It also equate the gift of prophecies as being the very same as occupying the office and role of a Prophet or Apostle...
No, it doesn't.
Might be those who have the gift tp prophesy, that though is NOT occupying office of a prophet.
Remember soteriology is eschatological. Jesus was
revealed in the last times, having
appeared at the consummation of the ages. The ends of the ages
fell during the NT era. What happened at Pentecost was the fulfillment of Joel 2 but what was that? It was soteriology. The Holy Spirit fell upon select Jews who had gathered in Jerusalem at Pentecost. As a consequence of the Spirit's work, about
three thousand people were added to the Church, and
God added more each day. From Acts 2 on the standard operating procedure when someone gets saved is that
the HS comes upon them and they display various "
gifts" or manifestations of that Spirit, one of which is prophecy. In Acts 2 they speak in tongues and Peter explains the prophets. The word of God kept spreading; and the number of the disciples continued to greatly increase in Jerusalem so much that even a great many Jewish priests were becoming obedient to the faith. Stephen, Philip, and Barnabas began preaching boldly, all of them explaining the prophets. Eventually Saul of Tarsus was changed by God and he immediately began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, increasing in strength and confounding Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that this
Jesus is the Christ. Ananias, Cornelius, Peter and Paul had visions. Greeks (goy/Gentiles) were getting saved. The Holy Spirit began to fall upon the Gentiles in Caesarea, and the Jewish converts were amazed hearing them speaking with tongues and exalting God. Peter returned to Jerusalem to report this inclusion of the goy. Some prophets went from Jerusalem to Antioch and foretold about a famine that would befall the world so the Christians in the Gentile lands began to sent offerings to Jerusalem via Barnabas and Saul. The Holy Spirit orchestrated moves to put Paul before the Gentiles, increasing the persecution of the Church(!) which God used to spread the gospel further and further. The conversions of Lydia and the jailer in Thyatira, established a woman as the goy host of a congregation, the Spirit having blocked Paul, Silas, and Timothy from going to Bithynia
(we read this without little pause but it was an enormous event in first century Judaic experience). Having bad their way to Athens, where Paul debated the Stoics and Epicureans
(Greek versions of the Sadducees and Pharisees, sorta 
), Paul and his cohorts return to Ephesus where they find a group of people who follow Jesus but know only the Baptism of John. Once baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus, Paul lays hands on them and the Holy Spirit came on them and they began speaking with tongues and
prophesying.
That is Joel 2.
It will come about after this that I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your old men will have dreams, your young men will see visions, and even on the male and female servants I will pour out My Spirit in those days.
Days
(plural), not day
(singular). Every bit of it tied specifically to
conversion. Many more than 3000 were gather at Pentecost. Many heard only what they perceived to be drunken ramblings. God added to the Church implies those who did not understand the manifestation of the Spirit hadn't been added. The synergist will say that's because they chose not to do os so; the chose not to believe, but the text assigns
all the causality to God. The same thing happens every step of the way in dozen+ chapters I just summarized above. God poured out His Spiri on the children of
Zion.
Who are the children
(sons and daughters") of Zion?
To do justice to the answer would take a lengthy post
(maybe two) but here's a brief summation. Everyone (presumably) understands Zion was the mountain on which Jerusalem sat. Many mistakenly think Zion is a reference to the temple, or the monarchy. One of the very first uses of the word occurs at 2 Samuel 5:7, when there was no temple.
2 Samuel 5:7
Nevertheless, David captured the stronghold of Zion, that is the city of David.
So "
Zion," cannot be a reference to the temple. This verse draws an equivalence between the "
stronghold" of Zion and the city of David. The city of David is the city of peace (Jeru = city; salem = peace). For
centuries the Jews incorrectly thought the promised Messiah would establish an earthly kingdom and rule on the earth as a monarch as an heir of David. He would literally sit on a gold-clad chair and physically rule from a physical chair sitting physically on the earth.
Acts 2,
where Joel 2 was fulfilled, bluntly corrects this hugely erroneous teaching within Judaism
(and Judaized Christianity today). Peter, speaking under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit explicitly states the promise to seat one of David's descendants on an eternal throne was about
the resurrection, not a gold-clad throne.
Acts 2:29-33
Brethren, I may confidently say to you regarding the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. And so, because he was a prophet and knew that God has sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne, he looked ahead and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that he was neither abandoned to hades, nor did his flesh suffer decay. This Jesus God raised up again, to which we are all witnesses. Therefore, having been exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured forth this which you both see and hear.
Joel 2 is tied to the resurrection of Christ. Joel 2 is tied to 1 Samuel 8 and 2 Samuel 7 and a host of other OT prophecies all culminating with the resurrection of Christ and his NOT rotting in the grave. Joel 2 is fulfilled every time a person is brought to salvation in Christ, regenerated and indwelt with the Spirit of God.
That is what started happening in the last days.
. That is a lot to add to scripture.
One who doesn't understand the difference between preterism and partial preterism 
). Just answer the question, 
. They are the specific ones getting hung up by the inquiry.
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