Sunday, August 7, 2022 AM

Here worshiping the Lord together at Sunnyside this morning. We'll start out with a few announcements. First of all it's good to be back in our regular Sunday school classes again. We want to thank again those teachers who taught over the summer but now we're kind of back to normal.

Hopefully that was a blessing to you this morning. Come back tonight for our evening service at 530 regular time. There is an announcement in the bulletin and this is in regards to this Wednesday and then throughout the rest of the month of August.

We're not going to have a meal. We're going to take a little bit of time off from meals on Wednesdays but there will be a devotion and prayer at 630 this Wednesday so be sure and come for that. TAG will pick up for the kids again in the fall so they'll get a little bit of a break as well.

Looking ahead to Sunday September 4th that's going to be promotion Sunday for our Sunday school classes particularly the kids classes. So if you have kids be in contact with their teachers and or potential teachers and let them know who maybe they need to expect on Sunday September 4th.

There'll be some kids moving around likely and then coming this fall like I said Wednesday night TAG resumes for the kids. All right Jimmy Barnett happy birthday. Today is Jimmy's birthday and it is also Jimmy and Kristen's anniversary I believe too.

So that makes it convenient to remember right. One more announcement tomorrow if you were unaware our dear dear brother Ralph Bullard they are going to be having the groundbreaking for the Ralph Bullard training facility at Christian Heritage Academy.

It's tomorrow morning at 1130 a .m. goes to about noon but that's a way if you are able to make it it's going to be in the east parking lot of the gymnasium there on Sunny Lane and 29th Street roughly but we would love to have you out there if you're able to come honor him.

Any other announcements this morning? All right our fighter verse for this week comes from the Psalms. We're continuing in Psalm 91 this is verses 9 and 10. Because you have made the Lord your dwelling place the Most High who is my refuge no evil shall be allowed to befall you no plague come near your tent.

We're gonna have a time to quietly prepare our hearts for worship and then after that Dwight will come and open us.

In prayer. Father what a blessing it is to be able to call you father that you.

Brought us to yourself through your son the Lord Jesus. Brought us to the new birth. Adopted us into your family to be your children and to have an inheritance beyond all comprehension. How good you are to us.

How you've so richly richly blessed us through your son the Lord Jesus. And we've come together this morning to worship you. To give you praise and honor and thanksgiving. To sing your praises. Help us to sing with a joyful heart.

And I thank you for your word. How you've so blessed us with your word that's so readily available to us that we can be encouraged by it and blessed by it. And by your servants those who teach us. And for Michael who will preach your word to us this morning may he preach in the power of your Holy Spirit.

And may your words go forth and accomplish your righteous purpose and minister to us and help us to grow in the grace and knowledge of your son the Lord Jesus. To nourish us and to feed us. How good you are to us.

We thank you for your forgiveness. What a blessing it is to be forgiven and to know that we are in right relationship with you. Reconcile to you at peace with you. And at any time through your son the Lord Jesus we can come into your presence with our burdens our requests.

And we can commune with you as we worship. May we be a blessing to you. May you delight in your.

People this morning in Jesus name amen would you stand with me for a call to worship. We're reaching the end of Psalms chapter 78 this morning so we'll be reading verses 69 to 72. Read with me together.

He built his sanctuary like the high heavens like the earth which he has founded forever. He chose David his servant and took from him sheep foals from following the nursing use. He brought him to shepherd Jacob his people Israel his inheritance.

With upright heart he shepherded them and guided them with his skillful hand. So if you would turn to your Psalms for worship hymnal page 78 J and we'll sing verses 31 to 33 turn to your. Well no actually this song that was a handout the very back.

And the reason why we've met today is to worship the Lord. So if you would sing we're missing all four verses of brethren we have met to worship to.

Isaiah 30 we'll be reading verses 15 through 26 and I'll be reading out of the ESV. For this said the Lord God the Holy One of Israel. And returning and rest you shall be saved and quietness and in trust shall be your strength.

But you were unwilling and you said no we will flee upon horses therefore you shall flee away. And we will ride upon swift steeds. Therefore your pursuers shall be swift. A thousand shall flee at the threat of one at the threat of five you shall flee till you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain like a signal on a hill.

