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1.44.00 – Because the International Holiness Mission (IHM) forbade people from speaking in tongues (against 1 Corinthians 14:39), Ravenhill and another evangelist separated from the Trekkers group that was commissioned by Samuel Chadwick. This explains why he preached with A. W. Tozer in the Christian and Missionary Alliance (CMA), David Wilkerson in Assembly of God (AG), John Wimber in the Vineyard, Church of God (Cleveland), and Charles Stanley in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). All of these groups allowed and still allow people to speak in tongues during worship, provided it is kept under control. It seems to be though, that the InterChurch Holiness Convention (IHC), which exists today, and is the most closely aligned with Schmul Publishing and Wesleyan theology, would be just like the IHM, and likely to forbid tongues, as well as Christian rock, television, sports, video games, non-KJV Bibles, non-prairie dress clothes for women, etc. The same dynamic exists in many of the Independent Fundamental Baptist (IFB) churches and Sword of the Lord Publications.

Both of these fundamental groups have strong theology for preparing evangelistic sermons, but because of their anti-tongues stance, they’ve left many of the tongues-friendly people in the dark about sound doctrine and gospel preaching. While Ravenhill would’ve probably found Adam Clarke’s Christian Theology (Schmul, 1967) to be a great general overview on sound doctrine, I think it would be right to say that while he might not have agreed with every line and every paragraph in Harold Horton’s The Gifts of the Spirit (Gospel Publishing House, 1975), he seemed to lean in the Assembly of God direction, without endorsing the teaching totally, because he never personally spoke in tongues himself. It might be more accurate to say that Ravenhill was raised in an IHC / Schmul sort of church environment, then came to lean towards a CMA (A. W. Tozer) / Christian Publications direction, and even an AG (David Wilkerson) / Gospel Publishing House direction at times; but because he had a “catholic spirit” like Wesley, he came to read and quote a whole lot of Banner of Truth books as well, which he probably got from SBC preachers (like W. A. Criswell).

3.36.00 – Because Ravenhill was a staff preacher at Bethany Fellowship in Minnesota, his book Why Revival Tarries (1959) got published by their booksellers outlet: Bethany House Publishers. It sold 200,000 copies. This was after he left Tozer’s Southside Alliance Church in Chicago. This is the publication that opened up the door for many invitations to preach at churches for the rest of his life. (It happened the same way for David Wilkerson after The Cross and the Switchblade (1963) came out, as his son Gary’s book says.) It was around this time that Reformed Baptist churches started inviting him to preach. Bethany was founded by T. A. Hegre, who published The Cross and Sanctification (1960), which was a Wesleyan soteriology book, to be used for evangelistic preaching and personal devotion. The massive invitations to preach, however, came along with single airline or cruiseline tickets just for the preachers, and would make both of these great evangelists travel away from their families for weeks and weeks at a time. Billy Graham did the same thing in his 30s, 40s, and 50s. All of their wives and kids suffered emotionally because of these long absences. The evangelists of the early church, however, traveled around with their families (1 Corinthians 9:5).

4.15.00 – “He prophetically spoke like a trumpet blast.”

That they should seek the Lord,
if haply they might feel after him, and find him,
though he be not far from every one of us.
–Acts 17:27 (KJV)–

They were all filled with the Holy Ghost,
and began to speak with other tongues,
as the Spirit gave them utterance.
–Acts 2:4 (KJV)–

On the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. 
For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God.
–Acts 10:45-46 (KJV)–

When Paul had laid his hands upon them, 
the Holy Ghost came on them;
and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
–Acts 19:6 (KJV)–

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Dr. Jack Deere, …Power of the Spirit (Zondervan, 2020). Has an AUDIO BOOK.

Dr. John R. Rice, Great Soul Winners Were Filled with the Holy Spirit (Sword, 1949).

E. S. Williams, Systematic Theology, vol. 3 (Gospel Publishing House, 1953), chs. 6-9.

P. C. Nelson, Bible Doctrines (Gospel Publishing House, 1948), ch. 8.

Harold Horton, The Gifts of the Spirit (Gospel Publishing House, 1934).

John Sherrill, They Speak with Other Tongues (Chosen Books, 2018).

