Trailblazer
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No it does not contradict what the Bible says because the Comforter is the Holy Spirit that was sent to Baha'u'llah, who brought the Holy Spirit to humanity. That is why Baha'u'llah is called the Comforter.
Jesus was explaining to the disciples what had been promised by the prophet Joel. Acts 2:17-21 was given by Joel as a prophecy for when Christ would return, on the last day of the last days.
The last day refers to the future—the culminating day of God’s final salvation and wrath being revealed for all to see (see 1 Thess. 5:1–11). We are told in Scripture that though we know this day is coming, we cannot know the day or the hour of the last day itself (cf. Matt. 24:36).
The last days refers to the period of time we are now in—between Christ’s death/resurrection/ascension and his second appearing or return. This is also called “the last time/s” (Jude 1:18; 1 Pet. 1:20) or “the last hour” (1 John 2:18) or “the end of the ages” (1 Cor. 10:11).
It is helpful to think of the Old Testament as the age of promise, where God promised his people a Messiah who would establish and rule over his Kingdom.
With the advent of Jesus as the Christ, or the Messiah, we have the age of fulfillment. The promises of God are being fulfilled in these last days, even if they will not being ultimately or finally consummated or fulfilled until the last day.
Yes, We Really Are Living in the Last Days
We are definitely living in the last days. And yet the last day has not come. That's how we talk if we use the vocabulary of the New Testament.
With the coming of Baha'u'llah we have the age of fulfillment. The promises of God have all been fulfilled.
“The time foreordained unto the peoples and kindreds of the earth is now come. The promises of God, as recorded in the holy Scriptures, have all been fulfilled. Out of Zion hath gone forth the Law of God, and Jerusalem, and the hills and land thereof, are filled with the glory of His Revelation. Happy is the man that pondereth in his heart that which hath been revealed in the Books of God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting. Meditate upon this, O ye beloved of God, and let your ears be attentive unto His Word, so that ye may, by His grace and mercy, drink your fill from the crystal waters of constancy, and become as steadfast and immovable as the mountain in His Cause.”
Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, pp. 12-13
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We know that the last day was when Christ was supposed to return, because the prophecy given by Joel matches up with other prophecies about Christ's return.
Acts 2:16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
Acts 2:17-21 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of 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: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Revelation 6:12-14 I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood; and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind. The sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.…
Matthew 24:29-30 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Mark 13:24-26”But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.
No, that is not the established meaning, it is the meaning YOU have assigned.
The Bible says that the Comforter is the Holy Spirit.
Nowhere does the Bible say that the Holy Spirit taught the disciples and helped them remember what Jesus had told them.
That is what YOU say.
The meaning I assign is that the Comforter is the Holy Spirit that was sent from the Father to Baha'u'llah, and after that the Holy Spirit taught Baha'u'llah all things and brought to remembrance what Jesus had said.
I really do not know what happened in the Old Testament. I believe that God inspired the OT prophets through the Holy Spirit.
Minor prophets such as Solomon, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel were followers and promulgators of the major Prophets such as Moses.
"Another kind of Prophets are followers and promulgators, not leaders and law-givers, but they are nonetheless the recipients of the hidden inspirations of God."
The Three Kinds of Prophets
You said:
The Comforter is the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit taught the disciples and helped them remember what Jesus had told them. That is what it says.
NO, the Bible does not say that the Holy Spirit taught the disciples and helped them remember what Jesus had told them. You said that.
I did not change the plain meaning of John 14:26. I just interpreted the verse differently than you did.
The Comforter is the Holy Spirit who taught Baha'u'llah all things and brought to remembrance what Jesus had said.
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