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Preface
Much of my Christian life I spent speaking to Christians of differing
denominations and visiting differing churches. In each place I visited I
learnt something new, but not often what they taught so much as what
the Holy Spirit taught me. Looking back I can see I was not merely a kind
of witness for God Who was prosecuting worldliness in the churches, but
I was God's detective, uncovering much that was hidden and much that
was disguised. I always felt led to do this as I was always discerning but it
seemed as if the Lord was unburdening His heart to me and saying, 'See!'
Introduction
Why is it Jonathan that you can say, 'As the dementors do to Harry Potter
in 'Prisoner of Azkaban' I have had evil spirits circle round above me and
descend to attack'? - And how did they look when they cried out, 'Let us
possess him, let us destroy him'?
I should perhaps write a book listing the fantasy and the factual elements
of the spiritual realm side by side comparing them and seeing how true or
false the fantasy is – and why it is that sometimes they get so close to the
reality when they don't even know it, as if they too are being manipulated
to subtly influence others for evil...
You have had in experience what the pagan world fantasises about and
what they teach the Christians know nothing of. On the other hand there
are Christians that would say that like the fictional characters of Edward
the vampyre and Harry the wizard you are involved with unchristian,
supernatural powers; as they too see nothing particularly stand out in
Christianity but instead a rather bland, sectarian conformity to the world's
values as they were say, fifty years ago...
What mind is it in you my Jonathan that so sets itself at odds with all the
world, Christian and pagan, and sees what no other can see, knows what
no other can know and pays the price for it? It is of course the Mind of
Christ in you and of course too the Apostle tells us we have the Mind of
Christ... Yet no one seemed to believe it but you. So you have as you
believe and you are as God made you – and for what were you made?
That is the greatest mystery of all. We are so alike and yet so unalike, my
child.
In the NT Book of Revelation there is a four faced beast before the Throne
of God and like that beast you are a lion and I am an eagle. We are the
creatures of legend, prowling through 'the mist of darkness' [2 Peter 2:17]
and waiting to attack, with great power and unending zeal. To destroy
what others would heal and to annihilate what others would save. Why do
Christians hate and fear us when they love and welcome the deceptive
angels of light? As we seek only to destroy the evil and exalt the good?
Jesus rebuked his disciples when they wanted to reign down fire on their
enemies the way Elijah did. He said they did not know what spirit they
were of. We know what spirit we are of. We are a fire. The anger of
Jesus our Prophet is building and will one day pour itself out in a torrent
of fire. Jesus revealed to me that he regards many nominal Christians as
his enemies and particularly those ones who using occult power foster
illusions regarding the spiritual life, creating a substitute for real
Christianity.
My view is unlike any other as from a child, a small child, I was chosen,
set apart and taught by God Who chose to appear to me more than to any
other mortal. I have seen what no other has seen and learned about things
not even revealed to Prophets and Apostles of old. People can understand
my gifts when I speak of visions but what in fact is the real evidence is
the light in my mind which is deeper and purer than those often
considered to be great teachers of the Church. That is the Holy Spirit
created me to bring glory to Jesus as in myself I am nothing and in him I
am something. These are his gifts in me that I am open about to inspire
confidence for your sake not my own; and in all things we give glory to
Jesus.
I was convinced as a young believer that the older Christians who had
fought in the Second World War would have stories of incredible faith and
of how God had saved them in this or that situation. I never heard such
stories. I thought I was about to hear one once when a story was told of
how a believer prayed before landing on the beach of Normandy on D
Day. As the men got out of their pontoon and onto the beach many fell to
machine gun fire. Yet some did not and among them were some who did
not pray. The Christian who prayed was shot and wounded. It was not
how I expected the story to turn out. There was no great story of faith
conquering all and even some of the atheists in the boat faired better than
he.
The ascent of the USA as the supreme world power led to the ascent of
American Christianity as dominant – floating as it does on a sea of
money. Today at the beginning of the 21st C. there is a pre-packaged
religion sold like Coca Cola that promises instant gratification and is fed to
us in easily swallowable globules. With simplistic platitudes, bright and
breezy positivism and religious consumerism this has made it easy for the
Charismatic churches to infiltrate every corner of Christianity and among
many circles become dominant.
As a result people claiming to have signs and visions, unlike yourself, are
pouring forth a steady stream or rather flood of religious nonsense. This is
an attack upon your faith as who will respect the few true visions and
signs among a sea of counterfeits? Would you recognise and therefore
appreciate a single organic rose among a field of plastic ones? These hide
your true vision from those who would benefit by hearing of it.
On the positive side I honour Jesus Christ and give plenty of guidance on
humility, holiness, living close to God and the need for the Bible ’s
fulfilment in a believer’s life – as opposed to using the Bible as a barrier to
God. In other words I insist upon the Gospel being a reality in the
believer’s life and hence there is no need for all this fakery.
As a young believer inexperienced in the world you may get very excited
about being invited to a meeting where you are told you will hear a
prophet or see an evangelist that has the power to heal or that there will
be a great outpouring of the Spirit of God and so on and so forth. I have
been to all those kinds of meetings, read books by or attended meetings of
some of the world’s greatest evangelists and teachers. Often I have
discovered them to be unbalanced Biblically and pretenders to faith rather
than possessors of it. Where I have seen the power of God poured out it
happened where I was praying for it to happen and it happened repeatedly.
I am something of a small scale revivalist that has a history of answered
prayer.
I have lived a life close to God. Very holy and knowing from my first year
as a Christian of what it was to be taught by the Holy Spirit. I am the
person that many believers do not believe exists as my experience of God’s
grace is deeper, purer and stronger than anything they have been taught is
possible. This it not an idle boast or a statement of pure egotism but rather
an appeal to conscience to accept spiritual reality and the fact of God’s
abundant grace toward me on behalf of you.
This book needs to be taken like strong medicine. It cannot do anybody
any harm even though its detractors will say it does. It will save some
people from Hell, I know that. It will give many who read it the tools and
light they need to escape the worst religious frauds and to focus on Jesus
as Lord. So, if you have the courage, the zeal for God or the faith, read on.
Jonathan, you were troubled after your conversion by evil spirits and their
vicious attacks, usually in the night, that can be compared to being burned
with a blow torch in terms of how it feels psychologically. It was
suggested to you by an older Christian that you could get psychiatric help.
Yet, you quickly discovered the power of the Cross. That fool however
with his false concern demonstrates a truth: They say ‘Christ, Christ’,
when they mean ‘World, World.’
There is a lot in here about spirits that have actually been seen. - Whether
it is the Spirit of Christ who I will describe to you my dear child and you
will see your Christ and my Christ are the same one! - Or some awful
demons that I have encountered on my spiritual journey. I have not written
a comprehensive book upon either the gift of the discernment of spirits or
upon contemporary false prophets. Rather it is in the use of this very gift
given by God that I have written this book and as you will see it is
unusually discerning of things spiritual and supernatural: Whether they
are doctrines, prophets, demons or powers.
It is time in fact to cry out against all the lies and perversions of the truth
that have become so common place so that true saints are made sick at
the very thought of attending church. Much of the world’s criticism of
Christianity is true (because the world has overtaken Christianity and this
started with the Christian Roman emperors who created Pagan
Christianity and abuses and false doctrines have only been added since.)
So that today if a discerning person wants to observe the activity and
supernatural power of Satan they are more likely to find it in a certain
kind of church than anywhere else.
Christian historians have given us a view of their heroes that has been
whitewashed and modern condemnatory types want to dismiss every
saint down the ages that wasn’t a modern type fundamentalist as a
demon worshipper. So if a holy and humble man of the Middle Ages said
prayers to Mary he is regarded as saying prayers to Satan while his
modern critic is neither humble nor holy. How could Christians of
Medieval times act and think like American fundamentalists of the twenty
first century? Yet all who did not are classed as demon worshippers. This
hate filled, sectarian nonsense is everywhere.
When I first had a series of visions of Heaven God did not order the saints
to run and hide but I saw them as well as Angels and the Lord himself.
You may think this is quite natural and it is but to many who have been
conditioned with an anti Catholic hysteria this makes me a devil
worshipper – but who among them have really seen God? According to
them the Lord cannot show me any saint in Heaven but He may show me
Jesus – who they often expect to be a blonde haired and blue eyed
European.
God cannot, they think, show me in a vision the child Jesus asleep in the
arms of Mary as this they think is Mariolatry and necromancy –
contacting the dead. If this is so the story of the Rich Man and Lazarus
would be a story of necromancy. Except that they have to accept that as it
is in the Bible but they cannot accept, in spite of the evidence to the
contrary, that the Lord could give any saint the same vision. It would they
think, not only be contacting the dead, even though the same vision is
related by Jesus, it would be adding to the Word of God as they think very
unwisely that God cannot shed much light upon His Word – and certainly
not by visionaries!
You see then this constant tendency to keep the Holy Spirit at a distance
and to demonise those who go beyond superficial, often unreal and
sometimes hypocritical religion. In their Biblical justifications they quote
many verses about GOD condemning witchcraft and necromancy to
condemn those whose writings are full of an ardent love of Jesus! They
use Biblical justifications that see every example of saints appearing in the
Gospel or in the NT that explain these are not real saints but metaphorical
visions; that they are one off events never to be used as a template of the
Holy Spirit’s work in believers lives- As they think they have the Biblical
authority and right to condemn these things (found in the Bible ) if they
are found in believers’ lives.
Often they cannot be reasoned with as they are both dogmatic and sour in
spirit. They love nothing better than to feel their own superiority by
condemning such believers and in their little sects and smaller groups pat
one another on the back for being clones of one another. Emptiness is
their middle name and self complacency and smugness they mistake for
divine assurance and the comfort of the Spirit.
If such believers could go back in time, and for a while forget everything
so they could speak from the heart; and then meeting say, Jesus, they
would be quick to state, ‘You love Mary. Is this not Mariolatry?’ Or, ‘You
heard my thoughts. That means you are a psychic and you must repent!’
If Jesus were to reply with, ‘It is my Father’s will that I know the hearts
of men’, they could so easily counter with, ‘Kurt Koch in his book Occult
ABC has shown reading minds is by psychic power that comes from
demons of Hell and therefore you are of Satan!’ – The exact position taken
by the condemnatory Pharisees.
The endless chant of, ‘Satan, Satan, Satan’, is taken up against so many
true saints by so many more hard hearted and ignorant Christians lacking
the true kindness and presence of the Holy Spirit they think they know.
Often they find a small error and condemn others totally. You see the true
servants of Jesus do not say for example, ‘Augustine was guilty of
bringing Roman paganism into Catholicism. Flee such abominations of the
Great Harlot.’
The true saint, and ‘saint’ is a Biblical word for Christian; the true saint
will say, ‘Augustine taught and did some questionable things but he was a
holy man of great wisdom and true devotion to God.’
This is because the Spirit of Jesus within them is discerning but also
loving and He will allow them to see the good in Augustine who was a
man close to GOD.
I know what evangelical, Protestant believers hate and I know what they
love. Most believers will not tolerate teaching on holiness, unless it is
superficial and unreal and most believers want to run after the world and
its material things and call covetousness faith. ‘Thou shalt not covet’
became ‘Believe God wants to bless you with riches.’ Most of all genuine
love and the reality of abiding in Christ are absent. In this state they can
neither understand themselves nor the great figures of Christian history or
even contemporary Christianity.
These will inevitably tear you to pieces at one time or another no matter
how well you are forewarned. In this book are the weapons of defence
and offence you will need and the guidance that is a must have for every
dedicated servant of God today in this Age of Delusion.
Use it well and it will save you from the worst and allow you to recover
more quickly and fully when you have been savaged by those who you
looked up to in humility and believed their wonderful testimonials about
how spiritual or even apostolic they are! By knowledge and pain you will
learn and then you will be able to teach others. Very few Christian leaders
take the trouble or seem to care or are even aware of how multitudes of
young believers are ruined almost before they start on their pilgrimage
with Jesus.
Secondary to this we have gifts of the Holy Spirit that are pointless and
powerless. Healing ministers with a gift of healing that cannot heal.
Tongues speakers that cannot understand what they say or speak to
people of other lands – who often utter a few syllables or repetitive
sounds that even a child could see is not a language. We have gifts of
discernment of spirits that results only in sects and individuals accusing
one another of having evil spirits and these accusations are based upon
petty differences. We have prophets who cannot prophesy anything of any
importance but if they do it will inevitably not come to pass. So they just
produce more new prophecies to replace the old failures... It goes and on
and on. This is not Christianity this is Christian Satanism. These are not the
gifts of the true Holy Spirit. The nomenclature is the same. The spirit is
different. Satan is the author of the gifts and he is the false Holy Spirit.
If I am baptised in the Holy Spirit; if I have gifts from the Holy Spirit; if I
am holy; if I am effective in my gifts and there is no fantasy; there need
be no fantasy; if I am powerful, I can tell you about the real Holy Spirit in
the hope He will be respected and Jesus glorified so that all he gives us
returns to him as he gave it; purely and perfectly.
You may use a concordance and look up as many verses and passages as
you like about the Holy Spirit and His gifts. Having this rudimentary Bible
knowledge you will better be able to follow my unfolding argument.
I saw the Holy Spirit on the night of my conversion to Christ. It was this
vision that meant I could be a believer and without it I do not believe I
would have been saved. I felt the presence of the Holy Spirit. He appeared
to me as a pillar of fire. From that fire emanated the love of God. I knew I
was seeing God. I did not know why God appeared to me as a pillar of
fire. I had not heard of the pillar of fire. I read of it later in the Bible. So
to begin with I heard the preaching of the gospel from a true saint and as
he spoke to me the Holy Spirit appeared to me as a pillar of fire and stood
for some time before me. I was ushered into the spiritual realm. No one
told me or taught me these things. In fact from the first days of my
Christian life I was teaching others simply by relating the things that were
happening to me. I found that after my conversion I had certain abilities.
One was the ability to understand doctrine and spiritual things. Another
was the discernment of spirits. Another gift was holiness and humility.
From the moment of my conversion I was stronger than any other
believer I have ever met in my life. I was baptised in the Holy Spirit. Not by
tongues of fire over my head but by a pillar of fire standing before me.
Another gift I had that had actually commenced when I was a small child
was visions of and from God. Some of these visions were very powerful.
As the years passed before me I read of other visionaries past and present
and could compare myself to them. I found that I was far more powerful
than any and had been shown far more by God. Outside of the Bible there
has never been a visionary with visions as extensive or as powerful as my
own. There was a certain time in my life when I even saw the Person of
the Holy Spirit not as a symbol like a dove, a fire or a blazing light but I
saw His form and His face. The way He really is. When I was given this
view of God I was given the knowledge that I alone of all mortals was
chosen to see the face of the Holy Spirit.
You can imagine that if I could see the Holy Spirit I could see whatever He
chose to show me, and I did. I saw Heaven and I saw Angels. I saw
symbolic visions and literal visions. I saw fallen angels. I saw things from
the past and a little of the future. I grew stronger and my visions became
less frequent but my discernment of God's Mind increased. I started to
sense, when He willed, His thoughts. I started to know things even without
visions that are not possible to know. I was brought into a new world and
when I looked for my brothers and sisters in this new world I found I had
left them far behind. No one was strong enough to follow me. I was totally
alone as far as humans were concerned but I was with God.
(You may say, as I would say to myself, this is all boasting and not the
humility of Christ. Of course I never mentioned these things for decades –
or my strength or grace but I found that unless I spelt out things very
clearly for believers they didn’t see them at all. In other words it is for
their sakes I seem to boast - and to discriminate between myself and
multitudes of others who have empty visions and revelations to no good
point.)
The Holy Spirit was very different to all that stuff taught about Him by
Pentecostals and Charismatics. He is zealous for God and seeks the
honour of Christ. He works hard and tirelessly for the salvation of sinners,
and hardly considers their sins or blasphemies, leaving that to Judgement
Day. He is like a Mother. His love is greater than the universe and all those
who have been filled with the Holy Spirit's power must know this – right?
He is easily offended and hates unbelief. He withdraws His presence from
believers and churches that are persistently lukewarm or follow deceiving
spirits. He is deeply concerned over the awful fate that awaits the
unbelievers in Christianity and the Holy Spirit seeks a war with His
imitator – but He seeks this to be engaged in by the disciples of Christ.
You must join me then in this war. This is my first barrage of fire. Will
you keep silent, you who have seen so much abuse in supposedly
Christian churches by supposedly Christian leaders? Or will you pick up
arms – the real gifts of the Spirit and attack with undying zeal the forces
of darkness that have dethroned Christ in churches and replaced him with
a false Holy Spirit? -A spirit that is hated by God above all things in this
world?
I said I get things from the Mind of God. Here is an example my beloved
Jonathan. The Lord revealed to me that this world is very primitive. There
are worlds in this universe that have a multiplicity of dimensions and
‘aliens’ or saints of another race that are so far above us they have not six
senses but thousands of them! Humans in their arrogance like to think
there are only six as they are ever limited by their own imaginations –
imaginations that puff them up not for others’ edification but for empty
boasting. My ‘boasting’ is for your edification and education, my
Jonathan. I have to ‘blow my own trumpet’ with the notes Christ gave me
as I am heralding Christ the King of worlds.
Chapter One: Spiritual Awareness
Before considering the various aspects of the ‘deeper spiritual life’ as it has
sometimes been called let us consider the many who are claiming to be
spiritual today. We’ll consider how in intellectual understanding of
spiritual topics their knowledge is mixed but in terms of being taught of
God they often know little of this in experience. In fact very many are
uninspired, heretical, blasé and dogmatic: The opposite to spiritual
mindedness.
I’m not writing to critique you as you try to walk in the Spirit or say you
can sense within your spirit the truths of God. I am writing to help you to
be faithful to God. This book is written for a purpose: To focus your mind
on what is spiritual and to get you out of the nest to fly as an eagle in
Spirit and in Truth.
Have you wondered what it is to be spiritual but are confused that within
Christianity itself there are so many different ways? Have you noticed that
there is an End Times hysteria from certain quarters and a too relaxed
attitude from others? This book will have some answers and I will focus
on Jesus being the Antidote to spiritual confusion. It is Jesus the Lord who
gives clarity and simplicity to a believer’s faith.
After reading you may want to live this life in spirit and truth. It is easier
than you may think. You have been hindered by the evil one – expressing
himself through false teaching and the confusion it spreads. Remove that
stumbling block and the way becomes plain.
A person may read the most spiritual books in the world and learn their
concepts. They may speak of these things and discuss them with others
who have studied them but do they understand these concepts because the
Holy Spirit has taught them or simply as they read the books of men?
Since it is a fact that if a person is not taught of the Spirit of God they
cannot truly understand the spiritual books. The Christian world is full of
people who use spiritual language about spiritual things and often say, “I
sensed in my spirit...” or “The Holy Spirit spoke to my mind...” or “I had a
word of prophecy...” How much of this is real? The various teachings that
come out of Christianity that contradict one another present a problem to
the believer: How to get straight to the truth.
I cannot count the number of times that people have said, “I sensed in my
spirit...” and then gone on to support a right wing or left wing politician, or
nuclear armament, or rejection of another, more sound, believer...and by
observation I have learned that when they say they sensed something in
their spirit it usually translates in reality that a petty prejudice, a feeling, an
assumption etc. has been spiritualized. Often using the concept of sensing
in the spirit is simply a justification for carnal prejudices that could not
otherwise be justified: The exact opposite of Biblical spiritual awareness. In
fact this is a principle of deception for those deceiving and being deceived.
They have a tendency to believe they know, what is merely conjecture, and
this is based on the evidence of supposed inner spiritual sensing:
Sometimes, quite often on false prophecies. This usually means they
cannot really make a logical case to support their beliefs. Often they
develop a super-spiritual attitude to others who reject their supposed
divine revelations as false conjectures.
In other words God first explains, then reveals and then performs a sign. It
works something like this. The gifted believer studies a subject in the Bible
and God gives them insight and a rational and logical view of the subject.
A consciousness of enlightenment from the Holy Spirit makes the Word
come alive. This is universal to holy believers. For those gifted in other
ways, and occasionally even if not so gifted, this holy enlightenment may
be followed by a revelation; perhaps a dream or vision or discernment of
something. Related to this, occasionally there are effects in the material
world of either healing or prayer fulfilling the teaching they received from
God. Sometimes it is Providence – a striking concurrence of events
obviously related to the Bible study and prayer and the enlightenment of
the Holy Spirit. As a result the gifted believer uses logical, Biblical
argument rather than insistence that they are superior and must be
believed! God supports them with a degree of evidence that others can see.
In the Gospels you will see this dynamic in the life of Jesus more than
anywhere else. His inner spiritual life effected change in society and in
individuals. Often these changes were miraculous and physical.
Let us consider this dynamic more closely. A believer may be led by God to
study and meditate upon a subject deeply over years. As they become
wise, by the Spirit, this understanding is deepened by revelation – but this
must be preceded by the first search for wisdom. After the greater light
that comes in some form by the Spirit there is the outer evidence of
change in the believer, in their circumstances or in the world. So a degree
of outer evidence comes from God as proof of inner spiritual reality. That
is because there has been a greater revelation and deepened understanding
leading to a greater faith. It is rather like ascending a spiritual ladder.
You can see the dynamic at work: The seeking, learning, finding and
experiencing. As Jesus said we will find when we seek. First there is
understanding – under God; then revelation from God and then
confirmation in power. It is all about discipleship rather than instantaneous
gratification.
Let us now consider the opposite. One obvious element in the ministry of
those who are false and make false but grandiose claims about themselves
is the lack of seen evidence. Many may believe them on the basis of trust.
If they are healing ministers they trust others have been healed by these
ministers but somehow don’t get healed themselves… Generally where
there is a lot of noise there is little to show for it. This is like going to a
great fig tree full of luxurious foliage but finding no fruit! We know what
Jesus did to the unfruitful fig tree.
Jesus does give fruit that is spiritual and enduring, whether it is peace, joy
or even power. His servants give it out for free! On close examination they
bear the fruit of Christ and need no fanfare. These, if they claim to heal,
will likely heal you! Alas, there are so few. If they just teach, their teaching
will invigorate your faith. They are also kind and humble without
exception, as are all disciples of Christ.
The place of tradition
In the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches tradition carries far greater
weight than in Protestantism. We must remember that for three hundred
years after Christ there was no New Testament but a large collection of
books only some of which were entered as part of the canon of the New
Testament. Christians in those days had to choose what books they would
accept or reject and what degree of importance they would place on each
book. Many believers in those days for example would have rejected the
Revelation, the last book of the New Testament but accepted the Gospel of
Thomas, excluded from the New Testament. They were guided largely by
Church tradition in matters of faith and so Church tradition, much of it
was oral tradition passed on by the Apostles and their disciples but not
written in the New Testament, had greater weight than the scriptures in
the sense that the Church Fathers interpreted these various writings for the
Church…
I am aware of the criticisms of those who are deluded believing they are
guided by the Holy Spirit but this can never be used to justify the rejection
of the practical guidance of the real Holy Spirit or to undermine God’s
faithfulness. It was never a choice between delusion or tradition – or even
the Bible but always a primary choice of whether each and every believer
is led by the Spirit and therefore- and only therefore in harmony with true
believers, with true tradition, with Heaven, with the Bible, with God.
Another problem is this translation error: Of course these verses below are
not the problem but what has been added to it by interpreters:
“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly
furnished unto all good works.”
This King James Version of God’s words has been written to fit
into a pre-held doctrinal position:
The actual Greek scripture literally translated begins very differently:
The word ‘Scripture’ has been used culturally to mean the Bible but
in the Bible itself ‘scripture’ simply means holy and inspired
writing
The very verse used to teach Sola Scriptura when properly translated
teaches against it. It teaches us that any writing inspired by God is useful
to Christians. The question is simply whether it is inspired by God. Among
some of the writings that have traditionally been seen as inspired by God,
long before Protestantism, were some by the early Patriarchs or Church
Fathers. Some of these writers referred to things the Apostles had told
them personally but which are not in the New Testament.
Many Protestants believe and teach that the Bible Alone is inspired by God
– Protestants like a lot of ‘Alones’ and a lot of dualistic arguments. I think
that a believer who does not believe Christians can and are inspired in
word, deed and writing are not really Christians. These Protestants read
lots of Christian books but why read them if they cannot be inspired?
Ironically in quoting the above verses Protestants use the Bible to establish
one thing while denying the other: That is they do not believe in perfection
but use these verses on perfection to establish Sola Scriptura.
How dare they say that God cannot speak to someone in a spiritual dream
or a striking turn of events? How dare they say these gifts have ceased
when in the future it is prophesied that even two great Prophets will arise
and prophesy? (Revelation) What seems so good and right on the surface
turns out to be in the end just another way of making man central and
banishing the Holy Spirit as once the Jews banished Christ.
