History of the Pentecostal/Charismatic Movement

Hello ladies and gentlemen, my name is Justin Peters. I hope that this finds you and your family doing well today. I want to thank you so much for joining me for this podcast. Today, I'm going to give you an overview of the history of the Pentecostal charismatic movement in order to understand the movement.

It really helps to have at least kind of a working knowledge of the origins of that movement. And so that's what I want to do here today and the origins of the charismatic movement. It's a checkered history to be sure that is being very generous.

So what I'm gonna do here I'm going to take a presentation that I did this past November of 2022. Presentation that I did at Kootenai Community Church Sandpoint, Idaho. It was part of a larger conference, but I did an overview of the Pentecostal charismatic movement at least the history of that and so I'm gonna just Drop that down here in the timeline and you'll watch that here in just a moment and I'll also put Links down below in the description to the rest of the conference.

There were many other speakers there in addition to myself so if you would like more information and See the rest of the conference. You can do that as well. But we're gonna I'm gonna begin by looking at the history of the gift of tongues.

I'm gonna talk about tongues. We're gonna talk about a group called the shakers the holiness movement. The Azusa Street revival. We're gonna talk a little bit about that and also look at some of the major players in the charismatic movement men and women that Charismatics today call God's generals men and women that they just revere to be mighty men and women of God and Through whom God worked mightily and they performed amazing signs and wonders and miracles.

And so we're gonna look at some of those people. We're gonna look at John Alexander Dowie Frank Sanford Charles Parham. We're gonna look at John G Lake Amy simple Macpherson Katherine Kuhlman William Branham and some others.

I'm even going to show you a little a little bit from a woman named Agnes Osmond. Agnes Osmond claimed to get she was one of the first people Excuse me. One of the first people to claim to be able to speak in tongues and not only could she speak in Tongues she claimed to be able to speak in Chinese and even write in Chinese and I'm gonna show you an actual Photocopy of some of her writings in Chinese and she didn't even know Chinese, but she could write in Chinese.

You'll I think you'll find those up Chinese writings. Very interesting. So all of that and more I want to talk about the three waves. You may have heard those terms a first second third wave of the charismatic movement about all of that.

So is it very in-depth? Well as in-depth as you can be given that only had an hour To present and I fudged even there I went about an hour and 14 minutes. So I got as much in an hour and 14 minutes as I could but I think this will be very interesting for you.

And as you're watching it, you'll see that to a person all of the generals that Charismatics claim God's generals to a person to a man to a woman. They were theological heretics they were scoundrels they were charlatans and Almost if not, all of them were sexually immoral.

It's not a good history. So as you're watching this, I want you to ask yourself and at the conclusion of it I want you to be thinking if this is if this movement is from God. If this was a move of the Holy Spirit the charismatic movement Pentecostal movement all three waves that that was if this was all of God.

Why is it that the leaders of this movement their generals? were heretics charlatans hucksters and most if not all but certainly most were Sexually immoral how could this be a movement of God given its history?

So without any further delay dear ones, I want to introduce to you myself from about six months ago. Good evening. Good evening. Hope hope everyone is doing well tonight. What a joy to be with you. Thank you so much for the invitation to come.

The History of Tongues and Early Fringe Movements

Okay, so my assignment tonight is to give you an overview a very Very much a bird's-eye overview of the history of the Pentecostal and charismatic movement. It really helps in understanding a movement if you can have just kind of at least a working knowledge of the origins of that Movement and so I want to begin by talking about that practice for which the charismatic movement is probably most well known and that is the gift of tongues and Give you just kind of a brief overview here of the history of the gift of tongues.

The biblical gift of tongues is mentioned only in the earliest of the New Testament books Acts and 1st Corinthians Peter James John nor Jude ever mentioned this gift first second Peter first second third John's not mentioned James Jude.

It's not mentioned even Paul when he wrote the book of Romans and in chapter 12 dealt with the spiritual gifts. Did not mention the gift of tongues. So the gift of tongues faded away rather quickly when you look through the chronology of the New Testament the early church fathers most of them anyway Chrysostom origin and Augustine affirmed the cessation of the gift of tongues and Then after the Apostolic Age the only time you see the gift of tongues exercise.

