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Pentecostalism - 100 Years

Built
Upon Tongues but Not the Rock

CHAPTER   4

<For through him we both have access by one Spirit
unto the Father.

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and
foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

And are built upon the foundation of the
apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

In whom all the building fitly framed
together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

In whom ye also are builded together for an
habitation of God through the Spirit.> (Ephesians 2:18-22.)

<When
Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples,
saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?

And they
said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others,
Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

He saith
unto them, But whom say ye that I am?

And Simon
Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

And Jesus
answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and
blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

And I say
also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church;
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.> (Matthew
16:20).

May the
Lord add a blessing to the reading of His Holy Words. We greet each and every
one of you and especially to our brethren who are streaming in different parts
of the world, we welcome you to this service.

We are
happy to address you on the same subject. We are grateful to the Lord and more
than thankful for each one of you brethren and the saints of God that are
listening in. I believe Bethel is on tonight and
we send greeting from G.C.C. to each one of you in the Caribbean.
The title of the message is, “Pentecostalism – One Hundred Years:
Built Upon Tongues But Not The Rock.”

I believe
that we already proved that but we will continue to disarm
Pentecostalism, which arose in 1906, again. If the Lord be willing, we will
continue. There is so much, I doubt that I could finish but whatever we are
laying in, we want to lay it in very strong.

We are
endeavoring by these messages to prove that the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit
in 1906 was not the
return of Pentecost. It was not the original Baptism of the Holy Ghost that the
apostles received. We have chosen to deal with this subject because the
religious world today is celebrating one hundred years of Pentecostalism and
they are boldly proclaiming around the world that Pentecost did return in 1906.
We are here to refute that. We are gathered together to make their claims void,
to prove by the Word of God that it is the biggest lie of the twentieth
century. The biggest lie of the twentieth century is that Pentecost returned in
1906.  It is a lie.

Message believers received baptism from 1906

Now, many
of our brethren that follow the message of Malachi 4:5 around the world have joined
in this celebration: to celebrate the return of Pentecost in 1906, because
better than ninety-nine percent, I will presume, believe that Pentecost did
return in 1906. On account of that, they received their Pentecost, received
their baptism in organizations.

As a
result of receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost that was poured out in 1906,
they were able to hear the message; they recognized the prophet and came out of
Pentecostalism—that’s the doctrine. So they claim that if they did
not have the true Baptism of the Holy Spirit like the day of Pentecost, which
returned in 1906, they could not have heard the message and come out of
organization. They contend that the Holy Spirit had to be abiding in them in
order to receive the message of the hour. So then, receiving Brother
Branham’s message, receiving him as a prophet and believing all that he
said is the evidence of the Holy Ghost like they received on the day of
Pentecost. That is the popular doctrine around the world.

A little
strange thing here that we will pick up a little later is that after fifty
years of Pentecostalism, the prophet of God, William Branham, joined in with
all the Pentecostals and celebrated the fiftieth anniversary and called it
“the Pentecostal Jubilee.” He has a message entitled ‘Azusa
Jubilee,’ 56-0916, Los
Angeles.

So,
throughout his ministry, he, himself called 1906 “the Baptism of the Holy
Spirit” and celebrated with them. I believe, if Brother Branham was here,
he would probably celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the baptism of the
Holy Ghost in 1906. How can you go back amongst the Pentecostals and not help
them celebrate this great event of 1906? Brother Branham was a man of wisdom,
knowledge and understanding. He, himself celebrated that and he called it “the
baptism of the Holy Ghost.” I also would call it “the baptism of
the Holy Ghost” and continue to call it the “baptism of the Holy
Spirit,” but we will divide the lines as we go along.

Pentecost – come to the rock revelation

But
tonight, we will major upon the fact of Pentecostalism being built on tongues but not
the Rock. So now, the Rock is our Lord Jesus Christ, the Word of God. In these
two Scriptures that I read here from Ephesians 2:18-20, the Bible said that the
Church or the temple of God is built upon the foundation of the apostles and
prophets and Jesus Christ is tying this thing together as the chief
Cornerstone. That is one Scripture.

Over in
the book of Matthew 16:18, it is recorded here that the Church is built upon
the revelation, the Rock revelation of the Son of Man. So without a shadow of a
doubt, before there is a Church for Jesus Christ, there must be a Rock. The Rock is a
revelation of the Son of Man and the Church is built upon the foundation of the
apostles and prophets. If they claim that we had a return of Pentecost in 1906,
there is only one thing that Pentecost (the baptism of the Holy Spirit,
original Pentecost) would ever come to and that is the Rock revelation of the
Son of Man. It would only recognize the foundation of the apostles and
prophets.

Now, that
alone has disarmed the claims of 1906, because I have proven in my last message
that their foundation was not the right foundation and they were unprepared for
that great Article of
Pentecost.  I am trying to make
things so simple that everybody could understand.

I am hurrying to get this out
before the end of 2006 because we also want to celebrate one hundred years of
Pentecostalism. This is our input into the celebration of
Pentecostalism—to tell the truth of what they really had in 1906, the
true foundation of the Church. (This is not strange to you; you are a well
advised people since 1967. These things are not very new to you) but the Church of God is built upon only one Rock and that
is the Rock revelation of the Son of Man, the foundation of the apostles and
prophets. They, themselves, established that Rock that they were built upon,
which is a revelation of the Son of Man. It is not a strange rock, neither is
it two rocks; it is one Rock and anyone that the true outpouring will come upon
must have that Rock. Now that is the Church as a whole. If you, as an
individual, are to receive this outpouring of the Holy Spirit, you must have
that Rock within your soul. That is very simple. Right? That would not come
upon a Trinitarian dogma. No, it will come upon the Rock revelation of Jesus
Christ.

Now you and I must be striving to
make sure that it is within our souls and that is a revelation of the Son of
Man, revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ, revelation of His Word. That is the
only way we will receive the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. If you have a
revelation, it is a total impossibility for you not to receive the outpouring
of the Spirit. I believe that is eternal security. You might have your ups; you
might have your downs or you might have to settle a lot of disputes sometimes;
but the fact is that you have that Rock revelation.

Peter had that Rock within his soul
when he confessed Christ but he was a man of many faults. He even chopped off
one fellow’s ear. (I’m not telling you to go and chop off
anybody’s ears now) but he chopped off a fellow’s ear and then he
got so worked up and so scared that he even cursed and swore. Then afterward,
the Lord called him, and in addition to having given him the keys, he told him,
“When thou art converted, feed my sheep. You are not yet converted that is why you behaved like that. So when thou art
converted, feed my sheep and don’t forget the little ones now, also feed
my lambs.”

That is what I am trying to do here
tonight. Not only feed the sheep but also to feed the lambs, wherever they are.
They can only chew so much. They cannot eat hard grass yet. But you are old
sheep and sometimes you get tired of the soft grass and the mother’s milk
but you have to bear patience as we go along because I am trying to comb this
thing here with a fine-teeth comb that the people on the outside there (when
this goes on the internet and when it goes into a book and the tapes are set
up) that they should not have any questions.

So, I am trying again to prove that
1906 did not have a return of Pentecost or the original baptism of the Holy
Spirit like the day of Pentecost. It is a total impossibility according to the
Scripture; a total impossibility according to the written Word of God for them
to have had the return of Pentecost in the condition that they were in.  This is proven by their own histories.

Now the reference to the
Pentecostal history was taken from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. You will
get all that information in there and it will refer you to many books from
whence they gleaned their historical facts. Now these historical facts are on
that tape from yesterday. It is not my idea or not something hatched up to run
down Pentecostalism but this is their own testimony and I am just using it.
From their own testimony, we examined their foundation.

1906 - reformation not
restoration

I will brief you on that. First of
all, they came out of the Methodist
Church, and it was a time
of Reformation. A time of Reformation coming from Luther, coming out of the
Dark Ages and they started to reform the church that was almost destroyed by Rome. For one thousand
years, it was destroyed by Rome
and only a stump was left. The prophet of God preached a message called, ‘Restoration of Bride Tree,’
(Jeffersonville,
62-0422).

Quote W.M.B.: 75-2 God said,
"I will restore It."… four death messengers killed It; then
four Life messengers will restore It. What was the first? Martin Luther,
justification. What was the second? John Wesley--by sanctification. What was
the third? Pentecost with the restoration of the gifts, the Holy Ghost, baptism
of the Holy Ghost. What was the fourth? The Word…Malachi 4, Elijah is to
come with the very Word.