Now we know the Bible has a lot to say about God as Teacher:
Guide, Prophet, Lord etc. but nowhere does it say, ‘Let the Bible be your
sole authority in matters of doctrine, practice and faith.’ So, by their own
reasoning these anti-spiritual types should at least admit that is not in the
Bible! Their authority for that is in the Reformation!
Calvin was a very kind and sensitive man; one of high principles and deep
logic. -Too intelligent for his own good as he relied upon his natural gifts.
His insight taught him – not God. His consigning of believers to the flames
was itself a prophecy that his teaching would send many to the fires of
Hell! Of all the heretics in the world the Lord loved him most. He
understood holiness and humility to a great extent but was deceived by his
own mind. He was not like the more intelligent Apostle Paul whose
understanding was enlightened by the Holy Spirit. John Calvin had become
in his bitterness against those he saw as heretics a raving lunatic. On his
religion Protestantism rests. He had no fear he would be judged for his
deeds as to him salvation was about grace alone and so his evil works
could do him no harm. He was wrong. We all reap as we sow.
They argue it must be this way to have the Bible in effect as their
god or they must follow the delusion of false prophets Nonsense!
Jesus taught his disciples they could be and would be taught of the Holy
Spirit. Some others follow this Spirit taught Biblical authority and believe
me it is far better and this is why we have some very powerful answers
to prayers and some very powerful gifts. It is also why our doctrines are
not a mad confusion of self contradicting compromises but harmonious
wholes that all fit together perfectly!
This too is how history has been interpreted as there are a lot of believers
who had genuine revelations from God but who among them are referred
to or even known by those who practice Sola Scriptura? Neither can they
discern if they were true of false and so are ever driven to reject them-
Because they do not have the Spirit as Guide and cannot agree among
themselves under the Spirit’s tutelage. That is they are just not spiritual
enough or have faith enough to establish in practise the Bible they
seemingly revere.
In other words those who live without the Spirit deny the Spirit
Those who live in the Spirit see His light over the Bible and find His Bible
living in their dreams; their perceptions; their gifts. It’s as if the things
Jesus taught were actually true as opposed to pretending; as these others
seem to do – in their cold, dead churches with their old men muttering
unbelieving prayers and patting themselves on the back for not being
deluded. Ever wondering why the promise of revival never came and what
happened to all the young people… How little they realise that in terms of
world Christianity, of the present and certainly of the future they have
virtually zero significance.
Yet, since some fleeing this religious formalism have indeed gone
into fellowships where deluded prophets speak deluding words to
overly subjective dupes I will concentrate on these second types
from now on.
If there were a cult that gave to its attendees pills to cause diarrhoea and
in their meetings they messed themselves and messed over the floor who
would approve it? Yet, when Satan came as the angel of light he did this in
effect with things supernatural. His given gifts that suck the life out of the
spirit while giving the soul an emotional and psychological uplift. If you
want to blaspheme God you can speak in so called tongues and vomit
forth the sounds of Hell –disguised but never justified!
See:
http://meta-religion.com/
LinguisticsGlossolaliacontemporary_linguistic_study.htm
Recently I read some very poor articles by a carnal believer who attempts
to get the world to believe she is a prophet and who advocates the reading
of the most and the least spiritual and balanced writers at the same time!
It is rather like a contemporary of Jesus saying, “Jesus is a great teacher
but beware of John the Baptist. He is a false prophet!” Then they say that
the high priest is also a great teacher, the one who would crucify Christ.
In fact some of those high priests who crucified Christ did have writings
of their own and were known for being spiritual!
In the times of Jesus there was a lot of confusion about who and what He
was. Oftentimes He was called a false prophet or a servant of the devil. By
making the right judgement about Jesus many people came to believe in
Him and gained eternal life. Others who believed the lies told by pious
seeming priests continued in their places of worship unaware that the
Messiah they had been waiting for had arrived. This is how it is today
with spiritual believers and their opponents.
Here we see the Apostle Paul realised there were some who thought they
were spiritual but he had to demand of them that they recognise him for
being a truly inspired apostolic writer! Generally, spiritual people are not
seen as spiritual. This is because there is in Christian culture a consensus
among those who refer to one another as prophets, or spiritual, but who
are in reality very much deceived. Their opinions of what is spiritual are
wrong. They keep out those who are spiritual and see them as worthless.
I will add that one of the hallmarks of those who are spiritual is to accept
the entire Scripture and see it as a balanced whole. Many say they accept
all Scripture. Few have a balanced and harmonious view of it.
You will notice this is a literal translation and this is one of several verses
dealing specifically with awareness in spirit. It is where the term comes
from but it is misunderstood by people reading Watchman Nee, Jessie
Penn-Lewis and others who taught about the differences between soul and
spirit and spiritual sensing. Often these books are understood intellectually
and many assume this understanding makes them spiritual.
In the verse above we see Jesus was moved within Himself, not primarily
in His emotions although these too were deeply affected, but in Spirit.
There are natural feelings and there are spiritual feelings. As a rule the
spirit does not feel as the natural person does.
The manner Jesus felt in His Spirit is the template for believers feeling
things in their spirits. As we become more spiritual we have more spiritual
feelings. At first these are often confusing and sometimes contradict our
natural instincts. If we think of them intelligently they make more sense,
and especially as we study the topic in the Bible...
Here we see Paul the Apostle clarifies the issue. The spirit is so distinct
from the soul and body as to be able to be at another place on its own!
This is not merely an expression, being present in spirit, (as the Prophet
was known for telling the secrets of the Samarian King…) Of course Paul
was an Apostle and very advanced in spiritual things. Yet we see the folly
of assuming that deep emotional feelings are somehow the spirit. The
spirit has a life of its own and that life is centred in Christ. Therefore those
who sense things in spirit sense this: The continual Presence of the Lord
Jesus Christ, Son of God.
Here we have a clue too: Those who can sense things in spirit can sense
the differentiation between soul and spirit. They can sense their own
spiritual nature. If they can do this they may sense the spiritual nature of
others. This is why spiritual believers do not recommend carnal authors or
become authors of carnal doctrines. Spirit attracts spirit. Spiritual believers
are attracted to other spiritual believers.
Every believer who has the Spirit of Christ and obeys Him is to some
extent spiritual and walking in the Spirit. In the ‘deeper Christian life’ or
spiritual life there are resources put there by God so that we keep on
growing in grace. For some this means power and grace few can imagine.
For a few this means power and grace that no one can imagine. A
necessary step along this path is to learn to walk consciously in the Spirit
being aware of inner things hidden from the eyes of men but revealed by
God.
Here the Apostle John travelled to Heaven in spirit and by his spirit beheld
a wonderful revelation from Christ. This is far more than sensing in spirit.
It is seeing and hearing fully and clearly. Yet it demonstrates the nature of
spirit as opposed to the natural power of the soul. People may and do
have all kinds of experiences that they believe to be spiritual but how
many would match up to John's in essence?
By seeing things clearly in spirit they may help others to see clearly. I
know of no one like John the Apostle. Sure, you can go on the Internet
and find countless numbers of dreamers and their visions of God but you
will not find the clarity, the consistency, the power, the depth, the beauty
and the wisdom...
God supports with His Spirit His believers who sense in spirit.
They are a great blessing to others who are open to God. The Spirit of
Christ knows exactly who among His elect are deeply spiritual and who
are on the borderline. It is the second kind I am writing for in this chapter.
Not to tear them down but to build them up and to give a little help in
seeing things clearly.
Jesus teaches His disciples to judge and discern spiritually. Yet, among
themselves and from within themselves they can learn too. As it is
ordained and permitted by Jesus for His disciples to learn together I will
offer some lessons I have learned.
1. Take time to read the Bible from cover to cover. What you learn will
rearrange your mind and deepen your understanding.
2. Continually pray for your mind to be cleansed by the Blood of Jesus.
3. Pray in faith for clear leading from God.
That was quite simple, but how many practise it? Here it gets more
difficult.
Use logic
When you are apparently told by 'God' that you are to be a great healer
ask Him to heal you of something significant as a guarantee! If He doesn't,
forget the revelation. The God of the Bible would heal you.
When you are apparently told by 'God' there is to be a great revival, ask
that you will lead just one person a day to Christ as a sign. If that doesn't
happen stop listening to that 'God'. It isn't God.
When God speaks in words to your mind ask Him to quote accurately a
Bible verse you do not remember, say Chronicles 1:5. Then look it up. If the
voice of God cannot quote it or makes excuses do not speak to it again.
Fortunately, I cannot hear their excuses. “God uses this voice as a help and
it is not meant to be a great revelation.” Another excuse might be, “As I
sense things in my spirit I need to put them into words.”
I will answer back this example of deception based on what I have learnt.
If you can hear God's words you already have the faith to speak to Him
and therefore He can tell you anything and everything. You would in fact
be a great prophet. Will it ever deceive you? Yes, it will continue as you
continue listening to it!
As you purify yourself from the supposed voice of God it will be harder to
go on. You will miss the support and be tempted, even forced, to fall back
into error. After a while however, you will notice you grow stronger and
your spiritual senses more acute. God is blessing you as you have courage
to depend on Him without a fake inner monologue or 'lights'.
As you seek daily to humble yourself to God He will lift you up.
The more prepared you are to say, “I am wrong”, the more God will to see
to it that you are right. It is as you move, walk, think and teach in humility
that Christ begins to speak through you.
They would convince themselves by virtue of the Bible verses in which the
serpent is judged, such as the Revelation teaches, that the prophet is not
merely false but is filled with the spirit of Satan. They would raise any
number of questions over the ‘stranger from the desert’ and his
denominational affiliation, his dress code, his independence from them…
How he seems to belong to this or that cult. They would teach other
believers to stay away, be wary, (or be judged) and they would hold
prayer meetings to ‘bind the powers of darkness’ etc. They would reach
this state of affairs with lightning speed – the very same day and perhaps
even while the prophet is still speaking.
If the prophet himself took time to explain that since Satan had indeed
appeared to Eve in the form of the serpent God was now giving His reply-
In other words that what God created, the serpent, can be used for evil or
good but is not evil in itself. That God rebukes Satan by giving a kind of
prophecy in which Satan’s uses of the serpent is outdone by God’s use of
the serpent and that the wooden staff is itself symbolic of the Cross upon
which Christ defeated the ‘serpent’; or the devil etc. After the prophet
explained all this there would be more severe condemnation and more
Bible quotes to prove him wrong. They would quote a number of
scriptures irrelevant to the topic. They would avoid reflecting upon the
prophet’s statements but simply react in a dogmatic, blind manner. On
points of reason they would not reply in kind but respond with sophistries
that were irrational and often unconscionable.
This behaviour would cause a polarisation between the ‘Bible believers’ and
the prophet which in turn would force the prophet’s hand and in due time
he would denounce the Bible believers not as Bible believers but as Bible
abusers and blasphemers who did not recognise the Spirit of the Lord or
the Day of God’s mercy toward them but instead were altogether like the
Pharisees that crucified Christ…
The believers would be proud that they had stood up to a great false
prophet from Satan and pray pious prayers, often with heartfelt emotions
and many ‘we love you lord we praise you Jesus’ type statements. In their
emotional euphoria they would convince themselves they were filled with
the Spirit and many of these groups would have their own prophets to
prophesy against the emissary of Satan as they saw him – the true
prophet of God. The prophet of God in turn would ‘shake the dust from his
feet in testimony against them’ and when Christ appeared to him to talk to
him he would explain that what they did to the prophet they have done to
Jesus in modern times throughout Christendom…
However the sign of the staff being turned into a snake is in the Bible and
so believers give lip service to it as they do to many other unusual signs
they don’t understand and would condemn even if they saw an angel
come down from Heaven and perform them. They would quote the Bible
that, ‘even if an angel comes down from heaven and preaches another
gospel’ do not believe him etc. On and on it goes and the churches, as you
can see for yourself are either completely dead or half dead.
Such believers reading this would interpret my anti Bible abuser and anti
false prophet stance as being simply anti Bible and cultic. In fact the above
passages have summed up my life since throughout my life I have
experienced many spiritual things and attained to much that is not believed
in and for all of it been condemned and treated and regarded virtually as
Satan incarnate. I have found in general that the Protestants in general
regard any and every deeply spiritual teaching or experience as demonic.
Beyond being ‘born again’ they allow for nothing – unless it is fake. Yet
most of the born again Christians themselves have no idea what it is to be
born again but have deluded themselves by church membership and
various social/psychological/psychogenic means that they are
experiencing ‘spiritual life’.
Admixture
Things I write here may be hard to understand but you may refer to them
as you need them in coming years and you will recognise them as you
enter situations where what I have described is in operation: Forewarned is
forearmed.
Does Jesus abandon people who have faith if they also have error? Does
Jesus sanction their errors by being among them? Does Jesus prove a
spiritual movement is genuine if some good things come from it? Does he
prove it is false if some bad things come from it? Most things are neither
black nor white and so why would Jesus act as if they were? Christians
however tend to be for or against this or that teaching or person or group.
They tend to see things in black and white. That is they tend to be
dogmatic and earth bound. The Spirit renews the mind and the more
discriminating yet open the mind the better the judgement and as a result
there are better effects of truth in a believer’s life.
You may go for example to a meeting where a preacher tells people that if
they receive Christ into their hearts they will be saved and you see a few
people are truly saved in this way. Yet at another time you see there is an
emotional appeal and people make an emotional commitment that isn’t
real and lasts as long as the meeting or until the next morning. These
spurious conversions are commonplace. Admixture happens when both
things occur in the same service. In one sense it is quite natural as the
Spirit will not speak to everyone’s heart in the same degree and not
everyone will respond in the right way.
The grace of Christ is like a spring that bubbles forth its blessings
wherever faith is found. If some people put debris into that stream it will
still bubble forth its blessings. If they pile the debris up there may still be a
pure spring underneath but if they clear out the debris that stream may
turn into a torrent. This is how it is in the world and in the Church. In
varying degrees, in varying ways you have admixture.
Sincere preachers that teach nonsense and good teachers that aren’t
listened to: Soul winners that get no support and flashy evangelists that
are adored. Good Bible studies and little faith: Stronger faith and little
direction: Spiritual focus along with spiritual abandonment by others etc. -
It is all admixture.
In the world lying magazines and newspapers like to tell you that they
bring you the truth. In the churches the truth is diluted, added to, distorted,
let out, kept in, stamped on; exalted. Consequently believers experience
things in various ways and in varying degrees.
The concept of ‘admixture’ I believe came from Jessie Penn-Lewis. The idea
is quite a good one and one that has been observed from the beginning of
time: Where God operates openly and in the consciousness of people the
Enemy also operates. Admixture is set in opposition to the concept that
certain places or people are exempt from temptation or deception or
delusion. If we have sinned we may take it for granted that we have also
been deluded and deceived and of course tempted.
Certain groups and individuals tend to assume that they are immune to
deception and delusion if they are in a church or if they imagine they have
been filled with the Holy Spirit. They see things as being either of God or
of Satan and as far as the intricate details go this is true enough. Yet in a
big church meeting there will typically be both true and false teaching; true
and false disciples; true and false gifts… Sometimes there is true and false
physical healing and signs. That is there is an admixture.
If for example I went to my local Christian cult I could find people, most
likely, who are born again and have a degree of wisdom and
understanding from the Lord. They will be weak but often because of
spurious teaching and supernatural manifestations believe themselves to
be strong. The proud among them tend to have an air of infallibility, even if
they do not claim to be so. I may however find gentle, humble and loving
people there among them. I will also find others who appear to be loving;
kind; gentle; Christian but who turn out to be nothing of the sort and this
is very common. I will find lambs and I will find wolves in sheep’s
clothing.
You will find admixture within yourself. The Bible describes it very well as
the conflict between the flesh and the spirit.
What you see in practice then in a typically great tent meeting of a world
leading Charismatic evangelist will be hordes of people with strong beliefs;
some with genuine faith and understanding and all with varying degrees
of admixture. Among the leaders, their signs, wonders and teachings you
will find an admixture. Often what is genuine and truly ‘of God’ is limited
and what is of the devil is abundant. This is because if a movement is
wrong it will only have enough truth in it to be believable by the weak and
unenlightened believers.
Usually people in wheelchairs can walk but they cannot walk far without
considerable discomfort or weakness. The public generally assumes people
in wheelchairs cannot walk. This fact is exploited all around the world in
healing meetings. Both by psychological inducement and often
supernatural influence people are made to think they are healed. As they
believe this they get up out of their wheelchairs to the rapturous applause
of the crowds and to the sanction of the evangelist and to his considerable
gain financially and in terms of power and influence: Publishing rights etc.
At other times the healing will last and result in the person coming under
spiritual oppression. Many people healed in rallies therefore tend to get
nightmares; tend to fall into greater sin; and tend to die before their time.
Also in recent decades most famous healing ministers have died before
their time. Not understanding admixture these ill taught believers and their
leaders wonder about the mysteries of God not realising it is not
mysterious but a matter of principle. If you follow Satan’s rules you will
suffer at Satan’s hand.
Real healing
I said most healings are spurious but this of course implies that some are
not. Sometimes the believer is healed by their own faith as they trust in
God for healing - the evangelist is of little significance either way.
Sometimes the evangelist has a healing gift and often if they have this gift
they are not extremists with lots of ludicrous practises and beliefs – but
there is still an admixture so we all need to be discerning.
I have seen genuine healers in operation and spoken to the people that
were healed. I would say this: The genuine ones also have better teaching
and a generally better attitude. However their gift may not be teaching but
healing. Do not think that if a man or woman is a gifted healer they will
be a good teacher. Often they are meant to find a good teacher to work
with as the teacher teaches and they heal! A healing believer therefore
cannot necessarily be trusted to teach on, say the importance of Israel in
prophecy…
Admixture is what those with discernment discern
It may be admixture in teaching; in supernatural powers; in signs; in
believers’ hearts or in meetings etc. However you need to focus on what is
pure and so for now we shall focus on Jesus in whom there is no
admixture, just absolute purity and truth in all things.
Jesus Christ the Son of God is the most hated man in history:
Jesus Christ the Son of God is the most loved man in history. Is it any
wonder then that you are loved by those who love Christ? It is no wonder
that you love those who love Christ.
Now if we or the early Christians before us were cast out of our places of
worship for loving Jesus we are the true children of God. At this point in
history there is no focal point, or rallying call, designed to call out God's
elect from corrupt churches; or no revival strong enough to reform the
churches... There is a spasmodic, often individual, basis for believers
coming up against hard heartedness, persecution, including defamation,
from other 'believers'. Often this results in believers who serve God leaving
their churches. Sometimes they try to form better ones but are often
dragged down by the same errors, thoughts, spirits, and lies that have
hitherto entrapped them...
I don't think Jesus finds the Gospel as hard to understand as His many
ministers seem to make out. The purpose of Jesus coming to earth was to
give people the chance to love Him. It is simply that. God's will is that the
world should love Christ. Because they didn't and don't, the rest followed...
God knew it all before hand of course, and so Jesus was prepared to die
as the sacrifice for Sin... The Apostle John focuses in his teaching on
loving God and His Son as well as our fellow believers. He understood the
Gospel in its simplicity and power just as he understood Christ.
Some are wary of talk of love as it has been so abused by cults and by
some so-called mystics. However, the teachings of God are clear enough
and of course we just studied two verses about loving the Christ and His
people. We should remember what Paul the Apostle said, “Without love I
am nothing.” This is not the love of Easy Religion but of obedience to
Jesus and God.
Chapter Three:
A Vision of Jesus Christ
For this reason I will not be taking a text and commenting on it but
taking my life and commenting on it. However you may see time
and again where certain verses would apply. You may do this
automatically if you believe I really am fulfilling the Word as I
should – As the Word flows it lives and lives again.
As He really is
The Biblical Jesus appears Hebrew in His features with brown hair and
eyes. He has soft, almond shaped eyes and stands about 5'7''-8'' tall. That
is short by today's standards but tall for His era. He does have a beard in
accordance with Jewish tradition. Even though Jesus' hair is not as long
as it is in the paintings He does not have the short hair that came into our
culture with the First World War when men began to adopt the short-
back-and-sides haircut, after having longish hair in the nineteenth
century! When I first saw the Lord I did not realise how rare an experience
it is.
Jesus is not the handsome type depicted in Hollywood films and neither is
he the black Jesus of some African American groups, although it would
not matter with what ethnic appearance He had been born. He is a Hebrew
with a larger than average nose. Hebrews of his day had light brown skin.
(Israelis of today have lighter skin due to a large degree of European
mixing. Abraham and early Hebrews had darker skin.) Christ is not
strikingly handsome but plain looking. However, I suppose you could say
He is attractive to all in the sense of having the presence and grace of
peace upon Him.
That is revealed in the Bible but probably we do not take enough notice.
Jesus was, and is, the most impressive, gracious, and powerful Person to
have walked this earth. I think so many people believed in Him upon
seeing Him, before He spoke or performed a sign. When He returns the
world will fall in love with Him and wonder how they were fooled by
Satan for so long.
Power in Spirit
There are many blessings in life not asked for that occur to believers.
Many we take for granted and don't give thanks, but Jesus thanks God
for us! My greatest answers to prayer are not answers to prayer but the
unwarranted kindnesses of Jesus. They are simply blessings the Father
gave me for Jesus' sake; blessings that I could not even have imagined. I
have seen, felt, understood and been shown what no mortal could possibly
conceive – will you likewise fulfil the very Scripture this refers to?
In the Mind of God there is no shadow of evil and there never has been a
bad thought. The trials of life are designed to turn people to Him and the
blessings of life are designed to get people to appreciate Him. Most people
will do neither but He never harbours an evil thought about them. There is
unperceived love in everything. It is the world that is hard on God, not the
other way around. Those who suffer most are offered absolute peace, as
they are offered Jesus Himself.
I am writing this so you can see what kind of life you will have if
you follow Christ
Jesus is very powerful but to worldly minds He may appear weak, as
those who practice forbearance are often seen as weak. By not being
arrogant Jesus does not fit in with the spirit of this Age. The false
representations of Jesus often demonstrate this arrogance and
preoccupation with the things of this world – especially money. The Jesus
I know has always been more powerful in His gentleness and mighty in
His Spirit than the false Jesuses put about by the manipulative and super-
spiritual.
A Simple Prayer:
This can be prayed by those wanting to become Christians and those who
are already Christians.
“I say to you, you walk in the Spirit and you will not fulfil the
craving of the flesh” [Galatians 5:16]
It is called 'flesh' to denote its fallen nature because the fallen nature
inclines strongly to firstly serve the desires of the body and its lusts and
secondly the haughtiness of the mind but it does not serve the pure
goodness of the Holy Spirit. 'Fallen Nature' is the Biblical expression and
not 'sinful nature' (as in the NIV). If we were sinful by nature we would be
guiltless and it would be unreasonable of God to ask us to act contrary to
our nature: Like demanding a bird to walk on four legs or a frog to fly.
God asks and requires that we conform to the nature He originally created
in us and that lies fallen within us, which He is resurrecting in us: Nature
in which spirit dominates the soul and body under God. Only in this sense
God creates a new nature in us - by filling us with his Spirit but He does
not change our nature from body, soul and spirit to something else. To
have a body, soul and spirit is not intrinsically sinful. It is simply the
condition that it is in. It is broken and needs to be fixed; can be fixed. This
is very different to thinking, as multitudes do, that a life of holiness is
impossible as we are doomed ever to live in the flesh and are irredeemably
sinful: That we wear a church face and pretend to be righteous even
though we know God is unreasonable and demands impossibilities.
I will tell you a secret, Jonathan, that in no sense should be a secret but
church teachers being what they are they have obscured rather than
revealed the truth of Christ: As we live a holy life and grow in spirit and
truth we become more natural; we become more in tune with our true
selves; we become more in tune with nature; we become more in tune
with God.
In the flesh sinners are always in disharmony firstly with themselves and
then with everything else! They take it for granted this is their nature and
spiritual life an impossibility of dreamers perceived as being out of touch
with reality. They are very subjective. They think that as they are they
must ever be. Christian 'sinners' think the same and greatly limit God. The
True Self is created in God for a life of holiness and good works as its
effect and only those who know this know how natural it is and how
much more they are in touch with reality! The world as usual has treated
the holy thing as its opposite and fulfilled the word of Christ in that they
regard good as evil and evil as good, black as white and white as black.
After salvation comes through Christ and His Spirit indwells us the human
spirit is made alive. The human mind and soul begins to take upon itself
the attributes of the spirit which is remade in the image of Christ. The
body conforms to the desire of the Spirit...
If you meditate on the above paragraphs you may see how they save you
from the error of mistakenly thinking the soul is the same as the flesh or
the body is the flesh. In the Bible ordinary words take on a spiritual sense.
