{"id":128142,"date":"2024-09-03T15:18:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T22:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=128142"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:41:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:41:49","slug":"the-road-from-jonestown-to-maga-christian-nationalism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=128142","title":{"rendered":"The Road from Jonestown to MAGA Christian Nationalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: John Collins is a regular contributor to the Jonestown report. His collections of articles for this site may be found <\/em>here<\/em><\/a>. For more information about this research, read <\/em>Weaponized Religion: From Christian Identity to the NAR, <\/em>available on <\/em>Amazon.com<\/em><\/a>. More information about Rev. Branham prepared by John Collins may be found at the William Branham Historical Research<\/a> informational website. A video presentation of the history can be found <\/em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

In July 2024, during former president Donald Trump\u2019s second attempt at re-election for President of the United States, Trump took center stage at the massive Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte. Political themes were mixed with religious themes supporting an argument that Satan and his demonic forces had invaded the United States Government. Overlooking his numerous criminal convictions and alleged sexual immorality, participants in the Christian\/political revival claimed that \u201cTrump stands for Christian principles.<\/em>\u201d[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

Along with the Christian leaders at the rally was Rev. Hung Jin \u201cSean\u201d Moon, pastor of the Rod of Iron Ministries, which had earned the nickname \u201cMAGA Church\u201d after Trump\u2019s \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d slogan. Son of the Unification Church \u201cMoonies\u201d founder Sun Myung Moon, \u201cSean\u201d and his congregants were known for their open adoption of politics as \u201ctheology,\u201d using political themes as the context from which to associate passages from the Old Testament. This practice, very common among Christian Nationalists, had drawn media attention for \u201cMAGA Church\u201d congregants who \u201c[worshipped] with AR-15 rifles by their sides.\u201d[2]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

Like the anti-communist rhetoric from the 1960s in the Christian Identity Movement, Moon armed his congregation against what he considered to be a communist threat to the nation. Moon had very good reason for that motivation, as his father had narrowly escaped from a North Korean death camp. In contrast to others in the rally wearing red MAGA caps, Rev. Moon preferred military-style cargo pants and a shirt, with a golden AR-15 and neatly polished bullets on display for all to see. Moon hosts the \u201cRod of Iron Freedom Festival,\u201d the largest \u201copen-carry\u201d event in the United States. Additionally, the Unification Church (UC) had much more in common with Christian Identity than simply brandishing arms under the name of Christianity. Sun Myung Moon also taught the two-seed doctrine of Christian Identity.<\/p>\n

The UC was deeply involved in politics and created The Washington Times<\/em>[3]<\/sup><\/a> daily newspaper as a means to bring its brand of religious and political information to the public. Moon was deeply connected the Religious Right, forming spiritual connections with past presidents, in the same way that his son and other leaders in the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) have formed a \u201cspiritual connection\u201d to Trump. In fact, the Unification Church was connected to many leaders in the NAR through the Fellowship Foundation through the National Prayer Breakfast and had supported presidents engaged in criminal activity with the Religious Right long before Trump. In 1974, Sun Myung Moon supported Nixon during the Watergate scandal by hosting the National Prayer Fast for the Watergate Crisis at the Capitol.[4]<\/sup><\/a> Sun Myung Moon was brought to meet Nixon right after the Family\u2019s National Prayer Breakfast in 1974.[5]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

NAR apostle and former Trump advisor Paula White joined Moon\u2019s widow, Hak Ja Han Moon, for an event hosted by the UC in 2021. White, a leader in the Prosperity Gospel, announced to the world that Moon\u2019s wife was \u201ca jewel from God\u201d who did \u201cgreat work as a spiritual leader.\u201d[6]<\/sup><\/a> White was but one of many so-called prophets and apostles of the NAR to align with Rev. Moon\u2019s agenda by using their religious platforms to sway votes towards Trump. Kris Vallotton, so-called apostle and a prominent figure in both the NAR and Trump re-election doctrine, admitted that his prediction had failed but refused to be branded as a false prophet.<\/p>\n

