Joel 2:28

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An Outpouring of the Spirit(3:1) After all of this I will pour out my Spirit on all kinds of people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your elderly will have prophetic dreams; your young men will see visions.

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  • Acts 2:16-21 : 16 But this is what was spoken about through the prophet Joel: 17 ‘And in the last days it will be,’ God says,‘that I will pour out my Spirit on all people, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. 18 Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. 19 And I will perform wonders in the sky above and miraculous signs on the earth below, blood and fire and clouds of smoke. 20 The sun will be changed to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes. 21 And then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
  • Isa 32:15 : 15 This desolation will continue until new life is poured out on us from heaven. Then the wilderness will become an orchard and the orchard will be considered a forest.
  • Ezek 39:29 : 29 I will no longer hide my face from them, when I pour out my Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
  • Acts 2:39 : 39 For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”
  • Acts 2:2-4 : 2 Suddenly a sound like a violent wind blowing came from heaven and filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 And tongues spreading out like a fire appeared to them and came to rest on each one of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in other languages as the Spirit enabled them.
  • Zech 12:10 : 10 “I will pour out on the kingship of David and the population of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication so that they will look to me, the one they have pierced. They will lament for him as one laments for an only son, and there will be a bitter cry for him like the bitter cry for a firstborn.
  • Num 12:6 : 6 The LORD said,“Hear now my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known to him in a vision; I will speak with him in a dream.
  • Isa 44:3 : 3 For I will pour water on the parched ground and cause streams to flow on the dry land. I will pour my Spirit on your offspring and my blessing on your children.
  • John 7:39 : 39 (Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)
  • Acts 2:33 : 33 So then, exalted to the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured out what you both see and hear.
  • Gen 37:5-9 : 5 Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers about it, they hated him even more. 6 He said to them,“Listen to this dream I had: 7 There we were, binding sheaves of grain in the middle of the field. Suddenly my sheaf rose up and stood upright and your sheaves surrounded my sheaf and bowed down to it!” 8 Then his brothers asked him,“Do you really think you will rule over us or have dominion over us?” They hated him even more because of his dream and because of what he said. 9 Then he had another dream, and told it to his brothers.“Look,” he said.“I had another dream. The sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” 10 When he told his father and his brothers, his father rebuked him, saying,“What is this dream that you had? Will I, your mother, and your brothers really come and bow down to you?”
  • Luke 3:6 : 6 and all humanity will see the salvation of God.’”
  • Acts 10:44-47 : 44 The Gentiles Receive the Holy Spirit While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the message. 45 The circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were greatly astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles, 46 for they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God. Then Peter said, 47 “No one can withhold the water for these people to be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did, can he?”
  • Acts 11:15-18 : 15 Then as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he did on us at the beginning. 16 And I remembered the word of the Lord, as he used to say,‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ 17 Therefore if God gave them the same gift as he also gave us after believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to hinder God?” 18 When they heard this, they ceased their objections and praised God, saying,“So then, God has granted the repentance that leads to life even to the Gentiles.”
  • Acts 15:7-8 : 7 After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them,“Brothers, you know that some time ago God chose me to preach to the Gentiles so they would hear the message of the gospel and believe. 8 And God, who knows the heart, has testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,
  • Prov 1:23 : 23 You should respond to my rebuke. Then I would pour out my thoughts to you; I would make my words known to you.
  • Isa 40:5 : 5 The splendor of the LORD will be revealed, and all people will see it at the same time. For the LORD has decreed it.”
  • Isa 49:6 : 6 he says,“Is it too insignificant a task for you to be my servant, to reestablish the tribes of Jacob, and restore the remnant of Israel? I will make you a light to the nations, so you can bring my deliverance to the remote regions of the earth.”
  • Isa 54:13 : 13 All your children will be followers of the LORD, and your children will enjoy great prosperity.
  • Jer 23:28 : 28 Let the prophet who has had a dream go ahead and tell his dream. Let the person who has received my message report that message faithfully. What is like straw cannot compare to what is like grain! I, the LORD, affirm it!
  • Acts 21:9 : 9 (He had four unmarried daughters who prophesied.)
  • Gal 3:28 : 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female– for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

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  • Acts 2:16-20
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    16 But this is what was spoken about through the prophet Joel:

    17 ‘And in the last days it will be,’ God says,‘that I will pour out my Spirit on all people, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.

    18 Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.

    19 And I will perform wonders in the sky above and miraculous signs on the earth below, blood and fire and clouds of smoke.

    20 The sun will be changed to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.

  • Joel 2:29-32
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    29 Even on male and female servants I will pour out my Spirit in those days.

    30 I will produce portents both in the sky and on the earth– blood, fire, and columns of smoke.

    31 The sunlight will be turned to darkness and the moon to the color of blood, before the day of the LORD comes– that great and terrible day!

