The Book of Joel

Joe 2:18-27, Part 3-Section A, verses 18-24

 “Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.” – Pro 5:18.  

[Study Aired Aug 24, 2024]

In our previous study of Joel, Chapter 2:1-17, the Bride of Christ, characterised as Aholibah, is made highly aware that she is before her elder sister Aholah (Ezekiel 23) to see her sins in her season starkly today, her “Day of the Lord”. Even though both girls came from the same mother, meaning the world, the greater sinner was Aholibah, the younger (spiritually depicted in Ezekiel 16) of the two, and she alone is symbolically granted to “Return to the Lord” before the First Resurrection. In this study, she understands her Lord’s compassion is expressly reserved for her in this age since the cross to receive Him, her inheritance. Consequently, she, as the Bride of Christ, sees that her Lord has “pity” on her, collectively called “his people”, and is the primary theme of this study. Of course, the Lord’s “pity”, or mercy, covertly and much later, extends to every person conceived since Adam to the end of the seemingly unappealing Lake of Fire.

Eze 23:1  The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 
Eze 23:2  Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: 
Eze 23:3  And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity. 
Eze 23:4  And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah [Representing the Bride, the Kings and Priests under the authority of their Husband, Christ]. 

Jer 3:9  And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom [signifying Aholah, the elder serving the younger], that she defiled the land [All of Israel], and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. 
Jer 3:10  And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah [Aholibah – treacherous because she, unwittingly represented as Judah was effectively the Priesthood, the Elect of God] hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD. 
Jer 3:11  And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel [Aholah, Babylonian Christianity] hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah [Aholibah, the incipient Elect when she gets her jaw-dropping reality of what’s at stake ~ that is marriage to Christ and co-rulership over the world!]. 

The Lord Had Pity

Joe 2:18  Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people. 
Joe 2:19  Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen: 
Joe 2:20  But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.
Joe 2:21  Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things. 
Joe 2:22  Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength. 
Joe 2:23  Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. 
Joe 2:24  And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil. 
Joe 2:25  And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. 
Joe 2:26  And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. 
Joe 2:27  And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.

Significations

Recapping the last verse in the previous study:

Joe 2:17  Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God? 

The Lord Had Pity

Joe 2:18  Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people. 
Joe 2:19  Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:

Our Lord designed Eve’s curse to afflict all women, manifestly in wives soon after fulfilling their innate need to bear children to grow weary of their husband’s never-ending ravishings for her. Hence, and particularly since Christ was born of a woman subject to sin in corruptible flesh, He knows the “weaker vessel’s” frailty to airily, with repetitious ingeniousness, undervalue His spiritual connectivity. Although her ardour for Him choosing her as His wife is short-lived, He remembers her fountain of youthful espoused enthusiasm with immense mercy, knowing her painful future will bring forth in her unspeakable joy to beckon her Aholah-like sisters their hope in the guarantee of life eternal.

Isa 42:1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold [Symbolic Aholibah, the Bride of Christ]; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

The stakes of her calling are incredibly high, yet because of the holy spirit, her ambassadorship is paradoxically ridiculously easy as she gradually learns to submit with growing joy. He is a devoted Husband to his Aholibah-like wife, the budding Elect of God, with Godly jealousy since he will not suffer another Aholah-Israel in the wilderness-like wife a second time since that is the equivalent of remarrying old Israel and is fornication! (Mat 19:9, Jer 3:1, Rom 7:2-3, 1Co 7:4, 1Co 7:11, 1Co 7:39)

2Co 11:2  For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one Husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 
2Co 11:3  But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 

The fatness of the land He lavishes her with wheat (corn), wine, and oil illustrates the richness of His word and the all-encompassing holy spirit that He is, but not until after the cross does the ‘rain’ on her increase, her spiritual harvest. As seen in Nebuchadnezzar’s second dream, just as it rains on the just and unjust, Israel’s exile into Babylon collectively expands to envelope the entire World (Dan 4:4-18).

Dan 4:10  Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree [mankind represented as Babylon semi-consciously setting himself up as god] in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great. 
Dan 4:11  The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth: 
Dan 4:12  The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it. 

Mat 5:45  That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil [richness in Babylon] and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

It is only the just Elect of God who sees the Lord’s significations of corn, wine and oil while her Aholah-like sisters in Babylonian Christianity, to this very day, richly sit on God’s throne, unconsciously by her actions, glad to be rid of their former Husband’s singularity of his espoused spiritual dues. Aholah and Aholibah, depicting Israel today in Babylon, continue their fornications with the world’s religions and governments and find them far more arousingly fulfilling (Eze 23:3) as she plunders the wealth of the world’s poor physically, monetarily and particularly spiritually. Much later, the younger sister, Aholibah, the symbolised and spiritually fornicating worse sinner of the two, Judah and Jerusalem, is appalled to discover that all along, the symbolic centre of her covenant was exposed for the world to see and ‘hiss’ at her “reproach” meaning H 2781 – taunt, scorn, shame or disgrace.

Isa 3:24  And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.

Joe 2:20  But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things. 

Lam 2:13-17  What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

Even though it is a digression from the study’s “pity” theme, the most outstanding biblical “breach” can be understood in Tony Cullen’s study in the accompanying link, and to quote him for a similar connection with the symbolism of the seas either side and in Palestine, and particularly between Samaria (greater Israel in the north) and Judah in the south, he says: “A “breach” H919 is symbolic of a schism in the body of Christ that needs to be healed just as you would physically stop a leak or fill in a crack in a wall of a building or ship that was in need of repair (1Co 12:24-27). God is the one who causes these schisms to come about so we can learn to have compassion on each other as we go about healing those schisms with the gifts God has given us to accomplish this (1Co 12:28).” [end quote] https://www.iswasandwillbe.com/study-of-the-book-of-kings-2ki-121-21-jehoash-and-the-temple-money/

Jer 14:16  And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them. 
Jer 14:17  Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow. 
Jer 14:18  If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not. 
Jer 14:19  Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble! 

