Some people make outlandish comments about the 1900's LOL. The Infilling of the Holy Spirit or the Holy Spirit coming Upon a person(s) is clearly seen from the Old Testament to the New Testament down through the ages even today.
If one is going to look at the 1900s as the starting point of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit or the empowering of the Holy Spirit from a bias and at the expense of the word of God, that is an error.
If a person doesn't know from the word of what the following means about the Holy Spirit and HIS working with man:
- empowering of the Holy Spirit Acts 2:38
- baptism of the Holy Spirit John 1:33
- having the Holy Spirit in you John 14:17
- Having the Holy come upon you Numbers 11:25, Judges 3:10, Judges 6:34, 1 Sam 16:13, EZ 37:1 Luke 3:22, Acts 2:3-4, Acts 19:6,
These are all seen in the word of God.
If one is going to focus on the 1900s and not see the dark ages( God did not speak or move on man) within the time of the Bible, the early church, and down through the centuries that is a presupposition about all God has done to suggest Gods Spirit did no such thing until the 1900s.
God was silent to His people many times for many years and generations before the Spirit of the Lord Spoke to man or came upon him.
how many generations from Joseph to Moses before God heard the cry of HIS people? God was silent 400 years between Malachi to The Birth of Jesus.
we know that the working of the Holy Spirit was working the Reformation return to the word of God BUT Martin Luther had the Holy Spirit come upon him. How could that happen? if what was seen in the 1900s was not of God, the argument made by some is,
there was no such, move of God seen from the Canonization of the word of God until the claims made by Pentecostals /Charismatics
in 1901. Then the Holy Spirit could not have come upon Palcarp, Origen, Clement, those of the Reformation: Martin Luther or Calvin, those of the Holiness movement Wesley, Revival awakenings 1700s,
Solomon Stoddard, Jonathan Edwards' 1800s,
Whitefield, Tennent, Moody, to the 20th Century.
The work of the Holy Spirit was so powerful they were known as a Move of God and an "Awakening", revival, and Move of the Spirit.
The Holy Spirit coming upon men and women to bring people back to God has never stopped. The Gifts of the Holy Spirit are seen throughout the time of The Church no matter the age. And We see God was silent for times as well.
many church fathers and preachers of the church testify of the supernatural move of God and are well documented. Before the
1900s.