The Latter Rain Revival Movement - Lori
Lightfoot Executed at GITMO - New Dawn For The Petroyuan - Israel Turns To
China - Derek Johnson Military Intel - Marines Foil FBI Plot – Africa Squeezed
to the Bones - Lisa Shaw Died Suddenly and more.
Researched & Comments by Pastor
Gary Boyd
April 19th 2023
REAL RAW NEWS: Marines Foil Fed Plot
to Explode U.S. Military Base - By Michael Baxter -April 18, 2023 - On Sunday,
United States Marines at USMC Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina,
apprehended two FBI agents who had entered the base undetected and were
skulking near an ordnance building that held bombs for the 2nd Marine Aircraft
Wing’s AV-8B Harrier and F-35 Lightning II jets, a source in General Eric M.
Smith’s office told Real Raw News. https://realrawnews.com/2023/04/marines-foil-fed-plot-to-explode-u-s-military-base/
ACTIVIST POST: Arkansas Passes Legal
Tender Act, Removes Taxes on Gold and Silver - TOPICS:
ArkansasGoldInvestingSilverTax - APRIL 18, 2023 - Arkansas Governor Signs
Senate Bill 1718, Reaffirming Gold and Silver as Legal Tender and Removing All
Tax Liability from the Monetary Metals - Sound money advocates are rejoicing as
House Bill 1718, the Arkansas Legal Tender Act has become the law in the
Natural State. https://www.activistpost.com/2023/04/arkansas-passes-legal-tender-act-removes-taxes-on-gold-and-silver.html
Oil Price - Gold & A New Crude
Benchmark: A New Dawn For The Petroyuan? - By ZeroHedge - Apr 18, 2023, 2:00 PM
CDT - China's extensive gold buying spree has been due to a strategic
preparation for a shift in global monetary power. -The Shanghai International
Energy Exchange launched yuan oil futures. This will shift the balance of power
in the oil market away from the US and increase the use of yuan in global
trade. https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Gold-And-A-New-Crude-Benchmark-A-New-Dawn-For-The-Petroyuan.html
Yet Another Ally, Israel, Turns To
China - Wednesday, April 19, 2023 6:49 - Biden’s foreign policy is just working
wonders, eh? - Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen asked China to “influence”
Iran to cease developing its illegal nuclear weapons program, inviting Beijing
to play a bigger role in the Middle East as relations with the United States
under leftist President Joe Biden have deteriorated. https://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2023/04/yet-another-ally-israel-turns-to-china-3660596.html
Derek Johnson: Military Intel and
Situation Update - It's Here! Be Ready for 10 Days of NO Communications &
EBT (Video) - Wednesday, April 19, 2023 8:01 - Derek is back with Military
Intel and updates we all need to know.. We are in a war and the bad guys plan
to take out our communications and banking system in one fell swoop. Make sure
to stock up on food, water, CASH, and anything else that may be affected by
this attack.. https://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2023/04/derek-johnson-military-intel-and-situation-update-its-here-be-ready-for-10-days-of-no-communications-ebt-video-3791660.html
Bo Polny: It's Time, Folks! Life Changing
Event Very Soon! (Video) - Wednesday, April 19, 2023 8:22 - Bo is sharing Intel
about how close we are to everything changing! https://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2023/04/bo-polny-its-time-folks-life-changing-event-very-soon-video-3791662.html
SG Anon: Situation Update & Intel
- Nothing Can Stop This! (Video) - Wednesday, April 19, 2023 7:26 - What is to
come cannot be stopped.. It must happen, so we can be a free people once more..
