly converted to our God, and come home to him when we fall out with sin. Turn you even to me, said the Lord ( Joel 2:12 ; Joel 2:12 ), and again ( Joel 2:13 ; Joel 2:13 ), Turn unto the Lord your God. Our fasting and weeping are worth nothing if we do not with them turn to God as our God. When we are fully convinced that it is our duty and interest to keep in with him, and are heartily sorry we have ever turned the back upon him, and thereupon, by a firm and fixed resolution, make his glory our end, his will our rule, and his favour our felicity, then we return to the Lord our God, and this we are all commanded and invited to do, and to do it quickly. 2. What arguments are here used to persuade this people thus to turn to the Lord, and to turn to him with all their hearts. When the heart is rent for sin, and rent from it, then it is prepared to turn entirely to God, and to be devoted entirely to him, and he will have it all or none. Now, to bring ourselves to this, let us consider, (1.) We are sure that he is, in general, a good God. We must turn to the Lord our God, not only because he has been just and righteous in punishing us for our sins, the fear of which should drive us to him, but because he is gracious and merciful, in receiving upon us our repentance, the hope of which should draw us to him. He is gracious and merciful, delights not in the death of sinners, but desires that they may turn and live. He is slow to anger against those that offend him, but of great kindness towards those that desire to please him. These very expressions are used in God's proclamation of his name when he caused his goodness, and with it all his glory, to pass before Moses, Exodus 34:6 ; Exodus 34:7 . He repents him of the evil, not that he changes his mind, but, when the sinner's mind is changed, God's way towards him is changed; the sentence is reversed, and the curse of the law is taken off. Note, That is genuine, ingenuous, and evangelical repentance, which arises from a firm belief of the mercy of God, which we have sinned against, and yet are not in despair. Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. The goodness of God, if it be rightly understood, instead of emboldening us to go on in sin, will be the most powerful inducement to repentance, Psalms 130:4 . The act of indemnity brings those to God whom the act of attainder frightened from him. (2.) We have reason to hope that he will, upon our repentance, give us that good which by sin we have forfeited and deprived ourselves of ( Joel 2:14 ; Joel 2:14 ), that he will return and repent, that he will not proceed against us as he has done, but will act in favour of us. Therefore let us repent of our sins against him, and return to him in a way of duty, because then we may hope that he will repent of his judgments against us and return to us in a way of mercy. Now observe, [1.] The manner of expectation is very humble and modest: Who knows if he will? Some think it is expressed thus doubtfully to check the presumption and security of the people, and to quicken them to a holy carefulness and liveliness in their repentance, as Joshua 24:19 . Or, rather, it is expressed doubtfully because it is the removal of a temporal judgment that they here promise themselves, of which we cannot be so confident as we can that, in general, God is gracious and merciful. There is no question at all to be made but that if we truly repent of our sins God will forgive them, and be reconciled to us; but whether he will remove this or the other affliction which we are under may well be questioned, and yet the probability of it should encourage us to repent. Promises of temporal good things are often made with a peradventure. It may be, you shall be hid, Zephaniah 2:3 . David's sin is pardoned, and yet the child shall die, and, when David prayed for its life, he said, as here, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me in this matter likewise? 2 Samuel 12:22 . The Ninevites repented and reformed upon such a consideration as this, Jonah 3:9 . [2.] The matter of expectation is very pious. They hope God will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, not as if he were about to go from them, and they could be content with any blessing in lieu of his presence, but behind him, that is, "After he has ceased his controversy with us, he will bestow a blessing upon us;" and what is it? It is a meat-offering and a drink-offering to the Lord our God. The fruits of the earth are called a blessing ( Isaiah 45:8 ) because they depend upon God's blessing and are necessary blessings to us. They had been deprived of these, and that which grieved them most while they were so was that God's altar was deprived of its offerings and God's priests of their maintenance; that therefore which they comfort themselves with the prospect of in their return of plenty is that then there shall be meat-offerings and drink-offerings in abundance brought to God's altar, which they more desired than to see the wonted abundance of meat and drink brought to their own tables. Thus when Hezekiah was in hopes that he should recover of his sickness he asked, What is the sign that I shall go up, not to the thrones of judgment, or to the councilboard, but to the house of the Lord? Isaiah 38:22 . Note, The plentiful enjoyment of God's ordinances in their power and purity is the most valuable instance of a nation's prosperity and the greatest blessing that can be desired. If God give the blessing of meat-offering and the drink-offering, that will bring along with it other blessings, will sanctify them, sweeten them, and secure them. II. They are here called to a public national repentance, to be exercised in the solemn assembly, as a national act, for the glory of God and the excitement of one another, and that the neighbouring nations might know and observe what it was that qualified them for God's gracious returns in mercy to them, which they would be the admiring witnesses of. Let us see here, 1. How the congregation must be called together, Joel 2:15 ; Joel 2:16 . The trumpet was blown ( Joel 2:1 ; Joel 2:1 ), to sound an alarm of war; but now it must be blown in order to a treaty of peace. God is willing to show mercy to his people if he do but find them in a frame fit for it; and therefore, Call them together; sanctify a fast. By the law many annual feasts were appointed, but