Mankind is born out of the sea; he is the Beast that emerges from that “deep” where Leviathan, our first father, the Devil, lives. (Rev 13:1-10). The depths of the ocean are directly opposite to the symbolic heavens of God’s habitation and an emblematic yet literal spiritual breach between man and God. That ‘breach like the sea’ can outwardly be directly likened to the Red Sea separating Egypt from Sinai and, later, Israel, even as the Jordan River separated Ephriam, Manasseh, Israel from Esau, and wilderness-dwelling Ishmael all separated by the Mediterranean and Indian Seas. Spiritually a breach is a schism in the Body of Christ that our Lord will not suffer to remain unhealed. Our Lord’s deliberate breach (H919) between Old Israel and the Bride can only be healed by his chastising fiery grace for both parties to bring forth fine gold that heals or “caulks” (plugs or seals) the breach.

Breach: H919 bedeq beh’-dek 

From H918; a gap or leak (in a building or a ship): – breach, + calker.

Lam 2:14  Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment. 
Lam 2:15  All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? 
Lam 2:16  All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it. 
Lam 2:17  The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries. 

1Co 3:6  I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. Repair the breaches of the house.

2Ki 12:4  And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh into any man’s heart to bring into the house of the LORD,
2Ki 12:5  Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.

Paradoxically, it is Babylon, the “northern army” of Aholah bathed in excessive luxury to this day, who doesn’t know that she is spiritually poor, wretched, blind and naked, desolate, just as Ohholibah only just since the cross astonishingly discovered her skirts up around her thighs (Jer 13:26).

All of Ishmael represented as the Arab nations unwittingly corruptibly equal with Jews who say that they are Jews and are not, though living in the outwardly mostly desolate land of the ‘Middle East’ between the ‘hinder utmost sea of the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea to the East centred on ancient Babylon, depicting the entire world that stinks of self-elevation to godship.

The most merciful “great thing” our Lord in Joel 2:20-21 has done is to kill the man of flesh within us who opposes all that is God. That death and dung of our old man fertilises the new pasture and springs of our former wilderness to bring forth the fruit of the spirit.

2Th 2:1  Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 
2Th 2:2  That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 
2Th 2:3  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first [a falling away of Babylonian lies, particularly spiritually], and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition [with a shiver from head to toe, you and I!]; 
2Th 2:4  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 

Dan 11:36  And the king [You and I while in the world, Babylon] shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done. 

Dan 11:38  But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things. 
Dan 11:39  Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god [another Jesus – 2Co 11:4-6], whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain [Sell the word of God to multiple billions of souls]. 
Dan 11:40  And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. 
Dan 11:41  He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. 
Dan 11:42  He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. 
Dan 11:43  But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps [depicting the desolation of the world’s spiritual understanding equal with Sodom and Old Jerusalem]. 
Dan 11:44  But tidings out of the East and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. 
Dan 11:45  And he shall plant the tabernacles [Feast of booths = temporary dwellings] of his palace between the seas [the centre of the known world] in the glorious holy mountain [Jerusalem at odds with the Lord’s Heavenly Jerusalem within]; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

Even though all of those scriptures are represented historically, they are kept today inwardly in God’s creation of the young Bride of Christ. She is hidden from the world, though figuratively standing in full spiritual sight on the Moon, her Babylonian sister, bathed in the full brilliance of Christ’s light for her sole understanding.

Rev 12:1  And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman [the Bride of Christ] clothed with the sun [Christ, her Husband], and the moon [Babylonian Christianity and the world] under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars [Depicting the twelve sons of Israel]: 
Rev 12:2  And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered [Bringing forth fruit of the Kingdom in marriage to Christ to help heal the breach]. 

Psa 72:7  In his days shall the righteous flourish [grow in peace, knowledge and understanding]; and abundance of peace so long as the moon [Body of Christ, the Bride and her sister] endureth. 
Psa 72:8  He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. 
Psa 72:9  They that dwell in the wilderness [Babylon, the World] shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust [Jews who say that they are Jews and are not – Rev 3:9]. 
Psa 72:10  The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. 
Psa 72:11  Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him. 
Psa 72:12  For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper [Today in the Elect, and the rest of the world in the Resurrection to Judgement]. 
Psa 72:13  He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy. 
Psa 72:14  He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
Psa 72:15  And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised. 
Psa 72:16  There shall be an handful of corn [the parable of multiplication of seed, the stars of heaven] in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth. 
Psa 72:17  His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed. 
Psa 72:18  Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. 
Psa 72:19  And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen. 

All of those previous verses portray our Lord’s “pity”, his mercy first upon his fleshy Bride, who is today being changed spiritually ahead of her sisters in Babylon and thus being created in Christ’s image. Since the cross is her ‘day’ of very timely symbolic gentle rain of fiery chastisements healing the breach.

Rev 3:14  And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans [not just the Loadiceans but the entire Seven Churches of Asia] write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; 

Joh 10:34  Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

Luk 12:32  Fear not, little flock [The few very Elect of God]; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom [Christ her Husband and inheritance]. 

From Adam to the end of the One-Thousand Year reign for Babylonian Christianity, inclusive of the world, is an undervalued ‘rain’ of God’s word held by them unrighteously, becoming heavier and more troublesome because of forced rulership consummating in a deathly baptism of fiery ‘rain’ at the end of the OTY reign.  

Israel, no doubt confused because of the dire warnings of imminent exile, the Lord in the Minor Prophets and here in these subsequent verses in Joel is prophesying the very forebodingly clouded understanding of God’s word depicted as ‘rain’, God deliberately confused as ‘fire’, felt much later in the One-Thousand Year rule with the rod of iron followed by a much heavier flood of fire in the Resurrection to Judgment. It all, indeed, is a dreadful Day of the Lord because they are not given an understanding of the signs and symbols the younger sister, the Lord’s Bride, is given to receive gloriously. The deluge of Ezekiel-like’ rain’ on the Eighth Day, hidden in and separate from the Last Great Day of the Feast of Tabernacles, is, for her elder sister and the world, a flood of God’s ironically baptising fiery word in the Lake of Fire, and the initially unappreciated Joel 2:18-like “pity” of immense proportions.

