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Then Kefa stood up with the Eleven and raised his voice to address them: "You Judeans, and all of you staying here in Yerushalayim! Let me tell you what this means! Listen carefully to me!
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"These people aren't drunk, as you suppose - it's only nine in the morning.
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No, this is what was spoken about through the prophet Yo'el:
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'ADONAI says: "In the Last Days, I will pour out from my Spirit upon everyone. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.
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Even on my slaves, both men and women, will I pour out from my Spirit in those days; and they will prophesy.
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I will perform miracles in the sky above and signs on the earth below blood, fire and thick smoke.
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The sun will become dark and the moon blood before the great and fearful Day of ADONAI comes.
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And then, whoever calls on the name of ADONAI will be saved."'
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"Men of Isra'el! Listen to this! Yeshua from Natzeret was a man demonstrated to you to have been from God by the powerful works, miracles and signs that God performed through him in your presence. You yourselves know this.
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This man was arrested in accordance with God's predetermined plan and foreknowledge; and, through the agency of persons not bound by the Torah, you nailed him up on a stake and killed him!
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"But God has raised him up and freed him from the suffering of death; it was impossible that death could keep its hold on him.