The Redacted History of Deliverance in the Church | David Miller

What if the Church has been quietly erasing one of its most powerful practices for centuries, and we're paying for it right now?

The Remnant Radio welcomes Reverend David Miller, pastor of Church Tsidkenu, to unpack the hidden, and often deliberately suppressed, history of exorcism and deliverance ministry throughout church history. David is the author of Redacted, a three-year research project that traces deliverance from the early church fathers all the way to the 20th century. What he found is striking: deliverance and revival move together. And when one is removed, the other tends to collapse shortly after.

We walk through how the early church treated demonization as an assumed reality, how the medieval period saw a near-total collapse of effective exorcism, and how the Reformation ironically helped birth the modern assumption that Christians cannot have demons. David argues this isn't ancient orthodoxy. It's a pendulum swing traceable to John Calvin's polemical response to Catholic abuses, and it spread from there.

We also dig into the Azusa Street controversy. David makes a compelling case that Charles Parham's now-maligned critique of the revival wasn't racial antagonism, but rather a legitimate spiritual diagnosis. Bizarre manifestations, moral fractures among leaders, and the systematic exclusion of deliverance from the revival's framework all point to something darker than the standard Pentecostal narrative admits.

We close with the 20th-century resurgence of deliverance through figures like Derek Prince, Win Worley, Frank Hammond, and others. We discuss which schools of thought are most helpful for someone brand new to this ministry.

If you've been frustrated by a church culture that either dismisses deliverance ministry or refuses to confront the abuses of it, this episode is for you.

0:00 – Introduction
1:56 – David Miller Background
3:08 – Redacted Book Overview
7:07 – Revival & Deliverance Pattern
9:42 – Christians and Demonization
18:25 – Exorcism in the Middle Ages
34:00 – Luther-Calvin Baptismal Debate
38:50 – George Fox Redacted
41:29 – Azusa Street & Parham
50:16 – 20th Century Deliverance Figures
53:08 – Strategic Spiritual Warfare
1:00:52 – Closing Thoughts

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