Both Aholah and Aholibah, representing all of Israel and indirectly the entire world are utterly witless to being The Great Whore of Revelations; all rejoice together, imagining that they are now saved since the cross and expect that the One Thousand Year reign is a time of incredible physical richness when the Lord will do unimaginably great physical things (Joel 2:20-21). They believe that the rod of iron in that age is for the evil people who don’t believe their version of Christ and will be condemned to an everlasting burning fiery hell. However, it is the diminutive element of Aholibah, the Bride of Christ, who, in this age, since the cross, is given an understanding of types, symbols and the shadows of Christ’s word to leave Babylon.

Rev 18:3  For all nations [Aholah and Aholibah] have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her [own] fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. 
Rev 18:4  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, [the Elect of God] that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 

Joe 2:21  Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things. 
Joe 2:22  Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field [first the Elect spiritually while the world luxuriates in Babylon without fear]: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength. 
Joe 2:23  Be glad then, ye children of Zion [the New Heavenly Jerusalem], and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. 
Joe 2:24  And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.

Ever since the cross, the budding Bride of Christ has had her eyes and ears increasingly amplified to discern the times and rescued from the desolation from the famine of his word.

Luk 12:54  And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is. 

The gentle ‘shower’ on our spiritual growth doesn’t wash out the newly planted seedlings as..

Exo 23:30  By little and little I will drive them [the giant humiliating sins] out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. 

Luk 12:55  And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass. 
Luk 12:56  Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time? 

In these last days, Elijah, the prophet, represents the Lord’s Elect. They are given the “pity” to discern the times and are already soaked with timely rain in the due season since the cross. Elijah represents the Elect of God, who runs ahead of Ahab, while Ahab represents the Elect’s sisters and the world, unaware of the possibility of having their carriage bogged by the flood of God’s word before getting to the entrance of Jezreel (Jezreel means “God sows”) for the early rain and subsequently the little first harvest of souls to lead in the later, abundant harvest, the world, in the Resurrection to Judgement. Knowing her calling, the Bride of Christ is today, gladly in the seemingly oxymoronic (to her Babylonian sisters) ‘great and dreadful day of the Lord’. Not a soul in Babylonian Christianity can fathom why anyone would delight in that day of dark gloominess and dreadful foreboding. Yet the Bride, as did ancient Israel before the crossing of the Red Sea, clearly sees her Egyptian enemies while her enemies could barely see their hands in front of their faces (Exo 14:19-20).

Mal 4:5  Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet [Christ represented in his Christs] before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: 

1Ki 18:41  And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain. 
1Ki 18:42  So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees, 
1Ki 18:43  And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times. 
1Ki 18:44  And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not. 
1Ki 18:45  And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel. 
1Ki 18:46  And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel. 

The first four thousand years of man’s torturous existence capitulated in proof that God’s Laws in Israel without the holy spirit are impossible to keep is, in essence, a type of tribulation (Symbolised by the number 4) for the whole of that period. 

Ecc 2:23  For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. (Job 14:1).

The unbelieving world since the cross entered the subsequent 2,000 years, adding up to 6,000 years of the flesh before an unwelcome effective ‘little rain’ of obligatory submission in the 1,000-year reign with the rod of iron by Christ and his Wife will be a very disturbing forced Sabbath Day-type rest from their self-righteous rule. Proof that man cannot do the will of God in the One Thousand Years without the holy spirit doing the work, will abruptly end in the entire earth of mankind being salted with firey rain, killing all humanity and typified by sulphurous fiery rain upon Sodom and the cities of the plain, sterilising the nearby sea, which became named the Salt Sea, now called the Dead Sea. 

Rev 20:7  And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 
Rev 20:8  And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 
Rev 20:9  And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
Rev 20:10  And the Devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. 

In stark irony, the Dead Sea epitomises the ‘abussos’, 400 metres or 1,300 feet below mean sea level, into which mankind primarily depicted as Sodom, yet collectively Egypt, Babylon and old Jerusalem, the world, is symbolically purified by salt, a byproduct of burning sulphur.

Geographically, the shape of Israel resembles the body of our Lord’s first wife, with the snow-fed waters from Mt. Hermon in the north representing the head and mouth, flowing south in the Jordan River. Ephraim and Manasseh are located on either side of the Jordan River and can be seen as her lungs and heart, the centre of dispassion for her Lord’s ardour. The cities of the plain, highlighted by Sodom and Gomorrah, are likened to her stomach, where the riches of the crossroads of merchandise of the known world characterised as filthy food and dead works, are sterilised in the sulphurous fire and resulting Salt/Dead Sea. Her dung then geographically exits and is buried in the sandy, “impoverished” wilderness of sin in Edom, Esau’s habitation (Mal 1:4, Amos 9:11-12, Joel 3:19).

Job 20:20  Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. 

Mat 15:17  Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? 
Mat 15:18  But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. 

Psa 107:23  They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters [Meaning, within and outwardly holding and teaching the unrighteous doctrines, the merchandise of men]; 
Psa 107:24  These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
Psa 104:25  So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable [where ‘marine snow’ of dead sea creatures and men of noble and poor alike in ships decay and are eaten by unclean creatures, the corrupt men], both small and great beasts. 
Psa 104:26  There go the ships [to do business {Psa 107:23-31} in the abussos with the Devil]: there is that Leviathan [Satan, the Devil], whom thou hast made to play therein. 
Psa 104:27  These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season. 

Rev 20:1  And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. [Bottomless Pit G12. Abussos – Phonetic: ab’-us-sos- Definition: 1. bottomless 2. unbounded 3. the abyss a. the pit. Deep]

Rev 20:2  And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 
Rev 20:3  And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. (Rev 20:7-10). 

Adam to the Cross is a time frame of 4,000 years + 2,000 years from the cross to today, equaling 6,000 years of man’s rule ushering in the First Resurrection. At the end of which is a little rain of fiery death depicted as the “little season” where all flesh is consumed prior to the subsequent instant resurrection to the all-consuming flood of baptismal Fire, the Resurrection to Judgement. 

