So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
God's word ought to sustain us in the deepest evils, yet unless He truly appears, we are confounded and ask where His power is. The faithful must learn to know Him as their Father not merely by faith's word, but by real experience when He delivers them.
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This call to the nations to prepare war is spoken ironically: let all forces confederate against God if they dare. They are summoned to the battle of that great day when God shall judge the earth, gathering all nations to their ruin.
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Commenting on Joel 3:9-17
When Christ stands on Mount Zion, His people will know experimentally that He dwells among them through the destruction of their enemies and His protection of them. Jerusalem will be holy, inhabited only by the converted, with no strangers to pollute her with false doctrine or ungodly persons.
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