The
Florida outpouring that is racing around the globe at an unprecedented
speed has an agenda. An agenda that is well hidden behind Christian
sounding words and phrases to quell the fears of suspicions and discerning
sheep. It is a dark agenda that has been planned for eternity and
implemented with military precision. A plan to open you up to hidden
wisdom, mystical experiences and spirit guides in preparation for
the coming “paradigm shift.” It is a plan to raise up a New Breed
who will discard the old and arise to violently lay hold of the New
Order Kingdom in which the church will rule and reign over the earth.
It sounds good doesn’t it? I mean it sounds plausible, why, it even
sounds Christian. However, this teaching, thinly veiled in Christian
terms, is identical in every way to what the occultists, Gnostics,
New Agers and esoteric religions teach. However, just as we wrap a
nasty pill in bacon to feed a dog his medicine, this teaching has
been wrapped in something particularly tasty to make it easier to
swallow.
In order to gain a deeper understanding of these heretical teachings
we need to take a closer look. Bentley, as you may or may not know,
is closely associated with the disgraced Kansas City Prophets Paul
Cain and Bob Jones.
Paul Cain, a self professed and unrepentant homosexual and alcoholic,
closely adhered to the Latter Rain teachings of heretic William Branham.
Branham believed in UFO’s, denied the Trinity, and believed that Eve
and the serpent had sex. This is the same Branham who had a spirit
guide or 'angel', that he claimed performed the healing miracles,
and also believed he was Elijah. Particularly alarming is the fact
that Bentley now claims that he has been given Branham’s angel. Cain
openly declared that Branham was "the greatest prophet in the
20th century"
Bob Jones was publically disgraced after having women disrobe in his
office to receive prophetic ministry naked before the Lord. He is
today regarded as one of the fathers of the Prophetic Movement and
one of the main disseminators of the Joel's Army, Kingdom Now, Dominionist,
Manifest Sons of God, and New Breed, heresies. This is the same Bob
Jones who claimed that prophets only needed to be 66 percent accurate
because we had not evolved to the place where we could handle 100
percent truth. He also taught that Kansas City Fellowship was the
one true church and that all others were to be assimilated into it.
Bentley calls Jones his father in the faith.
So what exactly is this doctrine they are disseminating in these modern
day revivals and outpourings? The basic tenant of their teaching is
that Adam lost dominion over the earth in the Garden of Eden. They
believe that the church’s mandate is to recover it. They eschew the
hope of heaven and mock and deride Christians who believe in a literal
rapture. Instead, they desire dominion here on earth. They believe
it is their right and their inheritance to rule and reign, dominate
and subdue. They want to rule the earth and all its inhabitants. They
aspire to purge the earth it of its evil and bring everything under
submission to their authority. What will happen to those who do not
wish to be dominated?
Simple- they will die. Of course since they will be ruling and reigning
here on earth, there will be no need for rapture. In fact there are
some that go so far as to say that it is the wicked that will be raptured.
The wicked being those who do not go along with this New Order, this
cosmic Christ Consciousness, this evolution into Godhood.
So, who will lead us into the restoration of all things? Certainly
not Jesus, no, they teach that it will be the newly restored Five-Fold-
Priesthood. According to Intotruth.org, “The Five-fold Priesthood
is supposed to emerge in the end times to restore the Church to perfection;
Apostles, Prophets and Teachers must prepare the way, like John the
Baptist, for a new appearance of the Christ. The restoration of the
gifts and ministries to the Church is designed to bring it to "fullness".
These authoritarian leaders will judge and purge the Church until
it is one undivided Body in the earth. Thus the Restoration churches
have adopted a teaching more familiar to us as the Ascended Masters
of the New Age, who come to lead us to spiritual transformation.”
These teaching and beliefs are blatantly Gnostic. The term Gnosticism
comes from the Greek word gnosis meaning “ultimate knowledge. It is
neither religion nor philosophy but rather a collection of knowledge
gathered through direct experience with the spirit world. The Gnostics
teach that salvation is obtained through knowledge. Gnostics believe
that the knowledge necessary for salvation has been revealed through
Jesus Christ. They believe He was the pattern son so to speak to lead
us into the “Cosmic Christ Consciousness” where we will evolve to
become God. Thus our salvation according to the Gnostics is dependent
on knowledge and not on the shredding of Christ’s Blood for the remission
of our sins. This sounds like the lie of the same serpent who told
Eve that her eyes would be open and she would be like God if only
she took of the forbidden fruit.
