Fascinating, Virgil; but ‘prophecy’ is not the same as ‘prediction’, in its OT as well as NT sense, and your typological interpretation of the 40 years between AD 30 & 70 suggests that in the promised land of the bible we don’t need to be led by the Spirit. (I know that’s an exaggeration - but it emphasises a point).

There are many different ways of applying typology, and I’d rather keep some of the promised land typology for now than let it all be used up in the 1st century. I don’t see any of the apostles implying that that period was a wilderness experience, like that of Israel in the desert. Rather, Jesus was the fulfilment of the promise - and in him all the promises are found to be fulfilled, including ‘the land’.

I’m sure I won’t be the only one to read your article, and look forward to perusing it at leisure.

In the meantime I’m hungry for as much of the Spirit as I can get - which would include raising the dead. I’m doubful if this one is intended as a frequent phenomenon - it might threaten the population balance. But I’ve met and know people who have ‘died’ medically and been brought back to life. (That’s also an exaggeration - I know one such person, whom I have met in the flesh).

I’ve also met people who have had supernatural experience of healing - and to be honest, we prayed here in the church for two people who were facing drastic surgery and lengthy hospitalisation/convalescence two weeks ago, and they were both out of hospital within 48 hours - one nearly giving the surgeon a relapse when he saw how well she was. Was that healing?

I’ve also seen, experienced personally and participated in deliverance from demons, and have had personal experience through use of what some call words of knowledge (insight about a person revealed supernaturally, which in John 4 is also called prophecy), words of wisdom, words of faith - speaking in tongues and interpretation of tongues, both as a devotional tool and public ministry.

And yet I claim to be no more effective than any cessationist living close to God. I just want all that’s available from God - and in fact I wouldn’t be able to minister effectively without some of these tools.

There was some suggestion in an earlier post that the pentecostal/charismatic experience/history of the last century is something we could do without. That’s not the case for me.

Having said all of that, my main area of gifting is in bible teaching. So I suppose from your point of view I may be in danger of propagating serious error.