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A Day of Divine Judgment
Commentators explain that "the day of the Lord" is not just any difficult time. It is a specific, imminent event when God actively intervenes to execute judgment. While God is always sovereign, this "day" is when He makes His role as the world's Judge unmistakably clear, moving from a season of patience to one of active, just punishment for sin.
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Joel
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Albert Barnes
On Joel 1:15
18th Century
Theologian
Alas for the day! for the Day of the Lord is at hand – The judgment of God, then, which they were to seek to avert, was still to co…
Charles Ellicott
On Joel 1:15
19th Century
Bishop
Alas. —The exclamation is repeated three times in the Septuagint and Vulgate, thus giving occasion to Jeremy Taylor’s comment: “Wh…
John Calvin
On Joel 1:13–15
16th Century
Theologian
Now the Prophet begins to exhort the people to repentance. Having represented them as grievously afflicted by the hand of God, he now adds that a r…
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John Gill
On Joel 1:15
17th Century
Pastor
Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand. A time of severer and heavier judgments than these of the locusts, …
Matthew Henry
On Joel 1:14–20
17th Century
Minister
The sorrow of the people is turned into repentance and humiliation before God. With all the marks of sorrow and shame, sin must be confessed and la…