The Word of the Lord came to the prophet. In the evening Lights is to
come forth to restore and bring back. What? Turn the hearts of the children
back to the faith of the fathers (Restoration Of Bride Tree 62-0422).

Quote: E-66 …when He returns He will
find the same church. What the palmerworm left the caterpillar eaten; what the
caterpillar left the locust eaten; on down to the cankerworm. But God said...
"I will restore," saith God.

Romanism, and so forth, eat that beautiful bride tree of Christ down
till it become a stump. But God brought right back out of that stump, right up
through the Lutheran age, right up through the Wesley age, through the
Pentecostal age. And now it's in the evening Light. "I will restore, saith
the Lord, all the years that the cankerworm, caterpillar... I will restore
again that church in her beauty, that church in her power."
(Be Not Afraid 62-0620).

The very reason that there is
supposed to be a restoration is because the Church was almost completely
destroyed by the antichrist and Rome.

So, Luther coming out of the Dark
Ages, brought over the Trinitarian baptism, Trinitarian doctrines and all those
dogmas and creeds. Many of them are from the Catholic Church. Then a little
while after that, the Methodists came out of the Lutherans. When they came out,
they brought over the same Trinitarian doctrine and many of their heresies. So
now, if you notice the historical background of these men, Parham, Seymour, and
many others, they emerged from the Methodist
Church. That gives you a
good picture of how people came out of the Dark Ages under Luther. From the
Lutherans, out came the Methodist. From the Methodist, came forth Pentecostals.
It was an Age of Reformation.

A very important point that I might
stress here is that, under Reformation was Luther and Wesley. Reformation was
to continue under so-called Pentecostalism. Instead of calling that
“Reformation,” they called it “Restoration.”

THE LUTHERAN, WESLEYAN & PENTECOSTAL AGE DID NOT
RESTORE THE CHURCH TO THE FULNESS OF PENTECOST

Quote W.M.B.: 379-1 The people of
God are being made ready by the Word of Truth from the messenger to this age.
In her will be the fulness of Pentecost for the Spirit will bring the people
right back to where they were at the beginning. That is "Thus saith the
Lord." … for that is what Joel 2:23-26 says… I will restore to
you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar,
and the palmerworm, My great army which I sent among you.

…Now it says God is going to "restore". The Lutheran
Age did not restore the church; it started a reformation. The Wesleyan Age did
not restore. The Pentecostal Age did not restore. But God has to restore for He
cannot deny His Word. This is not the resurrection of the Church; it is the
"Restoration". God will take the Church right back to Pentecost of
the beginning. Now notice in verse 25 it tells why we need restoration. The
locust, cankerworm, caterpillar and palmerworm have eaten all but the root and
a small bit of the stem. (Resume Of The Ages - Church Age Book Cpt.10).

That was the biggest mistake that
they ever made. They called it “Restoration”, and took it clearly
from their minds the title of “Reformation”, because they believed
that they had returned to Pentecost. But that was also an age of Reformation.
They were to reform the church: take what the Lord
gave to them, an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, which was genuine.

They should have sought the Lord
with all their hearts, looking for the restoration and the plan that God put in
place by prophecy in the Scripture to get that restoration. They jumped ahead
and they called it Restoration. They were based upon Acts 2:4 and Joel 2:
23-28.

Do you know that we are based on
the same Scriptures? Yes. Instead of making that
mistake to think that we are restored now, we recognize the restoration of the
Word, by the prophet, William Branham, and we are looking for full Restoration.
So what they should have done in 1906, we are now doing that, one hundred years
after. We have to be the people of God. We had to be born for this outpouring of the Holy Spirit; otherwise
we would make the same mistake that they made. We are waiting patiently for the
great Restoration. The Word was restored by William Branham, but the great
Article of Pentecost and the Church itself is not yet restored. We are waiting
for that Restoration that Brother Branham preached about in ‘Restoration of Bride Tree’.

And if it is restored, we must of
necessity have a Church like the day of Pentecost upon the earth and another
book of Acts must be written. The prophet of God said that in so many
words.

ORIGINAL BRANCH – BOOK OF ACTS

Quote W.M.B.: E-82 These denominations has been grafted in. They're still bearing
denominational fruit, membership, so forth. But when the Tree puts out original
branch again, there'll be a book of Acts wrote behind It. (The Way Back 62-1123).

And that is what we are going to
see. We believe that there will be an original branch put forth, then that will
be the evidence that we have returned to Pentecost. This is clear like a
whistle.

1906 foundation:
tongues, sodomy, racism, divisions

As Luther and Wesley came out of the Dark Ages, these men emerged from
so-called Pentecost. Coming out of that, they were still Trinitarians. They still
baptized in Trinitarian baptism. They still had a lot of things from the Methodist Church and even borrowed some from the
Lutheran and the Catholic doctrines. They borrowed a lot of that stuff and
brought them over. Now, this is the foundation of these fellows: Trinitarianism.
The apostles never had that. No! And then their foundation was built on
“Bible Schools.”

The father of the whole thing,
Parham, built Bible schools and when revival broke, he still built one. If that
was original Pentecost, the Holy Ghost would not allow him to do that. He was
based upon theology. He was a theologian himself. Peter, James and John were
not theologians. Paul was a theologian one time but he had to forget his
theology. That is Scriptural order.

Philippians 3:8 <Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for
the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have
suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win
Christ.>

Then, you know what happened;
Parham was charged for sodomy with little boys—the wrong foundation. And
then he was guilty of racism and became a full-fledged racist and supported a
Klan against the black people. He was responsible for divisions and then built
organizations and declared that speaking in other tongues is the initial evidence of the Holy Ghost. That makes up
my subject right here.

This was the major heresy that
started in 1906, even with that revival: tongues were the initial evidence of
the Holy Ghost. That is how they judged that Pentecost had returned. That is
how they judged that they had what Peter, James and John had. That is how they
judged that Restoration had taken place, that Joel 2: 23-28 was now fulfilled
and Acts 2:4 was repeated. They did that by these tongues. The Bible says, it
is the least of gifts. And they forget that the devil also speaks in tongues.
How are you going to distinguish if the Holy Ghost is upon a man or if the
devil is upon a man, because both of them speak in tongues? The Holy Ghost does
speak in tongues and we do believe in speaking in tongues.

I Corinthians 14:39
<Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with
tongues.>

So we believe in tongues. We
believe that it is a gift but we believe that it is the least of the gifts. But these men took it as the greatest gift. Look at that!
They took it as the greatest gift. The greatest gift was the tongues, according
to their doctrine, and they made that the initial evidence of the Holy Ghost.
That traveled for one hundred years. Up to today, they have women in pants,
chopped off hair, living in adultery, fornication, wearing shorts, bringing in Sodom and Gomorrah
into the church, rock and roll music and nasty living of all kinds, including
sodomy, right in the churches. They called themselves Pentecostals, based upon
the lie that “Pentecost did return in 1906.”

There was a seed planted down there
but they had the wrong foundation. The foundation then, according to
the history, was racism, Trinitarianism, Bible Schools,
theology, immorality, divisions, organizations—but the greatest
foundation was “tongues as the evidence of the Holy Ghost.” And
that was the major heresy at that time. Now it does not matter what kind of a
life that they lived, these people are so deceived of the devil that they
believe as long as they speak in tongues, they have the Holy Ghost and they are
prepared for the rapture. That is terrible deception!

Parham was called “The Father
of Modern Pentecostalism” but his life bears record of his evil nature.
His own life bears record that he did not go back to Pentecost. If the Father
of Pentecost, had his foundation wrong and we can prove that he never did
return to the real Pentecost, original Pentecost, what about his followers?
Don’t forget that this man planted the seed in our
Brother Seymour and convinced him that the initial evidence of the Holy Ghost
is speaking in tongues. The whole thing has a certain foundation, which I laid
out here.

Parham’s tongues foundation
is a heresy. This is evident even by simple observation of how he came to that
conclusion. His students taught him. How shallow in the Word was Parham! His corrupt life blocked the
spiritual channel for any revelation from God. Thus he relied upon the
heretical conclusion of his Bible school students.

Now, according to Parham’s
own doctrine, which he taught, there is: justification, sanctification and then
comes the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Now, that is correct and that is Bible
doctrine. Brother Branham taught that doctrine, “Justification,
Sanctification, baptism of the Holy Spirit.” Parham claimed to speak in
tongues and receive the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. But then he was not
sanctified! Sanctification means, “cleansed from your evil habits, evil
nature and then set aside for service by the true baptism of the Holy
Spirit.”

