This blog examines the apostolic-prophetic movement (also known as the “New Apostolic Reformation”) — a fast-growing, evangelical movement that promotes modern-day apostles and prophets with great authority, supernatural powers, and the ability to give new doctrinal revelation. Advocates of this movement believe that all people, nations, and demonic principalities must submit to these apostles and prophets, who will lead God’s end-times army in establishing His kingdom on earth. This once-fringe movement has entered many charismatic churches (which are the fastest-growing churches in nearly every region of the world, according to church growth experts, like David B. Barrett), and the movement is being promoted by prominent evangelical leaders, like C. Peter Wagner and Jack Hayford. Amazingly, many Christians aren’t aware that this movement exists. Even many Christians who attend apostolic-prophetic churches are unaware of the movement’s aberrant teachings, which are often introduced through the “back door” of churches that claim to have standard evangelical statements of faith. My goal is to provide information about this movement, so Christians won’t be misled into its unbiblical teachings and practices.
Background on me: I’m the former managing editor of Biola University’s magazine, Biola Magazine, and a former contributing writer to the Christian Research Journal. I have a master’s degree in Christian apologetics from Biola. I also operate the site www.fulfilledprophecy.com.
Spirit of Error 
I once followed the teachings of the prophetic movement having been a new christian and introducted to this movement in a full gospel church. It does open one up to demonic oppression with its false teachings and doctrines. I call that time in my life the ten years of terror. God in His grace and mercy brought me out of it. The Lord used a woman who had done intensive reseach into these movements to shead His light and truth into my life and to bring me out of that darkness. I greatly repented before the Lord when He opened my eyes to His truth. The womans name is Tricia Tillin banner.org.uk Her articles include doctrines of demons, the new thing, the overshadowing ect. she went on to other things 2 yrs ago but her articles are well worth reading researh yrs 1994-2002
Jesus is the truth! You will know the truth and the truth will set you free. Thank you for this information. It blesses my heart to see a lost lamb return home.
What I find pathetic is how much time is spent “correcting” and “identifying” all of the false movements around.
I want to meet someone who is healing the sick, raising the dead, casting out demons and preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. I don’t care what he calls himself, if he is doing what Jesus did & greater things for the glory of God.
If you know anybody who is spending their time doing that, I truly want to communicate with them and be taught how they are doing it. But I am sure he is too busy to worry about what other people are doing, you’ve probably will never hear about him.
All religions are from the pit of hell, if we aren’t doing what Jesus Christ did, we are just religious, just like muslems, buddists, etc.
Paul would say to you, I will not come to judge your words, put your power. Are you walking in the power of God through His Holy Spirit, or do you make up for it by being wordy & critical?
I am Someone who wants to walk like Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who is sick & tired of seeing children, mother’s, & father’s dying and “good Christian folk” blaming God.
Sincerely sick & tired of religion,
Darryl Williams
I agree, we spend to much time trying to identify false religions.
Because their are so many, chances are no one has a clue.
Therefore, if people stop giving there opinion’s about who is right or wrong, perhaps we will be lead by the spirit and know them by their fruit.
Peace.
It is a good thing to want to walk as Jesus did. If that is really true then meditate on Philippians 2:5-8. “Your attitude should be the same as that of Chirst Jesus:………..but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a SERVANT, ………He humbled himself and became obedient to death, even death on a cross.” What are the “greater things” Jesus was talking about? I personally do not think those “greater things” are the healing of the sick and raising the dead because Jesus said that in the last days there would be many false prophets and false christs that would do “GREAT signs and miracles”. Jesus said that the purpose of those “great” signs was to DECEIVE. Matt. 24:24 It is not power that sets Jesus followers appart but LOVE. The EXERCIZE of love that is. Back in verse 12 of that same passage Jesus said, “because of the increase of wickedness, the LOVE of MOST would grow cold.” Greater is the exercize of love than the exercize of power. And what is wickedness? The exercize of selfishness. The real power of the first chirstians was that they, “Sold their possessions and gave to any such as had need.” That is love in action, the opposite of selfishness. LOVE GROWING COLD is the problem in these last days. If you do not like “correcting” and “identifying” false prophets then don’t read the Bible because it does a lot of it. I think it is important to “watch out that no one deceives you”, but we must be careful not to let it take the place of LOVING our neighbor as oursleves. Just because someone does a miracle does not mean it is from God. Satan has power, but he has no LOVE. Real SACRIFICIAL love that is. I fall short in that area myself but am doing better. That’s where I need the “power” of God in my life.