Ultimately, God's plan is to conform the entire nature to the Spirit of Christ
so that body, soul and spirit are entirely holy. In Resurrection too the
spiritual body is in no negative sense 'flesh' even though it is flesh and
blood as well as soul and spirit. It is entirely in the Spirit.
I know these things are hard to understand and have been distorted by
many teachers trying to understand the spiritual life. They muddy the
waters and all too often emphasise a corrupt soul in contrast to a pure
spirit. Actually, God intends the soul to become as the spirit/Spirit, so that
every thought, motion of will, motive and desire is pure. Those who find
their minds are full of purity and peace are walking in the Spirit- even
though their minds are part of their souls. Their bodies too are used in a
holy way, not the way of lust, of gluttony or laziness... So their bodies too
are spiritual. In this way everything that comes out of them is pure: Their
looks, gestures, words, tone of voice, deeds etcetera are all Christ centred
and Christ is the Spirit of the Lord, Amen.
The carnal man is one whose body dominates their soul and whose
soul dominates their spirit. A spiritual man is one whose spirit
dominates their soul and whose soul dominates their body and of
course God dwells within their spirit! The first is ‘fallen nature’ as
the spirit has fallen from its supreme place in God and over human
nature. The second is the ‘new man’ and comes about by the
resurrection life of Christ. The process of moving from one state
to the other by faith is called ‘sanctification’.
To recap then: To walk in the Spirit is to have your entire being imbued
with the power of Christ. To walk in the flesh is to be as any worldly
person, whether they are a garbage collector or a guru.
Unlike the many televangelists and others that soak up vast amounts of
money from within Christendom and use it mainly on themselves after
giving a fraction, very publicly and with fanfare, to a good cause, Paul and
Titus were not avaricious and calling it faith. They walked in humility,
peace and love with joy.
I should not need to teach these things but sadly the time has come when
believers are in danger in their churches from persecution and would be
better off out of them! Yet, as Titus and Paul walked in step together with
the Spirit so you will find others that also are in step with Christ. You will
not find many. You will not agree 100% or close to it but a time is coming
when such believers will have a home and such churches as Jesus would
enjoy attending will come into being. I know this because I know the
Spirit.
Chapter Five:
Loving God
“...Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul
and with all your strength, and your neighbour as yourself.”
[Luke 10:27]
This is a simple guide of how to love God and by loving God to love
your neighbour as yourself
The Love that Jesus spoke of was spiritual in the sense that it was pure in
motive, selfless and created in the heart by the Holy Spirit. That is we are
to love God with His own love as our love is often not love at all. When
we love of ourselves we are full of impurities and failings...
“There is no fear in love but perfect love casts out fear; as fear
is related to judgement. The one who fears is not perfected in
love.” [1 John 4:18]
“Lord Jesus, I pray you will give me your love for all and especially
for God. My own love or effort to love is not sufficient. I pray I
may receive your pure love by faith. Please grant me this love as a
gift, Amen.”
This prayer will help focus your mind and prayed purely, will show God
your intent and dependence upon Him.
“We are His creation - created in Christ Jesus for good works;
which God has preordained that we should walk in them.”
[Ephesians 2:10]
This new creation, made of the fabric of Christ, is the centre of our being
and has a nature like His. It consists of our spirit being given new life, the
Life of Christ, as its mainspring. In that sense we become united to God by
Christ. Deep within ourselves we feel this life. We are to trust this life will
be manifested in our outer selves, our conscious selves, by the power of
the Holy Spirit. That is we experience Christ by faith.
All the spiritual life that peoples all over the world have sought; all the
graces and qualities of Jesus; all the sum of what is perfect, wonderful,
holy and godly can be found in Jesus and Jesus can be found in you, if
you believe.
All the failure, shallowness, loss and dead ends you find in church or in
striving to be spiritual can be vanquished by Jesus Christ from within you.
It is easier than you think as most people that seek these things or seem
to, seek them outside of Jesus and by Self Effort, not by the simple and
pure way of faith.
“By grace you are saved through faith: That is not of yourself; it is
the gift of God.” [Ephesians 2:8]
Read this prayer; as you pray it in the faith which is God’s free gift, it will
bring you into fulfillment of God's will and on the path to truly loving God.
Here is another prayer for those who already have Jesus in their
heart.
Think about it and if you have grace pray it.
“Heavenly Father, I consecrate myself to a life attitude of love
filled holiness, in Christ by faith. Please grant that I may abide in
Him in such a way that I will no longer depend upon Self but
upon Christ alone. I trust that this will lead me to fountains of
living water I have not yet tasted. Amen.”
Such prayers as these or any that God will lead you to pray are
not about us willing what is to be but about trusting in God’s grace
freely offered to us in Christ. To repent and believe and then to be
consecrated to Christ is the path that leads to loving God fully.
Remember, God's love, as it comes from Him returns to Him and it
returns as it came, freely, purely and in power. You will see the
following verse also balances the activity of the believer with that
of God. God sovereignly rules over our hearts and in this
sovereignty He wills us to obey; to respond and act - but it is all of
grace, Amen.
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/four-elements-to-the-cross-of-
wisdom-becca-haney.html
In 1 Corinthians chapter 12 the Apostle Paul lists various spiritual gifts. In
verse 10 he speaks of “discerning of spirits”.
“Beloved, do not believe every spirit but test the spirits to see if
they are of God, since many false prophets have gone out into
the world.” [1 John 4:1]
Firstly I will explain what this gift of discerning spirits is not and
then what it is.
You will notice in the above verse that testing of spirits was connected
with identifying false prophets. That is what I am doing in this book. All
God's gifts are good to have and are not burdensome or oppressive. They
do not disconnect people from reality but have the opposite effect. The gift
of discerning spirits is a work of the Holy Spirit and it is an amazing and
wonderful gift to have. Here is an example of a deluded person's
behaviour, one who claimed to have the gift of discerning spirits.
I sat down to lunch with a Christian friend and their guest. The guest who
I will call Nelson was supposed to have been baptised in the Spirit and
could see demons. He informed us that there were demons in the room.
Nelson then opened a window so they could leave and commanded them
to go in Jesus' Name. However, he noticed one was still hiding under the
salad bowl so he picked up the bowl and shouted at the demon to leave....
As ridiculous as his behaviour may seem it was quite orthodox for his
‘Jesus Only’ church – a Pentecostal sub group. Everything he did was
related to their teaching. For example he needed to open the window as
they regarded demons as somehow bound by physical obstacles. He
needed to shout as they believed demons could not hear thoughts and had
to know also you meant what you said. Also shouting was seen as
spiritual authority as when men are convicted of something deeply they
often raise their voices... It was however, pure lunacy. I do not use that
word as an insult. This kind of religion does drive some people mad and
gives others mental problems.
Unreality the hallmark of deception
I implied above that false spirits manifesting through false gifts give their
users a false sense of reality; that they tend to lead people into unreality
and delusion: Fantasy rather than fact. Religious hyperactivity and
extremism based upon exotic beliefs and the sensational claims of their
leaders etcetera. It is a kind of caricature of the spiritual realm and its
deep reality of spirits as a realisable and often felt or seen array of
phenomena. There is a sense among them that since they believe in these
things in distinction to the majority of Christians who do not; that they are
frontline warriors involved in a great spiritual war and enlightened and
equipped by the Holy Spirit where others are sleeping in spiritual stupor.
They import in the flesh knowledge that can only come by the Spirit. They
grasp the rudiments of the problem of spiritual conflict and make
simplistic rules backed up with simplistic assumptions.
Such believers are inevitably persecuted by Pentecostals and their ilk. If the
genuine saints kiss a baby they will be vilified as paedophiles; if they
shake the hand of a Muslim they will be scorned as supporters of
terrorism and if they speak of demons they will be put down for devil
worshippers! All this is true and the few holy ones really know it. It was
Christ’s power over demons that led to the accusation that he, ‘casts out
demons by the power of the devil’ and so it is with his disciples.
So the most interesting thing about the super spiritual is that they
attack the truly spiritual. Those who falsely claim to see and discern
demons inevitably discern the Holy Spirit as a demon and try of cast out
the real Jesus that they think is a demon in the Name of Jesus!
Remember then Jonathan, this very simple fact that among those who are
full of hot wind and false, sensational claims there is a sense of unreality
and fantasy but among those close to Christ there is a deepened sense of
reality. Above everything spiritual reality is needed in the real fight against
Satan’s kingdom.
Discerning of hearts
Had it occurred to you that each human has their human spirit - their
inner self? It is obvious to those with the gift that human hearts can be
discerned. This happens in two ways. The gifted may discern the leanings,
inclinations and basic character of a person or they may literally sense
and discern their spirit. The latter only happens with those advanced in the
gift...
When I meet people, and if I take the trouble to think of them, I feel and
know what they are really about. Wherever I have had the opportunity to
confirm what I have sensed I have had 100% accuracy. Sometimes this
gift is very revealing but the Holy Spirit assures the privacy of those we
perceive spiritually. Today I literally used this gift. I met a new teacher at
my child's school. On the surface she was friendly and warm but I
remember some horrible teachers I had that were friendly and warm to
my parents. After sensing her heart however, I knew that God had given
her a gentle heart and she would present no problem to my child in the
future. Also there was an element of sensing the future... (Update: Since
then that teacher has moved on and she was no problem but had
remained a positive influence for her whole time at the school.)
Much of this may be seemingly irrelevant to the reader but if I have deep
spiritual awareness given by God it is on behalf of His children and there
will always be an effective and positive grace for them.
Discerning demons
Finally we get to it! Yes of course this gift is designed by God as a great
weapon against demons. By the exercise of this gift you become strong. It
must be so or how will you grow? It is about standing firm on Scriptural
principles. Discerning demons sometimes means seeing demons. It can be
scary. We learn to fear God and not to be intimidated by Satan. It is
metaphorically, like a bloody battlefield strewn with corpses of good men.
In the midst you stand, scarred, sometimes weary, but ever vigilant and
ever mighty in the Name, Amen.
Demons in Christians
Christian counsellors sometimes need to counsel Christians regarding
demons that are oppressing them or to some extent controlling
(possessing) them. You will see a lot of this fight to free captives from
demons, often 'religious demons' such as false tongue speaking demons-
in missionaries, counsellors and others who see the reality of the spiritual
warfare around us. However, Christians need to pick their counsellors
wisely.
WARNING
If you have felt oppressed or frightened in what you have read so far do
not read any further in this chapter. Also pray before reading and leave off
reading if it is too much for you. Not everyone is given grace to deal with
such things as I am about to reveal.
On the outside the spiritual realm seems mystifying and weird but in truth
it is well designed and planned; full of stratagems and orders of powers
and legions of demons under the control of higher spirits; that are
themselves under the power of fallen angels whose chief is Lucifer that
once was - Satan.
Spies are one of the most common forms of demons and therefore
one of the most common appearances of demons is in the shape
of animals and insects.
Demons as evil looking people: It is often the case that demons appear
as men and women with gruesome and malevolent features. These kinds
of demons are those that have possessed humans. It is normally these
kinds of demons that are cast out of the possessed. Such demons also
work as spirit guides to occultists of various hues and they operate in the
guise of the Holy Spirit to deceived 'believers' in cultic groups.
In regards to the above two types of demons you will notice that in the
story of the demon possessed man and the Gergesene swine the demons
left the man to go into the swine… [Matthew 8:28-34]
Sometimes ghosts are really such demons but not always. Ghost
phenomena can relate to other things I will not go into here.
Monster demons: These are those that take the appearance of fearsome,
half human creatures. They may have fangs, long claws, scaly skin etc.
Their purpose is to appear as frightening as possible to intimidate those
who see them. Often the real appearance of the evil spirit is not the one
they reveal to the viewer. The more powerful demons can change shape
and appear as one thing or another as it suits their schemes. Intimidation
is a principle they use against the servant of God to frighten them away
from spiritual warfare.
To go further into this subject I would need to talk about fallen angels
which I will do in the last several chapters of this book. Few of you will
ever come up against a fallen angel. Yet, if you do:
Too many ‘spiritual warfare’ books are based on the testimonies of single,
unreliable and sometimes mentally unbalanced individuals that talk to
Christian authors who faithfully record their delusions. Others, as I have
said are all about Christian culture and consensus regardless of spiritual
reality. So learning to distinguish between fact and theory, which is often
in experience distinguishing between fact and fantasy, is vital to spiritual
discernment. A person lacking spiritual wisdom or discernment is hardly
likely to have a gift of discerning of spirits.
The reality is that although there is a lot of nonsense written and put out
by publishing houses to make money – and sensationalism sells- and it is
also true that those in genuine deliverance ministry often are dealing with
things that aren’t that dramatic: Yet there exists for some a revelation of
evil that goes beyond anything any one could possibly imagine and no
Hollywood movie with machine gun toting angels out to save the world
could compare to. The depths of spiritual things – both good and evil and
the powers with them are beyond human imagination. Any true ‘spiritual
warrior’ has therefore had their mind stretched and their eyes opened to
what the world cannot possibly conceive.
The worst kind of demons: Demons are lesser spirits but they vary in
degrees of power and intelligence. The worst are those that influence you
without you knowing it. It is the awful fate of the human race. If you have
ever sinned you have been deceived. What I am going to tell you is one of
the secrets of the spiritual realm and this will be particularly hard to
accept by persons who see themselves as spiritual warriors: Satan often
uses seasons of demonic oppression to hide his real workings. They are
merely a distraction. The believer goes through a tremendous battle and
gets the victory. They are pleased and grow stronger. All the while Satan
had been secretly planting something elsewhere in your life without any
sign of his working.
If you are discerning this tactic would have been used against you. You
have been deceived by this distraction, of spiritual warfare and victory,
which you could hardly ignore- which allowed Satan to work in secret on
something else. Ruses, diversions, distractions are standard in human
games, martial arts and warfare: While general A fights and wins a great
battle on the plain his enemy general Z has secretly sacked his castle! It is
always best in dealing with demons to assume you don't know what is
going on, even if you are enlightened, and to pray in principle this: “Father,
in Jesus Name, deliver me from the unseen realm, the unknown
stratagems of evil and from the seeds of evil that will bear fruit in years
to come if You do not root them out today!...” - Something along those
lines. You need this information and this idea.
Christians of strong faith are like the Ark of the Covenant: They are
a great blessing to people of faith and can be a great terror to those who
are opposed to God. The world’s Dagons will fall but blessings abide upon
the dwellings of the righteous.
Satan
Satan rarely bothers Christians directly - and this will be the opposite of
everything you have ever heard. He uses lesser demons. He will take a
look at the stronger Christians and appoint far more demons to attack
them. Therefore if you know for certain that Satan has taken an interest in
you then you must have given him cause to. Like Napoleon Satan is a
skilled general and strategist and not easily defeated. He is usually busy
with the great ones on earth and only if you defeat some powerful evil
spirits will Satan personally take an interest in you. If he does most of the
books you have read will be of little use to you but the Bible will come
alive in ways you never imagined.
Satan’s army
This is just an introductory chapter to the subject so it is neither
comprehensive nor thorough. One more thing I should mention is that
Satan organises his servants as a great army. Just as in any army you
will have sappers, sharpshooters, pilots, gunnies, technicians in
communications etc. and of course the all important propagandists, so it is
similar with the powers of darkness.
Strategies
In any army you have long term strategies for conquering territory so it is
with Satan’s army. Among strategies in recent history are these: To keep
the Middle East in a constant state of instability. This is a first move at
aiming at a Third World War. (I am certainly not saying he will be
successful.) Another stratagem is to prepare the world for a pseudo
scientific belief in God since evolutionary theory has been falling from
within. A ‘scientific’, impersonal god is useful to Satan. A third stratagem
is the keep the Church divided. There are literally thousands of
denominations and as long as Christians are proud of this instead of being
ashamed of it- it is a great travesty – the enemy will continue to conquer.
Only a united Church of Biblical truth can defeat Satan.
None of these views came from reading others’ opinions. All are my own
personal views formed by my relationship with God in the context of the
gift of the discernment of spirits. I speak of Satan and fallen angels in the
last chapters of this book.
Chapter Seven:
Charismatics- The truth
For most believers the Silence of God is the means by which He speaks. In
terms of meditating upon God or the Word, and by meditation I mean
thinking and appreciating: In silence God will speak to the believers' spirits
as they come into His presence. It is there that they often feel the
closeness of God and a tangible experience of peace and joy or love. God
has spoken to the spirit, which is of course why the believer is
unconscious of any voice or actual words in their minds; it will later come
out in the form of wisdom, consideration, understanding and realisation. In
other words God inspires the spirit and the spirit influences the soul
wherein lies the conscious mind. God by speaking directly to the believers'
spirits then acts like moisture does in the soil to enter the roots of a plant
and so vitalise it.
The spiritual Christian therefore is not the one who chats incessantly to
the voice of God in their head but the one who by living and dwelling in
the presence of the Holy Spirit is inspired with wisdom, insight and
therefore good sense. This has its good effect in correct doctrine and
practice and a life of good works and love, in Christ, Amen.
The difference between comforting delusion and good sense is usually the
difference between the Charismatic Movement and real Christianity.
Christian Satanists are those people who have been deluded regarding the
teaching and experience of the Apostles. They have fake versions of
apostolic gifts and graces. They are deceived by demons and have very
cultic tendencies. To themselves they are ever so spiritual but to outsiders
they appear bizarre, artificial and usually obsessed with money, success,
and influence over others. Their leaders tend to be domineering and
oppressive but their followers have been indoctrinated to believe
themselves to be free, happy and virtually infallible. Smug, self righteous
leaders have adoring, blind followers and together they destroy the good
reputation of Christianity worldwide. Point by point Satanists within a
Christian culture counterfeit the doctrines, graces and gifts of Christ to his
children. It is essentially a false and artificial, fake and harmful version of
Christianity. Its overall effect is to persuade the world that Christianity is a
false religion as anyone with any sense who observes them will find them
at least to be enthusiastic rather than holy, emotional rather than spiritual
and often very stupid and ignorant rather than wise and enlightened as the
disciples of Christ should be.
This is a shortcut to direct verbal communication with God and also there
may be visual communication such as pictures in the mind. This
constitutes by and large a subtle from of self hypnotism. The Christian
Satanist whether Charismatic or Pentecostal will feel that the Holy Spirit is
being attacked when they hear such criticisms as these and often
conclude, with quite alarming speed, that such critics are devilish.
It is easy to tell the difference as an inner god that is pathetic, weak, and
ignorant and seems to be a puffed up version of the believer is obviously
no god at all whether good or evil. In fact the believer, without realising it,
has become their own god and follows their own guidance; of the altered
‘divine’ self. That is they are practising paganism.
This confusing and contradictory inner god often leads to a crisis of faith
and this in turn leads to such Christians becoming ex-Christians and then
often anti-Christians. The Internet is full of ex-Christians speaking of their
former delusions. Most of them in fact were never Christians to begin
with but they do not realise this. They speak of being caught up in the life
of fellowship and the power of emotion and of the failures of prayers and
the failures of promises from ‘god’. They then often go through a re-
evaluation and turn to atheism and a deep spirit of antichrist. In essence
the Charismatic Movement has given rise to an army of antichrist ex-
Christians but never a word is said of this and never a one of the
Charismatic leaders takes any responsibility for the inevitable fruit of
their teaching!
States of infallibility
Such believers do not literally believe they are infallible but they do incline
that way. How can they be reasoned with when god has told them you
are wrong? How can they believe you when god has told them otherwise
and of what use is logic and reason to them?
Domineering others
Those among them with dominant personalities inevitably domineer over
others and generally the leaders among Christian Satanists feel their ability
to dominate is the power and authority of the Holy Spirit within. Most of
these leaders have never been truly saved and know nothing of the
real holiness of the Holy Spirit and this is the reason they can be
so selfish and manipulative; and why they worship the dollar. They
take it for granted they should be leaders and others should obey them.
Whatever humility they have is in deference to more powerful believers
and it is only superficial. Almost inevitably their powerbroking results in
playing for more and more money and power and so some of the most
famous Charismatics and Pentecostals are not only rich but are
billionaires. Yet are they really Christian? Did the Apostles and leaders of
the early Church become super- rich?
“God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be
opened and you will be as God, knowing good and evil.”
[Genesis 3:5]
Innocent destruction
I spent much of my life as a missionary to a particular kind of people. My
quest was to convert supposed Christians to Christ and to teach Christians
of the neglected spiritual life in the Bible. One day I went with my family
to a Pentecostal Pastors’ house and there my youngest child pricked her
foot on a thorn in his garden. Yet, it immediately got infected and she had
to go into hospital. I remember her scream when she was pricked. It was
not a natural scream but one of unusual intensity and anguish. My second
daughter suddenly got a very bad case of conjunctivitis on her birthday
and her party had to be cancelled. The present she had for her birthday, a
rabbit, suddenly died in her arms, also on her birthday, as she wept.
Things like this continued to happen. If I were to list them all you would
see that there was a series of events that amounted to intensified bad luck
both in terms of frequency and extent. It was incredible. I realised we were
under a satanic attack but from where?
I also became concerned that they were pushing the false prophecies of
one who the pastor called the ‘true prophet’ Bernard. I saw that I would
make little headway for Christ in this church. I was beginning to realise
that all this ‘bad luck’ (besides the bad attitude) was related to the
Pentecostal church itself and was not merely a general attack from the
enemy but was being channelled through them. I was slandered by
someone who did not know me. When I spoke to the pastor he took their
side! His entire attitude changed or rather was revealed for what it had
secretly been as he expressed his totally obstinate, unreasonable and
unchristian spirit. I realised that the satanic attack my family had come
under began on the very day we went to his house. As he dropped his
former warm to neutral persona and revealed his true self I recognised the
primary origin of the problem, the medium through whom Satan was
acting. Quoting a long list of wrongs I rebuked the self righteous pastor
and ended all connection with the church. In truth that pastor, well
respected by his flock, was just a witch doctor deluded into thinking he
was serving Christ...
They needed spiritual delusion and I offered spiritual reality. The two
cannot abide one another. This rebuking of the Pastor was actually very
unusual for me as I cannot count the times I have been condemned or
slandered and I have not replied in defence but was as a lamb. Over the
years however, my patience began to wear thin, especially as my eyes
were being opened more and more to the true character and motives
behind the spiritual masks that many supposed Christians wear.
I had learnt from the very beginning in mixing with Pentecostals decades
ago that their gifts were false, having begun by testing the first prophecies
I heard given... I was also familiar with the stratagems of evil spirits but
on the other hand I was working among them as a missionary and in
several churches I had had some success. It was always a balancing act.
Very much like being a missionary to Africa in the 1800’s. My gentle
manner and silent prayers would often lead to more people being saved
and the level of blessing rising, as God richly blessed my faith. If I had
found open hearts this would have happened again but at this church it did
not. I felt the Holy Spirit was terribly grieved. Where Pentecostal and
Charismatic churches have unsaved pastors, which is more often than not,
the authority over the church is whatever demon most influences the
pastor...
In every Pentecostal church where there are still some people saved; and in
many churches they are purely nominal even when they speak in tongues
and prophesy; there is an admixture of spiritual and natural influences.
They are neither completely holy nor completely pagan. However I learnt a
lesson over the years that young Christians especially need to take on
board: The greater majority of their pastors and members are
really unsaved.
Satan hides himself so well that it is often hard to detect his works but
the Lord allowed this episode simply to clarify years of observations and
reservations about those Disneyesque style Christians with their
saccharine love and fantasies of power: Pentecostals and Charismatics…
It may have simply been that by not accepting the True Prophet I was, to
the pastor’s mind, declaring myself to be an antichrist. The Christian on
the contrary who finds another believer disagrees with them will say in
their heart, 'This person is sincere and humble and clearly serving God but
either they are unenlightened on this point or perhaps I am in error.' You
see how both responses are reflective of an entirely different attitude. The
first is harsh and unbending; superior and infallible. The second is well
intentioned, conscientious and reasonable...
At present the Christian world is full of the 'I am of God and whoever
disagrees with me is of the devil', type of believer. Jesus perhaps could
have said that with many but he did not. Rather he would implore humbly
and appeal to conscience, such as, 'If you do not believe me at least
believe the signs...'
Theirs at the Pentecostal church was not the Christian attitude and true
Christians do not behave like they did. I was attacked by the pastor
without justification or basis in fact. People from that fellowship I have
seen since avoid me or glare at me with mouth agog as if I were a
monster from Mars and I can only speculate on what the pastor has said
behind my back… If a believer were to rebuke another believer it would be
after some serious wrongs for which the wrongdoer was unapologetic
and had not listened to the fellowship. Sundar Singh had complained that
Fundamentalists were unchristian in their criticisms of others and he had
a point. Too many supposed believers are wearing a smiling mask which
under pressure from the Spirit drops to reveal the snarling teeth of the
biting, devouring, carnal wolf within. I hope I have conveyed that
difference of spirit and that I am not merely talking about disagreements
over doctrines or supposed prophets. Why should one believer be sincere,
gentle and holy and another turn out to be vindictive, deceptive and
hateful?
