Celebrating Jesus in the Biblical Feasts: Discovering Their Significance to You as a Christian by Richard Booker

Author:Richard Booker [Booker, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian Books & Bibles, Theology, Christology, Literature & Fiction, Contemporary, Reference, Religion & Spirituality, Judaism, Religious Studies, Comparative Religion, Contemporary Fiction, Religious Studies & Reference, Religion, Christian Life, Spiritual Growth, General, Holidays
ISBN: 9780768497755
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Publisher: Destiny Image
Published: 2011-07-27T22:00:00+00:00

PROPHETIC SEASONAL ASPECT

As the Book of Acts reveals, the New Covenant people of God began in a blaze of glory. God worked mightily through the early believers. Jesus gave them the following commission and assurance: “And He said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover’” (Mark 16:15-18).

Mark further wrote, “So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen” (Mark 16:19-20).

When the Church became institutionalized in A.D. 312, many of those in charge were politicians rather than godly, spiritual men. The result was that Christianity was organized into a religious system whose leaders chose a human-directed structure rather than a Spiritled and empowered Church. The spiritual reality of the Feast of Pentecost was lost to the Church for centuries. Yet, throughout Church history, there have been periodic, localized revivals of Pentecost. God began to restore Pentecost on a worldwide basis in the early 1900s. There were two significant events.

The first event took place on New Year’s Day, 1901, at Bethel Bible College in Topeka, Kansas. Charles Parham was teaching on the baptism in the Holy Spirit and encouraging his students to search the Scriptures regarding the subject. It was during this time of study that a Miss Agnes Ozman received the gift of speaking in tongues. Parham and several students had a similar experience three days later.

This Pentecostal message, with its accompanying manifestations, soon spread to the surrounding states and made its way into Texas and finally out to California in 1906.

A man named William Seymour arrived in Los Angeles to preach at a Nazarene Church but was not received because of his Pentecostal message. He then began to hold services in a converted livery stable at 312 Azusa Street. It was at this location that a mighty Pentecostal revival started that lasted for three years. This revival launched the modern worldwide Pentecostal movement. As news of the revival spread, many Christians from around the world came to the meetings at Azusa Street and took the message of Pentecost back with them to their homeland.

Because man is reluctant to hand over the leadership of the Church to the Holy Spirit, this restoration of the Feast of Pentecost was rejected by the leaders of the mainline Christian denominations (just as with Luther and Wesley).

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, God again moved to restore the Feast of Pentecost to the Church in what became known as the “charismatic renewal.

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