In a recent posting called “A Time Jump Prophecy and More,” I noticed that the title said “Part 1” and that presupposes a Part 2, but I had not intended there to be a Part 2.  It was my mistake, so I have to make that good and have produced a Part 2.  This is that posting.

I have always been fascinated with the book of Joel.  This small often hidden away book is really only known among a number of churches because of the New Testament reference to a few of its verses:

Acts 2:15-21 “These men are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only the third hour of the day, but this is what was spoken of THROUGH THE PROPHET JOEL:  ‘And it shall be IN THE LAST DAYS,’ God says, ‘That I will pour forth of My Spirit upon all mankind, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. 

“Even upon My bondslaves, both men and women, in those days I will pour forth of My Spirit and they shall prophesy, and I will grant wonders in the sky above, and signs on the earth beneath, blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke.  THE SUN SHALL BE TURNED INTO DARKNESS, and THE MOON INTO BLOOD, BEFORE THE GREAT AND GLORIOUS DAY OF THE LORD SHALL COME, and it shall be, that EVERYONE WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED.’”

The Joel verses are most interesting, for the book of Joel contains the time jumps we spoke about in that previous article.  We will be examining them, but first, I want to speak about Peter using these verses.

[A].  PETER’S PRECISENESS IN HIS QUOTE:

This is most important, for Peter DID NOT SAY these verses were being fulfilled on the day of Pentecost.  He stated it this way: “But this is what was spoken of THROUGH THE PROPHET JOEL.”  In other words, Joel alluded to it; he raised some of these issues.  There are some who disregard any future reference connection of Joel with coming prophecy but say that all was fulfilled in the past and at Pentecost.  Peter quoted what was nearest to match some of what was happening on the momentous Pentecost day.

*** [A].  However, look just at the verses Peter quoted.  Of prime importance is the catchphrase of prophetic content – “IN THE LAST DAYS.”  Wherever these words are used, and that phrase is used many times in the Old Testament prophetic books, the words always refer to the time that is still future, and nearly always related to Israel.

Let me give just three examples among so many:

(a).  Speaking about the establishment of the Millennial Kingdom set in Israel but for the whole world – Isaiah 2:2 “Now it will come about that IN THE LAST DAYS, the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains and will be raised above the hills, and all the nations will stream to it.”

(b).  Speaking of Israel’s conversion and restoration at the Second Coming – Hosea 3:5 “Afterward the sons of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king, and they will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness IN THE LAST DAYS.”

(c).  The prophecy that Gog/Magog will happen – Ezekiel 38:16 “and you will come up against My people Israel like a cloud to cover the land.  It will come about IN THE LAST DAYS that I shall bring you against My land, in order that the nations may know Me when I shall be sanctified through you before their eyes, O Gog.”

Two alternative phrases meaning the same thing are “AT THAT TIME” and “IN THAT DAY.”  I will give two examples:

(a).  The promise of the Second Coming – Zechariah 14:4 “And IN THAT DAY His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley, so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south.”

(b).   Jeremiah 3:17 “AT THAT TIME they shall call Jerusalem ‘The Throne of the LORD,’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Jerusalem, for the name of the LORD.   Nor shall they walk anymore after the stubbornness of their evil heart.”

*** [B].  The second aspect of Joel’s quotation is this wording – “THE SUN SHALL BE TURNED INTO DARKNESS, and THE MOON INTO BLOOD, BEFORE THE GREAT AND GLORIOUS DAY OF THE LORD SHALL COME.”  That definitely was not fulfilled on the day of Pentecost but waits for the future.  That will be a large time jump from the day of Pentecost.

[B].  A MORE CONCENTRATED LOOK INTO JOEL’S PROPHECY

In that passage just quoted, there is a time jump in what Joel is writing, and to appreciate that properly we are going to Joel to look at what is written down at the inspiration of the LORD.

Joel is the oldest of the Minor Prophets, being written around 800 B.C., though the dating is contested by a range of biblical students; the problem being there are no historic references such as, “In the reign of .”  If that date is correct, then it becomes the oldest of any Old Testament prophetic book.