I could write dense volumes listing the abuses, destructive spirit and evils
of Christian Spiritism/Satanism in Pentecostal and Charismatic circles I
have observed over decades. Yet this is not the worst of it. The worst is
that there should have been great and holy revivals throughout the
twentieth century but it was prevented as the Church was distracted by
false revivals and false spiritual power. Christian Satanists are like children
playing with plastic gems and believing they are rich when God wants
them to grow up and mine the real gems!
The mode and manner of these meetings is similar to that of the meetings
of spiritualists who get messages from the Other Side. In general the
meetings of Pentecostals are like the gatherings of various religious
groups outside of mainstream Christianity; whether they are Native
American, Spiritualist, Mystical Islamic, or Voodoo etc.
Morality
To tell the world in effect that Christianity is a false religion that produces
failed prophecies and ministers who are often being caught out in matters
of sexual conduct or tax evasion – as many well known Charismatics
have- is downright evil. Christians would not so defame the name of
Christ. What right do they have to tell the world at large that Christianity
is a bad joke? The simple answer is that Christians do not do this. They
would not. A Christian would rather die than let the Lord suffer shame at
their failed prophecies. Charismatics and Pentecostals have the opposite
attitude:
Multitudes of people can testify to failed prophecy given to them in
Charismatic circles.
Among the leaders however, who have had years, even decades to witness
the false things, and practice them, things that I have written about here -
they may think they are free, eternally saved and above judgement but
they will learn that they are the prophets of lies and delusion and their
salvation is a delusion. How many have been fooled by subjective
experiences supposedly from God, church jargon that sounds Biblical and
Christian, and group psychology that bolsters them all up when they lack
the deep repentance, humility, holiness and love that are the hallmarks of
all true believers: Only these are His.
In Hell itself, as the Lord has shown me, there lie multitudes of
Charismatics and Pentecostals. There at least they can see the spirits that
influenced and inspired their hopelessly fallacious doctrines and tongues
speaking. In Hell, the Lord does indeed place people in groups and so
Pentecostals and Charismatics are placed near to one another. Often it
happens that the demons that deceived them, that they thought were Jesus
or the Holy Spirit, come before them to bewail with loud and bitter
lamentations the awful doom that awaits them for having deceived the
Christian Satanists. These Pentecostals and Charismatics do not speak in
tongues or prophesy in the Pit or command miracles to occur in Jesus’
name as they thought they did on earth. They never really liked the real
Christ anyway; always rejecting what was truly pure and holy and finding
it offensive – calling true believers ‘holier than thou’ or ‘Pharisees’ and
‘not having the freedom of the Spirit’. They dwell without hope, in utter
darkness and misery no man can describe – but if someone could describe
it in doing so they would be destroyed by the grief of it!
Sexual immorality
Statistics are actually kept by denominations on such things as church
attendance and church expulsion. It has long been on record that those in
the Charismatic circles, who claim to be filled with the Holy Spirit, have
the highest rates of sexual and other types of scandal.
It is a feel good religion, that often results in people being broken and
giving up entirely. By definition all Pentecostals and Charismatics are
deceived and the minority that have some measure of grace are unspiritual
without exception. Their leaders fall into two categories: The Sincerely
Deceived and the Pure Evil. Of the latter group come the greatest claims,
the most apparent wonders and the greatest success. As a religion the
Charismatic and Pentecostal movement is a form of Christian Satanism.
Charismatics and Pentecostals have a relation to Christianity similar to
that of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, Seventh Day Adventists, and
Spiritualists. In practice they are most like Spiritualists but using Christian
terminology and philosophy.
Failed deliverance
What I have written here will be seen by those who see themselves as
discerning as extreme and they would rebuke me where they would not
rebuke the Christian Satanists. This is because those in ministries of
discernment have totally failed to do what was needed. There are
experts everywhere that will tell how Christians should be wary of this
and that obvious cult or this or that obvious false practice, whether it is
astral travel or mantric mediation. Yet, very few Christians go into cults
outside of Christianity or are likely to practise New Age or occult teaching.
These experts have failed to point out the obvious, glaring and
overwhelming movement of Christian Satanism that has infected vast
numbers.
Charismatics will say that they know the Holy Spirit is with them; that
they have not seen these abuses; that they have seen wonders; that they
have the joy of the Lord etcetera. Yes, it is true that in terms of a purely
subjective experience Spiritism is designed to appeal to the flesh. It will
aggravate against the spirit however. Holy people will ever find a conflict
with Pentecostalism. The gooey, emotional, hypnotic, passive minded,
cauldron of sensory experience that is Spiritism is meant to be seductive. It
is not so with Christ. His disciples are clear headed, contrite, sincere, holy,
wise, loving without faking it, and always in some degree powerful.
Anti-Charismatic Charismatics
Many Charismatics after living for years in disquiet, disturbed by what
they have seen behind closed doors, eventually leave their churches. Then
they try to expose the lies and deceptions that they had formally practised.
Good for them, but sadly it takes many years for them to come out of all
these deceptions – if ever. This gives us the phenomenon of the anti-
Charismatic Charismatic: Those who see themselves as delivered while yet
still having false guidance and gifts. The enemy has refined his craft and
for them makes everything seem holy whereas for others he does pretty
much as he chooses and they accept it!
It is okay to say, “I feel led”, or “I am inspired with the thought that ...” or
even, “It was almost as if God had spoken to me...” but never to say “God
said...”, when He has not said. That is false prophecy. It is the lack of this
discipline that is one of the hallmarks of the Charismatic Movement and
the work of deception.
Another hint is do not let the voice in your head test the voice in
your head!
Satan is smarter than you will ever be. Such a God-like voice will tell you,
“If you trust in me the blood of Jesus will cleanse you of error. Are you
not more discerning than the multitudes of deceived? As your faith grows
I will answer questions but for now I can speak only according to the limit
of your faith...” i.e. “You can't question me but you should go on trusting
me as you are so spiritual...”
True saints have very quiet minds – clear like crystals, without
Charismatic confusion. In the Bible when God does speak it is often
audible and sometimes sounds like thunder! Miracles normally follow. Exit
all the false prophets... When Moses saw a burning bush he saw a
miracle, then saw God as Fire, and then heard God clearly. There was no
guess work or error; the modus operandi of the Charismatic Movement.
Principles of Christ
God seeks honesty.
God seeks those willing to obey Him.
God wants obedience from the heart.
God gives His Spirit to those who obey Him.
You will see this is grace as it is God Who is doing the seeking. Yet, He
commands repentance from evil deeds. In other words God is more willing
to save us than we are to save ourselves. What part do we play?
For a Pentecostal this means beginning again and laying the foundation of
Christ away from the dead works of Spiritism. How often have you
claimed the Lord told you something and it didn’t come to pass? Don’t call
God a liar. Repent of putting words into God’s mouth. That is a good start.
A big thing to do
Get out!!! Run for the hills. (Unless called to work among them as a
missionary.) It is killing you and you don’t know it as your flesh and the
devil are telling you how wonderful it is. Use logic and see Christ is holy!
If you need books read the great evangelical preachers of the 1700s-
1800s or devotional writers. Stop speaking in gibberish-tongues. Seek to
follow Christ by simple faith with reason rather than by supernatural
lights or signs. It will purify you. Resist Satan as he tries to lure you back.
Many new believers need the information written here as it will save them
from falling into Charismatic error. It is so terrible to see believers
make a good start only to be lured into Satanism under a Christian
guise; and then see them become less holy as they become more
Charismatic! This hour is crying out with the need for such guidance.
Send all your Christian friends a copy of this writing, especially new
converts so that they will follow Christ and not the power of delusion
posing as the Holy Spirit.
Conclusion
Christian Satanism commonly known as Pentecostalism and the
Charismatic Movement is based upon deception. It is by its very nature
intrinsically opposed to the Spirit of Truth – Jesus Christ. It is not merely
another gospel but another religion. Almost all the heresies,
misdemeanours and cultic practises coming into Christianity begin with
the Christian Satanists. Their religion has as its very foundation the
experience of their deceptive and false gifts rather than the Person of
Christ – Who is effectively belittled in favour of a false Holy Spirit.
To reiterate then: Throughout history Satan and his demons have come to
peoples of all cultures in an idealized form representing whatever kind of
spirit or supernatural power they most adored and wanted. Satan
deceiving an Egyptian sorcerer is no different than Satan deceiving a
modern Christian. If missionaries are not evangelising all lands by
speaking their native tongues miraculously is this not in part due to the
fact that Christianity has chosen gibberish over miraculous languages? If
the great revivals of the 1800s were not topped in the 1900s and since is
this not in part because fake revivals of emotionalism and tongues
speaking were a barrier to God?
How is it then that churches filled to the brim with Christians supposedly
baptised in the Holy Spirit there is an absence of understanding of what
holiness is and often a rejection of holiness and ‘perfectionism’? There is
instead an attitude of lukewarmness. How is it that after being baptised in
the Charismatic type experience sin is still rampant and falling from Christ
commonplace?
A true gift of prophecy comes like a blazing, white hot, iron poker with
an intensity and holiness that leave the one prophesying in no doubt that
they are speaking directly for God by divine inspiration.
A real gift of tongues would have young people especially travelling all
over the world so that people could hear the gospel in their own
languages! Along with the power of the Spirit this would result in many
conversions- often dramatic conversions….
A church really filled with people baptised in the Spirit and power would
be a church full of true saints known for their love and holiness. This is
the greatest truth that Satan, with the help of Charismatics and
Pentecostals, has virtually obliterated from Christian consciousness and
modern, evangelical Christianity.
Accepting the false meant rejecting the true!
God judged the world accordingly and will judge in fury in decades to
come as the world will see. Christian beware! Flee all forms of
Spiritism and humble yourself in repentance before a mighty and holy God
Almighty, in Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Chapter Eight:
Hijacked prophets
Many fake Christian prophets are not original enough to make up their
own prophecies but decided to hijack the prophecies of various people
within the New Age movement. To do this they assume that New Age
prophets are prophesying accurately but unknowingly for Satan- but it is
up to the Christian prophets to interpret and combat those prophecies in a
Christian and apocalyptic manner -while adding prophecies of their own
that unwittingly bolster the credibility of false New Age prophets!
Welcome to the world of Charismatic confusion! Below we will consider
the New Age teaching on Sananda and how Christian fake prophets have
responded to it.
Not all New Age teaching is consistent and also taking into account that
these characters are continually being reincarnated it is hard to work out a
logical account. There are elements in Ascended Master teaching that are
similar to Freemasonry and its guilds. There are all kinds of committees of
light and angels that oversee mankind.
So, there are various versions of Jesus/Sananda and Lord Maitreya but
there is an underlying unity among New Agers based upon their
philosophy. New Agers look for a New Age of world peace and spiritual
enlightenment. This fits within their worldview of...Western Rationalism
meets Eastern Mysticism
Likeness
Already that World Teacher Jesus/Sananda gives messages through
various mediumistic New Age teachers and these can be found over the
Internet. Also they like to post images of Jesus/Sananda based on
paintings of Jesus from European art in past centuries. A popular one has
Jesus with long, light brown hair and blue eyes. An important point I want
to make here is that some Christians believe in this teaching of ascended
masters in this sense; that they are revelations of what Satan is up to.
They literally believe that the Biblical False Prophet of the Antichrist, the
second Beast of Revelation, will look like Jesus/Sananda: Long hair and
blue eyes and definitely European. They even go on to state that Christians
are unknowingly worshiping Satan by worshiping such a Jesus or his
image… This is the topic of this chapter as it concerns two sets of
confused teachers, both New Age and Christian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitreya
Lord Maitreya is the expected messiah and Teacher of all religions and his
main prophet among New Agers seems to be Benjamin Creme, although
there are more and more contenders and sources for channeling Lord
Maitreya’s messages. It is said by some including Benjamin Creme that
Lord Maitreya has been active behind the scenes in present times and it is
predicted (again) that he will soon make his appearance. Lord Maitreya
will reveal his identity and telepathically communicate with everyone on
earth, as well as by TV, in a soon to be televised event predicted this year
(2009). Of course this will not happen but it has both New Agers and
some erroneous Christians excited. Why would Christians believe in the
New Age predictions of the appearance of Lord Maitreya when previous
predictions of his appearance failed to come off?
Sananda is the higher spiritual name. Jesus is the name used in one of his
earthly appearances. Sananda/Jesus may well have another name in the
next appearance. This means he may well be here already known by
another name. The result is a lot of wild speculation dignified by some
Christians who know no better. Yet, since Lord Maitreya’s identity is not
yet revealed some speculate that it is President Barack Obama. Others say
it is Rahmat Ahmad a Pakistani spiritual teacher…
Some Christians, who for some reason believe many of these New Age
prophecies, see in them a fulfilment of Biblical prophecy and in particular
regard Jesus/Sananda as the coming second Beast and False Prophet
depicted in the Book of Revelation (See Revelation 13. Both the Antichrist
and his false prophet are called beasts.) For what reason they would
believe this is not apparent other than it is very typical of the Apocalyptic
Hysteria that has taken hold upon large sections of evangelical and
Charismatic Christianity, especially in the USA. There is however, no
reason to believe in the prophecies of Benjamin Creme or Ascended
Master Teachers and others.
I want to make this point quite clearly: That sincere Christians are
strengthening the prophecies of the New Age Movement and
forwarding its interests. In giving credence and respect to various New
Age predictions they are in effect helping them along. Yet, as I have said
they cannot make a good argument for their beliefs other than the usual,
“I sense in my spirit”, or “God has told me” and regard rejection of their
speculations as a lack of recognition of their true prophetic stature. They
are would-be prophets without solid argument or divine support.
False lights
Many of the so-called experts on prophecy and spiritual warfare take
their knowledge from their own past experiences in the occult, believing
falsely that they were given insight into the spiritual world. Yet, the Enemy
will only tell lies to those involved in the occult. When, thankfully, they
become Christians they should not assume their 'knowledge' is in any
way reliable or a means with which to interpret Bible prophecy! To give
credence to the teaching of various Spiritists is to unnecessarily advance
the interests of those opposed to the Bible Faith.
This was a common error of the Charismatics in the 1980's when for
example Watchman Nee inspired teaching, contrary to what he really
taught, helped the Shepherdship Movement develop into an authoritarian
cult. Often spiritual writers are quoted as the cause of Charismatic error
when they are really exploited and debased by those who pretend to be
spiritual and get things twisted inside out.
Some things that those who have experienced the division between
spirit and soul can do.
Spiritual Christians can teach by experience rather than by theory.
However, what they teach will be gibberish to the theoretical Christians.
Spiritual Christians can and do continually sense the near presence of
Christ. They can discern errors in teaching and practice and errors of
emphasis. They experience the power of the Holy Spirit as the Abundant
Life of Christ flowing within them. That is they abide in Christ as depicted
in John chapter 15. They can recognise fakers. They can give a strong
testimony to their faith which will inevitably have an element of the
miraculous. THEY CAN, DO AND MUST, LIVE ABOVE THE WORLD, THE
FLESH AND THE DEVIL, AMEN.
Proof is not saying, “I sense it”, or “When the Lord returns they will see!”
Where are your prophecies made in the past that have been
recorded as coming true? Where are your prophecies, not
generalisations, about world events that are about to come true?
I say, and I could add 'know', that those who say they are prophets and
are prophesying the Lord's return anytime within the next twenty years
are false prophets, bad Bible students and vainglorious, pseudo-spiritual
dupes of the Enemy.
Summary
I want to point out that there is a very close correlation between the
prophets of the ascended masters and the would-be prophets of the
counterfeit Holy Spirit. Their prophecies fail. They recoup their ground by
offering new ones without repenting of imposing former false prophecies
on believers. They depend on End Times hysteria to be taken seriously and
are always running about thinking their prophesied ones are about to
appear. On the other hand they often leave out definite dates and
predictions. They usually like to imply immanence without actually
promising it. Yet, if they are prophets why can’t they be clear? If they are
prophets why is there always lack of clarity and abundance of confusion?
Did you find it hard following the identity of Lord Maitreya? I put it down
as logically as I could. It is a total mess of insinuations, implications, false
deductions and inferences out there, put out as prophecy by both New
Agers and some Christians.
The True Purpose of False Prophecy
Many Christians feel that to openly criticise other Christians whom they
know to be in error is wrong. They think that since these preach Christ
they cannot be all bad and we should not judge etcetera. In reality there
are multitudes of ex-Christians in the world. There are so many now
working away at Christianity and where did they come from? They came
out of the Charismatic confusion created by false teachers and prophets.
There is a kind of Christianity that is specifically designed to fail and lead
to despair. It offers high hopes, empty promises of wealth and power and
when it fails, as it does its adherents come crashing down to earth. In the
aftermath there is bitterness, disillusionment and often a reaction against
God, the Bible and Christianity.
I should say here to those who are suspicious of my motives that my God,
my Bible and my Christianity has not only not failed me but has achieved
more than I ever dreamed it would. That aside there are others who say
the opposite of themselves as it was not my Christianity to which they
were converted or discipled in. They are doomed to failure from the start
and their worst enemies are not Satanists or atheists but the would-be
prophets with their pretty emptiness and gold laced promises that turn out
to be tinfoil. Satan then achieves his purpose and has a whole army of ex-
Christians ready to testify that Jesus does not answer prayer, that the
Bible is proved false; and they the once true believers as they think have
seen through it all and come out as rationalists!
It is the duty of true Christians then to resist the false prophets to the
utmost and teach weak and foolish believers that a disciple of Christ is
disciplined and that a person who receives the Holy Spirit is holy... These
have their prayers answered: Not every prayer but more than enough to
prove God and powerful enough to astound the believer! In essence God
answers every prayer however but not in the form the believer would like
as God is far more knowing and wiser than they. He does reward the faith
inherent in every true prayer and gives blessings not asked for too. Almost
all of this kind of believer endure to the end. Very few turn away. Among
Charismatic/evangelical Christians today however most fall away within
one, five, ten or fifteen years. Only a few live their entire lives as
Christians and many were never really saved to begin with while others
were ill taught and misled and some exploited and abused.
All of the above Jesuses have a spirit to go with them. Only the
last Jesus, the Bible Jesus has the Spirit of God.
As there are Jesuses so there are versions of the Holy Spirit and the
Father, such as the Stern and Vindictive God... Also, versions of the Gospel,
such as the Gospel of Lifestyle, rather than discipleship.
There are also artistic images of Jesus. Some of these reflect the views of
past centuries. Usually Jesus is handsome but serene, often blonde and
usually white. European culture and the British Empire gave the world a
European Jesus. In some Christian Books and Bibles for Children this
Jesus is still clearly seen. Most characters in many of these Bibles are
white, including Adam and Eve from whom all races descended.
Fortunately, today we also have an ordinary looking Hebrew Jesus
depicted for children. This is a small but significant clue to a cultural shift.
Some people want to know Jesus as He is - not as others would like Him
to be.
This weapon will destroy the false philosophies and any ugly head that
rears its evil self up against us!
Similarly there is the Non Existent Devil, the Personification of Evil Devil
and the Little Red Devil. These are fabrications of the devil - the devil of the
Bible. As there is an intelligent and real Jesus so there is an intelligent and
real devil. We need to defeat his disguises.
How to defeat the false Jesus:
Discipline under the Bible
Know your Bible. People will tell you the Jesus of John the Apostle is not
the Jesus of Paul the Apostle and the Jesus of the Gospel of John is not
the Jesus of the Revelation written by that same John. Then again modern
theologians will tell you that John is not the same John... As the Bible is
trustworthy it reveals the true Jesus. The best way to defeat the False
Jesus is not primarily by spiritual discernment, as few believers have
enough, but by discipline; by knowing and studying the Scripture.
Such prayers prayed seriously and regularly really do help in the renewal
of your mind and in keeping you alert. God really does answer too, so be
prepared for a few shocks!
“So says the Eternal, 'Cursed is the man that trusts in man, and
makes flesh his arm (strength), and whose heart departs from
the Eternal.'” [Jeremiah 17:5]
A warning
All Christian cults and mainline churches teach some form of spiritual
discernment. Many teach on the subject of combating evil spirits. All
Christian cults in particular claim to have spiritual gifts and revelations
exposing the works of the devil. They do have some truths too, but not
about the delusions they are bound with or that they will bind you with.
Make the Bible your authority in matters of doctrine. Experientially,
cling to the Lord alone: That is study the Bible’s Jesus with the Spirit of the
Bible’s Jesus.
Beware of extremes
This is a difficult time for Christians to live in as there are so many
denominations and sects and even more teachings. Everything I teach has
versions by other spiritual writers and by cults- and all originate in the
Word of God. When you read of the false Jesus or any spiritual thing,
there will be true and false versions. Among true versions there will be
errors of emphasis. Among many false versions there is often a lot
of truth that acts as the sugar to cover the arsenic of deception. In
dealing with the various forms of Jesus you meet in the world or in
churches it is good to be gracious, humble and accommodating to a point.
Many people are sincerely trying to follow God. I am not of the ones that
want to cry against them over their errors but to encourage them to
greater enlightenment. Let us consider then the greatest false Jesus there is
in the world.
Out of all the false Jesuses the Iconic Jesus is the one closest to the truth
and the one the world loves. The Iconic Jesus lives in the hearts and minds
of multitudes and is the present dominant religious Jesus in the world. The
great distinction with the Real Jesus is this: The world did and does today
hate the real Christ. That's why He was crucified by the religious and
pagans together.
Jesus is hated for this reason in His own words:
“The world cannot hate you but it hates Me; for I testify of it,
that its works are evil.” [John chapter 7:7]
Jesus is holiness itself and to come into his Presence is to come into the
Light and that Light blinds the eyes – until they see. Jesus is Love and
mitigates against everything that is selfish - and humans by nature are
Self-ish: That is, what the Bible calls 'fallen nature', as there remains an
ability to repent and come into the Light.
How many of those who love the Iconic Jesus would hate the Real
Jesus?
The answer is quite simple: By loving the Iconic Jesus they do hate the
Real Jesus. They are rejecting Him in favour of an inferior impostor
created out of human tradition.
Chapter Ten:
The Witch and the False Prophet
Jessie Penn-Lewis and Charles Finney
God warned before time of the Pentecostal movement and its false
revivals
As abuses were emerging in the 1800’s in revivals and the numbers of
believers claiming to be prophets were gaining some ground in them, as
they had been in ages before, God graciously gave warning in two books
by two genuine revivalists. They and their significant books are examined
along with their influences. This chapter also looks at some of the history
leading up to the great Christian Satanist movement.
Altar Call
In studying the Bible Finney recognised in the rite of baptism that believers
made an open air and public declaration of faith in Jesus Christ. The
churches in Finney’s day largely baptised people at birth and Charles
Finney saw the need for a public declaration and a stand for Christ. At that
time it was often expected that people would simply be converted by God
if they were preordained. The issue of baptism was controversial and
divisive but Finney decided to follow the principle of public declaration of
faith. He simply asked for a public declaration of faith by introducing the
Altar Call. This was designed to help those under deep conviction from
the Holy Spirit to make a clear and intelligent response to that work of
grace.
The whole idea was to get sinners to act upon the manifest and felt calling
of God, combining both divine and human action together. In this way God
would call and the people would respond openly by coming to the altar for
prayer. Thereby acting clearly and decisively as the early disciples did
who responded to the call to baptism while the Gospel was being preached
by John the Baptist. The actual use of the Altar Call was based primarily
upon the obvious convicting work of the Holy Spirit among listeners to the
Gospel in great revivals. This was later used everywhere in great revivals.
As I say Charles Finney could have simply called for sinners to repent and
be baptised as in the gospels but most had already been baptised in
churches and the issue was divisive.
Until the Altar Call was introduced sinners under conviction from God
were often left without any direction of how to be saved, as these extreme
Calvinists believed they should not lead people to choose to believe God. As
a result, often the convictions would wear off and sinners would go away
unsaved, with Calvinists assuming they were therefore not Elect.
The harsh critics of Finney in Calvinistic Bible colleges and elsewhere say
his was purely a man made religion of no value. Dr. Martin Lloyd Jones
scathingly called it ‘Decisionism’. Finney has variously been called a mere
social reformer, an ethicist, or even accused of being responsible for
preparing the way for the Antichrist! As there are plenty of historical
accounts of mass conversions in continuing revivals this sovereign work
of the Holy Spirit is often dismissed today as the result of Charles
Finney’s ‘animal magnetism’. That is there are those who read of
accounts of great revivals in which tens of thousands are saved; they will
even read of some wonders of God in them and of the transformed lives
of new believers going on to live long in holiness and faithfulness to God
and they conclude it is all manmade religion of no value; and see in it the
root cause of spiritual weakness in churches today! This is a bit like
seeing in Jesus the false prophet who needed to be sacrificed to save
Israel – the theological position of the High Priests that had him executed.
