Joel 2:19

Joel 2:19 says, 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:  God promised Judah that if they returned to Him He would meet their needs.  The first thing He would do was hear them. If we are rebelling against God, until we come to Him in repentance, He will not hear us.  We cannot make demands on God for restoration if we do not first come to Him in true repentance.  When we do come in repentance, God will hear us, restore us, and meet our needs.  When God provides for our needs, we must be satisfied with His provisions.  Verse twenty adds, 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.  After promising that He would restore their crops, in other words that their daily needs would be met, then God promised His people that the armies that oppressed them would be totally destroyed.  We today have the same assurance that our needs will be met and that ultimately all those that stand in opposition to God will be destroyed.  We must therefore put our trust, not in the things of this world, but in God alone.  Verse twenty-one continues, Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things. This is a great promise to the people in that day and to the followers of Christ today.  We do not have to live in fear, no matter how bad things may seem in the world.  This states that the Lord would do great things, and we know that through Christ He did. Verse twenty-two states, 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.  The people would be restored, but so would the land.  God created everything and pronounced it good, and when His people are following Him, they can rest assured that as long as they follow His will, everything will ultimately be restored to the state that God created it in.  There will be a new heaven and a new earth.  Verse twenty-three adds, 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.  Verse twenty-four continues, And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.  Verse twenty-five says, 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.   Verse twenty-six adds, 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. These verses are just a continuation of the promise that God was going to restore and bless His people when they returned to Him.  We today have that same promise, and just as God told them, we need never be ashamed to declare Him to the world.