To Babylon, it will be a most ironically “confusing” (meaning of Babylon) time depicting our Lord’s “pity” (this study’s theme) for the entire world! However, as seen in Joseph’s brothers’ bothered realisation of their brother’s sudden appearance, all of humanity ever to be conceived will gradually become clear to their understanding of their fiery baptismal death physically and spiritually.

Mat 3:11  I indeed baptise [submerge; wash] you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptise [submerge; wash] you with the holy ghost, and with fire: 
Mat 3:12  Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. 

The passage from the cross to the First Resurrection is symbolic yet close enough to 2,000 years = 6,000 years, the timeframe from the first day of creation, which the Roman calendar calls Sunday, to the seventh day, Saturday, of man’s rule. The transition from the First Resurrection to the Resurrection to Judgement is (symbolically or literally) 1,000 years = 7,000 years, a Sabbath Day and forced rest from man’s works in the One Thousand Year rule, depicting the conclusion of the Feast of Tabernacles. At the end of 7,000 years, the Feast of Tabernacles to the conclusion of the “Eighth Day”, meaning the Resurrection to Judgement is the Last Great Day for the entirety of humanity ever to be conceived.

Lev 23:33  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 
Lev 23:34  Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD. 
Lev 23:35  On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. 
Lev 23:36  Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein. 
Lev 23:37  These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day: 
Lev 23:38  Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD. 
Lev 23:39  Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, [The completion of flesh before the Resurrection to Judgement] when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, [The whole storehouse to God] ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.

The first day of the Feast of Tabernacles is a Sabbath day and lasts six more days to the following Friday. The final Eighth Day of the Feast is an entirely separate “holy convocation” Sabbath dedicated to representing the coming in of the Great Harvest of souls in the final baptismal deluge of fire known as the Lake of Fire. The incredibly seeming incongruousness of that event is that it produces the Joel 2:24 wealth of spiritual wheat and fat of spiritual growth through the holy spirit represented as wine and oil.

Link to understanding the Feast of Tabernacles: https://www.iswasandwillbe.com/the-biblical-overview-of-the-plan-of-god-part-7/

Joh 7:37  In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 
Joh 7:38  He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 
Joh 7:39  (But this spake he of the spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the holy ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) 

To be continued next week in Section B.

Oba 1:14  Nor stand by the breach to cut off its escaped, Nor deliver up its remnant in a day of distress.

[Study Aired August 21, 2024]

Oba 1:14  NeitherH408 shouldest thou have stoodH5975 (H8799 Qal) inH5921 the crossway,H6563 to cut offH3772 (H8687 Hiphil) (H853) those of his that did escape;H6412 neitherH408 shouldest thou have delivered upH5462 (H8686 Hiphil) those of his that did remainH8300 in the dayH3117 of distress.H6869

H408 – Al, not, no, nor, neither, nothing, do not, let not, let there not be, a negative particle

H5975 – Amad, (Qal) to stand, remain, endure, take one’s stand, be in a standing attitude, stand forth/up/upright/with, take/make a stand, present oneself, attend upon, be or become servant of, stand still, stop, cease, tarry, delay, remain, continue, abide, persist, be steadfast, hold one’s ground, remain standing, rise, be erect, be upright, arise, appear, come on the scene, appear, rise up/against, be appointed, grow flat/insipid, a primitive root

H5921 – Al, upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against, on the ground of, on the basis of, because of, therefore, on behalf of, for the sake of, for, with, in spite of, notwithstanding, in the matter of, as regards, to, over to, unto, in addition to, with, adjoining, next, at, around, down upon, on, from, up upon, up to, towards, over towards, against, because, although, properly, the same as H5920, Al, height, above, upwards, on high, from a primitive root H5927, Alah, to go up, ascend, climb, meet, visit, follow, depart, withdraw, retreat, come up, to spring up, grow, shoot forth, go up over, rise, extend, excel, be superior to, be taken up/away, be brought up, take oneself away, be exalted, bring up, cause to ascend, cause to go up/ascend, bring against, take away, draw up, train, rouse, stir up, offer, exalt, be carried away, be led up, be taken up into, be inserted in, be offered, lift oneself

H6563 – Pereq, parting of ways, breaking in upon, plunder, crossroad, from a primitive root 

H6561, Paraq, to tear apart/away/off, break away, snatch, rescue, tear off from oneself, be broken off, be broken in pieces

H3772 – Karath, (Hiphil) to cut, cut off/down, destroy, take away, permit to perish, a primitive root

H853 – Ayth, sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative, contracted from H226, Oth, sign, signal, distinguishing mark, banner, remembrance, miraculous sign, omen, warning, token, ensign, standard, miracle, proof, probably from a primitive root H225, Ooth, to consent, agree (Used four times in OT)

H6412 – Paleet, refugee, fugitive, escaped one, from a primitive root H6403, Palat, to escape, save, deliver, slip away, bring into security, cause to escape, cast forth, be delivered, bring to safety

H408 – see above

H5462 – Sahgar, (Hiphil) to shut up, deliver up, imprison, a primitive root

H8300 – Sariyd, survivor, remnant, that which is left, from a primitive root H8277, Sarad, to escape, survive (Used once in OT)

H3117 – Yome, day, time, year, a working day, a day’s journey, days, lifetime, period (general), today, yesterday, tomorrow, from an unused root meaning to be hot

H6869 – Tsarah, straits, distress, trouble, vexer, rival wife, from H6862, Tsoriy, Zorites or Zorathites = see Zorah, hornet, from H6881 Tsorah, Zareah or Zoreah or Zorah = hornet, apparently another form for H6880, Tsirah, hornets, from a primitive root H6879, Tsara, to be diseased of skin, be leprous, be a leper, have leprosy

In Hebrews, we are promised that our day of distress will yield the peaceable fruit of righteousness. This study focuses on the phrase “day of distress”. We look at three Hebrew words of “distress”. Obadiah writes about Edom’s violence against Jacob, resulting in Jacob’s day of distress. Applying this inwardly, we all must go through our day of distress, and while uncomfortable at the time, it will produce good fruit. We will also look at the story of Elkanah’s two wives – Hannah and Peninnah – and see how a Hebrew word for distress is also translated as a female rival. We are encouraged to know there is great value in turning to the Lord and being obedient to his voice, especially in our times of tribulation and distress, as it says in Deuteronomy:

Deu 4:30  When thou art in tribulation (distress/ a narrow, tight place), and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
Deu 4:31  (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.

