Understanding Joel 3 Through the Book of Revelation!

Joel 3 is one of 12 Chapters in the Bible that describe the 6th Bowl of Wrath battle of Armageddon at Revelation 16:12-16 & 19:11-21. Joel 3 also describes the conditions the Great Multitude of Revelation 7 experience during the Great Tribulation! Joel 3 concludes with God Restoring the Earth, His People & Jerusalem after the violence inflicted on the Great Multitude during the Great Tribulation!

Joel 3:16 The LORD shall roar out of Zion

Joel 3 (WEB) Full Chapter &
Its Connection to the Book of Revelation!

Joel 3:1-2
God Restores His People After He Gathers the Nations & Destroys them in the Valley of Jehoshaphat at Armageddon in the 6th Bowl of Wrath!

What is happening to God’s people during the time of Armageddon?
(Captivity – Revelation 13:10, Daniel 11:33, Revelation 2:10)
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Part of God’s reason for the Battle of Armageddon is described in Joel 3:2!

1 “For, behold, in those days, And in that time, When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 I will gather all nations, And will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; And I will execute judgment on them there for my people, And for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land,

12 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east.
13 And I saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs.

14 For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.
15 (“Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!”)
16 And they assembled them at the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.

The Rider on a White Horse
11 Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.
12 His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself.
13 He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God.
14 And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses.

15 From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.
16 On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.
17 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he called to all the birds that fly directly overhead, “Come, gather for the great supper of God,

18 to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great.”
19 And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to make war against him who was sitting on the horse and against his army.

20 And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
21 And the rest were slain by the sword that came from the mouth of him who was sitting on the horse, and all the birds were gorged with their flesh.

Joel 3:3-8
Plunder & Enslavement of God’s People During the Great Tribulation & God’s Correction of the Situation!

3 And have cast lots for my people, And have given a boy for a prostitute, And sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
4 “Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, And all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.

5 Because you have taken my silver and my gold, And have carried my finest treasures into your temples,
6 And have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, That you may remove them far from their border.
7 Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, And will return your repayment on your own head;
8 AndI will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, And they will sell them to the men of Sheba, To a faraway nation, For Yahweh has spoken it.”

Joel 3:9-12
God Gathers the Nations to the Battle of Armageddon to Judge them!

9 Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war. Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up.
10 Beat your plowshares into swords, And your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, “I am strong.”
11 Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, And gather yourselves together.” Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Yahweh.
12 “Let the nations arouse themselves, And come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; For there will I sit to judge all the surrounding nations.

Joel 3:13-14
Part of the Biblical Source of the Winepress Grape Harvest of Revelation 14:14-20!

13 Put in the sickle; For the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the winepress is full, The vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.”
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision.

The Harvest of the Earth
14 Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand.
15 And another angel came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, “Put in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe.”
16 So he who sat on the cloud swung his sickle across the earth, and the earth was reaped.
17 Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.

18 And another angel came out from the altar, the angel who has authority over the fire, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, “Put in your sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, for its grapes are ripe.”
19 So the angel swung his sickle across the earth and gathered the grape harvest of the earth and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress, as high as a horse’s bridle, for 1,600 stadia.

Joel 3:15-16
Part of the Biblical Source of the 6th Seal at Revelation 6:12-16!

15 The sun and the moon are darkened, And the stars withdraw their shining.“
16 Yahweh will roar from Zion, And thunder from Jerusalem; And the heavens and the earth will shake; But Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, And a stronghold to the children of Israel.

12 When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood,
13 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale.
14 The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.

15 Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,
16 calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,

Joel 3:17-21
God Restores the Earth, His People & Jerusalem After the Violence Inflicted on the Great Multitude or Revelation 7 During the Great Tribulation!

17 “So you will know that I am Yahweh, your God, Dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, And no strangers will pass through her any more.
18 It will happen in that day, That the mountains will drop down sweet wine, The hills will flow with milk, All the brooks of Judah will flow with waters; And a fountain will come forth from the house of Yahweh, And will water the valley of Shittim.

19 Egypt will be a desolation, And Edom will be a desolate wilderness, For the violence done to the children of Judah, Because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 But Judah will be inhabited forever, And Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21 I will cleanse their blood, That I have not cleansed: For Yahweh dwells in Zion.”

