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On Pentecost Mount.

Volume 12 from the one-column St. Louis Edition English DOCX texts, reformatted for mobile reading on Last Christian Ministries.

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Volume 12

On Pentecost Mount.

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Acts 2, 14-28.

Then Peter stood up with the elders, lifted up his voice, and spoke to them: Ye Jews, good men, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known unto you, and let my words come into your ears. For these are not drunken, as ye think, because it is the third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken before by the prophet Joel: And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, that I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your elders shall dream dreams; and upon my servants and upon my handmaidens will I pour out of my Spirit in those days, and they shall prophesy; And I will do wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke; and the sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and appearing day of the Lord come: and it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Ye men of Israel, hear these words: JEsum of Nazareth, the man of God, among you, with deeds, and wonders, and signs, which God did by him among you (as ye yourselves also know); the same (after he had yielded to the deliberate counsel and providence of God) ye took by the hands of the unrighteous, and hanged him, and slew him. God raised him up, and loosed the pains of death, after it was impossible that he should be held by him. For David said of him, "I have set the Lord always before me, because he is at my right hand, that I should not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoiceth: for my flesh also shall rest in hope: for thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thy Holy One to see corruption. Thou hast made known unto me the ways of life: thou wilt fill me with joy in thy presence.