It's always with some outside fringy heretical Kooky quite honestly groups the first of which would have been the montanists. This was a second century group built upon new prophecy and they were known for losing Control of their bodies.

They would have ecstatic Gibberish, they would shake they would flop around on the ground so it's just a very fringe group and they spoke in tongues and Then after the monotonous the gift of tongues completely vanished or any exercise rather of the gift of tongues anything that purported to be tongues vanished until the early 1700s when you see a group known as the chemists arts.

This was a militant Protestant group that rebelled against What was known as the edict of Fontainebleau? This was an edict by Louis the 14th that rescinded the Religious freedom of the Protestants and so they were very militant group known much more for their militancy than any theology but they claimed to be able to speak in tongues and then you have the Jansen this is kind of like the flip side of The chemists ours.

This was a militant Roman Catholic group very violent and they claimed to be able to speak in tongues, but just gibberish and Then you have the shakers some of you might remember the shakers in your history books.

This was an American sect founded in 1747 by a woman named Ann Lee came to be known as mother and mother and Lee and she believed as The shakers did she founded this group the shakers. I believe that God could be found Not externally but within themselves.

In fact, let me show you a picture of mother and Lee now. I'm sorry. That's That's just what the pictures show now you look at that person mother and Lee there and I quite honest it looks like a dude that that looks like a man, but but supposedly this is what mother and Lee looked like so and there's a picture of the shakers there but mother and Lee Assuming this actually was a female Claimed to be a Reincarnation basically of Jesus Christ himself.

She claimed to be a female version of Jesus. The shakers were very very odd. They as their name implies they shook in their worship. They would tremble and they would speak in tongues and unintelligible ecstatic gibberish.

But they were also very heretical. They denied the Trinity and that is a kind of a common theme in what will become later Pentecostal groups. But they denied the Trinity they believe that Christ was a spirit and the Holy Spirit was not a person.

But rather was just the presence of God's power on earth so thoroughly heretical and they also Abstained from sex even within marriage so they they completely they said sex is immoral and So you might imagine if they outlawed sex even within marriage that Recruitment for the shakers was a bit of a challenge for them.

They they perpetuated strictly by Supposed conversions into the shakers and by adoption. So yeah, it's very very odd. They talked to dead people. Spoken tongues so very very heretical group and of course the Mormons also claimed to be able to speak in tongues this is a Photocopy from the Pittsburgh Dispatch dated April 12 1892 and the title of this article is awaiting a revelation.

Mormons listened to elders speaking in unknown tongues. And so these Mormons claimed physical healings and they also spoke in tongues. And so you see quite clearly that groups that are well outside of Orthodox Christianity any any semblance of biblical Christianity.

Spoken tongues and they did it in the exact same way that charismatics do today so what does that tell you that tells you that just because someone is speaking in tongues is Not an indication that that ability is coming from God.

Pagans did it, too. Now Let's talk a little bit about the holiness movement because this is the movement from which the modern charismatic movement truly sprung. John Wesley founder of Methodism the Methodist Church.

John Wesley was no heretic. Of course. He was very much Orthodox in his understanding of the gospel. More Arminian than what most of us would be in here so he was he was Basically right on the gospel, but he did have a very distorted view of Sanctification in that he believed in something called entire sanctification.

He believed that Excuse me after your conversion. You get a second blessing or a second experience with the Holy Spirit and then you are fully and completely sanctified. So that was very much in error.

Now this lady Phoebe Palmer she was a woman who as a young woman had two children both of Whom died just a few months after their birth and because she had two babies died. She believed that that was God's rebuke.

That was God's punishment for her not living a Life that was holy Excuse me, holy enough. And so she took Charles Wesley's teaching on Progress or entire sanctification and she made it even worse and she believed in absolute sinless perfection.

She founded the holiness movement and began to preach. Initially only to women but as time went on she began to preach to men as well. And as such, of course that goes against biblical parameters. And so that did injury to her own supposed holiness Excuse me, I'll need a little swig of water but this holiness movement this sinless perfectionism.

