Kingdom Triumphalism

Kingdom Triumphalism [Excerpts]

Many Charismatic's and Pentecostals that espouse the Latter Rain teaching see a sequential restoration starting from Martin Luther's time continuing through our day.

According to some, this new thing came in waves. Paul Cain calls this the “Third Wave” (as do Peter Wagner and others).

Most of the participants agree it will “contain the good of all the previous moves (of God) and much more.” This will be all encompassing and will cross all barriers. When God “releases His mighty wave it's going to engulf everybody from the Baptists to the Episcopalians and from the Episcopalians to the Catholics and every denomination on the face of the earth” (Paul Cain, “God Speaking the Second Time,” Leadership Conference, Grace Ministry, 1990).

The concept of a new move of God goes back further than the modern Toronto and Pensacola outbreaks. People have been taught to seek this “New Thing” since the Latter Rain teaching was presented in 1948.

According to many Latter Rain teachers we can become everything that Jesus was. “Jesus was God in the flesh. We must be as He was in the world, even greater in volume and influence” (Earl Paulk, The Ultimate Kingdom,” 1986, p.121). The Bible says no servant is greater than his master. It becomes a completely different interpretation to make a believer who is to be a follower of Christ as a servant become more powerful than He.

Today guilt is heaped on those who do not want be part of this new move. No one wants to be classified as being a traditionally dead part of the old thing. Stephen Hill, who [was] a key player in the new wave at Brownsville, states “The second mark of a God mocker is a fear of confrontation and change. They are so stuck in religious tradition that they are closed to new revelation” (The God Mockers, chapter 1, 1997 Stephen Hill).

Those Christians who had come to believe that a period of lukewarmness and backsliding in the Church would be a sign of the nearness of Christ's return were wrong - the era of the apostle, not the day of apostasy was at hand” (Doing A New Thing?, 1995, Brian Hewitt, introduction).

Peter Wagner has written a book called the New Apostolic Churches which explains the new Apostolic Spirit that is raising international leaders. Bill Hamon states “Christ is activating His Prophets in the 1980's and His Apostles in the 1990's. Jesus is thrilled at the thought that His prophets will soon be fully recognized by the church” (Prophets and Personal Prophecy. Page 28).

http://www.letusreason.org/Latrain12.htm

[TBC: Consistent with the false teacher above and others, unless there is unconditional acceptance of everything these self proclaimed prophets command, you are resisting the Holy Spirit. The Bible, however, again and again exhorts us to discernment, to testing, and to comparing any teaching to the standard of Scripture. "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them" (Isaiah:8:20To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
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