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But that which was predicted through the Prophet Joel has happened:
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"And it shall come to pass in the last days, God says, that I will pour out My Spirit upon all mankind; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall have dreams;
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and even upon My bondservants, both men and women, at that time, I will pour out My Spirit, and they shall prophesy.
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I will display marvels in the sky above, and signs on the earth below, blood and fire, and pillars of smoke.
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The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, to usher in the day of the Lord-- that great and illustrious day;
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and every one who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.'
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"Listen, Israelites, to what I say. Jesus, the Nazarene, a man accredited to you from God by miracles and marvels and signs which God did among you through Him, as you yourselves know, Him--
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delivered up through God's settled purpose and foreknowledge--you by the hands of Gentiles have nailed to a cross and have put to death.
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But God has raised Him to life, having terminated the throes of death, for in fact it was not possible for Him to be held fast by death.
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For David says in reference to Him, "`I constantly fixed my eyes upon the Lord, because He is at my right hand in order that I may continue unshaken.
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For this reason my heart is glad and my tongue exults. My body also shall rest in hope.