It reaches all parts of our life. It controls governments and wages war. It controls parliaments and congresses. It’s embedded in the big pharmaceutical companies. It owns the major media and controls Hollywood. It controls our schools and outlaws anything Christian. At its epicenter of power, it deals in the most lucrative trade of money, opium, cocaine and child exploitation. Its benefactors are powerful royalty and world leaders. These are facts you must know.
Satanic control and influence is embedded into our Churches as well.
It is critically important you seek out web sites such as Tribulation-Now so you can understand who is poisoning your mind. Seek guidance from the Holy Spirit and make yourself “Wise as Serpents” while remaining “gentle as doves”. The Lord wants you to be aware of who your enemy is. Think about it.
If we Christians can not be misled by the trickery of the Devil then why does the Bible warn us about the threat over and over again? The Bible tells we are in a spiritual war. How are you going to protect yourself from the subtle currents of Satanic influence if you can not identify it? How are “we” going to channel the power of our prayer collectively as the “purified Church” if we cannot “name names”? How can we save one of our brothers or sisters from the clutches of their captivity if we do not know they are listening to the wrong leaders?
Do you believe God wants his spiritual army to be silent and pray while focusing on endless streams of on-line “prophecies” telling of the “Greatness of God”? I say, even at the risk of being seen as “on-the-fringe” we MUST start pointing this EVIL out to the other Christians so they can see where their prayers need to be focused. So they can avoid being unwittingly misled.
God needs us all “on the same page” so we can focus our prayer power on the same issues. Being at war means you FIGHT THE ENEMY actively. During the Tribulation, I do not believe it will be sufficient to pray for the binding of Evil from this world. We need serious prayer power and that is accomplished through faith and knowledge.
Satan has infiltrated our Churches. I could write a small book on the number of “christian” organizations that are controlled by Lucifer. The web of power, influence and infiltration affecting our churches comes from government, church leadership, and especially “Foundations” that offer money and assistance. Foundations such as the John Birch Society. Organizations such as the World Council of Churches.
Make no mistake. On the surface they appear legitimate and good. They are not.
Satan was described as the model of perfection in Ezekiel 28:12–14. He was described as a created being of great beauty. Isaiah 14:12 is where we get the name “Lucifer” or “shining one.” Because this passage is addressed to the King of Babylon some do not believe it could refer to Satan. Ezekiel 28:12 is addressed to the King of Tyre, but it is clearly describing Satan. This created being is bright and beautiful and desires to usurp the position of God the Father.
Absalom was the son of King David. His story is found in Second Samuel chapters 15 through 18. Absalom was described as the most handsome man in Israel. “From the top of his head to the sole of his foot there was no blemish in him” (II Samuel 14:25). He was perfect. He was also arrogant and desired to usurp the position of David, his father.
Absalom rebelled against his father just as Satan rebelled against God. He attempted to usurp the throne of his father, King David, just as Satan is attempting to usurp the Throne of God. Absalom drove the king and those who served him out of their home in Jerusalem. The result of Satan’s efforts was that mankind, whose purpose is to serve God, was driven out of their home in the Garden.
Absalom violated the concubines of King David in public view. Satan, the great counterfeiter, does everything in his power to violate the truth of the Lord through false religions. The end of Absalom’s rebellion occurred in a great battle. There were supernatural forces at work in this battle. “The forest claimed more lives that day than the sword” (II Samuel 18:8). This is reminiscent of a future event described in the Revelation in which Satan will be defeated by supernatural forces.
The death of Absalom came as he was caught by the head in the limb of a tree. Absalom, as a type or picture of Satan, “the ruler of the kingdom of the air” (Ephesians 2:2), was left hanging in the air, and he met his end.
If the story of Absalom is a type of the relation between God and Satan, it is an interesting picture of God’s love. Absalom attempted to overthrow David, the father. David’s life had been in jeopardy because of Absalom. But David, as a picture of God the Father in this case, wept over the death of his son, Absalom. This tells us that God the Father mourns over the loss of Satan, his brightest creation. (Please see Ezekiel chapter 28.)
What a beautiful picture of the love of God. God is love. Just as David mourned the loss of Absalom, God mourns the loss of those who rebel against Him. Do not rebel against God. Do not cause the Lord unnecessary sadness.
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For those of you who would like to enter into the deliverance ministry for the Lord where you will let Him use you to cast demons out of people, one of the first things you will need to do is to learn all of the rules of this kind of game with the Lord
If you do not learn what the rules are on of this kind of intense game with the Lord, then you could easily set yourself up to be attacked by these demons. But learn the rules of this game and how to navigate these kinds of waters and you should have no problems in being able to help set people free from any kind of demonic bondage they may be under, as God will help keep you safe and out of harm’s way if you stay under His direct leadings on how to do all of this.
