Holy Spirit in 1 and 2 Thessalonians

The New Testament’s lack of reference to other specific Old Testament prophecies about the Holy Spirit should be of great concern for those seeking to explain the Spirit’s work without a reference to Joel 2. Essentially, they must create a doctrine about the Holy Spirit’s work from a collection of New Testament verses and do so in a way which does not refer back to Acts 2 or Joel 2. Interpreting Acts 3 – Acts 28 without connecting their references to Acts 2 is flawed hermeneutically and practically.

Does this new prophetic ministry teach some new doctrine about the work of the Holy Spirit? The survey of the some two dozen passages that follow will show that the doctrine of the Holy Spirit’s work in the gospel accounts remains in complete harmony with the testimony of the Old Testament. Among God’s people, the Holy Spirit is the source of miraculous power and prophetic revelation.