“That’s when Peter stood up and, backed by the other eleven, spoke out with bold urgency: “Fellow Jews, all of you who are visiting Jerusalem, listen carefully and get this story straight. These people aren’t drunk as some of you suspect. They haven’t had time to get drunk—it’s only nine o’clock in the morning. This is what the prophet Joel announced would happen: “In the Last Days,” God says, “I will pour out my Spirit on every kind of people: Your sons will prophesy, also your daughters; Your young men will see visions, your old men dream dreams. When the time comes, I’ll pour out my Spirit On those who serve me, men and women both, and they’ll prophesy. I’ll set wonders in the sky above and signs on the earth below, Blood and fire and billowing smoke, the sun turning black and the moon blood-red, Before the Day of the Lord arrives, the Day tremendous and marvelous; And whoever calls out for help to me, God, will be saved.”
Acts 2:21 MSG – A verse of the day from the Bible presented in Eugene Peterson’s contemporary version called The Message. Accompanied by a personal reflection below.
It may sound like a prophet is drunk, but that is not the case. Here is Luke’s account of Peter and the other eleven disciples of Jesus, who are preaching the Kingdom of God everywhere they go, and Peter invokes the prophets of old to remind the Jewish people of what has already been prophesied and has already come to pass, including the prophecy of prophesying by young men and women filled with the Holy Spirit. Are you listening, believer? That very same Holy Spirit is still at work to this day, and will be until the return of our Lord. These are not old wives tales or drunken tales, no, these are truths that will surely come to pass. Let it not be said that you were not told.
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