    32 It will so happen that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be delivered. For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who survive, just as the LORD has promised; the remnant will be those whom the LORD will call.

  • Isa 44:3-4
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    3 For I will pour water on the parched ground and cause streams to flow on the dry land. I will pour my Spirit on your offspring and my blessing on your children.

    4 They will sprout up like a tree in the grass, like poplars beside channels of water.

  • 27 You will be convinced that I am in the midst of Israel. I am the LORD your God; there is no other. My people will never again be put to shame.

  • 29 I will no longer hide my face from them, when I pour out my Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD.”

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    14 I will place my breath in you and you will live; I will give you rest in your own land. Then you will know that I am the LORD– I have spoken and I will act, declares the LORD.’”

    15 The LORD’s message came to me:

  • 15 This desolation will continue until new life is poured out on us from heaven. Then the wilderness will become an orchard and the orchard will be considered a forest.

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    16 ‘After this I will return, and I will rebuild the fallen tent of David; I will rebuild its ruins and restore it,

    17 so that the rest of humanity may seek the Lord, namely, all the Gentiles I have called to be my own,’ says the Lord, who makes these things

  • 6 The LORD said,“Hear now my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known to him in a vision; I will speak with him in a dream.

  • 11 I made some of your sons prophets and some of your young men Nazirites. Is this not true, you Israelites?” The LORD is speaking!

  • 24 And all the prophets, from Samuel and those who followed him, have spoken about and announced these days.

  • Joel 2:23-24
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    23 Citizens of Zion, rejoice! Be glad because of what the LORD your God has done! For he has given to you the early rains as vindication. He has sent to you the rains– both the early and the late rains as formerly.

    24 The threshing floors are full of grain; the vats overflow with fresh wine and olive oil.

  • 18 On that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the dry stream beds of Judah will flow with water. A spring will flow out from the temple of the LORD, watering the Valley of Acacia Trees.

  • 2 A Locust Plague Foreshadows the Day of the Lord Listen to this, you elders; pay attention, all inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your whole life or in the lifetime of your ancestors?

  • 12 ‘for there will be a peaceful time of sowing, the vine will produce its fruit, and the ground its yield, and the skies will rain down dew. Then I will allow the remnant of my people to possess all these things.

  • 13 In that day your beautiful young women and your young men will faint from thirst.

  • 16 The people to whom they are prophesying will die through war and famine. Their bodies will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem and there will be no one to bury them. This will happen to the men and their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out on them the destruction they deserve.”

  • 10 For the LORD has poured out on you a strong urge to sleep deeply. He has shut your eyes(the prophets), and covered your heads(the seers).

  • 6 Then the Spirit of the LORD will rush upon you and you will prophesy with them. You will be changed into a different person.

  • 32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it.

  • 4 Look all around you! They all gather and come to you– your sons come from far away and your daughters are escorted by guardians.

  • 29 You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.

  • 5 The splendor of the LORD will be revealed, and all people will see it at the same time. For the LORD has decreed it.”

  • 14 then he promises,“I will send rain for your land in its season, the autumn and the spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine, and olive oil.

  • 2 “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are now prophesying. Say to the prophets who prophesy from their imagination:‘Listen to the LORD’s message!

  • 21 “As for me, this is my promise to them,” says the LORD.“My Spirit, who is upon you, and my words, which I have placed in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and descendants from this time forward,” says the LORD.

  • 17 “As for you, son of man, turn toward the daughters of your people who are prophesying from their imagination. Prophesy against them

  • 22 Yet some survivors will be left in it, sons and daughters who will be brought out. They will come out to you, and when you see their behavior and their deeds, you will be consoled about the catastrophe I have brought on Jerusalem– for everything I brought on it.

  • 2 In the future the mountain of the LORD’s temple will endure as the most important of mountains, and will be the most prominent of hills. All the nations will stream to it,

  • 39 For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

  • 2 The LORD’s Spirit will rest on him– a Spirit that gives extraordinary wisdom, a Spirit that provides the ability to execute plans, a Spirit that produces absolute loyalty to the LORD.

  • 7 I will also shake up all the nations, and they will offer their treasures; then I will fill this temple with glory.” So the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has said.

  • 28 Then you will live in the land I gave to your fathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God.

  • 10 I spoke to the prophets; I myself revealed many visions; I spoke in parables through the prophets.”

  • 14 When you see this, you will be happy, and you will be revived. The LORD will reveal his power to his servants and his anger to his enemies.

  • 27 “Take note, son of man, the house of Israel is saying,‘The vision that he sees is for distant days; he is prophesying about the far future.’

  • 32 Indeed, the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets,

  • 16 The LORD roars from Zion; from Jerusalem his voice bellows out. The heavens and the earth shake. But the LORD is a refuge for his people; he is a stronghold for the citizens of Israel.

  • 24 For there will no longer be any false visions or flattering omens amidst the house of Israel.