This man’s own doctrine
defeated him because, first, you have to pass through justification, then be
cleansed of sodomy, of racism, of pride, of division, of heresies, false
doctrines, Bible schools and theology before you come up the baptism of the
Holy Spirit. Therefore, I am proving and announcing to the whole world that
what the father of Pentecost received was
not the true Article
of Pentecost. It was not the article of Pentecost and his own life proved
it.

Then, if something is wrong with
the root, the whole tree is sick! Imagine that the root was sick way back in
1906, and even earlier than that, the branches are sick today and the fruits
that they are bearing are sick. One hundred years!  Imagine those kinds of knotty fruits on
that tree throughout so-called Pentecost. Imagine that I have to pick up all
these fruits that were born from 1906 and trace it right down to Benny Hinn
today! Friends, it is the “cream of the crop” of so-called
Pentecost that we have on the television and in the churches. That is the
“cream of the crop” but I’ll tell you something, Jesus has
the “Cream of the Crop” and He will
show off the “Cream of the Crop” upon the earth here.

Taking this foundation of so-called
Pentecost 1906 and comparing it with the foundation of the fathers of original
Pentecost, it cannot blend! A man has to be totally dishonest, he has got to be
a hypocrite like Judas; he has to be a man that is not after eternal Life to think that Pentecost did return after he hears what I am saying
here, because I have gone through the history and I am showing you the
foundation of Parham, Father of Pentecost. I am reading from the Bible, Acts 2,
and I am citing here the whole book of Acts as my evidence to prove the
foundation of the original fathers of Pentecost and it cannot fit. There is no
way upon the earth to fit the foundation of 1906 with the original foundation.
And you must have this foundation in order to have the outpouring. We have been
laying this foundation for many decades and our foundation is strong.

I am calling the 1906 foundation,
“a foundation of sand.” And the foundation of the Apostolic Church
is built upon a Rock. Jesus spoke of that parable and there is a rain coming
one of these days and the wind is going to blow (That’s the wind from the
World Council of Churches) and, beloved, the rain is going to come one of these
days. The Bible says it is going to beat upon both houses; “the rain
falleth upon the just and upon the unjust.” And the one with the
“Rock” is going to stand. But the one that is upon sand, Jesus
said, “great was the fall of
it.”

Matthew 7:24-27 <Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine,
and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a
rock:

And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and
beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not,
shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and
beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.>

Now that is where it stands.1906 is
a sand foundation. And that foundation was built upon the major
heresy of “tongues.” But the foundation of the early fathers, the Apostolic Church was built upon a Rock. It is so
wonderful!

Now everything that is based today
upon the 1906 experience to go in the rapture is not going to go into the
rapture. That is why all these teachings of our Lord are for the end time and
all these parables. Like the foolish and wise virgins; the man without the
wedding garment; two shall be at the mill: one shall be taken, the other left
behind; there were those that was invited to a supper. Now you see how all
those Scriptures fit in over there because they are the parables of the
Kingdom, and the Kingdom is none other than the true Outpouring of the Holy
Spirit.

If I start preaching on the foolish
virgins it will take me another hour and if I put Pastor McGahee tomorrow, he
will preach for another two hours on the man without the wedding garment. And
if I get another fellow and put him up here to preach, he will start preaching
about two grinding at the mill, two in the field, and two out here, one taken
and the other left behind.

I am asking the question,
“Why?” I am giving you the answer right here in a nutshell. The
reason is that people based their salvation on the 1906 experience and it
cannot carry them in the rapture although they follow the message and they
believe Brother Branham was a prophet. They cannot go in the rapture; it is a
total impossibility to go in the rapture under those conditions.

There are people building their
salvation today upon the original outpouring of the Holy Spirit like it was
given on the day of Pentecost and they will
go in the rapture and
only them! Yes, sir! This is our contention! This was the contention of William
Branham; this was the contention of Robert Lambert, who sealed his testimony
with his blood. This is the contention of all our ministers; this is the
contention of all that now believe E.O.D.H. around the world. We believe
it.

There are two groups today. One
believes in a great Outpouring of the Holy Spirit to come and there are others
that don’t believe it. Everyone that does not believe in an Outpouring
today is not in preparation for the rapture.

Just to brief you: the early
fathers that went to the Upper Room with the hundred and twenty were all filled
with the Holy Ghost, a hundred and twenty, including sisters. John was about
seventeen years of age. Teenagers went up there.

First of all, the foundation of the
early Church (the hundred and twenty): they were justified, sanctified and then
they received the Holy Spirit. They fulfilled the Scripture of Ezekiel 9:

Ezekiel 9:3-4: <And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub,
whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man
clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;

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.>

They were so afraid when our Lord
Jesus was killed that they were hiding themselves and they were sighing and
crying for the abomination that was done in the city. The man with a
writer’s inkhorn, dressed in white came down on the day of Pentecost and
set a mark upon them. The Sealing angel.

Ezekiel 9:5-7 <And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye
after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye
pity:

Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women:
but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary.
Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.

And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the
slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.>

The next part of that Scripture was
fulfilled about thirty-five years after when there were six destroying angels
sent to destroy the people of Jerusalem
for rejecting the true baptism of the Holy
Spirit. The judgment was to start at the sanctuary, right in the temple. Those
people perished. Everyone who rejects this Outpouring of the Holy Spirit that
we are speaking about is going through the tribulation and their judgments will
be even sorer that what Rome
did to the Jews. Didn’t the prophet say, “You’ll receive the
Token or perish”?  I believe
the prophet.

TOKEN OR PERISH

Quote
W.M.B.: 30-2 All outside of the token of the blood perished,
everyone. And everyone outside of the Token of the Holy Ghost will perish.
(The Token 63-0901M).

TONGUES: INITIAL
EVIDENCE OF THE HOLY GHOST IS FALSE

The foundation of the hundred and twenty was a changed nature. They were
changed by I Peter 1:23:

<Being born again, not of corruptible seed, (like Parham) but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for
ever.>

Mr. Parham had a corruptible seed. He had a Sodom seed; he had a Gomorrah seed; he had a
racist seed in him; he had a seed of division; he had a seed of pride, a seed
of self. I don’t really know where that man’s soul went. He could
speak in tongues down in Hell, too, but that doesn’t mean to say that he
had what they had on the day of Pentecost.

The hundred and twenty had the Rock
revelation of the Son of Man, the same one that Peter confessed. (Matthew 16:16) They had the most
important thing. They fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah

Isaiah 28:13 <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.>

They had received the prophet, John
the Baptist, the Elijah of that age. Then they recognized the Word that was
revealed as the Son of Man. That was a solid
foundation. That was
the Rock that the Church was built upon.

Then a little while after, they
understood the plan and program of God to receive the outpouring of the Holy
Spirit. They were sent to one place. A man had the keys to the kingdom. A man
had been given the keys to the outpouring. They were sent to tarry in that one,
certain place until the great Power of God came upon them. Then they were to be
witnesses around the world. That is God’s simple plan.

Now, in 1906 was a different kind
of operation: they accepted tongues as the evidence of the Holy Spirit and
history says nothing about a sound from heaven. No. The prophet of God said
that we must hear a sound from heaven.

BAPTISM – SOUND FROM HEAVEN

Quote W.M.B.: 15-1 That's the reason I do believe that when
that Bride is called out and elected and set in the Book of Life, there'll come
a sound from heaven that'll take such a
Baptism of the Holy Spirit into that Bride that'll take Her from the earth in a
rapturing grace. God promised it.  (Three Kinds
of Believers  63-1124E).

WHERE IS THE FIRE

Quote: 128-2 Now 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? (Smyrnaean
Church Age - Church Age
Book Cpt.4).

So there must come a sound. If there is
going to be a restoration there must be a sound from heaven as a rushing mighty
wind. History never said anything about licks of Fire in 1906. At Pentecost, the
Pillar of Fire came into that building and it swirled around and out of that
Pillar of Fire came forth a lick and then that lick came over and sat upon
somebody, and then another lick came out of it and sat upon somebody else,
another lick came out sat upon somebody else. That showed God dividing Himself
into the Bride. Whereas He was in one Man called the Lord Jesus, He was now
dividing Himself among the Church
of God.

In 1906, they took tongues only and
they made it the initial evidence of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, which is
totally unscriptural. The prophet of God beat that thing to death in his entire
ministry.

I DO NOT BELIVE THAT TONGUES IS ANY EVIDENCE OF THE
HOLY GHOST

Quote W.M.B.: 524-84    I do not believe that
speaking in tongues is any evidence of the Holy Ghost. It isn't. Because I have
seen witches, wizards, snake handlers, devils, everything else speak in
tongues, and it is not an infallible act of God when you speak in tongues, that
you've got the Holy Ghost. But remember, the Holy Ghost does speak in tongues,
and the Devil can impersonate it. (Questions And Answers - Cod  61-0112).