A Great Multitude from Every Nation
9 After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
10 and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
11 And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,

12 saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”
13 Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?”
14 I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

15 “Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence.
16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat.
17 For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

Related Topics

➥ The Great Tribulation Web Page Link
➥ Armageddon – 6th Bowl of Wrath Web Page Link:
➥ Armageddon Revelation 19 Web Page Link
➥ Great Multitude of Revelation 7 Web Page Link

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Joel chapter 3 presents a sequence in which God restores the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, gathers the nations for judgment in the Valley of Jehoshaphat, calls the nations to prepare for war, and then executes judgment described with harvest and winepress imagery. It includes “the day of Yahweh” drawing near in the valley of decision, cosmic signs in the heavens, Yahweh roaring from Zion while being a refuge to His people, and a concluding restoration in which Yahweh dwells in Zion and Judah and Jerusalem endure.

The Valley of Jehoshaphat is identified as the place where God brings down “all nations” to execute judgment “for my people, and for my heritage, Israel,” because they were scattered among the nations and the land was divided. It is also where God sits to judge the surrounding nations after they gather.

Tyre, Sidon, and the regions of Philistia are addressed in the context of wrongdoing against God’s people and what was taken from them—silver, gold, and treasured things—along with the selling of the children of Judah and Jerusalem. They are confronted as part of God’s declaration that repayment will be returned on their own heads.

Joel 3:3–8 describes the plunder and mistreatment of God’s people: casting lots for them, exchanging a boy for a prostitute, selling a girl for wine, taking silver and gold, carrying treasures into temples, and selling the children of Judah and Jerusalem far away. It then describes a reversal in which God stirs the sold ones up from where they were sold and returns repayment, including selling the offenders’ sons and daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, who then sell them to the men of Sheba.

The Sabeans are referenced as “the men of Sheba,” described as “a faraway nation” to whom the children of Judah sell the sons and daughters of those who oppressed them, as part of the declared repayment.

Joel 3 is presented as one of the biblical chapters that describe the 6th Bowl of Wrath battle of Armageddon, connected with Revelation 16:12–16 and Revelation 19:11–21. The gathering of nations for judgment and the war imagery are aligned with the assembling for battle described in those Revelation passages.

Joel 3:13 describes judgment using harvest language: the sickle is put in because the harvest is ripe, the winepress is full, and the vats overflow because wickedness is great. This imagery is identified as part of the biblical source connected to Revelation 14:14–20, where the grape harvest and the “winepress of the wrath of God” are described.

Joel chapter 3 explicitly places its events within the context of the Day of the Lord by declaring that “the day of Yahweh is near” in the valley of decision. This declaration accompanies the gathering of nations, the execution of judgment, cosmic disturbances in the heavens, and Yahweh’s intervention from Zion. The Day of the Lord is presented as the time when judgment is carried out on the nations and protection and restoration are provided for God’s people.

Joel 3 describes the sun and moon being darkened and the stars withdrawing their shining, alongside the heavens and the earth shaking. In the same context, Yahweh roars from Zion and thunders from Jerusalem while being a refuge and stronghold for His people.

Joel 3:15–16 is presented as part of the biblical source connected to Revelation 6:12–16, where the sixth seal includes a great earthquake and cosmic disturbance such as the sun becoming black and the moon becoming like blood.

Egypt and Edom are described as becoming desolate because of violence done to the children of Judah and because innocent blood was shed in the land. This appears within the concluding restoration section where Judah and Jerusalem endure and Yahweh dwells in Zion.

Joel 3 is presented as describing the conditions the Great Multitude of Revelation 7 experience during the Great Tribulation, and it concludes with God restoring the earth, His people, and Jerusalem after the violence inflicted during that period.

Joel chapter 3 is presented as describing events associated with the Great Tribulation, the gathering of nations for judgment, and the 6th Bowl of Wrath battle of Armageddon. It is consistently treated as prophetic and aligned with future judgment scenes described in Revelation, followed by restoration when Yahweh dwells in Zion. No statement is made that these events have already been fulfilled, indicating the prophecy is presented as awaiting fulfillment within the described eschatological framework.

Joel chapter 3 is important for biblical prophecy because it is presented as one of the key Old Testament passages describing the gathering of nations for judgment, the battle associated with Armageddon, and the sequence of events surrounding the Great Tribulation. It is directly connected to multiple Revelation passages, including the 6th Bowl of Wrath, the harvest and winepress judgment, and cosmic disturbances, making it foundational for understanding later prophetic descriptions of global judgment and restoration.

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  2. David Litaba says:

    Joel 3 vividly portrays God’s impending judgment on the nations that have oppressed Israel, highlighting His unwavering commitment to justice and the restoration of His people. This chapter serves as a powerful reminder of God’s sovereignty and His unwavering commitment to protect and bless His chosen ones.

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