The Inspired Scriptures that were given to us and put together by The Holy Spirit through people, before the coming of our Lord and after His ascending back to Heaven, are declaring that God is Love. Our Lord being The Truth Himself gave His followers a promise before, His death and ressurection and ascension, which He fullfiled at Pentecost. That promise is kept by The Lord trough to this days. The Spirith of Truth in His followers is at work and therefore all lies are to be exposed. And only Love that is from God makes this people doing what they are doing in exposing all deceivers that have fallen trapped by the enemy of our soul. The” two main drives” that our Lord had and still are: 1-to do THe Father’s will at all cost :2- to bring all people back to where they belonged and that is in God,s Presence. For the followers of The Lord the same two drives applies. Love…..
Darryl Williams: Jesus gave us the answer when He said, “Go you into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature…and these signs shall follow them that believe…cast out devils…speak in tongues…eat poisonous things and it shall not hurt them…tread over all the power of the enemy…LAY HANDS ON THE SICK and they shall recover (be healed.)”
Then it says that the disciples went everywhere preaching THE WORD (of God) and God confirmed HIS WORD with signs and wonders following.
Preaching His Word produces results. Preaching tradition, church doctrine, my opinion, will NOT. Learn His Word and preach it, and you WILL get results.
Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God (beware lest your church throw you out for being one of those “Word” nuts…)
The churches are dead because they are not preaching God’s Word. They are preaching EXCUSES for dead, dried up ministries and dead, dried up traditions! Most ministers’ preaching is really motivated by a “king of the hill” mentality competition with other ministers “my ministry is bigger than your ministry” and NOT out of a sincere desire to see people healed, delivered or saved. I’m just being totally honest.
Personally, I’ve found that IF I can get a sick person to listen to what the Bible says…I can get them healed of anything 100 times out of 100.
I’ve also found that preaching THE BIBLE is the surest way to get run out of churches, falsely accused by “good Christian folk” and labeled a heretic by “good Christian ministers.”
Just a warning.
A very good website (I’m sure your pastor has probably warned the congregation repeatedly never to read this man’s books) is http://www.rhema.org by Kenneth E. Hagin. I’ve studied the Bible through and through and I agree with about 97% of the stuff he says…because it’s Bible.
Found your site tonight, find it true and great info, surely we are in the very last days. lyn
It is very interesting I found your website tonight. I was considering attending an apostolic/prophetic church this weekend and prayed just a few hours earlier that God would lead me into truth and protect me from false doctrine. Your website is an answer to prayer.
Dear Bill,
Thanks for letting me know! I am so glad and encouraged that God used this site to answer your prayer.
Holly
Holly, have you ever talked directly with any of these people who you feel are in error about the teachings that appear to be false? Do you feel it will be fruitless to attempt to talk with them about the things they are teaching?
Barbara
The Upcoming Great Deception
Stephen Yulish PhD
The Apostle Paul wrote to the Church at Ephesus that “Our struggle is not
against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against
the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness
in the heavenly places” (Ephesians 6:12). He also wrote to the Church at
Corinth, “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the
flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely
powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and
every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking
every thought captive to the obedience of Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:3).
What rulers, what powers, what world forces, what fortresses, what
speculations, what lofty things, what spiritual forces of wickedness in
heavenly places, are we warring against? It is my firm belief that Satan and
all his demonic hordes are preparing to unleash one the greatest deceptions on
mankind that ever has been undertaken. This upcoming deception and wickedness
in the heavenly places will be as a result of Satan’s signs and false wonders
for those who will perish because they did not receive the love of the truth
so as to saved ( 2Thess. 2:9-10). God will send on them a deluding spirit so
that they will believe what is false and will be judged (2Thess. 2:11).
What is this great deception? A deception so vast and sinister that it will
envelop the entire world in an instant when the last trumpet blows and the
Lord descends from the clouds to gather up all the righteous dead and those of
us who are alive and are His bride and we will ascend to be with Him in the
air (1Cor. 15:52, 1Thess. 4:16-17). Paul called this event the harpazo
(original Greek), the catching away (1Thess. 4:17). It became raptiere in the
Latin Vulgate and Rapture in English. It is my sincere belief that this
deception will be that those left behind will believe that we who were taken,
and millions will suddenly disappear, were actually abducted by UFOs rather
than have been caught up to be with the Lord in the air. Most people would
rather believe in aliens and UFO abductions than in the power of Jesus Christ
and in His word, the Bible. “The word of the cross is foolishness to those who
are perishing (1 Cor. 1:18). People love conspiracy theories and this
conspiracy of Satan and his minions is the mother of all conspiracies and is
in my humble opinion the truth. Could I be wrong? Absolutely, I could be
wrong, because only God knows what will happen, but after years of study and
prayer, I believe that this scenario is a very real possibility.
