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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.