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PENTECOSTALISM -
100 YEARS

THE GREATEST LIE OF
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

CHAPTER   3

<And when the day of Pentecost was fully come,
they were all with one accord in one place.

And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind,
and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of
fire, and it sat upon each of them.

And they were all filled with the Holy
Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them
utterance. > (Acts 2:1-11)

<Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and
rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately,
and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the
latter rain in the first month.

And the floors shall be full of wheat,
and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.

…And it shall come to pass
afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and
your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men
shall see visions:

And also upon the servants and upon the
handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.

And I will shew wonders in the heavens and
in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and
the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD
come.> (Joel 2:23-32)

We are thankful for our gathering here
this morning and we are happy again that we can address God’s people even
in other nations. I will be speaking on the subject: “Pentecostalism - One Hundred Years.”
And for a subtitle I want to speak on “The Greatest Lie of the twentieth Century.”

We are a people gathered here today who are looking
for a true Outpouring of the Holy Spirit like the Day of Pentecost. This
assembly has been waiting upon that great Promise that God made for better than
forty years. But though the vision linger, it shall surely come to pass.

Habakkuk 2:3
<For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak,
and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will
not tarry.>

That is the Promise and that is the saying of the
prophet in the Old Testament.

CELEBRATION 100TH YEAR OF
PENTECOSTALISM - MESSAGE  FOLLOWERS

Around the world, in this 2006,there are many
celebrations. They are celebrating the event of one hundred years of
Pentecostalism, which started in 1906. And the celebrations have stretched far
and wide concerning this great event that took place in 1906, which, I believe,
was the hand of the Lord in 1906 that sent the showers of blessings to the
people of God.  There is something
involved here which I want to bring to your attention and to the attention of the world.

Followers of the message around the world are also
involved in celebrating this great event of one hundred years of Pentecostalism
where Pentecost was poured out, the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, in 1906.  And we want to take the time to examine
this great claim of Pentecost returning in 1906. I want to do this in a
Scriptural manner that a fool shall not err therein, that when we have come to
the end there should be no doubts and there should be no fear. Credit must be
given to the people of 1906 all the same, because I believe that it was a great
blessing of the Lord.

You might not understand the term,
“Pentecostalism,” but there is a great body of people upon the
earth right now for one hundred years. Their system has been drawn up. And we
refer to them as Pentecostals. Now
Pentecostals are just not one body of people all united, but I will venture to
say that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of different organizations
around the world known by different titles, but they all relate back to 1906.
They were a hated, despised and rejected people once, but today they are very
popular. Their preachers are, around the world, very well recognized by the
governments. They are popular on the television, and whatever media that they
use. We have great men. And great men preached and lived for the past one
hundred years, so you can imagine the great celebrations that they are having.

One of our brothers visited a celebration
in Germany and he gave me
reports of the great time that they are having; people gathering from all parts
of Europe to celebrate one hundred years of Pentecostalism. And they believe
with all their hearts that it was the return of Pentecost.

Now, why this is so important to us and to the people who follow this message, and I
will venture to say, to all religious people, is that there are millions of
people today who rely upon this blessing of 1906 to prepare them for the Rapture. And the message believers are
included, right there. Better than ninety-nine
percent of the people that follow
the message are based upon that experience, that Outpouring of the Baptism of
the Holy Spirit and that revival that broke in 1906. All that they have added
to the experience of 1906 is the message of God that was brought to us by the
Laodicean messenger. That is all that they added; more truths. But the truth is
that they rely upon that experience of 1906 and they think that they are better
off than the Pentecostals because they received a message from God and a
prophet of God. And they think that they are all qualified and prepared for the
Rapture and, any time the Rapture can take place.

So I want to examine such claims in the Scripture this morning. We want to
continue to examine such claims tomorrow night, Tuesday night, and Wednesday
night. This is going to be a great lesson for the church and the ministers, and
it will long live on, and I’m trusting and hoping for great deliverance when these messages go out,
because it will be irrefutable. It
will be undeniable, except for the unbelief of the people—and unbelief
does not hinder God.

Quote
W.M.B.: 70 Unbelief
doesn't stop God; it doesn't hinder Him. I don't care how much the world
unbelieves, It's still going to happen. Unbelief doesn't do nothing but
condemns the unbeliever. The unbelief will send the unbeliever to hell. It'll
rob him of every blessing God promised to him, but it doesn't hinder God from
going right on with the believer. See, unbelief doesn't stop God; it only stops
the unbeliever.  (Proving His Word 64-0816).

The name “Pentecostal” came from the
Scripture read in Acts 2. That is why I read that Scripture. Because in 1906
the people believed that shower of blessing that came upon them was actually a
return of Pentecost, that the same thing that took place on the day of
Pentecost took place in 1906. As a result of that, the name was given to that
system and I would say “organization” because they organized soon
after and entitled that body of people, “Pentecostals.”

I will have the world to know that many of
us here were attached to those people and that system. We were former
Pentecostals and we are thankful to the Lord that they preached Jesus Christ to
us. And there were many good things about them. I myself, together with many
that are seated here have that experience and personal history. Speaking for
myself, I have about forty years of personal history and witnessed
Pentecostalism for myself and traced that right down from the nineteen sixties
until the present time. We have people seated here that went way back, more
than forty years, and have a personal history of fifty, sixty or seventy years,
such men that know the history of Pentecost.

So we are speaking today from personal
experience, I am speaking from recorded history and, above all from the written
Word of God and the message of the hour to confirm the written Word of God
since this subject is linked to Acts 2. “Pentecostalism One Hundred Years,
The Greatest Lie of the twentieth Century.” Now I may not be able to do
justice to my subtitle so I will drop off something here to prove that it is
Scriptural.

“RETURN OF
PENTECOST IN 1906”, THE GREATEST LIE

One of the greatest event that will ever take place in this twenty-first
century and in human history is another Outpouring of the Holy Spirit for the
end-time Church, like the Day of Pentecost. “Why do you say that
preacher?” Even because the rapture
is dependent upon this Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Another revival coming to the end-time Church
is dependent upon another Outpouring of the Spirit. The translation and rapture of the Church is dependent upon this Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And the dead that died in Christ since the time
of our Lord Jesus are dependent upon this great Outpouring of the Holy
Spirit.

Since this Outpouring of the Holy Spirit
is one of the greatest events that will ever take place in human history, to
make a claim that that Power did return to the Church in 1906, is the greatest
lie that was ever told in the twentieth century. Any time that you tell such a
lie about the greatest event for the Church
of God, you are trying to
take away the greatest Promise that
God ever made to the end time Church. So it is the greatest lie that was ever
told in the twentieth century.

Now, think of how many lies were told in
the twentieth century—religious lies, political lies and lies of mankind.
Can you estimate it? Mountains of lies; oceans of lies. I do not think that, if
you would empty the waters from the sea, that there would be space enough for
the lies of man that he told just for the twentieth century. We were born
liars. But thank God for Jesus Christ, that we can serve Him today in Spirit
and truth. Think of the lies. Men lie from morning to night. And they even lie
in their dreams. Such is the human nature. But I am saying that out of all the
oceans of lies that were told in the twentieth century, this is the greatest
lie: that Pentecost had indeed returned in 1906, and by the Grace of God, I can
prove that in the Scriptures.

All right! Since this was adopted from
Acts 2 and they claim that it was a repeat of Pentecost, I go back to Acts 2.
Now here today we have thousands of organizations and millions of churches, all
in the Name of Jesus Christ. But, according to Scripture, Mathew 16:18, Jesus
only spoke about one Church, a singular Church.

Matthew
16:18 <…upon this
rock I will build my church…> (Singular!)