only one day in the year was to be observed as a fast, the day of atonement, a day to afflict the soul; and, if they had kept close to God and their duty, there would have been no occasion to observe any more; but now that they had by sin brought the judgments of God upon them they are often called to fasting. What was said Joel 1:14 ; Joel 1:14 is here repeated: " Call a solemn assembly; gather the people (press them to come together upon this errand); sanctify the congregation; appoint a time for solemn preparation beforehand and put them in mind to prepare themselves. Let not the greatest be excused, but assemble the elders, the judges and magistrates. Let not the meanest be passed by, but gather the children, and those that suck the breasts. " It is good to bring little children, as soon as they are capable of understanding any thing, to religious assemblies, that they may be trained up betimes in the way wherein they should go; but these were brought even when they were at the breast and were kept fasting, that by their cries for the breast the hearts of the parents might be moved to repent of sin, which God might justly so visit upon their children that the tongue of the sucking child might cleave to the roof of his mouth ( Lamentations 4:4 ), and that on them God might have compassion, as he had on the infants of Nineveh, Jonah 4:11 . New-married people must not be exempted: Let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber and the bride out of her closet; let them not take state upon them as usual, not put on their ornaments, nor indulge themselves in mirth, but address themselves to the duties of the public fast with as much gravity and sadness as any of their neighbours. Note, Private joys must always give way to public sorrows, both those for affliction and those for sin. 2. How the work of the day must be carried on, Joel 2:17 ; Joel 2:17 . (1.) The priests, the Lord's ministers, must preside in the congregation, and be God's mouth to the people, and theirs to God; who should stand in the gap to turn away the wrath of God but those whose business it was to make intercession upon ordinary occasions? (2.) They must officiate between the porch and the altar. There they used to attend about the sacrifices, and therefore now that they have no sacrifices to offer, or next to none, there they must offer up spiritual sacrifices. There the people must see them weeping and wrestling, like their father Jacob, and be helped into the same devout frame. Ministers must themselves be affected with those things wherewith they desire to affect others. It was between the porch and the altar that Zechariah the son of Jehoiada was put to death for his faithfulness; that precious blood God would require at their hands, and therefore, to turn away the judgment threatened for it, there they must weep. (3.) They must pray. Words here are put into their mouths, which they might in their prayers enlarge upon. Their petition must be, Spare thy people, O Lord! God's people, when they are in distress, can expect no relief against God's justice but what comes from his mercy. They cannot say, Lord, right us, but, Lord, spare us. We deserve the correction; we need it; but, Lord, mitigate it. The sinner's supplication is, Spare us, good Lord. Their plea must be taken from the relation wherein they stand to God ("They are thy people, and thy heritage, therefore have compassion on them"), but especially from the concern of God's glory in their trouble--"Lord, give not thy heritage to reproach, to the reproach of famine; let not the land of Canaan, that has so long been celebrated as the glory of all lands, now be made the scorn of all lands; let not the heathen rule over them, as they will easily do when thy heritage is thus impoverished and disabled to subsist. Let not the heathen make them a proverb, or a by-word " (so some read it); "let it never be said, As poor and beggarly as an Israelite. " Note, The maintaining of the credit of the nation among its neighbours is a blessing to be desired and prayed for by all that wish well to it. But that reproach of the church is especially to be dreaded and deprecated which reflects upon God: "Let them not say among the people, Where is their God --that God who has promised to help them, whom they have boasted so much of and put such a confidence in?" If God's heritage be destroyed, the neighbours will say, "God was either weak and could not relieve them or unkind and would not." Deuteronomy 32:37 , Where are now their gods in whom they trusted? And Sennacherib thus triumphs over them. Where are they gods of Hamath and Arpad? But it must by no means be suffered that they should say of Israel, Where is their God? For we are sure that our God is in the heavens ( Psalms 115:2 ; Psalms 115:3 ), is in his temple, Psalms 11:4 . return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verses-18-27" class="com-number"
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> 여호와께서 말씀하신다. "그러나 이제라도 너희는 금식하며 울며 애통하는 가운데 마음을 다하여 내게로 돌아오라." 너희 옷을 찢지 말고 너희 마음을 찢으며 너희 하나님 여호와께로 돌아오라. 그분은 은혜로우시고 긍휼이 많으시며 노하기를 더디 하시고 인자가 풍성하시어 재앙 내리시기를 돌이키시는 분이다. 누가 알겠는가? 그분이 마음을 돌이키시고 후에 복을 남겨 두시어, 너희 하나님 여호와께 드릴 소제와 전제를 남겨 두실지. 시온에서 나팔을 불어라! 금식을 선포하고 성회를 소집하라. 백성을 모으고 그 모임을 거룩하게 하라. 장로들을 모으고 아이들과 젖 먹는 자들을 모아라. 신랑은 그 방에서 나오고 신부는 그 처소에서 나오게 하라. 여호와의 일꾼인 제사장들은 현관과 제단 사이에서 울며 이렇게 아뢰어라. "여호와여, 주의 백성을 아끼시고 주의 기업을 욕되게 하여 이방 나라들이 그들을 다스리게 하지 마소서. 어찌하여 뭇 민족 가운데서 '그들의 하나님이 어디 있느냐?' 하고 말하게 하시겠습니까?" (욜 2:12-17)
이 단락은 욜 2:1-11에 묘사되고 위협된 황폐함에서 이끌어 낸 진지한 회개 권고이다. "그러므로 이제 여호와께로 돌아오라." 1. 심판의 목적과 의도에 부응해야 한다. 심판은 이를 위해 보내진 것이다. 죄를 깨닫게 하고, 그로 인해 겸손하게 하며, 바른 정신으로 돌아오게 하고, 하나님께로 돌이키게 하기 위해서이다. 하나님은 우리를 위기에 몰아넣으심으로 우리를 회개로 이끄시고 그분께로 데려오신다. 2. 이렇게 하면 심판의 진행을 막을 수 있다. 지금 상황이 나쁘지만, 더 악화되는 것을 막을 수 있다. 아니, 이 길을 택하면 곧 더 좋아질 것이다.
**첫째, 개인적 회개를 권고한다(슥 12:12).** 심판이 임했을 때, 각 사람은 공동의 죄에 기여했으니 공동의 간구에 자기 몫을 내야 한다. 각자가 한 사람씩 바로잡으면, 모두 함께 바로잡힐 것이다.
1. 무엇을 촉구받는지를 주목하라. (1) 죄로 인해 진심으로 겸비해야 한다. 슬픔과 수치심의 외적 표현인 금식, 울음, 애통이 있어야 한다. 그러나 외적 표현이 아무리 그럴싸해도 내적 인상이 그에 맞지 않는다면, 그 뿌리와 원천이 되지 않는다면 무슨 소용이 있겠는가? 그러므로 "너희 옷을 찢지 말고 너희 마음을 찢으라." 그 시대의 관습대로 옷을 찢는 것이 적절하긴 하나, "거기서 머물지 말고, 마음보다 옷차림을 금식일에 맞추는 것을 더 신경 쓰지 말라. 아니, 마음도 찢지 않고 옷을 찢지는 말라. 표징이 실체 없이 있는 것은 조롱과 하나님을 모욕하는 것이다." 마음을 찢는 것, 곧 상하고 통회하는 마음이 하나님이 찾으시고 요구하시는 것이다. 그분이 멸시하지 않으실 것이다(시 51:17). (2) 하나님께로 온전히 돌아와야 한다. 죄를 끊고 그분께로 집으로 돌아와야 한다. 여호와께로 돌아오라는 것이다(욜 2:12-13).
