As we anticipate the conflict of overcoming evil in these end times, we need to understand how God intends to help us. Many passages of Scripture foretell that at the close of this present evil age, there will be a special intervention of God in sovereign grace on behalf of His people. This intervention will not be something that we have earned or that comes because we deserve it; it is simply a provision of God’s grace to fulfill this mission with which we have been charged as the new race.
On the Day of Pentecost, immediately after the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the first public manifestation of the Church of Jesus Christ in its new power and authority, here is what occurred. The apostle Peter proclaimed God’s purpose for the close of the age. Quoting from the prophet Joel, he declared: But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
“And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams. And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy. I will show wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth beneath: blood and fire and vapor of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.”
Acts 2:16–21 This passage is a proclamation by almighty God as to what He will do. Many of the promises of God’s Word are conditional; in other words, we must do something in order for God to fulfill His promise. Their fulfillment depends upon the believer meeting a certain condition. This promise, however, is an unconditional promise. There are no prior conditions attached.
God says, “In the last days I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh.” He does not say “if the churches unite” or “if the theologians concur.” If that were the case we would have to wait forever. God has declared that at a certain point, without our deserving it, meriting it or meeting prior conditions, He will intervene on behalf of His people by pouring out His Spirit upon all flesh. I believe we are living in precisely those days.
This final outpouring of the Holy Spirit is to lead right into the return of the Lord Jesus Christ, and it will be a universal outpouring. There was a great and wonderful move of the Holy Spirit in the early Church, but it did not reach all flesh. We have seen God do many wonderful works, but I believe they are nothing more than a drop in the bucket in comparison with what God will do in fulfillment of what He has here declared. His Word never fails and His true nature never lies.
My name is Cesar and I’m a Voice in The Desert
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On the Day of Pentecost, immediately after the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the first public manifestation of the Church of Jesus Christ in its new power and authority, here is what occurred. The apostle Peter proclaimed God’s purpose for the close of the age. Quoting from the prophet Joel, he declared: But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
“And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams. And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy. I will show wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth beneath: blood and fire and vapor of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.”
Acts 2:16–21 This passage is a proclamation by almighty God as to what He will do. Many of the promises of God’s Word are conditional; in other words, we must do something in order for God to fulfill His promise. Their fulfillment depends upon the believer meeting a certain condition. This promise, however, is an unconditional promise. There are no prior conditions attached.
God says, “In the last days I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh.” He does not say “if the churches unite” or “if the theologians concur.” If that were the case we would have to wait forever. God has declared that at a certain point, without our deserving it, meriting it or meeting prior conditions, He will intervene on behalf of His people by pouring out His Spirit upon all flesh. I believe we are living in precisely those days.
This final outpouring of the Holy Spirit is to lead right into the return of the Lord Jesus Christ, and it will be a universal outpouring. There was a great and wonderful move of the Holy Spirit in the early Church, but it did not reach all flesh. We have seen God do many wonderful works, but I believe they are nothing more than a drop in the bucket in comparison with what God will do in fulfillment of what He has here declared. His Word never fails and His true nature never lies.
My name is Cesar and I’m a Voice in The Desert
www.avoiceinthedesert.net
#avoiceinthedesert
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