Pentecostal History in France

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Gerald Caesar spake thusly in a message to steve winter:

GC> There is a sister in my church from France who I am sure
GC> will be blessed from such an article. 

GC> Steve can you please email this to me. Or if someone else

This is a excerpt from "Christian Church History"
by Rev. Marvin M. Arnold, D.D., Th.D.; the book is available from:
Rev Marvin Arnold, Apple Run Lane, Apt.# 23, Hillsdale, MI 49242
(Mention PreRapture Ministry for free sample offer!!)

Starting at page 45          Languedoc: Doctrinally Fameous

 Geographically, Languedoc is in southern France, extending from
Toulouse on the west to Lyons on the northeast. It embraces hundreds
of square miles. On its southeastern part it has the Gulf of Lions.
Mountainous, it has the Pyrenees on the south and the Cevennes on the
northeast. Historians found that since antiquity it had been a
stronghold for nonCatholic Christians,  particularly for
monotheistically inclined Apostolics. (Z. Oldenbourg,pp.41,258; J. H.
Blunt, p 16).
 No one can possibly know the number of Apostolic Christians who
lived and died in that area, but the figure would be big. Certainly
religious people that embraced Petrine-Pauline faith (Acts2:1-4, 36,
38) were dominant from AD 50-60 until ca. AD 1233 in Languedoc. Here
were found the Christians that most historians slandered as Cathari.
These pious believers were later referred to as Albigensians. Because
they possessed nonCatholic religious views many biased historians
slandered and slurred them! Nevertheless, there was uninterrupted
Judaic-Christianity throughout southern France. It was pure, free
>from Catholic ecclesiastical association.
 Jerusalem's doctrine had spread from the Balkan Peninsula to most
seaport towns on the Adriatic. Also, it had spread from Northern
Italy into the Rhineland(Frisia). At the same time Christian centers
for this big area seem to have been associated with Toulouse and Albi
of Languedoc. Laus in his Church History, p 351, mentioned that at
the beginning of the reign of Innocent III more than one thousand
towns were governed by nonCatholic Christians. There were masses of
Oneness Christians.
 For more than ten centuries Jerusalem's primitive Christianity was
"the religion" of Southern France. There was Gentile Christian
dominance. In Languedoc were also Jewish Christians. There was an
independant government, a school system, and hospitals. It was a
lofty civilization before the Catholic sponsored Tolsan Inquisition
of 1208. (J.H. Blunt, pp. 15, 16; Z. Oldenbourg, pp. 41, 258). There
were rich farms. There were but few economically impoverished
families. Hapiness appears to have been the order of the day.
 Blunt, on p.17, documented that they possessed a complete system of
churches. There was one religious organization. There were sixteen
districts and they represented the great Pentecostal communities of
France, northwestern Italy, and Bulgaria.
 Simultaneously, in Saxony of western Germany, there was an almost
identical theological situation. Moreover, from an early date great
numbers of Gentile Apostolic Christians inhabited the Southern
Lowlands (Belgium). Later they were referred to as Anabaptist
Lowlanders. (Anabaptist means to re-baptize). The Netherlands, at the
time we refer to, extended from Flanders to the country of East
Frisia.
 For centuries Languedoc was a theoligical heaven. Then the crime of
the Centuries was committed when the Vatican initiated the frightful
Tolsan Inquisition against the Bible believing, tongues-speaking
people of Southern France. A noted bigot, a Catholic named Dominic,
in 1206-1208 discovered the massive numbers of Christian Apostolics
at Toulouse and Albi. He engineered their slaughter and wanted
theological genocide to be committed. (Laux, p. 351).
 Against these true Christians, Pope Innocent III preached a military
crusade in 1208. The citizens of southern France would not fight
against their neighboring Languedoc Christians. Then the pope led an
army from northern France into the doomed region. The carnage was
frightful. (Blunt, pp. 18,19; Oldenbourg, pp.32-35).
******     End of excerpt.    *******

Rev Arnold traces the true Acts 2:38 church through every century
since Pentecost. The "gates of Hell" did not prevail against it,
though the polytheistic Roman giant tried and tried.

Here are a few scriptural referrences that I find relevant:

Revelation 18:24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of
saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
Revelation 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all
in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be
heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of
the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
Revelation 18:24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of
saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

Revelation 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the
seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will
shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many
waters:                        ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^
Revelation 17:2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed
fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk
with the wine of her fornication.
Revelation 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the
wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full
of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Revelation 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet
colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a
golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her
fornication:
Revelation 17:5 And upon her forehead [was] a name written, MYSTERY,
BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE
EARTH.
Revelation 17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the
saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw
her, I wondered with great admiration.

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