"and suddenly there came a sound from heaven", Acts 2:2. Do you know heaven's sound? The word "sound" in this verse actually is the word "echo". That day on Pentecost, it was a sound as of a mighty rushing wind, but what could have made that sound? What was that echo that reverberated from heaven to earth? What do you think a sound from heaven, coming right on the heels of the ascension of Jesus might be? Joy, Joy, Unspeakable Joy! "Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance", Ps. 89:15. The word "heaven" in that verse is, by implication, means "happiness".
When you get around where the Spirit is flowing, you can hear this sound. You can hear it in the celebrating believers. You can hear it in your spirit. Echoes from heaven! In Ezra, when the temple was rebuilt, they were shouting for joy and weeping at the same time and it could be heard from far away. It was a precursor of the heavenly sound. People who have connected with the sound of heaven begin to alter their approach to God. They come into God's presence with a "joyful noise", Ps. 95:1-2. They have placed their trust in God and without inhibition "shout for joy", Ps. 5:11. In heaven, the sound of ten thousand times ten thousand times a thousand praising God, sounds like thunder, rushing water and mighty winds.
Those early disciples were in the temple waiting for Holy Ghost baptism, an event that meant to them (and us) that Jesus has been crowned Lord of Lords. They were praising God with great joy and then "suddenly", the Holy Ghost entered the room. His first act? Take the praise of men, anoint it and combine it with the heavenly sound, the echo from above. Suddenly, they were as drunken, laughing, rejoicing and praising God in languages only God understood. Suddenly they were in the manifested presence of God where there is fulness of joy! The sound of heaven! What a sound! The sound of home! It still echoes right down to those who thirst after the Holy Ghost.
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