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I was wrong. I take full responsibility for being wrong. There’s no excuse for it. I think it doesn’t make me a false prophet, but it does actually create a credibility gap. And a lot of people trust me, trust my ministry and I want to say I’m very sorry for everyone who put their trust in me.[7]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As a vehicle to manipulate political votes to sway election results, the NAR and its network have been highly successful. Eight out of ten white evangelical Christians voted for Trump.[8]<\/sup><\/a> Six in ten voters who attended church even once or twice a month voted for Trump.[9]<\/sup><\/a> For evangelicals, Trump represented Christianity, while Biden represented the anti-Christ agenda. While much of that idea can be attributed to certain policies of the Democratic Party that do not align with evangelical Christianity, Biden\u2019s affiliation with the Roman Catholic Church played a key role in labeling him as a leader for Satan\u2019s spiritual army. For Christian Identity leaders in NAR history, Roman Catholicism was part of the Jewish plot to control the world,[10]<\/sup><\/a> and as such, the Catholic Church was considered the religion of the anti-Christ.<\/p>\n

NAR leader Dutch Sheets had led the charge against the Biden presidency and the push by evangelicals to overturn the election results. When Trump refused to accept the results by claiming a rigged election, Sheets urged Christians to fight for what he considered to be a \u201csinful vote.\u201d For Sheets, a vote for Trump was a vote for \u201cCalvary,\u201d implying that the national election was linked directly to the crucifixion of Christ. He declared, \u201cWe\u2019re going to enforce the victory of Calvary, and we\u2019re going to decree prophetically what God\u2019s been saying.<\/em>\u201d[11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>While news media outlets are quick to recognize the dangers of Christian Nationalist rhetoric flowing through Christian \u201crevivals\u201d and political rallies promoting MAGA, a far more troubling connection is largely overlooked. Examining the Christian Identity history of the so-called prophets and apostles of the NAR and their organizations makes clear the understanding that many of these extremists have direct links to Jim Jones through the Latter Rain Movement spearheaded by William Branham. In the 1950s, when Jim Jones joined Latter Rain and hosted Branham’s campaigns in multiple states,[12]<\/sup><\/a> Jones became a leading member of a network within the Christian Identity movement.<\/p>\n

Dutch Sheets was well-respected among churches in the NAR network due to his position as executive director of Christ for the Nations Institute,[13]<\/sup><\/a> founded by evangelist Gordon Lindsay who served as William Branham\u2019s campaign manager during the Latter Rain revivals.<\/p>\n

Lindsay was a leading figure in Christian Identity. Not only did Lindsay share[14]<\/sup><\/a> and publish[15]<\/sup><\/a> correspondence with Klan Imperial Wizard[16]<\/sup><\/a> Roy E. Davis, who ordained Branham, but he also was a speaker for Howard Rand\u2019s Anglo-Saxon Federation.[17]<\/sup><\/a> Rand worked closely with and appointed Ford executive William J. Cameron as president of the Federation. The union was strategic; Cameron had been an editor for Henry Ford’s antisemitic Dearborn Independent and had close connections to several powerful businessmen and politicians.[18]<\/sup><\/a> The Dearborn Independent was the basis for Henry Ford’s antisemitic book, The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem.<\/em>[19]<\/sup><\/a> According to Michael Barkun, the two men working together “facilitated the first systematic attempt to link British-Israel religious ideas with the political right.”[20]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

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Wesley Swift<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lindsay was not the only link between the Latter Rain movement and Christian Identity, and neither Branham nor Davis were the only links between the movement and white supremacy. In the late 1930s, Lindsay joined Aimee Semple McPherson’s cult of personality to become a minister and evangelist for the Foursquare church.[21]<\/sup><\/a> Freda Lindsay, Gordon’s wife, was a student at McPherson’s L.I.F.E Bible school.[22]<\/sup><\/a> Herrick Holt, one of the original founders of the Sharon Orphanage from which the Latter Rain Movement would originate, was one of the Canadian heads of Foursquare.[23]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

Numerous Christian Identity leaders were connected to Foursquare, including Christian Identity\u2019s notorious Wesley Swift. A student at the Angelus Temple\u2019s L.I.F.E Bible School[24]<\/sup><\/a> and minister in McPherson\u2019s Angelus Temple, Swift was one of the most outspoken Christian Identity leaders to spread the \u201cTwo-Seed\u201d doctrine, which Branham re-branded as \u201cThe Serpent\u2019s Seed\u201d doctrine for Latter Rain. The controversial doctrine, which claims that the Biblical Eve from the Garden of Eden mated with the Serpent to produce an impure race of beings,[25]<\/sup><\/a> was popular among Latter Rain adherents. George Hawtin, another one of the original founders of the Sharon Orphanage and Schools, used the doctrine to claim that Blacks were created \u201cin God\u2019s Wisdom\u201d to serve whites.[26]<\/sup><\/a> The doctrine was so controversial that it would eventually lead to strong divisions in Latter Rain and ultimately Jones\u2019 prophecy of death against Branham.[27]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

