Walk the Square: Spirit Poured Out (Acts 2:17 → Joel 2:28) | the promise kept at Pentecost

Explore fully → thehyperlinkedbible.com/go/spirit-poured-out The most famous words of Pentecost - 'I will pour out My Spirit on all people' - are not new words at all. Peter stands up in the roar of that morning, points to a thousand-year-old promise spoken by the prophet Joel, and says: this is it. Here is how you follow that promise the whole way - walk the square. In this Walk the Square, Professor Westminster takes a single Old Testament promise - the outpoured Spirit of Joel 2:28-32 - and walks all four corners of Edmund Clowney's square: start with the text in its own world, a promise made to a broken Judah in the wake of a locust plague (bottom-left), up the left to the truth it gave its first hearers, that the day was coming when God would pour His own Spirit out on all His people - not a favored few - and everyone who called on His name would be saved (top-left), across the top to its fulfillment on the day of Pentecost, when the risen and exalted Christ poured out the promised Spirit (top-right), and down the right to what it means for you (bottom-right). This pair is not a type but a prophecy God swore and then kept - a word quoted back word for word over the very morning it came true - so there is no diagonal to draw, only a promise spoken and a promise kept. (The method here is Edmund Clowney's, refined by Vern Poythress.) CHAPTERS 0:00 - Introduction - the verse you already know 0:59 - In a ruined Judah - the promise through Joel (Joel 2) 2:08 - Step 1: Context - what it meant to Judah 3:59 - Moses' ancient longing - the Spirit on all God's people (Numbers 11) 4:49 - Step 2: History of Redemption - to Christ 6:14 - The thread - a prophecy quoted word for word (shaphak to ekcheo) 6:56 - Escalation - the fulfillment overflows the shadow 7:37 - Step 3: Significance - the application 8:49 - The life verse (2 Corinthians 3:18) + where to walk next THE THREAD Here the thread is the plainest kind there is: a prophecy quoted word for word. Peter does not merely allude to Joel - he reads Joel's own sentence aloud over the morning. The Hebrew promise turned on two words, shaphak ('pour out') and ruach ('Spirit'); when Israel's Scriptures passed into Greek those became ekcheo and pneuma, the very words on Peter's lips: 'I will pour out My Spirit.' One word changes, and it changes everything - where Joel said 'afterward,' Peter says 'in the last days.' The prophet's someday had become this day. The method here is Edmund Clowney's, refined by Vern Poythress. From The Hyperlinked Bible. Scripture is the Berean Study Bible (BSB). #WalkTheSquare #Pentecost #SpiritPouredOut #HolySpirit #Joel #Acts2 #PromiseFulfillment #BiblicalTheology #Jesus #Bible #OldTestament #SeeingChristInTheOldTestament #TheHyperlinkedBible