You find quite frequently in the modern charismatic movement give you a couple examples of this. Listen to this from Joyce Meyer.

Until I finally got it through my thick head I wasn't a sinner anymore. And the religious world thinks that's heresy and they want to hang you for it. That I'm righteous and I can't be righteous and be a sinner at the same time.

Joyce Meyer believes that she has attained sinless perfection as well. Watch this from Todd white. Todd white is the guy that you see on YouTube with the dreadlocks goes out on the street healing people.

Lengthenings people's legs. Watch this from Todd white. He came and gave me this blank canvas.

He came and gave me this pure heart and I've never violated it with anything. You can actually have the words so strong inside of your heart that you never have to slip. People are like well, that's false.

That's not true. Well, you're wrong. I live with me so for 13 years I've been free from that. I've never looked lusty with lust at a woman ever. I live with me. My kids will tell you that I'm a man of God.

I'm a father because God doesn't say he wants you 97 pure. I Mean was Jesus 97 pure. I'm not holier-than-thou. I just love Jesus 24 7 if he does say so himself.

It has been said that spiritual growth is a growth downward. It is only when we have a lower view of ourselves that we will have a higher view of God. The more highly we think of Ourselves the more lowly we will think about God.

And that is a man who does not understand the gospel of Jesus Christ. But this sinless perfectionism that is you don't find it in every charismatic church, but you do find it pretty frequently now I want us to look at some of the movers and shakers some of the founders some of the Generals of the charismatic movement.

This is a book entitled God's generals. It was written by a man named Roberts Learden and in this book. He details he gives biographies of some of the great Charismatic generals of yesteryear and we're going to look at John Alexander Dowie Charles Parham Amy simple Macpherson Catherine Cooleman all of whom are detailed in this book and he holds these people up as Well generals of God holy men and holy women through whom God moved mightily.

To bring about the charismatic movement. Well, I'm gonna tell you some things and show you some things about God's generals that Roberts Learden will not tell you. This is a very whitewashed version of The charismatic early leaders.

John Alexander Dowie and Faith Healing Abuse

So let's begin by looking at John Alexander Dowie. Where does he do his shopping? He was Born in Scotland. Moved to Australia. Developed an interest in faith healing in the 1880s. Moved to the United States in 1888.

Very Colorful individual to say the least. He formed the International Divine Healing Association in San Francisco. He prayed for the healing only of paid members of his cult. He was sued by two women for fraud, but it was very much a pay-to-pray Situation if you were not a paying member of his cult.

No prayers for you, he formed the Zion Tabernacle in Chicago. Founded the city of Zion which banned all practice of medicine. He spoke against doctors telling people to rely solely upon their faith. That is a prominent theme in the vast majority of charismatic churches today word-faith churches today.

Medicine is looked down upon it is frowned upon because if you go see a doctor Then that's a sign that you really don't have enough faith. Because if you really believe that God was going to heal you Then you wouldn't need to go see a doctor.

And in the the best way to portray in yourself portraying yourself a lack of faith Is to go see a doctor to take your medicine. Because if you go see a doctor and take your medicine Then you don't believe that God's really going to heal you and that is the fastest way to Lose your miracle of healing according to word-faith theology.

He had healing rooms. Bethel Church in Redding, California is known for this having healing rooms. Well, he is the one who began these healing rooms. He lived in opulent luxury. While the his followers lived in poverty.

He forced his followers to give to him basically all or most of their money. Many many people died under his supposed care including children. The newspaper reports of John, Alexander Dowie are quite honestly shocking in their details.

Dowie could rightly be called a murderer. He denied sick people basic medical treatment. In fact, there was one woman who was one of his followers a lady named Anita Flanders. And she was dying of an illness and as she was dying She requested simply a bowl of broth and he denied her a bowl of broth.

Because the reason she was sick you see was her lack of faith. And so he withheld this broth from a dying woman. She died. Of course, the reason she died was her lack of faith according to John Alexander Dowie.