Quote: 215 You say, "Do you believe
in speaking in tongues?" Yes, sir. "Did you ever speak in
tongues?" Yes, sir. And I praise God for it. Yes, sir. I've spoke in
tongues several times. And I believe it's the power of God. Yes. I don't believe
in the initial evidence now, is speaking in tongues. (Mark Of The Beast 54-0513).

THAT DOGMA OF THE INITIAL EVIDENCE, SPEAKING IN TONGUES

Quote: 177 The Pentecostal Assemblies of
God today would give anything right down in the bottom of them great teachers' heart
if they'd never started that dogma of the initial evidence, speaking in
tongues. They know that's wrong. It won't hold water. Certainly won't. I can
prove to you by God's Bible that you don't receive the Holy Ghost by speaking
with tongues. It's not in here. (Baptism Of The Holy Spirit 58-0928m).

I’VE HAVE SEEN DEVILS SPEAK IN TONGUES

Quote: 53-5 I've never believed, and
there's no one can prove it by God's Word, that the initial evidence of the
Holy Ghost is speaking in tongue. I want the man to come do it. I've challenged
that all along. I believe in speaking in tongues. Yes, sir; but I've seen
devils speak in tongues, witches and wizards speak in tongues and interpret it,
denying there was such a thing as Jesus Christ. I've seen men speak in tongues
living with another man's wife. Stand and look me right in the face and a
vision before him, call him out to one side and made him a witness to it. And
you call that the Holy Spirit? (Spoken Word Original Seed 62-0318m).

I’VE SEEN WITCHES AND WIZZARDS SPEAK IN TONGUES

Quote: 132 The Pentecostal says,
"Speaking in tongues is the initial evidence of the Holy Ghost." I've
seen witches and wizards speak in tongues. I've seen them to speak in tongues
and drink blood out of a human skull, and prophesy and deny there was such a
thing as God. I've been in the witch camps where they lay a pencil on the table
and make it jump up-and-down, and write in unknown tongues, and interpret it.
That's right. (Shalom
64-0119).

TONGUES – SATAN CAN IMPERSONATE ANY GIFT

Quote: 1001-Q-281 281. Now, when I speak
of not believing the initial evidence of the Holy Ghost is speaking with
tongues (I do not accept that) I believe with God's help I can prove it in the
Bible that that's wrong (See?), 'cause the speaking in tongues is a gift of the
Holy Ghost.

…Satan can impersonate any of those gifts. Witches, wizards can
speak in tongues and interpret it. The jungle lands, many times a wizard will
speak in tongues, drink blood out of a human skull, and interpret unknown
tongues.
(Questions And Answers 64-0823e).

There is no need to even
quote, yet we place some quotations for those that are so unspiritual that they
don’t even read the prophet’s books but yet they want to call this
false. This is not false. It is true. They took tongues and they made it the
evidence of the Holy Spirit.

Now “tongues,”
according to the teaching of the prophet, are a sign and it is the least of the
gifts.

TONGUES - ORGANISATION

Quote W.M.B.: 162 You might speak
with tongues and you might not. But why did the Pentecostals do such a horrible
thing as that? Why did the Pentecostal do that? Why? Because in the beginning
when God begin to restore back yonder forty years ago, bringing back the gifts,
somebody begin to speak with tongues... And speaking in tongues is the least
gift, according to Paul's teaching, of the entire bunch of gifts. The least of
all the gifts is speaking in tongues. And as soon as they did it, they all got
excited and made a denomination and called it the General Council, which is the
Assemblies of God.
(Baptism of the Holy Spirit 58-0928M).

Some of you may not remember this,
but the prophet of God contending with so-called Pentecost concerning the
initial evidence of the Holy Spirit, said “Tongues were spoken as a sign
of pending judgment upon Babylon.”  He said, “there came a finger and
wrote over the king’s throne in tongues and it was signing in the Gentile
kingdom under Belshazzar, and it will sing out the same way.”

TONGUES – GOD’S SIGN OF IMPENDING DISASTER

Quote W.M.B.: 347-2  Now the tongues are God's sign of
impending disaster, even as they were when they appeared upon the wall at
Belshazzar's feast. (Laodicean
Church Age –Church
Age Book Cpt. 9).

Quote: E-2 This is the way it began. This
is the way it'll end. Did you ever notice that the Gentile kingdom was issued
in by unknown tongues and interpretations? King Nebuchadnezzar, the handwriting
on the wall, unknown tongues and interpretations. It goes out the same way--the
Gentile age.
(Conference 60-1125).

Quote: E-52 The Gentile nation was issued
in with King Nebuchadnezzar with unknown tongues and interpretation, and goes
out the same way?
(Uncertain Sound 62-0714).

He explained why there were tongues
on the day of Pentecost.

Quote W.M.B.: 128-2 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).

Tongues came on the day of
Pentecost because it was also the signing off of the Jews and opening up
another era of mercy for the Gentiles. That tongue came as a sign. When those
people started speaking in tongues, it was a sign that the Lord was going to
cut off the Jews and he was going to graft the Gentile into the olive tree. It
is a sign. It is not the initial evidence of the Holy Ghost; it is a sign. It
is the least of the gifts.

Another place that tongues were
used was at the building of the Tower
of Babel. In 1906, they
started to build “a tower
of Babel,” a tower
of confusion. Notice that when those tongues came at Babel, it was time for division, a time that
the people were going to be scattered into different organizations, different
family groups.

That is exactly what happened in
1906. So-called Pentecost came there and they took the tongues and ran and they
left the mighty rushing wind behind and they left the cloven tongues of fire
behind. In other words, they took the tongue but they left the shoes behind! So
they took that as the evidence of the Holy Spirit. There is not one Scripture
in the entire Bible that tells you that tongues are the evidence of the Holy
Spirit. Not one Scripture. Don’t be afraid to say that.

I believe that these messages will lay a foundation for many ministers in our own
assemblies and around the world to fight that heresy of 1906. So we want to lay
these things to our hearts. We want to remember these things, how they are
placed. It is going to be very important for the field one of these days, and
right now, it is going to prove to be very important.

“Tongues” is not the
evidence of the Holy Ghost. There is not one Scripture anywhere that said that
“when you speak in tongues it is the evidence of the Holy Spirit.”
Where they draw this idea from is that there were some tongues on the day of
Pentecost.  The Bible said:

Acts 2:4 <…and began to speak with other tongues, as the
Spirit gave them utterance.>

But that was not the great miracle.
Just now we will get into that.
They were all filled with the Holy Ghost and spake with tongues as the
Spirit gave them utterance. Then they went over to another Scripture where they
received the Holy Spirit and they spoke in tongues again but the Bible said,
“and they also prophesied.” There are two or three places in the
Bible where it is recorded that they received the Holy Ghost and they spoke
with tongues.

Acts 2:4 <And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to
speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.>

Acts 10:44-46
<While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which
heard the word.

And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as
came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of
the Holy Ghost.

For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered
Peter.>

Acts 19:6 <And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy
Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.>

Now the same Scripture could have
said, “And they received the Holy Ghost and they jumped over the
house!” But that is not the evidence of the Holy Spirit!  Now a man could receive the Holy Spirit
and run faster than Ahab’s horses, but everybody doesn’t have to
run as fast as Ahab’s horses in order to prove that he has the Holy
Spirit. One could open the Red Sea and one
could remove a mountain and the next fellow over here could do fantastic
miracles.

So it was recorded in a few places
that when the Holy Ghost came upon them, they spoke with tongues and they
prophesied. So now they tied that down as the evidence of the Holy Spirit. That
is not the evidence of the Holy Spirit. Why didn’t they pick out prophecy as the evidence of the Holy Ghost? Because their
prophecies are lies. They could have said, “Prophecy is the evidence of
the Holy Spirit because they spake in tongues and prophesied, over in the
nineteenth chapter of the Book of Acts.”

Acts 19:6 <And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy
Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.>

Now, to defeat them and to defeat
all their tongues evidence: how many believe that Jesus Christ received the greatest portion of the Holy Ghost and He received
the Fullness of the Godhead bodily in Him; and how many believe that He
received it at the banks of Jordan?
Well, I am here to announce to the whole of the Pentecostalism world that Jesus never spoke in tongues at the banks of Jordan.

