Cessationists are very proud of their insights on redemptive history. But as Jesus said, “Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky. How is it that you don’t know how to interpret this present time?”

The cessationists do not teach things that are merely off course. That would be bad enough, for it is written, “do not turn from it to the right or to the left.” But the cessationists assert the opposite of what the Bible teaches.

The Bible makes it clear that we live in a time of maximum miracle power, but the cessationists portray this as a time of minimum miracle power, even zero miracle power. They think that the gospel has expired. They think that this is a time when miracles ought to have ceased, but this is a time when miracles ought to have increased.

They think that this is a time when miraculous powers have ceased because every special agent has died, but this is a time when miraculous powers have extended to every ordinary agent. The manifestations of the Spirit are given to anyone who has faith in Jesus Christ, to any gender, to any period, to any class, to any nation.

The cessationists have no understanding of the history of redemption. They have missed both the spirit and the substance of the gospel. They have missed the time of their visitation.