The “Latter Rain” Revival Movement
Part 2 - New Benjamin Fulford Thursday April Intel - 17,000 DOCTORS CALL FOR
INDICTMENT OF BIG PHARMA - Horrifying Revelation About Biden - Prophecy from
April 7th 2023 - A WARNING ON WHAT IS COMING & more.
Researched & Comments by Pastor
Gary Boyd
April 20th 2023
MAIL
ONLINE: House PASSES bill to ban transgender women and girls from sports teams:
NO Democrats back law barring athletes born as males and accuse Republicans of 'bullying'
transgender students - Republicans say the issue is about protecting women's
rights while Democrats say it opens up a fresh salvo to attack trans kids who
already face bullying - 'Anyone who grew up in the '60s and fought for women's
rights should not fall for this trap,' said Rep. Carol Miller, R-W.Va. - By
MORGAN PHILLIPS, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM - PUBLISHED: 11:44
EDT, 20 April 2023 | UPDATED: 12:43 EDT, 20 April 2023 - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11995299/House-PASSES-bill-ban-transgender-women-girls-sports-teams.html
New Dr.
Thomas Horn's Vision of Destruction! Lucifer Device on Mt. Graham As Apache
Warned of Giants! - Thursday, April 20, 2023 12:11 - Listen
to what happened when Dr. Thomas Horn visited the Jesuits on Mt. Graham.
History suggests part of the reason native peoples considered Mt. Graham “holy”
involved unusual heavenly activity there in ancient times, when UFOs called
“spirit lights” moved through the sky, something that seems to have contributed
to their attribution of “powers” to the solar system and natural phenomena.
They also connected this area with their creation myth and arrival of a giant
silvery disc. https://beforeitsnews.com/paranormal/2023/04/new-dr-thomas-horns-vision-of-destruction-lucifer-device-on-mt-graham-as-apache-warned-of-giants-2561340.html
DAN BONGINO
SHOW: Some Important Personal News & The Shocking News Article Where The
Swamp Admits To A “Conspiracy” To Interfere In The 2020 Election! - Dan Bongino
- Thursday, April 20, 2023 13:16 - There is little hope for future fair
elections following the Fox / Dominion settlement which sets a dangerous ‘free
speech’ precedent! The dirty Dems have positioned themselves to silence
conservative media about election fraud and effortlessly cheat forever and
ever! https://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2023/04/some-important-personal-news-the-shocking-news-article-where-the-swamp-admits-to-a-conspiracy-to-interfere-in-the-2020-election-dan-bongino-3660710.html
Interview
with Roger Stone: Did It All Begin with JFK? Pentagon Leaks, Deep State, &
Dirty Politics! https://rumble.com/v2j9x7g-interview-with-roger-stone-did-it-all-begin-with-jfk-pentagon-leaks-deep-st.html?mref=6zof&mc=dgip3&ep=2
Trump’s
Rivals Are Dying Like Flies – Lunch Alert! - By Dick Morris on April 20, 2023 -
https://www.dickmorris.com/trumps-rivals-are-dying-like-flies-lunch-alert/
X22
Report Live - April Showers Brings Evidence Raining Down! Biden Panic! Shot Heard
Around the World! – Video - Wednesday, April 19, 2023 20:32 - The [DS]/[JB] are
now panicking over the evidence that is showering down. This cannot be stopped,
the patriots are now exposing the crimes and it is just going to get worse.
This will not end with [JB], evidence will lead to [HRC] and [BO], panic in DC.
