...near ; let them come up 10 Beat your plowshares into fats overflow ; for their wickedness is great. 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision :...day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. 15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. 16 The LORD...

...times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened." Joel iii. 14, " Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision,...day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision." Zeph. i. 14, "The great day of the Lord is near; it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of...

...ripe ; come, get you down : for the press is full, the fats overflow, for their wickedness is .great. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision ; for the day of the Lord is near in^tbe valley of decision, &c. — JOEL. * Rev.!19. 15. t Isaiah, 63. 1-6. t Joel, 3.1,2; 13, 14. The...

...11) ; and in Joel : "The day of Jehovah cometh, — a day of darkness — and of thick darkness. — The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining" (ii. 1, 2; iii. 15); and in Ezekiel : "I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark ; I...

...Egypt (Ezek. xxxii. 7). And in these words this very destruction is foretold by Joel ii. 31, iii, 15; ' The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall not yield their light.' This, therefore, says Maimonides, is a proverbial expression, importing the...

...Rev. xiv., and foretell the end of the world the final conflagration, and the heavenly Jerusalem. ' The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars...withdraw their shining. The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall sh.ake, but the Lord...

...be no more, until he come, whose right it is ; and I will give it him. Again, he says : '/'//•• sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars...withdraw their shining: the Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the aarth shall shake. St. John also...

...preachers, and converts in Calcutta and elsewhere — there are " multitudes, DECISION DEMANDED. 139 multitudes, in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision." Even the abettors of Anglo-Catholicism are urging on the friends of pure protestant principles to a...

...will darken the sun in his rising, and the moon shall not make her light to shine." Isaiah xiii. 10. " The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their brightness. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood." Joel ii. 2, 10, 31 ; chap....

...ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow, for their wickedness is great. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision:...withdraw their shining. The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, aud utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will...