The gift of the Holy Spirit

[mizpeh]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

Mizpeh,
What do you mean by "signs of tongues and/or prophesying?

Are you saying that it is either tongues or prophesying or it could be both?

Acts 2:2-4 says they were filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak in tongues.

Acts 2:17-18 says that God would pour out His Spirit and then our sons and daughters, servants and handmaidens would prophesy. At least that is how I am reading it.

I don't see prophesying as happening without being initially filled as they were in Acts 2:2-4. It's like the age old question - Which came first the chicken or the egg? I say the initial infilling. What Jesus told them to tarry for in Jerusalem.(Acts 1:8)

I think I was on a sabbatical, wasn't I? LOL! Just a habit of sitting down, opening my Twitter account and then running over AFF. I need to fix that habit! LOL!

My point is that there is a sign. No one in the book of Acts was silently filled with the Spirit.


The only signs listed in the book of Acts when believers actually were filled with the Spirit were speaking with other tongues and prophecy. And prophecy was never mentioned alone, by itself as a sign after the initial outpouring on Pentecost although prophecy was a sign of the Spirit infilling in the OT and the gospels.