As it relates to Jim Jones, the most interesting Christian Identity figure by far is Gerald Burton Winrod. Winrod was popular among Pentecostal and Fundamentalist groups aligned with British Israelism and Christian Identity, as well as leaders of Latter Rain. Even after being named “Kansas Hitler” and “Jayhawk Nazi”[28]<\/sup><\/a> for his socialist views and antisemitism, Winrod was chosen by Aimee Semple McPherson to be her replacement during times when she was unable to fulfill her duties as pastor of the Angelus Temple. Most notably, Winrod was asked to speak at Angelus Temple the Sunday just days after Kristallnacht,[29]<\/sup><\/a> otherwise known as the \u201cNight of the Broken Glass,\u201d when the American Bund and other pro-Nazi groups praised the arrest of 30,000 Jews and the destruction of hundreds of Jewish homes, businesses, and temples.[30]<\/sup><\/a> Winrod strongly influenced other Christian Identity leaders, including Wesley Swift.[31]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Winrod worked closely with evangelist and faith healer F. F. Bosworth, who mentored Branham in the faith healing doctrines of cult leader John Alexander Dowie. Bosworth was both a ranking member of Dowie\u2019s cult and a convert to Pentecostal founder Charles Fox Parham\u2019s \u201cParhamites,\u201d[32]<\/sup><\/a> a group that narrowly escaped a Jonestown-style event in Dowie\u2019s Zion City. Like Jones, the group believed the end of the world was at hand. However, instead of drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid, the group began torturing and murdering converts.[33]<\/sup><\/a> Winrod wrote articles for Bosworth’s Exploits of Faith<\/em> magazine,[34]<\/sup><\/a> and toured with Paul Rader, who wrote the song \u201cOnly Believe,\u201d which was used in Branham\u2019s revivals at the time Jones first hosted Branham at Cadle Tabernacle in 1956.[35]<\/sup><\/a> Years earlier, Rader and Winrod held conferences at the Cadle Tabernacle, formerly the Indiana Klan headquarters, and Rader was a member of Winrod’s Defenders of the Christian Faith organization.[36]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

Winrod was instrumental in uniting Pentecostals, Fundamentalists, white supremacy groups, and Christian Identity against the perceived threat of a Jewish conspiracy.[37]<\/sup><\/a> He worked closely with James Cameron, Henry Ford\u2019s right-hand man and publisher of the antisemitic Dearborn Independent,[38]<\/sup><\/a> in vehement attacks against President Franklin D. Roosevelt.[39]<\/sup><\/a> In a series of events eerily similar to that of Christian Identity\u2019s recent attacks on democracy, Winrod and several others tried to overturn Roosevelt\u2019s reelection. They were eventually tried for sedition under the Smith Act of 1940.[40]<\/sup><\/a> Interestingly, Branham joined the other Christian Identity leaders in being outspoken against Roosevelt,[41]<\/sup><\/a>and claimed he was nearly arrested for preaching Winrod\u2019s Christian Identity rhetoric.[42]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Communism played a central role in the conspiracy outlined in the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion<\/em>. The Protocols<\/em> alleged that Communism would be used as a means to create social unrest and lead societies into turmoil. The supposed Jewish plot included a strategy of using Communism to weaken established governments before attempting global domination. This concept was also central to the Latter Rain movement, and by the time Jones united with Branham, Branham was one of the most outspoken proponents of this conspiracy theory. It is evident that Jones had been recruited into the Christian Identity movement based on how he promoted Branham. In The Open Door<\/em>, the advertisement Jones published to promote Branham\u2019s series of meetings at Cadle Tabernacle, Jones also referenced the Communist plot:<\/p>\n

