Tuesday, May 17, 2011

KUNDALINI-The Counterfeit Holy Spirit, 2

We left off with John Crowder so we will pick up there. He is responsible for the “drunken craze”. He claims in his meetings that he is God’s bartender, as did Rodney Howard Browne. Crowder compares the infilling of the Holy Spirit to smoking marijuana. The most frightening part of all this is that this man has planted a new church in California in recent years and it is thriving. The youth are drawn to him as they do not have to “come out from among them” as the Bible teaches. 2 Corinthians 6:17-18 (KJV) 17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, 18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

In fact, long time pastors such as Karen Wheaton and her husband, that are the founder’s of the “RAMP”, have, in our opinion, gone “back in among them” and are doing so in the name of growing their church and not the church of Jesus Christ. Wild dress, wild music, and wild behavior, just as they find in the world, is an integral part of their idea of what “today’s” Christ is all about. They are teaching the mission of Joel’s Army. They base their coming “violence” against a lost and dying and non-Christian world with the scripture from Matthew. Matthew 11:12-15 (KJV) 12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. 13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. 14 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come. 15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. ( Not only have they perverted the entire scripture of Joel:3, but the above scripture as well.) The meaning of Matthew 11: 12-15 by verse is the following. "The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence" means that Christ had to come and be crucified for a lost and dying world that continually rejected God. The violence that Heaven suffered was the violent death of Christ. “And the violent take it by force” means that Christ, by His death on the Cross, took dominion of earth away from Satan. (Col 2: 14-15) These scriptures give no strength or basis for the Dominionist movement that is preying on our youth and our churches around the world. By allowing them to maintain their “worldly” emotions, they are keeping them from a true and meaningful relationship with Jesus Christ and that could cost them their salvation in the end. The Word tells us that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Hebrews 13:8-9 (KJV) 8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. 9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
This is one of the reasons, sadly one of the many reasons, we are writing this blog. We must warn people as to what they are participating in. The Bible tells us that we become a “new creature in Christ” when we are saved. Jesus tells us to “come out from among them”. And yet man is still so intent on following man. We see someone jerking all over and vibrating like a woofer in a speaker, and we think, “Wow, that person must really be in touch with the Holy Spirit!”, and so we endeavor to be just like that person so others will think “we have it” too. Nowhere in the bible does it speak of any of these manifestations and most certainly Jesus was never a trembler! In fact the Word tells us in 1 Peter 5:8 (KJV) 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Another of Crowder’s cronies, one David Vaughn, paints God as a real “party animal” who wants to win over today’s youth with “supernatural highs” and announces that Heaven is going to be wild where God will show up and be the life of the party! This is just blasphemy! These statements were made to a newspaper reporter in England during a “sloshfest” held there.

Other things that are taking place around the world and here in south central Texas is the gross fascination with angels, gold dust, glory clouds, and gems falling out of nowhere. Chasing “orbs of light”, (which those who call themselves “ghost hunters” refer to as “disembodied spirits”) and group meditations to call down the Third Heaven, and meetings in churches where you can book a half hour with prophetic leadership for insight and special direction. You can bet that the “special direction” will only be the special direction sanctioned by the apostolic leadership of that church! “Portals” is another fascination. (Oh how the New Age has crept into the church!) If a demonic portal is discerned by someone in the church, a call must be made to the hierarchy of the church in that area, and “special” people are dispatched to seal these demonic portals. This was very much a part of a church that we attended recently. We were told that Chuck Pierce was in charge of dispatching teams to attend to that end. How ludicrous that these men would take such time and pride in “portals” discerned by men, and yet they themselves fail in their quest of Dominionism to “test the spirits”. 1 John 4:1 (GW) 1 Dear friends, don't believe all people who say that they have the Spirit. Instead, test them. See whether the spirit they have is from God, because there are many false prophets in the world.

