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"In the Last Days," God says, "I will pour out my Spirit on every kind of people: Your sons will prophesy, also your daughters; Your young men will see visions, your old men dream dreams.
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When the time comes, I'll pour out my Spirit On those who serve me, men and women both, and they'll prophesy.
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I'll set wonders in the sky above and signs on the earth below, Blood and fire and billowing smoke,
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the sun turning black and the moon blood-red, Before the Day of the Lord arrives, the Day tremendous and marvelous;
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And whoever calls out for help to me, God, will be saved."
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"Fellow Israelites, listen carefully to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man thoroughly accredited by God to you - the miracles and wonders and signs that God did through him are common knowledge -
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this Jesus, following the deliberate and well-thought-out plan of God, was betrayed by men who took the law into their own hands, and was handed over to you. And you pinned him to a cross and killed him.
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But God untied the death ropes and raised him up. Death was no match for him.
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David said it all: I saw God before me for all time. Nothing can shake me; he's right by my side.
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I'm glad from the inside out, ecstatic; I've pitched my tent in the land of hope.
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I know you'll never dump me in Hades; I'll never even smell the stench of death.