Sarah Palin’s Churches and The Third Wave New Apostolic Reformation

“Sarah Palin’s churches are actively involved in a resurgent movement that was declared heretical by the Assemblies of God in 1949. This is the same ‘Spiritual Warfare’ movement that was featured in the award winning movie, “Jesus Camp,” which showed young children being trained to do battle for the Lord. At least three of four of Palin’s churches are involved with major organizations and leaders of this movement, which is referred to as The Third Wave of the Holy Spirit or the New Apostolic Reformation. The movement is training a young “Joel’s Army” to take dominion over the United States and the world.

Along with her entire family, Sarah Palin was re-baptized at twelve at the Wasilla Assembly of God in Wasilla, Alaska and she attended the church from the time she was ten until 2002: over two and 1/2 decades. Sarah Palin’s extensive pattern of association with the Wasilla Assembly of God has continued nearly up to the day she was picked by Senator John McCain as a vice-presidential running mate. Palin’s dedication to the Wasilla church is indicated by a Saturday, September 7, 2008, McClatchy news service story detailing possibly improper use of state travel funds by Palin for a trip she made to Wasilla, Alaska to attend, on June 8, 2008, both a Wasilla Assembly of God “Masters Commission” graduation ceremony and also a multi-church Wasilla area event known as “One Lord Sunday.” At the latter event, Palin and Alaska LT Governor Scott Parnell were publicly blessed, onstage before an estimated crowd of 6,000, through the “laying on of hands” by Wasilla Assembly of God’s Head Pastor Ed Kalnins whose sermons espouse such theological concepts as the possession of geographic territories by demonic spirits and the inter-generational transmission of family “curses”. Palin has also been blessed, or “anointed,” by an African cleric, prominent in the Third Wave movement, who has repeatedly visited the Wasilla Assembly of God and claims to have effected positive, dramatic social change in a Kenyan town by driving out a “spirit of witchcraft.”

The Wasilla Assembly of God church is deeply involved with both Third Wave activities and theology. Their Master’s Commission program is part of an three year post-high school international training program with studies in prophecy, intercessory prayer, Biblical exegesis, authority and leadership. The pastor, Ed Kalnins, and Masters Commission students have traveled to South Carolina to participate in a “prophetic conference” at Morningstar Ministries, one of the major ministries of the Third Wave movement. Becky Fischer was a pastor at Morningstar prior to being featured in the movie “Jesus Camp.” The head of prophecy at Morningstar, Steve Thompson, is currently scheduled to do a prophecy seminar at the Wasilla Assembly of God. Other major leaders in the movement have also traveled to Wasilla to visit and speak at the church.

The Third Wave is a revival of the theology of the Latter Rain tent revivals of the 1950s and 1960s led by William Branham and others. It is based on the idea that in the end times there will be an outpouring of supernatural powers on a group of Christians that will take authority over the existing church and the world. The believing Christians of the world will be reorganized under the Fivefold Ministry and the church restructured under the authority of Prophets and Apostles and others anointed by God. The young generation will form “Joel’s Army” to rise up and battle evil and retake the earth for God.

While segments of this belief system have been a part of Pentecostalism and charismatic beliefs for decades, the excesses of this movement were declared a heresy in 1949 by the General Council of the Assemblies of God, and again condemned through Resolution 16 in 2000. The beliefs and manifestations of the movement include the use of ’strategic level spiritual warfare’ to expel territorial demons from American and world cities. Worship includes excessive charismatic manifestations such as hundreds of people falling, ’slain in the spirit,’ and congregations laughing, jerking, and shrieking uncontrollably.