Therefore the Lord God waits to be gracious to you and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him. For a people shall dwell in Zion in Jerusalem.

You shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it he answers you. And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction yet your teacher will not hide himself anymore.

But your eyes shall see your teacher in your ears shall hear a word behind you saying this is the way walk in it when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. Then you will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold-plated metal images.

You will scatter them as unclean things you will say to them be gone. And he will give rain for the seed with which you show you sow the ground and bread the produce of the ground which will be rich and plenteous.

And that day your livestock will graze in large pastures and the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder which has been winnowed with shovel and fork. And on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water.

And the day of the great slaughter when the towers fall. Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun with will be sevenfold as the light of seven days. And the day when the Lord binds up the brokenness of his people and the heel and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.

Please pray with me father we are in humble all of your majesty. We see that you may inflict the blow but you also heal the wounds of your people. For those that fear you father you are patient and waiting to be gracious to them.

You're a God of justice seeking to have mercy upon your sons and daughters. Cause us to fear you and all of our ways cause us to look to your word all of our days. Father give us clean hearts that we may hear your word rightly and enjoy.

You forever and ever in Christ's name amen. Our next song this morning is amazing. Grace. My chains are gone Jesus is mine.

Heavenly Father we give you praise today for your compassions your mercies your loving-kindnesses your faithfulness. From day to day from age to age you are the same. You're a good perfect generous gracious.

Heavenly Father you have given us your son Jesus Christ. We know that with him you will freely give us all things that you work all things together for the good of those who love you and who are called according to your purpose.

We thank you that we may gather today in confidence in hope with thanksgiving rejoicing in your truth rejoicing in your son Jesus Christ the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords who reigns even now from your right hand.

And we give you thanks. And we give you praise for sending forth your Holy Spirit to indwell your people to fill us that we may worship you in truth. Help us. We pray this morning. Help us to hear your word to respond.

May our lives be the amen on earth of your will that has been declared from heaven. And we pray for these graces looking to your son Jesus Christ the one with whom you are well pleased. It's in his name that we pray amen.

Invite you to open your Bibles and turn with me to the book of Acts. Acts chapter 2. And we'll be reading verses 14 through 21 this morning. Acts chapter 2. Verses 14 through 21 the long-awaited promised sign of the new covenant who is the Holy Spirit has come.

That's where we are in the story. That's where we are today. Jesus at the Last Supper took the bread and broke it gave it to his Apostles and said take eat. This is my body broken for you. He gave them the cup to drink from and said take drink.

This is my blood that is shed for the new covenant for the remission of sins hereby signifying the nature of his death more than horrific physical suffering in direct connection to his substitutionary atonement on the cross suffering under the wrath of God for our sins.

Jesus says what I am doing is bringing about the new covenant. No longer would there be a line of priests one following after the other their tenures of service silenced by death. But there would be a great high priest who would live forever interceding for us in the true holy of holies the right hand of God.

No longer would there be a train of animal sacrifices goat after goat bull after bull turtle dove after turtle dove lamb after lamb. For Christ is the Lamb of God who has come to take away the sins of the world.

And so in the new covenant we have God's faithfulness his promises his character his mercy and his grace expressed in a far superior fashion to the old covenant. The old covenant was good but it was the shadow of the substance and the substance has come.

And so Jesus died upon the cross as the Lamb of God and he was raised from the dead the third day. And then for 40 days after his resurrection he spent time with his disciples and he educated them and he taught them and he showed them the meaning of all the scriptures in light of who he is showing himself as the fulfillment of the old covenant.

And and told them that they were going to be his messengers to to all the nations of the earth. They will be proclaiming the good news of the kingdom to all the earth. But before they were to go out they must wait to wait in Jerusalem for the promised gift of the of the Father the Holy Spirit.

They were to wait for the arrival of the Holy Spirit before they went out. Why Jesus said he's brought about the new covenant. And throughout the scriptures the most important signifier of the new covenant is the arrival of the Holy Spirit.

To anoint all the members of the new covenant. To bless all the members of the new covenant to indwell all the members of the new covenant. That's the most significant change between the handful of prophets priests and kings anointed in the Old Testament in the old covenant and the remnant in the old covenant who were truly circumcised of heart which is the work of the Spirit in the new covenant.

Christ is the anointed one the Messiah the anointed one he is the king of kings. He is the great high priest he is the great prophet. And of his anointing we share as he sends forth his Holy Spirit that we would serve him.

And so now it's not a question as it was in the old covenant of who is in Israel. The question in the new covenant is who is in Israel meaning Christ who is in Christ who is a part of Christ. That's the question.

And so Jesus tells his Apostles to wait in Jerusalem for the arrival of the Holy Spirit. And indeed they do. And they pray and they seek the gift of the Father the Holy Spirit. And they prepare and they look for the needs amongst them.

And they apply the Word of God to their lives. And they follow through in obedience. And then the day of Pentecost comes. And there are visual and oral signs the sound of the roar of the wind. Something like the roar of the wind comes rushing through the room something like tongues of fire come and rest upon the heads of the twelve Apostles.

Then they begin to speak in utterances languages that they had never learned. But they begin to proclaim the mighty works of God in the languages in the heart languages in the tribal dialects of Jews who had gathered in Jerusalem for Pentecost they had grown up in a the people that are listed there at the beginning of Acts 2 grew up in disparate places from one end of the to the other of the Roman Empire 2 ,000 miles wide 1 ,000 miles from north to south.

Men from every type of tribe and dialect in the Roman Empire. These Jews who had been scattered long been scattered throughout the known world have now gathered in to Jerusalem for the feast of the feast of the first fruits the feast of the harvest for Pentecost.

And they begin hearing the mighty works of God preached in the languages they know best. How do they respond. Some of them are just in pure amazement. How is this possible. These men are obviously Galileans.

You can tell by their accent. It is so strange to hear a Galilean speaking my tribal heart language. How can this be. Others mocking said they are full of new wine full of new wine. That's where we left off.

We talked about the fact that when the disciples heard Jesus talk about the preaching of his kingdom the preaching of the kingdom of God to all the nations promising them the Holy Spirit. They rightly reflected upon the many Old Testament passages that promised the restoration of the kingdom to Israel in which the people of God those scattered were brought back together under the power of the Holy Spirit to the to the city of God to the mountain of God under the rule of the Son of David.

And everything that Jesus is saying to them is clicking. And they're saying oh is it this time you're going to restore the kingdom to Israel. And Jesus begins to build upon that and gives them an answer that is positive.

Yes. Of course the kingdom is given to Israel. Christ is Israel as it is said throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament. That's where we left off. At the end there's going to be a major conflict that runs through all the book of Acts.

Who are the people of God. How does God deal with the world. Is it according to the Old Covenant or is according to the New Covenant. And in this mocking that we find in verse 13 of chapter 2 they are full of new wine.

We were reminded of the parable that Jesus told explaining why it was that so many were going to be rejecting his kingdom and rejecting his gospel. He said you cannot put new wine into old wineskins. You can't try to stuff the New Covenant into Old Covenant forms because the new wine will burst the old wineskins.

No you need to have new wine and new wineskins. He really is bringing about something that is new. But then he also said. But those who have become drunk on the old wine prefer that and they will not drink the new.

And here it is a conflict that's going to be put on display throughout the book of Acts. Those who prefer the Old Covenant to the new those who would insist that they continued sacrifice of the animals and the blood of animals was to be retained.

That the priesthood in the physical temple in the physical Jerusalem was to be preferred to Jesus Christ who called himself the temple. Who said something greater than the temple has come. So we have the conflict being set out in front of us.

Here is a critical moment. The Holy Spirit has arrived. The primary signifier that the New Covenant is in effect. The Holy Spirit has shown up with these signs with these evidences and Peter begins to preach.

He begins to answer the unspoken question that lies behind those who are marveling and those who are criticizing. And he begins to declare the gospel of the kingdom just as he had been instructed to declare the good news of the kingdom in Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria and the uttermost parts of the earth.

Here Peter begins to preach the gospel of the kingdom and to demonstrate the meaning of the New Covenant. We should not miss out on the meaning of Pentecost by irreverent speculation. That is what the critics here were in danger of.

Those who are mocking said they're full of new wine. Irreverent speculation. They're gonna miss out on the meaning of Pentecost. So also anybody else even people today who take up the Word of God and begin to read what happens here in Acts chapter 2 will miss out on the meaning of Pentecost through irreverent speculation.

