What did Peter quote from Joel after the Spirit-outpouring part?
Peter continued quoting Joel 2 beyond the Spirit-outpouring, adding the prophecy of wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth beneath—blood, fire, and vapor of smoke—with the sun turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the great and notable day of the Lord comes.
Les teaches that after quoting Joel's Spirit-outpouring passage—where God pours out His Spirit on all flesh, sons and daughters prophesy, young men see visions, old men dream dreams, and servants and handmaidens receive the Spirit—Peter did not stop where he should have. Unlike Jesus, who stopped mid-verse in Isaiah, Peter lacked that foreknowledge. So he continued Joel's prophecy straight through the whole program: wonders in heaven, signs in earth, blood, fire, vapor of smoke, the sun darkened and moon turned to blood before the great and notable day of the Lord. Les asks whether that happened or has happened yet.
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What did Peter quote from Joel that went beyond what was happening on the day of Pentecost?
On the day of Pentecost, Peter quoted word for word from Joel 2, but did not stop after the part that was being fulfilled; he continued quoting the prophecy of the whole program, including the cosmic signs before the day of the Lord.
Why did Peter quote the entire Joel passage instead of stopping at the outpouring of the Spirit?
Peter did not have the same kind of foreknowledge Jesus had, so he quoted straight through Joel’s entire prophetic program instead of stopping at the point that was being fulfilled at Pentecost.