So shall you know that I am the Lord your God
Joel 3:1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
Just in case anyone wants to refer to the 1918 flu, or the Black plague or some other pandemic we have some more key criteria concerning the days that Joel was talking about 2,500 years ago. This is referring to a time when God brings again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, a time when you have the United Nations and can plead with all the nations in one spot. It is a time when the Jews have been brought back after being scattered to all the nations, and not just that but when Israel is returned to the land that God gave them the UN will part that land and divide it with others. So yes, all those things were true during the pandemic in 2020, they were not true in 1918 or any previous plague.
3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
There are some very definite sins that God is going to hold to their account, perhaps the Holocaust, the pogroms, and a whole bunch of other things we may not be aware of.
4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head; 5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: 6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
The Day of the Lord is a reckoning, a judgement. Human trafficking, theft, murder, these are things that they will be held to account for.
7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head: 8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the Lord hath spoken it.
As you have done it will be done unto you. Many are arguing about the sins of Israel in driving the Palestinians off the land, but here the Lord says that this is a fulfillment of His word to judge them for the sins they committed. Slave traders give up the right to complain about being made into a slave.
9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: 10 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. 11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord.
This is part of the message when they blew the trumpets in 2021. Sure enough the Gentiles came and the wars have begun.
12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
The judgement takes place at the Day of Atonement which is ten days after the feast of Trumpets. I believe that 2020-2021 was the fulfillment of the feast of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement will take place in 2031.
13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
In Revelation this language is used for Armageddon and the judgment on the nations.
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
This is what the feast of Trumpets is all about, it is a warning that Armageddon is near, the pouring out of the wrath of God is near, and now it is time to make a decision, are you for the Lord Jesus or for Satan?
15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. 16 The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
As for me I will choose the Lord Jesus. He will be mighty.
17 So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth out of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim. 19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. 20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. 21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the Lord dwelleth in Zion.