Latter Rain Movement

Latter Rain Movement may refer to:

• "Latter Rain" is a term used in Holiness and Pentecostal movements.
• Latter Rain (1880s movement) was a precursor to modern Pentecostalism.
• Latter Rain Mission International
• Latter Rain (post–World War II movement) originated within Pentecostalism during the late 1940s.

The term "latter rain" occurs in the King James Version: several times in the Old Testament (e.g., Joel 2:23 "Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month."), and once in the New Testament (James 5:7: "Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.")