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Was this Really That?: A Closer Look At The Day of Pentecost
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 25 2026
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
WAS THIS REALLY THAT?
The Trial of One Sentence Spoken on the Day of Pentecost
For nearly two thousand years, one sentence has shaped how millions of Christians understand the Day of Pentecost:
But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel. - Acts 2:16
Most believers have been taught that Peter's words meant one thing: Joel's prophecy was fulfilled at Pentecost. Finished. Completed. Closed.
But is that actually what Peter said?
In WAS THIS REALLY THAT?, Rev. John Shane Vaughn puts one of Christianity's most familiar assumptions on trial-not to diminish Pentecost, not to attack the Apostle Peter, and not to deny the miraculous outpouring of the Spirit.
The question is far more precise:
Pentecost genuinely inaugurated Joel. But did Pentecost exhaust Joel?
Vaughn invites the reader into a courtroom where Scripture itself becomes the witness.
First, Peter takes the stand. His own life demonstrates that genuine revelation and incomplete understanding can exist at the same time.
Then Joel testifies.
And when Joel is allowed to speak from the beginning of his prophecy to the end, a much larger picture emerges: the Spirit poured upon all flesh, cosmic signs, the Day of YAHWEH, the restoration of Judah and Jerusalem, the judgment of the nations, the great harvest, and YAHWEH dwelling in Zion.
Then Acts 2 is examined verse by verse.
Why did Peter say of my Spirit rather than simply my Spirit?
Why did afterward become in the last days?
Why did Peter stop quoting Joel in the middle of Joel 2:32-one clause before Zion and Jerusalem appear?
Why does Joel continue directly into the restoration of Israel, the judgment of the nations, the harvest, and the Kingdom?
And perhaps most importantly:
If Pentecost was the harvest, why did YAHWEH pour out His Spirit on the Feast of Firstfruits?
This book argues that Pentecost was not a failed fulfillment.
It was something far more powerful.
It was the beginning.
The firstfruits were real.
The Spirit truly fell.
The Last Days truly began.
But the harvest is still coming.
Inside this book you will examine:
- Peter's continuing growth in revelation-even after Pentecost
- Joel 2 and Joel 3 as one continuous prophetic vision
- The differences between Joel's original prophecy and Peter's quotation
- The significance of Pentecost as the Feast of Firstfruits
- The future Day of YAHWEH
- The restoration of Israel and Judah
- The judgment of the nations
- The territorial and physical promises concerning Zion and Jerusalem
- The difference between inauguration and consummation
- What the Church may have stopped expecting because it believed the promise was already complete
This is not a book asking you to reject Peter.
It is asking you to read Peter more carefully.
It is not asking you to deny Pentecost.
It is asking you to expect everything Pentecost promised was still to come.
Read Joel.
Read Acts.
Examine the evidence.
Then render the verdict for yourself:
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