Matthew Poole and continuators on Joel 2:32

32 And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the Name of the LORD shall be delivered : for in mount Zion , and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance , as the LORD hath said , and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call .

Yet when Nature seems out of course, and such terrible Convulsions overthrow all States and Kingdoms, and nothing but ruin and destruction appears on every side, yet then most certainly it shall come to pass.

Who heareth the Gospel repenteth of sin, believeth in Christ, and prayeth for Grace, Peace, and Glory; whoso worshippeth the Father through the Son in Truth and Faith;

Either delivered from those sad outward Afflictions, or else which is infinitely better from Eternal Miseries, which will swallow up the unbelieving and impenitent World; when the Iews who rejected Christ were destroyed by the Romans; all, (as Eusebius reports) the Iews that believed in Christ, and submitted to the Gospel, escaped.

In the true Church typified by Zion, the City of David;

Not local Ierusalem; there was the chief place of slaughter, blood, fire, and death; but mystical Ierusalem, the Church and City of the Messiah.

Salvation whether Temporal, or Eternal, or both;

According as God hath promised, and this promised deliverance gives the Believer satisfaction, and rest, whether in life, or by death.

Not of the Iews only, but of the Gentiles also;

called of God to be his peculiar people; called to the knowledge of Christ to profess his Name, to believe in Christ, and by him to wait for Eternal Life and Glory, Iob. 10.16. Acts 13.46. Rom. 11.4, 5, 7.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 letter]om. 10.13.; [illegible: 1 word]. 17.