The talk of the 10 Days of Darkness is a big deal and if it happens, it will
CHANGE everything! SG has Intel about that and about the EBT- it is all coming
to a head and nothing can stop it! - https://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2023/04/sg-anon-situation-update-intel-nothing-can-stop-this-video-3791652.html
Africa, Now Squeezed to the Bones -
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 9:33 - Human Wrongs Watch By Baher Kamal - MADRID,
Apr 19 2023 (IPS)* –– As many as 45 African countries –out of the Continent’s
54 nations–, all of them grouped in what is known as Sub-Saharan Africa, have
now been further squeezed to their bones, as funding shrinks to lowest ever
levels, and as a portion of the so-called aid goes back to the pockets of rich
donor countries…. https://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2023/04/africa-now-squeezed-to-the-bones-3791666.html
NTEB: In England, Radio Newcastle
Announcer Lisa Shaw Died Suddenly After Receiving An AstraZeneca COVID
Vaccination As Did Scores Of Other People - Wednesday, April 19, 2023 9:33 - There
is a conspiracy happening right now that is so insidious, so horrific, that it
will boggle your imagination. People have died, are dying, and have been
grievously wounded after receiving the COVID vaccine from drug makers like
Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca, the media is aware of it, and with one voice
have agreed to remain silent about it. https://beforeitsnews.com/global-unrest/2023/04/in-england-radio-newcastle-announcer-lisa-shaw-died-suddenly-after-receiving-an-astrazeneca-covid-vaccination-as-did-scores-of-other-people-2537712.html
WORLD NET DAILY: Did Jesus of
Nazareth really intend to start a brand new religion called
"Christianity"? Or, did He come to fulfill that which all of the
Hebrew prophets had foretold since the fall of man—something the Holy
Scriptures mysteriously and wonderfully call "the restitution of all
things." In his acclaimed book, The Restitution of All Things: Israel,
Christians, and the End of the Age, veteran journalist and bestselling author
Joseph Farah seeks to shed light on what few sermons today teach about, few
authors expound upon, and few Bible studies explore: the coming kingdom of God.
The Restitution of All Things is a primer on the Hebrew roots of the Christian
faith that will forever give you a new appreciation of the work Jesus did on
the cross, and will answer these provocative questions: What does the Bible
clearly teach about the ultimate solution to the Middle East conflict? Is the
story of the New Testament really grace vs law? Or has grace always been around
and is the law forever? What is the ultimate destination of redeemed mankind –
heaven or earth?
Why is there so much focus in the
prophecy world on events leading up to the return of Jesus and so little about
what follows? What is the central conflict Jesus has in the gospels and what
was the great error of the Pharisees? Is it possible today’s believers in Jesus
could be making the same error as the Pharisees of His time? Have Christians
replaced Israel as the people of promise? Using Scriptures almost exclusively
as a resource, Farah will shock and amaze most Christians with a clear picture
of what the coming kingdom of God will be like. Such prophetic Scriptures and
many others, closely matching the conditions of today's world, make a
compelling case that we may be nearing this very special and long-prophesied
time—a time of great hope, but also of great deception. With so much attention
by prophecy teachers on events to occur before the return of Jesus, The
Restitution of All Things looks beyond that to His one-thousand year reign of
earth. It exposes the spiritual traditions of men that often overshadow the
commandments of God. It lays bare the pernicious lie that has become known
today as "replacement theology." It is a wake-up call to the world
regarding the ever-present truth of the Bible, and of the reality of
Jesus-Yeshua, the Messiah, the King, the High Priest, the Redeemer, and Son of
God. Founder of the world's largest Christian content website, publisher of
numerous bestselling Christian books and films, and devoted follower of
Jesus-Yeshua and seeker of truth, Joseph Farah tackles the hard questions and
explores the roots of the Christian faith based on Acts 3: "Repent ye
therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times
of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. And he shall send Jesus
Christ, which before was preached unto you: Whom the heaven must receive until
the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of
all his holy prophets since the world began." (Act 3:19-21). Farah's book
is an original, fresh and deeply thought-provoking look at that which every