Yet, what did Finney do? He was the centre of revivals non stop for fifty
years in which multitudes were saved. He warned against false revivals
and delusions. He was known to have been a man or extraordinary
holiness. What then is to be achieved by his character assassination and
obliterating his legacy? His example of how to convert masses, deeply and
truly, his warnings against false revivals and abuses, his call to holiness all
abandoned. - In favour of what? This: Lack of true and deep repentance,
entrance of ‘in the flesh’ revivals, and lukewarmness. Often you can tell
what someone really stands for by who they reject, far more so than by
whom they honour. I see no reason to slander Finney to surreptitiously
defend extreme Calvinism. This is all harsh and unfair criticism used by
the evil one to undermine the works of God.
If you are aware of what is being taught as doctrine these days in Bible
colleges and elsewhere you will see that Charles Finney has become a
prime target for attack. His ‘errors’ are often referred to and he is
dismissed as irrelevant. The reason for this is that being a lawyer he used
the techniques of a lawyer to argue a case for God. (In which people
would give their ‘testimony’ and also ‘witness’ for Christ.) In his theology
and letters he takes the tone of an advocate for Christ against sinners
bringing a strong case for faith and repentance. His clear, analytical and
thoughtful style is anathema to those who see the Christian religion as
unthinking and dependent upon blind faith.
Secondly Finney is attacked for being the one person who is most like
Paul the Apostle in the stature of his intellectual understanding of the
Gospel, his accuracy, and his profound holiness and faith; proven by his
works and their spiritual success. In other words Finney is attacked for
his Christlikeness. No Christian who had read Finney’s works and
understood them would attack him but they might have some questions
about certain emphases on certain points. Finney is attacked by those who
want Christianity to be mystified, unthinking, emotional, and above all
lukewarm. I have not yet met a critic of Finney who really understood
what he taught as they are all unthinking critics representing one form of
heresy or another- whether super-spiritual or anti-spiritual.
Many of Charles Finney’s critics exude the very tone and spirit of
antinomianism and Phariseeism. It is a great credit to Charles Finney that
this present Laodicean age regards him as a Pharisee. Yet, it is the destiny
of every Christlike person to be treated as Christ was by the kind of
religious people that opposed him. In fact there is something deeply
spiritual going on: That people see the Spirit of Jesus as Satan and
Satan as Jesus. This is the underlying basis for their interpretations of
doctrine, of people and of spiritual phenomena.
As a matter of principle:
When people are under conviction by God they need
. Direction.
. Encouragement to obey God in repenting and confessing Christ.
These principles will always hold true but it is a matter of form how they
are expressed and in certain circumstances one form is better than
another. Usually where revival power is absent a long drawn out process
of invitation, encouragement and teaching must precede any crying out of,
“Repent and believe the Gospel”. It is a credit to Finney’s faith that he could
call people to repent and they did do so! It is this extraordinary faith that is
under attack.
Jessie Penn-Lewis and myself for that matter and many other believers
regard the Bible as Harmony. If there is an unexplainable tension between
living holy and grace in people's minds there are some pieces of their
jigsaw puzzle missing. When everything fits together to form a balanced
whole those pieces have been found. There should be no, and in the Bible
there is no contradiction or conflict between doing holy, being holy or
being in a state of free grace. In this way God is the Sovereign of our
hearts.
I cannot help but think, and know, that if Jesus came in the body, but in
disguise, and preached for a while, many of the supposedly spiritual
people and guardians of the truth etcetera and those who pride themselves
on spiritual discernment would misrepresent Him and teach He was the
Antichrist!
In the Providence and grace of God then, War on the Saints was the heir
to Finney's legacy in Lectures on Revival and particularly his letters of
reflections on revivals (Revival Fire).
I have noticed that their critics tend not to read them but read other critics'
exaggerations then add to that! As a result they see and portray these
spiritual teachers as the opposite to what they really were. I would advise
reading Finney's revival letters if you are going to read War on the Saints
and you will see how the first foreshadows the second, deeper analysis.
Jessie Penn-Lewis and Evan Roberts' 'War on the Saints' can be accessed
here:
Internet Archive: Free Download: War on the Saints - A Text Book for
believers on the work of deceiving spirits among the children of God - by
Mrs. Penn-Lewis & Evan Roberts - brought by Peter-John Parisis, founder
of The School of Prayer
It seems that Luther and other Reformers used the expression, 'faith alone'
as a rebuttal to the one verse in the New Testament where the words 'faith
alone' appear. James states in chapter 2 verse 24 '...not by faith alone.'
The Reformers wanted to make it clear that their position was an attack
upon what they regarded as the legalism of James – and the popes. It
seems Luther himself regarded James as a kind of pope of the first
century misguiding the people of God by clinging to the Law of the Jews
without fully understanding the liberation of faith.
The Letter of James of course is the book that Luther wanted execrated
from the Bible. You will understand why when I explain the Reformers'
thinking below. I would say though that the Bible should be accepted as a
balanced whole. If you begin a movement by using parts of the New
Testament to 'disprove' other parts of the New Testament and even seek to
correct the 'errors' of scripture you are in a sense creating a fractured
foundation. This is what the Reformers did. From the truths you teach
great good will come, but from the errors you teach perhaps greater evils
will come.
Millions of people have put their hope in 'faith alone' and preached that it
is Biblical. Look now at how weak and lukewarm Christians have become.
Was 'faith alone' part of the cause since 'faith alone' often means in
believers' hearts an intellectual assent to the truth of Christ without
corresponding life changes? It is a fact of Biblical Christianity that your
actions must match your words.
The idea then that those who abandon the life of faith are saved by faith
as they once believed is in Biblical terms preposterous; but it is the
orthodoxy of millions of Christians. Most of these Christians are weak
and many dead in relation to the Spirit. They believe in effect that they are
saved in the unbelief they practise today by a faith practised in the past.
There are other aspects of the above verse by the Apostle that are not
being believed and therefore not preached. Seeking immortality by good
works? Eventually rewarded with eternal life? Most Protestant believers
would argue that Paul is not talking about Justification, but simply the
effect of it: Good works being the proof of Justification. Taking that
position they never will preach on or satisfactorily explain what Paul
added just after these verses:
“It is not the hearers of the Law that are just before God but
the doers of the Law shall be Justified.”
[Romans 2:13]
He adds:
This Law as I said in the previous chapter reflects the spiritual principles of
holiness and perception (“obeying the truth”) implicit in the works of
Finney and Jessie Penn-Lewis.
I said some of us see the Gospel as being about balance and of course this
is the very thing the Apostle Paul taught. What follows is not contradiction
but complimentary to the verses we have read.
We read how the doers of the Law are Justified before God but here we
are told, as the logical argument unfolds, that none will be Justified on the
basis of “deeds of the Law”! There is a vast difference between the deeds
of the Law which fall short of keeping the Law and the deeds of grace that
fulfill the Law. Trying to keep the Laws of God in the flesh results in that
very Law pricking our consciences because of Sin. However if it is grace
that produces faith that receives the power of the Holy Spirit in us to act
according to God’s principles of holiness (the Law) we are then free of the
condemnation of the Law because we are under grace- grace being the
effective means God uses to establish faith, holiness and obedience along
with perseverance. An obstacle is moved out of the way as we live in the
Spirit and fulfil spiritual law by spiritual life- the life of Christ within us!
Thus we are delivered from the Law of Death to the Law of Life; from the
Law of faithless deeds and its condemnation to the Law of faith-filled
deeds and its heavenly reward…
A true saint hears the command of Christ and prepares taking all his gear
and oxygen. Along with the Mormon he gets half way up the mountain
and prays, “Lord it is by your grace alone I will reach the summit not by
my works in the flesh- but if you bless my my efforts I will succeed.”
A great wind blows and he loses his gear including his oxygen but
manages to get two thirds up the mountain. Then without oxygen his brain
swells and he becomes giddy and so prays, “Lord, unless you heal me I
can do nothing. As it is your command to attain the summit I trust you’ll
provide the means.” Instantly he is healed.
Finally reaching the summit worn out and barely able to stand or talk he
meets Christ who says, “Well done good and faithful servant...”
Notice that the true saint received Christ's grace that resulted in doing good
works and receiving divine healing. Notice that the unholy grace of the
extreme Calvinist resulted in not doing any works, good or bad, and made
a joke of faith.
In the mind of the Calvinist the true saint is as the Mormon working in the
flesh but he sees himself as a true saint…
Holistic thinkers often see a subject as complimentary and see the rainbow
rather than the black and white situation. The Bible is entirely holistic.
Everything harmonises and ultimately makes perfect sense. Holistic
thinkers alone then can have balanced views on the Bible. Their holistic
thinking is an effect of the ‘renewal of the mind’ brought about by the
agency of the Holy Spirit: It is divinely inspired. Dualistic thinkers think and
act like chess players and medieval combatants at a jousting tournament.
They are of necessity adversarial.
Reiteration:
The trouble is that these contradictions 'seen' in the Bible are manmade.
One reason for the debate between faith and works is that historically the
Reformers overlooked an important discrimination of Paul's. In the verses
just quoted he talks of deeds of the Law. The deeds of the Law are those
deeds done under Law not under Grace; deeds which by their nature are
done in the flesh to fulfil outward requirements. They cannot Justify
anyone.
On the other hand we first looked at verses that speak of fulfilling the
Law. A person can only love their neighbour as themselves, as the Law
says, if they are full of faith and the Spirit. The great failure of Calvinism
was not to distinguish between carnal deeds of Law that don’t fulfil God’s
spiritual Law; and holy deeds of faith that fulfil spiritual Law. The first
condemns and the second saves. They do not and cannot believe this. That
is they cannot believe most of the verses we have just quoted. They use
Paul to overthrow Paul! They are adversarial dualists- fighting a duel over
doctrine!
Here is another very simple analogy. Consider the works that Calvinists
accept. Bible study is a work. Praying is a work. Church attendance is a
work. If a person becomes a believer and then they never read the Bible,
pray or go to church what happens to them? Isn’t it in doing these works
they are saved and in not doing them they are lost?
In reality Calvinists can’t say, “Paul preached Law and we reject it”, as
they take their verses on faith mainly from Paul. They cannot say, “Paul
got some things right and some things wrong”, as they like to maintain the
Bible is the Word of God. What they do is to find someone who takes
Paul’s side by having a balanced view and attack that balance as heresy.
The rejection of Paul’s Gospel (which is the Gospel of Jesus Christ
explained in doctrinal terms) is the rejection of Jesus Christ. In His stead
you have a Church that is lifeless, nominal, weak--- and will savage the
greatest revivalists and spiritual teachers! They live in a spiritual vacuum
and cannot breathe in the life giving Spirit of faith. In person they are
often aggressive and adversarial.
Calvinists reading this will have their alarm bells ringing and tingling down
their spines. Yet, how does Paul conclude the first part of his great
argument? In the strongest terms possible he states:
How are we chosen and how does that election by God make us
Christians?
We are chosen after being called. Or you could say we are effectively
called, like sheep coming to their master’s voice. We are a work of Jesus-
a work of faith! His power made us believers. Experientially for us this
meant at a certain point we dedicated our lives to Him.
All are meant to be saved. God is willing and prepared to save all. God will
not save sinners against free will. If you think of this concept that is subtle
and obscure it will help you to understand the Bible when you read it- and
to understand sinners when you encounter them and their excuses against
God!
So, you see young Jonathan, as you understand these things, that grace,
works and faith cannot be separated as they are not separate things that
exist in a vacuum but simply distinct faces of one diamond of God’s love.
In your experience you have seen time and again how Protestant
Christians when hearing a verse on works will simply quote a verse on
faith to combat it. -Or when hearing a verse on holiness will quote a verse
on grace to overthrow it! You however live in balance and harmony given
to you by God and so recognise that if works perfect faith so too faith
perfects works. For although in the world a woman named Grace may
give birth to a baby she names Faith and at birth they become separate
and one day Faith has grown up and lives alone it is not so in spiritual
things. In spiritual things God’s Love is a flower with a stem of grace and
petals of faith, works, obedience, endurance, free will, wisdom, holiness
and the fragrance of a sanctified life. It has its roots in Christ and the
power of his Holy Spirit.
How did it benefit God to replace this perfect and most beautiful flower
with a weed? Even if multitudes find that weed at least partly attractive?
Who did it really serve to spray weed killer on the flower and to spray
plant food on the weed?
Chapter Eleven:
They Lied about Holiness
To live a holy life is the most wonderful life; a life that goes far beyond
what many can even imagine. Why do Christians usually mock it then as
Phariseeism? Is it not to undo the work of Christ in the Gospel? The above
verse in Hebrews is one of the most misquoted of the Bible as it is often
interpreted according to the gospel of Calvinism in which holiness is
legalistic. I.e. God sees us as holy even when we are not! Actually God
sees us as we are. Are we holy?
Sanctification
To be set apart from the crowd by God, whether the Christian crowd or
the world, for a life of holiness is to be 'sanctified'; that is set apart for
holiness.
“Yes! - all those who long to live godly in Christ Jesus shall be
persecuted” [2Timothy 3:12]
The effects of holiness are many. One common to all the holy is to be
persecuted by other Christians. According to this verse all those believers
who are holy will be persecuted. It proves so in experience. All saints have
been persecuted including Jesus the “Man of sorrows acquainted with
bitterest grief” [Isaiah 53:3] ... Who was persecuted by the 'spiritual'
people of his day.
Baptised in lukewarmness
Many who say they are baptised in the Holy Spirit are lukewarm and
others are practising many of the sins condemned in the Bible. Baptism in
the Holy Spirit is primarily a baptism in the Life and Holiness of Christ by
the Power of the Holy Spirit who glorifies Christ. Have you noticed how
multitudes who say they are filled with the Spirit have little to nothing to
say of Jesus? Their supernatural baptism has led them to make a division
between Christ and what they believe is the Holy Spirit. They are drawn
away from Christ. They talk always of the Spirit and rarely of Jesus. In
other words we see a spirit of Antichrist at work. The real Holy Spirit
makes Jesus more real to the believer.
Abundant Life
“I came that they should have life and have it more abundantly.”
[John 10:10]
Those filled with holiness, because they are filled with the real Holy Spirit
also have the abundant life Jesus promised in the above verse. They know
peace, love, humility, joy and discernment as experience from within not
theory from the pulpit.
Warning
Without this holiness you will never 'see' the Lord. The New Testament is
full of holiness. Christ's disciples are full of holiness. Don't be fooled. Most
modern believers give up being 'Christians' sooner or later. It is a fact (they
will not tell you in church) that around 80% fall away! Yes, most of those
who have said, “I know I am saved. I know I am going to Heaven”, have
fallen away! They built upon the sand of modern Christianity and not the
Rock of Christ’s holiness. You can do this test. Ask those around you how
long they have been Christians. You will see that most of them have been
Christians one, two, five maybe even ten years. Where are all those
multitudes that were Christians in past decades? Those who live holy have
a tendency to remain however. Please read the New Testament with fresh
eyes and you will see that in God’s eyes Christianity and holiness or
spiritual reality are one. Only this Gospel, Christ's Gospel, causes His
disciples to persevere to the end. It is these who will 'see' the Lord.
Have you been cheated of the life you were promised in the Bible ?
Do they preach a wonderful view of the Christian life and do you have to
pretend to keep up with it? Is there a great gulf between what you aspire
to or think you should have and what you really experience? It is because
your gospel is all wrong. The Gospel of Jesus Christ does bring fulfilment.
It is an abundant life and the promises of God are not ideals but real
promises. If you have holiness you will love it. It is hard to come by; rarer
than gold encrusted with diamonds and overlaid with platinum beads…. Yet,
it is free and easy to get if you follow the Maker’s instructions. The Bible
as I have said is full of holiness and holiness is Life.
Self Denial
Let me tell you why you do not have this abundant life of closeness to
Jesus. You have foolishly believed what you heard preached or read in
contemporary Christian books when you knew full well it never quite
matched up to the Bible. The very thing they are fleeing from is the very
thing you need to embrace. It is Self Denial. As the Self life is crucified
with Christ the life of the Spirit begins to flow out. Modern Christianity is
intrinsically selfish. Multitudes want power, wealth, healing, success and
few want holiness. In God’s eyes this means few want Him – they just
want what He can do for them. To escape this deadly snare you must read
the Bible afresh and you will see holiness everywhere.
All those things that were either neglected or explained away but never
explained are the very things you must take into your heart and mind. We
live in a generation of ‘believers’ who have been taught that holiness is
Phariseeism. Real Phariseeism today is the freedom to sin encouraged by
a false idea of grace. When they say, “We live in grace and are saved by
faith”, they really mean, “We live in lukewarmness and are saved by
assumption.”
Why on earth is it then, that holy people like me get to see God and have
great answers to prayer? – Are full of peace and strength? All of the
strongest and most effective believers I have ever known have been holy.
If you say, “I don’t need to be holy as I am seen as holy because Jesus is
holy for me”, or something equally foolish you might as well go on to say,
“I don’t need to go to Heaven as God sees me in Heaven since Jesus has
gone to Heaven for me.” After all without holiness no one will ever see the
Lord.
Don’t cheat yourself. I am not saying believe me or read the Puritans. Just
read the Gospels without that usual Christian interpretation that goes, “If
Jesus said A He means Z.”
Chapter Twelve:
Experiencing the Peace of God
“These things I have said to you so you may have peace. In the
world you will have trouble but be courageous – I have
conquered the world!” [John 16:33]
Peace is that deep yet creative stillness that comes upon the soul by the
power of God. I will tell you a secret however, that peace is a person and
that person is Jesus. Jesus does not simply give peace but He gives
Himself and it is His peace we know, as we know Him and to the measure
we know Him.
Imagine that you were a great supernatural being and you could give
peace to humans. Yet, would you give yourself? To be able to inhabit the
'heart' of another person is a great miracle indeed. Jesus comes to us not
as an invasive personality with a constant yaketty yak but as a divine
Presence within giving peace and power over evil.
We see that whatever the world gives and however the world gives what
Jesus gives He gives better. He does not give what evaporates under
duress. Jesus does not give what costs money. Jesus does not take it back
or only give it to the in crowd. You need not climb a mountain top, wear a
long saffron robe and chant until that peace comes to you...
Other hindrances you will find within yourself but if you submit
them to Christ you will find they are just fuel for the fire and
eventually your inner light will glow brighter...
“Dear Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, I pray you will give me
the eternal peace of Jesus within my inmost being. I turn from
all things that displease You. Please forgive my wrongdoings. I
am Yours to command. I trust You will honour this prayer
prayed in Jesus' Name, Amen.”
Chapter Thirteen:
The Art of Happiness:
A Christian's Response
His holiness the Dalai Lama and the American psychiatrist Howard
C. Cutler are a unique team known for their books on happiness.
This is my response to their book about happiness in a troubled
world.
Some Observations
To me this philosophy is sound on the whole and has a strong note of
communality as opposed to typical western individualism. We are not to
be hyper individuals carving out our existence in a rat race but caring
members of a wider community concerned with the welfare of all... This is
actually far healthier, and as to the subject of their books, a far happier
alternative life style.
Some criticisms
These are not really serious criticisms in the sense of trying to tear them
down but some more cynical warnings or concerns. Hitler built his Nazi
Party on the promise of Folk or strong community identity. Often the poor
and oppressed rebel by forming strong social groups that seek revolution,
war, enslavement of others... Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution may be another
example. They were idealists who painted utopian pictures for the masses.
So, as with everything else we must be wary of how a good idea or
practice can, and will be abused by some.
Another criticism is that the studies quoted in their book tend to assume
that communities where there is greater social involvement have lower
rates of crime and depression; rather than seeing that in communities
filled with crime it is far harder for people to have successful social
interaction- It can be just too plain dangerous! Community is good when it
is wholesome and moral.
It is always the inner nature of a thing that really defines it. Everything the
world offers is narrow and superficial and this is often covered up by use
of dramatic, overreaching jargon. Christians, or rather I should say those
Christ would see as His disciples, do not want to tinker with the world or
its social-economic systems but to recreate them in the Image of God. We
have also been promised in prophecy we shall be successful. We have
proven in our hearts and families that love is greater than anything the
world can offer. Wherever there have been true revivals of holiness, God’s
love has deeply affected communities, far more so than any revolution. In
microcosm these revived communities are like models for a better
form of human society.
In the light of this, and it is light, the world offers alternatives that include
condemnation and misrepresentation of what is truly Christian. The truth
is portrayed as bigotry, sin, stupid evil, anti-scientific and irrational etc.
The world steals the truths of Christianity and perverts them. It denies its
proofs of which there are far more than any one would guess. This is
because we live in a world that has carefully rewritten history and
suppresses the hard core facts of spiritual truth and reality on a
daily basis to an unbelievable level.
Therefore, can you have either truth or happiness ruling in a world full of
evil people? No, but you can have revolution. I am the revolution. You are
the revolution inasmuch as you abide in Christ. We are the truth; God’s
evidence that is undeniable to honest minds. We live the Bible, breath out
its fires and tell its wonders in our lives… Christ is coming. Are you ready?
As for the Dalai Lama he believes that all religious people may practice
their own religion, whatever is most natural for them. For him it is better
to be a Buddhist for another it may be better to be Muslim or Hindu. I
think Jesus wants all to be Christians as he has seen Buddha and
Mohammed and all the so called gods or spirits behind them. He knows it
all, knows what the truth is and says, 'Repent and believe in the Good
News!'
So then to conclude the Dalai Lama is one of those that is positive, sensible
and helpful when it comes to giving advice in combating social ills with
social good and what should have been common sense but turns out not
to be so common. God however is Love and seeks to fill not just
individuals with love but whole communities and idealistically the entire
world with love so that people do not simply love one another but become
love itself.
I once heard someone who I think was mocking gurus by saying, “We are
not to love but to become love itself”. Perhaps it is true that when a hyper-
spiritual faker says such things they are meaningless mumbo jumbo.
What about when Christ says it? Many will tell me he doesn’t say it. Well
then I’ll ask the Lord what he would like to say and by a ‘word of
knowledge’ reveal it:
Jesus says, “God is Love. Those who abide in love abide in me.”
2 Corinthians 4:6-18
New English Translation (NET Bible)
For God, who said “Let light shine out of darkness,” is the
one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the
glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ. But we
have this treasure in clay jars, so that the extraordinary
power belongs to God and does not come from us. We are
experiencing trouble on every side, but are not crushed; we
are perplexed, but not driven to despair; we are persecuted,
but not abandoned; we are knocked down, but not
destroyed, always carrying around in our body the death of
Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in
our body. For we who are alive are constantly being handed
over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may
also be made visible in our mortal body. As a result, death is
at work in us, but life is at work in you. But since we have
the same spirit of faith as that shown in what has been
written, “I believed; therefore I spoke,” we also believe,
therefore we also speak. We do so because we know that
the one who raised up Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus
and will bring us with you into his presence. For all these
things are for your sake, so that the grace that is including
more and more people may cause thanksgiving to increase
to the glory of God. Therefore we do not despair, but even if
our physical body is wearing away, our inner person is
being renewed day by day. For our momentary, light
suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far
beyond all comparison because we are not looking at what
can be seen but at what cannot be seen. For what can be
seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.
The difference between abiding in the love of God and between having
positive attitudes and positive, helpful social interaction is this: In times of
great duress New Age philosophy, self help, positive thinking, ‘the art of
happiness’ or ‘being in the now’ along with a great deal of advice given by
professional counselors whether they are secular or ‘spiritual’ is often the
difference between life and death and even eternal salvation or damnation.
This is why in the Bible there is the story of Shadrach, Meshach and
Abednego. God knows people get overwhelmed by trouble so that there is
nothing they can do! Time and time again an expression of the elite’s
antipathy toward the poor is the free and easy advice given to those
whom the elite cause terrible suffering.
To those of you who are suffering, really suffering I tell you both plainly
and truthfully the only real help for great suffering is in Christ.
If however you just fret about paying bills then joining the gym to
socialise, get fit and reduce stress is good. Yet, that could not save from
the fiery furnace could it?
“You shall receive power by the Holy Spirit coming upon you
and you will be My witnesses in both Jerusalem and in all
Judea, and in Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” [Acts 1:8]
I am concerned with what this power is and how to receive it. I am not
going to invent rules to follow as if these could be deduced from Scripture.
It is true that in the verse from Luke the Holy Spirit came upon the
disciples after Jesus had risen from the dead but He still told them to wait
for power from Heaven. This was because the outpouring of the Spirit on
the day of Pentecost was yet to come -after the ascension. In a very real
sense the Holy Spirit was sent as the replacement for the once physically
present Christ who is now in Heaven. It is also true that the power spoken
of in the verse from Acts primarily concerned power to witness effectively
to the Gospel.