I do not intend covering the message of the book in detail but will confine comments to what we are thinking of – the time jumps.

The book begins with 4 types of locusts that had invaded the land, and these are symbolic of the invasion of the enemy.  Israel was not overcome when it walked with God, but it was invaded and defeated when the nation turned to apostasy.  Chapter 1 is dealing with that matter.  Joel 1:6 “For a nation has invaded my land, mighty and without number.  Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it has the fangs of a lioness.”

There was much hardship – Joel 1:10 “The field is ruined.  The land mourns for the grain is ruined.  The new wine dries up.  Fresh oil fails.”  Sin always brings hardship, and no nation has known the extent of that more than the Jews.  Almost throughout its history, Israel faced enemy intrusion and abuse and extreme hardship.  The Jewish people continue to suffer today, as any observant person knows who looks at history and follows the News.

A horrible thing has happened in my nation (July 2026).  For the past 5 or 6 years now, there has been a great increase in Australia in anti-Semitic attacks and hatred.  Thousands of Islamic supporters and imports from the Middle East gather in hateful, demonic groups chanting, “Gas the Jews.  Kill the Jews,” and other degrading hatred, including burning and killing.  The Government and police do nothing; YET, in July, the Federal Government set aside 60 million dollars (money from taxpayers) “to fight Islamophobia” that does not exist anyway, but leaves the Jewish hatred unaddressed.

It is an assault on speaking out against Islamic beliefs and practices.  This can only come from satanic influence.  The Government tacitly supports Hamas against Israel.  Great judgment is coming to this nation.

This verse from Chapter 1 is very interesting. à Joel 1:15 “Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.”   The Day of the LORD is an extremely significant term in the Old Testament, and it means the time when God will step into human history in terror and judgment.  I have written on this already.  Study of The “Day of The Lord” In the Scriptures, Part 1 :: By Ron Ferguson.

The Day of the LORD in almost all the many references in the Old Testament has its fulfilment in the Tribulation and the Second Coming, and occasionally after that also.  Joel 1:15 looks through future history to the time of the end, but also has an application later to Joel’s time.

[C].  JOEL CHAPTER 2

The prophet gets very specific here, and the chapter begins this way – Joel 2:1 “Blow a trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm on My holy mountain.  Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble for THE DAY OF THE LORD is coming.  Surely it is near.”  Chapter divisions often destroy the flow and create artificial divisions.

The descriptions of these horses in Joel 2:3-10 are so like advancing tank warfare in modern army terms.  This is the overthrow of a city à Joel 2:9 “They rush on the city.  They run on the wall.  They climb into the houses.  They enter through the windows like a thief.”  That is so reminiscent of what will happen right at the end of the Tribulation leading up to Armageddon – Zechariah 14:2 “For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, the houses plundered, the women ravished, and half of the city exiled, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.”  It is part of the Day of the LORD.

In Joel 2:11, “The LORD utters His voice before His army.  Surely His camp is very great, for strong is he who carries out His word.  THE DAY OF THE LORD is indeed great and very awesome, and who can endure it?”  we are looking at the future event, which will be horrific.  That will have its chief fulfilment in the Tribulation, BUT IMMEDIATELY in the next verse, Joel returns from the future to his present à Joel 2:12 “Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”

From Joel 2:12-17, the appeal is to the people Joel is ministering to.  Then immediately in verse 18, there is another time leap of 2,800 years – Joel 2:18-19 “THEN THE LORD WILL BE ZEALOUS FOR HIS LAND AND WILL HAVE PITY ON HIS PEOPLE, and the LORD will answer and say to His people, ‘Behold, I am going to send you grain, new wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied in full with them, AND I WILL NEVER AGAIN MAKE YOU A REPROACH AMONG THE NATIONS.”  Those two verses come into operation after the Second Coming.  Please note the words, “NEVER AGAIN make you a reproach among the nations.”

