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NEWEST BIBLE STUDY RELEASEDate: 3/20/26 - Record Date5/25/26 - RELEASE DATEPart 15 - THE MAGICIAN & THE MESSIAH https://youtu.be/BJyt5W_4XmMEarly Church Spirit Movement🔥The Montanist movement in 156 AD, led by Montanus, Priscilla, and Maxilla, emphasized ecstatic worship, prophecy, tongues, visions, radical holiness, and women in leadership as the spirit stream of Christianity while other groups focused on doctrinal truth.✝️Tertullian, the Catholic theologian who formulated the Trinity doctrine, joined the Montanists believing the Holy Spirit had left the Catholic Church and wrote against the Pope's opposition, claiming only Montanists possessed the Spirit.🔥The Montanists survived for 600 years until Emperor Justinian demanded conversion to Trinitarianism, at which point they locked their church, set it on fire, and perished rather than abandon the Spirit's moving.20th Century Pentecostal Revival🕊️In fall 1900, Charles Fox Parham founded a Bible school in Topeka, Kansas where students concluded speaking in tongues was biblical evidence of receiving the Holy Ghost, though the initial evidence doctrine wasn't formally invented until 1916 by the Assemblies of God.💧In 1913, Brother Mallister preached in California that apostles baptized converts once in the name of Jesus (not using titles Father, Son, Holy Ghost), restoring apostolic baptism for the first time in nearly 2,000 years.⚡In 1914, Brother Frank Eert performed the first baptism in Jesus' name in nearly 2,000 years, and Howard Goss, top Assemblies of God leader, embraced this truth before the movement later adopted modalism instead of the apostolic position.Church Government and Division🏛️The Assemblies of God, the largest Pentecostal denomination, split from the Church of God over government structure—Assemblies favoring congregational rule versus Church of God supporting centralized government.👑AJ Tomlinson established a theocratic government in the Church of God by appointing himself singular overseer accountable to Yahweh, expanding it to 8 million members in 189 countries despite opposition from democratic-preferring Assemblies of God.⚖️In 1922, Tomlinson was removed from the Church of God with the Supreme Court siding against him, but he founded the Church of God of Prophecy which grew to over 1 million members worldwide, maintaining theocratic governance until his death in 1943.Hebrew Roots and Prophetic Symbolism✡️In 1948, Grady Kent left the Church of God of Prophecy with 300 members to establish Jerusalem Acres Church of God, the first in America to use the Star of David and Menorah in its emblem, symbolizing return to the covenant.👼Revelation 4:4 and 5:11 describe a structured, theocratic government in heaven with 24 elders around the throne, serving as the model for Church government on earth to demonstrate heavenly government in communities.🌍The early 20th century revival in America, led by AJ Tomlinson and Herbert Armstrong, paralleled the return of Jewish people to Israel in 1948, with Tomlinson restoring the spirit and Armstrong restoring the truth, both establishing heavenly government on earth.
Part 15 - The Magician & The Messiah 3/20/26Early Church Spirit ...
