The Holy Spirit and the Church, Part 2

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We would like to give an explanation of the following verse, inasmuch as many use it for the above argument: “One Lord, one faith, one baptism” (). This does not speak of the , but of . The preceding verse explains the Spirit’s baptism: “There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling” (). That one body is constituted by the baptism of the Spirit.

Pentecost always came fifty days after the Feast of Firstfruits. The Feast of Firstfruits was a type of the . The second chapter of records the account of the hundred and twenty disciples in the upper room waiting for the fifty days to expire. The Holy Spirit did not come in , for all of their prayers and fasting would not have hastened His coming. He came . It is inconceivable to think of the Spirit coming forty-nine, or even fifty-one days after His resurrection. He came on time — fifty days after the resurrection.

The Holy Spirit would have come had they not prayed. They would have been baptized and indwelt by the Spirit had they not prayed, but they would not have ; they would not have been had they not prayed. More will be said about the filling of the Spirit later.

The was fulfilled at . Christ will never die again. The was fulfilled by the , and there will be no more Pentecost. There will never be a of the Passover Lamb, and there will never be a re-fulfillment of Pentecost.

The original Feast of Pentecost was also known as the , when the was gathered. In we read: “When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corn(Acts 2:16-18). “This is that.” What? The event? The speaking in tongues? No. “This” is a , and I am quoting him. Peter was giving Joel as an example, for He, God, who will bring to pass those things which Joel has prophesied, has caused these things to happen which you have witnessed.


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