He was a forerunner of American Pentecostalism the forerunner of the Pentecostal movement according to the Sunday Interocean Chicago, Illinois's 1899. They record this in their article. John Alexander Dowie says and I quote don't be stingy with your money.

If you do the Lord may be stingy with his cures. No better today, sir Dowie would thunder at a debilitated cancer subject or a person with epilepsy. Well, sir, if you are not better it is your own fault.

You either don't trust in the Lord or you are concealing some infamous crime. So if you're sick, it's your fault. It is standard doctrine in the cares vast majority of the charismatic movement all of word of faith that it is always God's will for you to be healed.

Well, if it's always God's will for a person to be healed and a person prays for that healing for days weeks months Years some people for decades and the healing does not come then the question must be asked whose fault is it?

By definition, of course, it cannot be God's fault because he's perfect. So guess who's left? It's your fault. It's your lack of faith. It's your lack of giving. Maybe you're not even saved. John Alexander Dowie, however died in 1907 from a massive stroke and John Alexander Dowie claimed to be Elijah.

Claimed to be a reincarnation of the Prophet Elijah. Frank Sanford another one of God's Generals, he was a native of Maine went to a missions trip. Performed an exorcism on one of his friends and then went for a walk in the woods.

And as he was walking in the woods, he heard a voice from heaven say Armageddon. If you're walking in the woods and you hear an audible voice from heaven saying Armageddon ain't nothing good coming after that.

He opened Religious compound named Shiloh also referred to as the kingdom and the Legion of God. Which is very interesting name the Legion of God given Mark chapter 5. Jesus asked the demoniac. What is your name?

My name is Legion for we are many that's very interesting. Name at his Zenith. He had about a thousand followers and he forced like John Alexander Dowie. He forced all of his followers to give him all of their possessions and they were not allowed to leave this compound.

He forced extended fasts upon his followers including upon children. Sickness was a sign that your soul was sick and even sick kids were forced to fast Further to get right with God and if they did not get right with God by their recovery, then they were physically beaten.

He was a wicked wicked man as was John Alexander Dowie. One girl in his compound was punished for the sin of vanity. How did she? Display a sin of vanity. She was caught looking in a mirror. And so she that's clearly the sin of vanity and that child was beaten wicked many people died Following him including at least one child.

He was actually arrested for manslaughter and believe it or not They're still to this day six of these Shiloh churches in existence. They are now known as Kingdom Christian Ministries. I would assume they are not as Extreme as he was back then, but who knows and also like John Alexander Dowie Frank Sanford claimed to be Elijah Charles Fox Parham.

Charles Fox Parham. He is he was fascinated with. Frank Sanford spent time with him learned a lot from him. He is widely regarded to be the father of the American Pentecostal movement. Charles Fox Parham Parham taught that the Old Testament character Job suffered because he was living in sin.

Had nothing to do with the sovereignty of God. Of course, it was Job's fault and Many of today's modern faith preachers. They claim that the reason that Job suffered was because of his sin. He formed the Bethel healing school does that sound familiar.

Bethel Church read in California. He had a healing school in school of prophecy. He held that preachers who do not preach quote the gospel of healing will face utter Condemnation before God you see physical healing according to Charles Fox Parham was just as much an integral part of the gospel as Was redemption and being saved from our sins.

He derided Christians for going to doctors. See a common theme here derided Christians for going to doctors and quite honestly, he was a complete charlatan and fraud. He had a couple of different scams that he used to raise money one of which was the Ark of the Covenant scam.

He claimed to know the exact location of the Ark of the Covenant and he got people to give him money to form a Exposition to go to the Holy Land to find the Ark of the Covenant. He did this on two different occasions raised a ton of money and Indeed went over to find the Ark of the Covenant and they claimed to have the exact location to but obviously he didn't find it.

Indiana Jones found he was involved in another scam and he actually believe it or not. This is real. But he claimed to have or at least he was partnered with another guy who claimed to have a device that would turn rocks into gold.

And of course you could have your rocks turned into gold if you would just give him money to fund his scam and Charles Fox Parham was actually arrested for sodomy back when such things were actually Punishable crimes.

