Welcome to Ligonier's weekday podcast Things Unseen.

If your short-term memory is still functioning okay, you'll remember that yesterday I was saying

that when we think about Pentecost, we need to think about what Jesus

was doing.

I know if we were to ask most Christians what Pentecost is about, they tend to say it's

about the Holy Spirit.

And of course they're not totally wrong.

But that's not the whole story.

At least Simon Peter didn't think so, judging by the sermon he preached.

It was preached in order to answer the question people were asking, what is all this about,

these strange sounds, this preaching of the gospel in different languages?

And when Peter answers that question in his sermon, of course, first of all, he demolishes

the cynics in the crowd who say they're drunk, and he points out that it's only the third

hour of the day, that is by Roman Empire reckoning nine o'clock in the morning.

No, says Peter, these men are not filled with intoxicating liquor.

What you're seeing is the fulfillment of the prophecy of Joel Chapter 2.

Remember, he says, what God promised through Joel, how in the future the last days would come,

and they would be marked by the Spirit of God

being poured out on all flesh, on sons and daughters prophesying and having visions

and seeing dreams.

Well, says Peter, what this means is that future is now.

It's happening today.

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