Joel 2:20-27 continue the Millennial blessings for the nation, and it is so important to note these two verses à Joel 2:26-27 “and you shall have plenty to eat and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, who has dealt wondrously with you.  Then MY PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE PUT TO SHAME.  Thus you will know that I AM IN THE MIDST OF ISRAEL, and that I am the LORD your God and there is no other, and MY PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE PUT TO SHAME.”  Those two verses are set in the Millennium.  Israel will have horrible troubles on the eve of the Second Coming, but when He does come:

1. The Jews will never be put to shame (repeated because of God’s absolute certainty).
2. The Messiah will dwell in the midst of Israel. This is covered in Zechariah 14.

Now for the culmination of that time jump from Joel’s own time – Joel 2:28-29 (and) “It will come about AFTER THIS that I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind, and your sons and daughters will prophesy.  Your old men will dream dreams.  Your young men will see visions, and even on the male and female servants I will pour out My Spirit in those days.”  That is the famous passage Peter quotes, but careful study shows it will happen AFTER verses 26 and 27; that is, Messiah is in the midst, and the Jews will NEVER be put to shame again.

Zechariah 12:10 “AND I WILL POUR OUT on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, THE SPIRIT OF GRACE AND OF SUPPLICATION, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him, like the bitter weeping over a first-born.”

[D].  NEXT – ALSO VERY IMPORTANT.  THE TIME JUMP REMAINS AT THE TIME OF THE SECOND COMING

Chapter 3 begins this way – Joel 3:1-2 “For behold, in those days and at that time when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I WILL GATHER ALL THE NATIONS, and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat.  Then I will enter into judgment with them there on behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and THEY HAVE DIVIDED UP MY LAND.”

I have some things to say about this:

(a).  It is unfortunate that this is a new chapter division because it is connected with the previous verses like a glove, and chapter divisions destroy the continuity.

(b).  ALL nations will be gathered.  The valley of Jehoshaphat is mentioned, making this prophecy parallel to Joel 3:12-17; Zechariah 12:3; Zechariah 12:9; Zechariah 14:2-3; Revelation 14:17-20; Revelation 16:13-16.

(c).  One reason for this judgment is the way the Gentiles have divided and partitioned the land of Israel (MY land).

The Lord enters into judgment with the world for what it has done, and this is the wrath of God in the great Tribulation, but even more so at the time of Armageddon and the Second Coming.  When that wrath is completed, and the LORD returns to His people, then the nation is restored, and the Spirit is poured out.  All scripture is consistent.

Remember, when reading and studying the Major and Minor Prophets, that these time jumps are frequent as the writers go back and forth across time.  I suppose it could be said they are the time travelers of the Old Testament.  You need to take careful note of these jumps so the interpretation is done properly.

[E].  ONE LAST THOUGHT AND SOMETHING TO CONSIDER

Most of what I have spoken on today sits in the basket of future prophecy, and nothing much at all is pertaining to us, to the present in our lives.

There is a danger in all of this, something that all prophetic teachers should consider very closely.  It is so easy to become academic and even a bit puffed up with academic prophetic knowledge, especially if people refer to you as a great Bible student or a great end-times teacher.  One must be very careful.  Anyone can be academic and sprout knowledge, but there is a bottom line here.

This is the pertinent verse to think about:  2 Peter 3:10-11 “But the day of the Lord will come like a thief in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up.  SINCE ALL THESE THINGS ARE TO BE DESTROYED IN THIS WAY, WHAT SORT OF PEOPLE OUGHT YOU TO BE IN HOLY CONDUCT AND GODLINESS.”

We can be as knowledgeable as Paul or as wise as Solomon, but if our lives are bankrupt, or wave around like withered-up stems, then we are nothing.  The Lord is not in it.  The study of prophecy must lead to better godliness and better conduct in our lives.  Yes, we do fail, but don’t take your eyes off the goal ahead.

The study of prophecy MUST have a great bearing on our lives, or we are wasting our time.

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If you want to understand what is really going on in the world, all you need to do is ignore the tightly controlled mainstream media propaganda and examine the end results of a particular threat.

We are watching the criminal syndicate operate that will one day rule the world.

