Joel 3:18

"“So you will know that I am the LORD, your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no strangers will pass through her any more."

Key Reflection

This verse speaks of a future time when Jerusalem, symbolizing the people of God, will be set apart as holy. Only those who belong will dwell there permanently, emphasizing the divine presence and the purification of God's chosen community.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

And it shall come to pass in that Day -After the destruction of antichrist, there will, it seems, still be a period of probation, in which the grace of God will abound and extend more and more widely. The prophet Zechariah, who continues on the image, of the “living waters going out from Jerusalem”Zechariah 14:8, places this gift after God had gathered all nations against Jerusalem, and had visibly and miraculously overthrown themZechariah 14:2-4. But in that the blessings which he speaks of, are regenerating, they belong to time; the fullness of the blessing is completed only in eternity; the dawn is on earth, the everlasting brightness is in heaven.

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