In early 2008 an outbreak of those phenomena commenced at the palatial former ministry estate of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, recently bought up and restored by prominent Third Wave author and leader Rick Joyner’s Morningstar Ministries. The (spiritual) “breakout” lasted for many weeks and was publicized in an extensive collection of video footage available on YouTube. Healing services in the Third Wave movement claim to heal the sick and injured through methods that in some cases can appear bizarre - including, as in recent cases involving Todd Bentley, the patient being head butted or kicked by the anointed healer. Recipients of such “spiritual” or miraculous healing make a wide range of astonishing claims - to have been cured of life-threatening illnesses, had joints repaired or replaced, been given gold teeth or gold fillings, regrown stunted limbs and even had deformed skeletal structures straightened and reshaped. Worldwide mission efforts of the movement are built around the idea of combating witches, warlocks, and generational curses, which prevent churches from being able to take root.

Thomas Muthee visited Wasilla Assembly of God and gave 10 consecutive sermons at the church, from October 11-16 2005. As both Palin and Wasilla AoG Head Pastor Ed Kalnins have attested, Thomas Muthee ‘prayed over’ Sarah Palin and entreated God to “make a way” prior to Palin’s successful bid for the Alaska governorship. Muthee made a return visit to the Wasilla Assembly of God in late 2008. Thomas Muthee’s Word of Faith Church is featured in the “Transformations” video which details an account on how Muthee drove “the spirit of witchcraft” out of Kiambu, Kenya, liberating the town from its territorial demonic possession and enabling a miraculous societal transformation. The “Transformations” video set is used as an argument for social improvement through spiritual instead of human means, and as the best method for fighting corruption, crime, drugs and even environmental degradation.

In the video, producer George Otis declares that after Thomas Muthee and his followers banished the “spirit of witchcraft” from the town, the crime rate in Kiambu dropped almost to zero, along with the rate of alcoholism, and according to Otis most of the residents of the town joined churches. The “Transformations” video has helped spark a network of ‘Transformation’ ministries and mission organizations and ‘transformation’ has become a buzz word for change based on supernatural instead of human efforts.

The Third Wave, also known as the New Apostolic Reformation, is a network of Apostles, many of them grouped around C. Peter Wagner, founder of the World Prayer Center. This center, which was built in coordination with Ted Haggard and his New Life Church in Colorado Springs, was featured in an article by Jeff Sharlet in Harpers, May 2005, “Soldiers of Christ.” Sharlet was one of the first to write in the secular press about the World Prayer Center which is often referred to by those familiar with the Third Wave as the ‘Pentagon for Spiritual Warfare.’ It features computer systems that store the data of communities around the world, mapping out unsaved peoples’ groups and spiritual mapping information for spiritual warfare. Wagner has his own group of about 500 Apostles in his council and each of these Apostles has ministries under their authority, sometimes hundreds or thousands. Recently various networks of Apostles came together to form the Revival Alliance. Leaders of the Revival Alliance including Rick Joyner of Morningstar anointed Todd Bentley whose Lakeland Healing Revival has recently been a controversial topic in the Evangelical world.

Wagner’s top leaders often conduct spiritual warfare campaigns against the demons that block the acceptance of their brand of Christian belief, such as ‘Operation Ice Castle’ in the Himalayas in 1997. Several of their top prophets and generals of intercession spent weeks in intensive prayer to “confront the Queen of Heaven.” This queen is considered by them to be one of the most powerful demons over the earth and is the Great Harlot of Mystery Babylon in Revelation. (The “Great Harlot [or 'whore'] of Mystery Babylon” theme also figures prominently in the sermons of Texas megachurch pastor and Christians United For Israel founder John Hagee, former endorser of John McCain’s 2008 presidential bid.) Wagner and his group also claim that the Queen of Heaven is Diana, the pagan god of the biblical book Ephesians and the god of Mary veneration in the Roman Catholic Church.

Following the ‘Operation Ice Castle’ prayer excursion which included planting a flag for Jesus on Mt. Everest, one of the lead prayer intercessors from the excursion, Ana Mendez, reported that there had been dramatic results including, “millions have come to faith in Asia… and other things happened which I believe are also connected…an earthquake had destroyed the basilica of Assisi, where the Pope had called a meeting of all world religions; a hurricane destroyed the infamous temple ‘Baal-Christ’ in Acapulco, Mexico; the Princes Diana died… and Mother Theresa died in India, one of the most famous advocates of Mary as Co-Redeemer.”

Mike Rose, senior pastor of Juneau Christian Center has a long relationship with Rodney Howard -Browne, credited with being the instigator of the outbreak of ‘Holy Laughter’ around the world, including the Toronto Airport Revival.

Church of the Rock, led by Senior Pastor David Pepper, has taken their youth to participate in ‘The Call, Nashville.’ This event is held at various locations around the country under the leadership of Lou Engle, also featured in the movie “Jesus Camp.” At these events youth are worked into a frenzy of anger and consternation at supposed national moral corruption. Engle, who shuffles while he preaches in imitation of Jewish prayer, is featured toward the end of the “Jesus Camp” video documentary.

The Third Wave movement is cross-denomination and is not synonymous with any specific denomination, nor is it synonymous with Evangelical or Fundamentalist. Although the movement emerged from Pentecostalism, it draws its support from a variety of denominations and religious streams. They believe they are forming a post-denominational church to take the world for the end times. To date, all of the writing and objections to this movement have emerged from other Evangelicals and Fundamentalists who believe the movement to be unbiblical. Also, it is other conservative churches that refuse to embrace the ‘outpouring of the Spirit’ that are targets of much of the anger of the movement.

You can find more information on the Third Wave movement and additional links to the activities of Palin’s churches on www.Talk2action.org in the following articles:

Documentation of the Video and Supporting Articles Sarah Palin’s Churches and the Third Wave Also posted as Palin’s Demon Haunted Churches

Video Clips (Note that all video clips are taken from original sources or sources promoting and supporting the Third Wave/New Apostolic Reformation.)

Bishop Thomas Muthee http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBvxWl7jXr0 Transformations I, Trailer George Otis, Sentinel Group

Morningstar Ministries clips including cellphone anointing, portal to Jesus http://www.prophetic.tv/morningstar/ Holy Spirit Breakout Day # 1 and 2, Day #9, and Week #15 On Prophetic TV, Morningstar Ministries full Breakout series

Wasilla Master’s Commission http://www.mcwasillaalaska.com/ Main website with links to Master’s Commission, Master’s Commission videos and photos

Wasilla AoG bulletin graphics, Wasilla AoG sermons, Wasilla AoG videos http://www.wasillaag.org/ Wasilla Assembly of God main site clips used:

Music repeated in video and sermon with chants of `Jesus, Jesus’ Wasilla AoG sermon by Pastor Todd Stafford, “In Desperate Times”, January 15, 2007.

Master’s Commission Graduation Ceremony, June 8, 2008 Sarah Palin giving Master’s Commission speech Posted on the Wasilla AoG site on June 8, 2008

Anointing of Leaders from auxiliary site http://app.razorplanet.com/acct/40149-8554/tmpl/index.php?s=gl&am p;nid=53521&preview=true From Wasilla AoG links to site

Quote about demonic strongholds and generational curses Ed Kalnins, sermon, September 26, 2004 http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:gF16SYYnXC0J:www.wasillaag.n et/2004.html+Kalnins,Canaanite&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1& ;gl=us

Lou Engle, Rick Joyner from Underground http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7sSZ7Ux3Hg Underground by www.underthethreshold Production of Brian Wages, Music/Art Director, Oakleaf Christian Fellowship

Photos at Our Hand at Youth Conference 2008 http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile& amp;friendID=49580719 Photos posted on site of Wasilla AoG staff member, Buster Barlow

`One Lord Sunday’ http://gov.state.ak.us/large_photo.php?id=153 Event photos from Wasilla AoG posted on Alaska State Government website

Supplemental Documentation (Hundreds of sources have been used in this research. Following is list of websites of featured organizations and a selection of previously published articles and books used as sources.)

http://74.125.95.104/search?q=cache:3z9krIjeCUcJ:www.charismamag. com/display.php%3Fid%3D786+Thomas+Muthee+witch&hl=en&ct=c lnk&cd=5&gl=us Charisma Magazine, January 2001, Strang Publishing

http://www.csmonitor.com/1999/0923/p15s1.html Muthee’s story in Christian Science Monitor, Also includes information on George Otis, Sentinel Group and Transformations videos

“C. Peter Wagner, head of Global Harvest Ministries in Colorado Springs, Colo., is in the vanguard of the movement. He defines three levels of spiritual warfare: “Ground-level” involves casting demons out of individuals; “occult-level warfare” involves more organized “powers of darkness” [They target here New Age thought, Tibetan Buddhism, Freemasonry, etc.]; and “strategic-level warfare” directly “confronts ‘territorial spirits’ assigned by Satan to coordinate activities over a geographical area.”

http://www.ijfm.org/PDFs_IJFM/15_4_PDFs/ijfm_15_4.pdf George Otis article, Recognizing and Defeating the Powers of Darkness International Journal of Frontier Missions, Vol. 15:4, Oct - Dec. 98 Pp 183 - 192

http://www.morningstarministries.org/Group/Group.aspx?ID=10000296 27 Holy Spirit Breakout site with links

http://www.prophetic.tv/morningstar/ Holy Spirit Breakout links for all sessions

http://www.morningstarministries.org/Groups/1000012510/MorningSta r_Ministries/Councils link to ministries including CSCL

http://www.morningstarministries.org/Group/Group.aspx?id=10000125 10#CSCL Link to Comenius School of Creative Learning

http://www.prophetic.tv/morningstar/index.php?p=2 Access to Holy Spirit Breakout videos

http://www.morningstarministries.org/PaymentGroup/Registration.as px?payment_group_id=1000000639 Worship and Warfare Conference, September 22 - 24, 2008

http://www.morningstarministries.org/Groups/1000017258/MorningSta r_Ministries/MSU.aspx Morningstar University, Releasing a Supernatural Army to Transform the World

http://www.louengle.com/ Lou Engle ministries site including The Call and Justice House of Prayer

http://www.thecall.com/Groups/1000029166/TheCall/About/Advisory_T eam.aspx The Call advisory board and promo video for upcoming event

http://www.jesuscampthemovie.com/ Jesus Camp, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, Magnolia, 2007

New Apostolic Reformation C. Peter Wagner, Global Harvest Ministries, World Prayer Center

http://jeffsharlet.com/articles/soldiers_of_christ.pdf Soldiers of Christ, Harpers, May 2005

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/may/2.36.html Prayer Warriors, Christianity Today, May 2003

http://www.globalharvest.org/index.asp?action=newapostolic C. Peter Wagner’s Global Harvest Ministry, ministry website archive Summary of book Churchquake explaining the purpose of New Apostolic Reformation Wagner describes how he named the movement and how they will change the church.

“The majority of the new apostolic churches not only believe in the work of the Holy Spirit, but they also regularly invite Him to come into their midst to bring supernatural power. It is commonplace, therefore, to observe active ministries of healing, demonic deliverance, spiritual warfare, prophecy, falling in the Spirit, spiritual mapping, prophetic acts, fervent intercession and travail, and so on in new apostolic churches”.

https://kidsinministry.org//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=107&Itemid=93 Website for ministry of Becky Fischer, minister featured in the movie, Jesus Camp Kids in Ministry International

http://www.generals.org/ Generals of Intercession, ministry of Cindy Jacobs General Council of Assemblies of God

-C. Peter Wagner, Confronting the Queen of Heaven ( Colorado Springs, Colorado, Wagner Publication, 1998, 2001

-C, Peter Wagner, editor, Praying Through the 100 Gateway Cities of the 10/40 Window (Seattle, WA, YWAM Publishing, 1994)

-Cindy Jacobs, Possessing the Gates of the Enemy: A Training Manual for Militant Intercession (Grand Rapids, MI Chosen Publishers, , 1994)

-Francis Frangipane, The Three Battlegrounds (Arrow Publishers, Division of Frangipane, Inc., 1996)

-Steve Thompson, You May All Prophecy (Shippensburg, PA , Destiny Image Publishers, , 2003)

-Rick Joyner, The Torch and the Sword (Charlotte NC, Morningstar Publications and Ministries, 2006)

http://www.lausanne.org/nairobi-2000/overview.html Deliver Us From Evil Consultation The Lausanne Movement, Consultation on Spiritual Warfare

http://www.lausanne.org/nairobi-2000/documents.html documents from Deliver Us from Evil,Lausanne Consultation

http://www.faithalone.org/journal/1997i/Hart.html The Gospel and Spiritual Warfare: A Review of Peter Wagner’s “Confronting the Powers”Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society, Spring 1997 — Volume 10:18

http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2008-0710-20070 6/holvast.pdf Spiritual Mapping: The Turbulent Career of a Contested American Missionary Paradigm, 1989 - 2005 De Turbulente Carriere van een Omstreden Americkaans Zendingsparadigma, 1989 - 2005 Rene Holvast Universeit Utrecht Doctoral Thesis , July 11, 1008

http://books.google.com/books?id=ulsXtyX7JY4C&dq=occult-level +warfare&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 Discerning the Spirit(s): A Pentecostal-charismatic Contribution to Christian Theology of Religions By Amos Yong Published by Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000 ISBN 1841271330, 9781841271330 392 pages

http://books.google.com/books?id=rixQ7tW0ZBQC&dq=%22covering+ theology%22&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 Spiritual Warfare: A Struggle for Truth By Russell Sharrock Published by Lulu.com, 2007 ISBN 184753094X, 9781847530943 408 pages

http://blogs.salon.com/0003494/stories/2004/10/31/christianitySpi ritualWarfareAndSatanicPanic.html Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion Compilation of articles on Spiritual Warfare and Satanic Panic

http://www.transformingmelbourne.org/au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=122:the-ana-mendez-story&catid=54:testimonies&Itemid=74 Master’s Commission International

http://app.razorplanet.com/acct/40149-8554/tmpl/index.php?s=au&am p;nid=3731&news_id=759&null=0 Frangipane teaching notes on Wasilla site

http://frangipane.org/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pag ename=FaithHighway/Globals/DisplayTextMessage&PROJECTPATH=100 00/1000/728&sermonid=textsermon_1218730599145&customerTyp eLabel=Weekly&sermontitle=Elijah,%20Jehu,%20and%20the%20War%2 0Against%20Jezebel Frances Frangipane Articles We must stop living for comfort as long as her harlotries and witchcrafts are so many in our land. We must refuse to settle for a false peace based on compromise and fear, especially when the Spirit of God is calling for war!

http://books.google.com/books?id=QYpD4CEqgrUC&dq=george+warno ck+latter+rain&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 Spirit of the Last Days: Pentecostal Eschatology in Conversation with Jürgen Moltmann By Peter Althouse Published by Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003 ISBN 0826466850, 9780826466853

http://books.google.com/books?id=syUupeVJOz4C&dq=george+warno ck+latter+rain&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 Encyclopedia of evangelicalism By Randall Herbert Balmer Published by Westminster John Knox Press, 2002 ISBN 0664224091, 9780664224097 654 pages Assemblies of God and Pentecostal Holiness Church expelled Latter Rain leaders from the Church”

In Palin’s Life and Politics, Goal to Follow God’s Will - NYTim… September 9, 2008 - Posted by endtimespropheticwords | C Peter Wagner (New Apostolic Reformation), False Prophets and Teachers, Fresh Fire Ministries (Todd Bentley), George Otis, Heresy/Apostasy, Joel's Army (Paul Cain), Latter Rain, Lou Engle (The Call), New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), Prophecy, Rick Joyner (MorningStar Ministries), Sarah Palin, Steve Thompson, Thomas Muthee, Todd Bentley (Fresh Fire), news, politics, signs and wonders | C Peter Wagner, christianity, dominionist, Ed Kalnins, false prophets, Fresh Fire ministries, George Otis, heresy, joels army, John McCain, Lou Engle, Masters Commission, MorningStar Ministries, NAR, New Apostolic Reformation, news, Peter Wagner, political, politics, prophetic, religion, Rick Joyner, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Christian, Sarah Palin church, Sarah Palin dominionist, Sarah Palin faith, Sarah Palin pentecostal, Sarah Palin religion, signs and wonders, spiritual mapping, spiritual warfare, Steve Thompson, third wave, Thomas Muthee, Todd Bentley, Wasilla Assembly of God |

I am holding out the slim hope that the stupidities and false doctrines of the Latter Rain movement have not been formally received by Sarah Palin in her personal faith.

As I came out of this same movement, there may be an unwittingness on Palin’s part. I know there was on mine.

Because these false doctrines of Morningstar and the NAR/Elijah Lister’s antichrist doctrines simply “do not work” in a busy, responsible Christian’s life, I am praying that Palin has not been infected to their "Lakeland" levels of deception.

Most of my FR postings have been about this movement. It is dominionist and elitist and scary. As in "End Times" Anti Christ one world theocracy scary.

I have written and will soon publish some of the even more deceptive and scary things about this movement...

Mostly that the true source of the "angels" or demons speaking to these self proclaimed Super Prophets of this movement did not use Biblical discernment to verify and check out the doctrines they were "receiving" supernaturally.

Rick Joyner, Bill Hamon, Bob Jones, Cindy Jacobs, Jim Goll, Tommy Tenny, Todd Bentley -- all have been listening to voices and "untested" angelic presences that are very similar to, if not the same, "angel" that gave false revelation to Joseph Smith of the Mormons.

In fact, some of my research bears this out. This is the End Time Delusion, folks, the one the Bible says will be a time when "they will murder the saints and think they are doing a service for God".

I got out with my Christian faith intact. Palin may already have seen the fruit of the leaders in this movement -- how their prophecies never come true, how it is really an "elitist" subculture of Super Prophets and Super Apostles who take their cues from the Old Testament rather than the new.

Lord, protect and spare Palin's faith. Open her eyes to see the leaders of this movement do not "Tremble at Your Word" and because of that, "You will chose their delusions."

You are not nearly as well informed as you would like to think. I attend an AofG church, and we have a Master’s Commission program. The program is a discipleship and ministry training program, focusing on urban missions, reaching out to the lost in large urban areas, both here and abroad.

I have attended Pentecostal churches most of my life, and have yet to see anyone to achieve “dominion” in any secular sense. Any “armies” you might refer to are armies of young people going out to evangelize the lost. Yes, we believe the Bible speaks of last days, and since no one knows when that will be, we take seriously Christ’s command to preach the gospel to every creature. I am not familiar with Morning Star, and I have seen ministries that seem to go off on the deep end theologically, but this post is just an attempt to make people afraid of Sarah Palin because of her religion.

I do not want to believe that the infection of this dangerous strain of Charismatia has infected Sarah Palin.

The reason I don't believe it is because she leads too much of an active, productive life, and most of these NARbots are losers who pilfer off the flock with their high falutin’ Christianese and keep up the old boy's club of never revealing the sin they know is happening . This is what happened to Todd Bentley and Ted Haggard of this movement.

This is why I was so upset with Jack Hayford for not "outing" the Lakeland revival as the deception it was when he had a chance.

Hayford and all good Christians need to remember Revelation 2:20 that we are NOT to 'Tolerate" or have passive agreement with false teachings or false prophets. And there is a reason it is in the Book of Revelation, too. It is just so much easier to go along and get along with freaky Christians just because they say the name of Jesus.

