{"id":7752,"date":"2016-07-20T00:13:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T07:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=7752"},"modified":"2016-07-20T00:13:16","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T07:13:16","slug":"when-the-spirit-comes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2016\/07\/20\/when-the-spirit-comes\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Spirit Comes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThen I will make up to you for the years
\nThat the swarming locust has eaten,
\nThe creeping locust, the stripping locust and the gnawing locust,
\nMy great army which I sent among you.
\n\u201cYou will have plenty to eat and be satisfied
\nAnd praise the name of the LORD your God,
\nWho has dealt wondrously with you;
\nThen My people will never be put to shame.
\n\u201cThus you will know that I am in the midst of Israel,
\nAnd that I am the LORD your God,
\nAnd there is no other;
\nAnd My people will never be put to shame.
\n\u201cIt will come about after this
\nThat I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind;
\nAnd your sons and daughters will prophesy,
\nYour old men will dream dreams,
\nYour young men will see visions.
\n\u201cEven on the male and female servants
\nI will pour out My Spirit in those days.
\n\u201cI will display wonders in the sky and on the earth,
\nBlood, fire and columns of smoke.
\n \u201cThe sun will be turned into darkness
\nAnd the moon into blood
\nBefore the great and awesome day of the LORD comes.
\n\u201cAnd it will come about that whoever calls on the name of the LORD
\nWill be delivered;
\nFor on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem
\nThere will be those who escape,
\nAs the LORD has said,
\nEven among the survivors whom the LORD calls. (Joel 2:25-32)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the day of Pentecost, the celebration that followed fifty days after the Passover, Peter quoted from this prophesy of Joel to explain the arrival of the Holy Spirit upon the followers of Jesus. He told his audience that these words had been fulfilled on that wonderful morning.<\/p>\n

The word translated \u201cLord\u201d in most English translations of the Old Testament is God\u2019s name, Yahweh. Following their captivity in Babylon, Jewish people had decided to stop saying God\u2019s name so that they could make sure they would never violated the commandment against using God\u2019s name \u201cin vain.\u201d Instead, whenever they saw God\u2019s name, they would substitute the Hebrew word meaning \u201cLord.\u201d They even followed that custom when they translated the Bible into other languages. So in the time of Peter, when he used the Greek translation of Joel\u2019s prophesy, he used the Greek form of the word \u201cLord.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his sermon that morning, Peter took that verse, \u201cthat whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved\u201d and applied it to Jesus. For the disciples, all Jewish, when they called Jesus Lord, they were not calling him master or boss. They were calling him \u201cYahweh\u201d\u2014the God of Israel who had spoken to the patriarchs and who had led the people out of Egypt.<\/p>\n

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