2000 years - still the last days

Joel 2:23–28 “Be glad, O children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in Yahweh your God, because he has given for you the autumn rains for your righteousness, and he has poured down for you rainwater, the autumn and spring rains, as before. The threshing floors will be full with grain, and the vats will overflow with new wine and olive oil. I will repay you the years that the locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my mighty troops that I sent against you. And you will eat abundantly and be satisfied, and praise the name of Yahweh your God, who has dealt with you wondrously. My people will never be ashamed. And you will know that I am in the midst of Israel, and I am Yahweh, your God, and there is no other. My people will never be ashamed again. And it will happen afterward thus: I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your elders will dream dreams; your young men shall see visions.”

The Last Days - if you read the entire 2nd chapter of Joel, verse 1 tells you something interesting: Joel 2:1–2 “Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh is coming —it is indeed near. A day of darkness and gloom, a day of cloud and thick darkness, like the dawn spreads on the mountains, a great and strong army! There has been nothing like it from old, and after it nothing will be again for generations to come.”

An empty vessel that needs to be filled: the dream of the empty soda bottles on the window ledge that would make a certain sound when the wind blew on them and filled them.

The day of the LORD - the reversal of Babel - gathered together per the Lord’s instructions, then sent back to their respective lands, filled with the Spirit. Throughout the era of the Book of Acts church we see the constant infilling of the Spirit with the evidence or proof being that people spoke in other tongues. Gradually though after the first 100 years of the church, we see that less and less people were filled with the Spirit, until we see in the writings of Augustine of Hippo who live from 354-430 AD that tongues had diminished but not ceased. There was a large group of believers called Donatists who wrote about being filled with the Spirit and speaking in tongues and most of the Catholic church by that time was not speaking in tongues. Over the centuries there were sporadic in-fillings of the Spirit that were written about or Revivals with strange utterances, until the massive outpouring at Azusa Street in 1906. Does that mean that God removed his Spirit? Or was it always there, ready to be fill a sincere seeker?

Already but not yet - the Day of Pentecost Acts 2:1-3

Waiting for his return: We are still in the Last Days - Acts 2:14–21 “But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and declared to them, “Judean men, and all those who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and pay attention to my words! For these men are not drunk, as you assume, because it is the third hour of the day. But this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel: ‘And it will be in the last days,’ God says, ‘I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. And even on my male slaves and on my female slaves I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. And I will cause wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and vapor of smoke. The sun will be changed to darkness and the moon to blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes. And it will be that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.’”

We are still in the last days, you can still receive his Spirit! We have been In the last days! We have been in the Last Days, the Times of the Gentiles for two thousand years!!!!!!!!!!!! It was never supposed to stop, it has been and still is part of God’s plan.