Is so-called Pentecost telling you
and me that Jesus did not get the Holy Ghost? I am sure they can’t say
that! They can’t say that because Jesus received the greatest measure and
He did not speak in tongues at the banks of the Jordan.

Now, so-called Pentecost thinks
that if a man has the Holy Ghost, he ought to run down the aisles and have a
mike in his hand and bawl, “Hallelujah!” all the time and run
around the church and come back—then he is under the Power of God. Look
at how a man who had the greatest measure of the Spirit acted. After Jesus came
from the river Jordan,
the Bible said,

Luke 4:17-20 <And there was delivered unto him the book of the
prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it
was written,

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to
preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to
preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to
set at liberty them that are bruised,

To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and
he gave it again to the minister, and sat down…>

Now isn’t that wonderful? If it
was a Pentecostal, he would have jumped over all the pews. They literally cuff
you, you know? We had a Pentecostal spirit here operating one time (a visitor).
He walked down from the pulpit, slapped one brother on his leg, trying to make
him behave in a fanatical way “because if you don’t, you
don’t have the Spirit.” Do you see that he amounted to nothing?
Heard the true Word of God but could not accept an outpouring of the Holy
Spirit. Now that is the spirit that dominates Pentecostalism.

Quote W.M.B.: 95 How can the
initial evidence be speaking in tongues and then talk contrary to a promise of
God in this hour? How can it be? (Anointed Ones At End Time 65-0725m).

The great miracle of
Pentecost –  Hearing, not
tongues

Now you see, we have to defeat this foundation that the 1906 baptism is
built upon. The great miracle was not the tongues. The great miracle was the hearing; not the tongue but the ear. And that
goes along exactly with what the Bible said, “He that hath an ear to
hear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the Churches.”

Acts 2:5-7 <And there were
dwelling at Jerusalem
Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.

Now when this was noised abroad,
the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.

And they were all amazed and
marveled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak
Galileans?>

Brethren, these men from the Upper
Room came down and were speaking in the Galilean language. And the men that were
hearing were from all different nations, and all different tongues and all
different languages. They were amazed, the Bible said, “because they knew
that these men were from Galilee and they were
speaking Galilean but every man was hearing in his own tongue.” So the miracle was not the
tongue.  The miracle was the ear hearing in their own language; and we heard nothing of that in
1906.  If that was the true Article,
then they would have something like that.

The Bible said, “There were men from every nation under
heaven.” God had those men there for a purpose. Look how the Lord plans
His business! At another occasion, all those nations would not be there but the
Lord chose the Day of Pentecost, which was the Jewish feast of the ingathering
of the first fruits, which caused all those people to gather because of the
Jewish feast. In that same Jewish feast, the Lord
knowing that all those people were going to be there, He outpoured His
Spirit.

When those people started making noise in the Upper Room, they wanted to
know, “What is going on here? This place was so quiet.  What it is going on here?” And the
little sisters ran down from that Upper Room with their hair flowing in the
back and were just speaking in tongues and prophesying. Another one passed down
this way; another one passed there and started to prophesy and speak in
tongues. So they were amazed. Amazed!

The men were all
Galileans. They were identified as Galileans. And it amazed these men. They
said, “But wait a minute. I know that fellow, he is a Galilean. I know
that fellow, he is a Galilean. That’s a Galilean too. That’s a
Galilean. And what they are speaking is the language of the Galileans. But wait
a minute, why are you hearing Arabic? Why are you hearing German? Why are you hearing English? You heard what he said, Mister, from Ethiopia?”
He replied, “Yes, I heard it in the African language and they are
magnifying and praising God and telling us what happened here.” So they
were amazed.

One stupid fellow said,
“These men are drunk. These men are drunk!” And you know Peter had
a defense at that time. He said, “Listen to me, don’t think that
these fellows are drunk, seeing it is but about nine o’clock in the morning here now.” People
never used to drink rum until nine
o’clock! Yes.  But
today they drink the whole night. And that is their breakfast in the morning
before the cock crows. So we cannot use that defense. No, sir! Peter had a
defense. He said, “Listen, seeing it is about the third hour of the day,
these men are not drunk.” That’s the proof of it.  But the world has become so sinful, so
much under stress until they start drinking before the cock crows.

So the miracle of
Pentecost was not the tongues. The miracle of Pentecost was
hearing in their own language wherein they were born. Now that same miracle
will return. I am telling you, friends, who are waiting for this outpouring,
you don’t have to go and study languages upon languages to preach the
Gospel. No, sir. The Lord is going to gift this end time Bride so that the brothers
will speak in English and people will understand in every language. The Lord is
going to raise up ministers that speak their language and I will hear them in my language and my tongue. Isn’t that a
wonderful thing that is coming? I just believe the thing. Now that saves us a
lot of studies. My, I tell you. To go and learn languages in
order to preach the Gospel!
That’s enough to break my tongue!

The miracle of
Pentecost was hearing and not the tongue. And 1906 Pentecostals missed the mark
by a million miles. No sound from heaven, no rushing mighty wind,
no Word of God, no Rock revelation, no foundation of the apostles and prophets.
All that they had was a tongue and they ran out with the tongue.

So, what about this
tongue now? The least of the gifts is the tongues and it can be spoken by men
and angels and yet, the people may not have the Holy Ghost. This is clearly
stated in I Corinthians the thirteenth chapter.  Paul said,

I Corinthians 13:1 <Though I speak with the tongues of
men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a
tinkling cymbal.>

So right there, the
Scripture condemns tongues as the
evidence of anything! So Brother Paul said that he, himself could speak with
tongues of both men and angels. When these Pentecostals got trapped with the
tongues evidence they said, “The tongues evidence is the unknown tongues,
not the known tongues. It’s the unknown tongue.”  That is even a lie because Brother Paul
condemned both.  He said,

I Corinthians 13:1 <Though I speak with the tongues of
men…> That’s known languages. <…
and of angels…> Unknown
tongues. <…and have not
charity...> Charity is what they had on the day of Pentecost. So that
Scripture is proving that you can speak with tongues of any kind and still not
have the original baptism of the Holy Ghost like the day of Pentecost.

Quote W.M.B.: 35 Now,
many of my most precious people, I've told you I'm Pentecost. Now, most of my
people believe that when they receive the Holy Ghost they just get up and speak
in an unknown tongue. That's exactly contrary to the Scripture--then the people
don't know what they're saying. But on the day of Pentecost, every one knew
what they were saying; that was a going forth to every nation…

And then, we find out that in the 13th chapter, he said,
"Though I speak with tongues of men (That's dialects of the earth.) or of
Angels--though I speak with tongues of men or of Angels and have not charity,
I'm nothing." So you could speak with both genuine tongues of men and
Angels, and still you haven't got the Holy Ghost. (Identified With
Christ 59-1220e).

That is why the prophet
of God has it on the top of the pyramid (Stature
of a Perfect Man) over here.
Love—Charity. I could speak in tongues and you could speak in
tongues and yet not have the true Baptism of the Holy Spirit. The prophet of
God contended with them throughout his ministry. So it is possible that you and
I could speak in all kinds of tongues and even “emotional” tongues
and “made up” tongues and prove that we have the baptism of the
Holy Ghost.

I tell you, the tongues
confusion is a terrible thing. Those who could not speak in tongues started
pretending. They went out and learned a little piece of
foreign language so the people would not think that they are unspiritual. They came
there and started uttering that to make people think that they are spiritual.
Then most of these tongues that the ministers speak follow one pattern.
It’s one or two verses, or two lines and then the people catch that and
everybody speaks the tongues of the pastor while living in adultery,
fornication, wearing high heel shoes, dressing like Sodom and Gomorrah, living
like Sodom and Gomorrah. But as long as they speak in tongues, man, I tell you,
“they are going in the rapture!” Yes, they are going in the
rapture, as far as their doctrine is concerned. They believe that. They believe that with all
their hearts that they are going in the rapture. As long as they speak in
tongues, they have what they had on the
day of Pentecost!  So you see how
that spirit is following up?  One
hundred years of Pentecostalism.

Tongues is the least of
gifts and that should be settled in every
person’s mind who follows this message. And all under the sound of my
voice, wherever this tape goes, wherever this book goes, it ought to be a
settled issue that a man could speak with tongues of men and angels and still
lack the true baptism of the Holy Ghost, lack Charity, lack the Capstone,
because Charity is the Capstone. That is a settled issue here and the prophet
of God could be quoted many places.

