Ardent American Patriot and Lover of Israel
18 Areas the American Church Has Been Deceived – part II
Continued from our series, “18 Areas the American Church has been Deceived – part I”
Proof Number 4: The Erroneous Prophecies of Men and Women Who Claim “God has spoken through them.”
We know Joseph Smith, Ellen G. White, and the Jehovah Witnesses Charles “Taz” Russell are false prophets. How about the Charismatics who declare, “Thus saith the Lord…” and “God’s message for you is…”? Jesus warned, “Beware of false prophets … Ye shall know them by their fruits” (Mark 7:15,16).
The “fruit” of a false prophet is a false prophecy!
By definition, a false prophet is described in Deuteronomy 18:20-22. (The Scripture is underlined). “But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word (just one) in my name (Like “The Lord told me…”), which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
Additional Note: Censuring false prophets protects people from being deeply hurt and losing confidence in God’s Word. Do we read: “Let that prophet readjust his figures”? “Forget the past”? “Give him a second chance”? “We all make mistakes”? “He may be just ‘kind-of-a-prophet’”? “Wait and see what harm was done first”?). And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? (Good question!) When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, (False charismatic prophesy is common! God spoke through the prophets when? In times PAST! – Hebrews 1:1), but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: (Stick with the more sure Word of prophecy, Scripture! 2 Peter 1:19) thou shalt not be afraid of him.” (Don’t let the scare tactics rattle you. Mature Christians look for Jesus to come, but do not set dates or follow those who do!
Anyone who goes after false prophets after all the warnings from God is very, very foolish! The Charismatic prophets miserably fail the test of a true prophet. They claim to be 10 to 65% accurate!
C. Peter Wagner said in Indianapolis, “Many of your churches also are now becoming involved in prophetic movement. And I’m talking about serious prophecy; I’m talking about Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Isaiah kind of prophecy, where God speaks to the churches.” [10]
Such boasting is common from false prophets. The Watchtower said a group was to speak as a “prophet…as was done toward Ezekiel” known as “Jehovah’s Christian Witnesses” [11] Definitely not! TRUE prophets are zealous against sin and error (Jer. 14:14; 23:16-32; 27:15; Zech. 13:2-5)!
Rodney Howard-Browne predicted an outpouring of the Spirit in which, “Eyeballs will form, legs and arms will grow out…” He said God will very soon begin to miraculously transport people from place to place. He has the same source as Benny Hinn who said, Adam, “with one thought he would be on the moon.” [12]
Hinn’s prophecy is no more than “Astral Projection” – which is of the occult, connected with voodoo and the black arts. [13]
Charismatic leaders LIED about Bob Jones’s prophetic dating of a drought (not the one of Bob Jones University).
Paul Cain, “the most anointed prophet that’s in the world today,” gushingly predicted, “So that that glorious Church might be revealed in the last days because the Lord Jesus is worthy to be lifted up by a Church that has reached the full maturity of the God-man!”
Maturity? It’s just more Corinthian carnality and heresy (1 Cor. 3:3)!
Cain messed up on the timing of an earthquake; but Wimber claimed it came true! [14] Don’t put up with “ignorant” people who think they are prophets and care less for decency and order (1 Cor. 14:37-40)!
Proof Number 5: Personal “Revelation Knowledge” that has No Basis in the Holy Revealed Scripture
John Hinkle heard a voice saying that on June 9, 1994, “I will rip all evil from the earth” etc. Lacking common sense and respect for biblical TRUTH, the Trinity Broadcasting Network was sucked in and became the vehicle for the LYING spirit! [15]
“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world” (1 John 4:1)!
Gullible crowds embraced Peter Popoff as he claimed God spoke directly to him while he really had his wife speaking to him by an electronic ear device. Like Lea and Popoff, Robert Tilton had to be exposed by the secular world before this religious movement would censure him.
Where is this “spirit of discernment”?
Under revelation knowledge, Benny Hinn claimed each Person of the Trinity is triune so “there’s nine of them” and “Jesus was born again!” [16]
Study the Bible and sit under the preaching of a faithful man of God and you won’t get sucked into these extra-biblical teachings!