Military aviation historian Trevor James Constable once wrote that the battle
with UFOs is not for the planet of man but for the soul of man. There are no
more evolved super intelligent aliens out there. The Bible makes it clear that
man is the highest form of creation, created in the image of God Himself
(Genesis 1:26-27), that He created man for His own glory (Isaiah 43:7), that
man was wonderfully made (Psalm 139:14), that the heavens are the heavens of
the Lord but the earth He has given to the sons of man (Psalm 115:16). We are
told that all things were created by Christ both in heaven and on earth, the
visible and the invisible, thrones and dominions all were created by Him and
for Him (Colossians 1:16). We are told to praise the Lord as are the angels,
the sun and the moon, the stars, because He established all (Psalm 148), And
finally we are told that there is only one God and only one mediator between
man and God and that is Jesus Christ (1Timothy 2:5).
Thus we do not need some ET to come and save us from the wrath to come. We do
not need some extraterrestrial savior to redeem a fallen mankind when we have
God’s first begotten Son who came to earth and died for our sins (John 3:16).
If any more evolved aliens are ever discovered, than throw away your Bible
because it is false, but don’t count on that ever happening. If these beings
ever appear, we will be deceived as to who they really are.
It is amazing that the Bible deals with this popular concept of
extraterrestrial entities interacting with mankind. These so called
extraterrestrial entities, however, are not from another galaxy but are
actually fallen angels from another spiritual dimension who have interacted
with mankind before as they went after the “strange flesh” of human females
and produced fallen offspring, the nephilim (Genesis 6:2-4). Doesn’t this
sound similar to modern day accounts of alien impregnations of humans and
hybrid offspring? This is nothing new. This concept is 4000 years old. God
became angry with these rebellious angels and threw them into the pits of hell
forever chained (2Peter 2:4, Jude 6-7) and wiped out their corrupt DNA with
the flood (only Noah and his family were pure- Genesis 6:9). But other of
these fallen demonic angel spirits have reappeared over time (Numbers 13:33)
and now are preparing for Satan’s great deception.
How else do you think that it will be explained to the left behind masses that
at the twinkling of an eye, suddenly millions of people have disappeared,
probably leaving their clothes, glasses, jewelry, hearing aides, pacemakers,
contact lenses, artificial hearts, hips, and knees, and even their tattoos
behind (1Cor. 15:53, 2Cor. 5:4). Why do you think that our modern
technological society is so enamored with aliens and UFOs and close encounters
of the third kind? Satan is preparing the masses left behind to believe that
we were taken by aliens in UFOs. Fallen angels have no need for spacecraft but
it is a modality that modern technological man will understand. Yes, there are
“UFOs”, unidentified flying objects. Yes, there may have been some abductions.
But these are not aliens from another galaxy interacting with mankind but
fallen angels setting the trap for the one of greatest deceptions in mankind’s
history. Satan is the prince of the power of the air (Ephesians 2:2) and his
dominions control the skies above us and fill our minds with delusions and
lies.
There is one more piece to this end time deception puzzle. It also tells us
why the harpazo, the Rapture, could not have happened a hundred years ago. Not
only were there no “UFOs” or advanced lighter than air craft as we see today
but there was no modern day Israel. Isn’t it interesting that the famous
alleged crash of an alien spacecraft took place at Roswell, NM in 1947 and
Israel once more became a nation in May of 1948? When Israel became a nation
again, Satan knew that his time was short and the Lord would be returning
soon. The countdown to Armageddon had begun in earnest and Satan had to move
quickly to brainwash and deceive the masses to believe in aliens and UFOs. UFO
sightings increased rapidly in the 1950s as did UFO movies and books and
magazines. Project Blue Book was set up by the US air force to try and explain
the phenomena. While the government was trying to hide the truth from the
people to prevent panic, in reality, they were being deceived to believe that
these craft/beings were highly advanced aliens rather than fallen angels bent
on their demise.
Trevor James Constable again was correct that the battle with UFOs was for the
soul of man not the planet of man.