This is what it must be avoided as we are looking at how Peter preaches the main idea of his sermon that is established very resolutely here in the first eight verses is this at the last days of the Old Covenant showcase the blessings of the new.

The last days of the Old Covenant showcase the blessings of the new. Let's stand together. And we read the Word of God for us. Acts chapter 2 beginning in verse 14 and I'll read through verse 21. This is the Word of the Lord.

But Peter standing up with the 11 raised his voice and said to them men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem let this be known to you and heed my words. For these are not drunk as you suppose since it is only the third hour of the day.

But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel. And it shall come to pass in the last days says God that I will pour out of my spirit and all flesh. Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Your young men shall see visions.

Your old men shall dream dreams. And on my men's servants and on my maidservants I will pour out my spirit in those days. And they shall prophesy. I will show wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth beneath blood and fire and vapor of smoke.

The Sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

This is the Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. You may be seated at the very beginning. Here in Acts 2 verses 14 through 16 we see that Peter does not want this mockery to go unanswered this irreverent speculation that has been voiced amongst the crowd.

Peter is not going to let it lie. He's not going to let it rest. He's going to address it. And he says men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem so he is. He is preaching to all those who have gathered together the massive amount of people who have gathered together in Jerusalem for Pentecost.

And he says heed my words. He said these these men are not drunk. It doesn't really even fit with the symptoms of drunkenness wherein communication is most definitely inhibited. These men are not filled with physical spirits but with the Holy Spirit.

And they are speaking in languages that they have never learned before. And all their days of growing up in Galilee they did not sit under tutors to speak the language of the Parthians and the Medes and the Elamites and the Mesopotamians and the Cappadocians and those of Pontus in Asia and Phrygia and Pamphylia and Egypt and the Liberians and the Cyrenians and Latin.

For that matter they did not grow up under these tutelages where they would have learned these languages. But they spoke those languages by the power of the Holy Spirit so that these men from all over the nation all over the Empire of Rome of all the different nations they heard the Word of God the gospel of the kingdom the marvelous works of God being proclaimed to them in their heart languages.

You just love how even today the church and following Jesus we are still laboring to get the gospel of Jesus Christ the Word the Lord into the heart languages of the tribes. Why do we do that. Why. Why have we supported missionaries in the Ivory Coast to translate the Bible into the tribal dialect of the Palika people.

Look at the heart of God. Look what he desires. Look how he loves the tribes. Look how he delights in making sure that his word is given to people of all these various dialects. Praise the Lord. What a gift.

What a blessing. What a sign. And so Peter says he doesn't want this to be demeaned. He does not want this to be mocked. He doesn't want this to be to be set aside as some sort of strange phenomenon that you can just forget about the next day.

Or perhaps make a joke about later and dismiss. No he says these men are not drunk. It is only the third hour of the day. This is a chiding word to those who would think that to be so. It's nine o 'clock in the morning.

Of course they're not drunk. Why would you think that. But this is what was spoken by the Prophet Joel. In this way Peter is patterning his response like that of his Lord wherein his opponents would see something he did or hear something that he said.

And they would. They would mockingly criticize him or try to say something scandalous about him. And then he would show them the faultiness of their thinking and then point them to the Word of God. Peter does the very same thing in this text.

Now I want us to pay close attention to what Peter says here. Look at the Word of God. When the Holy Spirit arrives in that special way at Pentecost it is obvious to all that something has happened. The meaning of it is not clear.

Peter is expressing the meaning of it. He says what you are witnessing what you are observing is nothing less than what was prophesied by Joel. The arrival of the Holy Spirit was prophesied by Joel. Let's see what Joel said verses 17 and 18.

And it shall come to pass in the last days says God that I will pour out of my spirit and all flesh. Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Your young men shall see visions. Your old men shall dream dreams.

And on my men servants and mine on my maidservants. I will pour out my spirit in those days and they shall prophesy. Peter says the arrival of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost fulfills the prophecy from Joel meaning welcome to the last days.

Do you see what he says. He says the fact that the Holy Spirit has shown up in this way fulfills the prophecy of Joel. These are the last days the last days spoken of by Christ. A great deal. Peter preaches about the last days.

