Perspectives in Pentecostal Eschatologies: World without End (Biblia.com)

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During the mid-twentieth century Pentecostal theology was co-opted by fundamentalism and its dispensational brand of millennial eschatology. Fundamentalist dispensationalism not only reinterpreted the original Pentecostal vision of the latter-rain outpouring of the Spirit in the last days but undercut its raison d’etre as a people empowered by the Spirit of Pentecost to participate in the kingdom...

kingdom, it also meant that the kingdom was near. Thus, the time was short to do the work of global evangelism. This assessment of eschatology in the earliest of the Pentecostal written sources calls into question previous historical analyses, which posit that early Pentecostal eschatology was merely a modification of classical dispensationalism.68 In the light of The Apostolic Faith, this clearly is not the case. The alleged connections between classical dispensationalism and the eschatology articulated

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