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![]() Palin’s Churches and the Third Wave
The 10 minute video documentary "Sarah Palin?s Churches and The New Wave" (currently also titled as "Sarah Palin?s Demon Haunted Churches)
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,"
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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
Along with her entire family, Sarah Palin was re-baptized at twelve at the Wasilla Assembly of God in 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 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 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 Wagner"s top leaders often conduct spiritual warfare campaigns against the demons that block the acceptance of their brand of Christian belief, such as " Mike Rose, senior pastor of Church of the Rock, led by Senior Pastor David Pepper, has taken their youth to participate in "The Call, 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.
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