Here in the book of Acts we can read a lot about the last days as we read through the epistles of Paul. I went and surveyed them just recently. Even James and Jude talked about the last days. Peter talks about the last days.

Whoever the author of Hebrews is probably Paul talks about the last days. And John and his epistles talks about the last days. And you know what they say. Every single one of them every single one of them say that they were living in the last days.

The last hour the end of the world had come upon them. They say the end of the ages had come upon them. What do they mean. Were they wrong. Maybe they were wrong. Maybe there are errors in the Bible. No not true.

They were writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit born along by the Holy Spirit. Every word that they put down was superintended with the truth of God. There was no error there. Infallible inerrant the very words of God.

Maybe they were confused. No. What does it mean when John says these are the last hours. This is the last hour. What does it mean when Paul says these are the last days. They were writing to their audience who lived in places like Corinth and in Ephesus.

They were writing to people who were living in their time. And they were saying look folks we are in the last days now. Perhaps perhaps the last days of 2 ,000 years ago are still the last days of today.

But I don't think that's the plainest reading of the text. I think we have to import a whole bunch of our ideas into the text to read it that way. I don't think it's a natural reading of the text. I'll tell you what it's a natural reading of the text is that when we read what they mean by the last days they're not talking about the end of planet Earth.

They're not talking about a resurrection of all of the dead. That when they begin to talk about the last days and the end of the age and so on a great majority of the time they're talking about the end of the Old Covenant.

They're talking about the end of the Old Covenant. And that's what's going on in this text now. They also proclaim that Jesus Christ will return from heaven bodily and he will raise the dead and he will reign forever and ever.

There is a great judgment that's to come. But they also spend a great deal of time talking about the end of the Old Covenant. The last days of you. Why is it last days of the Old Covenant. Because the New Covenant has come.

You see the arrival of the New Covenant means you don't need the Old Covenant anymore. Does that make sense when the new shows up. And it's better than the old and it fulfills the old. You don't need the old anymore.

That the arrival of the new signals the end of the old. That's what's going on here. Jesus told many parables about this. The new shows up. The old resents it but the old passes away under judgment. And the new remains.

That summarizes many of the parables that Jesus tells. This is good news that the New Covenant has come and as good news must be proclaimed to those who are in the Old Covenant. These Jews who have been gathered in from every quarter of the Roman Empire.

Why are they scattered. Because they have been scattered by the judgment of God in exile. What's the only way for them to get out of exile. They have to come back to Christ. They have to come to Messiah.

They have to. They have to come back to God through Christ. The New Covenant has come. Verse 13 of Hebrews 8 says in that he says a new covenant. He has made the first obsolete. The New Covenant has made the old obsolete.

Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. The New Covenant showed up which means the Old Covenant is obsolete and it's ready to pass away. The rival of the new has signaled the end of the old and very much the same way that David was anointed King while Saul was still anointed King and Saul rightly understood that the anointing of David meant his days were numbered.

It was the end of Saul's line because David had been anointed. And the same thing is going on here in this particular moment. I am stressing this because I don't think it's possible to understand the book of Acts in a profitable way unless we understand what is going on in this exchange between the New Covenant and the Old Covenant.

For example in verse 17 and 18 says. And I shall and it shall come to pass in the last days says God that I will pour out of my spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughter shall prophesy. Your young men shall see visions.

Your old men shall dream dreams. And all my men servants and all my maidservants I will pour out my spirit in those days. And they shall prophesy. Now it is the right instinct of God fearing people of Christians to take up the Word of God and say look this is what the Word of God says.

That's the way it's got to be. And this is where we have so much confusion in our day about charismatic gifts. This is descriptive of the last days before the end of the Old Covenant after the inauguration of the new.

This is descriptive prophecy from Joel about what it's going to be like in the last days of the Old Covenant. But when people read this they say well this must be just this must be prescriptive for all Christians living today.

Right. If you're told you're living in the last days because China is mean right. And three months ago you're living in the last days because Russia is mean right. Okay if you're told all the time that you're living in the last days of planet Earth because of the new cycle.

And then you read that in the last days that the Spirit of God has been poured out on all flesh and everybody needs to be prophesying like well I don't think I'm prophesying. I don't think I'm a prophet.

