17. turned —as contrasted with your "turnings of things upside down" ( :- ), there shall be other and better turnings or revolutions; the outpouring of the Spirit in the latter days ( :- ); first on the Jews; which shall be followed by their national restoration (see on :- ; :- ) then on the Gentiles ( Joel 2:28 ). fruitful field —literally, "a Carmel" (see on Joel 2:28- : ). The moral change in the Jewish nation shall be as great as if the wooded Lebanon were to become a fruitful field, and vice versa. Compare Matthew 11:12 , Greek: "the kingdom of heaven forces itself, " as it were, on man's acceptance; instead of men having to seek Messiah, as they had John, in a desert, He presents Himself before them with loving invitations; thus men's hearts, once a moral desert, are reclaimed so as to bear fruits of righteousness: vice versa, the ungodly who seemed prosperous, both in the moral and literal sense, shall be exhibited in their real barrenness. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-18" class="com-number"
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