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The spirit of anti-Christ (communism) is sweeping the world, bringing the body of anti-Christ (the communist party) together just as the spirit of Christ is bringing the body of Christ together. Soon the entire world will once again be faced with the tremendous issue; which will it be, Christ, or anti-Christ, (Christianity or communism).[43]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While Jones and hundreds of other ministers and evangelists denounced Branham and parted ways with him over the “Serpent’s Seed” white supremacy doctrine, the underlying Christian Identity themes that produced that doctrine continued to evolve. Many individuals converted to Winrod’s Defenders of the Christian Faith movement, most notably Charles E. Fuller, founder of Fuller Theological Seminary. Fuller was a frequent speaker at Defenders events,[44]<\/sup><\/a> including one held at Cadle Tabernacle,[45]<\/sup><\/a> where Jones would later launch his Latter Rain career. John Wimber, leader of the Vineyard movement, was the founding director of the Department of Church Growth at Fuller Seminary. C. Peter Wagner, who trained at Fuller Seminary and worked with Wimber as a professor of Church Growth, coined the term “New Apostolic Reformation.”<\/p>\n

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Paul Cain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So-called NAR prophet and apostle Mike Bickle, founder of the International House of Prayer in Kansas City (IHOP-KC), was strongly influenced by Branham\u2019s prot\u00e9g\u00e9, Paul Cain, who continued to teach some of the more militant aspects of Latter Rain that developed as a result of Christian Identity.[46]<\/sup><\/a> Bickle led the so-called Kansas City Prophets, which included Cain, and worked closely with John Wimber. So-called Kansas City prophet Bob Jones claimed that Branham\u2019s alleged angel (which he called \u201cEmma\u201d)[47]<\/sup><\/a> was instrumental in the formation of IHOP-KC. Jones and Cain promoted the Christian Identity-inspired “Manifest Sons of God” theology[48]<\/sup><\/a> at IHOP-KC in an attempt to recreate the Latter Rain movement\u2019s “Joel\u2019s Army,” a militant group of Christians intent on overthrowing the government to establish a theocracy. NAR leaders seek to conquer seven “mountains”, or spheres of cultural influence, according to the “Seven Mountain Mandate.” Claiming dominion over government demonstrates victory over just one of them.[49]<\/sup><\/a> According to Bickle\u2019s interpretation of the Book of Revelation, \u201cThe real point of Revelation 14 is the carnage \u2013 the destruction of human life\u201d[50]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

While it is clear that Jim Jones will never be labeled or remembered as a Christian Identity leader, and his death prophecy against Branham suggests that he was not in agreement with the more racist and antisemitic concepts in Branham\u2019s Christian Identity theology, one thing remains certain: Christian Identity heavily influenced the extremist form of Christianity that shaped Jones during his formative years as a Latter Rain minister in Indianapolis. Had three hundred ministers not risen up against Branham to halt the spread of his extremist views, it is quite possible that Jones could have remained in the movement that eventually evolved into what we see as the NAR today. The real question, as it pertains to today\u2019s Christian Right, is when the “three hundred ministers” of our time will rise up to halt the madness.<\/p>\n

Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n

[1]<\/sup><\/a> Diaz, Alex. 2024, Jul 27. IN MAGA WE TRUST: \u2018Trump was chosen by God\u2019, hail worshippers in MAGA church who believe almighty saved Don from assassin\u2019s bullet. Accessed 2024, Jul 28 from The Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/sup><\/a> Diaz. \u201cThe pastor runs the Rod Of Iron Ministries \u2014 also known as the MAGA, or Make America Great Again, church \u2014 and his sect worships with AR-15 rifles by their sides.\u201d<\/p>\n

[3]<\/sup><\/a> Turner, Lawrence. 2020, October 14. 1983 \u201cSun Myung Moon starts the Washington Times, a paper that was built on the remains of the William F. Buckley\u2019s defunct Washington Evening Star.\u201d Accessed 2024, Jul 28 from The Fellowship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[4]<\/sup><\/a> Unification Church’s ex-member explains how it gains political influence. \u201cIn 1974, he and hundreds of members — known as Moonies after their leader’s name — went to the United States Capitol for what was called the National Prayer and Fast for the Watergate Crisis, to show support for President Richard Nixon.\u201d 2022. Accessed 2024, Jul 28 from NHK World Japan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[5]<\/sup><\/a> Hassan, Steven Dr. 2019, Aug 15. Announcing My New Book with Simon and Schuster Entitled The Cult of Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[6]<\/sup><\/a> Menzie, Nicola A. 2021, Dec 18. \u201cPaula White Honors \u2018True Mother\u2019 Moon at Interfaith Prayer Rally for Korean Unification.\u201d Accessed 2024, Jul 28 from Faithfully Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[7]<\/sup><\/a> Benda, David. 2020, Nov 10. Bethel Church pastor who prophesied Trump win posts apology video, then takes it down. Accessed 2024, Jun 30 from the Redding Record Spotlight<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[8]<\/sup><\/a> Benda. \u201cAnd white evangelical Christians showed up for Trump as approximately eight of 10 white evangelical Christian voted for the president, according to Associated Press Vote Cast.\u201d<\/p>\n