2. 어떤 논거가 제시되는지를 주목하라. (1) 그분이 선하신 하나님이심을 확신한다. 죄를 벌하시는 그분의 의로우심에 대한 두려움도 우리를 그분께 이끌지만, 회개하는 자를 받아 주시는 그분의 긍휼에 대한 소망이 더욱 우리를 그분께 끌어당긴다. 그분은 은혜로우시고 긍휼이 많으시며, 죄인들이 죽는 것을 원하지 않으시고 돌아와 살기를 원하신다. 그분은 죄를 범한 자들에게 노하기를 더디 하시지만, 기쁘게 해 드리려는 자들에게는 인자가 풍성하시다. 이 같은 표현이 하나님이 모세에게 그분의 이름을 선포하실 때 사용되었다(출 34:6-7). 주목하라. 그것이 참된 복음적이고 순수하고 진정한 회개이다. 자신이 거슬러 죄를 지은 하나님의 자비에 대한 굳건한 믿음에서 나오는 것으로, 그럼에도 절망하지 않는다(시 130:4). 하나님의 선하심은 제대로 이해된다면 죄를 계속 짓도록 대담하게 하는 대신에, 회개의 가장 강력한 동기가 될 것이다. (2) 회개하면 좋은 결과가 나타나리라고 소망할 이유가 있다(욜 2:14). 그분이 돌이키시고 뉘우치셔서, 그분이 행하시던 대로 우리에게 더 이상 행하지 않으시고 우리에게 은혜를 베푸시리라는 소망이다. 이에 대해 주목할 것들이 있다. [1] 기대의 방식이 매우 겸손하고 절제되어 있다. "누가 알겠는가?" 이것이 이처럼 불확실하게 표현된 것은 주정뱅이 같은 그들의 방자함을 꺾고 진지하게 회개하도록 하기 위해서이거나(수 24:19 비교), 아니면 확신을 가질 수 없는 일시적 축복의 회복을 약속하기 때문이다. 하나님이 우리 죄를 용서하시고 우리와 화목하시리라는 것은 전혀 의심할 수 없다. 그러나 이런저런 고통을 제거해 주실지는 의심스러울 수 있다. 그렇더라도 그 가능성이 회개하도록 우리를 격려해야 한다. 다윗은 자녀를 위해 기도할 때 이와 같이 말했다(삼하 12:22). 니느웨 사람들도 이 같은 생각으로 회개하고 개혁했다(욘 3:9). [2] 기대의 내용이 매우 경건하다. 그들은 복을 내려 주실 것을 바라는데, 그것이 무엇인가? 소제와 전제이다. 땅의 열매를 복이라 부르고(사 45:8), 그것은 우리에게 필요한 복이다. 그들은 이것들을 박탈당했다. 그런데 그들이 풍성함의 회복을 기대하면서 가장 기쁜 것은 하나님의 제단에 소제와 전제가 풍성하게 드려질 수 있다는 것이다. 히스기야는 자신의 회복을 바라면서 권좌나 국무회의가 아니라 "여호와의 집에 올라갈 수 있는 표적이 무엇이냐?"고 물었다(사 38:22). 주목하라. 나라의 번영의 가장 귀한 부분은 그 권능과 순수함 속에서 하나님의 규례를 풍성하게 누리는 것이다. 소제와 전제의 복이 주어진다면, 그것이 다른 복들을 데려오고, 성화하고, 달콤하게 하며, 보장한다.
**둘째, 공적이고 나라 전체의 회개를 촉구한다.** 이웃 나라들도 무엇이 그들을 하나님의 자비로운 회복에 적합하게 했는지 알도록 하기 위해서이다.
1. 회중을 어떻게 소집해야 하는지를 보라(욜 2:15-16). 나팔이 울렸다(욜 2:1). 전쟁 경보를 울리기 위해서였다. 이제 평화 협정을 맺기 위해 다시 불어야 한다. 1장의 명령(욜 1:14)이 여기서 반복된다. "거룩한 모임을 소집하라. 백성을 압박하여 이 일을 위해 함께 모이게 하라. 모임을 거룩하게 하라. 미리 준비할 시간을 별도로 정하고, 그들이 준비하도록 일깨워 주라. 가장 높은 사람들도 빠지지 말게 하라. 장로들을 모으라. 가장 낮은 사람들도 지나치지 말라. 아이들과 젖 먹는 자들까지 모으라." 어린아이들을 이해할 수 있게 되면 곧바로 종교 집회에 데려가는 것이 좋다. 젖 먹는 아이들까지 데려온 것은 그 울음소리를 통해 부모의 마음이 움직여 죄를 회개하게 하기 위해서였다. 니느웨에서 아이들도 금식에 참여했다(욘 4:11). 새로 결혼한 사람들도 예외가 아니다. 신랑은 방에서, 신부는 처소에서 나와야 한다. 평소처럼 체면을 차리거나 예물을 주고받으며 즐거워하지 말고, 공적 금식의 의무들에 이웃들과 같이 진지하고 슬프게 임해야 한다. 주목하라. 개인의 기쁨은 언제나 공적 슬픔에 자리를 내주어야 한다. 환난에 대한 슬픔도, 죄에 대한 슬픔도 그러하다.
2. 그날의 일이 어떻게 진행되어야 하는지를 보라(욜 2:17). (1) 회중의 주관자는 주의 일꾼인 제사장들이어야 한다. 평소에도 중보 역할을 했으니, 하나님의 진노를 막기 위해 누가 서야 하겠는가? (2) 그들은 현관과 제단 사이에서 섬겨야 한다. 거기서 제물을 드리는 일에 참여했으니, 이제 드릴 제물이 없거나 거의 없는 상황에서 거기서 영적 제물을 드려야 한다. 백성이 그들의 울고 씨름하는 모습을 보고 같은 경건한 마음의 틀에 들어가도록 도움을 받아야 한다. 사역자들은 자신들이 다른 이들에게 감동을 주고 싶은 것들로 먼저 자신들이 감동받아야 한다. (3) 그들은 기도해야 한다. 그들의 기도에 쓸 말씀이 여기 주어진다. 탄원은 다음과 같아야 한다. "주의 백성을 아끼소서, 여호와여!" 고통받는 하나님의 백성은 하나님의 의에 대해서가 아니라 오직 그분의 자비에 대해서만 도움을 기대할 수 있다. 그들은 우리를 바로잡으시는 것이 옳다고 말할 수 없지만, "주여, 우리를 아끼소서"라고 말할 수 있다. 탄원의 근거는 무엇인가? 한편으로는 하나님과의 관계(그들은 당신의 백성이요 기업이니)에서, 다른 한편으로는 그분의 영광의 관계(당신의 기업을 욕되게 하지 마소서, 이방 나라들이 그들을 다스리게 하지 마소서)에서 이끌어 낸다. 나라의 명예를 이웃들 가운데 지키는 것은 모든 선한 시민들이 구하고 기도해야 할 복이다. 그러나 하나님을 욕되게 하는 교회의 수치는 특별히 두려워하고 기도로 막아야 할 것이다. 이방 사람들이 "그들의 하나님이 어디 있느냐?"고 말하지 못하도록. 주목하라. 우리의 하나님은 하늘에 계시며(시 115:2-3), 그분의 성전에 계시다(시 11:4).
