I started taking courses with the PAOC, and started studying the Bible, and theology, learned lots about the denomination. Like anyone not believing in a pre-tribe rapture was not saved and going to hell. Right there in print.
Was this from one local PAOC or from the denomination? My understanding is that the A/G in the US would not make believing in pre-trib an issue of salvation. Having been raised, partly, in that movement, that sounds like something that would be considered false doctrine in the A/G. But there can be individual radical preachers and congregations that don't fit with the overall movement's beliefs, and PAOC is affiliated with the A/G, but probably has some of its own characteristics that I am not familiar with. I have one friend raised as a PAOC MK, and I met her parents.
My old Pentecostal friends gave me Kenyon's book to read, as early as 1984 and I didn't know what to think about it. It didn't match anything I read in my Bible, at all. Then read Hagin and Copeland. A friend became obsessed with Copeland, got a PhD from his ministry school, not sure whether that was accredited. She was one of the people who told me I should be healed, I didn't have enough faith. That was absolutely the worst thing anyone has done to me!! She died after breast cancer metastasized when she refused treatment, because she had claimed healing.
So I do agree Pentecostals are a lot milder. They do believe in healing, but not to the extent that the "Name It & Claim It" group does! I do think Bethel has a lot of underpinnings with WOF, but they add a lot of lies to it, like angels wings and glitter.
The idea that if you have faith you can be healed was a belief that some in the faith cure movement had back in the 1800s. My understanding is that some in the Pentecostal movement would have thought of healing that way. There was also a Pentecostal church that formed in Zion, Illinois that had people formally had been with Dowie. There were a number of A/G ministers that had lived in Zion, and also plenty of Pentecostals from independent congregations and the CMA.
A lot of WOF doctrine draws from believes that some Pentecostals would have held to, but not others, mixed with Kenyon. Some Pentecostals liked the WOF movement but stayed in Pentecostalism, but there were others that did not, and preached against aspects of it. A lot of the WOF preachers would come up with innovative doctrines and statements, as if they were trying to say something new that sounded shocking and contrary to what people believed. The A/G has some position papers on various topics, including disagreement with some of the ideas of WOF, if I am not mistaken.
The late Kenneth Hagin seemed to think God just allowed calamities and did not cause them. That doesn't fit the thinking of those who read Exodus and other parts of the Bible or just went to Sunday school, including a lot of Pentecostals. Being raised Pentecostal, some of the WOF movement teachings and attitude about money seemed unseemly. It seemed like some of the WOF movement preachers, say, in the 1980s, had 80 or 100 verses they read, and preached the same sermons topics over and over about positive confession, healing, getting more money through faith, etc.
My biggest concerns with the movement were the really weak view about God's sovereignty Hagin taught, and a lot of specific strange teachings-- not to pray 'thy will be done', theories about 'Jesus died spiritually', and an emphasis on having faith to get money that seemed to me to encourage greed. There were some real extreme examples of that on TV at 2 AM like Tilton, and Popoff-- with the miracle oil and all that. Popoff might not have been accepted as one of the group by other WOFers. I think some of them accepted Tilton as a real preacher, at least early on. I'm not sure about later.
It seems like WOF as a distinct movement is kind of getting watered down, mixing in with seeker sensitive, mega-church style, and getting influenced by Bethel's emphases. I visited a couple of churches and found out they were historically WOF or the preachers went to rhema, and the feel of the service and to some extent the emphasis in teaching had changed from when I was exposed to WOF in the '80's and '90's (mostly on TV.)