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To: Alamo-Girl
Thanks for the input.

You've made it rather clear that you have no regard for the dreams and prophesies of people in the modern age. And that's fine. But others find these visions to be interesting if not compelling in anticipation of the Lord's second coming (Acts 2:16-21).

Acts 2:15-21 is not speaking of the second coming. Peter was plainly saying that what was happening on that Pentecost day was the fulfillment of the Joel prophecy. "But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:" Peter was declaring the reality of the "last days" at that time. Cf. Heb. 1:2; 1 John 2:18.

It was a "dream" or perhaps a "prophesy" or a "vision" - and it certainly was not Scriptural. But it was real and it is Truth, an image of our being drawn into Him because of what He has done.

Truth is objective, not subjective. There is not one truth for you and another truth for me. I don't know what you experienced, but I don't think it can be classified as truth, at least not how God's truth is presented in Scripture. What you experienced could be the experience of a Hindu mystic or native American shaman. Such is the difficulty with personal experiences.

889 posted on 12/04/2004 9:40:09 PM PST by topcat54
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To: topcat54

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890 posted on 12/04/2004 9:52:55 PM PST by Quix (5having a form of godliness but denying its power. I TIM 3:5)
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To: topcat54
Thank you for your reply!

Indeed, the Truth was revealed to me, not to you or to people at large. It is Truth as I have received it but it is not Scriptural, it is not doctrine, etc. It answered my specific question, my prayer.

For Lurkers, the passage from Acts 2:16-21

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:

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: And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Some of us believe that Pentecost marked a beginning which has not yet been consummated.

891 posted on 12/04/2004 10:00:28 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: topcat54

Reading your posts,

I've found that truth according to you is exceedingly subjective and extremely rigidly tailored to your baises and assumptions.


892 posted on 12/05/2004 12:43:17 PM PST by Quix (5having a form of godliness but denying its power. I TIM 3:5)
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