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CHAPTER 5 FIFTH THROUGH THE NINTH CENTURY GLOSSOLALIA
404 AD, Pope Innocent I Against Oneness Pentecostals: By this time, God’s Pentecostal Churches were no strangers to Catholic persecutions. Because Catholic Popes could not stop the revivals God’s sent to His Pentecostal people, they always responded with physical, economical, social persecution. According to the New Catholic Encyclopedia: The importance of the sect [Montanism] during the early centuries may be judge by the attention it received from ancient [Catholic] Christian writers.... The energetic opposition of Pope Innocent 1 (401-417) and the laws of the Emperor Honorius 1 against [the so-called] heresy (Feb. 22, 407). [80]
451 AD, Pope Leo I Against Oneness Pentecostals: According to history this Catholic Pope took his turn at persecuting God’s Tongue-Talking People. They were the one God Jesus’ Name Priscillians. These were the people who broke away from some of the doctrines of Priscillian and became Modalist Monarchians. According to Harnack: The Priscillians and Sabellians are classed together... [by]
557 AD, Catholic Emperor Justinian I: Persecution and Revival of Oneness Pentecostals: This Emperor brutally persecuted God’s tongue-talking Montanist churches. Justinian did his best to stop: all preaching of oneness, rebaptism movements that baptized in Jesus’ Name, speaking in tongues and the prophesying of God’s people. This demonic Emperor created the Justinian Code, which demanded the death penalty for all who believed and taught these doctrines. There is no way the gates of Catholic hell will ever prevail against God’s Church. God will never leave Himself without a witness. According to the New Catholic Encyclopedia, Roman Emperor Justinian I at this time passed:
Severe anti-Montanist legislation. He murdered many thousands of God’s holy, innocent, harmless children. But there was no way they could stop the move of God’s Spirit, for as this same encyclopedia stated: Montanism was a manifestation of a recurring phenomenon meaning speaking in tongues through God’s Holy Spirit. It continued by saying, Montanism: Spread rapidly and widely through the East and West. [83] [Hastings speaking of these persecutions said they:] Survived the stringent edicts of various emperors. [84]
649 AD, The Lateran Council Against Oneness Pentecostals: Hastings revealed that the One God Jesus’ Name Modalist Monarchians doctrines continued to exist throughout the centuries. He declared that Catholic Popes and Catholic Councils were always condemning them. He says this: Can be seen by the frequent condemnations of them in the shape of Sabellianism.... The same comprehensive condemnation was repeated in the Lateran Council of 649, (canon 18). [85]
675 AD, The Eleventh Council of Toledo Against Oneness Pentecostals: These Catholic bishops took their turn at condemning God’s holy, living and anointed Church. According to The Church Teaches, this council cursed all of God’s people who deny the Trinity doctrine. Who taught: The Son is not the same person as Father, nor the Father the same person as the Son, nor is either the Father or Son the same person as the Holy Spirit. [86]
Dr. F. C. Conybeare, in his Hibbert Journal, speaking of the Celtic Catholic Churches baptizing in the one God formula of the Lord Jesus Christ wrote: The popes of the seventh century excommunicated the entire Celtic Church for it adhesion to the old use of invoking the one name. The Celtic Churches consisted of Indo-Europeans mainly from France, but also includes Great Britain, Ireland, and Scotland. It is evident that the One God, Jesus Name, Pentecostals, who were in those countries, converted many of the Celtic Catholics to the truth.
700-735 AD, Bede the ‘Venerable’ on Glossolalia and Gifts of the Spirit: God’s Oneness Celtic Pentecostal Churches, as I said before, consisted of those in the countries of France, Great Britain, Ireland, and Scotland; the Saxony Churches were those that were located in East Germany! According to Arnold, this Anglo-Saxon scholar, historian, and theologian: found Celtic and Saxony cultures abounding in manifestations of tongues and gifts of the Spirit in the eight century. [87] Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum contains many references to experiences of healing. [88]
800-899 AD, Oneness Anabaptist Bernhard Rothmann and the Glossolalia of Oneness Pentecostals Throughout Europe: Arnold declared that this preacher and historian in his historical research found one God Jesus’ Name Churches to be:
Throughout Europe in the ninth century. It had Spirit infilling, the tongues, and miracles that was typical of Pentecostal revivals. [89]