And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
The verse is a promise of abundant provision and restoration for God's repentant people, given after warning of judgments and calamities upon those who continue to dishonor Him. It comes after a call to flee from the coming wrath through a sanctified fast and a solemn assembly gathering the people, elders, children, bridegroom and bride. In that assembly the priests are to weep and pray between the porch and the altar for God to spare His people and not give them to reproach and to heathen rule.
In response the Lord is jealous for His land and pities His people, removing their reproach among the heathen and sending grain, wine and oil to satisfy them. He makes the land glad and rejoicing for the great things He will do, causes the pastures of the wilderness to spring and the tree, fig tree and vine to yield their strength, and gives the former rain moderately with both former and latter rain. The verse itself means the threshing places will be full of grain and the vats will overflow with wine and oil, following that promised rain and accompanying the restoration of what was consumed by the locust, cankerworm, caterpillar and palmerworm. Then God's people eat in plenty, are satisfied, praise His name for dealing wondrously with them, and are never ashamed, with plentiful harvest filling the floors and overflowing the vessels and ending their shame.
Those who love God are to keep this promise in mind while trusting Him and not leaning on human power or the arm of flesh. The verse gives divine authority for laymen and young people, when the Spirit comes upon them with irresistible power, to proclaim that the hour of God's judgment has come.
The verse is a promise of abundant provision and restoration for God's repentant people, given after warning of judgments and calamities upon those who continue to dishonor Him. It comes after a call to flee from the coming wrath through a sanctified fast and a solemn assembly gathering the people, elders, children, bridegroom and bride. In that assembly the priests are to weep and pray between the porch and the altar for God to spare His people and not give them to reproach and to heathen rule.
In response the Lord is jealous for His land and pities His people, removing their reproach among the heathen and sending grain, wine and oil to satisfy them. He makes the land glad and rejoicing for the great things He will do, causes the pastures of the wilderness to spring and the tree, fig tree and vine to yield their strength, and gives the former rain moderately with both former and latter rain. The verse itself means the threshing places will be full of grain and the vats will overflow with wine and oil, following that promised rain and accompanying the restoration of what was consumed by the locust, cankerworm, caterpillar and palmerworm. Then God's people eat in plenty, are satisfied, praise His name for dealing wondrously with them, and are never ashamed, with plentiful harvest filling the floors and overflowing the vessels and ending their shame.
Those who love God are to keep this promise in mind while trusting Him and not leaning on human power or the arm of flesh. The verse gives divine authority for laymen and young people, when the Spirit comes upon them with irresistible power, to proclaim that the hour of God's judgment has come.