Quote W.M.B.: E-28 Now,
see, tongues is not the Holy Ghost. See? …I said, "Then he could
speak with tongues, as you said, both of men and of Angels, and still not have
the Holy Ghost." I said, "'Cause Paul says, 'Though I speak (though I
can speak) with tongues of man and of angels and have not charity, I'm nothing.
Though I can understand all knowledge and can interpret the Scriptures exactly
right, without this baptism, I'm nothing. (Debate On Tongues 60-0807).

Quote: 45-5 Next
thing then add charity, which is love. That's the capping stone. One of these
days in the church. (Stature Of A Perfect Man 62-1014m).

Quote: 39-6
{247} And remember, you can speak in genuine Holy Ghost tongues and still not
have the Holy Ghost. The Bible said so. "Though I speak with tongue of men
and Angels and have not charity, it profit me nothing. I'm become as a sounding
brass, and tinkling cymbal": I Corinthians 13. (God In Simplicity
63-0317m).

We are still defeating
the foundation of 1906. When the apostles had that outpouring on the day of
Pentecost, they had perfect unity. It started off with
one heart, and one accord. John did not lock out James; Peter did not
lock out John as Parham was by Seymour.
No, they had unity. Peter was not charged with homosexuality. No, brethren.
Neither was any one of them, James or John, a racist at that time. They were
speaking to people of all nations, and all tongues and all languages. Paul went
to preach to the whole Roman community: all kind of people. Look at Philip
going down there to speak to that fellow from Ethiopia. Look at the harmony that
existed because of the Holy Spirit. Isn’t that wonderful? None of these
men had sin in their lives.

But there was a man
full of hatred and malice and that was Judas; he had not gone up to Pentecost. If Judas had gone up to Pentecost,
he would not have those things in him but those things in him kept him away
from the original Article of Pentecost. Judas was full of hatred; he was full
of malice; he was full of murder. He was a make-believer. Pentecostalism abounds with such
qualities. They never made it up to Pentecost.

Now, another thing that
defeated 1906 foundation was divisions. Divisions. The amount of divisions proves that they never did make
it up to Pentecost because it started off with divisions right at the very
revival at 312 Azusa Street.
Men came down there to get the anointing and go back and make an organization.
They came from all parts of the world to just get that outpouring, run back,
and open up their own organization. Division was a great mark of the 1906
revival.

And then our brethren
from this message depend upon that article to carry them in the rapture!
How dumb that is! I believe it was an anointing of the Lord. I believe it was
an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. I believe it was the baptism of the Holy
Spirit and to term it a little better, “a baptism of the Holy Spirit.” 1906, I believe, was a genuine anointing.
The prophet of God recognized it. The prophet of God celebrated it. The prophet
of God called it “the baptism of the Holy Ghost.”

But our question is:
was it the true Article of Pentecost? I say, “No!” Can it qualify you for the rapture? No! It is impossible! The
1906 baptism cannot carry you away in the rapture. Then we need another
outpouring of the Holy Spirit. We come right back to our main message,
“We will have the Token or perish.”  The divisions that they had in 1906
proved that they never did make it up to Pentecost but that they fell short of
the Pentecostal Power. Pentecost was not divided. The very Scriptures say they
had one heart and one accord.

Take a little breath
and hear this now. And if you who read this book cannot comprehend when I send
this out, or those of you who may be listening in, hear this, friends. The very
fact of all the divisions amongst the ministers in 1906 shows that the five-fold ministry was not set in order.
Everybody should understand that. Why was Parham fighting Seymour? Why were all those other ministers
seeking their own, to come and get the outpouring and run back to their own
community and overseas, go up to Canada, go up to Norway and go down into
Africa with that anointing, not knowing who they were?

Quote W.M.B.: E-17
…in my world travels, I've found two different classes of people: One of
them is the fundamentals, the group that I come out of: Baptists. Positionally,
they know where they are, but they haven't got much faith with it. And then the
other is Pentecostals. They got a lot of faith, but don't know who they are. (Divine Love And
Sovereign Grace 56-0814).

Because the five-fold
ministry of Ephesians 4:11-15 was not set in order. Pentecostals have faith but
do not know who they are.  That is
the reason for the division.

I hope you’re
thinking of another thing. This proves that it was not what the one hundred and
twenty received. They were set in order and the office gifts were set in order on the day of Pentecost.
Although the apostles were guessing who was the greatest, who was going to be
the greatest in the Kingdom before the Article of Pentecost, they had no
questions after that. After that, we could hear the epistles saying,
“Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ;” and we hear Paul say,
“Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ;” and we hear Jude saying,
“Jude, the servant of God.”
Everybody was set in order. And the order was so great after that, they
chose out seven deacons, “full of the Holy Ghost,” to serve tables.
So many people had the Article of Pentecost that they chose out
seven men to share out food and clothing because of the murmuring of the
Grecian women.

I tell people that
after the Token, we will still have people murmuring. Yes. And to settle the
issue, they chose seven deacons to share out food and clothing. One deacon was
so full of the Holy Ghost and apt to teach, named Stephen. He went down there
and confounded all the Sadducees, and all the scribes and all the great men.
The Bible said, “They could not withstand him because of the wisdom by
which he spoke.”  Then he died
as a martyr for the Lord. All these great men.  Oh my, Philip that met the Ethiopian was
one of the seven. He was one of them. And an angel took him
up and carried him away
from the presence of the Ethiopian.

You talk about Holy Ghost activities! We are going to see that again.
I

believe that. It is going to be here—God
is the same God. If there’s going to be a restoration, “the glory
of the latter house shall be greater than the former house.”

Haggai 2:9: <The glory of this latter house shall be
greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts…>

Reason for
divisions amongst message believers

That’s when they put up the Old Testament
temple for the coming of our Lord Jesus, they proclaimed those words. And we
will see that.

The reason for all the
divisions of 1906 is because the five-fold ministry was not set in order. The
outpouring of the Holy Spirit did set the five-fold ministry in order on the
day of Pentecost. That is what the outpouring is coming for today. It is coming
to adopt the sons of God, manifest the sons of God, and set the church in
order. That is what it is coming for—to set the House of God in order one
more time.

Now, friends, let me
put this in right here. If that caused the division in 1906, and the bickering,
and the biting, and the fussing, and men going to open up their own churches
and their own assemblies around the world, from the east, to the west, to the
Congo, to Ethiopia, coming down to Canada, going through England; and none of
them were agreeing on doctrines because the five-fold ministry was not set in
order yet, I am saying right here, today, to the followers of Malachi 4, the reason that there are divisions amongst the
people that follow the message is that the five-fold ministry is not yet set in order. And if the five-fold ministry is not yet set in order, you did not go back to Pentecost. You do not have the outpouring of the Holy
Spirit. All that you did was to accept a prophet. All that you did was to
accept a message, but you are based upon the same article
of 1906.  And you have the same
divisions, just like the Pentecostals. You are more badly divided than
so-called Pentecost of 1906. Now, let somebody challenge that.  t is a total impossibility to challenge
what I say there.

If the five-fold
ministry was not set in order in 1906 and it caused such divisions amongst the
Pentecostals (And that proves that they did not go back to Pentecost) then,
friends, it is the same thing amongst the followers of Malachi 4. They have
more divisions than so-called Pentecost. Therefore, that proves that the
five-fold ministry is not yet set in order; and if the five-fold ministry is
not set in order, we need another outpouring of the Holy Spirit. If some
unbeliever would deny that the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit has not yet come I
want them to tell me when did the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit ever came after
1906. Come and tell me when the original outpouring ever came. Did it come with
Brother Branham or is it yet to come? He said that it is yet to come. So whom do they want us to believe? We
are going to believe the prophet. If it did not come, then the followers of
Malachi 4 are based upon the 1906 outpouring. They cannot go in the rapture
with that. It is a total impossibility. They cannot go in the rapture.

The 1906 revival was
flooded with evil spirits. All kinds of evil spirits came in there, down to the
magicians and the soothsayers, witchdoctors, religionists, philosophers and
unbelievers, who were proud and ambitious men. We had a lot of
“joiners.” Now if that was Pentecost, we would have another
“Ananias and Sapphira showdown.” The prophet of God said:

CHURCH FILLED WITH HOLY GHOST –
ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA

Quote W.M.B.: 240 If a real
church was ordained of God, really filled with the Holy Spirit, if sin would
appear in the church, it'd be another like Ananias and Sapphira. (Perseverance
62-0218).

Acts 5:13-14
<And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified
them.