James Ryle, a Wimber associate, said, “The Lord spoke to me and said, ‘What you saw in the Beatles – the gifting and sound that they had – was from Me.’” [17]�
Hold the applause; the Beatles were completely antichrist! (Send for a Beatles paper). Ryle’s vision from some god was nothing more than a Satanic delusion.
Oral Robert’s god held him hostage until people gave him more money! He also made a mistake on the cost of the faith-healer’s hospital. Clearly, this god does not know the future! Rodney Howard-Browne does!
He reports occurrences of knowing “what’s going to happen one year, two years, three years in the future.” [18]
Folks, God does not give us omniscience. The fortuneteller technique opens up to all kinds of delusion.
John Wimber said Christ could come at any time; but a while later he said little unborn children would live to see the coming of the Lord. [19]�— Just blab whatever sounds good at the time!
Proof Number 6: False Teachers Who Claim Spiritual Authority to “Bind and Loose” as if They Are Commissioned by God Directly
Dr. Jack Deere, is one of the top theological leaders of the Vineyard Power Evangelism movement along with C. Peter Wagner.
He (Dr. Jack Deere) says that the gospel is not about Jesus Christ who died for our sins and was buried and raised on the third day. When probed at length for an answer to explain the gospel, he was asked, “Could you perhaps tell me informally what you believe to be the gospel?” All Deere could say was, “I’m not sure.” [20]
The word “power” tickles the ears of this crowd; so they claim to have “power evangelism!”
Larry Lea, “The Apostle of Prayer” for this century, took personal authority over the City of San Francisco to drive out all of the homosexuals! (What an embarrassment as he bellowed across the airwaves daily about his spiritual warfare!)
Get this; the homosexuals are still there — laughing! The Charismatic world applauded Lea, a self-condemned LIAR. It took secular television to pull back the fleece! “Power Evangelism” is nothing more than a powerful sound-system — blasting to the sheep and goats lost in a wilderness of confusion!
These pip-squeaks bind the devil while the Archangel Michael, God’s POWERFUL angel simple said, “The Lord rebuke thee.”
Apparently, John Wimber sees himself commanding the Holy Spirit to help and Satan to leave! [21]
Proof Number 7: Claims of Revival Healings by False Prophets but Not God Himself
While Frederick Price does not allow sickness in his home; his wife was treated for cancer! [22] Charles and Francis Hunter, holding a healing crusade, sent Francis to the doctor because of pink eye. [23]
Jamie Buckingham, editor-at-large for the Charismatic Movement’s most prominent magazine, Charisma, was pronounced healed of cancer by his wife, Oral Roberts and other false prophets. Buckingham claimed, the still small voice of God told him he would live to be a hundred.
Jamie Buckingham died of cancer in 1992. Think! The editor with great responsibility for the reports and articles to the Charismatic world listened to a voice; it was not God’s! [24]
William Branham, of the Oneness-Pentecostal cult, is one of the fathers of the modern healing movement. He pronounced great numbers healed who died of the same problems shortly following. [25]
Branham denounced the trinity as coming directly from the devil; yet Hagin, Copeland, and Hinn speak highly of the cultist! [26]
Various cults testify of healings and blessings from their ministries. When healings are real, that is not proof that they came from God (Deut. 13:1-5; Mat. 7:21-23).
Are you listening yet, church?
Proof Number 8: A Very Public Testimony That Reeks of Falsehood and Deceptive Claims
Is the “Holy” Laughter Movement Christianity? Should we call it “Satananity?” Is it really Sanity?
The 700 Club and TBN crowds are hungry for signs and wonders, gratifying experiences, and goose-bump feelings. They are wide open to the demonic logic of satanic counterfeits.
The devils are laughing over the whole sham of these public spectacles in the name of Jesus Christ! Entertainment, emotionalism, and excitement will fill a church; but as in Hosea’s day,
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee… seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children” (Hosea 4:6).
