Trump Return & White Hat Intel - The
“Latter Rain” Revival Movement Part 6 - Tim Russ is Obama Body Double – US Military
News - Gene Decode Breaking News - ATLAS SHRUGS - X22 Report - Geert Wilders
Calls Out 'Arab Influence in EU and
more.
Researched & Comments by Pastor
Gary Boyd
April 26th 2023
New TruthStream: Clones, Huna's:
Ascension, Law of One, The Bible, Consciousness, Donald Marshall - Wednesday,
April 26, 2023 15:59 - Cloning is the process of producing individual organisms
with identical or virtually identical DNA, either by natural or artificial
means. In nature, some organisms produce clones through asexual reproduction. https://beforeitsnews.com/prophecy/2023/04/new-truthstream-clones-hunas-ascension-law-of-one-the-bible-consciousness-donald-marshall-2540842.html
MAIL ONLINE: Oral sex is fueling an
'epidemic' of throat cancers in the US and UK, doctor claims - Dr Hisham Mehanna
warned people with more sexual partners were at risk - This was because they
were more likely to catch HPV, which can cause cancer - READ MORE: Many
Americans don't realize this STD can cause cancer, survey - By LUKE ANDREWS
HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM - UPDATED: 15:04 EDT, 26 April 2023 - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12016417/Oral-sex-fueling-epidemic-throat-cancers-UK-doctor-claims.html
REAL RAW NEWS - Star Trek: Voyager
Actor Tim Russ is Barack Obama Body Double -
By Michael Baxter -April 25, 2023 -Tim Russ, the actor who played the
Vulcan Tuvok in Star Trek: Voyager in the 1990s, has revived his acting career
with a fresh gig: portraying disgraced former President Barack Hussein Obama on
television and in public, sources at U.S. Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER) told
Real Raw News. https://realrawnews.com/2023/04/star-trek-voyager-actor-tim-russ-is-barack-obama-body-double/
US MILITARY NEWS: Restored Republic
via a GCR: Update as of April 25, 2023 - By Divina Ellisson - 25 April, 2023 - https://theusmilitarynews.com/restored-republic-via-a-gcr-update-as-of-april-25-2023/
BLP: Entrapped Victim of Gretchen
Whitmer Fednapping Hoax Makes Impassioned Plea for Investigations of FBI, DOJ -
By Shane Trejo - Apr 25, 2023 - Adam D. Fox, the alleged ringleader of the
fednapping hoax of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, is making an impassioned
plea demanding the investigation of the FBI and DOJ for setting up the entire
entrapment scheme. Fox made his plea in a letter addressed to Congressman Jim
Jordan (R-OH). The letter was reported on the Substack of Radix Verum. https://bigleaguepolitics.com/entrapped-victim-of-gretchen-whitmer-fednapping-hoax-makes-impassioned-plea-for-investigations-of-fbi-doj/
US MILITARY NEWS: Judy Byington: Full
Situation and Intel Update Restored Republic via a GCR: Wed. 26 April 2023
(Video) - Wednesday, April 26, 2023 11:52 - The main Cabal corporations were
Blackrock, State Street and Wall Street owned by the Rockefellers and
Rothschilds. https://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2023/04/judy-byington-full-situation-and-intel-update-restored-republic-via-a-gcr-wed-26-april-2023-video-3791997.html
New Situation Update 04.26.23 ~ Trump
Return - White Hat Intel ~ Juan O Savin. SGAnon Intel - Wednesday, April 26,
2023 11:00 - https://beforeitsnews.com/prophecy/2023/04/new-situation-update-04-26-23-trump-return-white-hat-intel-juan-o-savin-sganon-intel-2540832.html
Gene Decode Breaking News 4-26-2023!! - Must
Video - Wednesday, April 26, 2023 13:40 - https://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2023/04/gene-decode-breaking-news-4-26-2023-must-video-3661268.html
ATLAS SHRUGS - WATCH: Tucker
Carlson’s Speech After Final Fox News Show Goes Viral - Wednesday, April 26,
2023 11:09 - These are the most important words Tucker Carlson has ever spoken.
Listen to this. https://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2023/04/watch-tucker-carlsons-speech-after-final-fox-news-show-goes-viral-3661242.html
X22 Report - Biden Admin Will Not
Negotiate The Debt Ceiling! This Will Fail Just Like Everything Else! - Must
Video - Wednesday, April 26, 2023 15:16 - The [CB]/[WEF] are now pushing
shortages of products in the EU, this is part of their GND. The Biden IRA plan
will not work, the plan has been accelerated and it will fail because the world
will not be able to function. The plan to crash the market and blame it on the
Republicans will fail. https://beforeitsnews.com/economy/2023/04/x22-report-biden-admin-will-not-negotiate-the-debt-ceiling-this-will-fail-just-like-everything-else-must-video-3083993.html
RAIR - Must Watch: Geert Wilders
Calls Out 'Arab Influence' Over EU Politicians Pushing for the 'Islamization of
Europe' - By Amy Mek - April 25, 2023 - Geert Wilders, the leader of the
Netherlands Party for Freedom, delivered a powerful speech at the convention
hosted by André Ventura, the founder, and leader of Portugal’s national
conservative party, Chega. Wilders and other high-profile conservative leaders
were invited to speak at the event as part of an effort to strengthen political
alliances across Europe. Wilders said, “Weak politicians and cultural
relativists have destabilized Europe by letting millions of migrants into the
continent, many of whom come from Islamic countries and embrace the violent and
totalitarian Islamic Sharia law.” https://rairfoundation.com/must-watch-geert-wilders-calls-out-arab-influence-on-eu-politicians-pushing-for-islamization-of-europe/
The “Latter Rain” Revival Movement Part
6
by Thomas Ice
Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd
April 26th 2023
This is my final installment on the ”
latter rain” revival movement. Thus, I will bring to an end my discussion on
the Ephesians 5:25-27 passage and then call attention to the negative
implications that this doctrine has upon pretribulationism and Bible prophecy
in general.
