Franklin Hall: The Gospel of Fasting

Franklin Hall was a Pentecostal "faith healing" evangelist best known for his emphasis on prayer and fasting. In 1946, he published a book entitled "Atomic Power with God through prayer and Fasting", which provided detailed information on the methods and benefits of fasting. Many of the "faith healing" revivalists in the Latter Rain Revival and Voice of Healing Revival used Hall's fasting methods in their meetings until they became more extreme. Hall wrote several books and tracts about fasting, including Glorified fasting, The fasting prayer, The Body-Felt Salvation (1968), Formula for Raising the Dead, and Our Divine Healing Obligation.Show more

During the time William Branham toured with Little David Walker, Franklin Hall joined in the "faith healing" campaigns. His fasting method, along with William Branham's extremist doctrines, were the catalysts for the creation of the Latter Rain movement. Hall recognized the massive amount of money flowing through the revivals and even jokingly talked about it before the meetings started on live microphones.

Franklin Hall's religious views on fasting grew more extreme, however, and many evangelists in the revivals did not want to participate in starving themselves. When the Latter Rain began to die out in the 1950s, Hall blamed them for their lack of fasting. Hall began claiming that participants in the revivals should have a "body-felt salvation", implying that if they weren't starving themselves, they weren't really saved. The hunger pangs, according to Hall, would eliminate sickness, tiredness, and body odors. As a result of Hall's extremism, his audience quickly faded.

In 1956 Hall founded the Deliverance Foundation, a new cult formed around his "gospel of fasting". By 1970 it reported thirty-two affiliated churches and two thousand members. He also introduced new "Little-David"-style child preachers to his stage act, such as "Little Joey".

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