Once you see who benefits from a particular menace, it is easy to determine who was behind it.  For instance, if there are ticks that now demonstrate the ability to bite you and make you allergic to meat, when they never had this power before, that means they were engineered to spread a meat allergy.

The Globalists inspired climate change cult benefits greatly from this because the more people who are allergic to meat, the less demand there will be for cows.  The reduced demand for cows means less cow flatulence and less global warming.

Then we can eat ‘frankenmeat’ engineered in the labs of the evil Globalists.

The evil Globalists get rich, the deluded climate activists take down the meat industry, and we get the shaft.  The minions of the evil Globalists win another hard-fought victory.

Welcome to Marxist paradise.

You will be called a ‘conspiracy theorist’ if you believe such things, but that accusation is starting to fall apart.  Those who questioned the origin of COVID were called conspiracy theorists too.

That accusation did not age well.

If you take any malady and examine who benefits from it, you will understand who is behind it, what their intention is, and whether you want to play along with it or not.

Let’s move on to terrorism.

We all know who is behind acts of terrorism around the world.  It is Middle Eastern men who are called by the name of Muhammad.  They worship a pagan god that this seventh-century Arab transposed on the real God and demanded, under pain of death, that everyone worship.

In reality, Muslims worship Muhammad because, if not for him, no one would know anything about this reformed pagan god called Allah.  Any time Muhammad needed a convenient revelation from ‘god,’ such as taking possession of another man’s wife, it always became available to fulfill his lustful desires.

Muhammad is Allah.

The question then becomes “how did a bunch of third world pagans come to exert great political power in the world?”  They are no more intelligent than any other group of people and, due to widespread inbreeding, one could argue they are less intelligent than most other people groups (they often marry their first cousins).

They do have oil, but more wealthy interests could have just taken control over their lands and put Arab Muslim dictators over the people.  The funny thing is this is exactly what seems to have happened.

The purpose of terrorism is to create terror.  A terrified public is malleable and easy to control.

When the evil Globalists place a bunch of Muslims into any other people group, especially through illegal immigration by military-age males, they will refuse to assimilate.  Once they gain the majority, they will begin to dominate the native population and force it to submit to their pagan god.

And, ultimately, to the evil Globalists.

Terror, discord and paganism benefit the evil Globalists and their desire to submit the world to their dictates.  Even though they purchased the terror and discord, the world will eventually look to them for safety and security.

The evil Globalists want world domination, and Muslim terrorism is a great way for them to get there.

If we examine pandemics, we find that the worst ones seem to originate in Africa.  Ebola and AIDS are two of the most serious diseases that curiously seem to have originated on the African continent.

If I didn’t know any better, I would say powerful people view the African people as guinea pigs to try out their new viruses.

COVID was unleashed on the world, but it was basically no more dangerous than the flu or pneumonia.  The ‘Kung Flu hysteria’ was driven solely by propaganda rather than actually being a deadly health problem.

We don’t shut down the world for pneumonia, but we did for this virus.

And why were thousands no longer dying from the standard flu like every other year?

The evil Globalists found a great way to imprison us in our houses under the auspices that we were suffering a pandemic.  It even helped them put an Alzheimer’s patient into the most powerful position in the world.

They thought they had us with COVID.

Then we have the Marxists’ mass agitation events such as the Black Lives Matter (BLM) riots.  Using propaganda spread by the U.S. media, they were able to turn a criminal into a martyr and a law-enforcement officer into a criminal.

That little trick certainly terrified a lot of people.  Terrified people are easy to control.  Especially when law-enforcement is turned on its head.

It is easy to see who benefits from that.

They keep trying to find new criminals to martyr, but so far, few are buying what they are selling.

Communists view Christianity and Western Civilization the same way Islamists do; you are either in their house or the house of war.  Both parties hate the Christian faith with great passion and will destroy their reputations, or take their lives, with no conscience whatsoever.

Because Muslims and Marxists are in the minority in Western Civilization, they do not have the power to force their will on the indigenous population.  When they enter a country, they must use guerrilla tactics that are always aimed at causing societal division and destruction.

