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Subject: The Covert "Spiritual Warfare" of Sarah Palin
"A McClatchy news service story details the possibly improper use of
state funds by Palin for a trip back to her home town of Wasila for a
ceremony where, on June 8, 2008, before an estimated crowd of 6000
Christians, she was publicly 'anointed' through the 'laying on of
hands' by Wasilla Assembly of God Pastor Ed Kalnins"
Sarah Palin's Churches and The Third Wave: New Video Documentary
Posted September 7, 2008 | 12:22 PM (EST)
[ Update: documentation (sourcing) on video clips used in the
following video documentary, plus supporting documentation on the
Third Wave movement, can be found here at Talk To Action ]
Sarah Palin's churches are actively involved in a resurgent movement
that was declared heretical by the Assemblies of God in 1949. This is
the same 'Spiritual Warfare' movement that was featured in the award
winning movie, "Jesus Camp," which showed young children being trained
to do battle for the Lord. At least three of four of Palin's churches
are involved with major organizations and leaders of this movement,
which is referred to as The Third Wave of the Holy Spirit or the New
Apostolic Reformation. The movement is training a young "Joel's Army"
to take dominion over the United States and the world.
Along with her entire family, Sarah Palin was re-baptized at twelve at
the Wasilla Assembly of God in Wasilla, Alaska and she attended the
church from the time she was ten until 2002: over two and 1/2 decades.
Sarah Palin's extensive pattern of association with the Wasilla
Assembly of God has continued nearly up to the day she was picked by
Senator John McCain as a vice-presidential running mate.
Palin's dedication to the Wasilla church is indicated by a Saturday,
September 7, 2008, McClatchy news service story detailing possibly
improper use of state travel funds by Palin for a trip she made to
Wasilla, Alaska to attend, on June 8, 2008, both a Wasilla Assembly of
God "Masters Commission" graduation ceremony and also a multi-church
Wasilla area event known as "One Lord Sunday." At the latter event,
Palin and Alaska LT Governor Scott Parnell were publicly blessed,
onstage before an estimated crowd of 6,000, through the "laying on of
hands" by Wasilla Assembly of God's Head Pastor Ed Kalnins whose
sermons espouse such theological concepts as the possession of
geographic territories by demonic spirits and the inter-generational
transmission of family "curses".
Palin has also been blessed, or "anointed," by an African cleric,
prominent in the Third Wave movement, who has repeatedly visited the
Wasilla Assembly of God and claims to have effected positive, dramatic
social change in a Kenyan town by driving out a "spirit of witchcraft."
The Wasilla Assembly of God church is deeply involved with both Third
Wave activities and theology. Their Master's Commission program is
part of an three year post-high school international training program
with studies in prophecy, intercessory prayer, Biblical exegesis,
authority and leadership. The pastor, Ed Kalnins, and Masters
Commission students have traveled to South Carolina to participate in
a "prophetic conference" at Morningstar Ministries, one of the major
ministries of the Third Wave movement. Becky Fischer was a pastor at
Morningstar prior to being featured in the movie "Jesus Camp." The
head of prophecy at Morningstar, Steve Thompson, is currently
scheduled to do a prophecy seminar at the Wasilla Assembly of God.
Other major leaders in the movement have also traveled to Wasilla to
visit and speak at the church.
The Third Wave is a revival of the theology of the Latter Rain tent
revivals of the 1950s and 1960s led by William Branham and others. It
is based on the idea that in the end times there will be an outpouring
of supernatural powers on a group of Christians that will take
authority over the existing church and the world. The believing
Christians of the world will be reorganized under the Fivefold
Ministry and the church restructured under the authority of Prophets
and Apostles and others anointed by God. The young generation will
form "Joel's Army" to rise up and battle evil and retake the earth for
God.
While segments of this belief system have been a part of
Pentecostalism and charismatic beliefs for decades, the excesses of
this movement were declared a heresy in 1949 by the General Council of
the Assemblies of God, and again condemned through Resolution 16 in
2000. The beliefs and manifestations of the movement include the use
of 'strategic level spiritual warfare' to expel territorial demons
from American and world cities. Worship includes excessive charismatic
manifestations such as hundreds of people falling, 'slain in the
spirit,' and congregations laughing, jerking, and shrieking
uncontrollably.