Satan hates the Jewish people because to them belongs the adoption as sons and
the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the temple service
and the promises, and whose are the fathers and from whom is the Christ
according to the flesh, who is over all (Romans 9:4-5). God used His first
born chosen people, the Jews, through the Patriarchs, the Prophets and the
Temple, to bring His word and truth to this earth and then sent His Son in a
Jewish body to save the world from its sin and spread this through Jewish
disciples. Satan hates God and His word and thus hates Jews and Christians. I
thus believe that the Rapture (Harpazo) will begin first over Jerusalem and
the site of the Temple Mount. The skies will be filled with UFOs and
unbelieving Jews, Muslims and Gentiles will be deceived to believe that those
who suddenly disappear were abducted by these UFOs.
What a powerful witness it will be, however, when hundreds of secret Jewish
believers from the Israeli government and from Rabbinic, Orthodox, and
Hassidic groups suddenly disappear and leave their prayer shawls behind. I am
weeping as I write this because I know that it will happen. It happened 2000
years ago and I know that it has happened in this age as well. “A great many
of the priests were becoming obedient to the faith” (Acts 6:7).
Satan knows his time is short because Israel has returned to its land. A land
that God gave to Abraham. Isaac and Jacob and their descendants for an
everlasting covenant (Genesis 17:7-8. Judges 2:1, Psalm 105:6-11, Jeremiah
31:35-37). From the word of God we know that Christ is to return in His
second coming to Israel and a rebuilt Temple (Zechariah 12:10, Daniel 9:27,
2Thess. 2:4). He is not coming to New York City and the UN, or to Rome and the
Vatican, or to Salt Lake City and the Mormons or to Belgium and the EU. Christ
is coming back to Jerusalem, and that is where He and Satan will face off at
the battle of Armageddon (Revelation 16:16). We furthermore know that Jesus
Christ alone will bring peace to that region and to the world (Isaiah 9:6) and
that He will rule and reign there for 1000 years from the rebuilt Temple
(Revelation 20:4). If Satan will be there, then so will his fallen angels and
thus the tie once again between UFOs and Israel.
Satan is currently using the fanatical Muslim jihadists (just as he formerly
used the Catholics of the Crusades and the Inquisition and the Lutheran Nazis
to kill Jews) to try and stop this from happening but he will never succeed.
He is also bombarding Israel with UFO sightings to set them up for his
upcoming great rapture deception. Believe it or not it all fits together. The
current crisis in the Middle East is a sign that the Lord Jesus is about to
come (Luke 21:28), to catch away his people in the Rapture to protect them
from the wrath to come during the upcoming days of Jacob’s Trouble (Jeremiah
30:7) i.e. Tribulation (Psalm 27:5, Zephaniah 2:3, 1Thess, 1:10, 5:9,
Revelation 3:10). It is also a sign that Satan knows that his time is short
and that the Second Coming of the Lord will occur just seven years after the
Rapture (Daniel 9:27) and so he is trying to deceive as many people as
possible to follow him into the lake of fire for eternity (Revelation 20:10).
During the seven year tribulation period between the Rapture and the Second
Coming, the entire world will become a living hell and the man of lawlessness
(possibly an apostate homosexual Jew with Islamic leanings, (Daniel 11:37)
will appear who will exalt himself above every so called god and takes his
seat in the temple of god with the assistance of the fallen angel ETs
displaying himself as being God (2 Thess. 2:3-4). Muslims will be deceived and
think that it is the return of the 12th Mahdi and Jews will think that is
their real Messiah (coming for the first time) but it will actually be the
false Messiah, the antichrist (1John 2:22). See my article Armilus: the Jewish
Antichrist.
After the catching away into the clouds of the Christians in the Rapture and
before Christ returns, a confederation of Islamic nations led by Iran (Persia)
and Russia (Gog of Magog) will invade Israel (Ezekiel 38-39) with a tank
armada. America will have already been brought to her knees by terrorist
attacks with WMDs and will not be in a position to help. Isn’t it amazing that
thousands of years ago the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel
saw an alliance between Iran and Russia which has only recently materialized?
I believe that these fallen angels will continue to deceive and even behead
(Revelation 6:9) those left behind who seek Christ.
Beware people of the coming deception. ETs are not aliens from another galaxy
but are fallen angels who will not save you from destruction but will instead
lead you smiling all the way to hell. After the disappearance of the
Christians, a false messiah will come and declare himself to be god, but he
will also lead all who follow him to hell as well.
