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1 | Acts 2:33 (*Promise*) | Acts 2:33 | Jacoba | 72744 | ||
Psalm 119:130 I'm definitely a layperson, but as a Christian, I pray that God will give us necessary insight. Christians also believe that the Holy Spirit is none other but God himself. We believe that Jehovah is the Holy Trinity--three distinct but not separate persons--Father-creator, Son-redeemer, Holy Spirit-sanctifier. We cannot live a Christian life, indeed cannot even believe without the Holy Spirit's indwelling. The concept of Holy Trinity is difficult and cannot be treated correctly or completely by human mind, but in Luke 24:45-49 the risen (but not yet ascended) Christ Jesus opened the disciples' minds to understand the Scriptures [and instructs them]....Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high." In his Pentecostal speech, Peter was telling the new Christians that what Jesus had said previously was true, and the enduing of the Holy Spirit had manifested itself therein. The enduing of the Holy Spirit of the Christians that day was evidence that God the Father's promise was fulfilled in Jesus's exaltation. Jesus was exalted, and then he sent the Holy Spirit to them. Thus the use of the past tense. We must remember that Peter speaking to his hearers about the miracle of speaking in tongues, and he was at the point in his speech where he is talking to his audience about David (Acts 2:29). He was saying, not so much that David never ascended into heaven as that the patriarch David who died was not as great as his descendant Jesus Christ who died, rose and ascended and resumed his deity as the second person in the Holy Trinity. David knew that he was subordinate, and in Acts 2:34 Peter reminded his hearers that David called his descendant Jesus, Lord (Psalm 110:1). I think this verse also speaks favorably to the fact that David's soul is with God in heaven, with respect to Romans 10:9. Truly God continues to sanctify us, but the saving work of Jesus was a necessary, and complete preamble to entitle his adopted brothers and sisters to the gifts of the Holy Spirit. |
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2 | Acts 2:33 (*Promise*) | Acts 2:33 | logix | 72755 | ||
I agree with what you have said. My only contention then is that in "this" verse Peter refers to the promise, in my view, as the exaltation. This is not to say that also here Peter does not refer to the promised Holy Spirit, he most definitley does; it is what causes the people to see and hear what they do. I am saying that the time line of this verse appears to be wrong. Jesus "recieved" the Holy Spirit at batism. He ascended and was exalted after raising from the dead and speaking with the disciples. So it appears there are at least two promises made to Jesus, who for a time humbled himself, even below the angels. My view is best summed as: Jesus who was promised both the Holy Spirit, which he recieved at baptism, and the Exaltation, has now recieved the second promise, the exaltation, and therefore now gives to us his promise, that being, the Holy Spirit. Shalom |
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