# Joel 3:1 (Schlachter 1951)

> Und nach diesem wird es geschehen, daß ich meinen Geist ausgieße über alles Fleisch; und eure Söhne und eure Töchter werden weissagen, eure Ältesten werden Träume haben, eure Jünglinge werden Gesichte sehen;

## Was es bedeutet

Look at the hinge word first: *"Und nach diesem"* — "and after this." After what? After the locust plague that stripped Judah bare in chapters 1–2, after the fasting and weeping and the people tearing their hearts instead of their clothes, after God promises to restore the years the locusts ate — *then* comes this. God says he will pour out his Spirit "über alles Fleisch," on all flesh. Not on kings only. Not on prophets and priests only. On everyone — your sons, your daughters, your old men, your young men. Sons and daughters will prophesy, old men will dream dreams, young men will see visions.

Notice what's easy to miss: in the world of the Old Testament, the Spirit of God resting on someone was rare and specific — Moses, Samuel, David, a handful of prophets. Here God blows that category open. Gender, age, social standing — none of it gates access to him anymore. This is Moses' old wish in Numbers 11:29 ("would that all the LORD's people were prophets") finally answered as a promise.

One note on numbering that trips people up: German and Hebrew Bibles count this as Joel 3:1, but most English translations call it 2:28, because the Hebrew text splits Joel into four chapters where English versions split it into three. What follows this verse — Judah's captivity reversed, the nations judged in the valley — is what English Bibles number as chapter 3 [Tyndale Open Study Notes](cite://s?id=tyndale). This verse sits right at the seam: the last word of hope before the book turns to describe the great reckoning that comes with it — Keil-Delitzsch reads the phrase "in those days" that opens that reckoning as pointing straight back to these very days of the

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Schlachter Bibel 1951, Genfer Bibelgesellschaft (CC BY 4.0)