In my end time novels The Great Harpazo Deception: the real story of UFOs and
Invasion: Israel, I tried to create believable stories of this upcoming great
deception concerning the sudden disappearance of millions of Christians as
well as the horrible period of Tribulation to follow including earthquakes,
volcanic eruptions, famine and the invasion of Israel by Muslim tanks. While
my novels are presently only fiction, I sincerely believe that one day they
may be non fiction truth.
If this does eventually turn out to be the case, then people need to wake up
now and consider seeking after the one and only true God and Savior of
mankind, Jesus Christ, before it is too late and they get left behind to
suffer through the days of wrath to come.
My books can be found at http://a9.com/stephen%20yulish
Holly,
It is refreshing to read your blog–thank you! This is a much needed blog.
As I read, I am reminded of this song taken from Joel 2…
They rush on the city,
They run on the wall.
Great is the army
That carries out His Word.
The Lord utters His voice
Before His army.
Blow the trumpet in Zion, Zion.
Sound the alarm on My holy mountain.
Blow the trumpet in Zion, Zion,
Sound the alarm.
—-
May the Lord continue to pour out through you so that many will turn from their blind and nakedness and see the Lord high and lifted up.
I am sharing your site info on my blog, I hope you don’t mind. I am sending folks to you, fulfilledprophecy.com, unsealedprophecy.com, Constance Cumbey, and newswithviews.com. I’m not as talented as many of you, but believe I can send folks to hear ya! My biggest concern is to get folks to hear Jesus, without the clutter of the falsehoods.
Holly,
I’m happy to have found your blog. My heart hurts for the people who are being pulled into the Apostolic Prophetic movement. So many give financial support to the various leaders you mention in your blog. I wish they would turn down the volume on their tv’s and just watch these shows side by side with a Ronco rotisserie infomercial. They’d see mouths moving, and the number to call to order your stuff. Not much difference.
When someone isn’t caught up in the hype, they view things from a different perspective. Here’s a link that bares out my point:http://www.larknews.com/january_2007/print.php?page=3
Thanks again for your work here. Gotcha bookmarked!
Marty
http://brothermarty.blogspot.com/
Wow! Shocking! Here is what the Apostle Paul wrote in I Cor 13:
1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Here is what I say: To the bloggers and others who support this site, I don’t hear any love in what you write. I hear only a clanging cymbal. Additionally, you sound like you have it all figured out–boastful, proud, rude, keeping record of “wrongs”, unprotecting, distrustful. I am deeply concerned for a believer who thinks they have it all figured out. I remember a certain group of people in the Bible who were like this. I believe Jesus referred to them as “a brood of vipers”. We must ALL remember that we know in part, thus we prophesy in part and when perfection comes, PRAISE GOD the imperfect will disappear–your imperfections AND mine, as well as Chuck Pierce’s, Peter Wagner’s, and whoever else you’ve ripped up one side and down the other on this site.
Children taddle-tale on one another and talk about whom they don’t like or whom they think is wrong. Stop talking like children. As Ephesians 4 says: 14Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. 15Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. 16From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
In other words, grow up into the Head, which is Christ. It says for us to build up in love, not tear down in love. Stop tearing down.
I recomend this to each and every person who is a believer: Get your own revelation of who God is. That’s what Paul did. Galatians Chapter 1, verse 12: “I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.” That’s it. If we all do not have our own revelation of God directly from Christ, we will get tossed around by the doctrines of men.
That’s all I have to say. I hope you have found this helpful, and I pray you get your own revelation of God through a visitation of Christ Himself, even the very day that you read this.
Blessings and love to you,
Mark Hagan
Been there, seen that. You are right on! This is a much needed blog that I will be adding to my links! Thankyou for addressing these issues!
Carla
Thank-you for your blog. I have noticed that those who want to defend their unbiblical teachings often use the “love is..” verse. They then imply that you haven’t really met Christ. To disagree and teach correctly is not unloving. Thank-you for loving others as Jesus would by sharing truth. A dear banking friend advises me that the tellers don’t study the counterfeits they study the real money so they will recognize it but they DO identify the counterfeits so they can throw them out because they are worthless. May we all study Jesus and His Word so we can recognize truth and not be deceived by the many counterfeits.
Dear Holly,
I have read your blogs as I check Herb Peter’s website (I confess I am addicted to fulfilledprophecy.com). In regards to your latest post about your dream; I do not think you need to apologize to anyone! I have read your posts for almost a year, and see that your heart is pure in revealing false doctrine. Praise God that you are doing this work. There are so many young Christians who need to be fed and not led astray. Your work is blessed. Please do not wait so long anymore to post!
your fan and Christ Fanatic,
Chris S.
