Why do you keep ignoring that this is supposed to happen in the "last days," BD? Joel's prophesy was not fulfilled because those were not the last days!
INDEED! AMEN!
Acts 2 was an early part of the beginning of the same CHURCH AGE, ERA, DISPENSATION
WHICH CHURCH/CHRISTIAN ERA would be around WHEN Israel became a Nation again as prophecied; use Hebrew as the National Language as prophecied and as never occurred with any other people group so widely dispersed;
etc. etc. etc. And, interestingly, Scripture indicates that many Bible greats wanted to be in the era of the closing acts of the play. Perhaps they knew some things we don't yet realize or realize fully.
Thankfully, Holy Spirit is within and around to lead us as necessary--as Christ said--MY SHEEP KNOW MY VOICE.
“Why do you keep ignoring that this is supposed to happen in the “last days,”
Once again, here is the passage.
Acts 2:14-18, “But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:”
Notice Peter says in response to the accusation that they were drunk, “But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel.” Now what was the “this” they were talking about? Why the pouring out of the Spirit on the gathered disciples; a partial fulfillment of the prophecy of Joel.
The next part of the passage; the further part of the prophecy, “19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:” won’t be fulfilled until the “day of the Lord come”.
Joel's prophesy was fulfilled. These are the last days.
Jas 5:2-3 Your riches have rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You heaped treasure in the last days.