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After the Latter Rain became somewhat of a scandal within Pentecostal churches in the 40’s and 50’s, ministers were wary of admitting to their beliefs. They hunkered down and got on with their lives, while secretly holding to the new revelations and passing them on to others.   Thus the teachings survived – and now have re-emerged with fresh vigour.

This is the summery of this teaching.  Those who support such beliefs as these follow in many respects orthodox beliefs in other areas.  We can sum up the Latter Rain, the Manifested Sons of God, or Dominion teaching this way:

• The Church must be restored and equipped to rule by the five-fold ministries.
• It must come to perfection and complete visible UNITY.
• Out of the purified church will come a spiritual elite corps, a Corporate Christ who possess the Spirit without measure.
• They will purge the earth of all wickedness and rebellion.
• They will judge the apostate Church.
• They will redeem all creation, and restore the earth.
• They will eventually overcome death itself in a counterfeit of the Rapture.
• The Church will thus inherit the earth, and rule over it from the Throne of Christ.
• Using the laying on of Hands in ways or manners that are not acceptable by the Word of God.
• Exaltation of experiences over the Word of God.
• Placing Apostles and Prophets above the Word of God.
• Accepting the restoration of Apostles and Prophets when throughout history genuine Apostles and Prophets have again and again appeared.
• Accepting Revelations and hidden knowledge above the Word of God.
• The belief in the corporate Manchild.
• The church is only restored by present day Apostles and Prophets.
• New Order teaching about claiming to have powers and rights that belong only to Christ.
• The teaching of the Feast of Tabernacles as describing or showing that God will indwell His people spiritually and cause them to rule before the coming of Jesus Christ.
• A denial of the bodily and personal coming of Jesus Christ except they are able to rule first.
• A Denial of the Imminent Return of Jesus Christ, the Doctrine of Imminence.
• The event known as the Rapture is for the Wicked.
• Church is Israel.
• The New Order of the Latter Rain must overtake the Old Order Saints.
• Jesus was the Pattern Son, not Deity, but a man with an anointing.
• Spiritual Warfare focused wrongly as a means of replacing heavenly powers with church rulers.
• Death will be destroyed for those who follow this teaching.
• The House of God in John 14:2 is the church rather than New Jerusalem.

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