This fitting conclusion to Joel’s book emphasizes God’s justice and the promised blessing of dwelling with God for eternity. God will avenge the enemies of His people and dwell with them forever. Isaiah 35:4 says, “Your God will come, he will come with vengeance with divine retribution he will come to save you” (see also Deuteronomy 32:43 Psalm 79:10 and Isaiah 63:4). This promise of God’s avenging His people reflects the teachings of other Jewish prophets. 1 2 6 Historically, echoing very old myths of secret cultic practices in many prehistoric societies, the claim. From a New Testament perspective, this parallels Jesus Christ’s 1,000-year millennial kingdom following His Second Coming. Blood libel or ritual murder libel (also blood accusation) 1 2 is an antisemitic canard 3 4 5 which falsely accuses Jews of murdering Christian boys in order to use their blood in the performance of religious rituals. His blood quickened with bloodlust at the thought of ending the life of another miserable vamp. Joel 3:21 refers to a future time when the Messiah will rule after judging the nations. Bloodlust definition: Desire or enthusiasm for bloodshed. His protection of His people is sure, and His grace is boundless. Yet this is the very sin that God says He will forgive and avenge. The NKJV translates it “guilty of bloodshed.” Murder is a horrendous crime in the eyes of both man and God to be bloodguilty, then, would be to deserve a severe punishment. “Bloodguilt” is the condition of being culpable for bloodshed or murder. When God dwells in Zion, He will provide complete and final justice. The idea is this: Israel’s enemies had committed violence against the Jews as if Israel had been worthy of death God promises that He will avenge the deaths of His people, thereby declaring Israel innocent (forgiven). The Amplified Bible may shed some light on the issue: “And I will cleanse and hold as innocent their blood and avenge it, blood which I have not cleansed, held innocent, and avenged.” Both are true: Israel is being forgiven, and God is avenging them. Is Israel being acquitted or avenged? Some translations say that God is forgiving someone of “bloodguilt” other translations say that God is not forgiving someone and punishing him accordingly. “For I will acquit them of the guilt of bloodshed, whom I had not acquitted” (NKJV). Over 100,000 Spanish translations of English words and phrases. “For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed” (KJV). Spanish Translation of blood-lust The official Collins English-Spanish Dictionary online. “I will avenge their blood, blood I have not avenged” (ESV). Joel 3:21 is translated in a couple different ways, as the following examples show:
Readers often wonder what the Bible means when it speaks of “bloodguilt.”įirst, a translation note. Joel 3:21 says, “Their bloodguilt, which I have not pardoned, I will pardon.
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