[betty boop]

Thank you kindly for the information, xzins. The view you describe seems a very rational explanation. All the same, I agree with your conclusion, that God gives some Christians mega-doses of these gifts. That I can "see with my own eyes" (or rather, spiritually sense) WRT to certain people I know. Praise the Lord of Life!

Thank you!

[.30Carbine]

Thank you both for your comments, and for pinging me to them. I see the Spiritual Gifts thus: The only thing that has changed, being ordained to change, was that the gift of Prophecy turned from being the entrance of God's Word through prophets to the proclamation of His Word through prophets. Two texts:

Seventy weeks are determined
For your people and for your holy city,
To finish the transgression,
To make an end of sins,
To make reconciliation for iniquity,
To bring in everlasting righteousness,
To seal up vision and prophecy,
And to anoint the Most Holy.
Daniel 9:24

And I fell at his feet to worship him.
But he said to me, “See that you do not do that! I am your fellow servant,
and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus.
Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”
Revlation 19:10