If you took in all that was in Part I of this series, and the little I have written in this article so far, you should have noticed a pattern forming. So let’s go back to where these “spirits” were unleashed in this country. We need to go to Florida and Rodney Howard Browne again. In 1993 I was living in Florida and the “Browne Invasion” was getting its sea legs. I was stunned that the church I attended seemed to approve of this madness. This particular church was pastored by a man that left a major denomination to become a “Spirit Filled” man of God. He spoke out against straying from the true written word of God and warned against having a religious spirit. That church began in a large unit of an industrial park when I served as a pastoral secretary while recovering from an automobile accident. At that time we had 33 members. When I moved away in 1994 the membership had grown to over 1000 and a huge church had been built. The adherence to the true Word of God, and to Christ and Him crucified had availed much for this church. However, like I said, the church seemed to take on a fascination with Mr. Browne and “ridiculous holy laughter” became a part of this wonderful church. This “allowance” was enough to open the door to many other spirits that were tagging along with Rodney. The Word of God warns us that a little leaven will leaven the whole batch! Luke 13:21 (KJV) 21 It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
As these spirits were allowed to enter the church, healing, which had been abundant, ceased all together. Gossip and dissension took hold of not only the membership but of the leadership as well. Two of the pastors that had been with the church from the beginning left. Love, patience, understanding, as well as all the other gifts of the Spirit, were replaced with judgment and back stabbing. The warning signs were many, and yet not one person even thought of reasoning, “okay, let’s go back and determine when all this evil began!” Instead pride and stubbornness took hold and for the sake of “being right” the church was destroyed as were many lives. Only the devil takes joy in this destruction and it was so obvious that what happened to this church was not of God! Once again, God’s precious sheep were torn to shreds. And once again, the Word of God had fore warned of these things. 1 Timothy 4:1-2 (KJV) 1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

In that same time period, the “Toronto Blessing” became a focal point of the church. A Vineyard pastor, Randy Clark, took back and “imparted” what he had experienced at the hands of Rodney Howard Browne, to the Toronto Airport Church and thus the Toronto Blessing took flight. But unlike the true revivals of old, where the presence of God was rich with His Spirit, and His move of His Spirit brought people to repentance and a desire to return to holiness and a longing to be closer to their God and the things of the Spirit, these modern revivals are the work of the flesh! And they dared and still dare to call these so called revivals a “new move of God”. Again, we have covered that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever! But none the less, the New Apostolic Reformation, which is synonymous with the Dominionists are predicting a soon to come revival. As in all deceptions they are laced with some biblical truth to give them credibility. They are relying on the move of God that is assured in the Word. Joel 2:28-29(NIV) 28 'And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. 29 Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days. Yes, since Pentecost our loving Heavenly Father, through the Holy Spirit has poured out His Spirit on all men. This continues to this day. But to take this particular scripture, using verses 28 and 29 to further their agenda is wrong. If you go on and read the rest of the verses, you will see that this scripture is taken out of context. Joel 2:30-32 (NIV) 30 I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke. 31 The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD. 32 And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has said, among the survivors whom the LORD calls. It is clear that this is speaking of Israel when CHRIST will usher in the Kingdom Age. Once again remember that the Dominionists and NAR (New Apostolic Reformation) are convinced that they have been chosen by secret commission by God to usher in the Kingdom Age here on earth and once they have established earthly perfection, they will “summon” Jesus back to earth to see what a great job they have done! What gaul!! But be assured that the “revival” that these heretics, these men and women that preach the doctrines of devils, will usher in will not be of God. They will be a counterfeit, and they are counting on the lack of knowledge of most of the church when it comes to the Bible, to empower them as it has so far.