The people are soon going to hear the shot around the world. https://www.bitchute.com/video/8we8br4qzmev/
JUAN O
SAVIN- A LOT OF DOMINOES TO FALL- 4 19 2023 - Blessed to Teach - Most of this
is other stories that Juan has told before. But the crux of the issue is
Education and Prayer. We can get “advice” from others but what really is the
truth? What are we going to do to change the world when many of the so called
leadership is corrupt to the core? Can we find our way. Maybe Juan can give you
a couple of clues here. CHANGE YOUR UNDERSTANDING ONE # SIMPLE GEMATRIA &
#NUMEROLOGY DECODE AT A TIME!! https://beforeitsnews.com/prophecy/2023/04/new-juan-o-savin-april-intel-a-lot-of-dominoes-to-fall-blessed-to-teach-2540569.html
New
SGAnon & Derek Johnson Lastest Updates 4/20/23: "Something HUGE Is
Happening" - Thursday, April 20, 2023 11:50 - https://beforeitsnews.com/prophecy/2023/04/new-sganon-derek-johnson-lastest-updates-42023-something-huge-is-happening-2540564.html
REAL RAW NEWS: Cherry Point FBI Suspects
Were ATF Until Last Week - By Michael Baxter -April 19, 2023 - The two federal
agents caught outside a bomb depot at USMC Cherry Point Air Station had
transferred to the FBI from the ATF only days before an alert aircraft mechanic
spotted the shadowy duo sneaking around an ordnance depot on a secure military
installation, a source in General Smith’s office told Real Raw News. https://realrawnews.com/2023/04/cherry-point-fbi-suspects-were-atf-until-last-week/
New Benjamin Fulford Mass Thursday
Geopolitical April Intel! As Ukraine War Ends, Fireworks Set for Asia - Thursday,
April 20, 2023 2:31 - The Ukrainian war has now ended and Ukraine will cease to
exist. The next targets are South Korea, Taiwan and Japan, Asian and Western
secret society sources say. The fall of the fake Joe Biden regime and its
controllers is also now imminent, they say. https://beforeitsnews.com/prophecy/2023/04/new-benjamin-fulford-mass-thursday-geopolitical-april-intel-as-ukraine-war-ends-fireworks-set-for-asia-2540560.html
DR YEADON & 17,000 DOCTORS CALL
FOR INDICTMENT OF BIG PHARMA –April 20th 2023 - https://www.bitchute.com/video/3hB8idFWdP7S/
Sen. Marsha Blackburn Calls Out
'Horrifying Revelation' About Biden Administration! - Forbes Breaking News - Thursday,
April 20, 2023 9:46 - Thank you Senator Blackburn for your clear delivery of
information on this horrifying situation that faces the country. This is all
good to hear, but we are done hearing all of the Terrible things this
administration has done and continues to do. We want action. We want an
impeachment trial followed by indictments. https://beforeitsnews.com/crime-all-stars/2023/04/sen-marsha-blackburn-calls-out-horrifying-revelation-about-biden-administration-forbes-breaking-news-2494823.html
AMANDA GRACE MINISTRIES: Prophecy from
April 7th 2023 - And the Spirit of the Lord says this day, I AM hovering over the earth in this hour,
the presence of the Ruach Elohim is hovering over the earth, it is moving,
although it may appear that chaos is ruling in this hour, it is a sign that the
presence of the Lord and his MIGHT is on the move and it is stirring up the
depths of the Kingdom of darkness to PREMATURELY ACT says the Lord. https://amandagrace4him.blogspot.com/
JULIE GREEN MINISTRIES: A WARNING ON
WHAT IS COMING - News — NY POST, Apr 19, 2023 - ‘IRS whistleblower alleges
cover-up of Hunter Biden tax evasion in bombshell letter to Congress’ - An IRS
whistleblower has informed Congress that he wants to come forward to reveal a
coverup in the tax evasion investigation focused on first son Hunter Biden,
according to a letter obtained by The Post. A lawyer for the official told a
group of congressional committee leaders Wednesday that he wants to expose
“preferential treatment” and false testimony to Congress by a “senior political
appointee.” The unnamed whistleblower is “a career IRS Criminal Supervisory
Special Agent who has been overseeing the ongoing and sensitive investigation
of a high-profile, controversial subject since early 2020,” attorney Mark Lytle
wrote to nine members of Congress. https://rumble.com/v2j8le2-a-warning-on-what-is-coming.html
The “Latter Rain” Revival Movement –
Part 2
By Thomas Ice
Researched by Pastor Boyd
April 20th 2023
Part II
In our previous issue, I began a
series on a significant influence within Evangelicalism called ” latter rain”
theology. I began tracing its history and development and will continue in this
installment. I hope to show that this theology distorts God’s plan for history
when they claim a latter day glory that is meant for Israel and not the church.
I also hope to show that “latter rain” teachings confuse the current church age
and the tribulation.
In the last installment, I was
providing a historical rundown on restoration movements in general. I had
surveyed the origins of Pentecostalism and how it was born out of a “latter
rain” theology. This began to wane in the 1920’s as Pentecostals adopted some
of the tenants of fundamentalism, especially dispensationalism.
