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The Book of Joel – Chapter 2:18-27, Part 3,Section B, verses 25-27

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

[Study Aired August 31 2024]

(Continued – Joel 2:25-27 Section B)

Last week in Joel Chapter 2, we discussed the spiritual symbolism of wheat, wine, and oil in understanding Christ’s word and how it enriches his Bride spiritually. It covertly points to the time after the cross when Joel and the other prophets hazily understood that there must come a time of spiritual tearing down, war and building up of a new man (Ecc 3:1-8 ). A glorious revelation that the yet-to-be-revealed holy spirit would bring, is peace in profound contrast between the Old Covenant with the New that equally clouded Solomon’s understanding of him visualising the “two armies” as seen in the Son 6:13 and his realising that it is impossible for a ‘woman’, obscurely, the Church (Eccl 7:27-29) to keep God’s commandments. Another outstanding revelation alone for the very few Elect is that the holy spirit will cause incredible elation for their chastisements when the mysterious and much anticipated “helper” is fully realised. Subsequently, and seen only by the Elect of God, a phenomenal ‘breach’ (discussed in the last study) utterly preventing God’s people from keeping any of the Old Covenant would be miraculously healed.

Deu 32:5  They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they [the Old Covenant generation, alive and well today in Babylon] are a perverse and crooked generation. 

Pro 15:4  A wholesome [spiritual] tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit. 

This last Part B of Joel Chapter 2:25-27 is a very subtle spiritual transition: Christ becomes the Bride’s bright cloud of spiritual understanding and is only seen and understood by her into which she steadily ascends in growing harmonious unity with him, her Husband.

Mat 17:5  While he [Jesus] yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them [meaning, Jesus, Peter, James and John, the small group symbolising the Elect, and a vision manifestation of Moses and Elias]: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.

The Elect of God in these apparent ‘end times’ are unutterably humbled by the understanding that the Bible’s chronicle of every sordid lust of man from Adam to the end of the Eighth Day is overwhelmingly for the Bride alone! Even though she experienced harrowing physical chastisements in the wilderness, the New Covenant Bride is given relatively light affliction and resulting chastisements. All because of her growing spiritual understanding of her Lord’s word, she sees undeniably harsh chastisement as a blessing received paradoxically with joy.

2Co 4:17  For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
2Co 4:18  While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

2Co 9:15  Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift. 

2Co 12:4  How that he was caught up into paradise [clouds; heaven], and heard unspeakable words [Not for Babylon to understand in seven thousand years], which it is not lawful for a man [The Bride] to utter [to her 1,000 Babylonian sisters of Solomon’s harem and their understanding]. 

Luk 8:10  And he said, Unto you [The Bride] it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others [Her sisters in Babylon, the world] in parables; that [blindly] seeing they might not see, and [deafly] hearing they might not understand.

Continuing from the previous study, verses of Joel Chapter 2…

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. 

Before studying Joel 2:25-27 and its symbolism, it is important to note that the Bride alone has been given the keys to the kingdom. She understands the Lord’s meanings in scripture and can interpret the symbols, types, and shadows of names and terms. Her understanding is brightened by Christ’s great cloud of witnesses and juxtaposed with ‘terrible’ clarity, the subsequent great innumerable cloud of sister Babylonian witnesses leading the way in the heat of the day as the Bride’s understanding grows transparent.

Eze 1:22  And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal [fearfully understood word of God], stretched forth over their heads above [the blue sky by day and star-studded cobalt blue at night].

Heb 12:1  Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses [witnesses both good and evil designed specifically for her, alone], let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Heb 12:2  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Christ chose his Bride out of the field of the world to grow in beautiful spiritual femininity for his good pleasure to bestow on her kingship as his wife in subjection and co-rulership under him.

Joh 15:16  Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

Mat 16:13  When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
Mat 16:14  And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
Mat 16:15  He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
Mat 16:16And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
Mat 16:17Jesus answered and said to him, You are blessed, Simon, son of Jonah, for flesh and blood did not reveal it to you, but My Father in Heaven.
Mat 16:18And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Mat 16:19And I will give the keys of the kingdom of Heaven to you. [The Elect only] And whatever you may bind on earth shall occur, having been bound in Heaven, and whatever you may loose on earth shall occur, having been loosed in Heaven.

1Co 3:21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
1Co 3:22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;

(Mike Vinson. quote). “Those who have not been given the keys to the kingdom of heaven are those who cannot possibly accept the plain statement here in 1 Corinthians 3 that even “the world [and] death” are ours and that we must all live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God, including “yes, even the wicked for the day of evil” (Pro 16:4) in each of us. Those who have taken away the key of knowledge of how to enter into the kingdom of heaven will never agree that “all things are yours” really means “all things… the world, death, things present and things to come”. And those who refuse this key to the kingdom of heaven also go as far as to hinder those who are entering into the kingdom of heaven. “…Ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and they that were entering in ye hindered.” (Luk 11:52). Even those sad words are “in me, that is in my flesh” (Rom 7:18).”

