Transcript
A (0:00)
Welcome to A Year in the Bible with daily Grace. This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study, Christ in All of Scripture. Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the new, seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.
B (0:17)
Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present throughout the entire Biblical story, but but the center of it. Hey, everyone. Welcome back to A Year in the Bible. My name is Alexa and I'm here with my co host, Beth.
A (0:35)
Hi, friends.
B (0:37)
This week we have been looking at Joel 2:28, 29 and Acts 2:32, 33 separately. And today we're going to talk about how these passages fit together and especially how they both point us to Christ. So first, Beth, can you give us a little context for the passage from Acts that we annotated yesterday?
A (0:54)
Yeah, of course. So in the beginning of Acts 2, we see that after Jesus's ascension, the Spirit fell on his disciples and they began to miraculously preach the Gospel to all the people who were gathered in Jerusalem for the Pentecost celebration. And so the Spirit gave them the ability to speak in the languages of all the people who were gathered there. And it actually caused great commotion. And so Peter decided to stand up and give a speech explaining to all of the people that were gathered there what was happening. And these verses that we read and annotated yesterday are part of that speech.
B (1:28)
That's helpful, thanks. So with that context in mind, can you help us see how these passages connect to each other and to Christ?
A (1:35)
Yeah. So when we were discussing Joel, we talked about how God promised to pour out his Spirit after the day of the Lord, which is the day of God's judgment, and after the people turned to him in repentance. And so then here in Acts, we see that this pouring out of the Spirit happens on this day of Pentecost, which happens after Jesus's death and resurrection and his ascension. And Peter in his speech, just a few verses before the ones we annotated actually quotes the Joel passage directly. So we can conclude that this moment is the fulfillment of what Joel prophesied. The day of the Lord happened when Jesus died on the cross and rose again. And through his death, God's judgment fell upon all of our sins that Jesus bore upon himself. And through his resurrection, God's judgment fell on sin, death, and the powers of Satan. But after that judgment happened God is now able to show grace by pouring out his spirit on all who repent.