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Originally Posted by mfblume
Pouring out of the Spirit implies initial giving forth, not requiring pouring out in order for us to receive it today.
If you think of it, the only reason we would say the last days continue from then until now is a futurist persuasion, for nothing in scipture actually says the last days would last millennia.
If we resort to plural versus singular, 1 John 2:18 says John was in the "last time".
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not really, even through early history each generation continued to believe that they were in the last days, with Jesus immediate return. This was preached until about the end of third to the begining of the 4th century.
Then people didnt preach it as much, The roman catholic church came fourth, and the start of preterism shortly following it.
so this was in place before the futurist mindset that we have today, Btw which people from the 2nd century believed in a mellinium reign