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To: LearsFool

You did not answer my question. Regardless, we look forward to seeing the movie. It should be pretty good, and it is an example of those living in the last days seeing visions and dreaming dreams, much like St. Paul.


49 posted on 04/18/2014 10:40:33 PM PDT by blackpacific
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To: blackpacific

As far as I can tell, the Bible doesn’t say for certain whether Joel’s “the last days” refers to the destruction of Jerusalem (as in Matt. 24), or the end of the Jewish age (viz. the coming of the Messiah), or both.

The events Jesus predicted in Matt. 24 have, of course, already happened. And the end of the Jewish age has also already happened.

- The Spirit was “poured forth”. Peter’s “this” was not drunkenness, but the pouring forth of the Spirit upon the apostles; also the prophesy, visions, and dreams which followed (as we find out about later in Acts and elsewhere) - a great outpouring of spiritual blessings and revelations from God, from which we benefit even after their end.

- There was judgment to come, described in common imagery from the prophets. (Again, perhaps the judgment against the Jews, as in Matt. 24. Acts 2:40 seems to support this: “Save yourselves from this perverse generation.”)

- And there was deliverance for those who would seek it. Three thousand sought it that day, and in v. 38 Peter told them how to obtain it.


50 posted on 04/19/2014 7:32:50 AM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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