Matthew Poole and continuators on Joel 3:17

17 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 .

By these effects of my presence with my people, by my anger against their Enemies, by punishing them by each other, overthrowing oppressours, by fulfilling what is foretold.

Ye that suffer for my sake, but hope in my word and support your selves on my strength.

By most comfortable and unquestionable experience.

That I have remembred my Covenant for you, and acted according to the power and mercy of an Almighty and All-gracious God.

Very graciously present with you, and ever watching over you, and delighting to save you, as a man would do his dwelling house,

Which is chosen and separated from all others to be the place of his Habitation, as Psal. 2.6. which he loves above all places,

After these things are finished, when Enemies are destroyed, and the remnant is saved, and the Messiah is come (for to him and his days do these things finally and ultimately refer) and the Gospel is preach'd.

The Church of Christ, the spiritual Ierusalem.

Be much more holy and pure than now, being made so by the Word and Spirit, and Afflictions too.

No profane and unclean Persons shall pass through it as formerly, and bring their strange fashions, rites, worship, or doctrine.

Though they have done it formerly, as in Solomon's dayes, and Ahaz, and Manasseh's time they shall do so no more for ever.

Marginal references: chap. 2.27.; Heb. holiness.; Zech. 14.21. Rev. 21.27.