Key Theological Concepts and Passages
A Perfect Church?
In my previous article, I
demonstrated that restorationists teach that the church must reach a level of
experiential perfection before the return of Christ is possible. They believe
that Christ may not return until this is achieved. The means that they believe
bring about this perfection is an end-time outpouring of the Holy Spirit,
resulting in a ” latter rain” revival. This revival will be the vehicle for
perfecting the existing church and, in turn, lead to the quick conversion of
millions to Christ. The key to the revival will be the unity of the church.
Some of these beliefs are alleged to come from Ephesians 5:25-27. I will
complete an examination of that passage.
In a nutshell, the Bible here
describes the believer’ s legal standing before God, as won on our behalf
through Christ’ s work on the cross. On the other hand, Restorationist
(mis)apply this text as something which the believer and the Church must grow
into and become in our current experience. I will now examine reasons why this
passage should be interpreted positionally. First, verse 25 is grounding Paul’
s admonition on the basis of Christ’ s giving of Himself sacrificially on the
cross. Within the context of this passage it is a clear reference of something
that can only apply to the believer’ s legal standing before God. Because
Christ’ s giving of Himself on behalf of Believers is a summary of His gracious
provision to the church for her salvation.
Second, in verse 26, the passive
participle ” having cleansed,” speaks of action which occurs simultaneously
with the action of the verb (gave), to which it is related to in verse 25. This
means that the cleansing is related to Christ’ s giving of Himself on the
cross- a positional and not experiential sense. In other words, this is
something that happens at justification (the moment one becomes a true
Christian) and not at sanctification (the process of living the Christian life
after initial faith in Christ).
Third, the vocabulary words used in
this passage are terms that are employed throughout the Bible to describe
positional salvation or justification, not the process of living the Christian
life or sanctification. ” Cleanse” refers to ceremonial washings within the Old
Testament temple ritual that depict justification, not sanctification. This
same Greek word is used to describe positional salvation (justification) in
John 15:3 when Jesus said, ” You are already clean because of the word which I
have spoken to you.” ” Washing of water with the word” is also a positional
phrase descriptive of becoming a Christian, not being a Christian (cf. Titus
3:5).
Fourth, the terms in verse 27, having
no ” spot” or ” wrinkle,” and that believers should be ” holy” and ”
blameless,” in this context, like the previous terms, refers to a Believer’ s
legal standing earned by Christ in His death on the cross. They do not speak of
a current process like sanctification, as would be required for the
restorationist view to have merit. For the restorationist interpretation to be
possible, this part of the passage should have used language that speaks of
sanctification, which it does not.
Fifth, when will these things be
accomplished for the church? As Lenski says, ” the words indicate the final
perfection of holiness at the last day.” [41] It is a future perfection to
which Paul speaks. Commentator John Eadie concludes and summarizes, after
examining the meaning of this passage from the original Greek text, the
following:
Such, then, is to be the ultimate
perfection and destiny of the church. . . .
We have already said that the
presentation is not contemporary with the consecration, but is posterior to it,
and does not finally and formally take place on earth. The ” church” we
understand in its full significance, as the whole company of the redeemed,
personified and represented as a spiritual Spouse. The presentation belongs
therefore to the period of the second coming, . . .
The church as it now is, and as it
has always been, has many spots and wrinkles upon it. But perfection is secured
by a process of continuous and successful operation, and shall be ultimately
enjoyed.[42]
This would mean that the body of
Christ is being perfected when a new individual believes the Gospel and God
applies the finished work of Christ to their account. When the last person
believes, then the rapture will occur, because the Body of Christ will have
been made complete. Up in heaven, the resurrected and glorified bride, who has
made herself ready (Rev. 19:1-10), will be presented to Christ in experiential
perfection at the marriage supper of the Lamb. The Church will not experience
perfection before the resurrection, even though legally she is made perfect by
the work of Christ. This experience of perfection, up in heaven, will take
place during the same time that the supposed ” latter rain” outpouring of the
Holy Spirit is said to fall upon the Church.