Even in the days of our Lord Jesus, the
Church was not yet built, but He was speaking about building a Church in the
future—one single Church. And that is what we believe that we are in the
making today. That is why we are not an organization; we are not a denomination
and we are not a religion. We believe that we will be part of this Church of
Jesus Christ. And this Church in Acts 2 was inaugurated on the day of
Pentecost. The prophecy that our Lord made in Mathew 16:18 about building a
Church, a singular Church, happened on the day of Pentecost. And how did that
happen? It happened by an Outpouring
of the Spirit that came in such a measure that it put the believers into the
mystical Body of our Lord Jesus Christ. Not the body, the human body called
Jesus Christ, but the mystical Body. It immersed them into a certain realm,
which is called the Kingdom
of God. And then by that
Outpouring of the Holy Spirit putting the souls of the believers into that
mystical realm of the Spirit, they became the Church of God.
And there was no need for a roll book. There was no need for a name on their
church building, because it was the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ. One
Church.

Then that one Church, according to
Ephesians 4, had one Lord—not three gods, one faith, and one baptism.

Ephesians
4:5 <One Lord, one faith, one baptism…>

That is how the early Church functioned.
They were a united people. According to Acts, they were in one heart, and one
accord.

Acts
2:46 <And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking
bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of
heart.>

They were a united bunch of people, and
they had one Lord, one faith, and one baptism. Then they had one Bible. But
today we have many faiths. You ask, “What faith do you belong to?”
There is only one. And if you do not belong to that one faith you are outside
of Christ. There is only one faith. And that faith is recorded in the Bible:
baptism in Jesus Christ’s Name, Acts 2:38. One God, God is a Spirit, St.
John 4:24. And many other Scriptures bear these things out.

What we are trying to do is to belong to
that one Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the mystical Body.  There is a way to do it and that is
according to I Corinthians 12:13.

<For by one Spirit are we all baptized
into one body...>

That Body is the Church; that Body is the Kingdom of God; that Body is the mystical Body of
our Lord Jesus Christ.  We believe
that we are part of that Church.

All right! After that Church was set up on
the day of Pentecost, there was unity amongst the believers.

Acts
5: 13 <And of the rest durst no man join
himself to them…>

No man durst join himself to that Church.
We had gifted men—apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, and
pastors—that pastored that Church. And it went on for centuries until the
first organization was formed. The first organization that was formed was at Nicaea, Rome
in 325 A.D. Before that time according to Galatians 1:6-9, the apostle Paul
prophesied.

Galatians
1:7-8 <Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would
pervert the gospel of Christ.

But
though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that
which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. >

CHURCH DESTROYED at Nicaea Rome
325 AD – REFORMATION

So now perversion stepped into the Gospel,
right in the days of the early Church and the days of Brother Paul. And when
the Gospel was perverted, they changed everything. All the different doctrines
were changed. And I want to announce to you here that this great Power that
came on the day of Pentecost could not work with the Church any longer. So they lost the gifts of the Spirit. They lost
the Power of God among them. They lost that holy life that they were living and
sin entered the Church until in 325 A.D. at Nicaea Rome according to history;
they called a world council of churches. And “Constantine the
Great,” they called him, painted a cross on his soldiers’ shields.
He went to fight war and he won the war. He himself got baptized and his
soldiers got baptized. And then they brought in all these Roman people that
were former pagans and worshipers of idols and they hybreeded Christianity with their pagan religion.

At Nicaea, Rome, they voted out the true Church of God
and they set up the first organization. (Now, if you are a Catholic here, we
have nothing against Catholic people. We are talking about the system.) They
formed the first organization, which was named, “The Roman Catholic
Church”, even because they hybridized the Roman religion with
Christianity. Roman Catholic Church. In other words, they made one universal
church in 325 A.D. “Catholic” means “universal.” The
true Church was voted out. And then, a little while after that, they set a holy
man, called the Pope, over that church. He still reigns up to today. And they
gave him a triple crown, and on that crown is the mark of the beast. Vicarius
Filii Dei. In Roman numerals, if you check that out, it is 666, the mark of the
beast. It has traveled down to our age.

Now I am just giving you a little
background and a brief history. Now, on account of Nicaea,
the Church of God plunged into what history called,
“the Dark Ages.” In the Dark Ages, the law was, “Be a
Catholic or die.” Sixty-eight million martyrs were put to death as
recorded on the Roman martyrology. Those were
people who believed in the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, water baptism in Jesus
Christ’s Name, and all the fundamental doctrines that you and I now
believe. And then out of a thousand years of Dark Ages, we had what you call a
reformation.

Reformation period
– article of Pentecost missing

All right! Let us look at the word
“reformation.” It means to reform. Now the only reason that you
will want to reform something is because it was destroyed, and you are trying
to bring it back to its original
state or condition. So there started a reformation. Luther came out of the
Catholic Church. He was a monk, a priest, and he found a Bible in the dungeons
or the secret places of the Pope. He brought that out and then he started a
reformation in his time and started to reform the church toward
Pentecost—toward the original. So he brought to the public that you do
not have to confess to the priest. You do not have to find any “holy father”
to forgive you for your sins. You can go directly to the Lord Jesus Christ,
confess your sins and be forgiven.

So now Martin Luther came with the message
of “Justification by faith,” and it caused a world revival, even without power, signs, and wonders. And
they were called “Protestants.” The reason that they were called
“Protestants” is that they protested the greatest church upon
earth, called the

Universal Church. And they were tagged
“Protestants.”

Now, I want you to understand that that
great Article that came on the day of Pentecost was not amongst the people in the Dark Ages.  That is proven in chapter 6 of the book
of Revelation. They had just a little anointing and they had just a little bit
of the Word insomuch that the Lamb, Jesus Christ, had to cry out and say,

Revelation
6:6 <…hurt not the oil and the wine. >

If the Lord had not intervened in the
Dark Ages, every speck of the Holy Spirit would have left the church, and every
speck of the Word would have been lost from the Church of God.
But they survived with a little
anointing of the Spirit and a little bit of the Word of God.

Quote
W.M.B.: 216-2 All through the Dark Ages she has
dominated. For over nine hundred years she plundered and destroyed. She killed
the arts, destroyed the sciences, produced nothing but death until the light of
the Truth was almost entirely gone and only the barest sliver of light
remained. The oil and the wine had almost ceased to flow. (Thyatirean Church
Age - Church Age Book Cpt.6).

Quote:
170-3 If the church, way back there in that third age had only
held on to the revelation of the living Word in their midst, the power of God
would not have faded as it did in those Dark Ages. (Pergamean Church
Age -  Church Age Book Cpt.5).

Now when Martin Luther came (I want to
stress right here), although he had a great revival that struck the world out
of Germany, there was no Outpouring
of the Holy Spirit like the day of Pentecost, neither in Germany nor with
Martin Luther. It was still on its way to come. I hope you catch the trend of
my thinking now. But that revival of Martin Luther shook the world without
power, signs, and wonders. The reason that the power, signs, and wonders were lacking is that what they had on the
day of Pentecost had not returned.
Jesus said,

Acts 1:8 <But ye shall receive power,
after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me
both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the
uttermost part of the earth. >

MISSED BAPTISM

Quote
W.M.B.: 257-3 I wish
it could be said that the Sardisean Age was a restoration instead of a
reformation. I cannot say that. The Word does not call it a restoration, but
certainly calls it a reformation. Had it been a restoration, that age would
have been another Pentecostal age. But it was not. The best that could be said
of it was, "Strengthen that which remains, that is ready to die."
There was something missing. My,
yes, there certainly was. This age had justification, but it had missed
sanctification and the Baptism with the
Holy Ghost… The same Spirit that was in Jesus while He was here on
earth, causing Him to do the mighty works which He did came back upon the
church at Pentecost so that they did the works that He did. This age did not
have those works. (Sardisean
Church Age - Church Age
Book Cpt.7).