[9]<\/sup><\/a> Smith, Gregory. 2024, Apr 30. Voters\u2019 views of Trump and Biden differ sharply by religion. \u201cAmong Christians, support for Trump is somewhat higher among regular church attenders than non-churchgoers. Overall, 62% of Christian voters who say they go to church at least once or twice a month support Trump over Biden.\u201d Accessed 2024, Jun 30 from Pew Research Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[10]<\/sup><\/a> Swift, Dr. Wesley A. 1964, Sep 2. 09-02-64 Bible Study Q&A. \u201cThis happened 1000 years later, and was the result of a little battle over theology between Protestant and Catholic stirred up by Jewish Hierarchies behind the scenes who created this problem.\u201d Accessed 2024, Aug 18 from Dr. Wesley Smith Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[11]<\/sup><\/a> Strand, Paul. 2020, Nov 20. Did the Prophets Get It Wrong? Dutch Sheets Leads Spiritual Election Battle as Intercessors Rally: ‘This Isn’t Over!’ Accessed 2024, Jun 30 from CBN News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[12]<\/sup><\/a> Braham, William. 1956, Oct 2. Father the Hour Has Come. \u201cHappy to see, today, is our host pastor (Brother James Jones) from Indianapolis, back there.\u201d William Branham Historical Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[13]<\/sup><\/a> Meeks, Gina. Dutch Sheets Resigns From Christ for the Nations, Cites Limited Window for Change in US. Accessed 2024, Jun 30 from Charisma News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[14]<\/sup><\/a> Branham, William. 1950, Aug 10. Expectations<\/a>. \u201cLast meeting our manager Brother Lindsay, he was reading me a letter of the Baptist preacher that ordained me in the Baptist church.\u201d<\/p>\n

[15]<\/sup><\/a> Davis, Roy E. 1950, Wm. Branham’s First Pastor. Oct. The Voice of Healing. “I am the minister who received Brother Branham into the first Pentecostal assembly he ever frequented. I baptized him, and was his pastor for some two years. I also preached his ordination sermon, and signed his ordination certificate, and heard him preach his first sermon.\u201d<\/p>\n

[16]<\/sup><\/a> Klan Opens Membership Drive in Northwest Louisiana. 1961, Feb 11. Arkansas Gazette. “R. E. Davis, self-styled national imperial wizard of the original Knights of the Ku Klux Klan”<\/p>\n

[17]<\/sup><\/a> To Lecture Here. 1940, Jul 9. Tacoma News. “The Anglo-Saxon Federation presents Gordon Lindsay, writer and Lecturer of Portland, Ore., in two free public lectures in the junior ballroom of the Hotel Winthrop Tuesday and Wednesday at 8 p.m. He will speak on America’s place in the present crisis and events in Europe in the light of Bible prophecy”<\/p>\n

[18]<\/sup><\/a> Baldwin, Neil. 2001. Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate. PublicAffairs.<\/p>\n

[19]<\/sup><\/a> Baysinger, Timothy G. 2006, July. Right-wing Group Characteristics and Ideology. Homeland Security Affairs. “First, in 1928, Howard Rand of Maine started spreading the British-Israel message through his newsletter, the Kingdom Message. In 1930, Rand met William J. Cameron, the editor of Henry Ford’s Dearborn Independent, and eventually they formed the Anglo-Saxon Federation of America. 11The Dearborn Independent was a very anti-Jewish publication and was later used as the basis of Henry Ford’s book The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem.”<\/p>\n

[20]<\/sup><\/a> Menefee, Seldon. Little HItlers on the Loose. 1945, Mar 8. The Gazette and Daily. “In Chicago, Howard B. Rand’s Anglo-Saxon Federation is going all-out for anti-Semitism. Its followers are distributing scratch pads filled with anti-Semitic slogans.”<\/p>\n

[21]<\/sup><\/a> Foursquare Gospel. 1938, April 16. The Tacoma News Tribune. “Evangelist Gordon Lindsay will speak Sunday at 11 on ‘The Resurrection of Jesus Christ'”<\/p>\n

