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"And
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. And
even on the
male and female servants I will pour out My
Spirit in those days. And I will display wonders in
the sky and on the earth, Blood, fire, and columns
of smoke. The sun will be turned into darkness, and
the moon into blood, before the great and awesome
day of the LORD comes. And it will come about that
whoever calls on the name of the LORD will be
delivered; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there
will be those who escape, as the LORD has said, even
among the survivors whom the LORD calls." Joel
2:28-32 (NAS)
"Until
the Spirit is poured out upon us from on
high, and the wilderness becomes a fertile field and
the fertile field is considered as a forest." Isaiah
32:15 (NAS)
"For I will pour out water on
the thirsty land and streams on the dry ground;
I will pour
out My Spirit on your offspring, and My blessing on
your descendants; And they will spring up
among the grass like poplars by streams of water."
Isaiah 44:3-4
(NAS)
"And
I will pour
out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication,
so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced;
and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an
only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him, like
the bitter weeping over a first-born." Zechariah
12:10 (NAS)
All Mankind - Jews and Non-Jews
God promises to pour out His
Spirit on all mankind. Just so the children of
Israel (the Jews) would understand more clearly, He
went on to say that this would include even their
male and female servants (who were usually not Jews,
but Gentiles). God had promised a number of
times that more than just the descendants of Abraham
and Jacob or Israel would be saved under the New
Covenant:
"And
in your seed
all the nations of the earth shall be
blessed, because you have obeyed My voice." Genesis
22:18 (God speaking to Abraham - NAS)
All the ends
of the earth will remember and turn to the
LORD, and
all the families of the nations will worship
before Thee. Psalm 22:27 (NAS)
He says, "It is too small a
thing that you should be My servant to raise up the
tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved ones
of Israel; I
will also make you a light of the nations so that My
salvation may reach to the end of the earth."
Isaiah 49:6 (NAS)
"And to Him was given
dominion, glory and a kingdom, that
all the
peoples, nations, and men of every language might
serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting
dominion which will not pass away; and His kingdom
is one which will not be destroyed. Daniel 7:14
(NAS)
"And I will sow her for myself
in the land. I will also have compassion on her who
had not obtained compassion, and
I will say
to those who were not My people, 'You are My
people!' And they will say, 'Thou art my God!'"
Hosea 2:23 (NAS)
Spirit to Be Poured Out On The Inhabitants of
Jerusalem
As this lesson continues, we will see that the
pouring out of the Spirit begins with the house of
David in the city of Jerusalem...and then continues
to spread to the rest of mankind.
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