New Testament Prophecies Prior to Acts Chapter
2:
At the beginning of Jesus'
ministry (30 years after Jesus' birth)
"As
for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but
He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I
am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize
you with the Holy Spirit and fire. And His winnowing
fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear
His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat
into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with
unquenchable fire." Matthew 3:11-12 (NAS)
"I baptized you with water; but
He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit." Mark 1:8
(NAS)
"John answered and said to them
all, "As for me, I baptize you with water; but One
is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit
to untie the thong of His sandals; He will baptize
you with the Holy Spirit and fire. "And His
winnowing fork is in His hand to thoroughly clear
His threshing floor, and to gather the wheat into
His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with
unquenchable fire." Luke 3:16-17 (NAS)
"And I did not recognize Him,
but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me,
'He upon whom you see the Spirit descending and
remaining upon Him, this is the one who baptizes in
the Holy Spirit.' John 1:33 (NAS)
A year or two later,
prophecies are more specific (31-32 years after
Jesus' birth)
"But
this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed
in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet
given, because Jesus was not yet glorified." John
7:39 (NAS)
"And I will ask the Father, and
He will give you another Helper, that He may be with
you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the
world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him
or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with
you, and will be in you." John 14:16-17 (NAS)
"But the Helper, the Holy
Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He
will teach you all things, and bring to your
remembrance all that I said to you." John 14:26
(NAS)
"When the Helper comes, whom I
will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit
of truth, who proceeds from the Father, He will bear
witness of Me, and you will bear witness also,
because you have been with Me from the beginning."
John 15:26-27 (NAS)
"But when He, the Spirit of
truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth;
for He will not speak on His own initiative, but
whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will
disclose to you what is to come. He shall glorify
Me; for He shall take of Mine, and shall disclose it
to you." John 16:13-14 (NAS)
After Jesus is raised from
the dead, and right before His ascension into heaven
"And
gathering them together, He commanded them not to
leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had
promised, "Which," He said, "you heard of from
Me..." Acts 1:4 (NAS)
Jesus says: "...for John
baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with
the Holy Spirit not many days from now." Acts 1:5
(NAS)
Jesus says: "...but you shall
receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon
you; and you shall be My witnesses both in
Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to
the remotest part of the earth." Acts 1:8 (NAS)
Question:
The scriptures above tell of the period of
history from the beginning of Jesus' ministry to
Acts chapter 2 (Acts 2 records the events starting about ten days after Jesus ascended to heaven).
According to these scriptures, the promise related
to the coming of the Spirit or the pouring out of
the Spirit is referred to consistently as
____________. (fill in the blank) |