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NASB | Joel 2:28 ¶ "It will come about after this That I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind; And your sons and daughters will prophesy, Your old men will dream dreams, Your young men will see visions. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Joel 2:28 ¶ "It shall come about after this That I shall pour out My Spirit on all mankind; And your sons and your daughters will prophesy, Your old men will dream dreams, Your young men will see visions. |
Bible Question:
Can anyone else answer this question? I appreciate that Johnny at least tried, but just saying that God's timing is perfect doesn't really answer the question. Doesn't anyone out there have any thoughts on this issue. Why did God's perfect timing dictate that He wait so long to send the Holy Spirit? |
Bible Answer: From BradK via mommapbs Sir Pent, This is an interesting, but challenging question, one of which I certainly don’t have a complete answer. Here are some thoughts. Possibly others will be able to fill the gaps. The most immediate reference that comes to mind is John. 14:16-17, “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.” We can start by what we do know about God’s “timing” in regards to Christ. In Gal 4:4-6 it says,”But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!" We simply know that it was the fullness of time- God’s own time- in which Christ was sent. We might rightly infer that it was certainly in God's timing when He chose to send the Spirit, though scripture seems silent on the "why".In verse 6 we have that God literally "delegated out the Spirit of the Son." The verses which prophesy of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit (Is 32:15; 44:3; Eze 39:29; Joe 2:28; Mt 3:11; Mk 1:8; Lu 3:16; Jn 1:33; 7:38–39; Ac 1:5) unfortunately don’t tell us “why”as to timing. Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |