Chronological Emergence Of The Apostate Church Over Last 100 Years

Edited 27 Jan, 6 Feb, 17 Aug, 7 Nov 2011 and 1 April 2012
(for 17 Aug, edit see 3 videos added under Word Faith section)


This is Part  3 of a series looking into how (many strands of) the protestant evangelical Church became apostate over the last 100 years.This part 3 is not completed yet but due to various reasons I feel I need to display something now. I will add to it in due course, but I hope you find this helpful, for now.  To see part 1 and 2 please click these shortcut links:
Part 1   Why Dominion and Kingdom Now Theology Leads The Church Down The Same Road To Apostasy As Pursued By Rome
Part 2   Background To Why The Twentieth Century Evangelical Church Became Apostate


We will now look at the chronological emergence of the apostate church over the first half of the last one hundred years, through the influences of men like William Branham, EW Kenyon and Kenneth Hagan.


These men, whose false  "Christian" gnostic (now known as New Age) teachings and their unhealthy over focus on the supernatural and angelic experiences, became the forerunners to the Latter Rain and Word Faith movements. We will look at the origins of these two movements with a brief description of their main false teachings and their key objectives. We will also look at the subsequent and initial organisations which arose (at that time). 

These movements are the basis and links which led to the introduction of all other apostate  "Christian" organisations (which are ecumenical and new age). They are both very similar in their teachings. They both emphasise replacementism, the global reign of the church BEFORE Jesus returns (Kingdom Now Dominionism), restoration of the 5 fold ministry and the New Age idea and the satanic lie that we can all become like God by becoming little gods. They both emphasise power supernatural  ministry and talk much about angelic visitations.

Please read Colossians 2:18  and 2 Corinthians 11:14-15 which expose these "experiences" as unscriptural

First, here is a brief chronological sequence of 
how the evangelical Church moved away from a sound solid base to embrace the apostate.

Charismatic History:

1904 Onwards: Revivals leading to Pentecostal movement

1920’s: AOG, Elim, Apostolic Churches formed

1920’s to 1948 E W Kenyon laid the foundational teachings for Word Faith to be born later

1930’s to 1940’s: William Branham influence resulting in rise of Latter Rain movement and its teachings

1940’s:  William Branham, George Warnock, Paul Cain and others attempted to introduce Latter Rain/Manifest Sons of God teachings into the Pentecostal movement.

1948 Onwards: Israel Become a Nation again coinciding with the full emergence of  Latter Rain Movement (include Manifest Sons Of God) preaching replacementism

1949, the Assemblies of God officially rejected the Latter Rain/ Manifest Sons of God doctrine as "heresy." The cult went underground but surfaced again in the 1960’s as the Manchild Company

1949: Kenneth E Hagan’s Itinerant ministry began (leading to Word Faith movement about 1967)

1951: Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International started (Kenneth Hagin given full admission)

1948-1952: The Latter Rain Revival. Sharon Schools (Global Missions). This time coincided with the evangelical revivals Billy Graham, and healing revival Oral Roberts, Smith Wigglesworth, William Branham, David du Plessis, Cecil Cousen, Oral Roberts, Jack Coe, TL Osborn, Dennis Bennett, David Watson, Donald Gee, Michael Harper, George Warnock. Paul Cain, John Robert Stevens

1954 Onwards: Awakening Revivals London Billy Graham 1952-1960’s: Revival died

1957 (approx.)  Billy Graham became ecumenical.  On Fullers Board 1958

1952-1960’s: Latter Rain Revival died out. The Latter Rain Movement took over

1960’s the rise again of the Latter Rain/ Manifest Sons of God cult, through the Manchild Company. Disregarding the Assemblies of God decision, Paul Cain, the Kansas City Prophets and Vineyard Ministries have subsequently reintroduced and successfully established their false doctrine in the Pentecostal churches.

1960’s Onwards: In Britain, Renewal Movement (becoming ecumenical and charismatic with many denominations joining) within Anglican Churches and house groups influenced by   the Anglican Renewal Movement tried valiantly to pastor the Renewal but foundered on ecumenism, formalism and their loyalty to the historic denominations

1950’s -1960’s The House-Church movement, as it was known at first, ran almost unnoticed alongside both the Anglican Renewal Movement and the independent Pentecostal groups

1963-5: Vatican II Ecumenical Statements and  secret talks with protestant charismatics

1963-7 Onwards: Kenneth E Hagan (through his Evangelistic Association and influenced by ministry of EW Kenyon) instrumental in Word Faith Movement Taking Off as a “discernable Movement”

1967 onwards Roman Catholics Take over the renewal

1967 (approx) emergence of Word Faith movement

1969 Charismatic Conference had the theme "Catholic Pentecostalism"

1970’s Onwards: Gradual decline in Doctrine and expression to Rome of Charismatics

1971 The first international charismatic conference held in Guildford was described by some as the "Coming of Age of The Renewal" yet it was attended by 40 Lutherans and 30 Roman Catholics and one of the main speakers was Kevin Ranaghan. "Mr Pentecost" David Du Plessis was also there.

1972, Cardinal Suenens became intimately involved in the Renewal and introduced it to the Catholic Charismatic movement

1970’s Onwards: Shepherding Movement with Fort Lauderdale 5 (Become united with Catholics) Shepherding covering and apostleship becomes similar to Catholic priesthood

1974 Martin and Clark teamed up with the ‘Fort Lauderdale Five’ (Bob Mumford, Charles Simpson, Derek Prince, Don Basham & Ern Baxter – former secretary to William Branham), who were the founders of the Shepherding Movement, which later became known as the Charismatic Movement (yes, friends, the Shepherding came first!). They were joined by John Poole, another latter Rain adherent. Together these men established a group for ecumenical renewal.

1974 Onwards: Charismatic ecumenism  and New Order of The Latter Rain

1975 Anglican Renewal ends

1970’s throughout  Many leave the Anglican churches and are absorbed by House Church Movement. A Vacuum left after the end of the Anglican renewal helped lay the foundations of  the Restoration Movement beginning small as house groups as leaders emerged rebuilding from scratch with many meetings of the pioneers until its final formation

1975 Onwards: House Church Movement called Restoration Movement UK Apostling or New Church Movement (Well established by 1975 onwards)

1976 Charismatic Apostleship becomes like Vatican in deciding what is Doctrine.

1976 North South Divide of Restoration Movement. North soon ended without new leaders

1979 Evangelical Alliance become Charismatic with introduction of Spring Harvest with

Clive Calver, Peter meadow

1979 Onwards: Origins of Alpha Ecumenical Movement (originally laid in 1979 through the initial work of Charles Marnham)

1980’s onwards  The rise of New Frontiers and other similar restorations fellowships with networking methods. The rise of the New Apostolic Reformation aka NAR  or New Order of Latter Rain (out of Latter Rain).
Edited 7 Nov 2011. Here is a specific article on the NAR The New Apostolic Reformation. Why We Should Be Concerned About It

1980’s onwards  the infiltration of New Age teaching enters the church, with a plethora of new ecumenical, charismatic, experiential, so called weird revivals and new aged influenced Christians groups emerging, like seeker friendly, purpose Driven, Emerging Church, Promise Keepers (to name a few). See my list of the main groups on:

List Of (Probable) False Christian Leaders, False Christian Teachers and False Prophets (As Indicated By The Ecumenical or Heretical Organisations They Belong To)

We will now look at the origins of Latter Rain and Word Faith with a brief description of their main false teachings and their key objectives. We will also look at the subsequent and initial organisations which arose (at that time).

Notice the similarities of their teachings and their heresies and how they would have spread the same type of poison (using different methods and channels) throughout the evangelical/charismatic churches.

Most Apostasy seems to have originated with William Branham (1909-1965) EW Kenyon and Kenneth E Hagan which (between them resulted in the birth of Latter Rain and Word Faith

William Branham 
See http://www.letusreason.org/Latrain9.htm  and http://www.letusreason.org/Latrain4.htm  which shows up his weird experiences and belief’s, which were the forerunner to  much of the weird unscriptural nonsense we hear from Word faith preachers of today and the dawn of the age of experientialism

Latter Rain were inspired by William Branham and emerged

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latter_Rain_(post-World_War_II_movement)

EW Kenyon

The spiritual mentor of today's Word-Faith teachers is E W. Kenyon, a man who was greatly influenced by the metaphysical mind science religions (some being cults) such as Christian Science, Unity School of Christianity, and Church of Religious Science note this paragraph modified slightly 7 Mar 2011

The bedrock of Word-Faith doctrine is what Kenyon calls "new creation realities." For the rest of the Word-Faith assertions to work, man first must be exalted to a high position.  Word-Faith teaching puts man on the same level as Jesus Christ.  This is done by assembling Scripture passages to purportedly prove that once a man is in Christ, then the "new creature" spoken of in 2 Corinthians 5:17 is recreated as a new species of being.  Kenyon writes: "You see, man is a spirit being.  He is in the same class with God.  He was created in the image and likeness of God.  He had to be in order to become a partaker of the Divine Nature.  When he sinned he became a partaker of Satan's nature, selfishness. ... The part of man that is re-created in [sic] his spirit.  God imparts to our spirit His own nature, Eternal Life" (The Hidden Man, p.121).  


For more details which show up the false teachings please click on http://www.victorychristianfellowshipfalseteachers.com/ewkenyon.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_Faith

Kenneth E Hagan (through his Evangelistic Association and influenced by ministry of EW Kenyon) was instrumental in Word Faith Movement Taking Off as a “discernable Movement”

http://www.sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=11054

Word Faith

For full details of how this movement emerged please read my article on http://watchmanforjesus.blogspot.com/2010/02/truth-and-danger-about-word-faith.html and read http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/word-faith.html

Edited 17 Aug 2011 (just this paragraph)
and here is a  series of 3 powerful videos (from Justin Peters) exposing the  heresies of the Word of Faith movement. Please click on the shortcut links: 
A Call for Discernment Session 1 - Dangerous Doctrine - YouTube
A Call for Discernment Session 2 - Mangled Manifestations - YouTube
A Call for Discernment Session 3 - hurt of healing

Latter Rain

Manifest Sons teachings are Kingdom Dominionist and replacementist: they believe in restoration of the Church, restoration of the 5 fold ministry with the offices of apostles and prophets, having authority through its leaders by strong shepherding and discipleship. A perfection of the saints, immortalization, and the attainment of being Christ as we become just like Christ in nature and ability.  See the similarities with Word Faith?

The Manifest Sons of God doctrine has an eschatology of Dominionism through the perfecting of the saints under the leadership guidance of the latter-day prophets and apostles. All the promises for Israel they apply to themselves.

See   http://www.letusreason.org/Latrain1.htm   for all you need to know about Latter Rain and Manifest Sons Of God and also on   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latter_Rain_(post-World_War_II_movement)

These groups emerged out of the influences of Latter Rain and Word Faith:

Shepherding Movement, Restorationists (house church movement) New Apostolic Reformation (see note on this group below), New Frontiers, Charismatic Catholics and Ecumenism etc

Edited 1st April 2012 (Just this paragraph)
Please note I have added a new article which exposes how dangerous the Manifest Sons of God doctrine now known as JOELS ARMY is. This new article demonstrates how Joels Army is now emerging in a big way and why it is a seriously dangerous precedent in 2012  Here is the link:  The Rise Of The New Inquisition. Joels Army



Re Shepherding  and Restoration Movements

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherding_Movement

Re Catholic links

http://www.seeking4truth.com/charismatic_movement.htm

Re New Frontiers Link with Paul Cain Of Latter Rain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfrontiers

Until I add to this article and publish part 4 please also check these excellent 2 articles which are also a portrayal of how the apostate church developed throughout the last 50 years or so.
http://www.birthpangs.org/articles/background/restuk2.html

http://www.birthpangs.org/articles/background/restuk3.html

Added 6 Feb 2011
This is the full list of  ecumenical and/or new age influenced Organisations I am dealing with in this article and on the next one (Part 4):

Latter Rain

Manifest Sons Of God

Fullers Theological Seminary
Word of Faith

Shepherding  Movement

Restoration and House Church Movement

New Frontiers 

Spring Harvest

New Breed

Joel's Army
New Apostolic Reformation (NAR)

Third Wave Movement

Vineyard

Toronto Blessing, Pensacola and Lakeland Revivals

Alpha

Kingsway International Church (KICC)

TBN

Seeker Friendly

Purpose Driven (Rick Warren)

Emerging Church

HillSong

Promise-Keepers 

Renovaré

Healing Rooms
Elijah List (list of prophetic Ministries)

Manhattan Declaration 

Westminster 2010 Declaration

THE MESSAGE endorsers

Jerusalem Prayer Team

Lausanne Movement (founded By Billy Graham)

International Apostolic Council (IAC)

International Coalition of Apostles (ICA)

Mission America Coalition (MAC)
American Society for Church Growth (ASCG)

Evangelicals and Catholics Together 1994