Let's see, shall I be trained by a university or by the Holy Spirit? Tough choice.
Please explain your testing of the foundations ... I am extremely interested.
(Side point: any of them include "the doctrine of baptisms" plural (Hebrews 6)?
I also served ... 15 years as an evangelist overseas.
(NT foundational) prayng for God to perform miracles seemed to work quite well.
The pouring out of the Spirit was only meant for a specific time period in history. Nobody today has the Spirit.
Acts 2:
16... this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel: 17 ‘
In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. 18 Even upon my slaves, both men and women,
in those days I will pour out my Spirit; and they shall prophesy. 19 And I will show portents in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and smoky mist. 20 The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood,
before the coming of the Lord’s great and glorious day. 21Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’
The Kingdom was announced by Jesus and was expected to come in the lifetime of his disciples. The wrath of God fell on the Jewish people in 70AD and therefore the Spirit was no longer given. The Preterists have a very good argument that the Kingdom came at that time in a spiritual sense.
And now you are saying you were deceived for 12 years?
I was taught the the errors inherited from the Greeks and built upon by the reformers. I trusted my spiritual forefathers rather than doing my own independent studies. Thus, I fulfilled Jeremiah's prophecy:
Jeremiah 16:19
O LORD, my strength and my stronghold,
And my refuge in the day of distress,
To You the nations will come
From the ends of the earth and say,
“Our fathers have
inherited nothing but
falsehood,
Futility and things of no profit.”