HOLY GHOST BOUND IN THE CHURCH AGES
FOR 2000 YEARS

Quote: 29-6 …that church has bound
the Holy Ghost for nearly two thousand years, under martyrdom back there and
under the church ages. It's been bound, not at the river Euphrates,
but at the door of creeds and dogmas, that the Holy Spirit can't
work in the church because of manmade systems. But She's going to be liberated.
(Feast Of The Trumpets 64-0719m).

So now that was one of the proofs that
whatever they had on the day of Pentecost did not come back with Martin Luther.
Luther went on and when he died they formed an organization.

A little after there arose another man in England
by the name of John Wesley. John Wesley did a little better than Luther and
said that you must live a sanctified life. God anointed John Wesley. He gave
him a great ministry, even with some signs and wonders. But I stress again
here, that in the days of John Wesley, Pentecost had not returned. The great Outpouring of the Holy Spirit had not yet
come although a Restoration was promised in the book of Joel. The
Restoration of Power where God will pour out His Spirit upon all flesh, had not
returned. So now the Church was still reforming.

Here is a building. It got broken down and
you are cleaning up the spot, trying to establish a foundation. You are
gathering lumber; you are gathering bricks; you are reforming. But the building
is not yet restored. And here you lay a little foundation and put up a few
bricks but the building is not restored. And then another builder passes by and
he puts up some walls and fixes certain things in there, but the building is
not yet restored. So we call that reformation. When the building gets the capstone and everything is fixed, and
the paint goes on the walls and all those other things, then the building is
fully restored. Everybody is going to know that this is the building that
represents the building that was demolished—by a storm, by a hurricane or
by an earthquake. They will realize that this building is restored. It looks
just like that one that the earthquake pushed down.

Now, based on the prophecy of Joel 2:23-26, great men
out of the Lutherans and the Methodists knew that that Scripture existed there.
They knew that there was a Promise of Restoration. As certainly, as you and I
today are familiar with these Scriptures that there will be a Restoration of a
Church like the day of Pentecost, there were men that read those same
Scriptures. So these men reading those great Scriptures in that time were
Methodists—desperate men—and they longed for this Restoration. And
they knew that Restoration has to do
with another return of Pentecost.
Because when Restoration is spoken of in the book of Joel, chapter 2, verses 23
right down to 26, it comes right down and start talking about “I will
pour out my Spirit.” Spiritual men in the Methodist church had two great
things in mind; the pouring out of the latter rain, and they knew very well
that that is translated to mean the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. So now this
is what is going to bring in, Pentecostalism of 1906.

We have established here that reformation is not Restoration. Reformation is
different from Restoration. Restoration is the complete thing. So here we had
great men. And I am going to tell you about some of them. And I will let you
into the facts of the fathers of Pentecostalism. Not “fathers of
Pentecost,” but “fathers of Pentecostalism.” I am going to
compare in a little while what these fathers received at 1906 and I will
compare them with the fathers of the day of Pentecost. I believe we should have
a clear picture after that.

LACKED PLAN BACK TO Pentecost
– CLAIMS EXAMINED

So they sought the return of Pentecost on the basis of
Joel 2: 23-26 and they knew that would come by the Latter Rain, outpouring of
the Spirit. Now one thing that is important here: they did not have enough
knowledge of the plan of God or the program of God to have this return of
Pentecost. They went according to their own knowledge, their own understanding;
they did their best. They were great men; they were wonderful men, even like
Martin Luther and John Wesley. Great men, they were sincere men.

Now Luther was a Trinitarian,
believing in three gods and he was even involved in the catechism from the
Catholic church, showing you how dark the hour was. Wesley took some of the
Catholic doctrine and he brought it over too. These men coming out of the
Catholic, Lutheran and Methodist church were Trinitarians. The revelation of
“one God” had not yet come to them. (Think of how dark that hour
was.) They were Trinitarians, believing that God was three gods! A Father, a
Son and the Holy Ghost. You pray to the Father a little bit, then you pray to
the Son a little bit, then you pray to the Holy Ghost a little bit, and if you
feel that the Father is jealous then you come back to the Father and start
worshiping Him. It becomes confusing to the mind.

Now we believe in Father, Son, and Holy Ghost but we
do not believe that they are three gods. We believe in one God (Saint John 4:24) and we believe that God was
manifested in three different offices or attributes.

John 4:24 <God is a Spirit: and they
that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.>

In the Old
Testament, He was Father of Israel. He took a bodily form and came down on the
earth and He was the Son. Through His death, burial and resurrection, He came
back on the day of Pentecost as the Holy Ghost—one God.

So these were great men, and (I want to stress here that
in 1906,) they did receive a genuine
experience of the Holy Ghost. I will even venture to call it (like the prophet
called it) the baptism of the Holy
Ghost. So they did receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost in 1906. They received
an outpouring in 1906 and they received the gifts of the Spirit.

BAPTISM OF THE HOLY GHOST IN THE LAST DAYS

Quote W.M.B.: 116 That's
what the church did. It entered into justification under Luther. Then it went
into sanctification under Wesley, went into the baptism of the Holy Ghost in
this last days, and now resting with the Earnest of our inheritance that we
know that something happened in us; (Revelation Chapter Five 2  61-0618).

Quote: 127-2 This
last age started with the fires of a Pentecostal revival and they organized it
right back. Instead of taking the Word they took their own ideas and did just
what every age has done--substituted the manual for the Word…They are
second generation Pentecostals and since God doesn't have grandchildren they
are just children of their fathers, known by their creeds and form of worship.
They can talk about what used to be, but they can't produce it. Once they had
the lightning but about all that is left is the thunder. But let them talk to
you about the glories of their movement. They will say, "Yes sir, I want
you to know that this is a move that no man started. It came spontaneously. The
Spirit fell all over the world. Yes sir, we got what they had at Pentecost.
This was not of men but of God." THEN WHY DIDN'T THEY KEEP IT THAT WAY? IF
GOD STARTED IT HOW COME GOD COULDN'T KEEP IT AND FINISH IT? If God didn't write
a handbook of creeds and formulas and dogmas to start it, then what right did
they have to do that? (Smyrnaean Church Age - Church Age Book Cpt.).

They claimed that it was a return and a repeat of
Pentecost. Now we are to examine
these claims. That is why we are gathered here today and will be gathered for a
few days. We want to examine by the Scripture the claims of 1906 and these
great men.

Quote W.M.B.: 96-1 Where,
oh where, are we spiritually? We are in a wilderness of darkness. How far we
have wandered from the first church. Pentecost is nowhere in view and the Word
cannot be found. (Ephesian Church
Age  -  Church Age Book Cpt.3).

They majored
on the gifts of the Spirit. They
read in the Bible where men did signs and wonders and miracles.  They read the Book of Acts and they
looked back in chapter 2. They were smart enough to realize that this had an origin.
All that was written in the Book of Acts had an origin and that is, it started
on the day of Pentecost. Then the miracles, signs and wonders went on
throughout the Book of Acts and they knew that they had to start at the
beginning so they were gathered together to ask God for another return of
Pentecost but they had in their minds above all, “gifts of the
Spirit.” They majored on gifts of the Spirit. They wanted to do the
things like they read about in the Book of Acts. (And we want to do them to, but
you have to start the right way.)

God has a plan; He has a program; He has keys to this
thing. They were ignorant of
God’s plan and program of how to get back to Pentecost. So they did their
very best and we appreciate that. We are not condemning those great fathers of
Pentecost of 1906. We are not saying that it was of the devil. We are not
saying that they were hypocrites or not sincere in what they were doing and
that their desires were not right.