Secondly I noticed that the nature of the fellowship within the church
became more spiritual. People felt the Presence of God more and worship
was more spontaneous and heartfelt.
There are very many effects of the power of the Spirit and very
many gifts in the Bible related to God's Power. In relation to the
verses quoted I am confining this small chapter to revival power.
Once again we are driven back to the evangelical truth of the Bible
that there is indeed a connection between personal holiness and
blessing from God.
Before the carnal screamers cry out, “That is performance based religion!”
let me say it is effective performance religion. That's what we are talking
about; being effective witnesses, effective revivalists by God's power.
A heart stretched by God, emptied of Self, broadened by love has
the capacity to receive what narrow, hard and carnal hearts
cannot. It has the capacity to believe what they cannot.
Of these hypocrites were the very people who crucified Christ and are
doing so still in a spiritual sense. They know in their experience that God
sends them no revival, they are not filled with His Spirit, they lack power
over sin and in prayer, and yet they see this as a divine mystery for which
they cannot question God. However God will exact answers from them on
Judgement Day as this religion has been the basis for turning multitudes
away from the true Way and into the darkness of Hell. It is the
underpinning theological philosophy of the present Laodicean age that
leaves multitudes unsaved who could easily be with a proper preaching of
the true Gospel.
Consecration
Consecration to faith in Jesus to send the power of the Spirit implies
rejection of the life of lukewarmness. That is a rejection of the common
gospel preached to multitudes in favour of the Gospel of Discipleship.
Consecrating yourself to Christ to serve Him in the Holy Spirit cuts you
off, dramatically, from the carnal believers that fill churches in their
multitudes. You will suddenly find you are walking a different path,
another Way. On this way the Holy Spirit will show you many sins,
wrong attitudes and beliefs that He hates. You will in turn reject them, and
adopt His Mind. It is then you are ready to believe and receive power.
Receiving power
No Christian is a carbon copy of another. Whatever God does it will be
different in you than in your neighbour. Having said that, just as all faces
are the same yet different, so the basic principles of God's work are the
same. God will empower you in spirit to operate your gifts successfully
and to have an impact in prayer and in person on those whom you meet.
A warning
There is so much taught on this subject today that you are bound to have,
and to get wrong ideas. This is one reason why I kept this chapter narrow
in scope, to focus on what's important. You need not have ecstatic or
dramatic experiences to receive power. Often it is unfelt but seen in its
effects. It is very much the modus operandi of the real Christian: Both in
terms of their usefulness to God but also in terms of their deep
connection to reality itself.
False teaching on the Spirit has the opposite effect on its practitioners.
They have many big words and unsubstantiated claims and live in a dream
world or a nightmare world if you really understand it for what it is. I
would spare you that if I could. It is not a state of mental passivity, this
state of power with God. It is a state of mental activity, of alertness in
spirit and in truth. As I said earlier it is a knowing intelligence. So many
see this as a threat as they want you to have uncritical acceptance of their
wishy-washy, overemotional, hyper-spirituality...
That is rejected. Everywhere people are talking as if the Holy Spirit grows
while Jesus shrinks. In some circles Jesus is hardly mentioned at all!
Whatever detracts from Christ is by its nature Antichrist. No matter how
spiritual the language, be sure to reject and totally reject, whatever does
not put the centrality of Christ and His Cross as your life. Some of you
reading this, I'm sure, will go on to receive power when the Holy Spirit has
come upon you. Just as I was sure that God would pour our His Spirit on
those churches.
A church or fellowship not in a state of revival is a waste of
space.
Why not just drop the Christian pretense and become a social club? A
revival is a state of obedience to God as Finney might say and a lack of
revival is a state of disobedience to God. Christians everywhere that in
some way know of or hope for revival power have an attitude that they
are waiting for God to do something. In reality God is waiting for them to
stop doing something. What they have been doing is resisting the Holy
Spirit by an indifferent and self righteous attitude.
In other words lack of revival is not the absence of the reality of God so
much as the active and wilfull rejection of the presence of God. Otherwise
God would be in their midst noticeably. A revival consists primarily of
getting ‘believers’ to stop resisting the Spirit and to start obeying God. Then
God comes more fully.
However apart form the few small revivals I was the catalyst to, under
God, I see nothing of revival even if there is a lot of activity in some mega
churches which comes by large sums spent of advertising and
domineering evangelists stirring up excitement. It seems to me that
Christianity itself has become largely a waste of space and since they
clearly are not interested in being true saints, in having real revival or in
truly obeying Christ it would be better for the world as a whole if
Christians would make the choice between wanting to live and wanting to
die.
The world is full of dead religions and Zombie Christianity might do better
to admit to its living death. It is a huge religion full of unbelieving and
wicked sinners fooling much of the world that it is a genuine religion and
putting people off of wanting to become Christians. Also if the spiritually
dead somehow become honest with God and the world and say openly
that they do not want holiness and therefore the Holy Spirit at least it
might open the way for a few to preach the real Gospel. Yet, of course
sinners are not honest and so we have this abomination of a religion
which at its best can only manage a minority of its own adherents saved
and a smaller percentage of revivals that are so rare and few and far
between as to be almost invisible. Fakery is not the antidote but truth is.
The truth is, I think, that things have gotten too far from God, the Christian
religions are too wilfully blind, unholy and corrupt for there to be any
significant revival or reformation of World Christianity. It will either die
out or be judged by God. I strongly believe the latter will happen.
Chapter Fifteen:
Praying in Spirit and in Truth
Jesus said to him, “If you are able to believe - All things are
possible to those believing.” [Mark 9:32]
Books and stories about answers to prayer are usually limited to such
things as praying for healing, revival or mass conversions to Christ;
success in business and relationships, church building etcetera. Answers to
these things are recorded but there are also claims made and books
written regarding spurious, fictional and one sided accounts of spiritual
power and answers to prayer put about by the unscrupulous. The net
effect of this second type of teaching is to encourage unbelief, as those
who practise their teaching find it doesn’t work and often give up trying.
That is the real and underlying purpose after all.
The second young man a few years down the line felt the presence of
Christ in prayer and it was as if the Lord almost spoke to him. He felt that
Jesus would give him a great answer to prayer, even with his limited faith.
He blurted out, “I want to stand upon the moon!”
He sensed in spirit the Lord laugh. The Lord did have something else in
mind when He inspired him with a unique faith. However he felt his spirit
lift up and stand upon the surface of the moon. He understood that the
Lord himself was giving a commentary on his former teaching about the
limit of faith. God's reply was in effect, as Scripture says, “Nothing shall
be impossible to God.”
This taught the young man that he should not say it is not God's will for
this or that great thing to happen as it is unrealistic. Rather He should say,
“God does as He wills and whatever you can believe He can do far more.”
This is what the young man felt and saw as for a minute or two,
with his fleshly eyes closed, his spirit stood upon the moon.
He saw the brightness of the stars above without clouds hindering the
view; they were sharper, brighter... He felt the ancient nature of the moon
rock. He saw the earth in the distance and it seemed bigger than he would
expect- since the moon is smaller than the earth and he was half
expecting the earth to appear the same size as the moon in the sky. He
sensed that in the future many would leave their footsteps upon the moon.
He could not see clearly. It was like looking at a reflection in a glass. It
passed. He then prayed according to the will of God for the thing the Lord
had originally wanted him to pray.
Another criticism would be the weakness of the answer. The young man
did not physically stand upon the moon, or fly to the moon, even if his
spirit was literally present there. Also he did not see things as clearly as he
would have in the flesh. However, this response neglects to acknowledge
the spiritual abilities of sensing the nature of things around him and even
sensing the future, as he was both in spirit and in the Spirit.
These are the only two answers to prayer I am discussing here as this
chapter is simply an introduction to power in prayer for spiritually inclined
believers. I hope I have opened the door by a crack to the wonder, the
grace, the power and goodness of the Lord in Spirit and prayer to
believers.
Chapter Sixteen:
Deliverance Ministries:
Their Tragedies and Their Triumphs
Demon possession
The control by evil spirits of the whole of a person. This includes control
of the body, mind and soul.
Demonic oppression
As distinct from possession, oppression is an evil influence or attack upon
body or soul by spirits.
Legal ground
The concept that God's Spiritual Law by which He governs the universe is
binding upon all creatures. Demons gain control over believers and others
by legal ground. That is by use of deception or intimidation or temptation,
causing a person to 'open a door' to the evil spirits, either knowingly or
more likely unknowingly. In this sense evil spirits have used God's
Spiritual Law to gain access, as God regards those who give legal ground
as giving permission to evil spirits to work.
The Power of the Cross and the Blood of Jesus
It was through the Cross that Jesus personally defeated Satan and by
shedding His blood that He provided the means of deliverance. This is all
related to God's Law but it means in practise that deliverance can come
specifically by faith in the Cross or the Blood of Jesus. The Blood of Jesus
cleanses us from sin (legal ground) and the Power of the Cross is applied
by the Holy Spirit against the Powers of Darkness.
Catholic Exorcists
The Catholic Church does have some ministers trained in performing
exorcisms. In the Catholic Church there are set prayers and rituals that are
gone through in cases of demon possession or other types of demonic
activity where exorcism is required. Today there is also training in the
areas of counselling and psychiatry and priests are trained to forward
people with mental problems, who believe they are possessed, to qualified
professionals. In practice it is very difficult to cast out evil spirits. Success
is measured by the change that comes over the person being delivered or
exorcised. The Catholic Church is failing to identify and free captives.
Where there are earnest exorcisms the success rate varies according to
God's free grace offered to all who pray and believe. In fact before going
on I should say, contrary to conventional wisdom, that God often frees
captives from pure kindness. As God indeed gives many blessings to
people in the hope they will repent. Because of this principle of God's
undeserved help and kindness, exorcists in other religions are sometimes
successful and generally exorcists who invoke the Name of Christ have
some measure of blessing from God.
Anglican exorcists
The Church of England also has minsters that are trained in deliverance.
These few priests within Anglicanism that practice deliverance ministry are
usually evangelicals. They too read prayers and sing hymns as well as
using set rituals and language. Some of these ministers have been very
successful. This is due to a lot of sound teaching in the area of
shepherding congregations and following the basics of faith in Christ and
His power over evil. They tend to reject as bizarre and purely frictional the
kind of phenomena often depicted in Charismatic 'personal testimony'
books. This caution is legitimate but they are also unaware, as almost all
deliverance ministers are, of many of Satan's works.
The tragedy of all this is that the whole spectacle is itself a delusion from
beginning to end. Much of it is psychological. Much is psychogenic in
terms of manifesting symptoms of possession and deliverance by the
power of the mind. The apparent remedy is normally psychogenic- as they
believe they feel, and they feel as they believe.
There have been cases in history where demons caused people to writhe
as a snake but generally this is not a symptom of most demon possession.
Another tragedy is that there are many signs of demon possession and
oppression that are seen as real manifestations of God's Spirit by
practising Pentecostals. Among these are confusion, passivity,
paranoia, censoriousness, super-spirituality or religious pride,
sexual immorality, petty blasphemies, strange illnesses, madness,
hatred of holiness and the holy...
I am not going to defend, justify or explain this exorcism. It was after all
engineered by God. It was not what I had read or been taught. It was just
reality. Few know it as fact. The demonic oppression of my Christian
friends ceased.
“Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out
demons. Freely you have received, freely give.”
[Matthew 10:8]
Self Deliverance
Generally Christians that are troubled by evil spirits that have to some
extent entered them, such as in the form of frightening and sickening
images that appear in their minds apart from their own volition; or strange
body jerking and or shaking – may practice a form of self deliverance –
by which is meant of course deliverance by the Holy Spirit using the
believer to be their own minister.
The fact is however that around the world each year millions of
people will see spirits and many millions will be oppressed by
them – mostly unawares. All these will be patronisingly dismissed upon
the basis of a scientific knowledge called Psychiatry that is neither
scientific nor knowledge. The reader should therefore realise that in this
chapter I am not mistakenly giving advise to the mentally ill because I have
failed to understand narcissism, paranoia, anxiety, schizophrenia,
obsessiveness compulsive disorder, or any number of disorders and
syndromes – I have a good layman's understanding. I am giving advice to
the self aware – those self aware of being tranquil in mind and sensible
and logical in thinking – clear headed and sound – as a rule- except for a
specific problem often traceable to a specific cause in the spiritual realm.
For tongues, slain in the spirit, dancing in the spirit, laughing in the
spirit, groaning and shouting in the spirit, making animal noises in
the spirit - do the same. A steady application of the Cross of Christ by
faith will eventually whittle away everything that is not of God. It is
however a battle and only the true disciples of Christ will win this battle.
Many pentecostals and charismatics who try this out will only become
more convinced their obviously failed gifts are of God! This is due to lack
of holiness and discipleship. GOD IS HAPPY FOR HIS GIFTS TO BE TESTED
but the powers of darkness will make excuses to the mind for not doing
so or not being thorough....
Take control of your mind and body by steady faith, prayer and discipline
and may God be with you. Don't give in or give up. This is just the fearful
demons trying to whittle away your will power and consecration to God.
Persevere in holiness and Christ will save you.
Pornography
The internet has made access to porn easy and commonplace. Most
Christian men and probably a larger proportion of Christian women than
would be guessed at look at pornography. Men may find that they indulge
what seems like a natural desire and find themselves drawn to look at
what is unnatural and find to their horror that when they try to break off
or repent they do not but go further into sin.
The reason for this is that pornography is of course sinful and satanically
inspired. The evil spirits hold sway over the viewers of pornography and
their power is felt by undiscerning men and women – and kids too
sometimes.
Some advise you in the vein of the usual rubbish you read in Christian
counselling books that avoid the issues and don't know how to solve the
problems – as they often skirt around the issues. However many of you
reading this will indulge in looking at pornography – I know it – God
knows it and so does the devil. If a clean break is too much for you – like
a drug addict using methadone to lessen the withdrawal symptoms from
heroin – break gradually until you achieve purity of heart and action. It is
possible and generally the earnest disciples will come out of this trough if
they apply themselves. For some knowing of the connection between the
powers of darkness and pornography will be enough but for others there
will be a slow climb out of the mire. In this area I will in fact advise
counselling – but Christian counselling. It is not enough to command
demons when you yourself are the one committing the sin.
When a site showing pornography is viewed demons have legal ground to
enter the home of the believer. If the believer has children it is likely they
will have nightmares, sickness and ‘bad luck’. Knowing that by looking at
pornography you will cause psychological and physical harm to your
children may help you break away.
May you all find peace – the very peace waiting for you in Christ.
Jonathan I am going to tell you things that even deliverance minsters are
unaware of:
Curses by demons
Demons write over the soul of the believer curses in satanic scripts. So
too do fallen angels who are far more powerful. All sinners have these
curses written on them that God, angels and spirits can see but which
almost no human living throughout time have seen. These curses tend to
do things like prevent recovery from illness; make illnesses worse: That is
turn a mild heart attack into a major heart attack etc.
Blessings
God himself and his angels write blessing in heavenly script upon the
souls of saints and small children. These result in things like greater
happiness and peace and physical vitality.
Jonathan, pray that God will remove all curses and write his blessing upon
you. God will sometimes allow you to see a darkness with strange
symbols being drawn out of you after which you will feel better in some
area.
Ask God to send his angels to remove all dark objects of a hellish nature.
Chapter Seventeen:
Slain in the Spirit
Biblical basis
The expression 'Slain in the Spirit' is not in the Bible. The description of the
experience is not in the Bible. The Biblical basis for the gift, according to
Charismatic teachers, is when various saints and Prophets have lain
prostrate before God or His Angels, often overcome with fear or awe.
These saints are always lucid and their response to the revelation of God
is always intelligent and meaningful. The description of the experience of
Daniel the Prophet comes closest to the Charismatic understanding of
being slain in the Spirit.
“I, Daniel, alone saw the vision as the men who were with me did
not see the vision. Yet, great trembling fell upon them so that they
fled and hid themselves.
Then I was left alone and saw this great vision but there
remained no strength in me. For my greatness was turned within
me into nothing, and I lost my strength.
Yet I heard the sound of his words and when I heard the sound
of his words I was upon my face, stunned, with my face toward
the ground.
Look! - A hand touched me and set me, shaking, upon my knees
and the palms of my hands.
He said to me, ‘Oh Daniel, a man greatly loved, comprehend the
words that I speak to you and stand up. For I have been sent to
you.’ When he had spoken this word to me I stood, trembling.”
[Daniel 10:7-11]
The Vision of the Angel continues for the remaining chapters of Daniel. As
Daniel fell upon his face in fear with his strength gone this is seen as a
proof text, by Charismatics, of the gift of being slain in the Spirit; since in
that gift believers fall down and lose their strength. They lose their motor
skills and often their power of speech and lull about like rag dolls... Unlike
Daniel however these believers could not hold a lucid conversation or take
in detailed information. Also Daniel did not lose his motor skills or become
as a rag doll. He could control his body and movements and his mind. Also
unlike Daniel, Charismatic and Pentecostal believers do not talk to great,
holy Angels or have great revelations of truth that are calculated to make
someone full of terror and awe. In fact apart from a partial and
superficial similarity, in most aspects the experience of Daniel differs
greatly from the experience of people being slain in the Spirit.
When Finney's revival practices were criticised in his day he defended the
revivals by saying that if God convicted sinners of the greatest truths, and
these were applied to their hearts and consciences in great power by the
Holy Spirit it was not unusual or unnatural for them to have a
corresponding emotional response. He pointed out that the shock of a
sinner's realisation that they might be going to Hell was good enough
reason for them to cry in fear or to fall down in anguish. He further added
that often, as they gave their hearts to Christ they would rise up praising
God with great joy...
Timing
Here is another interpretation for this timing aspect of the gift in
experience. It is true that as believers feel more adoration to God this gift
strikes. This can be observed time and again. The real reason is to fool
them into thinking it is of God and secondly the timing is to stop them
from getting too close to God and praying intelligently to Him. They are
turned into zombies! Often just at the point a believer feels they are
opening up to God and ready to exercise greater faith they are suddenly
zombified!
Lack of love
The concerns raised over Pentecostalism and the Charismatic Movement
have been many and genuine but have been dismissed on the grounds that
they are too spiritually superior to accept correction from those they see
as opposed to the Holy Spirit. Spiritual pride and vindictiveness often come
from this lack of love too.
A new religion
Those who base their religion, even if they say, “I'm not religious I'm a
Christian”, upon false gifts and experiences rather than upon Jesus Christ
and His Word are practising a new religion. It is an experience based
religion which puts faith in what they believe is the Holy Spirit but as we
have seen is spiritual deception involving false teachers and demons. Some
of them to be sure have some measure of faith and some measure of
truth. No Charismatic or Pentecostal knows just how many of their
fellows have never really been born again!
This is a brief introduction Jonathan, to some of the things Satan does not
want you to know. It is not an exhaustive investigation or a treatise but
rather a tasty morsel of information that will appeal most to those who
already have some firsthand knowledge of Satan and his activities...
In the battle between the psychiatrists and the missionaries that gave to
the world examples of verified demon possession; the missionaries clearly
won the debate. However, the world does not listen to missionaries - and
their works, largely out of print are buried in history: We have the
pretensions of psychiatry.
See:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/3027319/-Rev-John-L-Nevius-Demon-
Possession-And-Allied-Themes-
This example is simply given to show the reality of Satan's work and the
kind of worldly philosophy he uses to cover it up. He is at the moment
aiming at introducing another philosophy, already here but in its infant
stage...
Consider
Simple, childlike love and devotion to Jesus as Lord is an antidote to all
kinds of strange teachings and practices common to society today. His
true people are known by their humility, holiness but especially their love.
This is in sharp contradistinction to those who are proud, super-spiritual
and cold – behind a false smile.
The Father’s love is in His children and the faith of Christ is within them.
As this is true there is evidence supplied by God to the world beyond that
of their holy characters. They sometimes heal or cast out demons. Their
effect upon society is positive bringing life and joy...
The Pentecostal religion claim to be such believers as these but they are
the very wolves that tear these lambs to pieces when they find them. The
Charismatic movement is the cloak of lamb’s wool covering the body of
the wolf.
Also Manichaean philosophy was fatalistic and this influenced Calvin. Yet
between the Reformation and the Church Fathers Greek and Persian
philosophy tended to influence theology to an incredible degree as the
Church chose its learned divines not from those who worked miracles or
were taught of God but from those of the elite and well educated
backgrounds that over time came to dominate the priesthood and therefore
doctrine completely. Even many modern evangelical theologians are really
philosophers rather than theologians.
What seems to the worldly mind to be good ethics cannot in any sense
gain a sinner redemption or eternal life. Ethics cannot save souls or
regenerate them or lift someone up to Heaven. Yet the ridiculous position
of many theologians and intellectuals of today is that biblical Christianity
was a reworking of Greek philosophy. However, much of what
Protestants in particular consider to be sound evangelical truth is this very
Greek philosophy ‘Christianised’. The failure of Greek philosophy to
sanctify souls, to fill Heaven, is to a large extent the failure of
Protestantism to do so: The failure of individual believers to really be ‘born
again’ even if they call themselves such; the failure to persevere in holiness
till the end; the failure to be truly holy; the failure to recognise that the
Bible is not a self contradicting set of individual statements in which Paul
can be used to dispute Paul and John can be used to disprove John. This
‘dialectical’ approach actually came from Greek philosophy. The Bible in
contrast is actually perfect harmony and totally holistic. There is no
Hegelian triad of thesis, antithesis and synthesis leading to a new thesis or
vague and changeable ‘truth’.
Philosophy may appeal to unregenerate minds that are, ‘ever learning and
never able to come to a knowledge of the truth’, but it is not the power of
God.
I spoke earlier on in this book of the need to differentiate between fact and
theory, experience and conjecture. The great mistake of Christianity is not
to differentiate between belief and action, almost as if it were the same
thing. Belief is an act yes but a life of obedience to Jesus Christ is very
different and far removed from a life of merely believing things about him.
Jesus, as you can see in the gospels, regarded his disciples as only those
who obeyed him. You must distinguish between what people say of
themselves as individuals or of their churches. Saying they are Spirit filled,
holy and ‘on fire for God’ are just words, usually empty words.
Christianity consists largely of talk when it should consist entirely of
obedience.
This deception is very grand and politicians thrive on it. So too do states,
religions including Christianity and just about everything else! Discipline
your mind if you really are a disciple. If you look at the world in this more
real way you may find good ol’ Joe who would do anything for anyone is
really a selfish and stingy person who does a few elaborate things for
friends but wouldn’t help his own grandmother cross the road. You may
find your democracy is just a partial democracy and hidden behind it a
totalitarian dictatorship and that the democracy itself helps disguise the
totalitarianism so that there never will be true and full democracy without
fundamental change… Most of all look at the teaching of Jesus and at
yourself and see if you really do obey him.
Let me give you this poor example Jonathan. Say a young person who is
evangelising, and as they do these days takes a questionnaire to people. He
asks questions such as “Do you believe in the Virgin Birth?” After some
time he comes across someone exceptional and they respond that they do
indeed believe in the Virgin Birth, in Jesus’ Resurrection, in his Second
Coming and in Judgment Day. In fact the charming young man who is
being questioned says he never doubts; is absolutely certain. We are
taught that if we do the same we are very good Christians, perhaps even
true evangelical, Bible believers. The evangelist asks the young man, “May I
have your name?” to which he gets the reply, “Satan, Prince of Darkness.”
I want to point this out that Satan knows far more about Jesus and
Heaven and Hell than we do. He believes what he sees. He believes his own
history. He knows the things Jesus said to him in the wilderness and
elsewhere not recorded in the Bible. In that sense there is no greater
believer in Jesus than Satan. The pride of Protestantism is Bible belief, as
opposed to what they see as Mariolatry, or Popism or superstition and
rationalism. It could mean that the individual believer is becoming more
like Satan. People who are like this will naturally say I am twisting things
and equating belief in the Bible with Satanism. The true believer will realise
I am saying that strength of belief is only valid where there is strength of
obedience that goes hand in hand with it. On the scales of belief and
obedience modern Christianity has a lot of belief, but still far less than
they should, and very little obedience…
How can, the ‘non believer’ asks, a person who believes deeply be an
unbeliever? Unbelief is the incorrect moral response to revealed truth. It is
true that unbelief usually manifests itself as total non belief but often it
disguises itself as intellectual assent combined with emotional self
assurance – as opposed to obedience to Christ as Son of God.
It is very true that in a dictionary or Bible dictionary belief and faith are
simply words that mean trust. Yet in the Bible words take upon themselves
a deep spiritual significance that goes beyond dictionary meaning. Faith in
the Bible embodies always and intrinsically obedience to Jesus Christ;
always holy and always connected to spiritual power. In Protestantism the
teaching of ‘Faith Alone’ has come to mean for the majority of Protestants
‘Intellectual assent combined with church attendance, Bible study and self
assurance alone’.
