Monday, January 24, 2022
HOW GOD SPEAKS
Joel 2:28
28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out
my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your
old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
Acts 2:17-18
17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I
will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters
shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall
dream dreams:
18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out
in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
In the upper room
120 believers met and waited on the “promise.” When he (not it) came, there was
a symbol which was fire. There was a sign which was the ability to speak in a
previously unlearned language. And there was a sermon! All those spoke of the
life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The text of the sermon was from Joel,
and it was wonderful news.
Acts 2:21
21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on
the name of the Lord shall be saved.
The manner
in which God revealed Himself has changed through the years. Adam Clarke says
as he comments on Genesis 15:1, “[The word of the Lord came unto Abram] This is
the first place where God is represented as revealing himself by his word. Some
learned men suppose that the dbar Yahweh, translated here
"word of the Lord," means the same with the logos tou Theou
of John 1:1.”
Dreams were one way
that God revealed Himself but not all dreams. Ebenezer Scrooge explained that
it might be a parcel of undigested cheese that provoked the dream. Joseph’s
recurring dreams in Genesis 37:5-9 predicted that one day Joseph’s family would
bow before him. It was the dream that provoked its own fulfillment as the
brothers sold Joseph into slavery. It was God, of course, that enabled the
slave to become the sovereign.
When Joel and Peter said
that “your sons and daughters shall prophecy”, he was not necessarily saying
they would predict the future but that they would proclaim the gospel. The
sense is not foretelling but forth telling or telling forth.
Today we have the
miracle of a written copy of the Word of God, bathed in the blood of martyrs
and written with the ink of ages. It is sharper than a two-edged sword! It is
the one book that you can never finish reading because it is “quick” which means
it is living and not dead. It is inhabited by the Holy Spirit and pierces both
the mind and the heart. Read it! Trust it! Live it!
Heb 1:1-2
1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in
time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son.
Dear Lord, thank you for your revealed Word. AMEN
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