The same “big names” of the NAR made their way to the Toronto Blessing as well. Rodney Howard Browne had to come in person to see how his handy work had spread. (don’t forget the name Rodney Howard Browne as we will be covering some more dark things about him later in the blog) Jill Austin from Kansas City came as well. This woman was a dark figure. When this woman employed “laying on of hands” in her church terrible and violent manifestations occurred. How the demons must roar with laughter as they ply their trade and so called informed Christians fall for their dog and pony shows! When Jill would lay hands on people, there were times that these people literally flew through the air some 10 feet or more and landed on others including the elderly and small children hurting them. Does this sound like something the Holy Spirit would do? After being touched by Jill people would run around wildly, making barking noises, strange wailing noises and howling. THINK!! Does this sound like healed and delivered people or does it sound like the demoniacs and what they were manifesting BEFORE Jesus delivered them!? (Matt 8:28-) Pastors of the Charismatic movement and even the Assemblies of God, who up until the time of the “great deception” were the most conservative of the Pentecostals, were wooed and fell prey to this demonic miasma! And what is worse, they carried this diseased doctrine and its manifestations back to their churches!
It was at this nightmare called the “Toronto Blessing” that the enemy introduced even more manifestations and no sane person could deny the demonic presence in these manifestations. Instead of falling in the mighty presence of the Spirit of God and worshiping his glory, the following ensued. People were struck with wild eyed and almost maniacal laughter. Wild jerking of the body was uncontrollable. People fell on all fours and began barking like dogs and roaring like lions. Some were slithering on the floor like serpents, some making hissing noises. Some leadership that was present were appalled but fell to peer pressure, as so many do today with the NAR, and took the “impartation” back to their poor unsuspecting flocks. You will also see a pattern of “taking the impartation back” to the churches as a focal point of these types of meetings. The same was done after the Lakeland revival with Todd Bentley. Again, men are blindly, or even more tragically, following men and not God for the sake of position, recognition, and fame. This is what the “seducing spirits” are so good at and this is why God warns of this in His Word. But you say that it is not as bad as I am making it out to be. How about this? Kenneth Copeland is a driving force in the “Word of Faith” movement. He has literally millions of loyal followers. Whatever this man says is accepted without exception by his flock. He too fell for Rodney Howard Browne. He had Rodney on his program and the both of them were acting like idiots all in the name of “Holy Laughter”. How sad. And I am just certain that not every person in that audience was comfortable with what was happening. But the enemy comes in and convinces them that if Brother Copeland is approving of this, then it is okay and they need to press in and see the sense of it all. WRONG!! Follow NO man. Test the spirits. 1 John 4:1 (GW) 1” Dear friends, don't believe all people who say that they have the Spirit. Instead, test them. See whether the spirit they have is from God, because there are many false prophets in the world.” If what you are seeing is not in the precious Word of God…then speak up and leave!!!
Benny Hinn was asked what he thought about all these things that were going on especially the barking and roaring. Benny said that if anyone growled, barked, or roared in one of his services he would immediately cast the devil out of him! Even the late Dr. Summerall was asked his opinion about these new manifestations and he said plainly, “devils, devils, devils!”

I will end this second part of this blog with a few questions? Just how much longer do you think that the blood bought church, established by Jesus Christ, should put up with all this nonsense? How much longer should we allow the devil to attend our services and make a mockery out of them? How much longer will we be silent because it would be “rude” to speak out for Christ? How much longer will our silence see countless sheep lead to the destruction of their souls! I say this because if we knowingly keep silent, then we will be held accountable for these sheep at the time of judgment! Take a look at this…it is in the Word. Ever see or hear of it before? Proverbs 17:15 (KJV) 15 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD. Abomination is a very harsh word. Did you ever think that you could even remotely be an abomination before the Lord? Think hard. You just have one chance to get this right. Either please those around you, including your pastor, or choose God and choose life. Please pray for insight, wisdom and knowledge of the Word of God. Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you in all truth. And He will! In case you have found this latest blog “condemning” here is another scripture. Ephesians 5:10-17 (KJV) 10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. 12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. 13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. 14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. 15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, 16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. And one more to learn as your armor, Jeremiah 23:21-32 (KJV) 21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. 22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. 23 Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? 24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD. 25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. 26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart; 27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal. 28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD. 29 Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? 30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour. 31 Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith. 32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD. Why this scripture? Bill Hamon is basing his entire New Apostolic Reformation on a conversation that he claims to have had with God. He said that God told him “secret” things for him alone that he had been chosen to give to the church at the right time. GOD does not keep secrets from His people. That is the reason that He wrote the Bible in the first place. Why would God, our Father in Heaven, tell someone “secrets” or allow parts of the Bible that were necessary for our learning and that we will be judged by to be hidden from His children? Did Bill Hamon “test the spirits” that spoke to him? Did he check scripture? NO he did not. He claims to have attended a “Bible College”, by a miracle of God, somewhere in Portland, OR. He says that he entered this bible college in September, 1953. In October of 1953 he was prophesied over by the Presbytery of that “college” and became a “chosen one”. In February of 1954, he was “ORDAINED” by “a laying on of hands and ordination by the Presbytery” and not being given a sound education in biblical studies and truth!!! The only degrees that Dr. Hamon has ever received are the two degrees in theology, a Bachelors degree, and a Masters degree, that he gave himself after opening the Christian International School of Theology!! OH, and the “title” of Doctor, he states is an “honorary doctorate” given to him by “a well known and respected Christian University”. Again, he gives no name. Isn’t it amazing how many are following this man? He has no basis in the Word of God at all!!!! (This information is from the Preface in his book, “Prophets and Personal Prophesies”. The preface was written by his wife Evelyn).

May God Bless you all,
Patti and David

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