hi greener
"The whole of Acts 2 speaks of continuation of ONE event to come, in catastrophic detail, not two events."
then we ought to be able to show continuation throughout history.
"Signs and wonders happened in Apostles' gifts time, but TAME by comparison to things.to come !"
really? so people today (or in the future) will do
more than Jesus and the Apostles did?
where does it say that? (
Where doesn't it say that, ohzone, is the best question)
green, i love you, and i 'see' your love and devotion to Our Lord.
i don't question that nor consider you anything but a brother.
you may or may not feel the same way toward me (that's okay...please don't answer)
but i want you to know i love you.
zone
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i do see this written:
2 Chronicles 18
And the LORD said, ‘These have no master; let each return to his home in peace.’” 17And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?” 18And Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left. 19And the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab the king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said one thing, and another said another. 20
Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD, saying, ‘I will entice him.’ And the LORD said to him, ‘By what means?’ 21
And he said, ‘I will go out, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.’ 22
Now therefore behold, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your prophets. The LORD has declared disaster concerning you.”
Matthew 24:24
For false christs and false prophets will arise and
perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
2 Thessalonians 2:9
9The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan
with all power and false signs and wonders, 10and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11
Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, 12in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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Maybe we WILL do 'more' than the apostles did, ohzone. Converting 8,000 from ALL over stands as a pretty big thibg, but, look at THIS WORLD NOW? GOD is allowing much now (much more?) and who knows what He will do in these lasr days? Do we know how long until He comes even, I've heard proof that He won't come for several yesrs now. Sure, we are ALL imputed with Christ's righteousness for placing Him in our heart, and, are all freely given His Holy Spirit upon faith in Him, and, this is what makes sense to me.
Again, I am WRONG all the time on here, the Lord leads, I learn things DAILY on here from ALL you guys, of you, of God, I am bleseed by my felpow Christ peeps
Here is the connectedness of the perfect coming, ohzone. In Acts 2, we are talking about the starting of the spiritual gifts and Scripture is clear, "In the last days, pour forth of My Spirit upon all mankind....sons and daughters will prophesy...young man dream dreams....And they shall prophesy...blood, and, fire, and, vapor of smoke, the sun shall be turned into darkness (this is NO eclipse, it's catastrophic) " and, then what COMES next, after all these things,
the LORD comes.
"...and the moon into blood before
the great and glorious day of the Lord shall come."
This IS the perfection that comes, 'the day of the Lord . We live in an imperfect world, but, when He comes, it shall be perfect again because Christ IS perfect.
Contrast this with....
1 Cor. 13
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when
perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then
we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these
three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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When Jesus comes, there will be no more need for prophesy, no more need for any gifts, any signs, any wonders, for He HAS come .