Actually, it was not in Topeka or on Azuza St. When you say " this is correct in this time " Is ridiculous. Where do you think you have the ability to look at the word of God and say Tongues are not for today without any scripture to say that at all?
What was taught by Pelham and Rev, Williams Seymour was the Empowering of the Holy Spirit is for today and Jesus is the Baptizer in the Holy Spirit
as the Gospel of John chapter 1 says.
In addition, it seems that Rev. Williams an African American man with one eye had better observation of the text than you. And has applied it correctly from what he saw in the very word of God
Your issue is the teaching
of initial evidence. I think that is a
sub-issue because
you don't believe the gifts of the Holy Spirit are for today anyway. Or you have not seen it to agree with it as being for today because you focus on those who abuse it. I will address that too in Acts 8
What did
Rev? Williams see in the word of God to make such a claim?
1. the apostles in the upper room
were already saved. If one thinks that
Jesus who rose from the dead and stayed with
them for 40 days and
they were not saved after all called HIM Lord and seeing Him ascend into heaven. You don't know the word of God.
2. on the day of Pentacost the Holy Spirit came upon them and they all spoke in tongues.
this happened repeatedly each time the word of God records those who received the empowering of the Holy Spirit.
the empowering of the Holy Spirit can happen at salvation, after salvation, or before or after water baptism. The Baptism in the Holy Spirit is not for salvation it is as Jesus said " Power to be a witness". Acts 1:8 and John 14-16 chapters
The Book of Acts records Cornleious house they spoke in tongues or prophesied Acts 10:46
The disciples in Antioch who Paul met spoke in tongues Acts 19:6
Simon the sorcerer in Acts provided a lot of insight into this.
Acts 8:9, 12-17
9 Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and amazed all the people of Samaria. He boasted that he was someone great,
Even the people
thought this man was something great.
verse 12 says
12 But when they believed Philip as he proclaimed the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. 13 Simon himself believed and was baptized. And he followed Philip everywhere, astonished by the great signs and miracles he saw.
what did he see?
14 When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to Samaria. 15 When they arrived, they prayed for the new believers ( those who were saved) there that they might receive the Holy Spirit, 16 because the Holy Spirit had not yet come on any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 17 Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
Now, this is a very important text.
First off this passage in Acts 8 says they
were already saved YET
they did not have the Holy Spirit come upon them.
those in Oneness take that verse and
use it to say they were not saved. The very text says
" they believed" which means they were saved.
The word of God says you receive the Holy Spirit IN YOU when
you are saved I am saying Amen! that is what the word of God says and what Jesus said would happen in John chapter 14 through 16.
Acts 1:8 said you will receive salvation after the Holy Spirit comes upon you? No, he said POWER to be a witness.
They were already saved according to the word of God.
what does that mean?
The empowerment is not for salvation but
to be a witness of the Resurrected Lord as
Jesus said you will be my witnesses. Acts 4:33 says it what they witnessed to.
We have the very word of God with those in ACTS 8 WHO WERE SAVED, YET RECEIVED THE HOLY SPIRT after that, not in them, but upon them the text says.
what did Simon see? that he wanted to pay money for? This saved man according to Acts 8.
18 When Simon saw that the Spirit was given at the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money 19 and said, “Give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”
This man clearly saw something, what was it? the word of God doesn't say yet we do have more than one account that when the Apostles laid their hands on those in Acts 10 and 19 they spoke in tongues.
This man did not hear a mighty wind or see the fire he heard something. it is more than a guess it was speaking in tongues.
FYI this was the normal action recorded in the starting of the early church in so much that Paul taught on the gifts in three chapters in 1cor 12 through 14 and in Eph chapter 4 and in other locations of the New Testament, IN addition, Jesus teaching it in Mark 16.
