# Manifested Sons of God **Summary.** Manifested Sons of God is a doctrine that emerged from the mid-twentieth-century Latter Rain movement. It teaches that an end-time company of "overcomers" will reach a mature spiritual state, sometimes described as sharing in Christ's authority or immortality before his return. ## Substance The teaching draws on Romans 8:19, which speaks of creation waiting for "the revealing of the sons of God." In Latter Rain usage, this became the basis for a specific end-time expectation: a set-apart group who attain a level of holiness and power beyond ordinary believers. > [!contradiction] > Supporters within Latter Rain and later charismatic streams read the doctrine as a promise of end-time maturity and spiritual authority. Critics, including several Pentecostal bodies, judged it to overstate human transformation and to blur the line between believers and Christ. The Assemblies of God formally rejected teachings tied to the New Order of the Latter Rain in a 1949 resolution. The doctrine is historically contested, and its specifics vary between teachers. It has connections to later triumphalist and militant end-time imagery, including [[Joel's Army]]. ## Why it matters in this wiki This wiki studies charismatic and NAR-adjacent theology and the harm that high-control eschatology can carry. Manifested Sons of God is part of the doctrinal background that later movements drew on. Naming it helps trace how certain end-time expectations developed and why some Pentecostal institutions moved to distance themselves. ## Related - [[Latter Rain]] - [[Joel's Army]]