That’s where false accusations of ‘racism’ or ‘Islamophobia’ come in real handy.  The white population of Europe has seen how these false accusations work firsthand.

And we have gotten a heavy dose of it ourselves in this country.

When the Marxists and Muslims have enough power, in terms of numbers, the game is over for those who love freedom.

We see this process at work in the areas of ethnic and sexual relations in this country.  The forces of evil have enjoyed great success with their false accusation of racism, sexism, Islamophobia, ‘transphobia,’ and other ridiculous terms designed to create guilt in the white population.

Heathen women are especially susceptible to this little trick since they are the ones most easily seduced by evil.  Once seduced, they then vote for the scoundrels who successfully manipulated their emotions.

As for the ‘minorities,’ once a malcontent has been convinced that he is a victim of more powerful forces, he is willing to engage in extreme violence to correct the perceived wrong.  The more imaginary victimization is believed, the more evil ‘minorities’ become.

Once discord has been created, the evil Marxists come in and offer their sick solutions to the problems they created.  Their solutions end in the weakening of society and the subjugation or the death of their enemies.

In order for these people to be successful and organized, someone powerful must be funding them.

That brings us to the evil Globalists themselves.

Not all billionaires are evil, but those who have their sights set on world domination are.

The front men of the evil Globalists are such luminaries as the Soros family, Bill Gates, and Neville Singham.

Singham is a wealthy Marxist businessman who lives in China.  People like him tend to be protected by communist nations and/or powerful law firms that benefit from financial networks that such people control.

Singham has created the “Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.”  This is a ‘Justice Center’ composed of such groups as Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) Coalition and the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL).

We used to call these types of organizations ‘Communist Front Groups.’

These groups have been extremely successful at inculcating cultural Marxism into all Western societies.  Every program they create is designed to weaken Western Civilization to make it more amenable to subjugation.

Due to Marxists’ control of our education system, our youth are now extremely susceptible to the allure of Marxism.  Being a Marxist is the most ‘gutless’ choice you can make.  All the Marxists have to do is offer free stuff, and disaffected young people will fall into the bread line to receive it.

 

All they have to sacrifice is their liberty and freedom of thought.

What young people do not understand is that Marxists are thieves.  They steal the wealth and labor of others to provide ‘free’ stuff at taxpayer expense.  When they gain power, they quickly build their totalitarian system from which it is impossible to extricate yourself, without violence, once installed.

Like Admiral Akbar once said, “It’s a trap!”

Once the Marxists run out of other people’s money, the people find that they are trapped in a totalitarian hellhole from which they cannot free themselves.

Everyone is reduced to poverty, except the ruling elite and their Stasi, as they discover what happens when you trust people who want to give you free stuff.

This was the strategy that brought the evil regime in Iran to power.

The Marxists hate Western Civilization and the nation of Israel.  These just happen to be the two entities that are preventing the world from deteriorating into a dystopia from which it will never recover.

The number of NGOs and other organizations that are designed to break down Western Civilization is legion.  These are funded by the corrupt central banking system, which uses taxpayer money to fund the destruction of its own society.

There is only one force that can hold back this extremely powerful evil.
The church, which is indwelt by the Holy Spirit.

Only a Godless and faithless world would fall for the propaganda that the evil Globalists and their Marxist and Muslim minions are propagating.  These people have the money, influence, and the power to do whatever they want if there is no faith to oppose them.

We have faith, which is far more powerful than their wealth and power, which can destroy every stronghold.  That is, unless we abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons (I Timothy 4:1).

Then we are easy prey for any roaring lion.

Jesus asked the question, “When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth? (Luke 18:8).

If our faith wanes to the point that these people can take over, they will most assuredly shut down the proclamation of the true Gospel.  Only false doctrine will be promoted as they attempt to wipe out any remembrance of God or His Son.

As the faith of the nations is tested, most will fall in line with the evil Globalists.

Once their wicked system is set up, then the answer to the question Jesus posed will be ‘no.’

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