Luk 8:15  But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Heb 12:11  Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

Here are three different Hebrew words used for distress.

• H4691 Distress, narrowness, trouble anguish
• H6887 Distress, be in a strait (trouble)
• H6869 Distress צָרָה (tsaw-raw’) means tightness (that is, figuratively trouble); transitively a female rival

[1] H4691 Distress (mets-oo-kaw’) appears in Zep 1:15

Zep 1:14  The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
Zep 1:15  That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble [H6869] and distress [H4691], a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
Zep 1:16  A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
Zep 1:17  And I will bring distress [H6887] upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.

[2] H6887 Distress means to be in a strait (trouble) and it is the root word of H6869 (tsaw-raw) meaning a female rival and adversary. 

Zep 1:17  And I will bring distress [H6887] upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.

Zep 1:17 is linked to 1 Sam 2:8. It is God’s promise to us, he raises the new man in us, out of the dust, and from the dunghill. The Lord will make the poor (lowly in spirit, meek and gentle) to set them among princes.

1Sa 2:8  He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars [H4690] of the earth are the LORD’S, and he hath set the world upon them.
1Sa 2:9  He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

1Ti 3:15  But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Rev 3:12  Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God,which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

[3] Distress H6869 צָרָה (tsaw-raw’) means tightness (that is, figuratively trouble); a female rival. The word appears as “adversary” in 1 Samuel.

1Sa 1:6  And her adversary (H6869) also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.

Here is the story of Elkanah’s two wives: Hannah and Peninnah

1Sa 1:1  Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah…
1Sa 1:2  And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

The root words of the two names

Hannah = favoured, from the root word meaning H2603 khaw-nan properly to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore, gracious.

Num 6:25  The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:

Peninnah = an Israelitess, from the root word H6434, a pearl, ruby

Job 28:18  No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.

Pro 3:15  She (Wisdom) is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.

The wife with children, Peninnah provokes the wife without children, Hannah.

1Sa 1:3  And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there.

1Sa 1:4  And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:
1Sa 1:5  But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.
1Sa 1:6  And her adversary [H6869] also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
1Sa 1:7  And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked [H3707] her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

The word for provokes [H3707] kaw-as, is a primitive root meaning to trouble, to be indignant, angry, be wroth, riled and disturbed. 

The female adversary Peninnah provokes / riles Hannah, but the fruit of this “riling up” is the good fruit [Samuel]. 

The name “Samuel” (pronounced, shem-oo-ale’) means [H8050] Heard of God.

1Sa 1:10  And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.
1Sa 1:11  And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head

1Sa 1:15  And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD

1Sa 1:17  Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.
1Sa 1:18  And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.
1Sa 1:19  And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.
1Sa 1:20  Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD

Conclusion

Our day of distress, while uncomfortable at the time, will yield the peaceable fruit of righteousness

Heb 12:11  Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

Heb 12:28  Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
Heb 12:29  For our God is a consuming fire.

While Penninah provoked and riled up Hannah (caused her distress), the peaceable fruit resulting from the ordeal was Samuel, whom God did not let any of his words fall to the ground.

1Sa 3:19  And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground.

When we think above that which is written, our words fall to the ground, hence Christ’s commandment to learn not to do this:

1Co 4:6  And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

[Study Aired November 24, 2022]

2Ki 12:1   In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2Ki 12:2  And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him. 
2Ki 12:3  But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
2Ki 12:4  And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh into any man’s heart to bring into the house of the LORD,
2Ki 12:5  Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.
2Ki 12:6  But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
2Ki 12:7  Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.
2Ki 12:8  And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
2Ki 12:9  But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.
2Ki 12:10  And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD.
2Ki 12:11  And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the LORD,
2Ki 12:12  And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
2Ki 12:13  Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the LORD: 
2Ki 12:14  But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the LORD.
2Ki 12:15  Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully. 
2Ki 12:16  The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests’.
2Ki 12:17  Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
2Ki 12:18  And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
2Ki 12:19  And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 
2Ki 12:20  And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
2Ki 12:21  For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

Any and all judgment coming into our life can be understood as preceding from God’s word from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21 and is “given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness”(2Ti 3:16). Those words of God will not return void (Isa55:11), but will result in providing for us the growth and understanding we need regarding knowing our Father and Christ if we are being sanctified in this age (Joh 17:3, Joh 17:17, Heb 9:27).  In time and through patient continuance (Joh 8:31-32) in well doing, God’s promises will be fulfilled, resulting in the salvation of all mankind, each man in his order (2Pe 3:9, Jas 5:7, 1Co 15:22-24)

2Pe 3:9  The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 

Jas 5:7  Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

1Co 15:22  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 
1Co 15:23  But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming. 
1Co 15:24  Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.

The thousand years of reigning by the saints and the rebellion at the end of it by humanity (Rev 20:8) demonstrate the inability for the world to follow through and be sanctified by God’s word, which will happen in the lake of fire for the rest of humanity (Rev 20:14). God’s elect will have already endured through that process of fiery judgment without which, we would be illegitimate children (Heb 12:6-8). The day of the Lord is now upon God’s people, and is represented by judgment and fiery trials (1Pe 4:12) which torment us and burn up our old man, legitimizing our role as kings and priests who will rule under Christ for a thousand years, which is a symbolic amount of time (2Ti 2:12).