Christian believer looks forward to with hope—and with awe. https://superstore.wnd.com/the-restitution-of-all-things-e-book/
WORLD NET DAILY: Stunner! Bidens'
'astronomical' income from 'prostitution rings'? 'It's wild the number of
family members involved and the amount of money we're talking about' - By Bob
Unruh - Published April 18, 2023 at 3:52pm
- “Just left the Treasury to review over 100
suspicious activity reports on the Biden family and I can tell you there are
more Bidens involved than we knew previously. And every time you…look under a
stone, there’s so much more you have to investigate because – it’s wild the
number of family members involved and the amount of money we’re talking about
in these suspicious activity reports is astronomical. …the shell companies,
prostitution rings, etc…it’s insanity to me that it’s not been investigated in
the way that it should be.” https://www.wnd.com/2023/04/stunner-bidens-astronomical-income-prostitution-rings/?ats_es=7ed3ab1f1a7bbeb2c843e9aa8d4bd787
WORLD NWT DAILY: 'Toxic': Greatest
betrayal in nation deceptively unleashed on millions - 'How it's ultimately
going to turn out is unknown' - By WND Staff - Published April 18, 2023 at
7:37pm - Throughout America, parents by the millions send their precious
children off to their local public schools, imagining their kids’ days will be
filled with reading, writing and arithmetic, along with science, history,
sports, music and group recreation, just like when they attended school decades
ago. However, they’re not only in for a shock – but for total betrayal. Today,
what are still euphemistically called “public schools” (remember, “public”
means “government”) have been transmogrified into far-left ideological,
political and religious indoctrination centers aimed at reprogramming and
transforming America’s children. (Comment: By pushing a gay agenda for the
schools the Obiden communist regime has awakened the parents of school age
children. Protests are everywhere. The end to this is coming as gay school
board members & gay city council are voted out and thrown on the scrapheap.
Pushing the gay agenda on the masses was a big mistake.) https://www.wnd.com/2023/04/toxic-greatest-betrayal-nation-deceptively-unleashed-millions/?ats_es=7ed3ab1f1a7bbeb2c843e9aa8d4bd787
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON: Missouri
Becomes First State To Crack Down on Sex-Change Treatments for Adults – By Anna
Allen - April 14, 2023 - Missouri attorney general Andrew Bailey (R.) on
Thursday issued an emergency rule that establishes extensive safeguards on
providing transgender medical interventions to both adults and children. https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Ffreebeacon.com%2Flatest-news%2Fmissouri-becomes-first-state-to-crack-down-on-sex-change-treatments-for-adults%2F
FBI sought to develop sources in
Catholic churches to combat domestic terrorism, docs show - FBI hit with
subpoena for records by House Judiciary Committee - By Thomas Catenacci | Fox
News - The FBI recently sought to develop sources inside Christian churches and
Catholic dioceses as part of an effort to combat domestic terrorism, according
to internal documents released by House Judiciary Committee on Monday. The
internal documents — obtained last month by House Judiciary Committee Chairman
Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., who are also members of the
so-called Weaponization Subcommittee — showed the FBI planned to use churches
as "new avenues for tripwire and source development." The federal law
enforcement agency also aimed to specifically target "mainline Catholic
parishes" as part of its efforts. - Published April 10,
2023 2:02pm - https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-sought-develop-sources-catholic-churches-internal-documents-show
by Thomas Ice
Published on: December 10, 2015
Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd
April 19th 2023
One of the most significant
influences within Evangelicalism the last twenty-five years has been the
reemergence of ” latter rain” theology. Yet, many are not even aware that such
an influence exists within modern Christianity. Latter rain theology is
sweeping the charismatic movement and revivalist evangelicals who believe that
a global revival will take place before Christ will be allowed to return at the
second advent. Popular movements such as the Vineyard Churches, Promise
Keepers, and likely a majority of charismatic churches and organizations imbibe
deeply from the fountain of latter rain theology. In this series of articles I
want to trace the rise and development of the restoration and latter rain
teachings that have been around for at least the last two hundred years. Then,
I want to explain why these views are unscriptural and are having a negative
impact upon the literal interpretation of Bible prophecy.
