30 I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
30 "And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.
30 I'll set wonders in the sky above and signs on the earth below: Blood and fire and billowing smoke,
30 "And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: Blood and fire and pillars of smoke.
30 And I will cause wonders in the heavens and on the earth- blood and fire and columns of smoke.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Joel 2:30
Commentary on Joel 2:28-32
(Read Joel 2:28-32)
The promise began to be fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit was poured out, and it was continued in the converting grace and miraculous gifts conferred on both Jews and Gentiles. The judgments of God upon a sinful world, only go before the judgment of the world in the last day. Calling on God supposes knowledge of him, faith in him, desire toward him, dependence on him, and, as evidence of the sincerity of all this, conscientious obedience to him. Those only shall be delivered in the great day, who are now effectually called from sin to God, from self to Christ, from things below to things above.