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At the close of the last chapter, we had a glorious promise of deliverance, now this whole chapter is a comment on that deliverance, showing what that deliverance shall be, how it shall be accomplished by the destruction of the Church's enemies, and how it shall be perfected in the everlasting rest and joy of the Church. This was accomplished, in part, by the release of the Jews in Babylon and their return to Jerusalem, but it has a further reference to the great redemption wrought for us by Jesus Christ and the destruction of our enemies on the Day of Judgment. Verses 1 thru 8, deals with God's judgment upon the enemies of His people for all the injuries and indignities that they had done to them.
Verses 9 thru 17, deals with God judging all nations according to iniquity and appearing pubically to the everlasting confusion to the lost and the everlasting comfort of the saved.
Verses 18 thru 21 deals with God's provision for his people, for their safety and purity when their enemies shall be destroyed. These promises were not just written for Joel's generation, they were written that we, by Grace and the comfort of this scripture, might have hope, but to Joel's generation, judgment was pronounced upon those nations that had persecuted the Jews. The people of Tyre, Sidon and Philistia will be judged because they sold Jews as slaves to the Greeks. Egypt and Edom will be judged because they shed Jewish blood
Thus the Book of Joel is a prophecy of judgment upon all enemies of God's people, pass, present and future and His promised redemption.
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