So again I say use your eyes to strip away all the holy things that
apparently holy people say about themselves and look only at their
obedience or lack thereof to gain a fuller understanding of the state of
present Christianity.
When I spoke of Satan believing absolutely in Jesus you may like to think
of all the Christians who burnt others at the stake, fought unjust wars,
persecuted true saints, were generally obnoxious because of their deep
held beliefs. There is no one on earth so convinced that the human race
needs to ‘love your neighbour as yourself’ as Satan and no one so
opposed to it in practice. Yet is it true to say that Satan has faith in Christ?
No. So you see Jonathan, my use of the definitions I gave above is
genuine. We can say that Satan has intellectual conviction but not faith
which by its very nature is loving, gentle and holy.
Yet, you can see the more Satan believed the more he has been opposed to
the cause of Christ. It is no wonder then that those who are most opposed
to Christ and Christianity are often deeply convinced of the reality of
Christ – I mean atheism being denial of perceived truth by use of
intellectual ruses. The Christian who ‘believes’ but has not ‘faith leading to
obedience’ as I have said is a Christian atheist. -In belief Christian and in
practice atheist. With their words they honour Christ and with their deeds
they disown him.
Without the first you will not have the other. Without the false baptism in
the Spirit practised by Pentecostals and Charismatic Christian Satanists
you will not get the great falling away of new converts and you will not
get the new army of antichrists nor some of Satan's greatest servants –
who like fallen angels will reap their vengeance upon the religion that
betrayed them.
The false Christians make excuses for this. Not that they will ever
acknowledge this is going on but they will acknowledge a lot of people do
not persevere and their excuse is that they were never saved to begin with
and they really do not care about them. I care about them, about the
backsliders, the antichrists and even the monsters that once were
Christians. I want them to know it was not Christ who betrayed them but
his enemies.
On the other hand many among them were never really Christian to begin
with this is true but the Charismatics would not admit to this when they
were baptising them in the supposed Spirit!
Another rather stupid excuse they use which has nothing to do with reality
is that these lost ones are all still saved since once saved is always saved
they erroneously believe. So even an ex Christian turned Satanist would be
saved by their reckoning – but if they change ground and say that one
was never saved how do they explain they baptised that one in the 'Spirit'
and that one prophesied and they acknowledged these prophecies and
tongues were of God? In their fantasy world reality has no place. As I said
before an effect of religious delusion is to disconnect people from reality –
so how can they acknowledge it?
Christ is the reality and how much more in tune we are with the real
world because of him. He gave us eyes to see and they want to blind the
world with their religious candy floss laced in arsenic. The greatest
argument against the Pentecostal and Charismatic and other Christian
Satanists is themselves: Their monumental stupidity on any number of
issues. Their mental gymnastics in regards Bible interpretation. Their many
leaders who are trying to bed every pretty sycophant, demand their first
class air travel at churches' expense and avoid paying taxes...
Many sinners choose to worship them and call themselves 'Spirit filled
believers' but inevitably they persecute the true saints.
Another effect of the false baptism is this: Satan does indeed lure certain
people into Pentecostal and Charismatic circles; particularly ones he
knows will be very useful because of their exceptional evil and guile. These
he lures in and gets baptised in the Spirit in the Charismatic sense. This is
their introduction to supernatural power. It is where they first begin to be
equipped and whether he later uses them as ex Christian antichrists or
Charismatic leaders he has planned it all very carefully. Satan has singled
out and used a vast multitude of sinners to be sinners in Charismatic
circles. He knows full well that if someone says to them, 'Serve Satan and
he will give you power', they would reject it. So he has Charismatics or
Pentecostals give them the offer of worldly Christianity and its pursuit of
wealth, power and influence and says, 'Serve God and receive power!'
Often they take the bait.
All of their prophets and apostles are false without exception. All
of them are under the dominion of evil spirits and are either
neutralised if they were genuine believers or at least subverted in
degree; more often than not they are useless to God but useful to
Satan.
If you wanted to check this out – all that I have said in this book- and if
you thought it cannot possibly be so and so visited three different
Christian Satanist churches... You might well find that in a Black and
rather conservative Pentecostal church the men sat on one side of the
church and the women on the other; the pastor preached a boring sermon
and after some superficial chit chat the people went home... At least that
would show how dead they are who are supposedly filled with the power
and holiness of God.
You might go to a big rally and see people healed and saved but question
why the evangelist says, 'God gives miracles to those who truly serve
him', and later in the event he says, 'Those who truly serve God give
where it hurts' and later still he says, 'A man who gives God (via the
evangelist) a thousand dollars is blessed but a true servant would give God
50,000 dollars.'
At least you could work out from this that for 50,000 dollars you can
buy a miracle and that they are avaricious and foolish...
In truth you will never really know what is going on, beyond common
sense appraisals, without careful research and even more so without the
help and guidance of the real Holy Spirit.
All the above examples I have taken out of life and can be seen, if you will,
but much worse is done behind closed doors, but sometimes openly! In
conclusion Jonathan, many ordinary Christians will never see either what
I have written or what their eyes see. It is the mind that sees and Christian
Satanists themselves are very plasticine in mind. Yet you, being a true
servant of Christ, not by money but by faith, I would not advise to rush
into a Charismatic church as who knows what the Enemy might try to do
to you? Pray first. It takes special prayer and wisdom too to handle what
seems on the surface to be innocent. Unlike worldly social scientists who
may see in the Charismatic Movement religious freedom of expression
and group psychotherapy but who will not see the true servant of God
targeted for either subversion or all out attack. It takes time for them to
recognise you. Share what is true and at first they will try to match you
as if they were in a competition. Continue to share true visions, or
teaching or grace and you will step on a spiritual land mine realising too
late you have been meandering through the mine field from the moment
you decided to go to said churches.
So you see my young Jonathan that after all, you are God's lion that can
rip open the lies and deceptions of the evil one and tear off the masks of
the angels of light to reveal the monstrosity behind. I am the eagle of God
serving Him with that breathing of fire through the 'mists of darkness' to
disperse them so others can see Satan's stratagems.
On the same road there were two number 57s as the road veered in a
curve its name changed from Place to Crescent. That other 57 was also
visited by the arsonists and as a result a young woman and her two
toddlers died. They did not die by smoke inhalation but were burned alive. I
think the arsonists never were sure of my address but tried both houses
having an almost identical address, trying to get me. I suppose this can all
be dismissed as coincidence. After all who is going to believe it, they are
always so innocent? I am not of course doing a PR job for the evangelical
type churches. In the future, as the Lord has prophesied, Christians will
turn on one another.
So you see this book is a very good example of the truths that modern
Christianity has rejected and of the characters. I am one of thousands
from among the stronger element of Christianity. I meet them here and
there and the story is always the same: They can't stand their church any
more and no they are not going to a new one... but at home the fellowship
is better!
The new church for strong believers is of course the Internet where they
can read or fellowship with like minded holy ones, in varying degrees of
enlightenment and usually argue among themselves about doctrine and
practice...
Politics
I had hardly touched on politics even though it intersects with the spiritual.
I noticed that in Latin American countries where socialism was prevalent
and Christianity too strong to be got rid of the Christians were often
socialist and would speak of Jesus as the ideal revolutionary. In North
America where capitalism and its democracy are dominant the TV
evangelists in particular represent the other side of the coin, so there are
socialist and capitalist wings of Christianity. Both of course are wrong,
even if we are told all the time in the West by implicit means that
capitalism is the essence of Christianity. In the introduction I mentioned
how German and British Christians were killing one another in the Second
World War and this is analogous to socialist and capitalist Christianity.
I said in the Introduction that things I say would seem critical and harsh
but for those who have come out from false supernaturalism that was
wearing the cloak of Christianity and have been free for many years
much of what I have said may well appear quite tame. Manmade religion
is no substitute for the real thing and if it ends up in making cult adherents
of people who should have been Christians, well only those who are free
can actually see the evil of it all.
You see I could have offered not a single criticism of anything but instead
spoken in a manner only gentle and appreciative. I chose to be a little more
analytical to convey the actual reality of life in the Spirit among a
lukewarm, evangelical, often fundamentalist and charismatic crowd.
They interpret the verses about there being gifts of revelation, visions,
prophecies, dreams and even prophets as referring to something far less
limited than my extensive revelations and either say these things died out
with the Apostles or interpret them in Charismatic terms so what is false
becomes justified and this is a good means of burying the true. The
Christian Satanists apply the same mentality to history, to historical
movements and figures, to doctrines and to just about everything – as it
suits them. Always deluding themselves that by rejecting the light the Spirit
sends they are being faithful to God and by accepting empty delusions
they are being spiritual.
Having been shown by the Holy Spirit the true nature of Christian
fundamentalist, Charismatic thinking and practice I can see quite clearly
they manipulate the Bible to fit into a narrow, sectarian, usually anti-
Catholic, reformist viewpoint regardless of the what the Bible really
teaches. That is they use the Bible to defeat the Bible and they use the false
baptism in the Spirit to reject the true baptism in the Spirit and they use
their churches to control the spirituality of their flocks – and their flocks
are like sheep without a shepherd.
Having then the greatest set of revelations given to mankind outside of the
Bible I find there is not a single opening or opportunity to share them. No
response, except that those believers who do know me reject me. This very
great gift to mankind that should have been shouted from the housetops
by the churches has been rejected absolutely and perfectly. This was
necessary and had to be the way for how could the revelations of the
Holy Spirit be received; how could an emissary of the Holy Spirit be
received since the Holy Spirit has been rejected?
It was merely a demonstration to me of how things are and why they are.
-A prelude to my future ministry. A ministry in which like Paul the Apostle
who shook the dust from his feet against the Jews and went to the
Gentiles I too am forced to shake off the lunatics and the harmless fools
among the fundamentalists and Charismatics and particularly their
horrible cults – so that now I may go to? I know my future even if I am
not going to spell it out here.
This is what the good Lord revealed to me: There was such an intensity
and outburst of hatred toward Jesus from Herod and then from the
Romans that Jesus was beaten so that the Roman soldiers were convinced
He would die from it and not be crucified. The witnesses to Jesus carrying
His Cross were convinced that he would drop down dead. In the crowds
there was shock and astonishment that He was still alive and able to carry
it.
Around Jesus’s shoulders particularly the flesh was ripped away to reveal
the scapula. Here and there small pieces of flesh dangled from Jesus’s
body. Jesus face was bruised and battered to an extent that it was swollen
up like a football and black and blue. He had blood pouring from His nose,
mouth and even eyes, which were barely open due to swelling.
The intensity of hatred that was apparent in the stoning of Stephen and
the intensity of madness and hatred apparent in Sodom when the mob
tried to rape the Angels was a spiritual phenomenon in which the very
hatred of Hell is poured out through sinners under demonic influence. With
Jesus it was even more intense.
The Romans who crucified Jesus, and I could tell you where the nails
were put and how they leaned and how many; these Romans were
convinced that Jesus would expire either while being nailed to the Cross or
immediately after He was lifted up. He endured for some hours however.
The point when Jesus breathed His last was the very point in which it was
impossible to continue human life any longer under such stress, so that He
had drunk of the cup of suffering to the very last drop.
A revelation like this reveals the character of Jesus and brings glory to
Him for what He endured for us. The Roman soldiers had gone beyond
their orders being driven by demonic forces…It also sits as an example of
what the Christianity I have mingled with consider utterly worthless as
they do me. Many dogmatists will argue if this were a true story it would
be mentioned in the Bible … They see Satan as trying to subtly introduce a
new gospel or alternative revelation etc. We’ll leave it there as Satan will
be invoked as ever.
It is true however that if a charismatic were to read this, rip off the story
and produce their own version based on it they may well get it published
and applauded as it would not be connected to the holiness and love which
I preach but rather to the super-spirituality and indeed unreality of the
Charismatic movement…
Jesus was treated a lot worse than I have been treated and I have been
treated very poorly only because His Spirit is within me enough to be
evident. It took a great deal of love and sacrifice on my part to be a
missionary to Christian cults and I have received nothing but pain for it. I
too, like the beloved Paul, am ‘making up the sufferings of Christ’…
While Jesus carried His Cross – and of course His injuries were so severe
He got to the point where He could no longer carry it and that fell to
Simon the Cyraenian; during that period Jesus was compassionate to the
crowd, concerned that many would be heartbroken at the sight of Him. In
His heart He was praying for them so that they would have strength to
bear up to the trial. A few people, in answer to this prayer collapsed at the
sight of Jesus and were so stricken with grief and conviction of sin that
even if they had earlier been crying out, ‘Crucify! Crucify!’ they went
home humbled and believing and dedicated to the cause of Christ.
You must remember beloved Jonathan, that the crucifixion of Christ was
achieved by the religious elite, some of whom were considered in their day
to be true saints.
I do not want to give you a false impression that I went around sharing
revelations and visions which believers found hard to accept or discern if
they were from God. I actually kept quiet about my revelations until these
last couple of years. It was rather along the lines of, ‘If you abide in Christ
you may experience a reality of feeling that there really is someone there
to lean on. A new power of grace and fruitfulness…’ Or, ‘Every thing we
do we should do out of faith with a pure motive...’ The kind of things that
Evangelicals and Charismatics are supposed to believe and practice, that
some of their teachers even teach on. With me however there was
something extra which I call ‘spiritual reality’. They couldn’t listen to me
and simply pay lip service and for most of them they couldn’t listen to me
at all.
I have to ask myself, that although I spent a lot of time among Christian
Satanists gently persuading them for Christ, and this did result in many
positive effects; I still have to ask myself how is it that having now a
grasp of the spiritual world that is more thorough and greater than that of
any person since the Apostles I have been rejected absolutely and totally
by those who see themselves as spiritual? That having now revelations
that act as a light upon scripture, as I love the scriptures, that these cannot
be received by those who say they love scripture?
In all honesty I cannot see the difference between the Pharisees and
Sadducees of Jesus’ day and the Christian Satanists and ‘Bible believers’
that make up the Protestants. I believe fully that if Jesus visited in the flesh
and lived among them for a year he would be killed by them. Not openly
but in secret. After this there would be a general thankfulness that God
had delivered them from a great sorcerer who fulfilled the scriptures that
say, ‘There will arise false Christs’ and that workers of iniquity will,
‘perform signs to lead astray if possible the elect’ - and having proven
from the Bible that Jesus visiting was really a great false prophet they
would have praise meetings, publish books on it and look for their reward
in Heaven.
Well, that is just my opinion but what is the opinion of Jesus? Exactly the
same- as that paragraph above was particularly inspired by him.
Chapter Twenty:
The rise of the fallen angels
As the world becomes more evil the number of demons and their power
increases. This is based upon a simple principle that God administers
universal justice and so he will limit evil when his laws are obeyed and
allow an increase in evil where his laws are abused. This in turn is directly
related to Free Will and its use in relation to God’s goodness and to
Satan’s evil.
Even though God respects Man’s free will he will also demand an account
from everyone on Judgement Day. Before that time his justice administers
chastisement and punishment toward increasing evil- usually by allowing
societies to reap as they sow. He also rewards righteousness in the here
and now usually by allowing saints and those whom they pray for to reap
the benefits of faith and sacrifice.
As the world has become so evil and God’s goodness so defamed and
abused; and his true saints so maligned and denigrated over such a long
period of time, the world is about to reap an evil beyond imagination and
reckoning. It is indeed the build-up toward a mystical period called the
Tribulation- A time in which the world suffers more and loses more than
in any time before in human history.
Over several years since 2010 a very large number of fallen angels have
been rising from the Pit of Hell in response to the increase in evil. They
work secretly, invisibly but successfully as few there are to oppose them
but many there are whose lives of immorality demand their coming!
Satan was once called Lucifer and Lucifer was an archangel for
archangels. God, to them, appeared in angelic form like them, as the Angel
of the LORD or Angel of the Eternal One. The Angel of the Eternal was far
more powerful than Lucifer in his natural form and in Spirit he was God.
Lucifer was exceedingly more powerful and brilliant than the archangels
and angels. The beauty of his splendour and the grandeur of his being
were such that Lucifer was adored by the angels. It was quite right and
God’s intention that Lucifer should be admired for his exceptional grace
and power. Yet, temptation exists as a part of nature and therefore there
was the possibility that the angels would adore Lucifer a lot more than
they should- in all innocence, being newly created beings.
This actually happened and God Almighty corrected their fault so that most
of the angels became balanced in their thinking rather than giddy over
Lucifer’s perfections. However the great angel himself and roughly one
third of the angels (but none of the archangels) retained an attitude of
idolatry- although at this stage they were not aware of Sin but rather
were drifting toward a frame of mind that would allow sin to arise.
Sin did arise and God rebuked it. The rebuke saved a minority of the
angels from their folly but the majority of those that overly adored Lucifer
developed a psychological aspect of Sin in their minds- A tendency to
independence from God and self-will. Independence and self-will are seen
as modern virtues but since God is the One source of all true Good
independence from him means that something else that is not good
naturally and inevitably takes its place- and so Sin was born.
There was a gradual tug-of-war between the erring angels and the rest of
Heaven until in a desire for independence but not yet hatred or bitterness
toward God, Lucifer and his followers began to develop their own society
within Heaven. It was just after this time that the Spirit created not the
Earth but the Light that shone upon the Earth and began to generate first
life.
God’s angels were present during the creation of life on Earth. It was
during the great ‘Day’ of creation (see Genesis 2:4) that Lucifer fell from
Heaven like a falling star. At this stage Lucifer and the fallen angels were
not overtly evil in gross things and would have been horrified at the
thought of stealing, killing and destroying; but as they moved ever further
from the Light they became the Darkness.
By the time Man was created by the Angel of the Eternal, Lucifer sought
vengeance upon Heaven and decided to get Man to follow him. He
succeeded…
Satan also executed other plans that were directly related to paying back
God for specific things, events or people. As for instance God will have his
Son rule here as King after his Second Coming, Satan, no longer Lucifer,
will father a son of his own, have the world reject Christ and follow him-
that is the Antichrist. As God made Israel his chosen nation Satan likes to
harass Israel by the nations that surround it. He also likes to get Israel to
be as antichrist as he can. As God created holy matrimony and through
Christ instituted holy matrimony as being through one man and one
woman Satan likes to invent new forms of marriage; even now to multiple
persons in group marriage; or to substitute marriage with other
arrangements… As one of the greatest commands is to keep the Sabbath
Day holy Satan has worked to profane it and largely abolish it. Every time
God does what is good Satan will try to debase it. He uses the same
techniques he used on the first fallen angels. He gets people to follow their
own conscience. Seemingly a good thing; but he works to pervert their
conscience so that the sinner becomes irate over much that is lowly, pure,
natural, godly, spiritual and truly good. At the same time they become
enamoured of much that is haughty, impure, unnatural, godless,
unspiritual and bad. Hence we have the modern world…
Chapter Twenty One:
The mind of Satan
Satan cannot bear to look at what is holy and wherever he can he will
destroy it. His greatest wicked delight on Earth is in getting saints to fall
away from God and getting most Protestants to believe that they cannot
fall away. He also delights in preventing people’s salvation by getting them
to believe they are already saved. Roman Catholics, Protestants and other
Christian sects are skilled at self-deception and deception of others in
regards to fake salvation and hindering those who want to be saved.
Satan’s greatest anger on Earth is toward saints that are most holy and
pure in truth, mind and deed. These he targets. Historically he has killed
multitudes of these types. In small numbers they are often isolated,
marginalised and ignored. However Satan always sees to it that they are
persecuted. Christians that drift through life in a kind of happy, hazy
dream are the very kind of Christians Satan approves and regards as his
disciples. He cares not that they use pious talk as long as their hearts are
his.
The single best and most effective weapon of warfare the saint has
against Satan is a life of holiness. Leading to a state of blamelessness
which leads to a state of perfection. Striving for perfection in a holy spirit
is the thing Satan fears above all. Satan was more terrified of Mary the
Mother of Jesus when she was just twelve years of age than of all the
religious Jews in Israel put together. Yet at twelve years of age what was
Mary doing? Helping her parents, working and studying hard but mostly
communing with God and praying. To the priests and preachers of Israel
true and false, Mary was of no significance.
So too God honours the sanctity and pure love of his saints, even the
children. The religion of Mary then, being love to God expressed through
faith, is that very religion that contradicts the Christian Satanism I
mentioned above. In other words to be an effective warrior against Satan
the saint must break away from the mind-numbing prisons of Calvinistic
fatalism and carnality posing as grace; from the I'm-in-the-right-club
mentality of Catholicism; from the multitude of carnal sectarianism and
into full on, real, lived, holiness of motive, belief, thought and deed.
Satan however intends to reveal his power, not just to the few that have
eyes to see, but to the spiritually blind multitudes. His will shall be
expressed by the fallen angels. As they gain more ascendancy over Man
the scales will tip so that they reveal their power and sometimes
themselves.
In Satan’s mind there is a river of hatred that never ceases to rush on and
increase. His fury is so great it is like an unending explosion of evil. His
power would easily let him rule the world or destroy it but God severely
curtails his ability; and that mainly for the sake of the saints.
The world to serve Satan and to prepare for the Antichrist has created a
culture worldwide, but strongest in the West especially in England and
especially in London, that depicts and views Christians as bad. -The more
‘worldly’ the Christian the less bad they are perceived to be but the more
Christlike the more bad they are perceived to be. There are innumerable
techniques for doing this and I will tell you of just one: Sexual immorality
among Catholics. Roman Catholic priests and nuns trying but sometimes
failing to practice celibacy has led to some illicit sex between Priests and
nuns. Historically, and it still happens today, homosexuals infiltrated the
Roman clergy to hide or disguise their homosexuality. Some of these then
prey on boys. When scandals break the good that the Roman Catholic
Church has done to combat these evils is not reported only the
corruptions. Also in state run orphanages there has historically been and
still is a lot of sexual abuse of boys and girls which is rarely reported by
mainstream media. This gives the general population the false impression
that it is Catholic priests that are child abusers in distinction to secular
carers, and that the Church does not combat this. Also the homosexual
connections are covered up by the media.
If the mass media and academia treated say the reporters of the New York
Times in the same way, the reporters would get next to no credit from the
world for being gifted or objective or skilled but rather over the years
there would be stories and histories taught in universities of New York
Times’ journalists that were cocaine users or were involved in a hit and
run accident or beat their wives or plagiarised others. There would be
nothing about their Pulitzer Prize winning journalists and in this toxic
environment it is unlikely any would be given a Pulitzer Prize. Yet these
journalists are sinners with no saints among them.
Yet the sexual immorality of Christian Humanist priests and nuns to which
true Christian saints are more opposed to than the world is used as a kind
of smokescreen to hide the fact that there are Christians in the world full
of goodness, grace and pure love. It is rather like recognising the surname
Smith as applying to serial killers, rapists and burglars but not to doctors,
charity workers and scientists.
This is a principle Satan's uses over and over again in our societies. If he
can get preferably large numbers, multitudes of people, to sympathise with
some kind of victim of society he may twist their minds to oppose even to
destruction innocents that supposedly are the victimisers... An area where
this principle is abundantly used against Christians is in gay rights. Mixing
with Christians over decades I know that most Christians are pro gay and
few are strongly anti gay. However the general portrayal of Christians in
the West is as bigoted homophobes responsible for most of the world's
evils historically and to today. In this way the innocent children of God
that believe in sexual purity, not just the religious sinners who are part of
the world-system, are targeted like lambs to the slaughter.
Opportunities are given to the sensitive singer. Kate sings at a charity event
designed to raise awareness of the problems of homelessness. Kate
encourages literacy in a book reading event. A book Kate recommends is
a biography of a young Muslim gay man finding acceptance among a
small group of gay Muslims in America after leaving Morocco. Kate
makes a pop video in which two young lesbians hold hands and share a
gentle kiss- while in the background there is a church cross they are
moving away from to indicate one or both are fleeing Christian bigotry.
Kate hits the bullseye on these social issues repeatedly without being an
abrasive, in-your-face, Social Justice Warrior. So, what has Kate
achieved? Kate achieves the approval of all the progressive, liberal,
politically correct and socially aware elite. Kate encourages and
strengthens the cause of non-radical Islam, homosexuals and lesbians and
raises a little guilt money for the homeless.
Now I will consider what God Almighty thinks of the real Kate. By using
the spiritual gift God intentionally gave me for just this kind of purpose-
the 'word of knowledge' -I will reveal the mind of God. God thinks Kate is
wonderful. He sees her as one that is so much kinder, more sensitive and
full of good will to others that she would make a great Christian- if the
good nature he gave her is combined with faith and made holy. God does
not want me to judge the real Kate harshly or to bemoan her faults but
rather to see her as a lost soul seeking God- albeit unknowingly.