DEFINITIONS
Restoration
Restorationists simply believe that
God is restoring first-century or apostolic Christianity through their
particular movement or group. Restoration is also used by a smaller number of
teachers to teach that there will be a restoration of all things as they were
before the fall; a perfect state. Virtually all Christians have thought that
their approach to Christianity is the right one, but Restorationists believe
that the true form or emphasis has been lost for a long time and they are being
used by God to restore the original.
The last two-hundred years have seen
a number of Restorationist movements attempting to restore primitive
Christianity. A number of these groups are either fringe groups or cults.
Joseph Smith (1805-44), the founder of Mormonism, believed that he was
restoring the faith of early Christianity. This included a restoration of
apostles and prophets, revelation, and speaking in tongues. When completed this
restoration would usher in the millennium. Many today are familiar with the
Churches of Christ, theologically descended from Alexander Campbell
(1788-1866), who believed that he was restoring the apostolic doctrine of the
early church. The Irvingites in Britain (more later), Jehovah’ s Witnesses, and
the Armstrong Worldwide Church of God are others which have arisen with the
intention of restoring true Christianity. However, as we shall see later, the
largest restoration movement began in 1901 when Pentecostalism was born.
The particular type of restoration
teachings I am interested in dealing with in this article are those gaining
popularity within the charismatic movement today. In addition to arguing that
restoration was a major theme in the Old Testament, their central New Testament
passage most often cited is Acts 3:21, ” whom heaven must receive until the
period of restoration of all things . . .” This is why Restorationist teachers
like Dick Iverson and Earl Paulk teach that Christ cannot return at any-moment
via the rapture. They teach that Christ is held in the heavens until the church
has been restored and perfected, only then will He be free to return. I will
show in a future article that Acts 3:21 and other passages cited by
Restorationists refer to Israel and not the Church.
Restorationist David Blomgren, in his
booklet A Biblical View Of Restorationdefines restoration as follows:
The Biblical concept of restoration,
therefore, comprises the work of God to restore the corporate church to the
truth and power of God and to restore the individual believer to the image of
God. (p. 2)
Blomgren’ s definition includes two
major restoration aspects, the first applies to the corporate church and the
second to the individual believer.
In the area of the corporate church
Blomgren says, ” All that the early church lost will be restored to the latter
day church.” (p. 6) Restoration will take place in five areas: truth,
ministries, spiritual life of believers, worship, and paths to dwell in. (pp.
6-7) In addition, the power of God will be restored in the last days of the
church. Blomgren cites nine areas in which restoration of the last days power
of the church will occur. Restoration will include the House of the Lord, the
Tabernacle of David, Spirit outpouring, the voice of the bride and Bridegroom,
the glory of God, counselors and judges, teachers, the family, and health and
healing. (pp. 12, 14)
Last days restoration of the
individual believer will include restoration to the image of God, spiritual
dominion, relationship with God, fruitfulness, paradise, and perfection. (pp.
14, 15)
” These are days of restoration,”
declares Blomgren. ” It is exciting to know that the true church will indeed be
triumphant, restored by God to strength in this last day.” (p. 16) Charismatic
Restorationists believe that we are living in the era that will witness these
things. Many Restorationists believe that these events will be facilitated by
an outpouring of the Holy Spirit often called the ” latter rain” revival. The
chart in this article is taken from Blomgren’ s booklet (p. 9) and depicts
their understanding of the history of the decline and restoration of the
church. I would take strong exception to most, if not all, of his points.
Latter Rain
The phrase ” latter rain” is taken
from Joel 2:23 & 28 and sometimes James 5:7 as a label describing an
end-time revival and evangelistic harvest expected by many charismatics and
some Pentecostals. Some time in the future, they believe the Holy Spirit will
be poured out like never before. The latter rain teaching is developed from the
agricultural model that a farmer needs rain at two crucial points in the growing
cycle in order to produce a bountiful harvest. First, right after the seed is
planted the ” early rain” is needed to cause the seed to germinate in order to
produce a healthy crop. Second, the crop needs rain right before the harvest,
called the ” latter rain,” so the grain will produce a high yield at harvest
time, which shortly follows. Latter rain advocates teach that the Acts 2
outpouring of the Holy Spirit was the ” early rain” but the ” latter rain”
outpouring of the Holy Spirit will occur at the end-times. Many have taught
that the Spirit will be poured out upon the church by a.d. 2000 in order to
prepare her for the great evangelistic harvest to follow.
