BULLSEYE!
ACCURATE
BIBLE KNOWLEDGE!
QUESTION:
“WAS PENTECOST THE DAYS OF JOEL?”
ANSWER:
“NO”
“But
this is that
which was spoken by the prophet Joel” Acts 2:16.
Let’s
compare the two accounts of Acts and Joel.
1.
I will
pour out my spirit upon all flesh; … your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams,
…
young men shall see visions. And also upon the servants
and upon
the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. Joel
2:28-29
NONE OF
THIS HAPPENED AT PENTECOST!
2.
…..wonders in the heavens
… in the earth…
blood … fire … pillars of smoke.
The sun shall be turned into darkness
… moon into blood Joel
2:30-31.
NONE OF
THIS HAPPENED AT PENTECOST!
3. … before
the great & the terrible day of
the LORD come. Joel 2:31.
Was
Pentecost the great and terrible day?
NO, and the
men of Israel knew this.
4. Joel is
foretold being the day of the LORD. This
belongs to the seven year wrath of God … the tribulation.
THIS IS
NOT PENTECOST.
5. …whosoever
shall call on the name of the LORD shall
be delivered: (Joel 2:32).
They
weren’t being delivered at Pentecost!
The
opposite was the fact – they were being judged.
However,
if they would call on the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts
2:38), they would be saved.
In Joel
they will call upon the LORD who is JEHOVAH.
At
Pentecost, they call on the Lord who is Jesus.
Also,
Pentecost was voluntary.
Joel is forced
upon Israel. It will be a mandatory
deliverance.
6. … for in
mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be
deliverance, ... and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call. Joel
2:32.
Pentecost
was not about a remnant being delivered.
7. Joel does
not
talk of anyone speaking in tongues, of rushing wind or cloven
tongues of fire.
Pentecost
has
tongues, ‘rushing wind’ and ‘cloven tongues of fire’.
8.
The Spirit is never poured out
anywhere in the New Testament upon any flesh.
However,
God’s Spirit
‘touches’ the flesh, when a person is born again (Col 2:11-14), in
that, the
soul is cut from the flesh in a spiritual circumcision that separates
the soul from
the body of flesh.
9.
The
Jews at Pentecost knew they were not in the last days.
They
knew it was to come in
the future some time. They didn’t know when. The two events, Pentecost
and Joel
are separated by 2,000 years.
10.
So
the “…this is that…” refers to the same Spirit that
will work at
both times.
This
is that same Spirit on
both occasions.
Peter
is merely calming down
the agitated and confused Jews at Pentecost by saying …
“Don’t
be alarmed.”
“This
is not an evil spirit.”
“It
is God’s Spirit that is working here.’
“It
is the same Spirit that will work in the future – as in the days of
Joel.”
“Be
comforted! Everything is OK.”
Peter
is simply stating
“THIS
Spirit
(now at Pentecost)
IS
THAT
Spirit (in the future in Joel).”
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Harley Hitchcock
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