The Gnostics hold that there is a spark of knowledge that resides
in an elite few. It is no coincidence that the Florida Outpouring
was touched off in a church called Ignite. Liberation of this spark
they believe only comes through knowledge of the divine. Salvation
thus comes through liberation of the spark from the body. Essentially
the modern Gnostic seeks “Cosmic Salvation” through the liberation
of this spark. Only when these sparks have been liberated can the
world evolve to Godhood. Essentially, the modern Gnostic is looking
to perfect the world. They believe that they will literally co-create
the conditions necessary for the second coming which they believe
will not be a literal coming but will be the full advent of the “Christ
Consciousness” on earth. They do not need to look for a literal Christ
since they believe they are Christ. Those who are unwilling to “evolve”
(which of course would be all true blood bought Christians) will be
purged from the earth.
This is identical to what the New Agers proclaim. “All who wish to
enter the New Age 'on the physical plane must undergo an 'energy activation'
or 'rebirth' - usually marked by a subjective trance-induced 'light
experience' where one meets either a 'spirit guide' or one's 'higher
self'. This 'altered state of consciousness' will eventually lead
to a 'Luciferic initiation' into the 'new humanity', or a vow of allegiance
to Lucifer as god. Those who cannot or will not (not sufficiently
developed in their spiritual journey) will be sent on to their next
life in a global cleansing action' (Alice Bailey, 'The Rays and the
Initiations' pp.754-755).
The thing that alarms me most is not that the Gnostics, New Agers,
and occultics are speaking heretical mistruths. Indeed we expect them
to. The alarming thing is that these mistruths have leached into the
soil of the Charismatic movement and spread their poisonous vines
into mainline denominations. They are now being shed abroad by these
so called revivals and outpourings which further propel their aggressive
agenda. Is this a conspiracy theory? No indeed, it is a conspiracy
fact! These self styled prophets and apostles are tightly networked
and highly organized. They prophesy and declare things and then they
work behind the scenes to bring these things to pass. One will prophesy
and the others back it up. One will lie and the others swear to it.
It is amazing to me that because of their efforts, what was once thought
of as heretical and highly blasphemous is now accepted as fact.
Perhaps no man has done more to further the cause of gnosticm and
new age philosophy in the church than Rick Joyner. His beliefs are
carbon copies of those propagated by the Gnostics, occultists and
the New Age Movement. In his book Civil War in the Church, Joyner
claims that a war is coming between the grays (who he terms conservative
legalists) and the Blues (those holding to the New Knowledge, or New
Order). These “Grays” according to Joyner must accept the “New Christianity”
or be removed from the earth. Indeed we Grays may pay with our lives
for our adherence to Biblical principals and awake to find that those
who have betrayed us were the very ones we deemed most spiritual.
Joyner admonishes us to throw off the bonds of slavery to the “old”
revelations and embrace the “new” revelations or progressive revelations
of the “Latter Rain”. He teaches against the literal second coming
and labels those who believe in the rapture as having escapist mentalities.
In its place we are to look for the rising of a victorious church
that will put all enemies under her feet. This teaching sees Christ
invisibly manifest in his ruling and reigning church. The emphasis
is no longer Christ but the church and its new self-styled governing
apostles and prophets.
The purpose of the revival is to prepare those who will accept it
to go on to their final stage of development which will be the merging
of God and man. Its purpose is to openly introduce Christians to esoteric
teachings and draw them away from the true Christ. According to the
New Agers, “Charismatic congregations in main-line churches are entry
points into the Aquarian frontier." The Unfinished Animal: The
Aquarian Frontier and the Evolution of Consciousness. Alice Bailey,
mother of the modern New Age Movement, claimed that agents would infiltrate
the Christian Church to modify its message, while adapting it as a
vehicle for the Universal Religion of the 21st Century.
Remember there is only one world church in the Bible and it is not
Gods.The Kingdom of God will not be set up by men but will be set
up by Jesus himself at the time of his literal coming. The only way
to counteract these heretical teachings is through adherence to sound
Biblical Doctrine.
In 2nd Corinthians verse 11 Paul was concerned for believers because,
as Eve had believed the lies of the serpent, they were believing the
lies of the false teachers who were leading them away from devotion
to Christ. Jesus clearly stated that the end days would be characterized
by deception marked by lying signs and wonders. Clearly we are being
enticed away to another gospel and another Christ. Our choice is whether
we will embrace the Truth or swallow the bacon-wrapped lie.
Luke 11:35 Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be
not darkness.
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