When I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem: In a lesser and immediate sense this was fulfilled in the return from the Babylonian exile. Instead, on Pentecost the church came to the edge – and has run parallel to the brink for some 2,000 years.ī. Since that time, the church has not been rushing towards a distant edge that represents the consummation of all things. Scripturally, we can think of the last days as an era, one that began with the birth of the church on the day of Pentecost. Many have the wrong idea of the “last days,” thinking only in terms of the final years or months immediately before the return of Jesus in glory to this earth, or the rapture of the church. This is the broad period of the last days, initiated by the Ascension of Jesus and the birth of the church on the day of Pentecost. In those days and at that time: Joel’s prophecy still concerns the time period connected with it shall come to pass afterward mentioned in Joel 2:28.
Have given a boy as payment for a harlot,Īnd sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.”Ī. Whom they have scattered among the nations On account of My people, My heritage Israel, When I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem,Īnd bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat Īnd I will enter into judgment with them there “For behold, in those days and at that time, (1-3) A promise to bring back scattered and mistreated Israel.
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