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NASB | Acts 2:17 'AND IT SHALL BE IN THE LAST DAYS,' God says, 'THAT I WILL POUR FORTH OF MY SPIRIT ON ALL MANKIND; AND YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY, AND YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS, AND YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 2:17 'AND IT SHALL BE IN THE LAST DAYS,' says God, 'THAT I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT UPON ALL MANKIND; AND YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY, AND YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE [divinely prompted] VISIONS, AND YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM [divinely prompted] DREAMS; |
Bible Question:
Dear Sam, Don't you think that the Old and New Covenants speak of two distinct salvation experiences? Though both operate through faith, does not the new covenant speak of the cross and the blood of Christ? Were these working before in Abraham and Moses? I'm not sure I understand your view that the church is applicable to Old Testament saints. Please explain. In Christ Jesus, charis |
Bible Answer: Greetings, and what a discussion you have going! Wasn't the church a brand new organism that came into being on the day of Pentecost, Acts 2? Did not God pour out His Spirit -- "tongues as of fire" -- on that day, just as Jesus promised His disciples? Why would Jesus have said to Peter that "upon this rock I will build my church" if the church had been in existence for all time, as Sam suggests -- past, present and future? How do we work Romans 8 into this framework? The Jews lived under the Law of Moses, which Paul himself called "weak as it was through the flesh." The "church age" lives under "the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus" which has "set you free from the law of sin and of death." [Rom.8:2] The terms we use for the divisions of our Bible, Old and New Testaments, can as easily be called Old and New Covenants. In short, Christ pre-existed before His Advent, but the church did not. --Hank |