In this article I want to give you one of the first basic rules that you will need to abide by. This particular rule is not talked about very often, so I thought I would do this short article for our spiritual warfare section so you will know exactly what this rule is all about and to make sure that you never, ever violate it.
This first basic rule is that you should never try and taunt, bad-mouth, or speak down to the demons in any kind of reviling or condescending type way. Here is the verse from our Bible that will give us this first basic rule of spiritual warfare: “Yet, Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” (Jude 9)
There are three key words to notice in this verse. The first word is that the archangel Michael was “contending” with the devil. In other words, he was directly engaging with the devil over the body of Moses. And then notice the next set of intense words, that he “dared not” bring against him a “reviling” accusation.
The key word in all of this is the word “reviling.” The word “reviling” means the following:
To speak of another abusively
Verbal abuse
To humiliate
To use abusive or contemptuous language
To call bad names
Railing or scolding
Rebuking angrily
Quarreling noisily
Disparaging remarks
Then notice that St. Michael “dared not” to try and bring a reviling accusation against the devil. The words “dared not” are again two more extreme words that the Lord is using. These two extreme words from our Lord are telling us under no circumstances are we to try and talk to our enemies with any kind of abusive, humiliating or condescending type language.
The Bible seems to indicate that St. Michael the archangel is one of God’s highest, if not the highest of all of His archangels. And if St. Michael was not allowed to speak out any kind of abusive, reviling or demeaning words direct to the devil himself, then we as good soldiers of Jesus Christ should do the exact same thing if we are ever forced to directly engage with any demons in this life.
In other words, we are not allowed to bad mouth and speak down to the devil and his demons once we start to directly engage with them in any kind of spiritual warfare, whether it be to protect ourselves or to protect someone else. To put this spiritual warfare rule in our every day language – we are simply not to tell the devil and his demons that they are stupid, low-lives, morons, idiots, imbeciles, scum, wimps, etc.We are to boldly, courageously and forcefully engage with them, telling them what they need to do and where they need to go, but we are not to talk down to them, ridicule them or make fun of them while we are directly engaging with them.
Jesus Himself also abided by this rule when He was casting demons out of people. Jesus forcefully and with great authority told the demons what they had to do and where they had to go, but at no time did He ever talk down to them, ridicule them, or talk to them with any kind of demeaning or condescending type language.
Though Satan and his demons are already defeated foes and have now all descended down into the lowest levels of evil and depravity, they are still all created beings by the Lord Himself, and as such, we are to never talk down to them or try and maliciously demean them in any way, even though they will try and do that with all of us. Bottom line – if both Jesus Christ Himself and one of His highest archangels did not speak to these demons in any kind of a reviling and condescending type way, then we should all do the exact same thing and follow their lead if we are ever forced to have to deal directly with them on our end.
For the record, there have been documented cases of deliverance ministers coming under direct attack by demons once they violated this basic rule of spiritual warfare. What got some of them into major trouble with the Lord is that they started to make fun and light of the whole deliverance process. From there they started to make fun of the demons and started calling them names like wimps, morons, idiots, etc. Once they realized what they had done and then went before the Lord to confess and repent, then God put back up their walls of protection and the demonic attacks then stopped.
I recall one case in particular where the demons were allowed to literally enter in on the inside of a minister’s body as a result of him making fun of the demons and the defeated condition they were all in with the Lord. He was abusing the authority that he had with the Lord to cast demons out of people and as a result, he had to go through a full scale deliverance to get the demons out of him. Needless to say, he learned his lesson the hard way and he told the Lord that he would never, ever do something like that again.
If you will notice in all of the professional sports that we now have today, that it is not cool to try and taunt or rub it in the face of your opponent when you do make a good shot or score a good touchdown. In some of these games, players can be penalized for going too far with any kind of taunting or abusive behavior displayed against their opponent.
In the same way, God expects all of us to treat our opponents or enemies with courtesy, kindness and respect in any kind of game or conflict we may have with them. He does not want us trying to taunt, humiliate or demean them in any way. Bottom line – whether it be natural warfare with our fellow human beings or spiritual warfare with demonic spirits, we are not allowed to treat them with any kind of abusive, demeaning or humiliating type language or behavior. Let both Jesus Christ and St. Michael the archangel be our examples and role-models on how we are to directly engage with the enemies that we will meet in our lives, whether they be human or demonic enemies.
