DAYS OF DECISION COMING FOR ALL

DAYS OF DECISION COMING FOR ALL

 

"The day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision" Joel 3:11

Once again we have the same burden, but in its final application. The prophet having interpreted the locust plague and foretold a further activity of God in government, was lifted up, and stomached along far beyond his own immediate times. That movement began in the previous chapter, at vs. 28, with the words, "And it shall come to pass afterward." That afterward carried his vision forward to the age of the Spirit which commenced on the day of Pente­cost. Two verses only deal with that age (vss. 28 and 29). He then told of the signs which would indicate the ending of that age, and the ushering in of an­other which he described as "the great and terrible day of Jehovah," the days of tribulation, the last half spoken of as “great tribulation.” The final movement in his message has to do with that ultimate Day of Jehovah, the day of decision, where there is no setting on the fence in that day. In that day, Jehovah will restore Judah and Jerusalem, find His lost people Israel, deal with the nations through the processes of war, make Zion the center of His earthly Kingdom, and Israel as a complete na­tion the instrument of His government, where they finally become the avenue of blessing for all other nations (Gen. 12:2-3). Thus to Joel was given the plan of the ages. He saw the near, the imminent, and the ultimate; and he saw that the Day of Jehovah was present, persistent, powerful, to the complete realization of Divine purpose. It was a great vision, and our secret of confidence is found in walking in its light. We live in the unmeasured age of the Spirit. It has lasted over two thousand years. We know not when it will end; but we do know that beyond it is "the great and terrible day of Jehovah"; and there­fore we are sure of the ultimate realiza­tion of all His purposes for men, first promised back in the earliest book of Genesis.