New Order of the Latter Rain
The late 1940s saw a reemergence of
“latter rain” teachings at Sharon Orphanage and Schools in North Battleford,
Saskatchewan, Canada, among Pentecostals. George Hawtin and P. G. Hunt were key
figures in North Battleford, who along with others, launched a movement
characterized by the following distinctives:
(1) William Branham, who exercised
the laying on of hands in his healing ministry; (2) healing evangelist Franklin
Hall’ s emphasis on fasting and prayer; (3) the church government format in use
by the Independent Assemblies of God, which stressed the autonomy of the local
church; and (4) the emphasis on the ” new thing” of Isaiah 43:19.[14]
As the movement continued to develop
it spawned a large collection of teachings, terms, and vocabulary for
communicating “latter rain” thought. While many of the following terms have
true biblical significance, I want to list some of the words and phrases often
associated with “latter rain” doctrine so that readers will be able to discern
whether a given phrase is used in a “latter rain” context.
Feast of Tabernacles Tabernacle of
Moses
Tabernacle of David Revival churches
Present day truths Five-fold ministry
Manifested sons of God Spiritual
Israel
Bride company New breed
Joel’ s army Elijah Company
Many-membered man child Jezebel
spirit
Birthing in the spirit Overcomers
Covering Joshua Generation
New thing Omega Army
Forceful men
The latter rain movement has created
quite a stir among Pentecostals. At the 1949 General Council of the Assemblies
of God meeting in Seattle, Washington, a resolution was adopted disapproving of
the practices of the “latter rain” movement.
RESOLVED, That we disapprove of those
extreme teachings and practices which, being unfounded Scripturally, serve only
to break fellowship of like precious faith and tend to confusion and division
among the members of the Body of Christ, and be it hereby known that this 23rd
General Council disapproves of the so-called, ” New Order of the Latter Rain” ,
to wit:
1. The overemphasis relative to
imparting, identifying, bestowing or confirming gifts by the laying on of hands
and prophesy.
2. The erroneous teaching that the
church is built upon the foundation of present day apostles and prophets.
3. The extreme teaching as advocated
by the ” new order” regarding the confession of sin to man and deliverance as
practiced, which claims prerogatives to human agency which belong only to
Christ.
4. The erroneous teaching concerning
the impartation of the gift of languages as special equipment for missionary
service.
5. The extreme and unscriptural practice
imparting or imposing personal leading by the means of utterance.
6. Such other wrestings and
distortions of Scripture, interpretations which are in opposition to teachings
and practices generally accepted among us.[15]
“Latter rain” teachings are also said
to have made significant inroads into the Charismatic movement of the 1960s and
‘ 70s. Some of the ” beliefs and practices of the Latter Rain that found their
way into the Charismatic renewal were the ‘ foundational ministries’ of
Ephesians 4:11, tabernacle teaching, the feast of Tabernacles, and the ‘
foundational truths’ of Hebrews 6:1-2.” [16]Vehicles within the Charismatic
movement favoring “latter rain” distinctives included Logos Journal and the
Full Gospel Business Men’ s Fellowship International headed by Demos Shakarian.
Third Time’ s The Charm
The 1980s saw a third wave of “latter
rain” teachings within the Pentecostal/Charismatic movement. However, this time
the latter rain/restoration teachings are not content to merely sit back and be
a part of only a spiritual revival, without the power displays of “signs,
wonders, and miracles.” Today’ s blend wants power, dominion, health and
wealth, and socio-political change. The contemporary onslaught of “latter rain”
teaching has virtually taken over today’s Pentecostal/Charismatic movement. As
we stand on the threshold of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of the
Pentecostal/latter rain movement, it is, without a doubt, the strongest
influence within Evangelicalism.
Typical of a contemporary “latter
rain” event was the ” Take It By Force Conference” in Phoenix, August 1-4,
1989, sponsored by an organization called ” The Forceful Men.” A six-page,
full-color ad announcing the conference was run in the May, 1989 issue of
Charisma. The militant tone was set when the copy announced that ” God is
raising up a new generation to shake this world, a Joshua generation, ‘ . . .
invade, conquer and possess the land.’ ” The main section of the ad displayed
across the top four famous Pentecostal events, implying that the Take It By
Force conference would have continuity with them. One of the events listed was
the latter rain revival in 1948 at North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada. The
ad said concerning North Battleford: ” God promised that He would restore
everything that the church had lost.” Typical “latter rain” belief.
