House Filling

Linda Rock
2 days ago
4 min read

Having been convinced that the prophecy of Joel was fulfilled at Pentecost, the Jewish pilgrimage Feast of Harvest or Feast of Weeks, we look at the filling of the promise.

Not too long ago, we saw Jesus Himself going around to His disciples with convincingly infallible proofs that He was risen from the dead as a Person and not as some apparition, phantom or Ghost. If Jesus, God the Son, like God the Father and God the Holy Ghost, still comes to us in practical, visible, audible and tangible ways, then Pentecost was no different, for when the Spirit came, He was not at all easy, quiet and mild in His coming.

I must tell you this. In my school-time with our Lord, as I was being taught more about Mount Zion, scenes of Pentecost flashed across my mind, as I was reminded of the openly public way the Holy Spirit manifested Himself. Did this strike you also? We saw, Revelation 14: 1. Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. NIV.

Subsequently, if we had read the following verse, this is John’s graphically vivid description of what he heard. And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. Revelation 14: 2. NIV

Whatever it is, something mystical and divine joins us to that first fulfilling of God’s Pentecostal Promise, when the Holy Ghost came in this fashion. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. Acts 2: 2 – 3. NIV

Indeed there is:-

Visible sight

John looked and saw, as noted in Revelations 14: 1.
The disciples looked and saw as noted in Acts 2: 3

Audible sound

John listened and heard, as noted in Revelation 14: 2
The disciples listened and heard, as noted in Acts 2: 2

Nevertheless, with all this excitement taking place in the Pentecost experience, we are quick to spot our theme. Yes, straightway, we recognize the word, filling. A violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house. There is a filling of the house with the Holy Ghost, who has come as the wind, a mighty rushing wind, KJV, filling the entire house. The Holy Ghost did not just come into the one room of the house where the disciples were.

O, the fullness of Spirit-giving!

There was a complete filling of the house where the disciples were.

In the country where we live, there is a Ministry of Health initiative, where fogging occurs in different places, as a means of helping to stem the spread of mosquito borne diseases, by the widespread use of fogging. Fogging machines slowly drive through the area and you are asked to have all your doors and windows open. When the fogging vehicle passes, every single room in the house evidences the result of the fogging. Even if I do not open a bathroom window, or a kitchen window, for example, the evidence is openly present in those rooms. Indeed, the entire house, evidences the fogging. The Wind of the Spirit totally engulfed every single room in the house where Jesus’ disciples were. The house, the place where these people were, was filled with the powerful Wind of the invincible Holy Spirit. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.

Perhaps you’ve not experienced fogging, but you may most likely, have experienced very strong, mighty, rushing winds in your house. You know that in whichever room you are, you have to secure items, or sometimes even close some windows. Seriously though, here is the thing. You have to go to other rooms in the house as well, to secure things, as the wind blows through the entire house. Likewise, the Wind of the Spirit on that Pentecost day, filled an entire house, not just a room in the house.

What does this filling mean for us? It means that when we are filled with the Wind of the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit, we are filled completely, from head to toe. Let no one fool you. When the Holy Ghost fills, He fills completely, thoroughly and fully.

Right at this juncture, I was arrested, captured by these almost unwanted questions or queries. How about you? Here’s just one of the many thoughts, which comes like a mighty rushing wind to us. Are you, as the house of the Lord, the temple of the Holy Spirit, filled in every part?