And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both
of men and women.>

So now here we are.
Ananias and Sapphira were liars and they died under the Power of God. After
that, fear struck the hearts of men and women that nobody joined. But here, the
1906 revival brought people from all parts of the world, sodomites included,
adulterers, fornicators, magicians and everything.  Look at the difference with 1906, all those magicians came in
there. Look at the difference when a magician came to the revival that took
place on the day of Pentecost. He was Simon the Sorcerer. He tried to make his
way into the Church by a baptism in water. Philip got him baptized but there
was a man with the keys to the Kingdom who came down from Jerusalem to give out the baptism of the Holy
Spirit and he exposed Simon the Sorcerer.

Now, if 1906 was
original Pentecost, those magicians and all those evil spirits could not flood the revival. No. And they said that that
was the greatest opposition to Brother William Seymour. Those people that came
in there were the greatest opposition. But it was not any great opposition to
Peter, the man with the keys to the Kingdom. (I don’t know if Simon the
Sorcerer was even saved because Brother Peter said, “Peradventure that
the Lord grant you repentance.”)

So the 1906 Baptism and
the outpouring of the Holy Spirit was a genuine anointing, but I proclaim here
that it was not the return of Pentecost. Pentecost was not organized. No!

CANNOT ORGANISE PENTECOST

Quote W.M.B.: 68-3 You
cannot organize Pentecost, because it is an experience, and it's God, and God
cannot be organized. (Spoken
Word Original Seed 62-0318E).

Pentecost is an experience and not an organization. And they built an organization with the 1906
revival.

Now the 1906 “baptism,” I am
calling it; (Brother Branham called it the “baptism of the Holy
Ghost;” he called it “outpouring of the Holy Spirit.”) It was
a revival. I am proclaiming that it was a genuine outpouring of the Spirit, in
a measure.

Ezekiel 47:1-5 <Afterward he brought me again unto the
door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of
the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and
the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south
side of the altar.

Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward,
and led me

about the
way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold,
there ran out waters on the right side.

And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward,
he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters
were to the ankles.

Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the
waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought
me through; the waters were to the loins.

Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I
could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that
could not be passed over.>

The last measure was a
river that could not be passed over. That’s the measure that you and I
are looking for. That’s the river that could not be passed over.

John 7:38
<He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall
flow rivers of living water.>

That’s the true Article of Pentecost.
But 1906 was a measure of the Spirit of God, genuine measure. God allowed it by
His permissive Will but it was not a
return of Pentecost.

When the Azusa Street
revival died, God sent other great men and kept on pouring out His Spirit. We
will get into a little history here, which you will enjoy. You will see the
roots of some of these organizations.
The Azusa street
revival died in about three years. The prophet of God said,

Quote W.M.B.: 111 According to
history, no revival ever lasted over three years. (God Who Is Rich In
Mercy 65-0119).

Revivals and outpourings
after 1906

The Azusa Street revival was not the only revival of the twentieth century. People don’t realize that.
There were many revivals and there were many outpourings of the 1906 article in
various places. There were many baptisms that took place in that era right up
to the time of the prophet, but there is a final baptism.  A final outpouring for the
rapture—that’s the one that we are after!

God sent other great
men and He outpoured His Spirit in various places. This can be found in Brother
Branham’s message where he stood on the pulpit and said:

OUTPOURINGS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: 1906 AND
BEYOND

Quote W.M.B.: E-13 Now, as I
understand and have been told that this is the time of fifty
years ago today, I believe it is, if I do not
misunderstand, that the Holy Spirit was poured out afresh in the state of Louisiana. (Return and Jubilee 62-1122).

Quote: E-47
Forty years ago when Mrs.
McPherson, and lots of the great saints that lived in that day, when the Holy
Spirit was poured out upon the church… (What is the Works of God 59-0404).

Quote: E-33 Fifty
years ago a one-eyed colored man, humble in
his heart with no education, along with a group of faithful saints waited
yonder on Azusa Street until the power of God fell from heaven as a witness
that God in the last days had poured out His Holy Spirit upon the western
world. It's caused a great revival.
(Witnesses 56-1004).

Quote: 45 Fifty
years ago the Holy Ghost fell in England.
Just after that come George Jefferies, and F. F. Bosworth, and Charles Price,
Smith Wigglesworth, those great warriors of the faith, fifty years ago, and
offered England
the Holy Ghost revival.  (Is Your Life Worthy of the Gospel? 63-0630E).

Quote:
E-32 It was John Wesley, a few
hundred years later, after Calvin
had come into England and
had sewed the England
church up to a place that they had said, "The revival days are gone."
It was John Wesley who bore witness that revival days are still here, and God
was with him. (Witnesses 56-1004).

He recognized, and he
could call the very country. That is when God raised up other men, poured out
His Spirit, in that certain place, and then used certain men, and then that
revival will boil down after three years. Every revival that came finished in
about three years.

God was working with
other men. He poured out His Spirit in the USA,
different places, and in Canada
and overseas. God was working with that measure of Spirit for that age. There
was a certain period of time, from 1906
unto a certain time in our age that God was going to use that Outpouring from
1906 to save His people. That’s it.

REVIVALISTS ARISING FROM THE 1906
OUTPOURING

Now, here is a list of revivalists; here are some names that probably
you’re not familiar with.
Below are some of the References, sources and links where
you could find some of the histories of some of these people.

http://www.christian-witness.org/archives/cetf2004/truth28.html,
http://www.healingandrevival.com

http://www.ag.org/enrichmentjournal/199903/068_tongues.cfm

http://www.seekgod, http://www.dailysentinel.com, http://www.stbi.edu

Du Plessis,
David J., The Spirit Bade Me Go,
(Self-published, n.d.)

Harper,
Michael, As at the Beginning: The
Twentieth Century Pentecostal Revival, (Hodder & Stoughton, 1965)

Spittler, R.P.,
"David Johannes du Plessis" in The
New International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements,
revised edition, ed. Stanley
M. Burgess & Eduard van der Maas, (Zondervan, 2003)

Aimee Semple
McPherson, (2006), an award-winning feature film on her life, directed by Richard Rossi.
Aimee Semple
McPherson biography

Song about
the McPherson kidnapping scandal, dating from when it was a current
news story. Pete Seeger recorded this on the 1961 album Story Songs.

Morris, James. The Preachers. ISBN
0900997419

Oral Roberts: An American Life, by David Edwin Harrell, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press ISBN
0253158443

"A Diary of Signs
and Wonders", Maria Woodworth-Etter, Harrison
House, 1916.

KathrynKuhlman.com -Audio, video, and
books.

Charles H. Mason. In 1908, when the
revival fires were going out, God raised up another man called, Charles H.
Mason. He opened up a church called “Church of God
in Christ” and the 1906 move was revived. Signs and wonders started
taking place, people were saved. This man only died in 1961. He was a great
man. Do you know what his following was during his revival? (Of course it came
down to an organization after that.) He had the largest black membership in the
nation, a church with four hundred thousand at the time of his departure. That
is how powerful that anointing was still moving and that baptism was still
moving, that outpouring was still moving. I don’t know if he met Brother
Branham.

R. E. McAlister. Then we had another
man called R.E. McAlister, and he arose in 1913. Here you will find some roots. This
man started a doctrine of the “Oneness” and “Jesus only.” He had a little more truth than
the other people and he said that God is not a trinity. That’s the first
time this is coming to light, but then he had the doctrine crisscrossed. He
wanted to believe in “oneness” so much that he made the flesh of
Jesus and the Spirit one. So they start calling them “Jesus Only,”
one spirit.

Now, in Brother
Branham’s messages, you hear him referring to the “Oneness”
or the “Jesus Only”. Brother Branham was sometimes associated with
them in his evangelical campaigns. Many started saying that Brother Branham was
a “Oneness”
and a “Jesus Only.” He denied that because this man’s doctrine was not
altogether right. McAlister made the oneness doctrine in such a way that he
made Jesus, the flesh, “God,” one single Person, forgetting the
Spirit. He just wanted to make Jesus His own Father. Jesus cannot be his own
Father.

Frank Ewart
and G.T. Haywood. Then arose another man, Frank Ewart, along with G.T. Haywood. And they formed the
UPC, which is the United
Pentecostal Church
and the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World. So this is the root of the United Pentecostal
Church. A man who joined
with them was Howard Goss who had been a
co-founder of the Assemblies of God. They were responsible for getting together
and forming the United Pentecostal Assembly.

Now the years are
passing, it keeps going up. We are coming up the one hundred years of
Pentecostalism. We have a man called Haywood. And he said, “You know
what? I have a church called Pentecostal Assemblies of the World. It’ll
pass every one of you. We are Pentecostal of the World.” So that went on.

