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         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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