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Perspectives in Pentecostal Eschatologies: World without End is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

excluded from the marriage supper, the church would continue in the care of Jesus during the tribulation. Fifth, the millennium was not viewed as a fulfillment of promises to the Jews but was characterized as a time when faithful Christians who suffered now would reign with Christ and help judge the world. Immersed in a different worldview, Pentecostals of Azusa Street did not merely modify the script of dispensationalism, but departed from it significantly.
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