This is some strong, anointed,
Pentecostal preaching against sin.
More sir! MORE!
–J.B.–

(DIRT)
THE LAW OF GOD CONVERTS THE SOUL
THE LAW OF DEVILS PERVERTS THE WHOLE

(ROLDAN)
PROPHETIC LAST DAYS, HOLY ANCIENT SCROLLS REVEAL
THE END SIGNS OF THE END TIMES OF THE RETURN OF YAHWEH
TOTAL DEPRAVED, ENSLAVED SOULS
BLINDLY RUNNING IN A DARK CAVE
HEADED FOR THE LORD’S DREADED RAGE
SONS OF PERDITION TRAINED LIKE GREEN BERETS
TO INVADE WITH SYNTHETIC SCRIPTURAL PHILOSOPHY THEY CONVEY
HUMANS INFESTED WITH DEMON PARASITES
LIKE ISRAELITES, WITH LEPROSY
SPREADING HERESY
TO ANNIHILATE CHRISTIANITY
SOLDIERS OF INIQUITY
IN AN ARMY DIVIDED INTO MANY EVIL INFANTRIES
BUT FAIL TO SEE, THEY WILL NEVER SMELL THE AROMA OF VICTORY
DESCENDANTS OF MECCA, CHOKIN’ ON THE DEVIL’S NECTAR
RELIGIOUS ASSAILANTS ON A MISSION
TO DESTROY AND PERSECUTE THE CHURCH
OF THE ONLY TRUE RESURRECTOR, CHRIST JESUS
5 % MOVEMENT BLASPHEMERS
LOUIS FARAKHAN, THE KORAN AND ISLAM THESIS
DISSECTING IGNORANT SOULS TO PIECES
LIKE PRO-CHOICE M.D’S DO FETUSES
TRUE GOD SEEKERS ARE NOT FROM THE PLANET VENUS
OR TITAN, CAMOUFLAGED PENTAGRAM MEDALLION
WORN BY ANTICHRIST, TABERNACLE, HYPNOTIZED
RECRUITED BATTALION. MIDDLE EAST ARABIAN
DELUSIONAL ALIEN, REPTILIAN FALSE PROPHET NUBIAN
ISLAMIC HEBREW CIVILIAN, CULT RELIGION IN REBELLION
WITH THE HOLY COUNCIL OF THE TRINITARIAN
7 HEADED LEVIATHAN, DRAGON EMERGIN’
FROM THE DEPTHS OF EVIL PRECEPTS
TO PROCLAIM MARY AS CO-REDEMPTRIX
POPAL INFALLIBLE HERETIC
DRASTIC ROMAN CATHOLIC TACTICS
TO EMPOWER A LETHAL IDOLATROUS CATHEDRAL
ONE WORLD RELIGION SEQUEL
CONSTITUTING A NEW LAW TO MAKE ANY OTHER BELIEF ILLEGAL
INJECTING DEADLY VIRUSES, DOCTRINES TO BRAINWASH PEOPLE
WITH EVIL CONTAMINATED NEEDLES
ALL YOU COUNTERFEIT ZION PERPETRATOR’S POSITIONS
WILL BE IN THE FETAL
PETRIFIED BY THE PROPHESIED
RETURN OF THE SON OF MAN’S DIVINE
AMBUSH, INFINITE PLAN WORLDWIDE, HOLY INVASION
DESTROYING THIS SODOM AND GOMORRAH CONTINUATION
WICKED CIVILIZATION
SPARING ONLY THE REMNANT CHRISTIAN POPULATION

(DIRT)
GOD MULTIPLIED THE 2 FISH THE LITTLE BOY BROUGHT TO THE MASTER
TO FEED THE HUNGRY MASSES
AND THE 5 LOAVES FROM THE BASKET
BUT STILL WE PASS IT
LOOKIN’ FOR OTHER THINGS TO SATISFY US
WHEN WE PICK BERRIES, WE LET THORNS STICK US
WHEN WE ARE DOWN, WE LET DEVILS KICK US
CREATED BY GOD, AND GIVEN TO MAN
BUT MAN FORFEITED IT TO SATAN
TEMPTING US TO ACTIVITIES THAT ARE FRUITLESS
THROWING SPEARS INTO THE RIB CAGE OF JESUS
THE DECEPTION’S OBVIOUS
BUT SINCE THE EGYPTIANS SMASHED WOOD TO PAPYRUS
WE BEEN LETTIN’ COBRAS SLAP US
AND AS THE SECOND LAW FIGHTS TO ENTRAP US
WE FREEZE IN PARALYSIS
IS THE WALLS CLOSING IN ON US?
IS THAT AN ANGEL AT THE RADIUS?
I THINK HE’S COMING OVER TO US
PUTTING COLD HANDS ON OUR NECKS AND CHOKING US
WHAT HAVE WE GOT OURSELVES INTO?

