Charles Parham was a believer of the British Israel doctrine.
Pentecostals who went off into Dispensationalism did it to explain away their prior beliefs of Cessationism. Most of those who came into the early Pentecostal movement were from Church of Christ, Nazerene, and Presbyterian churches. All of those denominations were cessationists.
The Azusa Street Pentecostals in America adapted Dispensationalism to say that they were part of a latter rain, that would usher in a return of Jesus Christ. Since Christ was soon to return, their would be a renewed out pouring of the gifts. This was not only among those Azusa or Parham Pentecostals, but was also among the Millerites, and Latter Day Saints. All held on to a notion that THEIR truth was a restoration of old light that had been snuffed out by the Roman Catholic Church.
In Jesus name
Brother Benincasa
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