Often this great event is described
in terms of Old Testament imagery of the army of locus in Joel 2. In fact, ”
prophet,” Paul Cain, is said to have had a vision in which he saw a sign on a
billboard from the Lord describing the current status of the church today as ”
Joel’ s Army: Now In Training.” Many today have been influenced by this type of
thinking and are adopting a more militant vocabulary for describing Christian
activity, prayer, and worship because they believe they are now in training as
God’ s end-time army and are being made ready for coming events. Just as an
army trains for war by learning to use their weapons and adopt to the harsh
environment of the battlefield so the ” new breed,” ” the Omega army,” or ” the
forceful men” are preparing for spiritual warfare by sharpening their end-time
skills.
A few years ago, when Dr. Jack Deere
was an assistant pastor at John Wimber’ s Vineyard Christian Fellowship in
Anaheim, California, he gave a two-part message entitled ” Joel’ s Army.” His
explanation of what the church is going to be like in just a few years is
illuminating:
Heretofore in history we have only
had one Moses on the scene. Only one Elijah. Only one Elisha at a time. Now
among the Apostles we only have one Paul, then John, and Peter, a few of those
that are really outstanding.
Heretofore we have only had one or
two mighty servants of God on the face of the earth at a time. It is not true
any longer. When this army comes, he says, it is large and it is mighty. It is
so mighty that there has never been anything like it before. Not even Moses.
Not even David. Not even Paul. What’ s going to happen now will transcend what
Paul did. What David did for me. What Moses did. Even though Moses parted the
Red Sea. Something greater is coming in this army. And there won’ t be just one
Moses. They’ ll be a numerous company. See, Revelation hints at this when it
talks about the 144,000 that follow the Lamb where ever He goes (emphasis
added). And no one can harm that 144,000. See, that’ s a multiple of twelve.
What’ s twelve? Twelve is the number of the apostles. Twelve is apostolic government.
And when you take an important number in the Bible and multiply it, that means
you intensify it. So 12,000 times 12,000 equals 144,000. That is the ultimate
in apostolic government. Revelation talks about that. Well, here Joel is
talking about it now in different words. A powerful and mighty army with many
Pauls, and many Moses, many Davids. (Tape 1)
Dr. Deere is saying that the latter
rain revival will be carried out by those who are in Joel’ s army, which he
also equates with the 144,000 witnesses from Revelation 7. Dr. Deere has
undergone amazing changes in his theology since the time when he was one of my
Hebrew professors at Dallas Theological Seminary in the late 1970s.
HISTORY
Restoration and latter rain teachings
did not just spring up out of thin air in this century, nor do I believe they
are the result of a new prophetic revelation being given by the Lord as part of
the current ” new move” of God. Various aspects of the current doctrine can be
found as far back as the early 1800s.
Mormonism
Joseph Smith built Mormonism in the
1820s on the foundation of alleged angelic visits and communications, with a
claim that God was restoring prophetic gifts and authority from apostolic times
in preparation for these latter days. Mormonism instituted twelve apostles and
taught that ” God’ s direct intervention in human affairs had not ceased with
the apostolic age; revelation was continuing to be expressed through Smith as
God’ s prophet.”[1] In fact, early Mormons were the first in modern times to advocate
and practice ” speaking in tongues” as a sign of the restoration of apostolic
times. (The parallels between Mormonism and some aspects of the third wave
should cause great alarm to most evangelicals.)
