The outpouring of the Spirit meant for Paul that God had fulfilled his promise to dwell once again in and among his people.
This statement was posted at the beginning of Fee’s second chapter. He went on to say, “God has made us this way, in his own image, because he himself is a personal, relational being. The great problem with the fall is that we lost not only our vision of God (that is, his true character has been distorted) but also our relationship with God, and thus no longer knew his abiding presence. For Paul the coming of Christ and the Spirit changed all of this forever.”