The prophet Joel described the outpouring of God's Spirit with accompanying signs such as prophesying and seeing visions, happening right up to the Day of the Lord.
The topic of spiritual gifts is therefore not at all off-topic to eschatology, because the two are intrinsically linked in Scripture.
To divide Joel's mention of spiritual gifts into a different dispensation of the Church from the rest of Joel's themes in the same passage is to be no less disingenuous to the passage than those who similarly misapply time-indicators in Matthew 24 - and it's also inconsistent with a balanced understanding of continuation-of-covenant.
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