The Abiding Gift of Prophecy

Spiritual Gifts Renewed and Re-established

He was the one divine, infallible prophet. He exercised every possible manifestation of the prophetic gift. He revealed the past, back into eternity, with perfect ease. He showed infinite wisdom regarding every detail of teaching and of events during the time when He was upon earth. The future was clearly an open book to Him. Indeed, He was, and is still, the source of the prophetic gift by which He has communicated with the human family from the day Adam was sent from his Eden home. AGP 165.3

When the Saviour had accomplished all that He came to our world to do, He returned to the glorious realm from which He had come. But before leaving His disciples and His church, He made provision for such gifts of the Spirit as He saw they would need to carry forward with success the work He was committing to them. That work was not a new work, unknown to the church before. Nor were the supernatural gifts new, nor unknown to His messengers of earlier times. It was the same everlasting gospel that was to be proclaimed. The gifts were the same as had been bestowed upon chosen prophets, priests, and people through the ages. The message had been placed in a new setting. The gifts were, perhaps, to be more generally bestowed upon the church. All this was renewed and re-established, and all was designed to abide with the church to the close of time. These gifts are very definitely and specifically set forth in the New Testament. AGP 166.1