In Acts 2:17-21, the Apostle Peter in his sermon quoted the prophet Joel's prediction in Joel 2:28-32 that one day in the future, God will pour out His Spirit on all flesh. Peter quoted Joel's prophecy as being symbolic of God's power to pour out His Spirit on the Church at Pentecost. But Joel's prophecy was not specifically about the Church at Pentecost. Clearly, Joel's prophecy was about a future event in which God would pour out His Spirit on all flesh. Joel's prophecy will be fulfilled as recorded in Revelation 5:13-14. In this future event, absolutely everything that God has ever created, whether physical or spiritual, will thunderously praise God in a tremendous worship service. God will literally pour out His Spirit on all He has ever created including all humans who ever lived. In this great worship service, God will identify for separation and recovery all of the life and goodness He has ever created. In Revelation and Joel's prophecy, the Tribulation period will immediately follow this great worship event. The Tribulation period will symbolize the pain and torture of God's consuming fire that He will use finally to separate all of His life and goodness that He has ever created from all of the evil and deadness that has infected His creations.
God will separate and recover all of His created goodness and life by a series of purges of sin and death. First, God has already cleansed and recovered all of the Old Testament saints by His blood and water that flowed from His cross immediately following His resurrection. Matthew 27:52-53. All of these saint reside in heaven with Christ. Second, God is currently in the process in the Church Age of purging the souls and spirits of all believers in Christ from all their sin and death by His use of the blood that flowed from Jesus' cross. These individual events of salvation constitute the "born again" experiences of believers and their Spiritual baptism into the body of Christ called the Church. I Corinthians 6:11; I Corinthians 12:12-13; John 3:7; I Peter 1:18-25. Third, God will thoroughly purge His Church of all of their fleshly sins at the Rapture of the Church. God will use the water of His Word to cleanse them. This Spiritual cleansing directly connects to the water that flowed from Jesus' side on the cross. Church saints can also be cleansed of fleshly sins by daily confession and repentance. But God will completely cleanse all the unconfessed fleshly sins of His Church saints and recreate their bodies to be spiritual bodies like that of Christ at the Rapture of the Church. John 13:1-17; Ephesians 5:25-27; I Corinthians 15:44-57; I John 1:9; I John 3:2-3. Fourth, God will cleanse and recreate the Tribulation saints who endure to the end with the blood and water from Jesus' cross after they get to heaven. This event will happen in the first resurrection immediately preceding the millennial reign of Christ. Revelation 20: 4 and 6. Fifth, God will effect a general resurrection of all the dead immediately following His last battle with evil as recorded in Revelation 20:7-10. In the first part of this resurrection, God will recover all of His created life and goodness that He put into the dead as recorded in Revelation 20:5. In the second part of this resurrection, God will consign all of the separated total evil in the dead to the lake of fire forever. Revelation 20:15. Jesus Himself prophesied about this general resurrection in John 5:28-29. The home of all humans saved by grace will be in heaven. The home of all those lives whom God will recover from death, hell, or the sea will be as recreated humans who will live on God's recreated earth. Revelation 21:3-4. God will recover and recreate absolutely everything He has ever created that has been sullied by sin and death. God can lose nothing to Satan. Revelation 21:5. God will dissolve every individual system within death, hell, or the sea in order to recover and recreate every life that has been entrapped by death and evil.
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