v If the Gifts of Speaking in Tongues and Healing are No Longer Valid, When Did They Cease?
While we cannot know the day, nor the hour when these temporary spiritual gifts ceased, it does appear that at least by A.D. 70 when the Romans destroyed Jerusalem, these two supernatural gifts no longer had a purpose and would have no longer been extant. In addition, there is reason to believe that these gifts had ceased several years prior to A.D. 70. There are two ways of stating when the sign gifts were to cease. In line with what has been said above, they were to cease when Israel was finally given up to judgment by God. We may say this happened judicially at the end of the Acts period, but actually the sentence was not carried out for another ten years. On the other hand, we may say the sign gifts were to cease when “that which is perfect [mature] is come” (I Corinthians 13:10). The coming of that which is complete or mature does not mean our going to heaven, but the bringing in of the mature course of this dispensation of Grace. (Baker, Dispensational Relationships, 53) It is no