There has been so much damage done to the flock by this movement already, I have cried for probably a straight six months out to the Lord to "spare faith"

The NARbots use an Orwellian “language” of faith that requires complete Biblical diligence to decipher. Most workaday Christians I know do not have the time to investigate. But I do have about 300 plus pages I will be having published on them. I probably should get on the phone to the book editors now to help Palin.

I appreciate your concern and I am for Sarah Palin.

The damage done by this movement already in charismatia is enormous. It began with Bob Jones’ revelation by his ‘angel” Emma who reinstituted many of William Branham’s Latter Rain/Manifest Sons of God doctrines for the birth of the Kansas City Prophets of Bob Jones, Paul Cain and Mike Bickle of IHOP.

Despite the perverted sexual activities of Bob Jones in the early 90’s, which in a strict Biblcal sense was ‘Baal Worship” the man was “prophesying” over naked women in his church office while molesting them, this movement did not lose steam but went on to swallow the Vineyard movements with the Toronto Blessing “revival” of the 90’s.

This led to this summer’s “Lakeland Revival” with Todd Bentley, birthed in the same false prophetic bathwater as Kansas City and Toronto.

The most stunning thing about it was that the Assemblies of God — who had for nearly half a century stood against this movement — now hosted it. Throughout June and July many concerned Charismatics were in an uproar that the AOG would not see the deception that was going on.

ABC news did. So did USA Today. But if we read our bibles, we see that the fruit of this false prophetic Jezebelic spirit is always sexual immorality. Sure ‘nuff, Bentley was having an affair that led to his filing divorce papers in early August. For the charismatic mindset, this means that during this whole ‘revival” he was in sin, which disqualifies every NARbot leader who backed him.

I posted this not to dig dirt on Palin but to give her a chance to discern and distance herself from these deceptions. These NARbot leaders want to “get close” to her already— they are power groupies — -and already have “prophesied” about her in a familiar spirit of course.

“Sarah Palin’s churches are actively involved in a resurgent movement that was declared heretical by the Assemblies of God in 1949.

Oh, great.

Issues, etc. yesterday, did about a half hour on Sarah's church affiliation, specifically the pentecostalism. Likewise, Way of the Master Radio, who put it down to "evangelical lingo" that doesn't come across accurately to those on the outside.

Personally, being a generic evangelical isn't a problem. This stuff, is. Sorry Quix.

Bears looking into. Ping for later reading.

I am holding out the slim hope that the stupidities and false doctrines of the Latter Rain movement have not been formally received by Sarah Palin in her personal faith.

As I came out of this same movement, there may be an unwittingness on Palin’s part. I know there was on mine.

Because these false doctrines of Morningstar and the NAR/Elijah Lister’s antichrist doctrines simply “do not work” in a busy, responsible Christian’s life, I am praying that Palin has not been infected to their "Lakeland" levels of deception.

Most of my FR postings have been about this movement. It is dominionist and elitist and scary. As in "End Times" Anti Christ one world theocracy scary.

Take a breathe Irene .. Go to the end of the Book ... the God who "works out everything in conformity with the purpose of His will" WINS.

I love AOG, mostly.

The only thing I can tell you is that there is a deceptive lie in the arena of “spiritual warfare” that was first propagated, to my knowledge, by C Peter Wagner.

This is that we evangelize by “spiritual declarations” and “prayer against principalities” over geographical locations.

Uh... but Wagner, who is an academic from Fuller, forgets one major thing in his hypothesis: This idea of “taking cities for God” contradicts the Bible.

The Gospel must be preached to individuals, not inanimate objects or buildings or rivers or cities or geographical locations -- "how can they believe unless they hear the Word preached"? And the lies of the enemy, which are the true “strongholds” must be disentangled in love off unbelievers. Wagner's thesis, which I believe corrupted the true intercessory faith of Cindy Jacobs and Dutch Sheets, contradicts the Word and makes prayer and intercession into a video game against the devil.

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