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Promise of Mercy. . 18 Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people. 19 Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen: 20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things. 21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things. 22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength. 23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. 24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil. 25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the canker-worm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, my great army which I sent among you. 26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. 27 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed. See how ready God is to succour and relieve his people, how he waits to be gracious; as soon as ever they humble themselves under this hand, and pray, and seek his face, he immediately meets them with his favours. They prayed that God would spare them, and see here with what good words and comfortable words he answered them; for God's promises are real answers to the prayers of faith, because with him saying and doing are not two things. Now observe, I. Whence this mercy promised shall take rise ( Joel 2:18 ; Joel 2:18 ): God will be jealous for his land and pity his people. He will have an eye, 1. To his own honour, and the reputation of his covenant with Israel, by which he had conveyed to them that good land and had given in the value of it very high; now he will not suffer it to be despised nor disparaged, but will be jealous for the credit of his land, and the inhabitants of it, who had been praised as a happy people and therefore must not lie open to reproach as a miserable people. 2. To their distress: He will pity his people, and, in pity to them, he will restore them their forfeited comforts. God's compassion is a great encouragement to those that come humbly to him as penitents and as petitioners. II. What his mercy shall be, in several instances:-- 1. The destroying army shall be dispersed and defeated ( Joel 2:20 ; Joel 2:20 ): " I will remove far off from you the northern army, that army of locusts and caterpillars that invaded you from the north, brought in upon the wings of a north wind, an army which you could put no stop to the progress of; but, when you have made your peace with God, he will ease you of these soldiers that are quartered upon you and will drive them into a land barren and desolate, into that vast howling wilderness that Israel wandered in, where, after having surfeited upon the plenty of Canaan, they shall perish for want of sustenance. Those that have their face to the east sea (the Dead Sea, which lay east of Judea) shall perish in that, and the rear of the army shall be lost in the Great Sea," called here the utmost sea. They had made the land barren and desolate, and now God will cast them into a land barren and desolate. Thus those whom God employs for the correction of his people come afterwards to be themselves reckoned with; and the rod is thrown into the fire. Nothing shall remain of these swarms of insects but the ill savour of them. When Egypt was eased of the plague of locusts they were carried away to the Red Sea, Exodus 10:19 . Note, When an affliction has done its work it shall be removed in mercy, as the locusts of Canaan were from a penitent people, not as the locusts of Egypt were removed, in wrath, from an impenitent prince, only to make room for another plague. Many interpreters, by this northern army, understand that of Sennacherib, which was dispersed when God by it had accomplished his whole work upon Mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, Isaiah 10:12 . This enemy shall be driven away, because he has done great things, has done a great deal of mischief, and has magnified to do it, has done it in the pride of his heart; therefore it follows ( Joel 2:21 ; Joel 2:21 ), 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; and as, when he said to them, Go, they went, so, when he said to them, Come, they came, to show that they were soldiers under him. 2. The destroyed land shall be watered and made fruitful. When the army is scattered, yet what shall we do if the desolation they have made continue? It is therefore promised ( Joel 2:22 ; Joel 2:22 ) that the pastures of the wilderness, the pastures which the locusts had left as bare as the wilderness, shall again spring and the trees shall again bear their fruit, particularly the fig-tree and the vine. But, when we see how the country is wasted, we are tempted to say, Can these dry bones live? If the Lord should make windows in heaven, it cannot be; but it shall be, for ( Joel 2:23 ; Joel 2:23 ) the Lord has given and will give you the former rain and the latter rain, and, if he give them in mercy, he will give them moderately, so that the rain shall not turn into a judgment, and he will give them in due season, the latter rain in the first month, when it was wanted and expected. It would make it comfortable to them to see it coming from the hand of God, and ordered by his wisdom, for then we are sure it is well ordered. He has given you a teacher of righteousness, (so the margin reads it, for the same word that signifies the rain signifies a teacher. and that which we translate moderately is according to righteousness ), and this teacher of righteousness, says one of the rabbin, is the King Messias, and of him many others understand this; for he is a teacher come from God, and he shows us the way of righteousness. But others understand it of any prophet that instructs unto righteousness, and some of Hezekiah particularly, others of Isaiah. 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. 3. All their losses shall be repaired ( Joel 2:25 ; Joel 2:25 ): " I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten; you shall be comforted according to the time that you have been afflicted, and shall have years of plenty to balance the years of famine." Thus does it repent the Lord concerning his servants, when they repent, and, to show how perfectly he is reconciled to them, he makes good the damage they have sustained by his judgments, and, like the jailer, washes their stripes. Though, in justice, he distrained upon them, and did them no wrong, yet, in compassion, he makes restitution; as the father of the prodigal, upon his return, made up all he had lost by his sin and folly, and took him into his family, as in his former estate. The locusts and caterpillars are here called God's great army which he sent among them, and he will repair what they had devoured because they were his army. 4. They shall have great abundance of all good things. The earth shall yield her increase, and they shall enjoy it. Look into the stores where they lay up, and you shall find the floors full of wheat, and the fats overflowing with wine and oil ( Joel 2:24 ; Joel 2:24 ), whereas, in the day of their distress, the wine and oil languished and the barns were broken down, Joel 1:10 ; Joel 1:17 . Look upon their tables, where they lay out what they have laid up, and you shall find that they eat in plenty and are satisfied, Joel 2:26 ; Joel 2:26 . They do not eat to excess, nor are surfeited; we hope the drunkards are cured by the late affliction of their inordinate love of wine and strong drink, for, though they were brought in howling for their scarcity ( Joel 1:5 ; Joel 1:5 ), they are now brought in again here singing for the plenty of it; but now all shall have enough, and shall known when they have enough, for God will make their food nourishing and give them to be content with it. These are the mercies promised, and in these God does great things ( Joel 2:21 ; Joel 2:21 ), He deals wondrously with his people, Joel 2:26 ; Joel 2:26 . Herein he glorifies his power, and shows that he can relieve his people though their distress be ever so great, and glorifies his goodness, that he will do it upon their repentance though their