In early 2008 an outbreak of those phenomena commenced at the palatial
former ministry estate of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, recently bought
up and restored by prominent Third Wave author and leader Rick
Joyner's Morningstar Ministries. The (spiritual) "breakout" lasted for
many weeks and was publicized in an extensive collection of video
footage available on YouTube. Healing services in the Third Wave
movement claim to heal the sick and injured through methods that in
some cases can appear bizarre - including, as in recent cases
involving Todd Bentley, the patient being head butted or kicked by the
anointed healer. Recipients of such "spiritual" or miraculous healing
make a wide range of astonishing claims - to have been cured of life-
threatening illnesses, had joints repaired or replaced, been given
gold teeth or gold fillings, regrown stunted limbs and even had
deformed skeletal structures straightened and reshaped. Worldwide
mission efforts of the movement are built around the idea of combating
witches, warlocks, and generational curses, which prevent churches
from being able to take root.
Thomas Muthee visited Wasilla Assembly of God and gave 10 consecutive
sermons at the church, from October 11-16 2005. As both Palin and
Wasilla AoG Head Pastor Ed Kalnins have attested, Thomas Muthee
'prayed over' Sarah Palin and entreated God to "make a way" prior to
Palin's successful bid for the Alaska governorship. Muthee made a
return visit to the Wasilla Assembly of God in late 2008. Thomas
Muthee's Word of Faith Church is featured in the "Transformations"
video which details an account on how Muthee drove "the spirit of
witchcraft" out of Kiambu, Kenya, liberating the town from its
territorial demonic possession and enabling a miraculous societal
transformation. The "Transformations" video set is used as an argument
for social improvement through spiritual instead of human means, and
as the best method for fighting corruption, crime, drugs and even
environmental degradation.
In the video, producer George Otis declares that after Thomas Muthee
and his followers banished the "spirit of witchcraft" from the town,
the crime rate in Kiambu dropped almost to zero, along with the rate
of alcoholism, and according to Otis most of the residents of the town
joined churches. The "Transformations" video has helped spark a
network of 'Transformation' ministries and mission organizations and
'transformation' has become a buzz word for change based on
supernatural instead of human efforts.
The Third Wave, also known as the New Apostolic Reformation, is a
network of Apostles, many of them grouped around C. Peter Wagner,
founder of the World Prayer Center. This center, which was built in
coordination with Ted Haggard and his New Life Church in Colorado
Springs, was featured in an article by Jeff Sharlet in Harpers, May
2005, "Soldiers of Christ." Sharlet was one of the first to write in
the secular press about the World Prayer Center which is often
referred to by those familiar with the Third Wave as the 'Pentagon for
Spiritual Warfare.' It features computer systems that store the data
of communities around the world, mapping out unsaved peoples' groups
and spiritual mapping information for spiritual warfare. Wagner has
his own group of about 500 Apostles in his council and each of these
Apostles has ministries under their authority, sometimes hundreds or
thousands. Recently various networks of Apostles came together to form
the Revival Alliance. Leaders of the Revival Alliance including Rick
Joyner of Morningstar anointed Todd Bentley whose Lakeland Healing
Revival has recently been a controversial topic in the Evangelical
world.
Wagner's top leaders often conduct spiritual warfare campaigns against
the demons that block the acceptance of their brand of Christian
belief, such as 'Operation Ice Castle' in the Himalayas in 1997.
Several of their top prophets and generals of intercession spent weeks
in intensive prayer to "confront the Queen of Heaven." This queen is
considered by them to be one of the most powerful demons over the
earth and is the Great Harlot of Mystery Babylon in Revelation. (The
"Great Harlot [or 'whore'] of Mystery Babylon" theme also figures
prominently in the sermons of Texas megachurch pastor and Christians
United For Israel founder John Hagee, former endorser of John McCain's
2008 presidential bid.) Wagner and his group also claim that the Queen
of Heaven is Diana, the pagan god of the biblical book Ephesians and
the god of Mary veneration in the Roman Catholic Church. Following the
'Operation Ice Castle' prayer excursion which included planting a flag
for Jesus on Mt. Everest, one of the lead prayer intercessors from the
excursion, Ana Mendez, reported that there had been dramatic results
including, "millions have come to faith in Asia... and other things
happened which I believe are also connected...an earthquake had
destroyed the basilica of Assisi, where the Pope had called a meeting
of all world religions; a hurricane destroyed the infamous temple
'Baal-Christ' in Acapulco, Mexico; the Princes Diana died... and
Mother Theresa died in India, one of the most famous advocates of Mary
as Co-Redeemer."
