one problem with your use of Is 28.
You failed to remember what Peter said on the day of Pentacost from Joel 2:28
28 “And afterward,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your old men will dream dreams,
your young men will see visions.
Peter in Acts 2:15-
15For these are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day.
16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God,
That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh;
Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
Your young men shall see visions,
Your old men shall dream dreams.
18And on My menservants and on My maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days;
And they shall prophesy.
19 I will show wonders in heaven above
And signs in the earth beneath:
Blood and fire and vapor of smoke.
20The sun shall be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.
21And it shall come to pass
That whoever calls on the name of the Lord
Shall be saved.’
22 “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know—
23 Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death; 24 whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it. 25 For David says concerning Him:
‘I foresaw the Lord always before my face,
For He is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken.
26 Therefore my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad;
Moreover my flesh also will rest in hope.
27 For You will not leave my soul in Hades,
Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.
28 You have made known to me the ways of life;
You will make me full of joy in Your presence.’
29 “Men and brethren, let me speak freely to you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
30Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,
31 he, foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption.
32 This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses.
33 Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear.
34 “For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says himself:
‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
35Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.” ’
36“Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.”
37Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?”
38 Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
39 For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”
40 And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.” 41Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them. 42And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.
I didn't fail to remember; don't assume. Two things, first, it's not my "use of Is 28". I didn't use it, Paul quoted it and the context of Isaiah 28 is the nation of Israel; that shouldn't even be a debate.
And when we read Acts 2 please don't strip it from the historical context, Peter is speaking to Israelites. Luke who is writing, is writing in chronological order of events and at this time, the Gospel had not yet been delivered to the Gentiles (to the Jews first then the Greeks). Peter himself thought it was only for Jews, and was shocked when God told him to include Gentiles (Acts 10:1-15), and there was division amongst the apostles for Peter's conduct towards Gentiles (Gal 2:11-20).
So, we cannot say Acts 2:38-39 is including gentiles because at the time the audience was Jews, and the person speaking only applied it to Jews. I mean right after he quotes Joel what does Peter say:
22 “
Men of Israel, hear these words:
Second, no problem at all, Joel 2 is about the future at the time of the second coming. Peter is quoting 1 section of Joel 2, but you as the reader or in Peter's case the audience would have known the entire passage and it would have been bright to their minds. So for context, let's see when Joel 2 is.
Joel 2
The Day of the Lord
2 Blow the [a]trumpet in Zion,
And sound an alarm in My holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble;
For the day of the Lord is coming,
Right off the bat we see Joel 2 is talking about the future at Christ second coming.
10 The earth quakes before them,
The heavens tremble;
The sun and moon grow dark,
And the stars diminish their brightness.
Where do we see these images, his second coming:
Matt 24:29
29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the s
un will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light;
Joel 2:15, 28-29
15
Blow the [f]trumpet in Zion,
Consecrate a fast,
Call a sacred assembly;
This is the feast of Tabernacles, which John calls the marriage super of the lamb (Rev 19:9), also Zech 14:16-20, Isaiah 25:6-9. This is when Christ is married to his body.
28“
And it shall come to pass afterward
That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
Your old men shall dream dreams,
Your young men shall see visions.
29 And also on My menservants and on My maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days.
Ezekiel 39:29, (Ez 37 is the resurrection, go back for context).
29 And I will not hide My face from them anymore; for
I shall have poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord God.”
Isaiah 44
44 “Yet hear now,
O Jacob My servant,
And Israel whom I have chosen.
2 Thus says the Lord who made you
And formed you from the womb, who will help you:
‘Fear not, O Jacob My servant;
And you
, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
3 For I will pour water on him who is thirsty,
And floods on the dry ground;
I will pour My Spirit on your descendants,
And My blessing on your offspring;
Isaiah 59:20,21
“The Redeemer will come to Zion,
And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,”
Says the Lord.
21 “As for Me,” says the Lord,
“this is My covenant with them: My Spirit who is upon you,
Zechariah 12:10
10 “And
I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication;
then t
hey will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.
Revelation 1:7
7
Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him,
even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.
Peter even clarifies to his audience that Joel is "in the last days".
Act2:17
17‘And it shall come to pass
in the last days, says God,
That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh;
Romans 11:26-32
26
And so all Israel will be [a]saved, as it is written:
“
The Deliverer will come out of Zion,
And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;
27 For this is My covenant with them,
When I take away their sins.”
What is the context of Joel, it's in the last days; Peter is pointing his Jewish audience to future event, the day of the Lord. And if you continue in Joel 3 it goes on talking more about the future kingdom:
14Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!
For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
15 The sun and moon will grow dark,
And the stars will diminish their brightness.
16
The Lord also will roar from Zion,
And utter His voice from Jerusalem;
The heavens and earth will shake;
But the Lord will be a shelter for His people,
And the strength of the children of Israel.
You see the problem is that people toss out the OT thinking it's all done and finished. People don't even realize there is going to be another temple before Christ returns (Rev 11:1-3) during the tribulation with those 144,000 Jews (Rev 7:1-8) who are going to be doing the sacrificial system symbolically. We also see righteous Levites and unfaithful Levites in the future kingdom (Ezekiel 44:1-22).
If you want to say the pouring out of the spirit of god occurred 2,000 years ago on the day of Pentecost and it will occur again in the future; I'm okay with that, a dual application you can say. However, it doesn't change the fact that the purpose of tongues was specifically for the nation of Israel.
Is 28
For with stammering lips and another tongue
He will speak to this people,
12 To whom He said, “This is the rest with which
You may cause the weary to rest,”
And, “This is the refreshing”;
Yet they would not hear.
Who rejected their Messiah, Jews.