What does Joel 2:25 mean?

Question

What does the verse Joel 2:25 mean,

I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten?

Answer 1

Satan takes from us dosn't he. Right now, all my children are away from the Lord, and I believe that God will repay me for the years of difficulty and heartbreak, and bring each one of them back to God. This is an example of what the verse means.

Answer 2

Joel 2 25 Meaning

Answer 3

Joel 2:25-28; Acts 2:16,17; Matt.19:28[Eze.37:12-14]; Isa.66:1,22,23; Israel is promised life on earth under the new heavens and the new earth in their own land. 2 Pet.3:13; Rev.21:1-5; All things will be made new as it was before Eden, Rev.20:1-6; No more Satan. The world he is in comes to an end,but the world of Jesus never ends Eph,3:21;

Answer 4

In this context it is talking about an actual plague which caused widespread starvation and death. God was saying that He would bring years of much prosperity and much fruit.
In our lives, sometimes the locusts can be people-say a husband or wife who has stolen the good years away or a time where nothing was going right. Also, it may be a time of grieving the loss of a loved one.
Whatever the theft, God will repay it and when He repays it is pressed down,shaken together and full to overflowing!

Answer 5

Well, Joel is about judgment upon Israel. As with most prophecies like this, there is judgment, and then mercy.

In the preceding passages, God was telling Israel about the judgment for their idolatry. Then in His tender mercy, He shows them compassion by saying that He would then restore what had been taken away by the plague of locusts.

However, this is also a type, or picture, of how God deals with His children. After we receive whatever type of discipline He sees fit to place on us because of our disobedience, and we repent of our disobedience, He graciously restores to us what had been taken away by judgment.

I have found this in my own life, and although it may take time before the restoration comes, wait for it, because He is faithful.

Answer 6

Joel is counted among the minor prophets of the Christian Bible. Here, in context, God is promising to undo the effects of a punishment once "His People--Israel" return to Him.

Israel, of course, is the conduit from the Promises of Abraham to themselves, and Christians count themselves among "His People-Israel" through being reborn in the Second Birth caused by the visitation of the Holy Spirit, which is Jesus Christ's comforter He promised as the perfected Son of God--Jesus being a Son of David as well as the Son of God.

I particularly love the Promise of God a few verses on (Joel 2-28: "And it will come about after this
That I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind;
And your sons and daughters will prophesy,
Your old men will dream dreams,
Your young men will see visions,
And even on the male and female serants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days."

God's Promises are to be taken literally. That passage you asked about is one of God's Assurances that He is a forgiving and punishment-measuring God, and that all will be well in the end for the faithful and true believers.

Answer 7

It is a prophecy, and a very metaphorical one at that, soo... I am not entirely sure.

A few possibilities:

a) It is referring to an invading amy that will decimate the land and then be punished for it.

b) It may be referring to real locusts, though I doubt it.

c) It could be referring to people who mistreat the earth, consuming without giving back.

Answer 8

It means they would be blessed with enough to replace all that was lost in the famine. Like you have several years of drought and lose say ten carloads of grain and then you get a year or two that you get all that and then even double it. All you lost was returned to you.

Answer 9

Future blessing here portrayed in the symbolism of earthly things but pointing to the spiritual blessings in Christ not only for His first coming but even more for His second when all things will be made new.

Answer 10

Since everyone interprets scripture differently...my interpretation is that God will completely restore whatever will be lost during the times of tribulation that are coming upon the earth.