I want everybody to understand that I am not saying that
what happened at 1906 was not of God. I believe that what happened in 1906 was
of God.  I believe it was the
genuine Holy Ghost. I believe the
men that sought God were sincere men. They were great men who loved the
Lord.  I believe that it was a genuine
revival.  I believe that there were
genuine signs and genuine wonders.
But friends, our examination is based upon this one thing: “Was
that the return of Pentecost, or not?” That is the big question here.
With all the sincerity, all the great men, all the signs, all the wonders and
everything that happened in 1906, our examination involves, “Was that
truly a return of Pentecost? Was that the Seal of God? Was that the Fullness of
the Spirit? Was that the Kingdom
of God? Was that the
Capstone coming to the Church?” This is our argument from here
until.

I can scripturally
prove that to the World (and I say this humbly) that when these messages go
out, I challenge the world upon the things that I am saying here this morning
and have spoken in the past and will be speaking in the future. I ask one man
to come and prove to me in the Scripture that 1906 was a return of Pentecost.
It is a total impossibility. If you cannot prove that was a return of Pentecost
then you need another outpouring of the Holy Spirit like it was on the day of
Pentecost or you are not going in the rapture.
Now this becomes very hard on the ear because people feel the Spirit. They work
signs and they work wonders and they have a personal experience with the Lord.
We are not denying that. I am talking about the article of Pentecost. I am
talking about the Fullness of God. I am talking about what we are expecting
today and what is needed for you and me to be translated here as children of
God to go in the rapture. Without this outpouring of the Holy Spirit there
would be no rapture. Nobody goes in
the rapture without this outpouring of the Spirit. Now that is very
important.

Then I would put the prophet’s teaching upon
this. Did he, the prophet of God, recognize that outpouring in 1906 as a return
of Pentecost? I am here to tell you that he never did recognize that as the
return of Pentecost. You will find that in the Church Ages, pages 377 to 380,
just the way that I would place that this morning.

Quote
W.M.B.: 377-2 This age started just after the turn of the
twentieth century. As it was to be the age in which the true church would
return to being the bride she was at Pentecost, we know that there must of
necessity be a return of dynamic power. The believers sensed this in their
spirits and began crying to God for a new outpouring such as was in the first
century. What seemed to be the answer came as many began to speak in tongues
and manifest gifts of the Spirit. It was then believed that this was indeed the
long awaited RESTORATION. It was not, for the latter rain can come only after
the former rain which is the spring or TEACHING rain. The latter rain, then, is
the HARVEST rain. How could this be the real thing when the Teaching Rain had
not come? The Prophet-Messenger who was to be sent to TEACH the people and turn
the hearts of the children back to the Pentecostal fathers had not yet come. (Resume of the Ages – Church Age Chapter 10).

You cannot judge something until you know exactly what
happened and then take what happened and bring it back through the Scriptures
and examine the thing by the Scripture. Now anybody could get up and say,
“G.C.C. is false. Mr. Bruce is a false prophet. The people that are
gathered here are a cult.” But brethren, where is the proof of it?
Whatever you say, you must be able to take and put it back in the Scriptures.
If I claim that you are the people of God, I must be able to take it and put it
back in the Scripture. I testify this morning and I have testified for the past
years, that you are the people of God because I can find your life registered in the Word of God with
proper dressing, no adultery and no fornication. Just what the Bible recommends
for you and me, we try with our whole hearts to practice. Now it is strange to
your town here; it is strange to this whole country; it is strange to the world
but it is Bible standard. Whatever we say, we must be able to put back in the
Bible.

History - fathers of modern
Pentecostalism

I will give you a brief history. I do not believe in
preaching in history but even if I preach the history, I like to bring you on
the scene. Now before 1906, there were people that desired this great
Restoration and return of Pentecost. God bless their hearts.

Now for this 1906 revival (I am calling it “an
outpouring of the Spirit,” genuine Spirit of the Lord) there were a few
men that are now considered to be the fathers
of Pentecostalism. The first one’s name here is Parham—a white man.
And then there was a second man, Seymour, an Afro-American. And then there was
another man called Frank Bartleman, all Trinitarians. This would mean something
as we go along—all Trinitarians.

C. Parham is considered to be the father of Pentecost. They
elevated him to such a place as the original founder and the father of
Pentecost. Now, he was a former Methodist minister in Kansas,
USA.
He was a theologian who opened a Bible school and sought a deeper walk with
God. He formed a certain movement called “The Holiness Movement.”
That is very complimentary of this man. He was Methodist (and Wesley brought a
holiness message) but he felt that the church was not walking in enough
holiness, so he formed another movement and called it The Holiness
Movement.

Now, in 1900, he opened Bethel Bible
College and sought to
understand, “What is the Baptism of the Holy Ghost?” He asked the
students to find in the Bible the evidence of the Baptism of the Holy
Ghost—the students! They
concluded that “tongues” are the evidence, and the initial evidence
of the Holy Ghost Baptism. Now that is where your initial evidence of the Holy
Ghost being tongues was established: before 1906, about 1900 and it was
established by the students of a
Bible school of the father of Pentecostalism called Parham, C. Parham. Now we
find some rules. They concluded that as long as a person speaks in tongues,
they have what they had on the day of Pentecost.

Hunger set in and the people were hungry to return to
Pentecost. They had great interest in the gifts of the Holy Ghost. They had
great interest in healing of the body. They had great expectation of the Second
Coming of the Lord.  This is
recorded history. Not one word is going to be added.

In 1901, a student of Bethel Bible
College received the Holy
Ghost and spoke in tongues. That was the initial evidence of the Holy Ghost,
they claimed, that proved that she had the Holy Ghost. It was a woman. Then,
after that, Parham and others received the Holy Ghost.

In 1903, the first revival broke in Kansas,
USA.
After that revival in 1903, in Kansas,
Parham opened a third Bible school. That was a Pentecostal Bible school.

William J.
Seymour: Now, another father of
Pentecost comes on the scene. His name is William J. Seymour, an Afro-American.
He got a hunger for God and he attended the Bible school of Parham.
Since Parham was a racist, he put Seymour
on the outside to learn what he was teaching! Seymour, being a colored man, humbly sat
outside. (Racism was very high in that time throughout the whole of America.)
And all the lessons that Seymour
got, he was sitting outside of the building! He was originally a Baptist, who
later joined the holiness movement. He accepted five major doctrines of Parham,
which were taught in the Bible school. Therefore, Parham planted his seed in
Brother Seymour and that seed that was planted was based upon five major
doctrines. These are the five doctrines: in order to be saved and be prepared
for the rapture, you must be justified, sanctified (that means holy living),
and get the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, (which is correct)! The fourth: the
initial evidence of the Holy Ghost is to speak in tongues. That seed was planted in Seymour. Number five: the Second Coming of
Christ is before the millennium (which is correct).

Up to that time, Seymour
did not get the Holy Ghost at Parham’s Bible school although he believed
all that Parham said. Seymour was invited to
preach in Los Angeles
by a woman preacher. By that time there were several women preachers with
churches of their own and he was invited to preach in Los Angeles by one of them. He went on turned
to the same Scripture that I read and preached on Acts 2:4 and laid out his
message and confirmed to them that the latter rain is being outpoured now and
Pentecost is returning. He drew that conclusion from what he understood from
Parham and what they experienced there. Yet he himself had nothing like an
anointing or the Outpouring of the Spirit.
He would later get that.

When he preached that, the woman preacher got annoyed
because she was an unbeliever in this thing, and he was locked out from the
church and he was locked out from the home. He was out on the streets. Then
there was a wonderful brother called, Edward Lee who took him into his home.
Then he left that home and later he went to another family, called the Asbury
family. So now he abode with the Asbury family. God bless Brother Lee and God
bless the Asbury’s. Now we come down to 1906. In 1906, Seymour
conducted prayer meetings at the Asbury’s home, Los Angeles. It was continued prayer
meetings. They were like us, seeking God, praying, fasting, believing in a
return of Pentecost, looking for revival, realizing that the churches have many
claims, they have a profession but not a possession. Something happened on April 9, 1906. Edward Lee, the man that took in Seymour and rescued him,
received the Holy Ghost first.

