And we pray, therefore, for the pouring out of the Spirit upon "all flesh" – not just on believers.
There the boy encounters death's methodical attack upon the flesh — the way open wounds are the first to rot and how toes "swelled up like thick tubers of ginger" into the most grisly shade of black.
National governments will be relied upon to flesh out their targets themselves, through policies that could be controversial and perhaps expensive in the short term, such as pursuing renewable energy and leaving fossil fuels unexploited.
To prevent a woman from speaking is to limit the power of Christ whose Powerr and Spirit is infinite, that is pouring it upon all flesh" (12).
Once again, the sexes are on an equal footing because they each have the spirit or the light of Christ manifest within them: his "Spirit is poured upon all flesh, both Sons and Daughters" (12).
While the employment of dogs as a slave-catching strategy was commonplace throughout the Americas, I trace the use of Cuban-bred dogs trained to track down and feed upon black flesh.
Pouring-oil was used in a number of historic battles, and Josephus described its use at Jotapata in AD 67, saying "the oil did easily run down the whole body from head to foot, under their entire armour, and fed upon their flesh like flame itself".
In one of the more notable cases of vampiric entities in the modern age, the chupacabra ("goat-sucker") of Puerto Rico and Mexico is said to be a creature that feeds upon the flesh or drinks the blood of domesticated animals, leading some to consider it a kind of vampire.
The confused crowd asks, understandably, "What does this mean?" This is what was spoken through the prophet Joel: "In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out 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.
In these last days God is pouring out His spirit upon all flesh, and His Children will receive the blessing.
