Joel—Part Three: Refuge

We can think of the present day as "the day of the Lord" in a sense, since it is the glorious eschaton in which the gospel is made known in all its fullness and the Spirit works in a new and special way. This is why Peter in an address to Jews claims the Pentecost outpouring of the Spirit to be a fulfilment of Joel's prophecy. Yet individual events can each be known as the day of the Lord, as Joel says, and they are therefore all manifestations of one great theological theme which find their culmination in the end-time judgement of God. God delivers his elect and houses them in the fortress which is himself. They watch in safety as God judges those who reject him, and for this reason we say that God truly is a refuge for all who trust in him.