Heb 12:6  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 
Heb 12:7  If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
Heb 12:8  But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

2Ti 2:12  If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: 

This section of Kings (2Ki 12:1-21) is a type and shadow of that time of ruling over the nations of this world, and can be “profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” if God will grant us this blessing.

2Ki 12:1   In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
2Ki 12:2  And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him. 
2Ki 12:3  But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. 

The “seventh year of Jehu“ [king of Israel] when Jehoash began to reign [in Judah] is a type of when the elect will be resurrected and reign over Jerusalem below, “in Jerusalem” of 2Kings 12:1. Jerusalem represents the unconverted ‘earth, earth, earth’ of mankind (Jer 22:29) who will experience this rod of iron rulership of the saints over all flesh for a symbolic thousand years (Rev 20:6). Rulership with a rod of iron over those who do not have God’s spirit within them can never be anything more than as a water baptism does not bring about conversion (Hab 2:14).

Jer 22:29  O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD. 

Rev 20:6  Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. 

Hab 2:14  For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

The world will read and hear the word which is in the earth, but will not be able, without God’s spirit within them, to continue in the truth and being faithful to God’s word, which is reserved for God’s elect throughout the ages as His “disciples indeed” who are blessed to read, hear, and keep “those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand” (Rev 1:3, Jas 1:22, Rom 8:9, Joh 8:31).

Joh 8:31  Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

The thousand-year reign is therefore a dispensation witnessing against all flesh that cannot inherit the kingdom of God, seeing this is not their time to receive this hope of glory within which makes God’s elect “accepted in the beloved” today (Col 1:27, Eph 1:6, Rom 9:13). Jehoash’s forty-year reign is a type of that reign of the saints and so we read this about his reign remembering that “Jehoiada” (the priest) is a type of Christ our head “And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him“. Jehoash did that which was right but in the end “the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places” (of verse 3), telling us in type and shadow language that the rule of the saints, when we are doing the right things for the people of the earth, does not conclude in a change of heart as it is only God who can do the dragging and converting of their lives which brings increase (Joh 6:44, 1Co 3:6).

Eph 1:6  To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

Joh 6:44 No one can come to Me if ever the Father Who sends Me should not be drawing him. And I shall be raising him in the last day.

1Co 3:6  I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. Repair the breaches of the house

2Ki 12:4  And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the hallowed things that is brought into the house of Jehovah, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it cometh into any man’s heart to bring into the house of Jehovah, 
2Ki 12:5  let the priests take it to them, every man from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found. 
2Ki 12:6  But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house. 
2Ki 12:7  Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore take no more money from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house. 
2Ki 12:8  And the priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house. [ASV]

A “breach“^H919 is symbolic of a schism in the body of Christ that needs to be healed just as you would physically stop a leak or fill in a crack in a wall of a building or ship that was in need of repair (1Co 12:24-27). God is the one who causes these schisms to come about so we can learn to have compassion on each other as we go about healing those schisms with the gifts God has given us to accomplish this (1Co 12:28).

1Co 12:24  For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: 
1Co 12:25  That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. 
1Co 12:26  And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
1Co 12:27  Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. 
1Co 12:28  And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. 

Breach: H919 bedeq beh’-dek 

From H918; a gap or leak (in a building or a ship): – breach, + calker.

Total KJV occurrences: 10

Jehoash, who is a type of the elect, asks this of the priests who represent those who were religious leaders in Babylon, but who are now being given their direction from God’s elect (Rev 11:15). What is specifically asked of the world during the thousand-year reign is stated this way: “All the money of the hallowed things that is brought into the house of Jehovah, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it cometh into any man’s heart to bring into the house of Jehovah” (see John Gill’s commentary on 2Kings 12:4 for the Old Testament links to these specific offerings). This statement represents the world’s dedication of their lives to repair the breaches of the house of Jehovah. As will be revealed, this dedication does not manifest unless rules are put in place, a rod of iron structure that brings about the results that Jehoash desires, but these are not sacrifices that are typical of what God wants (Php 3:9) and we can only give properly unto God by being given a broken and contrite heart that worships God in spirit and in truth (Isa 66:2, Psa 51:17, Mic 6:8, Joh 4:23).

Php 3:9  And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: 

Isa 66:2  For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

Psa 51:17  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. [which cause us to give cheerfully and out of a willing heart (2Co 9:6-7)]

2Co 9:6  But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. 
2Co 9:7  Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

Mic 6:8  He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Joh 4:23  But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

The book of Malachi talks about bringing the tithe into the storehouse of God, which represents our entire life while we are in this flesh, and to do so as a cheerful giver (2Co 9:6-7). Therefore, these actions by the priests not wanting to repair the breaches of the house are a witness against them that they are yet a rebellious house that does not understand the blessing that would be theirs if they ‘would only just come under his wing’, which none of us can do until we are dragged to Christ (Mat 23:37, Joh 6:44). God knows how stubborn our carnal hearts are, and this section of kings makes that very clear. These things again are written for our sakes (1Co 10:11) to show us that it is impossible to be dedicated to God and “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse” with a humble and contrite heart unless the Lord grants that spirit (Mal 3:8-15).  That is who we are, but if God is merciful to us in this age, we will also experience the day of the Lord now (Mal 4:1-6) that will result in the fruit described in the closing verses of Malachi chapter three (Mal 3:16-18). We don’t get from Malachi 3:8-15 to Malachi 3:16-18 without experiencing Malachi 4:1-6 which is typical of the seven last plagues that must be poured out upon God’s elect to make the bride ready (Rev 15:8, Rev 19:7).

Mat 23:37  O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

Mal 3:8  Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. 
Mal 3:9  Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. 
Mal 3:10  Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Mal 3:11  And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts. 
Mal 3:12  And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts. 
Mal 3:13  Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? 
Mal 3:14  Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts? 

Mal 4:1  For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 
Mal 4:2  But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. 
Mal 4:3  And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts. 
Mal 4:4  Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. 
Mal 4:5  Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: 
Mal 4:6  And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. 

