Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens
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changedagain
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Date: February 19, 2020 03:47AM
Larry or 'Paleface' might know:
Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens
Posted by: larry bobo
Date: September 06, 2014 06:41PM
Paleface said, “I had read that too. “The First Principles" were (so we were told) given to John from God as some new revelation. I understand that nearly all of it was already out there as Latter Rain teaching. John had merely collected it into one book and called it his own. Seems a bit like biblical plagiarism to me.”
I think there was definite plagiarism – I’m not sure how biblical it was. I posted a lot of info on the Latter Rain on Factnet. Here’s some basic Latter Rain teachings and you decide if there is any similarities to TLWF: The Latter Rain, Restoration of the Church, Restoration of the five-fold ministries, Pre-rapture spiritual second coming of Christ, New revelation and prophesies, Manifestation of the sons of God, Overcoming death before Christ’s return, Dominion now theology and spiritual warfare, Mainstream Christianity referred to as “old order” or Babylon, Personal ministry with words from God from leaders to congregants, Emphasis of Feast of Tabernacles, Manchild doctrine, Joel’ army and militancy, Deeper levels of revelation including altered states of consciousness, Incarnation of Christ in a many-membered body, Spiritual evolution to perfection, Divine order, Enforced unity, Shepherding, Father/son mentoring etc, etc. The only original LWF teaching was that John was the Door Opener Apostle to the kingdom and Marilyn was the Lamp of Israel.
I’ve heard many say that it only shows God was speaking the same thing to many groups. It might be good for those in TLWF to be aware that one of Martha’s family members emailed me to say that after Martha died, they carted boxes of John’s Latter Rain tapes out of the house. In John’s case, I would suggest God was “speaking” to him through those tapes instead of directly in the remodeled chicken coup as we were led to believe. I’ve talked with several national leaders in the body of Christ who noticed how the Latter Rain movement and its spin-off groups started in what appeared to be a genuine move of God. After a number of year though, the fruit was very destructive. TLWF is no exception.