As for her opinions and actions God Almighty of course sees them as
conforming to the world as it is at present and that her mind is too weak
to break the mould of the world. God has also given natural gifts to the
real Kate, especially an unusual degree of perception and of kindness that
will inevitably over time cause her to break with the world and develop
opinions closer to God's heart and mind.
In other words, unlike many Christians of varying hues, God has a lack of
condemnation for those whose hearts would do only good if they truly
understood things spiritually. There are vast numbers that would live in
unison with God's will and Spirit if only they found in the world a great
beacon of spiritual light to enlighten them. This is where Christianity failed
and why countless multitudes needlessly stumble headlong into Hell after
being deceived all their lives by mass media, the education system,
pseudo-science, false religion and so called human rights that negate
human duties.
You see the world is so corrupt now that even the good people and moral
people are corrupt by simply flowing with the world. There is no island of
decency in the sea of folly and degeneracy- there is just muted
degeneracy. Any person seeking salvation today is seeking in fact to be at
extreme odds with the world and to be condemned by the world
immediately. Such people are easy to recognise and such people are the
special targets of the fallen angels. They are also the only real enemies of
the Powers of Darkness. Yet, the world is so evil even the saints in time
will fall. Most of the world will fall as things advance. The world is about
to be rewritten. How soon it happens will become apparent.
Chapter Twenty Three:
Will the blind ever see?
Satan imprisons the Christian Humanists and much of the world in their
minds; and by the use of false facts, false histories and false truths
because to the Heart of Sin, Truth itself and facts, science, reason and
nature are simply plasticine to be remoulded as sinners will. I expose the
Christian Humanists as they represent Satan in the form of false Christs,
false gospels and false teaching that contradict the plain statements and
tone of the bible and are set in direct opposition to the Holy Spirit himself
so that the Christian Humanists wage war upon the Holy Spirit...
To God’s mind people that believe in demons fit into two categories: The
first are enlightened in relative degree. The second follow their culture,
folklore or religion without much in the way of personal insight. To God’s
mind- as I am using the spiritual gift of a ‘word of knowledge’ -people
that do not believe in demons are ignorant, usually foolish and hopelessly
bound up in the deluding deceits of materialist culture.
True insight will always lead to belief in demons and a good education- if
one were available in any place in the world- would lead one to believing
in demons. Reason and rationality unfettered by either religious or
scientific prejudice would inevitably lead to belief in demons. How
refreshing it would be to meet an intelligent, unprejudiced mind. However
after years at wondering at sinners’ beliefs I have come to the conclusion
that people only understand what they want to understand and only
believe what they want to believe.
God the Father spoke to my spirit about Hell. In Hell there is a small pit
and in that pit was the spirit of a woman. I’ll call her Agatha. Agatha
blasphemes God day and night. She used to be a witch and a
necromancer. In life although Agatha was weak, foolish and her
bewitching powers were largely imaginary she did manage to get in
contact with a demon. Agatha knew the spirit was evil but thought she
could use it to gain fortune telling ability- a common story for occultists
of varying types.
After some years of telling fortunes, oft-times getting them right, Agatha
died and the demon she thought served her while she was really serving it
helped drag her miserable spirit to Hell. Agatha has just been released from
Hell. Why? It is because so many young people especially are dabbling in
forms of witchcraft the balance of human Free Will is tipping further
Hellward and so God out of respect for human nature and its use of free
will has allowed one more evil spirit, among a myriad, to ascend out of
Hell.
Why are so many of the youth turning to the occult? Well, what have the
most popular books, TV shows and movies been about? Haven’t a lot been
about good witches, innocent magic and even fun demons? Right from
infancy children are bombarded with a positive view of witchcraft in
popular media. This in turn leads to a real interest from some. That
increases the numbers of actual witches and that in turn increases the
number to be damned- by their own volition- as God of course wants
them to save their souls, not to lose them.
Compare this state of affairs to 500 years ago and you can see there has
been an exact reversal. Then children were taught that saints close to God
were full of love and wisdom and known for their good deeds especially
toward the poor. Witches however almost always were part of a criminal
subculture, many did worship Satan and some were extremely dangerous.
Regardless of the bias of superstition or science, behind the haze was a
quite deadly reality of dark occult power and often demonic
manifestations.
The only way society could have gone from venerating saints and scolding
witches to venerating witches and scolding saints was not of course by
reason or science but by obedience to demonic influence. This world is
Agatha’s playground. Agatha is consumed with evil and has become over
the last 500 years quite powerful. She has been sent to a primary school.
Her main purpose will be to influence the minds of children as they read
library books with depictions of witches in them- such books as the Harry
Potter series. Agatha will also influence the librarians to order more pro
witchcraft and antichristian books. Agatha will be looking for that one
special child. -Almost certainly a young girl with latent psychic abilities.
Then Agatha will adhere to her like a limpet and mould her like clay…
The nature of the world we live in is that people that simply have common
sense will clash with the elite that push their opinions down upon society
as if they were absolute truth- even if those opinions have already been
disproven. To be holy however is to be befriended by angels and accursed
by Man.
There are only two means by which the spiritually blind will see. One is by
a deep and powerful impression upon mind and conscience by the direct
agency of the Holy Spirit. This is rare and occurs in rare individuals that
seek God or by rare evangelists that preach with the power of holiness
rather than in a humanistic spirit. The second is by death or at least mass
destruction. Multitudes will only believe if fire and brimstone fell from the
skies as it did for Sodom and Gomorrah- even then those that would
believe will still be in the minority. It is usually Death that answers all. In
Hell none of the humans, now demons, deny the reality of God. They
simply hate him all the more as his salvation was conditional upon
forsaking sin.
Yet now I am become the chief of sinners- and not as the apostle Paul
was- as my condemnation is based upon my holiness. You see, for
example, there is a high suicide rate among young gay men, transsexuals,
non binary... Such men even sometimes upload videos to the Internet
giving the reasons for the suicide they are about to commit. Usually those
reasons are stereotypical and reminiscent of what these young men have
been taught and indoctrinated with: That society does not accept and love
them and this is the cause of their suicides. In reality it is inevitable that
there will be a high rate of suicide as the human mind and conscience
cannot always accept the propaganda pushed by Liberal-Fascists. Not
every one of these suicides was someone that could believe and apply
what they had been taught. Some found it impossible as after all it is
counter-factual, counter-intuitive but mostly a set of at best half-truths
designed to make a lie.
Should such men listen to and believe me it is unlikely they would commit
suicide. Yet, to the world at present I would be seen as the cause of such
suicides… I represent that Cross that the two lesbians were walking away
from. I represent to the minds of most sinners the heartless bigotry and
undiluted evil targeting the innocent, such as children and gays… Yet, it is
not really me but Christ within me they loathe, judge, condemn and want
to destroy.
On the other hand the so called sexual liberationists and non-haters are
pushing the deformed philosophy of the LGBTQI++s that cause the
dramatically rising rates of those supposedly born gay and they are the
prime cause of those suicides! My love and compassion, being real, is the
very noose they’d hang around my neck. There is in the Liberal-Fascists in
general an underlying spirit of rage and violence far greater than any seen
before on Earth. If God were not to stem it and to stem them they would
end up exterminating over a billion Christians. Time will reveal these
underlying principles of the demonic and who their servants really are.
The Christian Humanists however hate me even more than other sinners.
They would rather go to Hell than serve my Christ- and of course they
will, but not because of me but because they are too much like the
Agathas… In warring against Satan a saint is always at odds with the
world's ideologies and religions; its pseudo sciences and rewritten
histories; its conceptual models which at best are a series of half truths...
From now on I will teach you Jonathan and the few how to combat the
many and I will teach the faithful how to wage war upon Satan.
Chapter Twenty Four:
The heart of the spiritual warrior
To wage war upon Satan Jonathan, one must first wage war upon the
self-life sometimes called the ‘old man’; and here immediately the believer
will come up against the Christian Humanists. Christian unbelievers will
say things like, ‘God doesn’t want you to hate yourself’, and ‘Self-denial is
taken too far by ascetics- You are an ascetic. God wants us to live life to
the full.’ Yes folks, they haven’t got a clue and neither would they be
concerned about my warning that God will send the Christian Humanists
to Hell as they don’t believe in Hell either.
However the ‘old man’ that the New Testament speaks of is not the
personality of the believer but that part of them that practices self-
gratification in the place of pure love. Self-gratification is at the heart of
Sin along with unbelief. Recently I read on a forum several Christians
debating something and most seemed to think that the ‘flesh’ the bible
speaks of is the physical body and consequently could not get to grips
with their subject. The flesh refers to the inclination to the old ways before
conversion as the flesh is the entire being of the unsaved person- body,
soul and spirit. It is called the ‘flesh’ as sinners tend to be dominated by
sensual desires and then carnal pride. This is contrasted with the spirit or
the ‘new man’ and the living faith that comes from Christ’s Spirit dwelling
within the believer.
A believer to defeat Satan will need to conquer the old self and its
fleshiness and selfishness. This is done by applying the Cross to the flesh
life. This statement then would make no sense at all to the unspiritual for
how can a person apply the wooden cross Christ was crucified on to their
sinful inclinations? The answer is that by faith a believer can trust the Holy
Spirit to work in power to subdue the old man. -Specifically as Christ was
crucified for Sin faith in his work upon the Cross will release power into
the believer’s life.
Now I do not want you to think that Christ being crucified for Sin means
that there is some invisible dark matter of Sin but rather that under the
Law of God the Cross represents the crucifixion of Sin and therefore as a
just dispensation of this Law grace becomes abundant to those who have
faith in the Cross.
These things few understand correctly and people are far too subjective
and look to self for achieving holiness. The efforts of the flesh life to
reform the flesh life fail and so Christians become convinced that holiness
is impossible this side of the grave. They often think that being holy means
being like a Pharisee. This all has roots in the attitudes of the old man.
In real Christianity it is faith in Christ not natural ability that makes one
holy. The righteousness they attain to is not a mere façade but a deep,
abiding reality. Such saints contrast strongly with the Christian Humanists.
All of the Christian Humanists are theorists and speculators upon the
spiritual life and their religion comes down to beliefs and moralism. The
saints however can speak by experience of what it is like to conquer sin
and live holy in Christ Jesus.
The humble, contrite and holy believer then is the only kind of Christian
that can wage effective war upon Satan. The reason is that only these
have answered prayers, the protection of the Spirit, genuine spiritual
knowledge, faithfulness to God and the God given boldness to be a
spiritual warrior. To others such things are just slogans and a lot of bluff
and bluster.
How does a true believer, unlike the Christian Humanists, decide if a real
demon is at work? To begin with the whole burden of psychiatry as part
of materialist philosophy was to ‘cast out the baby out with the
bathwater’ and to use vagaries, make gross oversimplifications and
sweeping statements to dispose of what they saw as primitive
superstition.
The trouble with this approach is twofold. Firstly the real attack is to treat
the Spirit of God as a product of superstition. The second is that much if
not most phenomena related to demons cannot be understood or explained
by psychiatry and so they do not even acknowledge it, as it would ‘upset
the apple cart’. A simple example would be countless guests in an old hotel
complaining that doors bang of their own accord, lights switch on and off
of their own accord and also footsteps are often heard where no one is
walking.
The believer alone if need be but hopefully with other saints will stand
outside the room of the evil spirit. They will pray that God will send the
spirit to Hell. Then they will pray that the chief demon and its other
servants may be cast to Hell. Often there is no reaction to this. There is
just a peaceableness and quietness to a place that was once evil and noisy.
On occasion however the spirits will resist.
A demon typically, having its cover blown, will reveal itself and speak.
Again this is typical: The old lady will blaspheme God and point out the
real or imaginary sins of those present and curse and threaten. The demon
will do this in the hope of intimidating the saints and scaring them off.
You will find that few are suited to combating demons like this. Even
genuine Christians get terrified and absent themselves. God gives courage
to his chosen deliverers. Standing their ground they rebuke the spirit, tell it
to be silent and to depart to Hell. Normally the evil spirit will cry out in
unutterable terror and vanish for good. God gives an assurance that the
same thing has happened to the other several demons and their chief in
the area. Always the bible believing saint will use the Name of Jesus and
the sign of the Cross in casting out demons.
The saints having gotten this great victory will then pray for blessings on
the house and the persons that dwell there- again in the Name of Jesus
who has been given all spiritual authority by God Almighty. To the world
these believers are morons and trouble makers but to those whom they
deliver by their faith and zeal they are true heroes worthy of the name
‘Christian’. Go and do likewise.
Right now, today, what can you do to be effective against Satan? You can
pray this prayer, a prayer which if it had been prayed by Adam and Eve
after the fall would have led them back to full restoration with God and to
Sin being conquered: Pray that all true believers and their children may be
brought in spirit to Paradise where they may eat of the Tree of Life. Adam
and Eve were banned from eating of this tree in the flesh. It did not occur
to them till several months after the Fall to pray that their spirits at least
might mystically partake of that Tree. At that time Sin had become too
entwined in them. If however they had thought of this within two or at
most three weeks God would have honoured their faith and zeal; and
tears. Then they would have regained what they had lost. They would have
attained to perfection before their first child was born, after which all
children would have been born immutable in holiness- like Christ...
If and when God brings believers in spirit to Heaven they will not be
conscious of it. Should he allow their spirits to taste of the Tree of Life
there will be no dramatic change in them. However should multitudes be
given this blessing then over time, say a century, the effect in the world
will be astounding. In this world we already know the Antichrist is to arise
but how many and how great are to be the saints that war against him? If
enough pray as I have said the number and power of those saints will
both be increased and that to the power of God.
In the meantime Christians that can eat of the Tree of Life in spirit in
Heaven will over time become more spiritual than they otherwise would...
Chapter Twenty Five:
Choice
Would you like to be seen as the embodiment of all that is wrong with
this world? As a hate filled, bigoted, violent, psychotic, lying, backward,
vicious, dangerous, anti freedom, antiscientific, insane, religious
persecutor? If so become a true saint. More than anything your love from
your pure heart will convince most people and most Christians that you
are pure evil.
If you want to know eternal peace follow Christ. If you want to know
eternal misery follow Satan. Whomever you choose will be your master.
Sinners often think that they serve themselves alone while believing and
acting just as Satan wants them to. They might as well argue that they
will not breathe the air that the crowd does but breathe their own air. The
satanic principle of the self-centred ego is everywhere established in
mankind and yet we are not merely social beings but in our true spiritual
natures unitive beings with nature and with Heaven and with one another.
We have free will yes, but we do not exist in a vacuum.
The great problem true but weak saints have with waging war upon Satan
is that they are hiding from God and hence become almost ineffective.
Imagine firstly not a true saint but a member of the Christian Humanists
that discovers after decades of bible study that being holy and being a
Christian are the same thing and that holiness is not theoretical but lived.
What a shock! All those hundreds of sermons listened to and all those
hundreds of Christians fellowshipped with that had a culture of non-
holiness or to put it more precisely carnality.
Yet, there are also shocks for the true saint. God is holy and frightens to
near death those who are set on being half hearted and that always put
self-interest first even as they blabber on about serving God sacrificially.
God calls saints to ever deepening consecration. It is always developing:
Their faith ever deepens; their spiritual knowledge ever deepens and their
repentance ever deepens.
However to the saint of great zeal and purity there is ample opportunity to
fight powerful demons, to pray against corrupt governments, to pray and
labour effectively for the salvation of others and much more. Here
however I will simply refer to combating stronger demons.
In this case you have a powerful demon influencing firstly a paranoid and
violent person and the next day deceiving the eyes and senses of a driver
and having failed at these two attempts upon your life he tries to stop
your heart by direct psychic and telekinetic power. Lots of people die in
these ways.
At this stage you need to begin a sensible and very real dialogue with God.
It is not good enough to hope your prayers will be answered. Rather you
must cooperate with God and let him guide you. As you open your mind
attentively, NOT PASSIVELY, to God he will teach you.
You wouldn’t have gotten this far unless you had learned to hear God’s
mystical ‘voice’ or subtle means of communication. Here are some things
the Spirit is likely to teach believers. One is that if the believer repents of
all sin God is willing to put a barrier of protection around them and their
home. Demons may be forbidden to enter. If one does enter it may have
gotten permission by the believer doing something to ‘open the door’ to
evil. Typical door openers would be failing to pray zealously and every day.
Another would be visiting places full of demons while not praying for
protection. That place could be the home of a godless relative. It might be
by watching a movie with occult themes…
By maintaining prayer, purity and a listening ear to the Holy Spirit the
circle of protection around you will be maintained. If you get strange and
unusual sicknesses this may and usually is a sign of demonic oppression.
Often you will recover from such illnesses after repenting of known sins
and consecrating yourself afresh to God’s Spirit. The Christian Humanists
think this is very legalistic but in fact the saint is close to God and God is
very kind and loving like a mother teaching a toddler to walk and
comforting the little one as he falls.
Experience teaches you and so one result is that your dwelling becomes a
place of unusual peace and a good atmosphere abides there. (Unlike so
many dwellings of the wicked that have a kind of darkness that hangs
about them.) As Satan likes to send more demons as well as more
powerful demons against strong saints it is inevitable that at some point a
very holy believer will have to fight fallen angels. When fallen angels
attack often there is great persecution of the saint, people die in freak
accidents, there is terrible Job-like suffering for the holy one… Yet, the
victories also become greater and blessings won for the world by the
saint’s faithful endurance are great and many.
Having said that, before the Holy Spirit allows a believer to become
personally aware of the spirit of a fallen angel he will reveal their activity
in the world. There are a multitude of activities and here I will write of just
TV and film. I have noticed a recent trend in the media (as I write in July
2018) in which macho heterosexual men will pretend to be gay. For
example they will be shown a clip of a muscle-bound action movie star
and asked what they think of the movie and reply with something like, ‘I
was too focused on X’s physique- ooh baby!’ Or as one macho Catholic
movie star recently did, he sat upon the knee of his homosexual host and
fondled his body…
What on Earth then does this have to do with fallen angels? The rapidity
with which people including Christians are accepting and practising
Liberal-Fascist ideology is to do with the power fallen angels have over
human minds and human media. At present the mass media are
consolidating their Liberal-Fascist power, this being a prerequisite to mass
extermination of political enemies and particularly bible adhering
Christians.
As the corrupt views and lifestyles of those that run and create the media
become the norm for the masses and as little laws are changed or others
invented here and there to make being Christlike illegal there will suddenly
then be a tip in the balance of power. Once that happens dictators will
quickly rise to power and the great purge of ‘terrorists’ that is bible
Christians will begin. However this is the very future I expect God to
prevent from coming into being. It is however the inevitable future if God
were to choose not to intervene.
Fallen angels are trying at present to takeover mass media especially in
Hollywood, the BBC and other core influencers of the masses. People
often point out that the statistics show that people are not influenced by
movies to commit copycat killings. That the percentage that do so is tiny.
This argument is used over and again. Yet, it is one of many little
deceptions. Yes it’s true that as a norm people will not copy the murders
of the latest horror flick but people will modify their behaviour according
to what they see on TV and at the movies.
A fallen angel will give orders and detailed plans to thousands of stronger
demons. These in turn will give orders to millions of weaker demons.
These evil spirits numbering hundreds of millions control almost the entire
output of popular culture. Even the resistance to it by Christians and
others is at best half-hearted and can also be seen as the anaemic
response guaranteed to let the other side win. It is like Christianity has the
numbers, power and wealth to defeat a terrible enemy but chooses to go
to war with kids throwing stones rather than with real soldiers in tanks.
If you want to go beyond this to defeat the fallen angels at the top of the
pile you may only do so if God himself both educates and empowers you,
otherwise you will be destroyed. Being a spiritual warrior is a particular
kind of grace like being an evangelist. A spiritual warrior gifted with
‘discernment of spirits’ is like an evangelist gifted with great soul winning
ability- both by the power of the Holy Spirit. I will continue the
comparison: Say an evangelist can roll up to a town, call a meeting and
convert ten or twenty thousand sinners to Christ, with a little help from
believers. That would be the equivalent of a gifted spiritual warrior casting
one fallen angel back into Hell.
Most believers that fight demons or try to fight Satan get their learning
from books- which is fine if the books are good and if God reinforces
book learning with grace and power. The trouble is however that usually
those that write the books simply learnt from other books and not by God
given experience. Bible knowledge is of course pivotal and by far the best
guide but that too as the Holy Spirit both enlightens and empowers the
saint.
Today I heard a preacher on the radio say that the bible teaches that we
are born with a ‘sin-nature’ and will always sin. Jesus’ blood acts as a
covering over our sin so that God does not see it. That the bible teaches
that God does not save those who are holy as no one is holy, but Jesus'
blood makes the way into Heaven for us.
We see that the Holy Spirit disagrees with me but also he thinks most of
these Calvinists are not saved. I can then correct myself. Here is another
‘word of knowledge’: The Holy Spirit thinks I am holy but saved by grace-
that is it is grace that makes one holy…
Here we learn that the Holy Spirit recognises those who are holy, does not
separate grace from holiness or oppose grace to holiness but sees holiness
as an expression of grace.
Here is another word of knowledge: In coming years the Holy Spirit will
send a revival of holiness and holiness teaching as he believes it is central
to the gospel message. This great revival will occur during a time of
unparalleled suffering.
To the believer walking closely with God however fallen angels may be
more apparent; in that they ‘possess’ the hearts and minds of relatives that
work hard to destroy their happiness. True saints always have relatives or
people in their communities that have been groomed over years by fallen
angels to be their opponents- like bishops on a chess board. If the believer
has the gift of ‘the discernment of spirits’ they may sometimes see two
minds in the person persecuting them- it will be the human mind and the
satanic imposition over their personality. The sinners themselves are
largely unaware of this until they do and say things far more evil than
they could have conceived they’d ever do.
However there are rare occasions when Satan or his angels will appear to
a believer. If this occurs they will inevitably kill a lot of people around the
believer- even if it is not recognised by the world. It might be for example
that in the midst of warfare for the first time their small, out of the way
town is bombed to bits… When however Satan or one of his angels
appears face to face with the believer this is a sign they have become so
terrified of God’s power on behalf of that believer they have to step out of
the shadows to try to intimidate the saint.
As a rule they may not be able to possess or kill the believing saint. Over
time however such a believer will have a Job-like experience on Earth.
Everyone and everything almost will be used as a weapon against them. It
is a life of great suffering but also of incredible unimagined victories.
When speaking face to face with Satan or one of his fallen angels the
believer needs to be as much like Jesus was when he came face to face
with Satan. Be self-controlled. Say little except for quoting scripture.
Control your emotions of fear and rage. Say things like, ‘It is God who
decides who lives or dies’, ‘The promises of God are true’, ‘In Christ is my
victory’. Satan will not waste much time with you after he has berated
and threatened you.
After such an encounter you will be pretty much alone as there are so few
on Earth in any generation that know anything of this by experience. To
counter this insular experience God will make you aware of angels and
saints in Heaven. The spiritual realm will not be as real as the material
realm but it will be real enough and far more powerful in its effects.
The saint then in seeking to battle Satan will come up against the Christian
Humanists and their abominable doctrines spewed out of Hell which they
are so puffed up over as if they were not lukewarm hypocrites. They will
wage war upon the saint. That is I have not been speaking of the Christian
Humanists to educate you so much as to warn you- That is where Satan
will attack you most effectively. Your name trashed, your good works
disparaged and even your life threatened or taken. Yes, some holy ones
reading this will be murdered by the Christian Humanists just as the
Jewish Heathen used the Romans to murder Christ. Indeed supposedly
'Spirit filled', 'bible believing' 'saved by grace' anti 'performance driven
religion' Christians will have some of you killed or kill you themselves.
I only have one more thing to say my beloved Jonathan; that on your
outward journey to the Light remember to keep Jesus as the centre of
your being and your thoughts and affections firmly upon him rather than
upon your grievances or Satan's schemes. If some people are made to
forget Jesus by focusing on a false Holy Spirit others may be made to
forget him by focusing on Satan.
Jesus is supreme, all Good, all Gracious and all honour to him!
After word
To speak the truth in love is still to speak the truth. It does not mean to
speak comforting delusions. That is neither truth nor love. The righteous
judgement is the Lord’s. What am I? Here ends the book of introductions to
spiritual themes. Should the grace of God allow I may write a whole book
on each theme I have covered and move beyond skimming the surface,
which is all I have done.
In the depths of silence and peace who knows what dwells? God is so
good. I am too blessed. There is such ineffable peace, such goodness… If I
could take you on a journey with me I would take you into my heart. It
has been caressed by both Heaven and Hell. It is now the dwelling place of
God, as you know the scriptures plainly declare. What will He do next I
wonder? I am less and less concerned as those who dwell in God’s
presence have a tendency to simply be happy being there. Isn’t it ironical
that in a world full of Hell’s devices Heaven can dwell in a single human
heart? Christ is so real.
Aðalsteinn Eaglehawk