I think a lot of the problems concerning the “super natural phenomenon” being viable in the church today is cleared up with Peter’s quote of Joel’s prophecy in Acts 2:16-20. What we learn from the prophecy of Joel is:
•This prophecy was for the last days.
•The prophecy was a promise of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
•Peter (under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit) thought that what had just happened, (this is that) was a part of the last days.
Simply put Peter thought that the promise of the Holy Spirit’s power upon people signaled the start of the last days. Peter believed that he was in the last days. According to Peter the last days is the time starting with the Spirits coming and ending with Jesus’ coming again! (2:17-20) So the promise of the Holy Spirit is for the Church age, already lasting over 2000 years. Look again at the words of Joel. In verses 17-18 Joel speaks of the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer:
•My Spirit poured out on all flesh
•Sons and daughters prophesying
•Young men seeing vision, old men dreaming dreams
•On menservants and maidservants His Spirit poured out
Then in verse 19-20 there is a change of the work of the Holy Spirit it is no longer in and through the believer, it is in the environment, in which non-believers live. Simply put the events of verses 19-20 take place during the “great tribulation”. Now that is after the Church age! So then when will these “super natural phenomenon” cease to be needed in the Church? After the rapture of the Church! Jesus had said speaking of the Holy Spirit in John 15:26 that when He came He would, “testify of Me.” And so He does during the Church age the one in which we are in now by having His Spirit poured out on all flesh that bare His name, then after the Church age by wonders in the heavens and signs in the earth! And what effect will these have upon the inhabitants of the earth? Verse 21 says, “whoever calls on the name of the LORD Shall be saved.”