Joel 2:24

And the floors shall be full of wheat,.... The churches of Christ, which will now be in Judea, and in the Gentile world, which are his "floors", Matthew 3:12; and which will be set up everywhere

And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil. And the floors shall be full of wheat - the effect of the seasonable rains shall be abundance of all articles of food.

The floors, where they thrashed their corn, shall be full of wheat, the best and most useful grain, the bread corn for man’ s life and support. The fats, the vessels into which the liquor ran out of the press, shall overflow with wine and oil; there shall be of the grape and olive enough to fill the vessels, nay, to make them run over, though the care of good husbands will save it; for what was said, , is here fulfilled, the vine doth yield its strength.

Joe 2:24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.Ver. 24. And the floors shall be full of wheat] Such fatness shall God’ s footsteps drop, that your houses shall be full of all "precious and pleasant riches," Proverbs 24:4; so that you shall, as rich men love to do, de pleno tollere acervo. Only take heed you have not, as that rich fool, animam triticeam, a wheaten soul, that your abundance get not within you, Tαενοντα, as the Pharisees’ did, Luke 11:41 (so that they did not more possess than were possessed of what they had), that ye set not your hearts upon your riches, Psalms 62:11. - “ difficile est opibus non tradere mentem. ” (Martial.) And the fats shall overflow] There shall be plenty of all things, as Proverbs 3:10, the fruits and effect of that rain promised before. And doth not God daily turn water into wine, when of water falling upon the vine, and concocted by the heat of the sun, he produceth the grape, whence wine is pressed?

24. The reversal of Joe 1:10-12. the floors] i.e. the threshing-floors—which, however, were not like our threshing-floors: see the description in the footnote on p. 227. fats] i.e. (as we should say) vats, fat being an old form of vat, A.S. fœt, Germ. Fass: so constantly in A.V., as Joe 3:13; Haggai 2:16. Both the gath, in which the grapes were trodden (Nehemiah 13:15; Isaiah 63:2, where winefat is wrong), and the yeḳ ?eb (lit. a place hollowed out), in which the expressed juice was received (cf. on Amos 9:13), were commonly excavated in the rock (cf. Isaiah 5:2, “and also hewed out in it a yeḳ ?eb,” or winefat [R.V. marg.]): and remains of those dug in ancient times are still to be seen in Palestine. Robinson (B.R[44] 3:137) describes one: on the upper side of a ledge of rock, a shallow vat had been dug out, 8 feet square, and 15 inches deep; two feet below there was another smaller vat, 4 feet square and 3 feet deep; the grapes were trodden in the shallow upper vat, and the hole by which the juice was drawn off into the lower vat still remained. Cf. ib. p. 381 (a similar arrangement in use in 1852). Sometimes there were two such lower receptacles, communicating with each other, attached to the gath; and Schick (Z.D.P.V[45] 10:1887, p. 146 f.) describes one with three: the must, in such cases, would be transferred from one to the other in order gradually to clarify. [44] .R. … Edw. Robinson, Biblical Researches in Palestine (ed. 2, 1856). [45] .D.P.V. … Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins.overflow] Joe 3:13. Comp. Proverbs 3:10, “and thy vats shall burst with must (or new wine).” wine and oil] new wine (or must) and fresh oil (as Joe 1:10). Olives are now usually crushed by a large circular stone revolving in a kind of mortar; but formerly (see Micah 6:15; and cf. the name Gethsemane, “oil-press”) they were trodden by the feet of men, like grapes.

24-27. The heavens are open once more, the drought will come to an end, the locusts will disappear, the harvest and vintage will be plentiful, so that the presence of Jehovah will indeed be realized. 24.