But reading this more literally, to be immersed in the name of Yahshua the Messiah has an inward sense of being buried in a word, in the letters of a word and the sound, so the literary sense of embedding is an active one. Immersed, buried in a word, is baptism in the outer sense, but often reduced to "sprinkled." That is, the name in the outer sense was changed into water, but the internal sense didn't go away, so the letters poured over them, the sound filled their mind and ears until they were embedded letters themselves. So baptized they were renamed. Sinking into the word they become words themselves. In preparation for our wearing the Word as a living scroll within, literal handwritten and bound in boxes on the head and hand, imposed on top of precepts scraped off, retold over centuries, retold in the night, we ourselves are of the Word that underlies and surrounds what is said, a coat to give away that transfers by the will, which you're going to say you've been praying all these years to have. Water was the outer but the sound and the word were the inner. From there, command the storm.
These texts and their experience are much diluted in the sprinklings, speakings and forced shouts that convince nobody of power but everybody of desperation to get money from the anointing.
Just as Luke amplifies and dwells on the first embedding from David concerning Judah, Peter cites Joel at length so that we see the tongues, the taking up, the prophecies as invocations of the last days, especially wonders in heaven, signs in the earth, but further then, addressing every modern fear of the 21st century, "blood and fire, pillars of smoke: the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood" and note this is before "the great and terrible day of Yahweh shall come (2.20). [Then and now] "it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the Name of Yahweh shall be saved." This calling must be also the immersion.
Luke, Peter, John, Paul never stop citing precedents, signs and symbols in the prophets. David, already detailed about Judas from Psalm 69.25 and 109.8, witnesses again from that most profound dialogue in heaven before the world began of Psalm 16 (Acts 2.25) Jesus' resurrection in full (16.8-11), and then explains how his body should not decay. This is big time and has inspired the Singularists toward their corruption, for they can not imitate Jesus as much as they try.
The very full explanation of the reference in Psalms 16 and in Joel of the last days combine to immerse us utterly in the embedding that takes place in ourselves as we meditate such writing. That is exactly Peter's point when he finally cites Psalm 110.1 that "his enemies are made his footstool." So all told, the taking up, the tongues of fire, the last days Day of the Lord, the resurrection of Messiah, and the lengthy dwelling upon the Psalms are about all the first two chapters of Acts attempt. Let it be said that the citation of the Psalms alone, easily the greatest lyrical and most prophetic writing of the human and Holy Spirit, make the argument overwhelming to anybody who attends. Attendez! Attendez!
If you want to be immersed in the Name consider the obstacles and counterfeits in A Point of View at the bottom of the site. These are taken from the Secret Writing at the end of HistoPossum here
Note: What tradition is like the biblical, that criticizes its heroes and enumerates their faults over and over? That itself seems proof of the inspiration of scripture.
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