Now we celebrate them but back a hundred years ago. Not so much. So Charles Fox Parham like John Alexander Dowie like Frank Sanford was an absolute Scoundrel but his Bethel School of Prophecy. Oh and by the way, Charles Fox Parham also claimed to be Elijah.

Will the real Elijah, please stand up. So Charles Fox Parham students his Bethel school was known for speaking in tongues now interestingly initially these early Pentecostals actually more or less had the right theology of the gift of tongues in that.

They believed that the genuine gift of tongues was speaking in a known human language. Just not known to the one who was speaking it. It would be like me all of a sudden being able to speak fluent Swahili.

That's a known human language. It's just not known to me. So they actually kind of had the right theology on that at least in that general sense and Believing that to be the case. They sent their Charles Fox Parham sent some of his followers his students out to China India and Japan on boats just put them on boats.

Sailing them across the ocean blue believing that once they got there. They would be able to speak in the native tongues of these different people in different nations. Charles Fox Parham says this as he's quoted in the Topeka State Journal.

The Lord will give us the power of speech to talk to the people of the various nations without having to study them in schools. Hawaiian Gazette article Parham says there is no doubt that at this time they his students.

They will have conferred on them the gift of tongues if they are worthy. Believing they will thus be made able to talk to the people whom they choose to work among in their own language. The students of Bethel College do not need to study in the old way to learn the languages.

They just believe that when they got off the boats and whatever country they were in they would be given that gift of languages and could speak in Those native tongues, but Robert M. Anderson it in his book vision of the disinherited says this.

SC Todd of the Bible Missionary Society Investigated 18 of these early Pentecostals who went to Japan China in India quote expecting to preach to the natives in those countries in their own tongue and found by their own admission quote in no single instance have they been able to do so as.

These and other missionaries returned to disappointment and failure Pentecostals were compelled to rethink their original view of speaking in tongues. It Was only after these 18 Pentecostals came back in complete failure that they said, oh wait, sorry.

Sorry, we got that wrong. Okay, so the gift of tongues is not actually speaking in a known human language. It's not known to the one speaking it. It's actually speaking in unintelligible ecstatic gibberish baby talk nonsense and That has remained and is to this day the standard belief standard practice.

In all charismatic churches, you will not go to a charismatic church. Today when you find people speaking in a known human language, but one not known to them. What do they do? They speak in gibberish baby talk and that belief began when these 18 Pentecostals came back in complete failure on their Expeditions there was one woman.

However, there was one woman a follower a student of Charles Parham. Name was Agnes Osman. No relations. To the pastor of this church at least not that he would admit but no it's uh, no. No relation, but she did claim to have the real McCoy the real gift of languages.

In fact, the claim was that for a period of time she was actually unable to speak in English at all. She could only speak in Chinese. It's amazing. Not only could she speak in Chinese, but she could even write in Chinese and We actually have a photocopy of some of her writings in Chinese.

Would you like to see it now? You do not have to be Chinese nor do you have to know Chinese to know that that is not Chinese. That's chicken scratch. But that was I was a claim. Agnes Osman. Okay, William Seymour in the Azusa Street Revival by the way, all that with Charles Fox Parham happened around 1901 1902.

So fast-forward a few years William Seymour was actually a student of Charles Parham's. Charles Parham was a blatant racist. He only reluctantly allowed William Seymour as you can see he was a black man.

He only reluctantly allowed William Seymour to be one of his students, but even at that he made William Seymour sit Outside of the classroom and William Seymour had to listen simply through the door. Charles Parham was a blatant racist.

But William Seymour started a church and They rented out this building as it grew a little bit. They rented out this building building on Azusa Street in California this was 1906 and that is when the Azusa Street revival broke out and people began to speak in tongues they were Shaking they were gyrating flopping around on the floor all kinds of bizarre behavior, but the real Charismatics point to the Azusa Street revival as the beginning in earnest of their movement.

So Charles Parham was a scoundrel. He was a heretic. He was a false prophet. He's a racist. William Seymour founded the Azusa Street Movement there, but Seymour was no saint either. Seymour. William Seymour rarely preached bizarrely in many of the meetings.

