As a manifestation of the Spirit, the people were given the spirit of prophecy, which is no more than the testimony of Jesus (Rev 19:10). A similar manifestation of the Spirit attended the baptisms of Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery, "No sooner had I baptized Oliver Cowdery, than the Holy Ghost fell upon him, and he stood up and prophesied many things which should shortly come to pass. And again, so soon as I had been baptized by him, I also had the spirit of prophecy, when standing up, I prophesied concerning the rise of this church, and many other things connected with the Church, and this generation of the children of men. We were filled with the Holy Ghost, and rejoiced in the God of our salvation." (History of the Church, vol. 1, p. 42)