Hello , I just read some of the statements you made concerning prophecy. You stated your purpose was not to mock prophecy but to expose the misuses of it. Those were your words exactly. My question to you would be, what is the correct use of prophecy and do you personally prophesy? If you do not then how could you know what the correct uses are? Also what correct prophecies have you been given? Id like to know because if someone is going to purport to teach the error then they must know the genuine. It seems we all want to correct yet the Holy Spirit, the real spirit of prophecy, sees beyond the faults of us as imperfect humans and He gives us grace. That is why the bible says we “see in part” until He who is perfect comes. We wont ever have a “perfect” prophecy I dont beleive in this lifetime because we are in our mortal bodies and our emotions, wills and intellects will become involved. But we have the best we can have at this point and it will continue to get better as Jesus time draws more near to His return. So someone can completely know Jesus and not get it completely right. God knows this and gives us space and time to hear Him better and to grow. Also someone can speak the words the Lord is asking them to speak and it may be as a riddle to us at the present time. God does use dark sayings , that is biblical. Jesus Himself spoke of future events and Im sure those around Him looked for those events to happen at that moment also. I applaud your sincerity and your openess to have a dialect with others on this topic, because it is often misunderstood. My main point would be to have an abundance of grace toward growing prophets and the gift of prophecy. God wants to speak to us but He also is very patient with us. God bless you and please write me back with anything else you have to say. Love in Christ , Missy
What you think about these prophecy teachings at http://www.americaslastdays.com/
Mari,
Just from reading the front page of that site, I have a big concern. The site says, “Learn of prophetic revelations that have been hidden to the majority of the Church from the beginning and get prepared for what is coming.”
Whenever any teacher claims to have essential knowledge and insight that the majority of the church hasn’t had, then an alarm should go off in our heads. God gave us His Word — the Bible — and the Holy Spirit to help us understand it and apply it to our lives. If the person who runs this site says we need him/her to give us crucial insights, then he/she is claiming that the Bible and the Holy Spirit haven’t been sufficient. He/she is also trying to bring teachings to us that don’t have a basis in the Bible.
God’s Word isn’t full of riddles that we need inside information to interpret. God spoke to us clearly.
In response to your response on March 24, 2007 to Mari’s question on March 14, 2007, it is obvious that you looked no further into that website besides the front page. Perhaps in your view that the sentence that you quoted (correctly) was misleading to you. And maybe you should contact the site and make a suggestion to change it.
However, the Unleavened Bread Ministry of David Eells, strictly adheres to the Word of God. In fact, I like your blog so well because you say nearly the same thing he does. He does not ever say that we need him or that the Bible and Holy Spirit hasn’t been sufficient. He says to get into the Word and be sure to check out what he teaches to be true for yourself.
David does not just teach prophecy. He teaches those of us who are new believers or those coming out of apostate churches of religions, to learn to understand how to read the Word of God correctly.
We do need a teacher that claims to have essential knowledge and insight that the majority of the church hasn’t had BECAUSE the majority that is “coming out” has no clue how to read the Bible or that they can actually hear from God themselves and by simply “digesting” His Word. Those coming out have relied on their priests to tell them what the Word of God says, rather than picking it up themselves and getting into the Word. They have been essentially told that the Bible is too difficult for their simple brains to understand, don’t bother reading it, “We’ll do that for you.”
Your blog “teachings” parallels Davids teachings in many areas. I hope I’ve cleared up some of your misgivings concerning the website. I would like to suggest that you look deeper into his ministry and teachings. I think you will find David is strait as an arrow and God is blessing his ministry beyond even David’s expectations.
God led me to David, because He knew I needed better understanding. Jeremiah 3:15 “And I will give pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.”
Believe me, David is a good shepherd and he takes great care and responsiblity with his flock. Just dig a little further beneath the first layer, I think you’ll see the same thing. You’ll see a flock fat on the Word of God.
Blessings,
Mary
Dear Holly:
Thank you for the labors you put into your blog. I have read through much of the information you have posted, and it is a refreshing correction to the abuses of Pentecostal truth. I’ve been a Pentecostal preacher for about 30 years, and I have watched as people are dragged away by every enticing doctrine, blown here and there like infants in understanding. It absolutely amazes me that so many who claim to be “Bible-totin’, Scripture-quotin’ Pentecostals” buy into doctrines that cannot be legitimately supported from the Word of God. The statements by some in the prophetic-apostolic movement that God is adding to the Word of God, or giving new, authoritative, extra-biblical revelations, is nothing short of absolute heresy, besides being dangerous to the spiritual welfare of the Body of Christ. It seems to me that in many quarters of the Church there has been a resurgence of the Colossian heresy, with an unhealthy attention to angels and demons.
Christ was clear that our mission as believers is to preach the Gospel (Matthew 28:19-20). And what is the Gospel? Would not Paul’s words in 1 Corinthians 2 be an accurate definition of the Gospel — that he determined to know nothing among them except Christ crucified? Have we lost the powerful reality of Galatians 2:20 that our victory is in being reckoned as crucified with Christ and with His life then in us by faith? Understand that in my years of ministry I have had to deal with people manifesting all sorts of unholy things. I do believe in the presence of demon spirits and I do believe they are still active in the world today. But what I don’t believe is their ability, as some claim, to inhabit believers, and I don’t believe the case for their being organized into some territorial army has any solid Scriptural support.
The Church managed to survive the persecutions of Imperial Rome, the apathy engendered by Constantine’s edict, the superstition of the medieval Roman church, the ravages of the Enlightenment, and who knows how many other direct attacks against its existence — and the survival was done without the prophetic-apostolic movement, without spiritual mapping, without all the additional baggage that is circulating in charismatic circles today. The Word was sufficient, there was always a remnant who stayed faithful, and the Word continues to be the all sufficient rule of faith and practice for Christians. Since when did the preaching of Christ — in the same spirit as was in Paul — need to be helped through mapping and manifesting and so on? The simple preaching of the Gospel through Paul was almost enough to break a Roman proconsul and an Idumean tetrarch. But they chose out of their own free will to deny the power of God in their lives. The simple preaching of the Gospel saw thousands saved all over Asia Minor. May God give us more preachers who understand the matchless power of the Gospel and who are unafraid to say, “I preach Christ.” It is my view that the Body of Christ is being hindered by all the peripheral things espoused by Mr. Pierce, Mr. Hamon, Mr. Dawson, and others of their similary theological purview. Instead, we as believers should be remembering such passages as Romans 1:16 and understand that all the power needed as believers is found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Thank you for your efforts and for the truth you unhesitatingly share.
Rev. Scott Osenbaugh
Grangeville, Idaho
I am going to refer your blog on my “Voice of Truth” blog, this site is a great resource!
I noticed the first comment [made to this post] mentioned someone who had originally found Tricia Tillin’s teachings which opened their eyes…
* Shortly before she [Tricia Tillin] left that ministry effort I had joined her discernment web ring and had my blog added there.
My A.B. [after born-again] story:
After discovering truth and leaving behind WOF movement doctrines and it’s false teachers I found myself [a couple years later] delving into learning about dreams and visions “from a Christian perspective” because that is one way God speaks to me [dreams]…
I “thought” I had finally seperated myself from all those Latter Rain teachings but then I found myself fellowshipping with a growing group of believers who happened to be mainly in the Apostelic-prophetic camp… a place where “real truth” can only be allowed to be spoken “within strict limitations”… The beliefs expressed there were becoming all too strange and God showed me I could no longer be safely yoked [even though it was only in fellowship] to this movement.
Praise God that NOW I am back on track.
I pray that your site will help many others, leading them away from these false doctrines and teachers… so that [like me and many others who have seperated themselves from this deception] we can ALL boldly and confidently say…
“Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last!”
Holly,
I want to commend you for the fine work you are doing with this BLOG. It is much needed in our day and time. Thank you for the clarity and directness in how you speak and write about these very important issue.
Do not be discouraged by those that come here and try to attack what God has given you to do! I am sure you understand why they feel they must speak against anyone who will try to unmask what is going on too many of our churches today!
I pray that God will send many more here to have their eyes opened to the simple truth that God’s word illuminated by His spirit is all we need to understand His will for our lives. Yes God gives us leaders, ‘shepherds after His heart’, and my prayer is that the shepherds will get back to the business of tending the feeding the sheep instead of inventing new ways of fleecing them!
God Bless you!
Bishop G. W. Manigault
Judah Ministries, International
Thank you Jesus for your saints like Holly who earnestly contend for the faith for the time has come that many no longer endure the truth of the scripture and sound doctrine. Jesus is coming soon and many more will fall away as the days grow darker, even so come soon Lord Jesus!