Until recently, “latter rain”
formulation was placing great stress upon their prophecy that Christ will
return around a.d. 2000, thus making the 1990s the time when the Church will
come together and experience the great end-time harvest. “Latter rain” teaches
that the maturity of the Church will be accomplished through the restoration of
the gifted men mentioned in Ephesians 4:11. This viewpoint, received as a new,
prophetic revelation and not based on interpretation of the text, believes that
the 1950s saw the restoration of evangelists; the 1960s the pastor; the 1970s
the teacher; the 1980s the prophet; and the 1990s will see a revived office of
apostles. The result of this supposed return to first century Christianity will
reap the following result:
The restoration of the apostle to
full recognition and authority will bring the Church to maturity, unity, and
proper Church structure. Signs and wonders will be wrought which will cause the
world to look to the Church for answers and miracles needed. Whole nations will
turn to God. The Church will become glorious and victorious and cause the glory
of the Lord to fill the earth as the waters cover the sea. When all five-fold
ministries are fully restored, all the saints are moving in their membership
ministry, and the Church is unified and perfected, when Jesus can return and
set up His Kingdom and establish His eternal reign with His Bride/Church.
Planet Earth will be purified to become the headquarters for Jesus and His
Church to rule and reign over His vast domain forever and ever and ever
forevermore. Amen![17]
This version of restoration/latter
rain appears to be a blend of postmillennialism and premillennialism. Some
postmillennialists have taught that the kingdom will dominate planet earth when
a majority of the population is converted and the church is perfected. Bill
Hamon has taken that postmillennial idea and placed it within a
non-dispensational premillennial framework. Hamon’s type of premillennialism
sees the church age ending in victory, not apostasy, as dispensationalism
believes. After all, “latter rain” Pentecostalism is the end-time perfection of
the church to which things are building. At least, that’s what they say.
How does this blend look? When
talking about the current role and destiny of the church, Restorationists speak
of her eventual victory before Christ returns. This is a postmillennial
concept. However, when speaking aboutfuture events such as the second coming,
they are premillennial. Thus, they hold to a form of postmillennialism wrapped
within the overall framework and vocabulary of non-dispensational
premillennialism, which is extremely vocal in their objection to the
pretribulational rapture.
Restorationist Rick Godwin typifies
this aggressive blend of a postmillennial view of a current victorious and
glorious church coupled with anti-rapture rhetoric.
The Lord is going to have a ”
Glorious Church” before He returns. . . . The Glorious Church is to be a mighty
army of over-comers through whom God reveals and demonstrates Himself to man. .
. . We are to be an army on the offensive, taking the fight to the enemy,
instead of sitting around waiting for the Rapture. We are not instructed to ”
Hold the Fort” – we are to TAKE THE LAND! . . . Over infatuation with the
Rapture produces a stagnant and sterile people. The OVERCOMER doesn’ t care
WHEN Jesus comes- He is simply ” occupying until He comes.” (emphasis in
original)[18]
“Latter rain” advocate, Rick Joyner
says,
This is the hour when the church will
arise as never before to aggressively attack every stronghold of the enemy. A
divine militancy is coming upon the church that will strike gripping fear into
the heart of every power of darkness. . . .
The church will not abandon the world
in defeat, fleeing when her light is needed the most. She is about to rise to
her full spiritual stature.[19]
Increasingly, many are adopting this
mentality of victory, coupled with anti-rapture oratory.
An Uneasy Marriage
Perhaps by now you are asking that
question that would naturally arise at this point: ” If Pentecostalism has such
a rich and obvious history of ‘latter rain’ teaching, then why do they also
have a rich history of many who object to such teachings?” In fact, virtually
all of the material I have read over the past few years raising objections and
warning people about restoration/latter rain doctrine and practice have come
from Pentecostals themselves. Why is this?
It is not unusual within any movement
as large and diverse as Pentecostalism that rival camps of thought would arise.