1906: 312 Azusa street revival AND DIVISIONS

You see our attitude and our respect to God’s servants, how it actually worked out for
this man? Edward Lee received the Holy Ghost first of all other men because he
showed respect to that little servant of God, that black man that maybe he was
not even supposed to take in his home according to the laws but he placed him
in his home. That happened on April
9, 1906 as the first brother. In the evening service, six others
received it, which included a lady who was going to be the wife of Seymour
a little later. That broke a revival in the Asbury’s home. Then on April
12, Seymour
received the Holy Ghost. After all those people got it, down to his future
wife, he now received the Holy Ghost. It was a genuine article, I am saying.
This was the blessings of the Lord. This was a genuine revival. This was a
great blessing that God sent. Only one thing was involved and this was the permissive
will of God working there, which later I could explain.

When that revival broke and
they started speaking in tongues there were so many people gathered that that
house could not contain them. So Seymour and his group rented an African
Methodist Episcopalian church. (We have them in Trinidad
up to now.) That building that they rented was at 312 Azusa Street,
Los Angeles. That is where that
great Azusa Street
story came from. That was the official mission of Seymour. They rented that old abandoned
building for four dollars a month and they prepared it, cleaned it up and
started meetings in that place. Now, from there the Pentecostal revival was
identified in 312 Azusa Street,
and Seymour was
looked upon as a revivalist and the father of Pentecostalism.

So it was identified with 312 Azusa Street. It became the most
popular address and then it gained
international fame. So 312 Azusa
Street is called the “cradle of
Pentecostalism.” It went on for a long time. Let me tell you something,
Friend. People from all parts of United States,
Canada
and later from around the world came to see that Outpouring of the Holy Spirit
and revival that broke in 1906. What will
it be when this great Outpouring of the Holy Spirit comes and the true
return of Pentecost does come to the Church? It does not matter what kind of
building that you have. It does not matter what’s your color. It does not
matter what your education is. It does not matter what your race is, friend.
When God sets a hunger in the hearts of the people and He does this thing, they
will come from every quarter of the
world.  We are looking for this
thing and it certainly is going to come to pass. Do you believe these things? [Congregation says, “Amen!”]
Well, you better believe it because I am quoting history up to now. This is
history.

All right. William Seymour was the pastor of 312 Azusa Street.
He never claimed to be a prophet or anything like that. He was the central
figure of the 1906 revival. Now, Luther was the central figure of that revival
in his time. Wesley was the central figure of that revival. You see, brethren,
it comes from a certain source.

He was God’s chosen vessel for the 1906 worldwide revival that is called the
Pentecostal revival. It attracted people from worldwide. Blacks and whites were
united on account of that revival
and that Outpouring of the Spirit.
So these men actually believed that Pentecost had returned. They hardly
had any money; they beat a little tambourine, played a little guitar.

Today we have organs; we have pianos; we have
trumpets. Oh, we have a nice covering here and we have nice seats, but those
were genuine Pentecostal people. Another thing that I may mention here, they
dressed just like you sisters and even up to 1950 we have pictures and we have
films of the dressing of Pentecostal women and they dressed just like you. I
was in that history up to that time in the 1960s, right in the Caribbean, in the Pentecostal church. They dressed with the same dresses like you
have and anybody who committed adultery, fornication or misbehaved, they threw
them out of the church.

Now here in the congregation is a former Pentecostal
lady. This lady here, Sister Boxhill, from a child, was identified with
Pentecost and she knows that what I am saying is the truth. I am a witness of
that and there are others here who had belonged to that movement back there and
they could bear witness of the same. They lived a moral and holy life. That was
the way they were taught to dress. If that was right at that time, it is right
today. Yes sir. What has changed it?
Modernism! Hollywood has changed these
things but the Church does not change with Hollywood and change with modernism. No, my
brother and sisters, the Church
of God goes on with the
Word of God. We are established upon the Word of God.

Now this may shock you a little bit here. Seymour,
having respect for Parham, who was located in Texas, sent a message down to
Parham and told him to “Come and run a few days meetings as you may have
more understanding, more knowledge. You are my teacher; I learned under your ministry.
We have a great revival that broke over here at Azusa Street. Come and preach for
us.” So Parham went down there. But when he went down there, he abused
the people. He denounced the revival as a "darky camp meeting” and said, “"God is sick at His stomach!" and
"what good can come from a self-appointed Negro prophet?" And he fumed against the very African-American style
of loose enthusiasm which was the norm for even Azusa's whites (Their method of worship).

The people were speaking in tongues and manifesting
the gifts of the Spirit and worshipping God in the way that is called heresy
and he cracked down on that and rebuked their style of worship then he demanded
to have the full authority over the
congregation.

From all recorded history, Seymour was a humble servant of God. He was
not found in adultery or fornication. Did not seek popularity nor money. He
believed in Holiness. He was so humble that he did not criticize men that were
in the wrong or those who preached contrary to Bible doctrine. He was not
militant in this respect like the apostles or Jesus in their ministration. This
caused false doctrine and evil spirits to flourish. It eventually organized the
Azusa street
mission under the title “Apostolic faith mission”.

The people at Azusa Street would make no adjustment for
that kind of spirit, and do you know what happened? Seymour locked him out. Seymour bolted the door. The next day when he
came back to preach, Seymour
had locked the door! “Out!” (I guess he learned that from when he
was locked out by this woman preacher.) After he locked him out, this man,
desiring to be number one in the Pentecostal movement and revival, went a
little way off and opened a church.
God never blessed it. It failed before it got started and he had to shut down
and walk in shame.

Bear in mind, brethren, I am talking about the fathers
of Pentecost, 1906.  Here is one
locking out the next one!  Is it
real one accord? Is that real oneness?  My, I tell you! I can’t get it! I
don’t get the idea.

So Seymour
locked out Parham, the father of
Pentecost, and they were separated, never to be rejoined. Soon after that
revival, in 1907 Parham was charged for committing sodomy with young males. He
was an angry racist and he became a full-fledged racist and was a Klan
supporter. Now this man claimed to have received what they had on the day of
Pentecost. I cannot read that in the book of Acts, where Peter, James and John
or any one of them were Sodomites. So definitely Parham did not get what Peter,
James and John had. I don’t doubt that he got something. It is evident
that his nature was not changed.

Frank
Bartleman: There was another figure
that was playing out a very important part there and his name was Frank
Bartleman. When he came and saw that revival, first of all he denounced it but
then he started to propagate that revival throughout the world as a journalist. So the news of the revival
at 312 Azusa Street went around the world and brought people in because he was
a popular reporter and one that the people had confidence in since 1904. So he
played a great part but a little later on in his writing of history he tried to
inject himself into the 1906 revival as one of the main figures who brought
that revival, it’s pride!

A book was written entitled “what happened on Azusa street”
based upon records of Bartleman’s diary. He highly complimented Seymour as the main
figure of the Azusa street
revival. However, he injected himself in a subtle manner into the 1906 revival
as the main figure who prepared the
way for it. He credited himself by indicating that by his preparation, the 1906
revival broke and also after the revival fires slowed down he continued that
revival. Much pride was manifested in his records. He claimed to have received
the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues only several years after 1906. He
supported Durham and commended him as a great
revivalist, though he broke Seymour’s
group.

