Dominionism Taught By Forerunners of the New Apostolic Reformation Since the Late 1940s
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Thu Nov 03, 2011 at 09:19:43 PM EST
Lou Engle has repeatedly described TheCall events he has held around the world as inspired by the revivals of Franklin Hall.  In 1946 Hall began a fasting and faith-healing revival in San Diego which had a significant impact on the movement known as the Latter Rain.  Hall's books and media of other Latter Rain leaders leave no doubt that the Charismatic brand of Dominionism of today's apostles and prophets of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) has a long history.  It actually predates Rushdoony's Reconstructionism and it also counters the statements of David Barton and others who claim that the idea of Dominionism in American Christianity is an invention of liberals. Quotes from George Warnock's 1951 Feast of Tabernacles and Franklin Hall's 1966 Subdue the Earth, Rule the Nations are included below.
Leaders of the Latter Rain fasting and faith-healing revivals in the 1940s and 1950s called for adherents to subdue the earth and take dominion over the planet. The movement resulted in thousands leaving the Pentecostal denominations that rejected the movement. Latter Rain lived on in sectors of neo-Pentecostalism and periodically the more