September 25, 2006 (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org) -
The following is an excerpt from our new 317-page book “The Pentecostal-Charismatic Movement: Its History and Error,” available from Way of Life Literature:
The phenomenon of “spiritual drunkenness” has been experienced from time to time throughout the history of the Pentecostal movement and it has become a prominent experience in recent Pentecostal-Charismatic “revivals.” There were cases of “spiritual drunkenness” in Aimee Semple McPherson’s early meetings (Epstein, Sister Aimee, p. 162).
This phenomenon was frequently manifested in Kenneth Hagin’s meetings, especially in the 1990s. At a conference in Chesterfield, Missouri, in October 1997, Hagin staggered around like a drunk, sticking his tongue out and wiggling it like a serpent. He hissed and panted, blowing on people, waving his arms at them, striking them on the head, while entire rows of people fell down or slid out of their seats in a drunken stupor as he lurched by. Kenneth Copeland and Kenneth Hagin, Jr. also got “drunk” and rolled around on the floor, making strange noises and laughing hysterically for no apparent reason. I personally witnessed Hagin get “drunk in the spirit” at the New Life Victory Center in Huntington, West Virginia, on September 17, 1998. After he had preached for about ten minutes, Hagin began to argue that one of the demonstrations of the Spirit is drunkenness. At that point he stopped preaching and for about 25 minutes he staggered about, laughing, blowing on people, waving his arms, and otherwise acting drunk. He repeatedly tried to speak but was unable to do so. Large numbers of people in the crowd also began to laugh loudly and some fell to the floor or staggered about and acted foolishly like drunks. Kenneth Hagin, Jr., attempted to read from his father’s sermon notes, but he could not form the words and instead staggered all the way across the front of the church.
“Spiritual drunkenness” appeared in May 1993 at Carpenter’s Home Church in Lakeland, Florida, where Pentecostal evangelist Rodney Howard-Browne called himself “the Holy Ghost Bartender” and people laughed hysterically and uncontrollably and staggered around like drunks.
Spiritual drunkenness appeared in June 1993 at the Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, Florida, where Pastor John Kilpatrick lay in a drunken stupor on the church platform for four hours and was so “drunk in the spirit” at other times as “the revival” progressed that he had to be carried out of the church in a wheelbarrow and when he tried to operate his car he ran into things.
Spiritual drunkenness appeared again in 1994 at the Airport Church in Toronto, Ontario. The wife of Guy Chevreau, one of the pastors at the Toronto Airport church, was drunk for two days when she first experienced the “revival.” During this 48-hour period they had company over for a meal, and instead of serving them in a sane and orderly manner, she threw hot fish around the table and then dumped a box of French fries in the middle of the table and pushed little piles of them to each person, all the time laughing hysterically.
In December 1997, the Toronto Airport Church sponsored a “Have Another Drink” Conference, and their web page announced:
“If anyone had any concern that the Have Another Drink conference this week would get off to a slow start, those fears were quickly squelched. Not five minutes into the week-long festivities, you could see the main speakers stumbling toward the front of the auditorium in a drunken stupor! Darrel Stott, John Scotland, Peter Jackson and Georgian Banov spent most of the morning session in a pile at the foot of the front row. … Ian Ross led the meeting in his typical fashion as he plodded along in a daze, trying to put together his thoughts enough to get his welcoming message across. ‘John asked that we give thought to uh.....something.....’ was about all the thought he could muster. ‘I’m so drunk, Janice (his wife) and I got the wrong teeth in this morning!’… Before Darrel Stott came up to speak, John Scotland, from Liverpool, England, was introduced. When asked what his thoughts were on what he expected of the week, he immediately grabbed the microphone and yelled ‘OOOOOOHHHH’ a few times before wobbling off to the side for prayer. We’re still checking, but we think he may have actually said something in the five minutes he spent on the stage, but we’re not too sure yet!” WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY?
Every time “drunkenness” is mentioned in the Bible it is condemned. Oftentimes in the prophets, drunkenness is used to describe God’s judgment upon wickedness (i.e., Isa. 19:14; 29:9; 51:17; Jer. 13:13; 25:27; 48:26; Ezek. 23:33; 39:19. In Jeremiah 51:7 and Revelation 17:6, drunkenness is used to describe the effect of Babylon’s mystery religion.
The only case in the entire Bible of a man of God describing himself spiritually drunken is Jer. 23:9. “Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.” But Jeremiah didn’t mean that he was staggering about like a drunk; he meant he was amazed and overwhelmed in the face of the judgment of God which he was prophesying. This case is nothing like what we see in a Rodney Howard-Browne meeting today, which is characterized by hysterical laughter and people acting in a ridiculous manner.