The gifts were restored to the Church. The Holy Ghost
indeed was poured out. Healings, signs and wonders took place. People spoke in
tongues. They accepted it as the initial evidence of the Holy Spirit. It was a
genuine move of God. But then, our question is, “Will it compare with original Pentecost?”  Now this is Pentecostalism versus
Pentecost. Can we fit that in the Bible? Right here, this congregation of
people being taught…. You understand the Bible; you sat under correct
teaching for the past forty years. Correct teaching was going on here before
some of you young fellows were born. It never changed and it will never change.
We have been looking for this Promise of God for decades upon decades. Young
men became old men. Little boys became grandfathers, but though the vision
linger, it shall surely come to pass. We buried several pastors and God raised
up new ones. But, though the vision linger, it shall surely come to pass. God
has His appointed time in which He will send that Promise and we are closer to
that Promise today than when we first begun. Yes, let us appreciate what we
have. We have one hundred percent Truth. One hundred percent Word.

Now this was being noised abroad in Canada and United States. It brought people
from all parts of the world to see that revival and that Outpouring of the Holy
Spirit. Now that gives you a little picture of what is coming. It united blacks
and whites. It united people of all societies. It brought them together but
there is an outstanding thing that took place in this revival. There were many
joiners from many nations and walks of life and something happened. There were
great religionists that came and joined themselves to this revival and there
were great philosophers that came in
and magicians, like Simon the
Sorcerer. They always want to join. Read your Bible. You will see how Simon the
Sorcerer, impressed by the Power of God, wanted to join. These magicians came
and then there were lots of self appointed preachers that arose, lots of false
prophets, many soothsayers and prophesiers and speakers in tongues and that
brought in much confusion into the
movement of God and divisions
followed.

Organizations followed this great movement and the big
thing with this is that the father of Pentecost could not handle these things
that came into the movement. He could not handle the sorcerer. (I hope your
minds are going back to the book of Acts.) He could not handle the
religionists. He could not handle the philosophers.  He could not handle the soothsayers and
they became a great opposition to Seymour.
They did a lot of wickedness and he did not know how to control them there,
like Peter handled the Sorcerer. So now, it amounts to the fact that evil spirits from around the world,
Satan’s army, Satan’s kingdom, Satan’s evil force actually
came and flooded the revival and neither Seymour nor the other men that arose
had any power or discernment of spirits to handle these men. So they prevailed.
Now this was going to later form the foundation of Pentecostalism.

Clara Lum, the mission’s secretary responsible for
publication, was offended by Seymour’s
marriage. Her group believed that marriage was a disgrace, since Jesus was
supposed to return soon. Seymour
was denounced for his marriage. 50,000 names and addresses were stolen by her,
which ended the mission’s publication. She refused to return the names
and addresses, even by Seymour’s
pleadings. Some suspected that she desired to marry Seymour.

Foundation of 1906 Pentecostalism

Now, the foundation of this great movement, the example
was set by the founding father called Parham, was pride, racism, sexual
immorality, divisions Bible schools and organization. Now if the father set
that example, what do you expect after one hundred years of
Pentecostalism?  It is not hard to
say and we do not need any discernment for that because it is fully manifested
in one hundred years of time and history. It is right around the world today
and it has made Christianity a laughing-stock.
Now this is the truth that I am speaking. I speak the good part of it and then
the other parts have to be right because it is manifested. So the foundation of
this whole system eventually is corrupt from the beginning. Remember I am not
speaking of the original people that loved the Lord and were in that revival.
No. I am talking about men that arose shortly including one of the founding
fathers, who was charged for sodomy with little boys in the very assemblies.
Can you imagine that? I can’t come to terms with that. The man was a
racist and supported a racist group. By 1907 this man was charged for
sodomy.  He was so full of pride
that he brought divisions. He made three Bible schools.

All the wrong example set by Parham was compounded
with occultism, witchcraft, which formed the foundation of Pentecostalism,
which they called a return of Pentecost, the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, the
Seal of God. They were expecting the rapture to take place at any day and any
time. Now, Pentecostalism spread around the world and I am going to skip that
and probably pick it up later to show you how Pentecostalism spread for one
hundred years, and bring it right down to our time to the most popular TV
evangelist called Benny Hinn.

Now, the influence of Azusa Street died three years after in
1909. The prophet of God said that most revivals die within that period of time
of three years.

Quote
W.M.B.: 78 And history only shows a revival only lasts not over three years at
the most. (Calling Jesus On The Scene 63-0804e).

Other churches were formed in Los
Angeles, USA, Canada, Europe
and various parts of the world. The great mark of this Outpouring of 1906 was divisions. It was marked with divisions
above every other thing.

Now that you have a better understanding of the
history of that Outpouring of 1906, I want to examine that movement with the
Bible. Original Pentecost, Acts 2, and the entire book of Acts are what I am
going to use for that examination. I will also use the epistles of the apostles
to examine this movement.

It is either right or wrong; it is either that I am
speaking the truth to you or I am speaking a lie to you this morning. But I am
sure that I am speaking the truth because it comes from the Bible.

I repeat that the 1906
outpouring of the Holy Spirit was genuine—under the permissive Will of
God—but it was not a return of Pentecost as in Acts 2. It was a great
outpouring of the Holy Spirit but it was not a return of Pentecost.

There is only one way to examine the 1906 revival,
outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and that is to compare it with the original.
Now if you bring a bogus dollar to me I will take it and compare it to the
original dollar. If it does not match with the original dollar then it is a
counterfeit American dollar.

Here, they are giving us a duplicate of Pentecost or a
repeat of Pentecost. The only way that we will know if that is right or wrong,
is to take the duplicate and compare it with the original and then we will have
it right.

Now this is very important, friend, because many have
laid their soul’s salvation upon the outpouring of 1906 to go in the
rapture. They depend upon that
experience. And ninety-nine percent of the people that follow the message claim
that they received what Peter, James and John received. They received it from
their churches that they came from in so-called Pentecost.

Is this important then? I say it is very important
because here we have genuine Christians, wonderful brothers and sisters, that
follow the message and have accepted the present truth of this day, that are relying upon this outpouring in 1906
to translate them and carry them away in the rapture. I say that they will
remain earthbound.

Now do you see my efforts
of preaching this then? My effort of preaching this message is to totally
convince every human being that relies upon that genuine experience of 1906 to
take them in the rapture; to prove to them that it cannot take you in the rapture. But it will take you through the tribulation. And the parable of the
foolish and the wise virgins is right here. There were two groups of people and
there were wise virgins and foolish virgins, five of them each, and one group
went in the rapture and the other was left behind.

There shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of
teeth. Because the foolish thought that she had what it takes to go in the
rapture, but the wise virgins did not think so but she knew that what
she had could take her in the rapture. Now right there in your Bible is
something standing here for the end time and that divides people into two
groups although they are genuine wonderful people all virgins.

But something makes the foolish virgins foolish. That was, they relied upon the experience of 1906.
And there was something that made the wise virgins wise and that is she went
after the genuine article just like they had on the day of Pentecost.

Isn't it clear in the Scripture? Now, there are many other
Scriptures that can come to light right here which I don’t have time to
deal with. There is the man without the wedding garment. (Matthew 22:2-13) Also
where Jesus said, two shall be grinding at the mill; one shall be taken the
other left behind. (Matthew 24:42-44)

There are other parables
that our Lord spoke about. There were certain people invited to a feast, and a
man came in without having on the wedding garment. (Matthew 22:2-13) Now all
these things can be hooked up right in here. Messages, messages after messages
can be preached and were preached before, to show you that you must have this
genuine Article in order to go in the rapture.

Examination: 1906 Pentecost with
original Pentecostal plan and program

I am examining the 1906 Outpouring with the original
Outpouring on the Day of Pentecost. First of all, there was a plan and program to bring this Outpouring on the Day of Pentecost and I will
read it directly from the Bible to you.

