Joel 2:28
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
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Study Note
God's promise to 'pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions' is the foundational OT text for the democratisation of the Spirit and prophetic gifting. Peter's Pentecost sermon (Acts 2:17-21) identifies this as the text being fulfilled 'in the last days' — deliberately shifting Joel's temporal marker from 'afterward' to 'in the last days,' indicating the eschatological nowness of Pentecost. The four beneficiaries — sons, daughters, old men, young men — followed by the servants of both sexes (verse 29) constitute an exhaustive social taxonomy: gender, age, and social status no longer restrict access to prophetic endowment. Romans 10:13's citation of Joel 2:32 ('whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved') draws the soteriological universal from the same Joel passage, confirming the chapter's foundational role in the theology of Pentecost and gospel.
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And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
And it hath come to pass afterwards, I do pour out My Spirit on all flesh, And prophesied have your sons and your daughters, Your old men do dream dreams, Your young men do see visions.
And after that, it will come about, says the Lord, that I will send my spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, your old men will have dreams, your young men will see visions:
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