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That argument can be made either way.There are several reasons why that passage cannot support the contentions of continuationists--typical Pentecostal Christians, that is.
For one, nothing in it says that the gifts must have continued on throughout all the ages and never let up. For that is the argument that the continuationist will give. In fact, the passage suggests that the signs described are something special for the end times.
For another, what is spoken of in this passage is not identical to, does not parallel, the list of gifts described in Corinthians, although there are some similarities.
It doesn't say that there will be an interruption.
Obviously the things referred to are happening at that very moment and will be happening in the last days. The unbiased inference would be that these things would continue, not that they would be interrupted.
Acts 2:17-20
“‘In the last days, God says,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your young men will see visions,
your old men will dream dreams.
18 Even on my servants, both men and women,
I will pour out my Spirit in those days,
and they will prophesy.
19 I will show wonders in the heavens above
and signs on the earth below,
blood and fire and billows of smoke.
20 The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.
Acts 2:39
The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—
for all whom the Lord our God will call.”
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