Growing In The Apostolic

Growing in the Prophetic
And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God,
That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh;
Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy;
Your young men shall see visions,
Your old men shall dream dreams.
And on My menservants and on My maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days;
And they shall prophesy.
—Acts 2:17–18
The second half of the passage focuses on the great increase of the acts of
God in nature:
I will show wonders in heaven above
And signs in the earth beneath:
Blood and fire and vapor of smoke.
The sun shall be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.
And it shall come to pass
That whoever calls on the name of the Lord
Shall be saved.
—Acts 2:19–21
There is a specific order and sequence in the text: the outpouring of the
Spirit, followed by the increase of prophetic dreams and visions, followed
by the occurring of confirming signs in the sky and on the earth. We
have witnessed a few supernatural confirmations in nature of significant
prophetic words.
We believe that what we have seen is only a small token of what will happen
in a far more dramatic way in many ministries throughout the nations. The
End Times will be accompanied by a multiplication of all four elements of
the Joel 2 prophecy:
1.
The outpouring of the Spirit
2. Prophetic dreams and visions
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