He would sit behind the pulpit with a With his head hidden by a crate. I don't know why I did that just that's what's reported. Just really bizarre. And he would be seen from time to time walking up and down the aisles of his congregation.

With five dollar and ten dollar bills that had been stuffed into his pockets. His pockets were literally full of cash that his followers would stuff into his pocket. So he was he was no saint either, but there's about 26 different Denominations that trace their origins back to the Azusa Street Revival and William Seymour is revered in the charismatic movement today.

The Three Waves and the Rise of Word of Faith

So Give you just a bird's-eye view here of the three waves. You might have heard of this the three waves of the Pentecostal movement. The first of these in earnest was the Azusa Street Revival, but one of the odd and and Inconvenient truths about the Azusa Street Revival in the early Pentecostal movement is that some of these Pentecostal? denominations groups rejected the Trinity they were oneness and yet They would speak in tongues.

Now. How is it that if you reject the Trinity? Was it a fundamental doctrine of historical Christianity if you reject the Trinity? You're clearly not a Christian and yet They spoke in tongues in exactly the same way that the other Pentecostals did.

Who did affirm the Trinity? Awkward. So, how are these heretics. Supposedly. And dwelt by the same Holy Spirit given the same gift as these more Orthodox Pentecostals there's a problem for them. Then the second wave is what is known as the charismatic renewal.

This was begun in the 1960s technically 1959 there was an Episcopal Church led by a priest Named Dennis Bennett and he claimed to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and he began to speak in tongues.

Now the distinctive of the charismatic renewal as apart from Azusa Azusa was strictly Pentecostal different shades of Pentecostal, but the charismatic renewal was more ecumenical. So in other words, you would have charismatic Anglicans charismatic Methodist charismatic Roman Catholics, so the charismatic renewal kind of went across denominational boundaries and it was also then that you have the birth of the Modern Word of Faith movement with people like Oral Roberts and Kenneth Hagen in their emphasis on health and wealth prosperity theology.

The third wave of the Pentecostal movement began in the 1980s by see Peter see Peter Wagner and Wagner largely kept the prosperity teachings of the Word of Faith movement that came out of the Second stage.

Second wave the charismatic renewal, but he began to place an even greater emphasis on Modern-day Apostles New Apostolic Reformation and signs and wonders and power evangelism. You've heard of the vineyard movement.

The vineyard movement came out of this as did the Toronto outpouring the Brownsville revival, so that was the third wave and. And now we the most prominent of the signs and wonders I guess movement would be Bethel Church pastored by Bill Johnson.

And so we're still in that. Well, not we but they are still in the third way. John G. Lake another one of the great Generals of God in the charismatic movement. John G. Lake was a disciple of John Alexander Dowie.

He founded the church at Portland also had healing rooms. Claimed over a hundred thousand people were healed in his ministry. None of these however were truly documented. The only kind of healing that you see in the charismatic movement is psychosomatic healing.

Mind over body and there's any number of ailments that you can get temporary relief from just through a temporary rush of adrenaline. Rush of Endorphins heightened emotion, you know back pain ringing in your ears.

You know bursitis in your shoulder, you know. You can get temporary relief from a lot of illnesses just by a rush of adrenaline. Those are psychosomatic healings and they happen all the time in the charismatic movement.

But what you never see in the charismatic movement are organic healings. Healings that cannot be explained simply by a rush of adrenaline. An amputee. You never see an amputee in the charismatic movement.

Grow a new limb. Someone with cerebral palsy, you know something like what I've got. If I'm standing up on my crutches no matter how happy I am no matter how good of a mood I'm in you take my crutches away from me and Foom down goes Frazier, right?

So that would be an organic healing. You never see organic healings in the charismatic movement. So none of these were documented. The newspapers of the day roundly Debunked his claims and just psychosomatic healings.

His wife died of a fever six months after they arrived in South Africa in 1908 to do some missions work and after she died he got engaged to a lady and his fiance. She also died in of malaria just a year later 1909, but He could only get engaged to her After he got in contact with his dead wife through a seance.

