Question on Nicodemus

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Sis. Rachel spake:
* Another thing that might show how Jesus prepared for his death is when He
* sent His disciples to get things like the donkey.  Also how he made
* arrangements for the room for the last supper.  I have heard it preached
* that he probably told the owner of the donkey ahead of time that he would
* use it.

Does everyone know that a king riding a donkey means that the king comes
in peace.... and when a king rides a horse, the king comes to make war?
What way is described in Jesus return in comparison to his entry in
Jerusalem during his final week with the apostles?

* One the same line as Colleen's question.  I have wondered about the fact
* that John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Ghost before it was poured
* out on the day of Pentecost and that Jesus breathed on the disciples and
* said receive ye the Holy Ghost.  

I personally don't think that John the Baptists experience while he was
in his mother's womb was the same as what we all would call the Baptism of 
the Holy Ghost.  The reason being is that the Holy Ghost had not yet been
given because Jesus was not yet glorified (lifted up on the cross).  I do
believe that it was a special annointing of God upon John, tho.

* This might mean that someone could be
* filled with the Holy Ghost without speaking in tongues (atleast before the
* birth of the church in Acts 2), which would be a difficult question to deal
* with if someone was resisting the evidence of tongues.  Any ideas?

     --- ***  The following is my opinion only, if you share it, *** ---
     --- ***  that's fine with me, it's just what I think about  *** ---
     --- ***  the Spirit pre-crucifixion and post-crucifixion    *** ---

I think that before the Holy Ghost had been poured out on Pentecost, the
typical reaction to receiving the Spirit of God (or being filled) was
some manifestation of prophecy.  I see the Spirit as being the same but
a little different pre-crucifixion and post-crucifixion.  Anybody that was
moved on my the Spirit of God pre-crucifixion was filled/touched on by the 
Spirit of God which hadn't experienced human life and death (in the man of 
Jesus).  Post-crucifixion, anybody that's been moved/filled/touched is being 
affected by the very Spirit of God that dwelt in a human body, that was 
sinless, crucified for us, and died.  Prior to calvary, God had not 
experienced what it was like to live (as a human) and have (human) feelings, 
be hungry, be thirsty, be tired, be angry, etc.  God had not experienced what 
it was like to be born, live, and die.  Those experiences of God somehow makes 
the OT filling of the Spirit to the NT Baptism of the Holy Ghost different 
and unique.

I think, for those reason, the reaction of someone receiving the Holy Ghost
now (by speaking in tongues) is significantly different then someone being
filled with the Spirit in the OT (pre-crucifixion days).

Bro. Tyler