AZUSA - Sign of Rapture and/or Revival?
Some sad events occur that appear to have significance, even warning. On the day of the US election (Tuesday 8 November 2016 - lest we forget!!), there was a fatal polling booth shooting in California. This took place in AZUSA (Los Angeles) - a direct link to the AZUSA Street revival, dated around 9 April 1906 (see excerpt from Wikipedia below). Is this one more warning of the imminence of the Rapture and/or the last great revival?
The name AZUSA: A (Alpha/beginning); Z (Omega/end time Church?). The rest of the word is the USA!!
There was an historic earthquake in San Francisco around 18 April 1906.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azusa_Street_Revival
(From Wikipedia) The Azusa Street Revival was a historic Pentecostal revival meeting that took place in Los Angeles, California and is the origin of the Pentecostal movement. It was led by William J. Seymour, an African American preacher. It began with a meeting on April 9, 1906, and continued until roughly 1915.
The revival was characterized by ecstatic spiritual experiences accompanied by amazing physical healing miracles, dramatic worship services, speaking in tongues, and inter-racial mingling. The participants were criticised by the secular media and Christian theologians for behaviours considered to be outrageous and unorthodox, especially at the time. Today, the revival is considered by historians to be the primary catalyst for the spread of Pentecostalism in the 20th century.
More information of the birth of the Azusa revival is below (excerpts from a Five Doves letter in May 2012).
Another warning sign - the word Trump will be all around!!! Perhaps Trump's winning destiny was hidden in his name all along: TR(i)UMP(h)!!! TR(i)UMPhant!!! Where i stands for identity!!!
Denis Maranatha!!
Birth of Asuza Street Revival
We should remember the anniversary of the day when the church once again discovered the baptism in the Holy Spirit -- New Year's Day, 1901.
In October 1900 in Topeka, Kansas, a small band of believers led by Charles Parham started Bethel Bible School. The school "invited all ministers and Christians who were willing to forsake all, sell what they had, give it away, and enter the school for study and prayer, where all of us together might trust God for food, fuel, rent and clothing." The only textbook was the Bible. Their concerted purpose was to learn the Bible not just in their heads but to have each thing in the Scriptures wrought out in their hearts.
As they searched the scriptures, they came up with one great problem - what about the second chapter of Acts? They all came back with the same answer - when the baptism in the Holy Spirit came to the early disciples, the indisputable proof on each occasion was that they spoke with other tongues.
Armed with this head knowledge, they now sought to have it worked out in their own hearts. Parham called a watch night service on December 31, 1900. He assembled about 75 people including the 40 students. One of the students, Agnes N. Ozman asked that hands might be laid upon her to receive the Holy Spirit since she desired to go to foreign lands as a missionary. According to Parham, after midnight on January 1, 1901, he laid hands upon her and:
"I had scarcely repeated three dozen sentences when a glory fell upon her, a halo seemed to surround her head and face, and she began speaking in the Chinese language, and was unable to speak English for three days. When she tried to write in English to tell us of her experience she wrote the Chinese, copies of which we still have in newspapers printed at that time."
Within 10 years, that tiny prayer meeting in Topeka spread out far and wide to start the Azusa Street revival under William J. Seymour and the healing ministries of John G. Lake and F. F. Bosworth. That meeting ultimately gave birth as well to the Assemblies of God, the Church of God, the Church of God in Christ, and the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World.