[22]<\/sup><\/a> Joy of Faith Marks Pentecostal School. 2006, May 1. Post Star. “The school’s all-male board asked Lindsay’s wife, Freda, to take over. She had been a partner in her husband’s work, and as a young woman attended a school run by Aimee Semple McPherson, the famous female Pentecostal evangelist.”<\/p>\n

[23]<\/sup><\/a> Foursquare Heads Named. 1943, Aug 18. The Province. “Aimee Semple McPherson and Giles N. Knight, both here from\u00a0Los Angeles\u00a0… Other Canadian provincial superintendents appointed were Rev.\u00a0Herrick Holt, North Battleford”<\/p>\n

[24]<\/sup><\/a> Husband Routs Kidnaping Band. 1932, Dec 14. Los Angeles Times. “Wesley A. Swift, 19, a student at the Angelus Temple Bible School”<\/p>\n

[25]<\/sup><\/a> Burkun,\u00a0Michael. 1997.\u00a0Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the\u00a0Christian Identity\u00a0Movement.\u00a0The satanic theory was more closely approximated in a tract by Philip E. J. Monson. Monson, it will be remembered, was Howard Rand’s top man in the West, in charge of the Anglo-Saxon Federation’s Pacific Coast operations. He also was closely associated with the Kingdom Bible College in Los Angeles, from which Wesley Swift graduated. Monson’s thesis appeared first in 1928, was republished in 1936, and issued in a third, expanded version, undated but almost certainly from the late 1930s. Monson had some but not all of the theory’s elements. He argued the two-seedline position, one (‘the Satan line’) stemming from Cain, and the other (‘the God line’) from Abel. The two had to be kept separate and ‘the blood stream pure.’<\/p>\n

[26]<\/sup><\/a> A Lesson for Racist. 1989, May 11. The Province. \u201cGeorge Hawtin of Battleford, Sask., issued a written apology for distributing the 40-page booklet after a complaint about it to the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission. Entitled \u201cThe Living Creature: Origin of the Negro\u201d, the booklet says God created a superior race of whites who are meant to rule. Blacks were created \u201cin God\u2019s wisdom\u201d to serve whites, it says.\u201d<\/p>\n

[27]<\/sup><\/a> For more information, see Enemy in the Camp: The Inside Story Behind Jim Jones\u2019 1957 Prophecy of Death<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[28]<\/sup><\/a> “Gordon Winrod, now in his late 60s, who has declared that \u2018Not Jew-wise, the American citizenry always gets Jewed,\u2019 is the current patriarch of the Winrod clan. His father was the late Rev. Gerald B. Winrod of Wichita, Kansas, a propagandist so notorious for his pro-Nazism and anti-Semitism in the 1930s and 1940s that he earned himself the sobriquet of the “Jayhawk Nazi,” (“Jayhawk” is a nickname for a Kansas native.)” The Winrod Legacy of Hate. Accessed 2022, Dec 26 from Anti-Defamation League<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[29]<\/sup><\/a> \u201cIn the midst of the public outcries following Kristallnacht, there were reports of increased anti-Semitic incidents right here in the U.S. {\u2026} In Los Angeles, famed evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson ignored protests from the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League and invited anti-Semitic Gerald B. Winrod to act as preacher at her Angelus Temple on the Sunday following Kristallnacht. Winrod was the leader of a group called the Defenders of the Christian Faith and in his sermon, he condemned the “coterie of international Jewish bankers who ruled the Gentile world by the power of gold.” Winrod believed that Hitler would save the world from Communism and that Franklin Roosevelt was a devil linked to the Jewish-Communist conspiracy.\u201d Miller, Danny. 2008, Dec 11. Kristallnacht: 70 Years Later. Accessed 2024, Jun 23 from HuffPost<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[30]<\/sup><\/a> Miller. \u201cLater, this horrible night of terror would be called Kristallnacht, or the “Night of Broken Glass” because of the constant sound of the shattered storefront windows of the Jewish-owned businesses. German Jews had been suffering one indignity after another since the Nazis took power five years earlier, but Kristallnacht was a major turning point in what would soon lead to the expulsion and murder of millions of European Jews. During this well-planned event, 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps, hundreds of ancient synagogues were destroyed and burned down, and thousands of Jewish businesses and homes were attacked.\u201d<\/p>\n

[31]<\/sup><\/a> Barkun, Michael (1997). Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement<\/em>. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press..<\/p>\n

