9. What expressions in the prophecy of Joel seem to imply a double fulfilment of this outpouring of
the Spirit?
Answer
"Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for He hath given you the former rain
moderately, and He will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first
month." Joel 2 : 23. See also Hosea 6: 3.
NOTE - In Palestine the early rains prepare the soil for the seed sowing, and the latter rains ripen
the grain for the harvest. So the early outpouring of the Spirit prepared the world for the extensive sowing
of the gospel seed, and the final outpouring will come to ripen the golden grain for the harvest of the earth,
which Christ says is "the end of the world." Matt. 13: 37-39; Rev. 14: 14, 15.
What test should therefore be applied to every professed teacher of truth?
What relationship to God is established by faith?
What effect did this dream have upon Daniel?
Who opens the judgment and presides over it?
What statement of the redeemed shows that they will remember God's creative power?
5. What did He say of those who should break one of the least of God's commandments, and teach men so to do?
In what is the wrath of God filled up?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle