The Authoritarian Structure of the Latter Rain

When Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century, he and those with him opposed the authoritarian structure of the Catholic Church. They had witnessed the negative effects of that structure first-hand and realized that the biblical model for the Church was in no way similar to their own, and saw the imbalance of power as an evil that must be escaped.

Interestingly, the Latter Rain movement of the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s reversed the work that Martin Luther did centuries ago by restoring that same structure. With the Latter Rain’s Five-Fold Ministry doctrine, a clear path of authority was established, making miniature “Popes” of the heads of each sect that splintered from it. The church leadership in the Latter Rain did not lead by making new individual leaders to spread the Gospel; instead, they looked to Five-Fold offices for new “spoken words” “voices of god”, “logos”, and “rhemas”. Yet at the same time, those same leaders condemned the Catholic Church for this very thing.

The movement became uniquely positioned as a religious sect that condemned itself as authoritarian and unbiblical.

You can learn this and more on william-branham.org

Five-Fold Ministry:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/topics/five_fold_ministry

Latter Rain:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/topics/latter_rain