As I was reading the series on the Book of Romans by Dr. Jones, a comment he made caught my attention:
“We are without excuse, for God poured out His Spirit upon us from 1900-1910. The early Pentecostal movement had opportunity to change the hearts of the people and cause them to re-establish the rule of Jesus Christ in America. Yet in 1910 they denominationalized the move of the Spirit and rejected the direct rule of Jesus Christ.”
This caused me to reflect on the story of George Parham’s prayer group who ushered in the above Pentecostal movement:
As they searched the scriptures, they came up with one great problem – what about the second chapter of Acts? In December 1900, Parham sent his students at work to diligently search the scriptures for the Biblical evidence of the baptism in the Holy Spirit. 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." See: http://www.cbn.com/spirituallife/ChurchAndMinistry/ChurchHistory/Revival/The_100th_Anniversary_Topeka.aspx
Then I recalled the revelation Our Heavenly Father imparted for New Year’s Day as being a “Passover” for 1/1/10. Dr. Jones wrote about its relevance which I will not expound on it here. Parham’s focus began in October around the Feast days with it culminating on New Year’s Day. We are roughly 111 years from the year that the Pentecost revival had its roots. Could it be that after 111 years on 1/11/11 at 1:11:11PM that the Tabernacles manifestation begins in earnest? You will notice that Agnes OZman had a halo (or glory) surround only her head and face. Hmmm!