Theological Implications
For those following this series, you
should be able to see by now that terms like ” latter rain” and ” Joel’ s army”
from Joel 2 do not in any way, shape, or form refer to the Church. Instead they
refer to God’ s program for Israel. Thus, it cannot refer in any way to the
church. In fact, one of the purposes of the tribulation will be that God will
purge out the rebels (unbelieving Israel) from the remnant (Ezek. 20:38) so
that ” all Israel will be saved” (Rom. 11:26) by the time of Christ’ s second
coming. These passages, taken in their contexts, refer to God’ s program for
Israel and not the Church.
Such misinterpretation leads to ram,
cram, and jamming God’ s plan for Israel into the Church. This causes those who
do such things to not only distort God’ s plan for Israel during the
tribulation, but to also miss the focus for the Church, which is Christ’ s
any-moment return at the rapture. It is not surprising that as more
Evangelicals focus upon a revival theology, that their gaze is taken away from
the Blessed Hope (Titus 3:5). John teaches that it is just such a hope ” fixed
on Him [that] purifies himself, just as He [Jesus] is pure” (1 John 3:3b).
Since the Church will be taken out
before the tribulation of Daniel’ s 70th week begins (the pretrib rapture),
which I believe, then one cannot believe in a theology of restoration and
latter rain. The pretrib position teaches that the Church is raptured, not
restored. Other views of the rapture (partial, midtrib, pre-wrath, and
posttrib), all mix God’ s program for Israel and the Church into the
tribulation, thus allowing for the possibility, but not the necessity, of some
form of latter rain/restoration teachings. This is one of the main reasons why
so many Charismatic leaders appear to increasingly pepper their sermons with
anti-rapture statements. They realize that one cannot be looking both for a
great ” latter rain” revival and an any-moment return of Christ at the rapture.
If a revival is necessary, then there is something that has to happen before
Christ could return, and the rapture would have to wait until after this has
convened.
I have meet people who say that they
believe in both an any-moment rapture and the necessity of an end-time revival.
This is logically impossible as noted above. If any thing has to happen before
the rapture, then it is logically impossible that the rapture is imminent. Yet,
even after asking those who hold this position for an explanation that would
resolve this clear conflict, they cannot verbalize one. They are usually quick
to tell me that God can to things that appear impossible to us and continue
believing two contradictory views. The impossible things that God does in
history do not relate to resolving contradictions, but refers to Him
accomplishing things that a finite, fallen human being lacks the ability to
perform. God never has or will accomplish things that contradict His Word.
Instead, He performs His will in His own time in His way. So this is not an
instance of a both/and, but of an either/or. Either the pretrib rapture is true
or it is not. Or, either an end-time ” latter rain” revival is true or it is
not. Fish or cut bait, but you cannot do both.
Many have been exposed to bits and
pieces of ” latter rain” revival teachings through a whole host of vehicles.
For example, the Vineyard churches (founded by the late John Wimber) have been
advocating a ” latter rain” revival teachings since at least February 1989 when
Paul Cain taught these things at their annual conference in Anaheim,
California. The ” latter rain” revival doctrines have been disseminated to many
others through Vineyard influenced events such as ” The Praise March,” or ” The
March for Jesus,” and the well-know and well-attended ” Promise Keepers.” The
end-time ” latter rain” revival doctrines are being disseminated through music
on the radio and at various Christian events. These teachings are quite evident
on Christian radio and television. Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) has an
over abundance of ” latter rain” revival advocates, although they rarely call
it that. They primarily just speak of the coming revival and sometimes bash
belief in the rapture. There are dozens of books, the last ten years, that
advocate similar themes.
An increasing number of Evangelical
leaders and participants in these events are adopting ” latter rain” revival
ideas, some in bits and pieces rather than the whole cloth. Some are adopting
pieces such as belief in an end-time revival and the requirement of
experiential unity in order to effect such a revival. Such views are
increasingly widespread and undermine the biblical teaching of
pretribulationism.
Conclusions
I believe that one of the major
reasons why a significant segment of Evangelicals are moving away from
pretribulationism is due to the increasing popularity of ” latter rain” revival
teachings. To buy into such categories naturally causes an antagonism to
pretribulationism and its accompanying doctrines. I believe that many
Evangelicals have been exposed to the teachings of both pretribulationism and ”
latter rain” revival teachings and have not reached the point of sorting out
the differences so that they may come down on one side or the other. The purpose
of this series is to explain the rise and development of these teachings so
that anyone, pro or con, might see them as a whole and not just absorb bits and
pieces from one and wonder why their theology on these matters seem confused. I
want to clarify positions so that Believers can make an informed choice.
Hopefully, falling on the side of biblical truth and the pretrib rapture.
As I noted in earlier articles, the
New Testament does not say even one word about a revival for the church at any
time let alone about an end-time ” latter rain” revival. I also noted that God
is free to sovereignly send a revival at any time He pleases, but that there
are no formulas or conditions in the New Testament that will bring His
blessing. The New Testament does warn in dozens of passages about the threat of
apostate doctrine and behavior that Believers are to beware of. Finally, the
New Testament does teach Believers ” to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He
raised from the dead, that is Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come” (1
Thess. 1:10). Jesus Himself is our hope. The hope, like a betrothed bride, who
longs to see and be with her groom because she loves him (and though you have
not seen Him, you love Him, 1 Pet. 1:8). Maranatha!
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