The symbolism of the Bride’s former years of famine, mould, pestilence, and universal decay symbolised as locusts, cankerworms, caterpillars and palmerworms is spiritually seen in Aholah, particularly the younger Aholibah’s fornications, which directly symbolises our spiritual decay. And so, this study concludes with those two representative women it began, Aholah and Aholibah, depicting the two covenants of the Bride’s progression to becoming the spiritual Aholibah, Christ’s Wife. Our Lord’s “pity”, meaning his mercy, is first graphically understood by the Elect of God today, having seen those two formally beautiful virgin young women as herself, mirroring their ‘unspeakable’ humiliation for their former mortifying God-given lusts with their literal skirts up above their thighs. She is the Bride found in the field of the world characterised as Babylon in the bloody death of her Lord’s truth to be sheepishly arrayed in royal clothing. Our Lord vividly depicts our Aholibah-like physical lewdity to deliberately jolt our spiritual senses in pornographic contrast.

(Fornication: G4202 – Porneia – Phonetic: por-ni’-ah- Definition: 1. illicit sexual intercourse a. adultery, fornication, homosexuality, lesbianism, intercourse with animals etc. G4203 – Porneuo

– Phonetic: porn-yoo’-o – Definition: 1. to prostitute one’s body to the lust of another 2. to give one’s self to unlawful sexual intercourse a. to commit fornication)

Eze 23:17  And the Babylonians came to her [Aholibah – the Lord’s budding Elect] into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them [the Babylonians!]
Eze 23:18  So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my [Christ’s] mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister [Aholah]. 
Eze 23:19  Yet she [Aholibah] multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
Eze 23:20  For she doted upon their paramours [puzzlingly, concubines, usually females but exchangeably male], whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
Eze 23:21  Thus thou [Aholibah humiliatingly today, since the cross, especially] calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.

It is deliberately heartbreaking for the Lord to write the events in himself that Aholibah’s (The incipient Bride’s) ‘mind was alienated from him’ more than she was from her Babylonian lovers. Every detail of her saga dreadfully highlights unsatiated lust for validating her beauty that required having ‘endless’ young male paramours gleefully using her body for their lust and, no doubt, treacherous ribald recounting among themselves (‘course jesting’ – Eph 5:3-4). Subsequently, her alienation from her lover’s is her subconscious turmoil that something is not right with her actions, pricking her conscience, yet her incontinence for validating her beauty overruled her conscience as she recounted the inexhaustible lusts the young men displayed for her in her youth. Consequently, the Lord was ‘alienated from her as He was from her sister’.

1Jn 3:20  For if our [Aholibah-like] heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
1Jn 3:21  Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.

Rom 2:15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their [Aholibah’s] conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;

Lying within Aholibah’s lust for male paramours is the subtly hidden spiritual Queen Vashti-like lust to be glorified by her female ‘paramours’ typified in young women on social media today with millions of followers. For the Bride’s keen observation, they represent the 40,000-plus Christian denominations residing in Babylon today, impudently arousing the laity with her fornicating doctrines and, with equal contrast, the noting of our potential pride.

Aholibah remembered the immorality of her youth and, later, as an older woman, seemed to secretly express the sorrowful and humiliating heartbreak of her lack of self-control. This study in Joel reflects the Lord’s compassion for this God-given condition for Aholah, the world, and particularly Aholibah, who both died in their sins without knowing that in the distant future, the holy spirit would empower the spiritual sister, the Bride of Christ, to overcome what Aholibah never considered possible…

Eze 23:20  For she doted upon their paramours [in this case, heterosexual males inability to reproduce spiritual fruit, as can’t asses physically], whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue [ejaculate] is like the issue [volume] of horses.

Jer 5:8  They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.

First, let’s clarify what an ass is. A mule is the offspring of a male donkey (a jack) and a female horse (a mare). A horse has 64 chromosomes, and a donkey has 62. The mule ends up with 63. Mules can be either male or female, but because of the odd number of chromosomes. They can’t reproduce. However, a male mule should be gelded in order to make him a safe and sociable animal. The term “ass” is interchangeable with that of “mule”, effectively a “paramour”; however, a donkey is a separate breed, and the result of crossing a female horse with a male donkey produces an “ass/mule” who is incapable of producing offspring.

Here now is the understanding of the spiritual symbolism of our Lord’s seemingly offensive imagery of the outwardly, genuinely pretty girls’ unbridled lust. It was their incurable lust for the most excellent-looking men’s incontinent desire for them that wildly energised the girls to validate their desirability endlessly. They are likened to wild asses who cannot reproduce yet irrepressibly pursue a stallion to quench their biological urgency.

