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Though personally I do NOT believe Sarah Palin either understands or believes the false teachings of these Kansas City (false) Prophets who fueled the false "Lakeland Revival" of Todd Bentley last summer, apparently her home church in Juneau has ties to Rodney Howard Browne, a real lunatic of the Toronto Blessing. This is a network of deceived Christians with ties to even Rick Warren, which makes it very dangerous doctrine indeed. C Peter Wagner is claimed to be Rick Warren's mentor. This article gives a grand overview of the roots of Lakeland going back to the insane heretic William Branham.

At Lakeland this summer, Todd Bentley proclaimed that Bob Jones was giving him "the mantle of William Branham".

Scary stuff indeed because of its political End Times anti Christ implications. Sarah Palin needs to distance herself from this deception.

The Democrats are picking up on the story linking Sarah Palin to this group because of her home church’s ties to Rodney Howard Browne.

Browne and Joyner et all need to be exposed by real Christians for their Dominionism and lies.

Browne disagreed with Todd Bentley early on in the revival this summer, BUT Browne believes exactly the same things that Bentley does.

This is a dangerous cult and it has infected the Assemblies of God church that previously stood against it — going back to 1949. As Lakeland was hosted by a corrupt Assemblies of God preacher, Stader, this heresy has gotten out of control and is infectious to unwitting Christians.

Dominionism’s original branch is Christian Reconstructionism, a grim, Calvinist call to theocracy that, as Reconstructionist writer Gary North describes, wants to “get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God.”
Notorious for endorsing the public execution by stoning of homosexuals and adulterers, the Christian Reconstructionist movement is far better known in secular America than Joel’s Army. That’s largely because Reconstructionists have made several serious forays into mainstream politics and received a fair amount of negative publicity as a result. Joel’s Army followers eschew the political system, believing the path to world domination lies in taking over churches, not election to public office.

Another key difference between the two branches of dominionism, which maintain a testy, arms-length relationship with one another, is Christian Reconstructionism’s buttoned-down image and heavy emphasis on Bible study, which contrasts sharply with Joel’s Army anti-intellectual distrust of biblical scholars and its unruly style.

Check this out - the author is trying to connect Todd Bentley with Gary North....

Joel’s Army believers are hard-core Christian dominionists, meaning they believe that America, along with the rest of the world, should be governed by conservative Christians and a conservative Christian interpretation of biblical law. There is no room in their doctrine for democracy or pluralism.

This is the number one difference between the "reconstructionist" movement and the "identity" movement. The former still believe in one objective G-d and religion for everyone in the world, while the latter are henotheists to whom "the Biblical G-d" is the G-d and creator only of "white chr*stian Israel," with other people being the creations of other "gxds" (or at least not descended from Adam). This is why the far, far, far right supports a "planet of peoples;" they reject the idea of a single human race under a single G-d. They are essentially pagans opposed to monotheism to whom each people has the right to create its own worldview and "gxd" in its own image.

This doesn't mean I'm apologizing for or defending the "reconstructionists," however. They are very anti-Israel and run the John Birch Society (I assume Ron Paul is one of these people). They are certainly very far removed from traditional "pessimistic" apocalyptic chr*stianity.

NOW--I would like to address the inevitable association of "theocracy" with anti-Semitism. While I personally consider "reconstructionism" to be anti-Semitic (or at least anti-Israel), this has nothing to do with their theocratic orientation. Judaism is in fact a Theocratic religion; every Orthodox Jew lives his/her life according to a very strict and complicated regimen of Halakhah, which is the practical implementation of Divine Law. In fact, one could say that "reactionary" chr*stians who are "theocratic" have taken a step towards Judaism/Noachism by rejecting the "spiritual messiah" in favor of a literal world-ruling messiah. True, they err in their chr*stianity and their belief that mankind is obligated to observe "chr*stian law" (is this not a contradiction in terms? Is not Judaism the statutory religion while chr*stianity is anti-statutory and salvational?), the obsession with Divine Law, far from being anti-Semitic, is much more Semitic than chr*stian. As I said, I regard "reconstructionists" as anti-Semites for their prejudice against Jews and opposition to Israel, but their "theocracism" has nothing to do with this.

How ironic that the Jews have become so disassociated with Theocracy that the first thing most people think on contemplating such a thing is "what will become of the poor Jews?" Why does not one consider that the "poor Jews" may be the people running it???

I have heard of this group. Pinging Quix to see if he has.

First of all, I do not know anything about the authors motivations or if they are representing the subjects correctly.

But the group sounds like a Christian Identity (Neo Nazi) type group. The whole “seed of Cain” thing is what tipped my whiskers about it. That is a similar thing that some of those groups use to say that the only “pure” race is the “white” race (never mind white is not a racial group).

But, I have also seen times where the left will invent bogey men to justify their own goals. The whole Dominionist scare is often used as a reason for someone to argue that Christians should not be in politics, or be banned from voting.