Church of the Rock, led by Senior Pastor David Pepper, has taken their
youth to participate in 'The Call, Nashville.' This event is held at
various locations around the country under the leadership of Lou
Engle, also featured in the movie "Jesus Camp." At these events youth
are worked into a frenzy of anger and consternation at supposed
national moral corruption. Engle, who shuffles while he preaches in
imitation of Jewish prayer, is featured toward the end of the "Jesus
Camp" video documentary.
Mike Rose, senior pastor of Juneau Christian Center has a long
relationship with Rodney Howard -Browne, credited with being the
instigator of the outbreak of 'Holy Laughter' around the world,
including the Toronto Airport Revival.
The Third Wave movement is cross-denomination and is not synonymous
with any specific denomination, nor is it synonymous with Evangelical
or Fundamentalist. Although the movement emerged from Pentecostalism,
it draws its support from a variety of denominations and religious
streams. They believe they are forming a post-denominational church to
take the world for the end times. To date, all of the writing and
objections to this movement have emerged from other Evangelicals and
Fundamentalists who believe the movement to be unbiblical. Also, it is
other conservative churches that refuse to embrace the 'outpouring of
the Spirit' that are targets of much of the anger of the movement.
You can find more information on the Third Wave movement and
additional links to the activities of Palin's churches on www.Talk2action.org
in the following articles:
Sarah Palin's Churches and the Third Wave, Part One
Sarah Palin's Churches and the Third Wave, Part Two (with embedded
video.)
The video is also posted here.
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Documentation of the Video and Supporting Articles
Sarah Palin's Churches and the Third Wave
Also posted as Palin's Demon Haunted Churches
Video Clips
(Note that all video clips are taken from original sources or sources
promoting and supporting the Third Wave/New Apostolic Reformation.)
Bishop Thomas Muthee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBvxWl7jXr0
Transformations I, Trailer
George Otis, Sentinel Group
Morningstar Ministries clips including cellphone anointing, portal to
Jesus
http://www.prophetic.tv/morningstar/
Holy Spirit Breakout Day # 1 and 2, Day #9, and Week #15
On Prophetic TV, Morningstar Ministries full Breakout series
Wasilla Master's Commission
http://www.mcwasillaalaska.com/
Main website with links to Master's Commission, Master's Commission
videos and photos
Wasilla AoG bulletin graphics, Wasilla AoG sermons, Wasilla AoG videos
http://www.wasillaag.org/
Wasilla Assembly of God main site clips used:
Music repeated in video and sermon with chants of `Jesus, Jesus'
Wasilla AoG sermon by Pastor Todd Stafford, "In Desperate Times",
January 15, 2007.
Master's Commission Graduation Ceremony, June 8, 2008
Sarah Palin giving Master's Commission speech
Posted on the Wasilla AoG site on June 8, 2008
Anointing of Leaders from auxiliary site
http://app.razorplanet.com/acct/40149-8554/tmpl/index.php?s=gl&am
p;nid=53521&preview=true
From Wasilla AoG links to site
Quote about demonic strongholds and generational curses
Ed Kalnins, sermon, September 26, 2004
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:gF16SYYnXC0J:www.wasillaag.n et/
2004.html+Kalnins,Canaanite&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1& ;gl=us
Lou Engle, Rick Joyner from Underground
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7sSZ7Ux3Hg
Underground by www.underthethreshold
Production of Brian Wages, Music/Art Director, Oakleaf Christian
Fellowship
Photos at Our Hand at Youth Conference 2008
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&
amp;friendID=49580719
Photos posted on site of Wasilla AoG staff member, Buster Barlow
`One Lord Sunday'
http://gov.state.ak.us/large_photo.php?id=153
Event photos from Wasilla AoG posted on Alaska State Government website
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