How many "last days" are there?

[YosefHayim]

I was reading acts for my second time, and I'm a little confused with the passages. When are the "last days" and are there different terms to "those days" and how long are the "last days"?

For example, after the disciples spoke tongues and stirred commotion, people mocked them and said they have had too much time. Peter preached the gospel as this event happened to explain it. And he talked about Joel speaking of the last days.

But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;

And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, 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 old men shall dream dreams:
And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come:
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.



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So has it been the last days since Pentecost?

 

[reba]

There is one last day

 

[YosefHayim]

There is one last day

Why does it seem like some passages say that the last days already happened, and in some that its to come?

 

[reba]

Some of that is to simple some more complex.... we have the last days of this month. we have the last days of spring the last days of football season...The last days of the passover celebration. The last days of the temple life....last days of school

Jesus says the resurrection is the last day.


Act 2:16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
Act 2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, 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 old men shall dream dreams:

The last days of what? I read that to be the last days life as they knew it to be .... It speaks to me last days of the dryness because the Living water was poured...

 

[smaller]

Why does it seem like some passages say that the last days already happened, and in some that its to come?

It's problematic to force place strict time to text as we perceive it. It's not meant to be read that way most of the time.

We know in 'man's time' it is generally perceived as 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness.

In scriptural time often neither light or darkness has anything to do with either as physical light or darkness, but are principles of 'good and evil.'

There are also, scripturally speaking, 'entities' that inhabit the dark or unseen world regardless of our understandings or acceptance of this being a fact. In order to understand 'time' they also must be on the table for viewing because they are part of the textual depictions as it relates to time.

IN the accounts themselves there will often be variations of recount as well. Some accounts are external in hard time. Some are not.

FOR any understandings of 'time' I would generally observe that the gap in understandings revolves around the unseen parties and the ways and means of those parties and 'their' time as depicted in text, which has little if anything to do with the seconds on a clock or the days on a calendar.

The bits and pieces of 'their habitation' and 'time' have to be constructed from cover to cover.

It can be quite entirely interesting, and in the end it will prove to be nothing in the ways of time and days as men perceive same.

Text has it's own rules, terms and conditions.

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[YosefHayim]

It can be quite entirely interesting, and in the end it will prove to be nothing in the ways of time and days as men perceive same.

The way men perceive God in general is not always what seems.

Another one is that it seems that Jesus would have returned in the same generation that he was speaking to. What generation is he actually talking about?

 

[smaller]

It can be quite entirely interesting, and in the end it will prove to be nothing in the ways of time and days as men perceive same.

The way men perceive God in general is not always what seems.

Another one is that it seems that Jesus would have returned in the same generation that he was speaking to. What generation is he actually talking about?

It's a similar difficulty.

Most readers read the term 'generation' and they automatically 'assume' that it connects to 'mankind.'

There are other sights of the 'generation' matter that make much more sense.

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[Eugene]

The last days are subject to many events leading to the end.

1 Corinthians 15:24-26
24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

When mankind no longer dies, we'll have entered eternity; last days will have passed, and there is world without end.

 

[Randy]

I was reading acts for my second time, and I'm a little confused with the passages. When are the "last days" and are there different terms to "those days" and how long are the "last days"?

For example, after the disciples spoke tongues and stirred commotion, people mocked them and said they have had too much time. Peter preached the gospel as this event happened to explain it. And he talked about Joel speaking of the last days.

But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;

And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, 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 old men shall dream dreams:
And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come:
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.



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So has it been the last days since Pentecost?

Acts 1:4 How God writes the New Covenant on our Hearts

That was the beginning of these days and ends with the 2nd coming. I have never spoken in tongues or had the HS manifest as flames of fire on my head but I have been given the good gift as Cornelius received. The same Spirit the apostles received for Jesus baptizes with the Holy Spirit as John the baptist stated even before the 12 understood such things.

R.