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Do I recall correctly that your background was in a fundamentalist Pentecostal church before becoming Reformed?
I didn't grow up in a Christian home. My first church was an "independent" Presbyterian church where I heard these things for the first time. Thereafter I went to two Southern Baptist churches (both of which were charismatic), then an Assembly of God. I was into my late 30's before I ever heard anything other than the popular science fiction from any of the churches I attended and visited. I wonder why eschatology is such a rare topic of conversation among the Reformed folk I've travelled with thus far.

Actually, I have found Biblical eschatology to be the main basis for my departure from charismaticism! Seeing the spiritual gifts as an eschatological event rather than an ongoing "lesser form" of revelation that was to continue until Christ's return was, for me, the final straw that broke the Pentecostal camel's back.

-R