He talked to dead people. This is demonic. This is a cultic. This is activity that is explicitly condemned by Scripture. Oh, but he's at one of God's great generals, right? He faced criminal charges and was actually arrested for securities and stock fraud in Portland, Oregon.

Now this is kind of interesting. The Sunday, Oregonian 1921 says this. Kenneth G Olson former overseer of Lakes Church at Sandpoint, Idaho. I bet you didn't expect to see your hometown mentioned tonight.

Sandpoint, Idaho subscribed to an affidavit now in the hands of Corporation Commissioner Hanley Charging that the healer quote used his church work to promote his various mining schemes with the idea of first gaining the confidence of people through the common ground of religion and Then selling to the members of the congregation stock in which he was interested.

And he was arrested for this now. Here is a an excerpt from a letter that he wrote. This is from the hand of John G Lake dear brother and sister in Christ. I did not feel like discussing with you yesterday the subject of mining stock and so decided that I had rather write you in my Conversation with you mrs. Eastman.

You told me that it was your plan and purpose to pay $500 tithes this year and I have it in my heart to say to you that if you will pay the $500 if possible in one installment by October 4th I would make you a gift of the note for $200 that you gave to Otto.

That was John G Lake's son trusting that you will see the advantage of this offering regarded as the fulfillment of God's promise to him who faithfully and honestly keeps Covenant with God in tithing, of course you understand that to do this It will be necessary for your tithes to be paid to me for this work.

Let this letter be a matter of confidence between ourselves. Will you kindly sign the enclosed paper and have one or more witnesses sign also your brother in Christ? John G Lake. He's a fraud he was a scam artist.

But he is revered in fact. One of the one of the tales that is told about John G Lake is that when John G Lake went to South Africa? That was right at the time. The bubonic plague was raging and the story is told that some foam from Some of the bodies of the dead that died of the bubonic plague.

John G Lake challenged someone to take that foam and put it on his hand full of this nasty bacteria Fatal and to look at it under a microscope and the claim is that when they did that the bacteria died.

Upon contact with John G. Lake's skin watch.

Lake stayed in such constant communion with the Lord that it seemed not even a deadly plague could survive when coming into contact with him.

He once took you know the fluids from dead person's body filled with living bacteria and The doctors, you know told him he's gonna die By touching this stuff and he said put this under a microscope you notice it's dead and it's because he was confident that the Resurrection of life in him flowing from him was greater than any disease attaching itself to him.

And they did they? Subjected it to a microscope and they saw he was exactly right everything died. The disease died when it touched him, you don't do that unless you know Who you are whose you are and what he's commissioned you to do.

So you still see Bill Johnson recanting this Recalling this story and promoting it as true and watch this from Andrew Womack. Now this was recorded in March of 2020. So kovat was just getting ramped up right March of 2020 and.

Listen carefully to what Andrew Womack says here because see there are some people like me. Who know that no plague is gonna come nigh my dwelling if a germ touches me. It's gonna die and I believe that a hundred percent.

Andrew Womack says if a germ touches me, it's gonna die so Forget the Fauci ouchie. There's your cure for kovat right there apparently Andrew Womack well. He says that because that is what is told of John G Lake and charismatics to this day believe that lie and it is a lie.

It absolutely is a lie. Now looking this by the way Andrew Womack's college Karis Bible College. They had to shut down because of kovat so many of their students got sick. So now the claim is that the bacteria died upon contact with John G. Lake's skin and He challenged them to look at the foam look at the bacteria under microscope.

Two problems with this story a hundred years ago. There were no electron microscopes. All you had was a basic microscope a light microscope that many of us use, you know back and when we were in school and.

Pretty basic, right? So you've got this base. You've got the little mirror under there. You've got the platform with the little clips that hold the slide and the objective lens and then your eyepiece.

So now I'm not a scientist and I'm not a smart man. But the way this works is light comes in right comes in this way hits the mirror. Right and is reflected up through the little Clear piece there on the stage and up into the objective lens and you look down and that's how.