Joel offers assurance concerning the climactic Day of the LORD. Chapter 3 describes a final judgment and deliverance—the judgment of Gentile nations in the end times (indicated among other things by references to the Valley of Jehoshaphat and the valley of decision). God’s people would be vindicated and their enemies destroyed (3:1–16). Furthermore, the blessings described in 3:17–21 point strongly to God’s kingdom on earth, that is, the establishment of Christ’s kingdom following what is commonly