“But this is that which has been spoken through the prophet Joel.”

He then explains what is really happening. Quoting Scriptures which may well have recently been drawn to his attention by Jesus, and citing the prophet Joel who had spoken of a coming effusion of the Spirit in the days when God began to act, he declares that God had now begun His promised work of ‘the last days'. ‘This is that' indicates that what they are seeing this day is a part of that pouring out of the Spirit promised by Joel. Let them now recognise that the days of promise and warning are now here. In the context of Acts Luke has in mind the working of the Spirit which he will describe all through the Book of Acts.

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