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Definition of Oneness Pentecostal

(( Perhaps you can explain the definition of the term 'Oneness Pentecostal' for me?))

On being "Oneness Pentecostal"...(Oh but I do hate titles, don't you?)

Oneness refers to our rejection of the doctrine of separate persons in the Godhead. That Jesus is the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. That Christ is all (col. 3:11) and that we "are complete in Him" (Col. 2:10).

Pentecostal refers to our belief in receiving the Holy Ghost exactly as on the day of Pentecost- as evidenced by speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives the utterance. (This is to distinguish from others who teach themselves to gibber and call that tongues. It is not, it is gibberish if it is at all coerced by man- self or tutor.) The tongues are merely the outward manifestation of a GLORIOUS new birth that is being spiritually manifested within the soul.

That reminds me. Are you familiar with the expression "Latter Rain" from the scriptures? The latter rain, also known as "Pentecostalism" began on New Years day, 1901 just as prophesied!

Joel 2:23 "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."

(This prophecy, and it's fulfillment in Pentecostalism, is also in harmony with prophecy about the church of Philadelphia in Rev. 3, and in the rest of Joel's prophecy of restoring the church to full blossom.)

It happened in Topeka Kansas at a Bible School led by a man named Charles Parham. He had been earnestly seeking God, with his followers, for a closer walk with God. He was preparing for a trip and left the class with a question for them to study- Is there any initial evidence of receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost in the Bible, and what is it?

When he returned, the class, who had all studied on their own, had come to the unanimous conclusion- the baptism of the Holy Ghost was always received with the initial sign of speaking in tongues. They began praying for this phenomenon, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Shortly after midnight, January 1, 1901 one of the ladies told Mr. Parham that she had seen a vision that if he would lay hands on her, she would receive the Holy Ghost. He did, and she did. And the latter rain began- in the first month (and the first day, and the first year of the centennial!)

The movement spread from Kansas to Texas, where a black man named W.J. Seymour took the experience with him to Azusa Street, Pasadena, California. This was in 1906. From there the Pentecostal movement spread like wildfire across the world and across denominational lines. It was there in 1913 that baptism in Jesus' name once again became a major practice by God's people.

By the '60's this movement had, again as prophesied, begun to wax cold. And now we are in the days of the church of Laodicea! Where the church of Christ leaves Christ out in the cold, for they don't seek this baptism of the Holy Ghost any more :-( and many who proclaim that they do, are found being satisfied with a cheap imitation!)

2 Thes 2:1 "Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, EXCEPT THERE COME A FALLING AWAY FIRST..."

Truly we are in the last days!

God Bless!

by TomR.

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