And someone's gonna come to you and say you don't believe in the full gospel. Do you come to our full gospel church. Everybody prophesies everybody speaks in tongues. Everybody has all the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

You see how confusing that can be. This is descriptive of what was going on in the last days of the Old Covenant after the inauguration of the new in the book of Joel. And we can turn back there. In the book of Joel chapter 1 involves the declaration of God's judgment upon his own people for their covenant unfaithfulness.

There is a call to mourn the great disaster that is about to befall them. And then there's an expression from the Prophet of his angst at seeing and expecting all of this disaster to befall. And he prays and cries out to the Lord in his anguish.

In chapter 2 there is a declaration of the coming day of the Lord which being about the destruction of his covenant-breaking people. But then is also a call to repent and to return to the Lord which of course it was promised that they would do after they were punished after they were taken away into into exile.

When the people were taken away from Jerusalem into exile in 586 BC the prophets declared to them the hope of a new covenant to come that they will be regathered to Jerusalem and there that God will reveal to them a new covenant.

The Messiah would come the Holy Spirit would be given and the kingdom would be restored to Israel. And this very same promise begins in Joel chapter 2. In around verses 18 through 27. I'm going to read the first part in the last part from it.

Verse 18 of Joel 2. Then the Lord will be zealous for his people and pity his people. The Lord will answer and say to his people behold I will send you grain and new wine and oil and you will be satisfied by them.

I will no longer make your approach among the nations. Similar themes continue. Verse 24. The threshing floors will be full of wheat. The vats shall overflow with new wine and oil. Now this is this is interesting to me because the complaint from the skeptics on the day of Pentecost at the signifiers of the Holy Spirit being present was that these Apostles must be drunk.

They must be filled with new wine. And Peter says not that kind of new wine but there it is the promise of new wine in the new covenant. What kind of new wine is this really talking about. Peter clarifies it even as the Prophet Joel clarifies it it's the arrival of the Holy Spirit.

Verse 28. It shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Your old men shall dream dreams. Your young men shall see visions. And also on my men's servants and all my maidservants I will pour out my spirit in those days meaning after the judgment upon the covenant breakers that exiled them away.

After that will come a new covenant in which the Holy Spirit will be given to God's people. Following that there's going to be another day of the Lord another judgment which clarifies who the people of God are.

That's what Joel was talking about. And that's what Peter is talking about. Peter hears the skeptics say they're full of new wine. This jogs his memory about the Prophet Joel talking about new wine. And here we are in the context of Joel promise of new wine and the arrival of the Holy Spirit.

They're complaining and saying they're new. They're full of new wine. And Peter says no let's talk about the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit has shown up just like it was said in the Prophet Joel. Now if somebody is looking for a cardboard fulfillment of the Prophet Joel they will note as they read through verses 17 and 18 that all that had happened was that the Apostles spoke in languages that they had never learned and proclaimed the gospel of Jesus Christ to these people in their heart language.

There were definitely not the sons and daughters of their audience prophesying. Did you notice that the text says your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Peter is saying what you've just seen here fulfills the prophecy of Joel.

Okay. And what Joel said was that your sons and your daughter shall prophesy. Now somebody in the audience if they're looking for kind of cardboard cutout fulfillment it's going to be saying Peter sorry this passage is not fulfilled because my son and my daughter are not here and they are not prophesying.

So again the question is Peter in error. Has the Holy Spirit inspired Peter in a wrong way. Why is Peter saying that the proclamation of the gospel of the kingdom in languages that had never been learned by these Apostles fulfills Joel chapter 2 verses 8 verses 28 and following.

Where are the sons and the daughters prophesying. Were there any old men right there in front of this audience that had dreamed a dream who was who had a vision. How is it that Joel to prophecy is being fulfilled on this day.

We have to think about what the answer is to that. The answer comes because it is in the last days that God pours out his spirit on all flesh again a term which if you decide to press the limits to it includes animals.

That is not the promise of the New Covenant. The promise of the New Covenant from Jeremiah from Isaiah from Ezekiel is simply this that all the people in the New Covenant all the flesh in the New Covenant will receive the Holy Spirit unlike the Old Covenant.