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Spiritual Gifts, Volume 3
and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams,
your young men shall see visions; and also upon the servants and upon
the handmaids in those days will I pour out my Spirit. And I will show
wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars
of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into
blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come. And it shall
come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall
be delivered; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance,
as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call.”
We call attention to the following points in this prophecy:
1. The manifestations of the Holy Spirit noted in this prophecy,
are in connection with the signs of the near approach of the great and
terrible day of the Lord. In fact, they constitute one of those signs.
2. The calling on the name of the Lord, and the deliverance of
the remnant, spoken of in close relation to the great day of the Lord,
evidently refer to the closing scenes of the history of the church in
this mortal state. The oppressed people of God are yet to raise to
heaven one united day and night cry for deliverance.
Luke 18
. This is
symbolized by the message of prayer of the fourth angel of
Revelation
14:15
. And in answer to this prayer, the remnant which keep
the
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commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus, will find
deliverance.
3. We object to that narrow-souled theology which will not allow
the old ladies to have dreams because the prophecy says, “Your old
men shall dream dreams;” And that will not allow young women to
have visions because the prophecy says, “Your young men shall see
visions.” These stingy critics seem to forget that “man,” and “men,” in
the Scriptures, generally mean both men and women, the book says
that it is “appointed unto men once to die.” Don’t women die? “Unto
you, o man, I call, and my voice is to the sons of men.” Don’t the
Lord call women? But the prophecy does say, “Your sons and your
daughters shall prophecy.”
On the day of Pentecost the believers were filled with the Holy
Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, to the great amazement
of the multitude. Some, unacquainted with the operations of the Holy
Spirit, said, “These men are full of new wine.” Peter answered, “These
men are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of
the day. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel, and it