There is no instance in the New Testament of the Lord Jesus Christ or the apostles or early Christians staggering about in a drunken stupor, laughing and acting foolishly, unable to attend to necessary duties, unable to preach, unable even to stand up.
Those who support “spiritual drunkenness” quote Acts chapter 2 in an attempt to prove that the apostles were drunk in the Spirit on the day of Pentecost, but this is nonsense. Those who said the disciples were “full of new wine” were mockers. They did not say the disciples were drunk because they were staggering about and slurred in speech and falling to the ground, because it is obvious that they were doing none of those things. Peter was able to speak clearly and to preach a powerful message. The mockers said the disciples were drunk because of the many languages that were used to preach the wonderful works of God that day and because they wanted to slander the servants of Christ. In his reply to these mockers, Peter plainly said, “FOR THESE ARE NOT DRUNKEN, AS YE SUPPOSE” (Acts 2:15).
Further, in Ephesians 5:18 Paul CONTRASTS drunkenness with the filling of the Spirit. The drunk is not in control of himself but is under the power of a foreign substance, whereas the Spirit-filled Christian is entirely in control of himself under the direction of the Holy Spirit. This interpretation is confirmed by the context, which commands duties requiring great soberness of mind and heart. For example, the one who is filled with the Holy Spirit according to the context of Ephesians 5, is one who walks circumspectly, meaning very carefully (Eph. 5:15). That is the exact opposite of being “drunk in the spirit.”
[This article is excerpted from the new book THE PENTECOSTAL-CHARISMATIC MOVEMENTS: THE HISTORY AND THE ERROR. I have been examining and re-examining the Pentecostal-Charismatic movements for more than three decades since I was led to Christ by a Pentecostal in 1973 and began to seek God’s will about tongues-speaking and the miraculous gifts of the early churches. I have built a large library of materials on this subject and have interviewed Pentecostals and Charismatics and attended their churches in many parts of the world. I have also attended large Charismatic conferences with press credentials. I have approached these studies with an open mind in the sense of having a commitment only to the truth and not to anyone’s tradition. I am a member of an independent Baptist church but Baptist doctrine and practice is not my authority; the Bible is. Each fresh evaluation of the Pentecostal-Charismatic movement has brought an increased conviction that it is unscriptural and dangerous. This book begins with my own experience with the Pentecostal movement. The next section deals with the history of the Pentecostal movement, beginning with a survey of miraculous signs from the second to the 18th centuries. We then examine the movements in the 19th century that led up to the creation of Pentecostalism and the outbreak of “tongues-speaking” at Charles Parham’s Bible school in Topeka, Kansas, in 1901, and at William Seymour’s Azusa Street Mission in Los Angeles in 1906. We examine some of the major Pentecostal denominations, the Latter Rain Covenent, the major Pentecostal healing evangelists, the Sharon Schools and the New Order of the Latter Rain, the Manifest Sons of God, the Word-Faith movement and its key leaders, the Charismatic Movement, the Roman Catholic Charismatic Renewal, the Pentecostal Prophets, the Third Wave, and the recent Pentecostal scandals. We conclude the historical section with a look at the Laughing Revival. In the last section of the book we deal with the theological errors of the Pentecostal-Charismatic movements (exalting experience over Scripture, emphasis on the miraculous, Messianic and apostolic miracles can be reproduced, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the baptism of fire, exalting the Holy Spirit, tongues speaking is for today, sinless perfectionism, healing is guaranteed in the atonement, spirit slaying, spirit drunkenness, visions of Jesus, trips to heaven, women preachers, and ecumenism). The final section of the book answers the question: “Why are people deluded by Pentecostal-Charismatic error?” David and Tami Lee, former Pentecostals, after reviewing a section of the book said: “Very well done! We pray God will use it to open the eyes of many and to help keep many of His children out of such deception.” And Mary Keating, also a former Charismatic, said, “The book is excellent and I have no doubt whatever that the Lord is going to use it in a mighty way. Amen!!” 317 pages. $9.95. Way of Life Literature, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061. 866-295-4143]
It reaches all parts of our life. It controls governments and wages war. It controls parliaments and congresses. It’s embedded in the big pharmaceutical companies. It owns the major media and controls Hollywood. It controls our schools and outlaws anything Christian. At its epicenter of power, it deals in the most lucrative trade of money, opium, cocaine and child exploitation. Its benefactors are powerful royalty and world leaders. These are facts you must know.