Why did the Pentecostal Revival take an end?
Allan Svensson
Why did the Pentecostal Revival take an end?
The Pentecostal Revival began in Los Angeles about the
year 1907. When did it take an end? Why did it take an end?
The same phenomena have appeared with other revivals on
some places and times. When a revival appears, it is most
powerful with its beginning. After some time it becomes
stagnation and retrogression, then they are back again to the
old state of things. What is left behind after the revival?
On a place where it was once a wonderful revival, it is usually
a new church or a new denomination. Just because of this,
the revival took an end.
In their revival sermons, there was something which they
ought to remove. A false doctrine about the Assembly of
God was enough to cause stagnation and retrogression.
During the years 1910s and 1920s they destroyed the revival.
Then they established Pentecostal churches. Instead of
studying what the Bible teaches about the Assembly of God,
they built their entire activity on a false doctrine. A Pentecostal
church is no Assembly of God. Preaching a false doctrine
about the Assembly of God and have revival. It is not possible.
What is a Pentecostal church? It is an organized movement
with a manager (pastor) and a number of offices (elders),
a list of members and member cards to all members. This
they mean is the Assembly of God. Can you anywhere in the
Bible find such a description of the Assembly of God? Some
form of organization can be needed in a Christian activity,
but we shall not mean that the organization is the Assembly
of God.
What the Bible teaches about the Assembly of God, how can
they apply this on an organization and mean that this is the
Assembly of God? It is an essential difference between an
organized movement and a living organism. This false
assembly doctrine of the Pentecostal Movement, they still
have today. It is about the same doctrine as they have in the
Baptist Union and other free churches. They are respecting
each other as God's assemblies.
When people become saved, and baptized by immersing in
water according the Bible, then they also become registered
as members in a free church, just as much unbiblical as the
infant baptism in the church. The new saved be persuaded
to be members in an organization that they call the Assembly
of God, but they get no information in what they are members.
What is the denomination? What is the Pentecostal Movement?
What is the church? It is silent about this in the meetings,
and there is no teaching about the Assembly of God.
Allan Svensson
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