The Latter Rain

As time progressed, God began to move his church out of the wilderness. God dealt with several men who restored truth that had been hidden for hundreds of years. Progressively, God began to restore the truth using human instrumentality, which consisted of men who were searching for God’s will in their dispensation. God began to restore truth in phases throughout history to continue to advance His Church. Before reading about these phases it is important to understand that all of these truths had been in the earth since the Early Church. However, restoration is focusing on gathering these truths for the purpose of a public church (Latter Rain) that God can showcase to the world. One of the first truths to be restored was conversion and baptism in water (through submergence and not sprinkling.) Next, God began to restore the truths regarding holiness and living a clean (moral) life in God. Third, God began to restore the truths regarding receiving the Holy Ghost as an indwelling spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues. Fourth, God began to restore the truth on the fact that the Body of Christ was an organism (God-made) not an organization (Man-made.) Fifth, God began to restore the truth on the devil and how to overcome sin. Sixth, God began to restore the truth on divine order and restoration, and seventh God will restore the truth on unification and divine love.

When a body of people come together in unity and can love “all nations” divinely, they have arrived at the height of spirituality and fulfillment of the word of God.

The bible speaks plainly of the restoration of the church in several books and chapters. According to the scriptures, we can prove conclusively that God will have a church that is in exact harmony with the church of the 1st Century. The Early Church is referred to in the scriptures as the Early Rain and His restored church is referred to as the Latter Rain. God has never ceased to build his church since the time that it “fell away.” Although hundreds and hundreds of years have past, the Lord is still gradually restoring the truth and order that the Early Church once had. As Apostle James wrote, “Be patient therefore brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman (Jesus) waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth (members who have made the bride of Jesus Christ), and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.” (the two churches that produced the bride members), James 5:7. Symbolically, Jesus was a farmer that came to this world with a new “seed” which was the word or doctrine of God. This new doctrine superseded everything that was in the law of Moses. The Lord planted this doctrine into the hearts of twelve men throughout Palestine between A.D. 26 and A.D. 29. This doctrine now needed to be spread to the masses of people who were living in the world at the time. The mass spreading of the doctrine of God is referred to in the bible as rain as stated in Deuteronomy 32:2, “My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass…” Just as this scripture states “showers upon the grass,” the church of the 1st Century showered the people of that day with the word of God for over 40 years. When rain falls upon grass (symbolically the hearts of the people) it begins to cause fruit to come forth. Producing fruit to its fullest is to produce a people that have fully overcome sin and have qualified to be in the bride of Jesus Christ.

Through the preaching of the Early Church, many people were victorious in eradicating sin out of their lives. When a farmer plants a seed and allows the rain to fall upon it, a harvest will be produced. In like manner, the Early Rain Church produced a harvest of “spiritual champions” whose lives and examples would become the desire and hope of millions.

It is evident that the Lord, by the spirit of God, will have a ministry (referred to in the bible as a cloud that is full of rain or understanding) in the 21st Century that will participate in the mass spreading of the word of God in this time and dispensation. When God finds a ministry with whom he can have confidence, he will give them the “gifts of the spirit,” described in I Corinthians 12:8-10. As these gifts begin to function within a ministry, they will produce signs and wonders that will confirm that God has validated a ministry and a people to be representatives of his holy word in the 21st Century. The full restoration of God’s church is eminent and undeniably on the rise.

Restoration of the Church

• I Kings 18:44 (The man’s hand referring to God’s Latter Rain Ministry being restored).

• Zechariah 10:1 (The time of the Latter Rain is when the doctrine is restored and the bright clouds are a ministry with the full understanding).

• Revelation 11:11-12 (The spirit of life entering into the two witnesses represents the church, by the spirit, being restored to its zenith once again).