Bible study Daily, explanation and encouragement - Joel
When the order of the world is disintegrating, whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
Mount Zion ... Jerusalem must be understood as figures of speech for the place of habitation or the presence of God.
Receiving God's grace is neither a difficult nor a complex task. It requires only the acceptance that God is both able and willing to save us, and it also requires the attitude of HUMBLY invoking His name.
He is ready to be our deliverer. The choice is ours!
- Choose to call on the name of Jesus for salvation and deliverance.
- Recognize that calling for your name refers to the invitation to the divine act of salvation and liberation in all facets of your life and not only in your initial experience of the new birth.
Joel's prophecy will peak with the Messiah's second coming, Jesus Christ, and the subsequent end of this world. We are now living these last days of the first coming of the Jesus Christ. Before the long last days of 7 years of Great Tribulation before the second coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ.