the Holy Spirit, was on this day fulfilled, and was the fulfillment of Jesus’ (and John’s) prophecy (Luke 3:16; 11:13; 24:49; Acts 1:4–5, 8).75 The divine plan has rendered the day of the restoration of the covenant to be the day of the birth of the church. The gathering of crops and gratitude was similar to a much fuller and divinely ordained harvest of souls by turning the hearts of the children back to the Father in the presence of the nations gathering in Jerusalem. In short, all the preceding
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