Mal 3:16  Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. 
Mal 3:17  And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. 
Mal 3:18  Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

It is in the 23rd year of king Jehoash that “the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house“, which points to the only way the breaches in God’s temple can be healed, and that is by grace through faith represented by the number five (2+3=5), which is not part of the dispensation called ‘the thousand-year rule’.

Here are three bible versions of 2Kings 12:7-8 to help us get the sense of what is being said here.

2Ki 12:7  Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore take no more money from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.
2Ki 12:8  And the priests consented that they should take no more money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house. (ASV)

2Ki 12:7 and king Jehoash calls to Jehoiada the priest, and to the priests, and said unto them, `Wherefore are you not strengthening the breach of the house? and now, receive no money from your acquaintances, but for the breach of the house give it.
2Ki 12:8 And the priests consent not to receive money from the people, nor to strengthen the breach of the house, (CLV)

2Ki 12:7  Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.
2Ki 12:8  And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house. (KJV)

This was an act of disobedience on the part of the priests who decided, “If we can’t keep this money for ourselves from our “acquaintances” then we’re not going to collect it and not repair the breaches of the house of the Lord.” This is all typical of the religious leaders of this world not wanting to go down to Jerusalem to worship the true God and present their bodies a living sacrifice which is what will be required of the nations of the world (Zec 14:17). Even if there is no conversion, God is going to require that the nations come to learn how to worship him (Psa 96:9, Psa 33:8).

Zec 14:17  And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. 

Psa 96:9  O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth. 

Psa 33:8  Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

The priests’ stubbornness regarding not collecting the money from their acquaintances for the house of the Lord, does not stop God from formulating another way in which to collect these resources, as we will read. The religious world, once they know what is required of them in their service to the Lord, will not be interested in following through, especially in matters of repairing the breaches of the Lord’s house. When Christ is preached with selfish motives, like wanting to make money off of the gospel, not freely receiving and giving, then we become that breach by our own actions, and this chapter shows us how traditions of men will not die away overnight. Any obedience that is experienced during the thousand-year reign is really just mankind complying to God’s will against their own yet carnal will, making them of the same opinion still (Mat 10:8, Luk 6:46). All these events which unfold are all according to the counsel of God’s own will and show us who we are without the spirit of God within us giving us the ability to wholeheartedly serve the Lord (Mic 6:8).

2Ki 12:9  and Jehoiada the priest takes a chest, and pierces a hole in its lid, and puts it near the altar, on the right side, as one comes in to the house of Yahweh, and the priests keeping the threshold have put there all the money that is brought in to the house of Yahweh. [CLV]

Christ is the one who has paid for our transgressions (1Pe 1:18), and this chest represents the life of Christ that was pierced (“pierces a hole in its lid“) to pay for our sins and transgressions (Isa 53:5). The placement of the chest is significant as we are bound to the altar with Christ “on the right side” meaning that through his life that was poured out for us we can have the power to present our bodies a living sacrifice through Christ, in the “house of Yahweh“. Keeping the door as these priests did, or the threshold, which is to be a servant or door keeper (Psa 84:10, Joh 13:14) whose function, although humble and unassuming (Mic 6:8), is critical to facilitating growth through a spirit of humility at that threshold where God used the priests to keep “the door [and] put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD“.

1Pe 1:18  Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 

Isa 53:5  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Psa 84:10  For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Joh 13:14  If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.

Mic 6:8  He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

2Ki 12:10 And it comes to pass, at their seeing that the money [is] abundant in the chest, that there goes up a scribe of the king, and of the high priest, and they bind [it] up, and count the money that is found [in] the house of Yahweh,
2Ki 12:11 and have given the weighed money into the hands of those doing the work, those inspecting the house of Yahweh, and they bring it out to those working in the wood, and to builders who are working in the house of Yahweh,
2Ki 12:12 and to those [repairing] the wall, and to hewers of stone, and to buy wood and hewn stones to strengthen the breach of the house of Yahweh, and for all that goes out on the house, to strengthen it. [CLV]

The resources that have now been made available through this box where people are putting money needs to be counted and distributed to the various workers to see to it that the breaches get healed in the temple. These actions are symbolic of how the Lord will use the elect as His scribes: “there goes up a scribe of the king, and of the high priest, and they bind [it] up, and count the money that is found [in] the house of Yahweh” to properly distribute this wealth that is symbolic of God’s word (Pro 4:7, Pro 2:1-7) to bring about the repairs to the various breaches in the temple of God (1Co 3:16).

Pro 4:7  Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

Pro 2:1  My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; [in “a chest“]
Pro 2:2  So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; [use that wisdom to heal the “breaches” in the temple of God]
Pro 2:3  Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; 
Pro 2:4  If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;  [in “a chest“]
Pro 2:5  Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. 
Pro 2:6  For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. 
Pro 2:7  He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

There are two scribes that go up, “a scribe of the king, and of the high priest” who represent the elect who are given direction by Christ who is our King and high priest. These scribes’ function is to give “the weighed money into the hands of those doing the work, those inspecting the house of Yahweh, and they bring it out to those working in the wood, and to builders who are working in the house of Yahweh, and to those [repairing] the wall, and to hewers of stone, and to buy wood and hewn stones to strengthen the breach of the house of Yahweh, and for all that goes out on the house, to strengthen it“. This is all a shadow of how God will use the elect to teach the nations what actions are needed to repair “the breach of the house of Yahweh“, telling us that when God’s judgments are in the earth men will learn righteousness by the church (Isa 30:20, Isa 26:9-10, Eph 3:10). Learning of righteousness does not mean you are righteous or converted within, but it is the first stage of being ‘baptized with water’ which all men must experience before they are ‘baptized with spirit’ (Joh 3:5).

Isa 30:20  And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: 

Isa 26:9  With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
Isa 26:10  Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD. 

