A person called Mark, in the years after Yeshua, would have pondered his hero, Peter.  He would have studied Joel and would have concluded that the Jesus who was in their midst and whom they knew... HAD TO BE YAHWEH... and would have introduced him as such. For Yahweh to have come, according to Joel, Yom Yahweh would have had to have come. And therefore there would have had to be one “calling in the desert...”  -  Elijah.

THE RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN MARK’S OPENING VERSES AND PETER’S INTERPRETATION OF JOEL IS UNMISTAKEABLE.

              1.    The introduction of Yahweh from Isa. 40:3 and Mal. 3:1  -  who

                      then becomes Jesus.

              2.     Jesus is then made the intermediary - turned Yahweh - who “Pours

                       out...”/“Baptizes with the Holy Spirit...”    

              3.      And, in between, the Elijah figure appears to explain the presence of Yahweh

                       and, consequently, Yom Yahweh.

 

MARK                                                    JOEL / PETER

1  :1 The beginning of the gospel about                2  :27 Then you will know that I (Yahweh)          

        Jesus Christ, the Son of God.                                am in Israel, that I am Yahweh your

    :2 “I (Yahweh) will send My messenger                   Elohim, and that there is no other.

        ahead of you (should read “Me”) who              Never again will My people be

        will prepare your way (should read                   shamed.

        “My way…”)

    :3  “a voice of one calling in the desert,                     Peter: (Acts 2:17  “In the acharit hayemim”, GOD 

          ‘Prepare the way for Yahweh… ’                   SAYS, “I will pour out My Spirit...”)

 

     :8 “...but he (Yahweh become Jesus)              2:28 After that I (Yahweh) will pour out   

          will baptize you with the Holy Spirit”                     My Spirit on all (My) people...

          (and with fire - Matth.3:11, Luke 3:16)               (those who would never be shamed again)

                                                                                               

The Holy Spirit and fire?

              Acts 2    :3       They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to

                                      rest on all of them.

                            :4       All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other

                                      tongues...

The Gospel writers were writing prophecy about the Spirit and fire... with the benefit of hindsight.

What “fire” would this be?  None of the major prophecies on the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the Yom Yahweh know anything about such “fire”.  Isa.32:15-20, Isa. 59:21, Ezek. 36:27, Ezek.39:29, Joel 2:26-29 and Zech. 12:10-14 are all ignorant of “fire”.  So is Acts 1:5-8, which is not associated with Yom Yahweh.  The great outpouring of the Holy Spirit is not associated with fire but with wind (Ruach) and with water.  This is attested to by the water pouring ceremony on the Hosanna Rabba, the last and greatest day of the feast of Succoth.  Hence Jesus’s “Water Sermon” on that day (John 7:37-39).  Why then the fire?  Jesus knew nothing about fire:

                Acts 1  :5      “For John baptised with water, but in a few days you will be baptised

                                      with the Holy Spirit”

He doesn’t say “I will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire”.  He knows it is Yahweh who gives His Spirit.

Neither does Joel know about the “tongues” and the “fire” which Peter ascribed to him.       

The “tongues” would testify to the preaching of Torah to all the nations, to bring them unto Abraham and to prepare them for Yahweh’s “house of prayer for all nations”, as 2 Jesus had said.  By the time that the great outpouring does come in the Yom Yahweh, according to Joel, TORAH WILL HAVE BEEN PREACHED AND WRITTEN IN ALL LANGUAGES TO ALL PEOPLE AND THE PURPOSE OF THE “TONGUES” AT PENTECOST WILL BE FULFILLED... SAYS 2 JESUS.

Why then the fire?

The Church would have reached the following conclusions from the contradictions between Mark and Joel:

1. For Yahweh to have come to Israel and remain with her - as in Joel – He would have had to exist in three persons.  He would have had to come as Jesus and then remain as the Holy Spirit after the departure of Jesus.  This is the seed of the error of Trinity Theology.

2. The “Israel”, who would “never again be shamed” in the presence of Yahweh, would have to be “Spiritual Israel” - the Gentile Roman and Reformed Church - at the apparent demise of Covenant Israel  This is the seed of "Replacement Theology" or the "Theology of Supersession."

The error of Peter thus entered the Gospel stories through the pen of Mark and from there - as source material - permeated the New Testament... and the Church... and history.

What was the relationship between Peter and a man called Mark?  Was there such a person and, if so, could he have been the writer or main contributor of the Gospel by that name?

              1 Pet 5   :13    She who is in Babylon (?), chosen together with you, sends you her

                                      greetings, and so does MY SON MARK.

               Acts.12  :12    ...he (Peter) went to the house of  Mary the mother of John, also called Mark.

                              :25     …Barnabas and Saul… returned from Jerusalem, taking with

                                      them John, also called Mark.  (Also Acts 15:37,39)

A statement of Mark shows some separate affinity for Peter:

              Mark 16:7      “But go, tell his disciples AND PETER...

Was there a special relationship between Peter and a man called Mark?  A type of teacher/learner discipleship relationship?  Others might know.  If so, they would have spent years debating this subject.  Nevertheless, there is a remarkable resemblance between Peter’s appropriation of Joel and the opening statements of Mark’s Gospel.

From this we can see how:

              A SINGLE STATEMENT – in Acts 2 -, AT A CRUCIAL MOMENT IN

              HISTORY, HAS SOUGHT TO SUBJECT THE ENTIRE WORD OF GOD - AND

              SUBSEQEUNT HISTORY - UNTO ITSELF.  THE WHOLE WORLD HAS

              CHOSEN TO BELIEVE THE LIE AT THE EXPENCE OF 2 JESUS, TURNED

              ITS BACK ON THE OVERWELMING EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY...

              AND WILL MOURN FOR IT.