provocations were ever so great. Note, When God deals graciously with poor sinners that return to him it must be acknowledged that he deals wondrously and does great things. Some expositors understand these promises figuratively, as pointing at gospel-grace, and having their accomplishment in the abundant comforts that are treasured up for believers in the covenant of grace and the satisfaction of soul they have therein. When God sends us his promises to be the matter of our comfort, his graces to be the grounds of it, and his Spirit to be the author of it, we may well own that he has sent us (according to his promise here, Joel 2:19 ; Joel 2:19 ) corn, and wine, and oil, or that which is unspeakably better, and we have reason to be satisfied therewith. III. What use shall be made of these returns of God's mercy to them and the good account they shall turn to. 1. God shall have the glory thereof, for they shall rejoice in the Lord their God ( Joel 2:23 ; Joel 2:23 ), and what is the matter of their rejoicing shall be the matter of their thanksgiving; they shall praise the name of the Lord their God ( Joel 2:26 ; Joel 2:26 ) and not praise their idols, nor call their corn and wine the rewards that their lovers had given them. Note, The plenty of our creature-comforts is a mercy indeed to us when by them our hearts are enlarged in love and thankfulness to God, who gives us all things richly to enjoy, though we serve him but poorly. 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. When Israel comes out of a wilderness into a Canaan, and there eats and is full, surely he will then bless the Lord, with a very sensible pleasure, for that good land which he has given him, Deuteronomy 8:10 . 2. They shall have the credit, and comfort, and spiritual benefit, thereof. When God gives them plenty again, and gives them to be satisfied with it, (1.) Their reputation shall be retrieved; they and their God shall be no more reflected upon as unfaithful to one another when they have returned to him in a way of duty and he to them in a way of mercy ( Joel 2:19 ; Joel 2:19 ): " I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen, that triumphed in your calamities and insulted over you;" and Joel 2:26 ; Joel 2:27 , " My people shall never be ashamed, as they have been, of their good land which they used to boast of, but shall again and ever have the same occasion to boast of it." Note, It redounds much to the honour of God when he does that which saves the honour of his people; and those that are his people indeed, though they may be for a time, shall not be always, a reproach among the heathens; if we be rightly ashamed of our sins against God, we shall never be ashamed of our glorying in God. (2.) Their joys shall be revived ( Joel 2:23 ; Joel 2:23 ): Be glad and rejoice, O land! and all the inhabitants of it. Times of plenty are commonly times of joy; yet the favour of God puts gladness into the heart more than those who have corn, and wine, and oil increase. But especially be glad them, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God, Joel 2:23 ; Joel 2:23 . They mourned in Zion ( Joel 2:15 ; Joel 2:15 ), and therefore there in a particular manner they shall rejoice; for those that sow in penitential tears shall certainly reap in thankful joys. The children of Zion, who led the rest in fasting, must lead the rest in rejoicing. But observe, They shall rejoice in the Lord their God, not so much in the good themselves that are given them as in the good hand that gives them and in the return of his favour to them, as theirs in covenant, which these good things are the tokens and pledges of. The joy of harvest and the joy of a feast must both terminate in God, whose love we should taste in all the gifts of his bounty, that we may make him our chief joy, as he is our chief good, and the fountain of all good to us. (3.) Their faith in God shall be confirmed and increased. When temporal mercies are made by the grace of God to be of spiritual advantage to us, and plenty for the body is so far from being an enemy (as with many it proves) that it becomes a friend to the prosperity of the soul, then they are mercies indeed to us. This is promised here ( Joel 2:27 ; Joel 2:27 ): You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, the Holy One in the midst of thee ( Hosea 11:9 ), and that I am the Lord your God, and none else. As it proves that the Lord is God, and there is none other, because he wounds and he heals, he forms light and darkness, he does good and evil ( Isaiah 45:7 ; Deuteronomy 32:39 ), so it proves him to be God of Israel, a God in covenant with his people and a father to them, that as a father he both corrects them when they offend and comforts them when they repent. It was the burden of the threatenings in Ezekiel's prophecy, Such and such evils I will bring upon you, and you shall know that I am the Lord; and the same is here made the crown of the promises: You shall eat, and be satisfied, and rejoice, and thus you shall know that I am the Lord. Note, We should labour to grow in our acquaintance with God by all providences, both merciful and afflictive. When God gives to his people plenty, and peace, and joy, upon their return to him, he thereby gives them to understand that he is pleased with their repentance, that he has pardoned their sins, and that he is theirs as much as ever--that they are taken into the same covenant with him, for he is the Lord their God, and into the same communion, for he is in the midst of them, nigh unto them in all that they call upon him for, and, as the sun in the centre of the worlds, so in the midst of them as to diffuse his benign influences to all the parts of his land. 3. Even the inferior creatures shall share therein and be made easy thereby: Fear not, O land! Joel 2:21 ; Joel 2:21 . Be not afraid, you beasts of the field, Joel 2:22 ; Joel 2:22 . They had suffered for the sin of man, and for God's quarrel with him; and now they shall fare the better for man's repentance and God's reconciliation to him. Nay, the beasts were said to cry unto God ( Joel 1:20 ; Joel 1:20 ); and now that cry is answered, and they are directed not to be afraid, for they shall have plenty of all that which their nature craves. God, in sparing Nineveh, had an eye to the cattle ( Jonah 4:11 ), for the cattle had fasted, Joel 3:8 ; Joel 3:8 . This may lead us to think of the restitution of all things, when the creature, that is now made subject to vanity and groans under it, shall be brought, though not into the glorious joy, yet into the glorious liberty, of the children of God, Romans 8:21 . return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verses-28-32" class="com-number"
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> 그러자 여호와께서 그분의 땅을 위하여 질투하시고 그분의 백성을 불쌍히 여기셨다. 여호와께서 그분의 백성에게 응답하여 말씀하셨다. "보라, 내가 너희에게 곡식과 새 포도주와 기름을 보내리니 너희가 그것으로 만족하리라. 내가 다시는 너희를 이방 나라들 가운데서 욕거리가 되게 하지 않으리라. 내가 북쪽 군대를 너희에게서 멀리 떠나가게 하여 메마르고 황폐한 땅으로 몰아내리니, 그 앞부분은 동쪽 바다로, 그 뒷부분은 서쪽 바다로 들어가리라. 그 악취가 올라오고 그 고약한 냄새가 솟아오르리니, 그가 큰일을 행하였기 때문이다." 참으로 그분이 큰일을 행하셨다. 땅이여, 두려워하지 말라. 기뻐하고 즐거워하라. 여호와께서 큰일을 행하셨음이라. 들의 짐승들아, 두려워하지 말라. 광야의 초장이 다시 푸르고 나무가 그 열매를 맺으며 무화과나무와 포도나무가 그 힘을 다해 결실함이라. 시온의 자녀들아, 그러므로 기뻐하고 너희 하나님 여호와 안에서 즐거워하라. 그분이 너희에게 이른 비를 알맞게 주시고 이른 비와 늦은 비를 예전처럼 너희를 위하여 내려 주심이라. 타작 마당에는 밀이 가득하고 통에는 새 포도주와 기름이 흘러넘치리라. 내가 너희에게 보낸 나의 큰 군대, 곧 떼 지어 다니는 메뚜기와 큰 메뚜기와 황충과 풀무치가 먹어 치운 그 햇수만큼 내가 너희에게 회복시켜 주리라. 너희가 먹을 것이 풍족하여 배부르고 너희에게 놀랍게 행하신 너희 하나님 여호와의 이름을 찬송하리니, 내 백성이 다시는 수치를 당하지 아니하리라. 그러면 너희가 내가 이스라엘 가운데 있음을 알고, 내가 너희 하나님 여호와이며 나 외에 다른 이가 없음을 알리니, 내 백성이 다시는 수치를 당하지 아니하리라. (욜 2:18-27)
그들이 겸비해진 직후에 얼마나 빨리 하나님이 달려오셔서 구원하시고 새롭게 하시는지 보라. 그분의 백성을 향한 그분의 말씀이 선하고 위로가 됨을 보라. 하나님의 약속은 믿음의 기도에 대한 실제적 응답이다. 그분 안에서는 말씀하는 것과 행하는 것이 다르지 않기 때문이다.
**첫째, 약속된 자비가 어디서 비롯되는지를 주목하라(욜 2:18).** 하나님이 그분의 땅을 위해 질투하시고 그분의 백성을 불쌍히 여기셨다. 그분은 두 가지에 눈을 두신다. 1. 자신의 영예와 이스라엘과의 언약의 명성. 그분은 자기 땅의 명예가 훼손되거나 떨어지는 것을 용납하지 않으실 것이다. 2. 그들의 고통. 그분은 그분의 백성을 불쌍히 여기시고, 불쌍히 여기는 마음으로 그들의 잃어버린 위로를 회복시키실 것이다. 하나님의 측은지심은 겸손히 그분께 나아오는 회개하는 간구자들에게 큰 격려이다.