Jer 2:24  A wild ass used to the wilderness [as opposed to a wife and keeper at home Tit 2:5], that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month [nothing will hold Ahola and Aholibah back from attestation to their beauty] they shall find her.

The young guys are depicted as having the flesh of asses, which spiritually means that they, too, cannot produce the fruit of righteousness that God desires as biologically can’t a female ass produce offspring.

The lusty young males’ comparatively minuscule “issue,” to match even one stallion’s issue, portrays the girl’s sheer number of ever-willing paramours, meaning the equivalence of espoused males equals endless adulteries. Apart from brutish passions, and because of the girl’s excessive breast stimulation, the naturally occurring melanin that causes skin darkening accumulates and can give the teats the appearance of bruising. Whilst ‘bruising’ can result from hormonal changes, lactation guarantees melanin darkening and, in Aholah and Aholibah’s case, is proof of sabotaged virginity.

Our Lord uses the offensive imagery of Aholah and Aholibah’s unquenchable sensual desires to emphasise our pursuit of their equivalent spiritual correlations to impact our conscience deeply. While in Babylonian Christianity, we received a prodigious’ issue’ of Satan’s seed to produce bastard spiritual offspring within and consequently greedily suckled the breast of the Great Whore to make strong our self-righteousness.

The following are verses reflecting the righteous use of a wife’s biological “towers”(Son 8:10), her breasts, which symbolise the Bride’s strength of fidelity and eternally delighting her Husband, children, and herself for their glorious God-given employments. Following are some supporting verses.

Joe 2:16  Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the Bride out of her closet.
Joe 2:17  Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar [for all the spilt blood of lies Eze 8:16. Rev 6:9], 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?

Pro 5:19  Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

1Pe 2:2  As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

1Pe 1:23  Being born again, not of corruptible seed [of Satan], but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

When we painfully see that we are Aholibah, these ensuing verses are attributed to us.

Joh 8:9 And they [The immature Elect] which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest [For this cause, Aholah], even unto the last [the many called Aholibahs but not electd]: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman [Aholibah] standing in the midst.
Joh 8:10  When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
Joh 8:11  She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

Since the cross, Christianity’s finger-pointing defamation of Aholah and Aholibah will, in the Lake of Fire, be destructively short-lived, as every person ever to be conceived, meaning the world of Gog and Magog will wish for the rocks (the Christs), to fall on them to hide them from the face of Christ and ‘his Christs’. The world will see, like we did, that they contain the guilt of Aholah, the elder sister, to have her whoredoms burned out of her in the Lake of Fire to bring forth fine gold into the Lord’s treasury.

Rev 6:15  And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
Rev 6:16  And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
Rev 6:17  For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

The beautiful conclusion of the sordid saga of man’s existence since Adam is that our Lord has first “pity” on Aholibah, His portrayed Wife, by abolishing her Jezebel-like shame (Rev 2:18-29) through his spirit in this age since the cross, and secondarily, his glorious pity extends to Aholah, the world in the Resurrection to Judgement. Hence…

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 [in seemingly torturous judgement in the Lake of Fire]: and my people shall never be ashamed. 
Joe 2:27  And ye [Eventually every man] 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. 

Those verses reflect our Husband, Christ’s immense “pity”; his mercy for the whoredoms he, through his deceitful servant Satan inflicted an endless ‘issue’ of fornication on the world to produce and redeem billions of bastard seed as numerous as the stars of heaven. In the following verse, Christ remembers his Bride and is today rejoicing with her as he puts the final touches on her righteousnesss in preparation to save the world in the Lake of Fire, the Resurrection to Judgement. As such, both Aholah and Aholibah’s shame shall never be sustained since their mortifying vulgarities mirror our parallelled spiritual impurities, for which we all are dreadfully grateful to these two girls.

2Co 12:9  And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities [in being awakened to our Alhoa and Aholibah-like spiritual depravity], that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
2Co 12:10  Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. 

We rigidly realise that we are spiritual Aholah and Aholibah and ashamed to be first to stoop and pick up stones in judgement; we no longer ogle, leer, hiss, nudge, wink or jeer Aholah and Aholibah since they are us, spiritually, designed to perform outrageously shameful acts for our benefit.

Aholaibah first, and then Aholoah’s immeasurable shame.

Eze 16:59  For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
Eze 16:60  Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
Eze 16:61  Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy [Free will] covenant.
Eze 16:62  And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:
Eze 16:63  That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.

The recurring verse for Part B of this study is, “Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.” (Pro 5:18), that Aholibah nakedly expressed physically for her paramours she, as the Bride today in learned God-given virgin purity, righteously expresses to her Lord with equal spiritual ardour for his and her mutually immense rejoicing.

Next week in Part C, and always Lord willing, we will study the essence that gives the Bride her power to achieve in spirit what she, as Aholibah, couldn’t physically.