I WILL PUT MY SPIRIT ON THEM
Key verse 3 : 2
When the priest prays whilst standing between the door
and the altar and once his heart is sincerely broken because of his sins, God will
get ready to work. Many try to do a lot of things save one : pray. Before
the match the boxers take off their clothes. If one does not repent and confess
his sins to get rid of his large burden of sin, he cannot hope to win the
victory. God has already give Israel its fruits but there is still a blessing
to be had.
1.
I will put my Spirit on them (1-3)
Therefore after this, the repentance of the people and
their prayer under the priest’s guidance, God will give them a spiritual
blessing. They first received a material blessing but God will give them a
spiritual one whose value is incommensurate to the material one. Thus, God says that He will pour out
His Spirit on everyone. The human body is ephemeral (1P 1:24) but when God’s Spirit
touches it, it will no longer undergo decomposition but it will be by a living
hope in God’s kingdom (1P1 :3,4). When the Spirit come miracles come with
it. Young people have visions and prophetise whilst old people have dreams. It
is impossible to imagine a servant (enslaved) have a vision or a dream given
that their only hope is to have three meals per day. However, God says that
they too will receive the Holy Spirit and visions. Nowadays there are many who
have dreams of living like the bourgeois. However, when the Holy Spirit falls
upon them their eyes widely open and they try big things. This vision of life
is similar to that of William Carey who was an English missionnary in India. When
the Holy Spirit falls upon us we can have a great vision of the evangelisation
of France far beyond the unsurmontable reality. God will do so many miracles of
conversion that we will be unable to count them.
2. The Lord's Day, a most frightening
reality (4-5)
When the Holy Spirit is poured on
God's people, one needs to realise that the end is near. For this reason God
sends calamities that hail the coming of His judgement so that the hearts of
men will be ready. The Sun and the Moon shall become darkened and the Earth
void of light. God's judgement is only for the unbelievers as the believers will
not be judged as they have already gone from death to life (Jn 5 :24). God's
will is to save His people from judgement and to save them (5). After Jesus' ascension
into heaven, the disciples came together in the upper chamber and prayed. They therefore
denied their inner fear. Thus the Holy Spirit fell upon them. In the same way
Joel previously said « reunite the people to form a holy assembly »
The Holy Spirit therefore fell upon them. If we look carefully at verse 5 we
will notice that God's call is the basis on which we are saved. Whosoever calls
upon God's name superstitiously without having received His call will not survive
His jugement.
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