**둘째, 그분의 자비가 어떠한지를 여러 면에서 보라.**
1. 파괴하는 군대가 흩어지고 격퇴된다(욜 2:20). "내가 북쪽 군대를 너희에게서 멀리 떠나가게 하리라." 북풍을 타고 들어온 메뚜기 떼를 이 광야로, 즉 이스라엘이 방황했던 광대한 황야로 몰아내어 거기서 생존을 위한 먹이가 없어 멸하게 하실 것이다. 앞 무리는 동쪽 바다에, 뒤 무리는 서쪽 바다에 빠져 죽을 것이다. 이집트가 메뚜기 재앙에서 벗어날 때, 그들은 홍해로 쓸려 갔다(출 10:19). 주목하라. 고난이 그 일을 마쳤을 때, 자비 가운데 제거된다. 회개하는 백성의 메뚜기처럼. 반회개적인 왕에게서는 진노 가운데 제거된다. 그것은 단지 다른 재앙을 위한 자리를 비우기 위한 것이었다. 많은 해석자들은 이 북쪽 군대를 히스기야 때에 흩어진 산헤립의 군대로 이해한다(사 10:12).
2. 황폐해진 땅이 물을 받고 열매를 맺는다(욜 2:22-23). 군대가 물러난 후에도, 황폐함이 계속된다면 어쩌겠는가? 그러나 광야의 초장들이 다시 푸르게 되고 나무들이 다시 열매를 맺을 것이다. 이른 비와 늦은 비가 제때에 충분히 내려 땅을 기름지게 할 것이다(욜 2:23). 하나님이 자비 가운데 주신다면, 비를 절절하게 주시되 재앙이 되지 않도록 적당하게 주실 것이다.
3. 모든 손실이 회복된다(욜 2:25). "내가 너희에게 보낸 나의 큰 군대, 메뚜기가 먹어 치운 그 햇수만큼 내가 너희에게 회복시켜 주리라." 이처럼 하나님은 그분의 종들에 대해 뉘우치시고, 그들이 회개할 때, 그분의 심판들로 입은 손해를 갚아 주신다. 마치 탕자의 아버지가 그의 귀환 시에 그가 죄와 어리석음으로 잃은 모든 것을 회복시키고 그를 이전 신분대로 받아들인 것처럼.
4. 모든 좋은 것들이 풍성히 있을 것이다. 창고들은 가득하고 통들은 넘쳐 흐른다(욜 2:24). 그들은 풍족하게 먹고 만족할 것이다(욜 2:26). 이것은 자연스럽게 그들의 찬송을 자아낸다. 하나님이 풍성하게 주신 후 그들은 절제하고 만족할 줄을 알 것이다.
**셋째, 이 하나님의 자비의 회복이 어떻게 선용될 것인지를 보라.**
1. 하나님이 영광을 받으실 것이다. 그들이 여호와 하나님 안에서 기뻐하고(욜 2:23), 그분의 이름을 찬송할 것이다(욜 2:26). 피조물의 선물들이 선물 주신 하나님께 감사와 사랑으로 넘치게 할 때, 그것이 우리에게 진정한 복이 된다. 주목하라. 풍성하게 주시는 그분 안에서 우리의 마음이 더욱 넓혀지면, 그것은 정말로 복이다. 이스라엘이 광야에서 가나안으로 들어가 거기서 먹고 배부른 때, 그는 반드시 그 좋은 땅을 주신 여호와께 감사할 것이다(신 8:10).
2. 그들은 명예와 위로와 영적 유익을 얻을 것이다. (1) 그들의 명성이 회복될 것이다. 그들의 고난으로 하나님을 부끄럽게 했던 이웃들 앞에서 그들과 그들의 하나님이 더 이상 비방받지 않을 것이다(욜 2:19). "내 백성이 다시는 수치를 당하지 아니하리라"(욜 2:26-27). 하나님이 자기 백성의 명예를 지키기 위해 행하시는 것은 그분 자신의 영예에도 크게 기여한다. 만약 우리가 하나님 안에서 영광을 취하는 것에 진정으로 부끄러워한다면, 그 안에서 영원히 부끄러워하지 않을 것이다. (2) 그들의 기쁨이 되살아날 것이다(욜 2:23). "기뻐하고 즐거워하라, 땅이여!" 풍성한 때는 보통 기쁜 때이다. 그러나 특히 "시온의 자녀들아, 기뻐하고 너희 하나님 여호와 안에서 즐거워하라"(욜 2:23). 그들이 시온에서 애통했으니(욜 2:15), 거기서 특별히 기뻐할 것이다. 씨 뿌리는 자들이 눈물로 씨를 뿌리면 반드시 기쁨으로 거두게 된다. 주목하라. 피조물의 좋은 것들을 통해 하나님의 사랑을 맛보아 그분을 우리의 가장 큰 기쁨으로 삼을 때, 그것이 진정한 복이다. (3) 그들의 믿음이 확증되고 강화될 것이다(욜 2:27). 하나님이 다시 풍성하게 주실 때, "너희가 내가 이스라엘 가운데 있음을 알리라."고 하신다. 그들을 벌하기도 하시고 위로하기도 하신다는 것을 증명하심으로 그분이 그들의 하나님이심을 증명하신다. 주목하라. 우리는 모든 섭리를 통해, 자비로운 것이든 고통스러운 것이든, 하나님에 대한 지식에서 자라도록 힘써야 한다.
3. 미물들까지도 그 복에 참여할 것이다(욜 2:21-22). "두려워하지 말라, 땅이여! 두려워하지 말라, 들의 짐승들아!" 그들은 사람의 죄로 인해 고통받고 하나님의 사람과의 다툼으로 인해 고난을 겪었다. 이제 사람의 회개와 하나님의 화해로 인해 더 잘 지낼 것이다. 아니, 짐승들은 하나님께 부르짖었다고 했다(욜 1:20). 이제 그 부르짖음에 응답받고, 두려워하지 말라는 말을 듣는다. 이것은 모든 것의 회복을 생각나게 한다. 지금은 허무함에 굴복되어 그 아래 신음하는 피조물이 하나님의 자녀들의 영광스러운 자유에 이르게 될 날을(롬 8:21).
