A message the Lord God
revealed to Joel the prophet:
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: Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. 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. 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. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. 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. 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.-Joel 3:9-17***In the Valley of Shaveh, Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) spoke to the king of Sodom and to Melchizedek the priest, king of Salem. Isaac, the son born to Abraham and his wife Sarah (Sarai) lived for awhile in the Valley of Gerar in the land of the Philistines. Moses was a descendant of Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob (Israel) and Leah, and Jacob and Leah's 3rd born son Levi. When 120-year-old Moses went upon Mount Nebo, the Lord God showed Moses the Promised Land, and Moses died and was divinely buried in a valley in front of Beth Peor in the land of the Moabites. In the Valley of Eshcol, 12 Israelite spies, including Joshua and Caleb, saw gigantic fruit and people. In the Valley of Achor, Achan was stoned, burned and buried after he disobeyed the commands of the Lord God and took plunder from Jericho. Samson met Delilah in the Valley of Sorek. In the Valley of Elah, David defeated Goliath the gigantic Philistine. In the Valley of Jehoshaphat, the valley of decision, the Lord God revealed to Joel the prophet actions that would take place in that vale. Over 800 years after David's great-great-great-grandson Jehoshaphat became the 4th king to rule Judah, the southern nation in the Promised Land, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Jacob and Leah's 4th born son Judah, the birth tribe of David, Jehoshaphat and all of Judah's kings, to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 13:1-14:45, 20:1-29, 27:12-23, 32:1-42, Deuteronomy 1:1-46, 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-8:35, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-16:31, 1 Samuel 1:1-3:21, 8:1-31:13, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 7:20-29, 10:1-29:20, 2 Chronicles, Joel, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26, Hebrews 7:1-28
Reference Information:
Jehoshaphat = yehowosapat = Yehoshaphat = YHWH + shaphat = the Lord + to judge or govern = The Lord has judged