Irvingites
Edward Irving (1792-1834), a defrocked
Presbyterian minister, founded the Catholic Apostolic Church toward the end of
his short but engaging life. Irving linked the restoration of apostolic
Christianity with the nearness of the second coming, not the rapture. Irving
believed that God was restoring apostles, prophets, healing, and the gift of
tongues during the 1830s in the British Isles to prepare the true church for
the return of Christ which he said would occur in 1868. Irving is credited with
being the first to make the modern Pentecostal connection between speaking in
tongues as the sign of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Irving appears to have
also been the first to teach the need for the restoration of the fivefold
offices of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers before the
church could properly be made ready for the coming Bridegroom.[2] This ”
fivefold ministry” teaching is increasingly popular today within restoration
and latter rain circles, which teach that in order for the church to be truly
perfected to meet her soon coming Lord, all five of these ministries, including
apostles and prophets, must be restored and functioning today.
Holiness Movement
As the 1800s progressed, there arose
within Methodism a call to return to the holiness teachings of John Wesley who
saw that ” moral growth, or sanctification, is both progressive and
instantaneous.” [3] Phoebe Palmer, wife of a New York physician, was the most
influential advocate of the holiness message about 150 years ago. ” Palmer,
like many others, also departed from Wesley by identifying the second moment of
grace- or the second blessing, as it had come to be called- with the baptism of
the Holy Spirit.” [4] By the 1880s, this movement had spawned many independent
churches and a few denominations like the Nazarene and Wesleyan holiness
churches. Others, like Charles Finney and A. B. Simpson, made contributions to
the development of this movement which became the fertile soil out of which the
Pentecostal movement grew in the following century.
The latter rain teaching was also
found within holiness teachings. An example is seen in Phoebe Palmer’ s 1859
book- The Promise of the Father- where she uses ” the latter rain argument to
defend the ministry of women.”[5] Charles Parham, the founder of
Pentecostalism, was ” impressed with the emphasis throughout the Holiness
movement on a ‘ latter rain’ outpouring of the Holy Spirit.” [6] So we can see
that the idea of a latter rain restoration and revival was anticipated by many
holiness leaders who would later give birth to what they would come to believe
was the start of this anticipated end-time revival- Pentecostalism.
Pentecostalism
Many Christians are aware that the
Pentecostal movement began on January 1, 1901 in Topeka, Kansas when Agnes
Ozman (1870-1937) spoke in tongues under the tutelage of Charles Fox Parham
(1873-1929). Yet, how many realize that in the ” early years Pentecostalism
often took the name ‘ Latter Rain Movement’ ” ?[7] This is because Parham
titled his report of the new movement as ” The Latter Rain: The Story of the
Origin of the Original Apostolic or Pentecostal Movements.” [8] Many are also
aware that William J. Seymour (1870-1922) came under the influence of Parham in
Houston, Texas in 1905 and then took the Pentecostal message to Azusa Street in
Los Angeles in 1906, from where it was disseminated to the four-corners of the
world. But, how many are also aware that he too spoke of these things in terms
of a latter rain framework?
There is no doubt that the latter
rain teaching was one of the major components in the foundation of
Pentecostalism. ” Modern Pentecostalism is the ‘ latter rain,’ the special
outpouring of the Spirit that restores the gifts in the last days as part of
the preparation for the ‘ harvest,’ the return of Christ in glory,” says
Dayton.[9] David Wesley Myland (1858-1943) was one of the early Pentecostal
leaders. He wrote the first distinctly Pentecostal hymn entitled, ” The Latter
Rain” in 1906. The ” first definitive Pentecostal theology that was widely
distributed, the Latter Rain Covenant” appeared in 1910.[10]Myland argued in
his book that ” now we are in the Gentile Pentecost, the first Pentecost
started the church, the body of Christ, and this, the second Pentecost, unites
and perfects the church into the coming of the Lord.” [11]
Dayton concludes that the ” broader
Latter Rain doctrine provided a key . . . premise in the logic of Pentecostalism.”
[12] In spite of having such a key place in the thinking of early
Pentecostalism, ” the latter rain doctrine did tend to drop out of
Pentecostalism” in the 1920s ” only to reappear, however, in the radical Latter
Rain revitalization movement of the 1940s.” [13]
(to be continued)
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