Isaiah 28:
8-13 <For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no
place clean.

Whom shall he
teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are
weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.>

(In other words, people that will humble themselves.)

<For
precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon
line; here a little, and there a little: For with stammering lips and another
tongue will he speak to this people.

To whom he
said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is
the refreshing: yet they would not hear. But the word of the LORD was unto them
precept upon precept, precept upon
precept; line upon line, line upon
line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward,
and be broken, and snared, and taken.>

This is the plan and program of God that was applied
before the day of

Pentecost,
before they had an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, which is the Rest. “Wherewith  ye may cause the weary to rest.”

What was God’s plan and program? First of all, the Word came to the

people
before they had an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. That was God’s plan and
program. The Word first had to come and give them understanding, give them
wisdom, give them light; show them how to prepare for this outpouring of the
Holy Spirit.

And how did the Lord do that? He did that by bringing
the Word of God to the people, preparing their hearts, causing them to be
justified, causing them to be sanctified and changing their natures. After that
process, which lasted for several years, then they were commissioned to go to a
certain place and tarry for that outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

Is that the plan of God? Was that the program of God? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] Was
it first a Restoration of the Word of God? And who did that Word come to?

First of all, we see John the Baptist came on the
scene, the Elijah spirit came on the scene. After that, the Word Himself, our
Lord Jesus Christ, came on the scene. And after that Elijah spirit appeared
upon the earth, he said that he was a way maker. He was preparing the way for the Lord, and he was teaching the people
holiness, righteousness, how to live and, a little while afterward, the full
Word of God came into existence—our Lord Jesus Christ.

They were instructed how to prepare for that
outpouring of the Spirit. After such instructions and the people’s hearts
were prepared, they went up into the upper room. They waited there in prayer
and in fasting and then there came the original outpouring of the Holy Spirit,
which is the Kingdom
of God, which is the Seal
of God, which is the Fullness of God. Then came that Outpouring on the day of
Pentecost after they received the Word of God, “precept upon precept,
line upon line, here a little, there a little,” only then did they get
that outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

Now, do you see why you have to suffer long and hard
in many services? Beloved, because we try to get the Word of God to you,
“precept upon precept, line upon line, here a little, there a
little.” Do you see the need of E.O.D.H. now? It is going out there,
“line upon line, here a little and there a little” and that is
either going to bless a man or curse him. That’s what Isaiah said. He
said those that did not want that and did not believe that coming Promise would
go and fall backward. But He said, they that humble themselves, as if they are
drawn from the breasts, that blessing is going to come to them.  Jesus said, “Except a man humble
himself and become as a little child, he shall in no wise enter into this
outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the Kingdom
of God.”

Matthew
18:3-4 <And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become
as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Whosoever
therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in
the kingdom of heaven.>

Now that is exactly what the Bible said; that is
exactly the plan of God, recorded right here in Isaiah 28, that brought the
Outpouring on the day of  Pentecost!
First of all it was the Word. Nobody could bypass the Word of God, the full
Word of God, “precept upon precept, line upon line, here a little and
there a little,” and get that Outpouring of the Spirit.

Ephesians 1:13 <In whom ye also trusted,
after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom
also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of
promise.>

You cannot get this Outpouring of the Holy Ghost by
changing the message, by putting on the back burner the holiness standards, by
putting on the back burner the commandments of our Lord, He said, “He
that loves Me keeps my commandments.”

John 14:15 <If ye love me, keep my
commandments.>

You will have to adjust your life to the Bible; you
have to adjust your life to the message that was sent to us.

That message was sent to prepare you and me for that
Outpouring of the Spirit and it is coming unto us, “line upon line,
precept upon precept, here a little and there a little.”

You don’t know how it comes together but it is a
little piece from Genesis, a little piece from Exodus, a little piece from the
book of Revelation, a little piece from the book of Matthew and a little bit
coming from the message, and here we are, forming a great picture and a
revelation of the Son of Man. That is where it is.

How many believe Isaiah? [Congregation says, “Amen!”] He said, you must get that
before you get the Rest. There isn’t any question about what is the Rest;
that Rest is another outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Jesus said:

Matthew 11:28 <Come unto me, all ye that
labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.>

“This is the rest that will cause the weary to
rest,”—not rest your body but rest your soul from sin. And Isaiah
prophesied about that.

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W.M.B.: E-13 And Isaiah in the 28th chapter, He said:
"For precept must be upon precept; and line upon line; here a little, and
there a little: …for with stammering lips and other tongues will I speak
to this people. And this is the rest." Oh, that perfect rest, to come from
the congregation to the altar, from the altar to the bosom of Christ, the bed,
the night, the secret place, the resting place. Justification, Martin Luther
taught it. Sanctification, John Wesley taught it. Now, the baptism of the Holy
Ghost, the Pentecost taught it. By the Holy Spirit enter into a everlasting,
eternal rest. (Church Dedication
59-0708m).

Another thing that brought that great outpouring on
the day of Pentecost, Ezekiel prophesied about it.

Ezekiel 9:4
<And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the
midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and
that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst

thereof.>

Friends, your soul has to be vexed like righteous Lot: vexed
with the sins of Sodom,
vexed with the nakedness, vexed with the music, vexed with the filthiness,
vexed with the adultery, the fornication, the lying, the hypocrisies and the
imitation of men. And your soul has got to be so sick that you cry to get out
of here.

Now, if you are too
comfortable in this world and you could adjust when you go down to the public
places and you could see the things that are going on in the churches and
around the message and you could be comfortable with that, friends, your soul
is not yet prepared. There has got to be a hunger setting in and agonizing
setting into the soul of the Elect of God right now, because of this outpouring
of the Holy Spirit. Your soul has to be so desperate after the Word of God that
you want to be prepared, you want to pray, you want to fast, you know that
certain things are in your life and you want to get them out of your life.

Friend, you have to get desperate after it. It isn’t going to just leave you by your
saying, “I have got to make a change in life.” No, friend. You have
got to get down and work at it. You have got to work out you salvation with
fear and trembling.

If you have a spirit of offense in you, you are angry
with everybody, you have evil thoughts going through your mind, you cannot just
sit there and let the devil put that down into your soul. No, you have to work
at it. You say, “I sure don’t like that preacher. Everybody talks
about him but I sure don’t like him. I don’t go near him.”
Something is wrong with your spirit. Jesus said, “He that loveth me,
keeps my commandments.” Yes. If you love the Word you will love
God’s servant.

He is trying to take your soul into the rapture. How
can you not love a man that tries to serve the Lord and prepare you for the
Token? “I sure don’t like that Pastor McGahee, he is always harping
on me.” Something is wrong with your spirit. Something definitely is
wrong with your spirit. The only reason that Pastor Kenny will harp at you is
because something is wrong with your soul. He is trying to fix your soul in order
for you to receive that outpouring of the Spirit. When you will have resentment
and you will have contentions in your minds and when you will pull apart and
have a stand-off, something is wrong with your spirit! You are tolerating the
wrong thing, you want to hang with the wrong
people. You want to do the wrong things. And then “Pastor Kenny
shouldn’t say anything.”

Not so at all! That man of God is going to preach the
Word of God to you regardless of what you think of him and what kind of
resentment that you try to show him when he walks around. I don’t know of
any case like that but I’m just talking about a Christian spirit. A Christian spirit would love the Word of God. We
ought to be Christians. We must make this rapture at all costs. We must have this
outpouring at all costs.  Yes.

So the first thing that came by was the Word of
God.

How they got up to Pentecost is that Isaiah prophesied
that the Word must come first, otherwise
you are not going to have that Outpouring of the Holy Spirit.  It has to come so clear: “line
upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little.” So
the Word came to Elijah the prophet and then the Word, Himself, stood there
upon the earth in the form of the Son of Man.

