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'1AND IT SHALL BE IN THE LASTDAYS,' Godsays, 'THAT I WILL POURFORTH OF MY SPIRIT ON ALLMANKIND; AND YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY, AND YOUR YOUNGMEN SHALL SEEVISIONS, AND YOUR OLDMEN SHALL DREAMDREAMS;
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EVEN ON MY BONDSLAVES, BOTH MEN AND WOMEN, I WILL IN THOSEDAYSPOURFORTH OF MY SPIRIT And they shall prophesy.
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'AND I WILL GRANTWONDERS IN THE SKYABOVE AND SIGNS ON THE EARTHBELOW, BLOOD, AND FIRE, AND VAPOR OF SMOKE.
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'THE SUN WILL BE TURNED INTO DARKNESS AND THE MOON INTO BLOOD, BEFORE THE GREAT AND GLORIOUSDAY OF THE LORD SHALL COME.
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'AND IT SHALL BE THAT 2EVERYONEWHOCALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.'
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"Men of Israel, listen to thesewords: 3Jesus the Nazarene, 4a manattested to you by God with miracles and 5wonders and signswhichGodperformedthrough Him in your midst, just as you yourselvesknow -
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this Man, delivered over by the 6predeterminedplan and foreknowledge of God, 7you nailed to a cross by the hands of godlessmen and put Him to death.
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"But 8Godraised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it 9was impossible* for Him to be held in its power.
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"For Davidsays of Him, '10I SAW THE LORDALWAYS* IN MY PRESENCE; FOR HE IS AT MY RIGHTHAND, SO THAT I WILL NOT BE SHAKEN.
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'THEREFORE* MY HEART WAS GLAD AND MY TONGUEEXULTED; MOREOVER* MY FLESHALSO WILL LIVE IN HOPE;
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BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT ABANDON MY SOUL TO 11HADES, 12NORALLOW YOUR HOLYONE TO UNDERGODECAY.