Kenneth Hagin Went to Hell
The Latter Rain Revival of the late 1940s and 1950s created many unbelievable stage acts. While people today would be very skeptical of men claiming to have been “visited by angels” or “demons” or had been “commissioned by God” as a “messenger,” “church age angel,” and more, people of that era appear to have readily accepted them.
When William Branham began touring with 13-year-old “Little David” Walker, letting the boy preach while he claimed to have healed the sick, it excited the crowds all the more. Branham, who quickly became the leader of the Post WWII Healing Revival, branded Walker as “The Atom” and advertised their stage act as “The Most Powerful Gospel Team in America”. As far as stage acts go, the boy-and-healer act had everything. Branham claimed to have been visited by an angel when he revised his back story in 1946, and Walker levitated on stage to thrill the crowds. Walker’s main act, however, was a claim to have visited heaven. Latter Rain converts sat on the edge of their seats as David described what he saw in the afterlife.
Many others tried to copy the act in various ways. Literally hundreds of men, women and even other children joined the movement creating stage acts of their own. One of the most interesting is the ministry of Kenneth Hagin, the founder of the Rhema Bible Training College and champion of the Word of Faith Movement. In the heat of the Latter Rain craze in America, Hagin began claiming a story similar to “Little” David — but exactly the opposite. Hagin claimed that he had visited hell instead of Heaven and went on tours through the Foursquare churches in Aimee Semple McPherson’s cult of personality. According to Hagin, it was “Not a dream, nor a vision, but an actual personal experience.”
You can learn this and more on william-branham.org
Kenneth Hagin:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/kenneth_hagin
The Latter Rain Revival of the late 1940s and 1950s created many unbelievable stage acts. While people today would be very skeptical of men claiming to have been “visited by angels” or “demons” or had been “commissioned by God” as a “messenger,” “church age angel,” and more, people of that era appear to have readily accepted them.
When William Branham began touring with 13-year-old “Little David” Walker, letting the boy preach while he claimed to have healed the sick, it excited the crowds all the more. Branham, who quickly became the leader of the Post WWII Healing Revival, branded Walker as “The Atom” and advertised their stage act as “The Most Powerful Gospel Team in America”. As far as stage acts go, the boy-and-healer act had everything. Branham claimed to have been visited by an angel when he revised his back story in 1946, and Walker levitated on stage to thrill the crowds. Walker’s main act, however, was a claim to have visited heaven. Latter Rain converts sat on the edge of their seats as David described what he saw in the afterlife.
Many others tried to copy the act in various ways. Literally hundreds of men, women and even other children joined the movement creating stage acts of their own. One of the most interesting is the ministry of Kenneth Hagin, the founder of the Rhema Bible Training College and champion of the Word of Faith Movement. In the heat of the Latter Rain craze in America, Hagin began claiming a story similar to “Little” David — but exactly the opposite. Hagin claimed that he had visited hell instead of Heaven and went on tours through the Foursquare churches in Aimee Semple McPherson’s cult of personality. According to Hagin, it was “Not a dream, nor a vision, but an actual personal experience.”
You can learn this and more on william-branham.org
Kenneth Hagin:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/kenneth_hagin
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