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A FALSE HEALING REVIVAL?? -Florida - Andrew Strom |
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A FALSE HEALING REVIVAL?? -Florida
-Andrew Strom.
Many of you will
have already heard about the "Healing Revival"
that has purportedly broken
out in Lakeland, Florida. Today
Charisma Magazine put out a piece on it
entitled 'A Holy Ghost
Outbreak in Florida' - "...Charismatics are flocking
to the sleepy
town of Lakeland, Fla. to attend evangelist Todd Bentley's
unconventional revival services." Is Charisma preparing to hype
this
one to the skies like they did with Toronto and Rodney Howard-
Browne? It
seems perhaps they are.
But why am I opposed to this 'Healing Revival' so
soon after it has
been announced? -It is because I already know Todd
Bentley's
ministry all too well, and this whole thing centers around
him.
Todd Bentley actually has deep roots in the Prophetic movement,
and he is one of the very few ministers that I have ever felt I had
to
publicly warn people about by name. -His ministry is that bad.
False "angel"
encounters of the weirdest kind, gold dust, guided
visualizations of the
"Third Heaven" that are straight out of the
New Age, etc. And yet there is a
"power" with it that makes it
all the more dangerous.
Here is how
Charisma describes his Florida meetings-
"His methods are far from polished.
When he prayed for people in
Lakeland, he usually began by laying his hand
on their heads and
then yelling, "Bam!"
Often the people fell backward to
the floor. After one elderly woman
fell, Bentley told the audience: "She
doesn't know why she fell
down." The woman then laughed and said to him in
the microphone:
"Because you pushed me!" He prayed for her three more times
that
night, and she said she could hear better...
During the past three
weeks people have testified of being healed
from heart conditions, skin
rashes and back problems, and many
said scars disappeared...
Many
charismatics are wondering if the protracted meetings will
become a
phenomenon similar to what happened in Rodney
Howard-Browne's meetings in
Lakeland in 1993, at the Toronto
Airport Vineyard Church in Canada in 1994
and at Brownsville
Assembly of God in Pensacola in 1995..." [END
QUOTE]
Sadly, the Charismatic movement is in such a sick state today
that it would not surprise me at all if this happens. (-I say this as
a
strong Spirit-filled, tongues-speaking believer myself. I am by no
means
opposed to genuine miracles). Have we completely
forgotten the warnings of
"Lying signs and wonders" in the Last Days?
Below is a testimony by Lynn
Clark who is a Moderator at our
website 'RevivalSchool.com'. This is what she
wrote about her
involvement with Todd Bentley's ministry:
"I decided
to check out Patricia King and Todd Bentley and,
ignorant of their 'third
heaven' guided visualizations, attended a five
day conference of Patricia
King and then two of Todd Bentley's
conferences and began to imagine third
heaven visitations - guided
visualization - still not realizing that these
are actually spirits of
darkness - the New Age calls them spirit guides -
demons is what
they are. And so I bought Todd Bentley's teaching on third
heaven
visitations and brought it home to listen to.
"I was in my living
room laying on the floor listening to the teaching
on how to visualize the
third heaven and what to say and was
getting caught up into his teaching and
all of a sudden I began to
shake uncontrollably and jerk and groan, and no
sooner had this
taken place I became frozen stiff - I could not move any
part of
my body and I knew this was a demon trying to take hold of me,
and so with all the effort I could muster I cried out, "God save me -
Jesus help me" - and as soon as I cried out to the Lord my body
went
limp. God spared me that night and I will be forever grateful.
"I spent
much of the night in tears asking God to forgive me - and
renouncing all the
hands layed on me and all the awful deception
I had opened myself up to..."
[END QUOTE]
ANDREW AGAIN: I myself have heard the tapes of Todd
Bentley's
"Third Heaven Visualization" teachings, and I want to tell you -
they
are straight out of the New Age handbook. -Terrible stuff. And yet
so
widely accepted by thousands of Christians today.
Do these kinds of
practices (above) produce a genuine 'Healing
Revival'? -These are the kinds
of questions that we need to be
asking Charisma Magazine. I leave it for you
to decide.
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God
bless you all.
Andrew Strom.
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