Let’s recap; We’re still talking about the power gifts, people who believe the power gifts are no longer with us are called cessationists, we went over what cessationism is and isn’t. Today, we will be talking about who wielded these power gifts. The Apostles and Prophets What or Who is an Apostle? Apostle – a “sent” one, an envoy, ambassador, emissary, agent, or messenger commissioned to carry...
Cessationism recognizes and upholds the “specialness” and uniqueness of the Spirit’s works in times past and emphasizes the purpose for those outbursts of divine power in the History of God's dealings with Man.
When a man claims to have heard from God and prophesies (about the future), the only way to tell he really did hear from God who cannot shoot and miss, is that what he says happens, just as he said it would.
The Bible insists that all of this has happened, at the time that it did, in the way it did... ultimately because God ordained for it to be so.