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Promise of Mercy. . 28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: 29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. 30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. 31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. 32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call. The promises of corn, and wine, and oil, in the Joel 2:12-27 , would be very acceptable to a wasted country; but here we are taught that we must not rest in those things. God has reserved some better things for us, and these verses have reference to those better things, both the kingdom of grace and the kingdom of glory, with the happiness of true believers in both. We are here told, I. How the kingdom of grace shall be introduced by a plentiful effusion of the Spirit, ( Joel 2:28 ; Joel 2:29 ). We are not at a loss about the meaning of this promise, nor in doubt what it refers to and wherein it had its accomplishment, for the apostle Peter has given us an infallible explication and application of it, assuring us that when the Spirit was poured out upon the apostles, on the day of Pentecost ( Acts 2:1 , c.), that was the very thing which was spoken of here by the prophet Joel, Joel 2:16 ; Joel 2:17 . That was the gift of the Spirit, which, according to this prediction, was to come, and we are not to look for any other, any more than for another accomplishment of the promise of the Messiah. Now, 1. The blessing itself here promised is the pouring out of the Spirit of God, his gifts, graces, and comforts, which the blessed Spirit is the author of. 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, Isaiah 44:3 . I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed. 2. The time fixed for this is afterwards; after the fulfilling of the foregoing promises this shall be fulfilled. St. Peter expounds this of the last days, the days of the Messiah, by whom the world was to have its last revelation of the divine will and grace in the last days of the Jewish church, a little before its dissolution. 3. The extent of this blessing, in respect of the persons on whom it shall be bestowed. The Spirit shall be poured out upon all flesh, not as hitherto upon Jews only, but upon Gentiles also; for in Christ there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, Romans 10:11 ; Romans 10:12 . 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 ( Isaiah 40:5 ) and shall come to worship before him, Isaiah 66:23 . The Jews understand it of all flesh in the land of Israel, and Peter himself did not fully understand it as speaking of the Gentiles till he saw it accomplished in the descent of the Holy Ghost upon Cornelius and his friends, who were Gentiles ( Acts 10:44 ; Acts 10:45 ), which was but a continuation of the same gift which was bestowed on the day of Pentecost. The Spirit shall be poured out upon all flesh, that is, upon all those whose hearts are made hearts of flesh, soft and tender, and so prepared to receive the impressions and influences of the Holy Ghost. Upon all flesh, that is, upon some of all sorts of men; the gifts of the Spirit shall not be so sparing, or so much confined, as they have been, but shall be more general and diffusive of themselves. (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. (3.) Upon those of the meanest rank and condition, even upon the servants and the handmaids. The Jewish doctors say, 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. But in Christ Jesus there is neither bond nor free, Galatians 3:28 . There were many that were called being servants ( 1 Corinthians 7:21 ), but that was no obstruction to their receiving the Holy Ghost. (4.) 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. By these extraordinary gifts the Christian church was first founded and set up, and the scriptures were written, and the ministry settled, by which, with the ordinary operations and influences of the Spirit, it was to be afterwards maintained and kept up. II. How the kingdom of glory shall be introduced by the universal change of nature, Joel 2:30 ; Joel 2:31 . 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, yet so that it was accomplished in part in the death of Christ (which is called the judgment of this world, when the earth quaked and the sun was darkened, and a great and terrible day it was), and more fully in the destruction of Jerusalem, which was a type and figure of the general judgment, and before which there were many amazing prodigies, besides the convulsions of states and kingdoms prophesied of under the figurative expressions of turning the sun into darkness and the moon into blood, and the wars and rumours of wars, and distress of nations, which our Saviour spoke of as the beginning of these sorrows, Matthew 24:6 ; Matthew 24:7 . But before the last judgment there will be wonders indeed in heaven and earth, the dissolution of both, without a metaphor. 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, Revelation 10:7 . III. The safety and happiness of all true believers both in the first and second coming of Jesus Christ, Joel 2:32 ; Joel 2:32 . This speaks of particular persons, for to them the New Testament has more respect, and less to kingdoms and nations, than the Old. Now observe here, 1. That there is a salvation wrought out. Though the day of the Lord will be great and terrible, yet in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance from the terror of it. It is the day of the Lord, the day of his judgment, who knows how to separate between the precious and the vile. In the everlasting gospel, which went from Zion, in the church of the first-born typified by Mount Zion, and which is the Jerusalem that is from above, there is deliverance; a way of escaping the wrath to come is found out and laid open. Christ is himself not only the Saviour, but the salvation; he is so to the ends of the earth. This deliverance, laid up for us in the covenant of grace, is in performance of the promises made to the fathers. There shall be deliverance, as the Lord has said. See Luke 1:72 . Note, This is ground of comfort and hope to sinners, that, whatever danger there is in their case, there is also deliverance, deliverance for them, if it be not their own fault. And, if we would share in this deliverance, we must ourselves apply to the gospel--Zion, to God's Jerusalem. 2. That there is a remnant interested in this salvation, and for whom the deliverance is wrought. It is in that remnant (that is, among them) that the deliverance is, or in their souls and spirits; there are the earnests and evidences of it. Christ in you, the hope of glory. They are called a remnant, because they are but a few in comparison with the multitudes that are left to perish; a little remnant but a chosen one, a remnant according to the election of grace. And here we are told who they are that shall be delivered in the great day. (1.) Those that sincerely call upon God: Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, whether Jew or Gentile (for the apostle so expounds it, Romans 10:13 , where he lays this down as the great rule of the gospel by which we must all be judged), shall be delivered. This calling on God supposes knowledge of him, faith in him, desire towards him, dependence on him, and, as an evidence of the sincerity of all this, a conscientious obedience to him; for, without that, crying Lord, Lord, will not stand us in any stead. Note, It is the praying remnant that shall be the saved remnant. And it will aggravate the ruin of those who perish that they might have been saved on such easy terms. (2.) Those that are effectually called to God. The deliverance is sure to the remnant whom the Lord shall call, not only with the common call of the gospel, with which many are called that are not chosen, but with a special call into the fellowship of Jesus Christ, whom the Lord predestinates, or prepares, so the Chaldee. St. Peter borrows this phrase, Acts 2:39 . Note, Those only shall be delivered in the great day that are now effectually called from sin to God, from self to Christ, from things below to things above. return to ' Top of Page ' Joel Joe 1 Joel Joe Joel Joe 3 Footnotes: Copyright Statement These files are public domain and are a derivative of an electronic edition that is available on the Christian Classics Ethereal Library Website. Bibliographical Information Henry, Matthew. "Complete Commentary on Joel 2". 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Pericope (part_of)
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pericope/per-jol-2-007
절 (explains)
bible-text/jol-2-28, bible-text/jol-2-29, bible-text/jol-2-30, bible-text/jol-2-31, bible-text/jol-2-32
Source
source-manifest/mhm— Matthew Henry Complete Commentary (PD)- evidence_grade: T_theological
> 그 후에 내가 모든 사람에게 내 영을 부어 주리니, 너희 아들들과 딸들이 예언하고 너희 노인들은 꿈을 꾸며 너희 젊은이들은 환상을 보리라. 그날에 내가 남종들과 여종들에게도 내 영을 부어 주리라. 내가 하늘과 땅에 이적을 보이리니, 곧 피와 불과 연기 기둥이라. 여호와의 크고 두려운 날이 오기 전에 해가 어둠으로 변하고 달이 피로 변하리라. 누구든지 여호와의 이름을 부르는 자는 구원을 얻으리니, 여호와께서 말씀하신 대로 시온 산과 예루살렘에는 피할 자가 있을 것이요, 남은 자 가운데는 여호와께서 부르시는 자들이 있을 것이다. (욜 2:28-32)
욜 2:12-27에서 곡식과 포도주와 기름을 약속받은 것이 황폐한 나라에게는 매우 반가운 소식이었을 것이다. 그러나 여기서 우리는 그것들에 안주해서는 안 된다고 배운다. 하나님이 우리를 위해 더 좋은 것들을 예비하셨다. 이 구절들은 더 좋은 것들, 곧 은혜의 왕국과 영광의 왕국, 그리고 그 두 왕국에서의 참 신자들의 행복에 관한 것이다.
