JD Hall (who’s fallacious interpretation of Ezekiel 36 I recently exposed) identifies as a cessationist – meaning, he believes the apostolic “signs and wonders” stopped with the apostles. And yet, here he is talking about a “move of the Holy Spirit” like a charismatic. Like every other false teacher and hypocrite of today, Hall speaks fondly of Jonathan Edwards, the face of the First Great Awakening. If Edwards were alive today, he’d be part of the NAR. In “Thoughts on the Revival of Religion in New England, 1740,” Edwards reported spiritual activity that mirrors the Toronto Blessing and Brownsville Revival: “There has, before now, been both crying out and FALLING DOWN in this town, under awakenings of conscience and in the pangs of the new birth, and also in some of the neighboring towns. In one of them, more than seven years ago, was a great number together that cried out and FELL DOWN under convictions; in most of which, by good information, was a hopeful and abiding good issue. And the Rev. Mr. Williams, of Deerfield, gave me an account of an aged man in that town, many years before, who being awakened by his preaching CRIED OUT ALOUD in the congregation. There have been many instances in this and some neighboring towns before now, of persons FAINTING with joyful discoveries made to their souls: once several together in this town. And there also formerly have been several instances here of persons' FLESH WAXING COLD AND BENUMBED and their HANDS BEING CLENCHED, YEA, THEIR BODIES BEING SET INTO CONVULSIONS, being OVERPOWERED with a strong sense of the astonishingly great and excellent things of God and the eternal world.” According to JD Hall, what happened during the First Great Awakening spearheaded by Jonathan Edwards is “happening right now.” He therefore affirms (whether knowingly or not) the kind of “manifestations” regularly seen within the Bethel and Toronto Blessing crowd. But again – Hall’s supposedly a “cessationist.” And yet, he’s basically no different than Michael Brown. I’ve been saying for a few years that even the so-called “cessationists” are going the way of the false “signs and wonders” movement, prophesied in Matthew 24. JD says he feels it “in the air.” Sounds like the NAR always talking about the “atmosphere.” And what does the Bible say the devil is the prince of? “in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the AIR, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience” Ephesians 2:2