Eph 3:10  To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, 

Joh 3:5  Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

2Ki 12:13 Only, there is not made for the house of Yahweh basins of silver, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, any vessel of gold, and vessel of silver, out of the money that is brought into the house of Yahweh;”
2Ki 12:14 for to those doing the work they give it, and they have strengthened with it the house of Yahweh,
2Ki 12:15 and they do not reckon with the men into whose hand they give the money to give to those doing the work, for in faithfulness they are dealing.
2Ki 12:16 The money of a trespass-offering, and the money of sin-offerings is not brought in to the house of Yahweh–for the priests it is. [CLV]

God’s elect are the temple of God that is ruling on the earth during the thousand-year reign, and so there are at least two things being shown in these verses. Firstly, these implements represent who the elect already are, “basins of silver, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, any vessel of gold, and vessel of silver“, and so the money is not used to make any of these instruments in this story. Secondly, God’s elect “do not reckon with the men into whose hand they give the money to give to those doing the work, for in faithfulness they are dealing“. These men who the elect ‘don’t reckon with’ represent those whom God has caused to be faithful servants in that age, and so there is a trust that is established in their dealing with others which we know God controls, “for in faithfulness they are dealing” (Psa 33:4).

Psa 33:4 For upright is the word of Yahweh, And all His work is in faithfulness.” [CLV]

The priests, who represent the religious leaders of the world who are being ruled over by the saints, only receive “The money of a trespass-offering, and the money of sin-offerings” that “is not brought in to the house of Yahweh“, another symbol telling us that there is no conversion in the earth which only happens by partaking of this blessed communion we share in the “house of Yahweh” (1Co 10:16).

1Co 10:16  The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? 

2Ki 12:17 Then go up does Hazael king of Aram, and fights against Gath, and captures it, and Hazael sets his face to go up against Jerusalem;”
2Ki 12:18 and Jehoash king of Judah takes all the sanctified things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had sanctified, and his own sanctified things, and all the gold that is found in the treasures of the house of Yahweh and of the house of the king, and sends to Hazael king of Aram, and he goes up from off Jerusalem.
2Ki 12:19 And the rest of the matters of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2Ki 12:20 And his servants rise, and make a conspiracy, and smite Joash in the house of Millo, that is going down to Silla.
2Ki 12:21 yea, Jozachar son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad son of Shemer, his servants, have smitten him, and he dies, and they bury him with his fathers in the city of David, and reign does Amaziah his son, in his stead. [CLV]

This last section of Kings reveals a parable for us of how in the end the world will come up against God’s elect symbolized by these wars and rumours of war between “Hazael king of Aram, and fights against Gath, and captures it” and then “Hazael sets his face to go up against Jerusalem” typical of Gog and Magog doing this as well, at the end of the symbolic thousand-year reign (Rev 20:8).

Rev 20:8  And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

In a positive sense, Jehoash doing this, taking “all the sanctified things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had sanctified, and his own sanctified things, and all the gold that is found in the treasures of the house of Yahweh and of the house of the king, and sends to Hazael king of Aram, and he goes up from off Jerusalem” is symbolic of the elect during the thousand-year reign not shunning to declare the whole counsel of God as His faithful witnesses (Act 20:27), filling the world with the knowledge of God “as the waters cover the sea”(Hab 2:14). This also leads to the attempt of our death by Gog and Magog (Rev 20:8).

Act 20:26  Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. [Gog and Magog]
Act 20:27  For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. 

Hab 2:14  For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. 

Rev 20:8  And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 

In this light, Jehoash’s death typifies Christ and his Christ being crucified afresh – by Gog and Magog who have already spiritually murdered us in their hearts – the true nature of the beast being revealed at God’s appointed time (Php 3:18-19).

Php 3:18  (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 
Php 3:19  Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) 

Just as Christ demonstrated for his disciples that it was expedient for him to go away Joh 16:7) in order that the comforter would be sent, so it was expedient to have Satan loosed for a season to demonstrate what we all would resort to without the power of God’s holy spirit giving us the ability to do the right thing (1Sa 16:14-15).

1Sa 16:14  But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him. 
1Sa 16:15  And Saul’s servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee.

The actions of Judas betraying Christ typify the moment when Gog and Magog come up against the camp of the saints, as does this betrayal of “Jozachar son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad son of Shemer, his servants“. Judas being a [type of the man of perdition within all] and each person’s ‘day of evil’ being revealed, shows what is naturally in the heart of all men as God has ordained it: “But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him” (Luk 22:3, Pro 16:4). In this sense, we also see Joash as Judas or Saul after the priest Jehoiada dies, as we are told that he was not buried in the sepulchres of the kings, because of his idolatry and murder of a priest of the Lord (2Ch 24:13-27).

Joh 13:27  And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.

Luk 22:3  Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve. [Joash was a king whose name was changed, the ‘h’ being taken out, which is symbolic of God’s spirit leaving him, going from the name “Jehoash” to “Joash” after his transgressions found him out]

2Ch 24:13  So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.
2Ch 24:14  And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of the LORD, even vessels to minister, and to offer withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada. 
2Ch 24:15  But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died. 
2Ch 24:16  And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house. 
2Ch 24:17  Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.
2Ch 24:18  And they [the princes of Judah along with King Joash] left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass. 
2Ch 24:19  Yet he [the LORD God] sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they [the prophets] testified against them: but they would not give ear. 
2Ch 24:20  And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you. 
2Ch 24:21  And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
2Ch 24:22  Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he [Zechariah] died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.
2Ch 24:23  And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus. 
2Ch 24:24  For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash. 
2Ch 24:25  And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings. [Eze 18:24]
2Ch 24:26  And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess. 
2Ch 24:27  Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

Again, this is what we all would resort to without the power of God’s holy spirit giving us the ability to do the right thing (Pro 15:4-5). We can of ourselves do nothing (Joh 15:5) and yet we have a great promise if we receive the faith to believe it (2Pe 3:9, 1Jn 1:1-29).

Pro 15:4  A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Pro 15:5  A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent. [Jehoiada was a father figure to Jehoash]

Pro 16:4  The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. 

2Pe 3:9  The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 

1Jn 2:23  Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. 
1Jn 2:24  Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father. 
1Jn 2:25  And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. 
1Jn 2:26  These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. 
1Jn 2:27  But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. 
1Jn 2:28  And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. 
1Jn 2:29  If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.