**첫째, 성령의 풍성한 부어 주심으로 은혜의 왕국이 어떻게 도입되는지를 이야기한다(욜 2:28-29).** 이 약속의 의미에 대해 의심할 필요가 없다. 사도 베드로가 오순절에 성령이 제자들에게 부어졌을 때, 이것이 요엘이 예언한 바로 그것이라고 확실하게 해석했기 때문이다(행 2:1 이하). 그것이 예언된 성령의 선물이었으며, 다른 것을 기다릴 필요가 없다.
1. 약속된 복 자체는 하나님의 영의 부어 주심이다. 그분의 선물과 은혜와 위로. 구약 시대에는 성령이 마치 방울방울 떨어지듯 사사들과 선지자들에게 주어졌다. 이제 성령이 충분히 부어질 것이다(사 44:3 참조).
2. 이 시기는 그 후의 때이다. 앞의 약속들이 이루어진 후에. 베드로는 이것을 마지막 날들, 곧 메시아의 날들로 해석했다. 이 날들은 유대 교회의 마지막 날들이었고, 그 후 곧 해산될 것이었다.
3. 이 복의 광범위함은 받는 사람들과 관련된다. 성령이 모든 사람에게 부어질 것이다. 전에는 유대인들에게만 국한되었지만 이방 사람들에게도. 그리스도 안에서 유대인과 헬라인 사이의 구분이 없다(롬 10:11-12). 지금까지 하나님의 계시는 아브라함의 씨에게만 한정되었다. 그러나 마지막 날들에 모든 사람이 하나님의 영광을 보고 그 앞에 경배하러 올 것이다(사 40:5; 66:23). 그 부어 주심은 마음이 부드러운 육신의 마음을 가진 모든 이들에게, 성령의 인상과 영향을 받기 위해 준비된 모든 이들에게 있을 것이다. 모든 사람에게, 곧 여러 종류의 모든 사람에게.
(1) 성령은 각 성별에서 몇몇에게 부어질 것이다. 아들들뿐 아니라 딸들도 예언할 것이다. 한 집에 네 자매가 선지자였다는 것을 읽었다(행 21:9).
(2) 각 나이에서 몇몇에게. 기력이 쇠해 가는 노인들과 아직 하나님의 일에 지식과 경험이 적은 젊은이들 모두 꿈과 환상으로 하나님의 계시를 받을 것이다.
(3) 가장 낮은 계층과 신분의 사람들에게도. 심지어 남종들과 여종들에게도. 유대의 교사들은 예언이 지혜롭고 용감하고 부유한 사람들에게만 임한다고 했다. 그러나 그리스도 안에서는 종도 자유인도 없다(갈 3:28).
(4) 이 복의 효과. 그들이 예언할 것이다. 하나님의 일들에 대한 새로운 계시를 받고, 그것을 자신만을 위해서가 아니라 교회의 유익을 위해 나눌 것이다. 이 비상한 은사들로 기독교 교회가 처음 세워지고 성경이 기록되었으며, 그 후 성령의 일반적 사역과 영향으로 유지되고 있다.
**둘째, 자연계의 보편적 변화로 영광의 왕국이 어떻게 도입될 것인지를 본다(욜 2:30-31).** 성령의 부어 주심은 의인들에게는 매우 위로가 되지만, 불의한 자들은 이것을 듣고 두려워 떨어야 한다. 하나님의 크고 두려운 날이 오고 있다. 하늘과 땅의 이적들, 피와 불과 연기 기둥, 해가 어둠으로 변하고 달이 피로 변하는 것이 그 날을 앞서 올 것이다. 이것은 심판 날에 글자 그대로의 성취를 갖겠지만, 그리스도의 죽음 때에 부분적으로 이루어졌다. 그 날은 이 세상의 심판의 날이었고 땅이 흔들리고 해가 어두워졌다. 그리고 예루살렘 멸망 때에 더 충분히 이루어졌다. 그것은 마지막 심판의 모형이었고, 그 전에 이 비유적 표현으로 예언된 많은 놀라운 징조들이 있었다. 그러나 마지막 심판 전에는 진정으로 하늘과 땅의 해산이 있을 것이다. 죄악된 세상에 대한 하나님의 심판들과 악한 왕국들의 잦은 멸망은 마지막 날의 심판의 서막이요 예고편이다. 성령을 받은 자들은 이 크고 두려운 날과 그 앞선 하늘과 땅의 이적들을 미리 보고 선포할 것이다.
**셋째, 그리스도의 첫 번째와 두 번째 오심 모두에서 참된 신자들의 안전과 행복이 있다(욜 2:32).** 이것은 개인들에 관한 것이다.
1. 구원이 마련되어 있다. 그날이 크고 두렵겠지만, 시온 산과 예루살렘에는 구원이 있을 것이다. 영원한 복음 안에서, 하늘의 예루살렘이 예형하는 교회 안에서, 다가올 진노에서 벗어나는 길이 있다. 그리스도 자신이 구주일 뿐 아니라 구원 자체이다. 이 구원은 조상들에게 하신 약속의 이행이다(눅 1:72). 주목하라. 죄인들의 경우에 어떤 위험이 있든, 구원도 있다. 그것이 우리 자신의 잘못이 아닌 한. 우리가 이 구원에 참여하고 싶다면 복음 - 시온으로, 하나님의 예루살렘으로 가야 한다.
2. 이 구원에 관심을 가진 남은 자가 있다. 그들은 소수이지만 택함 받은 자들이며, 은혜에 따른 남은 자들이다. 여기서 구원받을 자들이 누구인지 알 수 있다. (1) 하나님께 진심으로 부르짖는 자들. "누구든지 여호와의 이름을 부르는 자는 구원을 얻으리라." 유대인이든 이방 사람이든(사도가 이를 그렇게 해석한다, 롬 10:13). 이 하나님께 부르짖음은 그분에 대한 지식, 그분에 대한 믿음, 그분을 향한 소망, 그분에 대한 의존을 전제한다. 또한 이 모든 것의 진정성의 증거로 그분께 순종하는 삶이 필요하다. 그것 없이 주여 주여 라고 외치는 것은 아무 소용이 없다. 주목하라. 기도하는 남은 자가 구원받는 남은 자가 될 것이다. 그토록 쉬운 조건으로 구원받을 수 있었는데 멸망한 자들의 멸망이 더욱 더 커진다. (2) 하나님께 효과적으로 부름 받은 자들. "여호와께서 부르시는 남은 자들." 많은 사람이 부름을 받지만 택함을 받는 자는 적다는 일반적인 부름이 아니라, 죄에서 하나님께로, 자아에서 그리스도께로, 아래 것들에서 위의 것들로 이끄는 특별한 부름이다. 베드로가 이 표현을 빌렸다(행 2:39). 주목하라. 마지막 날에 구원받을 자는 오직 지금 죄에서 하나님께로 효과적으로 부름 받은 자들뿐이다.
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