Joel's prophecy as quoted by Peter seems to me to stretch to the 6th seal,I believe that "last days" is the same time that began to be fulfilled with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, and will not be finished until the seventh trumpet begins to sound. It's the beginning of the fulfillment of the Prophet Joel, who says "And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh". The last days cannot be limited to the first century, because the Spirit of Christ is still be poured out, and much of Joel's prophecy has not yet been fulfilled. Doesn't that stretch the last days to the seventh trumpet sounding that time shall be no longer?
Acts 2:20 KJV
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
Revelation 6:12 KJV
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
I'm more just looking at the wording used in the passages. Peter and Timothy wrote of things that would come (future) in the last days.Can you prove through the Scripture that both Timothy and Peter are future last days? Why do you believe the writer to the Hebrews last days is only for his contemporaries?
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Peter's wording is literally, Scoffers shall be coming upon the last of the days. Timothy wrote, "in the last days shall be being present . . ."
My point in saying this is that Peter quotes Joel in a way that appears to make "last days" be from that day to the day the 6th seal is opened, while in his letter he wrote of a last days that was yet future to him. Whether it's future to us now is a different question.
Here's another,
John 6:39-40 KJV
39) And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
40) And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
I think this relates to Daniel,
Daniel 12:9-13 KJV
9) And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
10) Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
11) And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
12) Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
13) But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
I think the last day upon which these will be raised is the 1335th day, the day in which Daniel, it was promised, would stand in his inheritance, that is, his allotment.
But really, I like to cover all the passages that might relate, and then start forming conclusions. Generally I find by that time the message seems clear.
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