[32]<\/sup><\/a> Deep Diplomacy: Overseer Voliva Apes Dowie Methods in Zion. 1907, March 5. Waukegan Daily Sun. “It is apparent that Voliva has become alive to the growing separations and scattering of the forces of Zion. Meetings were held yesterday in the college building, directed by such leading men as Alex Granger, C. A. Rominger, F. A. Fieden and Horace Cook. F. F. Bosworth, formerly conductor of the Zion City Band, is one of the head Parhamite preachers.<\/p>\n

[33]<\/sup><\/a> Morton, Barry. “Yes, John G Lake was a Con Man: A Response to Marius Nel. According to accounts in the Zion newspapers, the Parhamites became convinced that the ‘End Times’ had begun, and held meetings featuring phenomena such as glossolalia, along with a range of ecstatic and sexual behaviors. One member of the sect went insane and committed suicide. Another nine of the Parhamites lost their sanity, which the Parhamites themselves described as ‘demon possession’. Lake and Hezmalhalch’s involvement in subsequent events are difficult to untangle, largely because they were careful to never discuss the Parhamite killings for the rest of their careers.”\u00a0 ResearchGate<\/a>, November 2017.<\/p>\n

[34]<\/sup><\/a> Barnes, Roscoe III. 2018, Dec 31. Reading with F. F. Bosworth. “Bosworth’s magazine also featured the writings of his wife, Florence, and his brother, B.B. Bosworth. Other writers included Evangelist A.G. Jeffries, Harry Hodge, C.C. Fitch, Rev. William T. MacArthur, Rev. Herbert Dyke, Rev. P. Gavin Duffy, Bishop Charles H. Brent, James Moore Hickson, Carrie Judd Montgomery, Rev. J. P. Roberts, Mary Lowe Dickinson, Rev. W. J. Bennett, Ethel E. Tulloch, E. West, Charles H. Usher, John Harris, Fannie J. Rowe, J. Albert Libby and Dr. Gerald B. Winrod.’ Accessed 2022, Dec 28 from Roscoe Reporting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[35]<\/sup><\/a> An Intellectual and Religious Treat! 1929, Feb 2. Indianapolis Times. (Paul Rader and Gerald B. Winrod Pictured).<\/p>\n

[36]<\/sup><\/a> Chicago Gospel Tabernacle World Defenders’ Convention. 1930, May 17. Chicago Tribune. “Gerald R. Winrod: ‘The Church and its Parasites’ {…} Paul Rader”<\/p>\n

[37]<\/sup><\/a> Fine, Morris. Review of the Year. Accessed 2022, Dec 26 from https:\/\/ajcarchives.org\/AJC_DATA\/Files\/1939_1940_4_YRUS.pdf<\/em> (URL offline Sept 2024). ‘The past year has also seen some expansion in the activities of such notorious Jew-baiters as William Dudley Pelley, National Commander of the Silver Shirts, and Gerald B. Winrod, Kansas Fundamentalist preacher and leader of the Defenders of the Christian Faith. Pelley was extremely active during the year in the publication and dissemination of anti-Jewish propaganda. Winrod, who during his unsuccessful Gubernatorial campaign in 1938 (See Vol. 40, p. 120) had attempted to gloss over his previous anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic record, once again resumed his Jew-baiting attacks.’<\/p>\n

[38]<\/sup><\/a> Nazi Leader in Ford Employ. 1937, Apr 23. Utah Labor News. “Kuhn is in close touch with William J. Cameron, confidential secretary of Henry Ford, who was formerly editor of Ford’s anti-Semitic “Dearborn Independent” when that publication printed the “Protocols of Zion,” which were never repudiated by Ford, although he discontinued the paper when public sentiment threatened to injure his business. Cameron today is again distributing the “Protocols,” and in his introduction he quotes Ford as approving of them.”<\/p>\n

[39]<\/sup><\/a> Nazi Leader in Ford Employ. 1937, Apr 23. Utah Labor News. “Cameron was the first head of the Anglo-Saxon Federation of Detroit and Chicago, but in 1936, when it might prove embarrassing for Ford who was violently anti-Roosevelt, he stepped out as head and became its director of publications, an office he still holds. Cameron also contributed heavily to the “Capitol News and Feature Service,” a Nazi propaganda agency organized by the “Rev.” Gerald B. Winrod upon his return from nazi Germany.”<\/p>\n

