Joel 3:17

“So shall ye know that I [am] the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain, etc.] The church of God, which is his dwelling place; and will appear more manifestly to be so at this time, when Christ the Lamb will stand on Mount Zion, with an 144,000, having his Father’s name in their foreheads, (<661401>Revelation 14:1); and which presence of the Lord will be clearly discerned by his people; by the destruction of their enemies, and by his protection of them; by his being their hope and strength, their refuge and their fortress; they will experimentally know his divine inhabitation among them: then shall Jerusalem be holy; or “holiness” F90; not Jerusalem, literally taken, as Kimchi;…”

“shall ye know--experimentally by the proofs of favors which I shall vouchsafe to you. So "know" (Isa 60:16; Hos 2:20). dwelling in Zion--as peculiarly your God. holy . . . no strangers pass through--to attack, or to defile, the holy city (Isa 35:8; Isa 52:1; Zac 14:21). Strangers, or Gentiles, shall come to Jerusalem, but it shall be in order to worship Jehovah there (Zac 14:16).”

“God Himself wondrously joins on His own words to those of the prophet, and speaks to His own people; “so (literally, and) ye shall know,” by experience, by sight, face to face, what ye now believe, “that I am the Lord your God, dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain.” So He saith in the second Psalm, “Then shall he speak unto them” Psalms 2:5-6 (the enemies of His Christ) “in His wrath, and vex them in His sore displeasure; And I have set My king on My holy hill of Zion;” and, “Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, their God” Revelation 21:3, dwelling with them and in them, by an unvarying,…”

“Dwelling - Very graciously present with you, and ever watching over you, and delighting to save you. Then - After her enemies are destroyed and the remnant is saved, and the Messiah is come; for to him and his days these things ultimately refer. Jerusalem - The church of Christ. Strangers - No profane or unclean person shall pass through it, or be found in it any more for ever. Joel 3:18”

“3:17 Then you will know: God’s ultimate purpose is that his people should know him and share his holy character. They must learn that he alone is God and that he reigns over all creation from Zion, his holy mountain (see also 2:27). The only true security in the present, and the only hope for the future, comes from God’s presence.”

“shall ye: Joe 3:21, Joe 2:27; Psa 9:11, Psa 76:2; Isa 12:6; Eze 48:35; Mic 4:7; Zep 3:14-16 my: Dan 11:45; Oba 1:16; Zac 8:3 Jerusalem: Isa 4:3; Jer 31:23; Eze 43:12; Oba 1:17; Zac 14:20 holy: Heb. holiness there: Isa 35:8, Isa 52:1; Nah 1:15; Zac 14:21; Rev 21:27 Joel 3:18”