I'm surprised you are asking this. Do you not see what happened at Pentecost as being unprecedented? You think the Holy Spirit was poured out and came to dwell in people before that?
I don't believe that the OT saints were regenerated in the same way that believers have been since the day of Pentecost. Why would Jesus have said this if this was something that had already been happening in OT times?
John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Wouldn't they have already had the Holy Spirit dwelling in them if that was something that was already happening in OT times? Yet, Jesus talked about it as something that had not yet happened and would happen in the future. And, it happened for them on the day of Pentecost.
What is your understanding of Jeremiah 31:34 if you don't think it relates to the Holy Spirit coming to dwell in people during NT times?
Jeremiah 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
We know that this was fulfilled in relation to the new covenant because of what is written in Hebrews 8:6-13, right? So, what is your understanding of how it was fulfilled?