[40]<\/sup><\/a> Sedition Trial of 1944.\u00a0“On January 3, 1944 thirty opponents of American involvement in the war against Germany went to trial for charges of violating the Smit Act of 1940. The charges stemmed from their involvement in fascist movements and from cooperation with German forces. The defendants opposed war against Germany and espoused rabid anti-Semitism.” Accessed 2023, Aug 4 from\u00a0CSUN University Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[41]<\/sup><\/a> Branham, William. 1954, May 9. The Invasion Of The United States (54-0509). “But let me tell you, when Mr. Roosevelt\u2026The man is dead. Let him rest; I trust he is. Come in, and run in three or four terms, and taken over, just a preliminary dictatorship. I can prove to you, that in the Scripture, where That said it’d take place. That’s right. We haven’t got no more constitution. She is broke to pieces. Everything is all smattered. The Republicans is just as bad. It’s six of one, and a half a dozen of the other one.”<\/p>\n

[42]<\/sup><\/a> Branham, William. 1953, March 26. Israel And The Church #2 (53-0326). “People, we’re living in the end time. How many of you people has heard years ago down here when they was going to have me arrested down here for preaching on that ‘mark of the beast’? When I said that Mussolini, when he first come in power twenty-some-odd years ago, I said, ‘If Mussolini ever goes towards Ethiopia, mark this down, there will never be peace till Jesus Christ comes.’ And I said, ‘There’ll be three great isms, Communism, Fascism, and Nazism.’ And I said, ‘They’ll wind up in one ism, and that one ism will dominate the world and will burn the Vatican City.’ You remember me saying that years and years and years ago. And just exactly that way!”<\/p>\n

[43]<\/sup><\/a> The Open Door, described here<\/a>. The referenced text is from the April 1956 issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[44]<\/sup><\/a> Old Time Prayer Meeting Planned. 1928, November 26. Santa Ana Register. “The Rev. Charles E. Fuller, who has been in McPherson, Kans., where he spoke before the defenders’ conference, is now at home”<\/p>\n

[45]<\/sup><\/a> Dr. Winrod to Open Meeting Series at Cadel [Cadle] Tabernacle. \u201cCharles E. Fuller of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, Cal., will conduct a Bible Hour.\u201d<\/p>\n

[46]<\/sup><\/a> House of Cards Falling. 2024, May 3. \u201cModern-day \u2018prophets\u2019 like Shawn Bolz make no attempt to hide the fact that their main mentor was Paul Cain. Cain, in turn, was a self-declared protege of William Branham.\u201d Accessed 2024, Aug 18 from Prophecy Today UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[47]<\/sup><\/a> Kirk, Peter. 2008, May 24. Todd Bentley and an angel called Emma. \u201cNow let me talk about an angelic experience with Emma. Twice Bob Jones asked me about this angel that was in Kansas City in 1980: “Todd, have you ever seen the angel by the name of Emma?” He asked me as if he expected that this angel was appearing to me. Surprised, I said, “Bob, who is Emma?” He told me that Emma was the angel that helped birth and start the whole prophetic movement in Kansas City in the 1980s.\u201d Accessed 2024, Apr 22 from Gentle Wisdom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[48]<\/sup><\/a> Cloud, David. 2012, Mar 8. Latter Rain and Manifest Sons of God. “PAUL CAIN, who was associated with William Branham in the 1950s and was aligned with the late John Wimber and the Vineyard movement in the 1990s, has taught many aspects of the Manifest Sons of God doctrine.” Accessed 2024, Aug 18 from Wayoflife.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[49]<\/sup><\/a> Poythress, Justin N. 2023, Jul 10. How Evangelicals Lose Will Make All the Difference. \u201cProponents of the 7M mandate call on Christians to retake seven spheres (or mountains) of cultural influence: religion, family, government, education, media, arts\/entertainment, and business.\u201d Accessed 2024, Aug 18 from The Gospel Coalition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[50]<\/sup><\/a> Montgomery, Stephen. 2023. The Converging Apostasy. \u201cAt Word Connect.org we get a partial answer in Mike Bickle, the International House Of Prayer, (I.H.O.P) and a Violent Jesus where we are told about Bickle\u2019s Armageddon Campaign: The Battle of the Great Day of God Almighty (2006). For example, on p. 8 Bickle says, \u2018The real point of Revelation 14 is the carnage \u2013 the destruction of human life\u2019 and the fact that \u2018blood [will come] out of the winepress [of judgment] up to the horses\u2019 bridles\u2019 (underscore and italics added).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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