1906 Pentecostal fathers differed FROM
ORIGINAL Pentecostal fathers

Now, the 1906 outpouring, brethren, varied from this plan of God that
brought this outpouring on the day of Pentecost. The fathers of Pentecostalism,
1906, differed from the fathers of original Pentecost. (From the history, you
can already see it. I don’t even have to repeat it.) Brethren, these men
were Trinitarians while the original Pentecostal fathers believed in One God (St. John 4:24). The original Pentecostal
fathers had a revelation of the Son of Man.

These at 1906 did not have the Word of God in place.
They did not have the Truth as the early Pentecostal people had. They depended
upon theology they depended upon Bible schools. They were Trinitarians. They
believed in three gods. They brought over doctrines of Trinitarian, water
baptism in that revival, using the titles of Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Unless
you are baptized according to Act 2:38,
in the Name of Jesus Christ, you are not yet baptized in Christian baptism. If
you believe in three gods, you are not believing the way the Bible wants you to
believe. You have to believe that God is one God. God is a Spirit, (St. John 4:24), and that Spirit came and indwelt a man called,
Jesus Christ. Through His death, burial and resurrection, He went up into
heaven and returned on the day of Pentecost as the Holy Spirit. That is it!
That’s the One God we are talking about!

So, they were wrong in their understanding of
Trinitarian gods and Trinitarian baptism. They had many other contrary
doctrines. I am saying that the fathers of 1906 Pentecostalism were unprepared
for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. This is proven in the man called Parham,
who was a Trinitarian, who was a racist, who was a proud man and who was
charged for sodomy. Now, I am saying, beyond one shadow of a doubt, that this
man’s nature was not changed.
In order for you to receive original Pentecost, before you get that article
your nature must be changed by a born again experience by the incorruptible
Seed, which is the Word of God that liveth and abideth forever, (I Peter 1:23). These fathers failed to
be prepared, therefore, they could not receive that Article of Pentecost under
those conditions.

Let me say this right here: you and I cannot receive that outpouring of the
Holy Spirit nor go in the rapture if these things are in us. If we have the
wrong doctrine, if you belong to an organization, if you would not live a holy
life and you are living in adultery, you are living in fornication, you are
living in sodomy, you are cussing off your brethren and you have offences down
in you that you would not correct for days and for months, for weeks and for
years, then those things will prevent you from entering this outpouring of the
Holy Spirit. Isn’t that clear? Then if that is so here today with you and
I that have followed the Word of God, precept upon precept and line upon line,
wasn’t it true back down there? It was true back down there that these
men could not have a return of Pentecost nor the genuine Baptism of the Holy
Ghost in 1906 on account of their lifestyle and on account of their doctrine.
They could not. It’s a total impossibility!

Let me rephrase that. Friends, it is a total impossibility for the fathers of
Pentecost and all who follow them to have received an outpouring of the Holy
Spirit like the day of Pentecost because of their approach and because of their
lifestyle. But, I will admit that they did receive an outpouring of the Holy
Spirit but did not, under any condition, receive the article of Pentecost!
Their natures were not changed.

It is a total impossibility for the people of 1906,
(including the fathers) to have received the article of Pentecost. It is a
total impossibility for Pentecost to have returned even because they did not
have the Word of God. Therefore they were unprepared and their natures were not
changed. I know that they claim to be born again, but even that claim to be
born again cannot qualify you for the rapture. What they claim as the born
again experience is accepting the Lord Jesus Christ but that is not what
Peter, James and John had according to

I Peter 1:23 <Being born
again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which
liveth and abideth for ever.>

First of all, before you are born again, you need to
have the Incorruptible Seed. Isaiah said that the Word was to come to them
before that Rest, and the Word did come first to the apostles. They adjusted
their lives. Their souls were prepared and after their souls were prepared,
then they went up to the Upper Room and they heard a sound from Heaven as a
mighty, rushing wind.

Now notice that this outpouring in 1906 had no sound
from Heaven.  There is no recorded
history about any sound from Heaven that took place and there is no recorded
history of licks (tongues) of fire
sitting upon their shoulders. So 1906 ran away with the tongues! They took that
“Tongues” as the evidence of the Holy Spirit but in the original
Pentecost, they had a sound from heaven as a mighty, rushing wind and they had
cloven tongues of fire sit upon them and that was the original Pentecostal
blessing. It came with a sound from heaven; It came with licks of fire; they
had a revelation of the Son of Man and they had the Word of God first,
“precept upon precept, line upon line, here a little and there a little,”
and then a sound came from heaven. I am saying that 1906 is a far cry, and I am saying that it is a million miles away
from the original article of on the day of Pentecost!

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W.M.B.: 128-2 They call themselves Pentecostal and Full
Gospel. Let them prove it. At Pentecost the fire came in a cloud and separated
over each of them like a tongue, and fell on each one. Where is the fire? They spoke in tongues at Pentecost and the
people who listened understood. Where is that? The whole multitude of believers
acted like one family. Pentecostals are as badly divided as any group in
history. No man durst join himself to the early church but only God added. They
have as many goats among them as any. They claim to be full Gospel but they
can't prove it. Their churches are as empty of power as any of them. If they
are full Gospel then we had better admit the Bible made a mistake when it
describes the full Gospel men at Pentecost. They sing, "There's been a
great change in me." They are right. But the change has not been for the
better. It is time to get back to God. They have a name that they live but are
dead. Tongues isn't the evidence of revival. It is the evidence of death.
Tongues proclaimed the evidence that the ceremonial religion of the Jews was
over, that a new era had begun. Tongues today is ringing down the curtain on
the Gentile church ages and the Gospel is going back to the Jews. People are
talking about tongues heralding in a great Spiritual move. They have missed the
boat. The truth is that it is writing the finish to all of man's ideas,
programs and kingdoms, and the kingdom
of God is being ushered
in. Wake up people of God. Wake up. (Smyrnaean Church Age - Church Age Book Cpt.4).

They have traveled with that right down to one hundred
years of Pentecostalism.  So you can
see from this message what we are getting into.  I am going to pick up these articles of
Pentecostalism to show you the foundation it was built upon and what it
produced right up to today, and what it will continue to produce until the rapture
takes place.  It is going to be
quite interesting.  So may the Lord
bless you.

I am
sure, my brothers and sisters, that you have benefited today and the other
days, you will benefit even more.
So the Lord bless your hearts.

Comments by local Pastor Kenneth
MCGahee

I learned so much this morning.  I don’t think I have ever heard it
preached that clear in all my life. Although we have sat under the Word of Life
for many years.  I truly enjoyed
what I heard this morning. Brother Bruce made reference to the Church Ages
Book, page 377-380. I have that little quote, which I read the other night
while I was preaching. I want to read from the Church Ages Book to place this
right in with Brother Bruce’s message this morning. How many loved that
today with a hearty Amen? [Congregation
says “Amen!”]

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W.M.B.: 377-2 This age started just after the turn of the
twentieth century. As it was to be the age in which the true church would
return to being the bride she was at Pentecost, we know that there must of
necessity be a return of dynamic power. The believers sensed this in their
spirits and began crying to God for a new outpouring such as was in the first
century. What seemed to be the answer came as many began to speak in tongues
and manifest gifts of the Spirit. It was then believed that this was indeed the
long awaited RESTORATION. It was not, for the latter rain can come only after
the former rain which is the spring or TEACHING rain. The latter rain, then, is
the HARVEST rain. How could this be the real thing when the Teaching Rain had
not come? The Prophet-Messenger who was to be sent to TEACH the people and turn
the hearts of the children back to the Pentecostal fathers had not yet come. (Resume of the Ages – Church Age Chapter 10).

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