William Durham. Then another man arose
whose name was William Durham.
And a new outpouring struck during that time of William Durham. He preached the
“finished work.” He went a little higher in doctrine and started
preaching about predestination and eternal security and started talking about
the finished work of Calvary. I tell you he
got some opposition; terrible opposition.

I have a listing here
of some of these men. Probably you’ve heard their names. We have all the
information of these men individually, about their ministries, right down. (You
see if I go to read all the information about all these men here, the cock will
start crowing, if you have cocks in this area.)

Smith Wigglesworth. We had a great man that
arose called Smith Wigglesworth. He only died in
1947.

Parham. They have Parham as “Father of Modern Pentecostalism.” And
Parham, for your information, died in 1929.

William J. Seymour died in 1922.

Bishop R. A. R. Johnson. And then we had
another man, Bishop R. A. R. Johnson; he was the founder of the House of God, Holy Church
of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth (that’s another
church he founded) and the House of Prayer for all People, a commandment
keeping Pentecostal organization.
That’s the Sabbath they’re talking about.  So that’s a Sabbath-keeping Pentecostal
Church.

William
Sowders. Then we had another man called William
Sowders, who died in 1952. Restorer of New Testament Order of Worship,
that’s his organization.

Maria Woodworth-Etter. Then we had another
person called Maria Woodworth-Etter. She died in 1924.
(This is tracing back Pentecostalism, and we have all the information of these
people, how they started their ministry and how they went. And I tell you, it
is terrible to read of some things.)

George
Jeffreys. Then we had George
Jeffreys.  He died only in
1972.  He was founder of the Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance,
and the Bible-Pattern Church Fellowship in Britain.

Aimee Semple McPherson. Then we had a woman
called Aimee Semple McPherson who died in 1944. She
was an American female evangelist and organizer of the International Church
of the Foursquare Gospel.

David du
Plessis. Then there was David du
Plessis that you heard Brother Branham and Brother Bob speak about. He died
only in 1987. He was a South Africa Pentecostal church leader, one of the
founders of the Charismatic movement.

Kathryn
Kuhlman. Then we had a woman, Kathryn
Kuhlman. She died only in 1976. She was an American female evangelist who brought
Pentecostalism into the main-stream denominations.

William M. Branham. We have a very popular
fellow here: William M. Branham. Born in 1909, just
about the time the Azusa Street
revival cooled off. He died in 1965. “Healing Evangelists of the mid 20th
century.”

If you read the records
in history that Pentecostals themselves wrote about the man called William
Branham. This source of information gives one of the truest reports of Brother
Branham’s ministry. They elevated the ministry of William Branham more
than any other religionist or Pentecostal ever did. But they spoke the truth
and may God bless the writer for speaking the truth concerning William Branham.
He even quoted the Full Gospel Businessmen and all that they said about Brother
Branham, complimentary of his ministry. It’s fantastic to hear what those
men said about Brother Branham’s Ministry. This opens up the period of
Brother Branham.

Jack Coe. We had Jack Coe, whose short ministry
as a healing tent evangelist was in the 1950’s.

A. A. Allen, Healing
Tent Evangelist of the 1950’s and
‘60’s.

Oral Roberts, Healing
Tent Evangelist who made the transition to televangelism. Now they are coming up here
to television; now the tent period kind of
weaned off and Oral Roberts went to television as a televangelist.

Rex Humbard. We have here, Rex Humbard, the first successful
TV evangelist of the mid 1950’s, ‘60’s, and the
‘70’s, and at one time had the largest television audience of any
televangelist in the USA.

R.W. Shambach, Leroy Jenkins and W.V Grant, Sr. Time would fail to tell of many others,
including, R.W.
Shambach, Leroy Jenkins, and W.V Grant, Sr.

Benny Hinn. One of the most popular televangelists
in our modern time, at the celebration of 100 years of Pentecostalism, is the
man called Benny Hinn. They did not record
him here, for some reason. And they did not record T. L. Osborn; they did not record Tommy Hicks and other popular men that were
preaching in the time of the prophet.

We come right down the
list to show you how these revivals continued from 1906. These things will mean
very much to our brethren in the message and on the field. I am trying with my whole
heart to convince them that they cannot rely on that 1906 experience to go in the rapture. No, they cannot do that
but we definitely need another outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

That anointing of the
Lord continued from 1906 and, ever so often, the Lord just poured out a little
bit of His Spirit again and kept raising up certain men until the time of
William Branham in 1933. Isn’t that wonderful? So it was not too long,
1906, and it came right down to 1933. In 1933, it was a different scene entirely.
A Pillar of Fire appeared. The ministry of William Branham started and it went
on from 1933 until 1946, when there broke an international revival that went on
for fifteen years around the world with Brother Branham.

FIFTEEN YEARS – LONGEST REVIVAL
– RATURING FAITH

Quote W.M.B.: 35-3 Oh,
and I remember when He swept down there in that big Light, standing yonder at
the bottom of the river, 1933, in June, when He said, "As--as John the
Baptist was sent forth and forerun the first coming of Christ, I send you with
a Message to the world to forerun the second coming of Christ." And around
the world she's went, when revival fires had been built for fifteen
years on nearly every mountain...?... Divine
healing across the nations, and the power, and restoration... And now, I
believe she's ready to strike that final climax yonder to bring forth a faith that'll rapture the Church into glory (It's the truth.), and She's laying
in the Messages. We're really at the end time. We've talked about it and
everything, but the thing has moved upon us now. Hear them. Yes, sir. Here's
one. That's right.  (The Absolute
62-1230M).

REVIVAL DIED – FEASTING ON SCRAPS

Quote: 100 But remember, in the great
ministry it made a revival fire and went around the world. And now, in the last few years... That revival lasted longer than any revival we ever knowed in history. No historian
can say that a revival lasted hardly over three years at any time. But this has
gone fifteen years or more, straight
constant revival. But now, the revival's died out. Just barely... Then come up the Latter Rain, and a
little tail of it kind of sweeps through England now, and there just the
last kick of it is just about over. The church has settled down into Laodicea again and make
the age. It has to be that way. Exactly, it has to be that way. And now, we are
feasting tonight upon the--the scraps that
we're picking up from that revival. (Go Awake Jesus 63-1130E).

There was a certain
group of ministers, Pentecostal ministers, who came under Brother
Branham’s ministry. I want to let you know, from 1906, to the time that
the prophet died in 1965, there is no recorded history of another Outpouring of
the Holy Spirit like the day of Pentecost. Let me repeat that.  There is no recorded history from 1906 to 1965, and
even up to 2006, there is no recorded history of another return of Pentecost. It is yet to come. We are not
falsely led, friends. We have not followed cunningly devised fables. We have
followed a sure Word of
prophecy and it is going to be here.
“Though the vision linger, it is surely going to come to
pass.” How many believe these things?  [Congregation
says, “Amen!”]

I challenge the world to come and prove that
Pentecost did return in 1906. If it did not return in 1906, I further challenge
the world and all the message followers of Brother Branham to come and show me
where the Holy Ghost was ever outpoured from that time to now, 2006, in any
part of the world! If it was not outpoured (and there is no recorded history of
it) then there must of
necessity
be another outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The only church in the United States that is in line up for this
outpouring is this church, right here: Grace Covenant
Church. It is going to be
right here in New England. I believe with all
my heart.

REVIVAL BREAK OUT IN NEW
ENGLAND

Quote W.M.B.: E-3 … praying that sometime along this way, that something will
happen to the people that'll set their hearts afire for God, that an old
fashioned revival will break out in New England.
It's tried on the west coast; it's tried in the middle east, tried in the
south, but seemingly that this is our last place to try: New
England. Here's where our forefathers landed for this freedom of
religion on Plymouth Rock. It is from these sacred soils here that praying men
and women went forth to establish this great spiritual economy that we are
privileged to serve today…If we'll be sincere and believe in the God that
they believed in and serve Him with the same reverence that they served Him
with, we'll see a revival again. And I believe it will start in New England. God's willing to do it if we're willing to
carry it. (Tested Faith Produces Goods 58-0518).

PASTOR KENNETH
MCGAHEE’S COMMENTS

Amen and amen! How many enjoyed that? I just enjoyed listening to the
Word coming right up the line and proving that the outpouring of the Holy Ghost
never came throughout all those ages, so it must still be somewhere to come.
Then there must be a people in waiting for that outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
I truly enjoyed what I heard and I believe it, just like that, one hundred percent! I stand behind what was said one
hundred percent. That was right. It was precious words of Life. I never heard
the history of Pentecostalism. To me, it’s fascinating. I appreciate all
that was said.  Amen.

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