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The Lord is in our midst. Be still and know the voice of God. The Lord is in His Holy Temple; let all the earth keep silence before Him. Let us try to realize His wonderful presence. We must all meet Him sooner or later, as individuals; it is a good thing to get acquainted with Him now.

Acts 2:17. This Scripture applies to us today, “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 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 show wonders in Heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke; the sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come.” This is a wonderful scripture, and many do not understand it. There is a certain time spoken of here, when certain great and wonderful things shall take place, and people shall know that prophecy is being fulfitled. “It shall come to pass in the last days, I will pour out My Spirit,” and there shall be signs in the Heavens and the earth—signs of His coming. The Holy Ghost will be poured out before the “notable day of the Lord” comes.

This prophecy was first: spoken eight hundred years before Jesus came to earth. Peter, standing up on the day of Pentecost, rehearses the prophecy and confirms it. Under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, on fire with the Holy Ghost from head to foot, speaking with a tongue of fire, he said these things would come to pass in the last days.

We believe and know by the word of God, and by the signs, that we are now living in the last days; the very times Peter spoke about when we were to know by the mighty things taking place, We are the people, and this is the time, just before the