–Dirt, “2 Laws”–

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THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE ANY GRAVEN IMAGE, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. THOU SHALT NOT BOW DOWN THYSELF TO THEM, nor serve them. –Exodus 20:4-5 (KJV)

The early church never came close to worshiping Mary. You won’t find it in the lives of the Desert Fathers, St. Patrick, or St. Benedict. Prayers to Mary were not even on the radar in the lives of the early Catholic saints. Mary was simply considered one of many saints in the early canon of Christian hagiography, much like Protestants regard the names of Calvin, Wesley, and Luther today.

Towards THE END OF THE FOURTH CENTURY, the name Mary becomes rather frequent among Christians; this serves as another sign of the veneration they had for the Mother of God…NO ONE WILL SUSPECT THE EARLY CHRISTIANS OF IDOLATRY, AS IF THEY HAD PAID SUPREME WORSHIP TO MARY’S PICTURES OR NAME; but how are we to explain the phenomena enumerated, unless we suppose that the early Christians venerated Mary in a special way? —THE CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA (1912)

As a Wesleyan, I have what’s called an Anglo-Catholic view of theology: this means that the Bible is primary, theological tradition is secondary, reason is third, and personal spiritual experience comes in fourth place. When it comes to theological tradition, I mainly rely on John Wesley and the theologians he relied on: which includes a collection of Puritans, Anglicans, church fathers, and occasional Catholic devotional books like The Practice of the Presence of God. With that being said, Wesley also affirmed this in the Articles of Religion: “The Romish doctrine concerning purgatory, pardon, worshiping, and adoration, as well of images as of relics, and also invocation of saints, is a fond thing, vainly invented, and grounded upon no warrant of Scripture, but repugnant to the Word of God.”

There appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus. –Matthew 17:3 (NIV)

A precedent can be established here that departed saints can SPONTANEOUSLY visit the godly. Wesley even wrote that “I never had anything of this kind with regard to any but those that died in faith. In dreams I have had exceedingly lively conversations with them, and I doubt not but they were then very near” (Letter to Lady Maxwell). But notice what is NOT going on after this happens:

1. Worship of the Dead.

2. Adoration of the Dead.

3. Creating Relics of the Dead.

4. Invoking the Presence of the Dead.

All of these things are done in the Catholic Church, but are rejected by Wesley and all Protestants, because they all point to an occult practice called necromancy or spiritism. “When they say to you, ‘Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,’ should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of THE DEAD on behalf of the living?” (Isaiah 8:19, ESV). I think one of the unfortunate results of Mary worship is to make spiritual men effeminate as they are engaging in a kind of goddess worship. It also encourages feminism with a kind of Catholic Jezebel spirit, because it exalts a female icon to a position of absolute authority over all Catholic men, which is against the complementarian and patriarchal structure explained in Ephesians 5:21-33. As a matter of fact, the LGBT movement blew up after all these Mary visions happened in the 1980s and 1990s. “There is one God, and ONE MEDIATOR between God and men, the man CHRIST JESUS” (1 Timothy 2:5, KJV). –J.B.

You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile. But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean…I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.
–Apostle Peter in Acts 10:28, 34-35 (NIV)–

You are worthy to take the scroll
    and to open its seals,
because you were slain,
    and with your blood you purchased for God
    persons from every tribe and language and people and nation.
–Revelation 5:9 (NIV)–

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CMI, “The Origin of the Human Races.”

—. “Skin Colour Surprises.”

—. “Skin Deep.”

Wikipedia, “Qurna.” Local folklore holds that Qurna, Iraq is the specific location where the Garden of Eden used to exist in Genesis 2:10, 14.

Ken Ham, Divided Nation (Master Books, 2021). Click here for AUDIO BOOK.