In addition to the “latter rain” influence, dispensationalism has also added
its imprint upon Pentecostalism. While it may be true, that these two systems
are antithetical to one another in many ways, it is nevertheless a fact that
both have had great popularity and influence at various times within
Pentecostalism. Based upon current trends it seems obvious that the overall movement
is clearly moving away from dispensationalism. This was clearly illustrated to
Robert Dean and I when we had a four-hour discussion with three leaders from
the Kansas City Fellowship of Churches in the early 1990’s. They informed us
that out of approximately 45 staff members, not one currently held to the
pretrib rapture. Very likely, almost all had held the view a few years earlier.
Early Pentecostalism was born out of
a motivation and vision for restoring to the church apostolic power lost over
the years. Now she was to experience her latter-day glory and victory by going
out in a blaze of glory and success. On the other hand, dispensationalism was
born in England in the early 1800s bemoaning the latter-day apostasy and ruin
of the church. These two major streams within Pentecostalism have radically
different views of the church and the end times.
The latter rain teaching came out of
the Wesleyan-Holiness desire for both individual (sanctification) and corporate
(eschatological) perfection. This is why early perfectionist teachers like
Wesley, Finney, and Mahan were all postmillennial and social activists.
Revivalism was gaged by both personal and public change or perfection. It
follows then that one who believes in personal perfection should also believe
that public perfection is equally possible. Those who believe the latter are
postmillennialists. After all, if God has given the Holy Spirit in this age to
do either, then why not the other? If God can perfect individuals, then why not
society?
However, as the 1800s turned into the
1900s, social change was increasingly linked with Darwin’ s theory of
evolution. The evolutionary rationale was then used to attack the Bible itself.
To most English-speaking Christians it certainly appeared that society was not
being perfected, instead it was in decline. Critics of the Bible said that one
needed a PhD from Europe before the Bible could be organized and understood. It
was into this climate that dispensationalism was introduced into America and to
many Bible believing Christians it made much more sense of the world than did
liberalism.
Dispensationalism, in contrast to
Holiness teaching, taught that the world and the church (visible) was not being
perfected, instead it was in apostasy and heading toward judgment. God is
currently in the process of calling out the remnant through the preaching of
the gospel. Christian social change would not be permanent, leading to the
establishment of Christ’ s kingdom. Instead a cataclysmic intervention was
needed (Christ’ s second coming), if society was to be transformed. Another
emphasis was that the common man could understand the Bible without the
enlightened help of a liberal education, once he understood God’ s overall plan
for mankind as administered through the dispensations. Thus, dispensational
theology made a lot of sense to both Pentecostal and evangelical believers
during this time.
In the 1920s dispensationalism began
to have a great influence within Pentecostalism. Pentecostal Huibert Zegwaart
has noted that “Many of the early Pentecostals came from dispensationalist
circles.”[20] Donald Dayton said that the form of Pentecostal eschatology,
“namely dispensationalism, is quite accidental; it happened to be the form of
eschatology the early Pentecostals brought along from their former
denominations.”[21] Thus, denominations like the Assemblies of God moved away
from doctrines like the “latter rain” teaching and generated official positions
against those teachings.
CONCLUSION
As we enter the new millennium, dispensational
influence, for a lot of reasons, is on the decline within both Evangelicalism
and Pentecostalism as well. Thus, things like the pretrib rapture (once
considered orthodoxy within Pentecostalism) are likewise on the decline. At the
same time such “latter rain” teachings as the present glory and victory of the
church before the second coming (a form of postmillennialism) are rapidly
gaining popularity.
The attractiveness of the perfection
of the church teachings within “latter rain” theology is making a comeback
within the church at the same time that concepts of perfection are increasingly
popular within secular society as well. ” Techno-mysticism,” in the form of
self-help and New Age teachings proclaim the mystical perfectibility of the individual
as well as society. Thus, people today are predisposed toward, not a moral
perfection as heralded 100 years ago, but rather a mystical, metaphysical
transformation which could happen in an instant of time.
The Pentecostal/Charismatic movement
has a tradition of both latter rain/restoration teachings as well as a
dispensational stream. However, at many points, these are contradictory
teachings which appear to be on a collision course. Either the church age is
going to end with perfection and revival of the church or it will decline into
apostasy, preparing the way for the church to become the harlot of Revelation
during the tribulation.
(To Be Continued . . .)
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