I just have to say, ‘THANK YOU.’ You cannot know what a consolation finding your site has been. I feel like I have been battling alone, even left my small congregation I’ve been part of for over twenty years because so many of these prophetic things have been troubling me for a long time. It has been extremely difficult getting straight answers from anyone and the Lord just led me out to a church where I am really sensing His presence and growing in grace. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Your comments are right on the mark, based solidly on God’s Word and full of grace. There is no sense coming across that you are attacking anyone – just upholding the truth. May the Lord bring great encouragement to you as you continue this battle to bring light where Satan has entered in as an angel of light. God bless.
Thanks for your site. Can’t wait to read something more recent.
Hope to see an article soon, Holly. Blessings.
Stan
Hi Holly,
Praise God for your very detailed work in revealing to our brothers and sisters in Christ just what is happening in the Church of Jesus Christ. You are sounding the alarm, you are blowing the trumpet, you , by His grace are doing the work of a prophet…Ezekiel 33
I know from personal experience what it is like to be a full-on prophetic apostolic Jesus freak…I was one for many years!
Now that the Lord Jesus has brought me out of that delusion, I continually feel a great sadness and burden for my old friends still caught up on the treadmill of it all.
But as you continue to do what you do Holly, take time to feed on His grace and kindness…
When I read my own pages on similar things as what you write I feel like there could be more grace, more understanding shown,,,I dunno..
But nevertheless, God our Father can and does use what you have written.
God Bless you Holly.
Dennis
Mrs.Holly,
You are such a Blessing!!!!!
Great info on this site; thank you. I believe in the power and the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and I am heart broken over all the health, wealth, bless me garbage prophecies. I have had amazing encounters with the Holy Spirit, and I believe it is partly due to the fact I wouldn’t settle for hype or an emotional escapade. I stopped seeking miracles and signs and sought God with all my heart. He heard my cry and wrapped me up in his arms. The moment he manifested Himself to me I knew beyond a doubt that my God and savor Jesus Christ are real. The greatest proof we have that the scriptures are true and that Jesus Christ rose from the dead is the gift of His Holy Spirit.
read the posts etc and find it very refreshing…I need however; to correct you;if I may; on certain issues…you compare the OT and NT prophets and conclude that they are not the same…your conclusion is only based on what is happening in the Prophetic movement and not on what God intended…today prophetic utterances that are wrong are accepted…not biblical we concur…the truth is that there are prophets out there who walk as did those in the OT but who are yet to be revealed…the same goes for the apostle…the elijah and charisma crowd are definitely missing the boat…but Rom 8 says that the whole of creation is waiting for the sons of God to be revealed…this is not after Jesus comes…these are those whom Paul refers to in a sence as…you come to me with word…where is your power? I hope you understand what I am getting at…I was called as a prophet in 1986…anointed as such in 1996…audibly called in 2006…God deals with me in tens…in my 23 years walking with Him He has visited me 5 times and twice in the presence of witnesses…what am I saying? The time is soon when the no power and lying charlatans will be shown up for what they are…If God is saying something WE WILL HEAR IT…He is not dumb that He cannot speak or so speaks that His children are confused…lastly Amos 3 v 7 is very clear…”I will do nothing unless I first reveal it to My servants the prophets…”blessings
I commend you for your faith, however, God is doing a great thing in an apostolic and prophetic way for our land. I don’t believe that we have any “new” doctrine or revelation, but the apostles (only) elaborate about the only foundation of Jesus Christ being the chief cornerstone. There is no other foundation that is laid, other than the foundation of what the bible speaks of, but there are true prophets and apostles today that will keep that sound doctrine and the one and only foundation in line by the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ. If any so called apostle or prophet claims to have a “new” revelation other than the one and only foundation or revelation, then we need to be very careful not to follow that one. You mentioned a few names in your blog, and I was wanting some proof and documentation on something that I think you might have misunderstood about them, or just coming against the prophetic and apostolic in general. You said that they are bringing in new doctrinal revelation. I never known them to bring in any new doctrinal revelation. Could you give me some proof on that . Anyway, I do believe in the 5-fold ministry, which is very much misunderstood, and it’s a shame that we can’t all bind together as the body of Christ.
God bless,
Keith
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Holly…you are cool. 🙂 Thanks for thinking and feeling for God.
Holly, thank you so much for writing this blog. About four months ago, I joined an intercessory prayer ministry at the college I attend. It is not directly involved with the International House of Prayer in Kansas City although I participated in an end times Bible Study course taught by Mike Bickle through it. The first few times I attended the Bible Study I immediately fell in love and believed the teaching to be true. After about the third session, I started getting a check in my spirit which got heavier and heavier as time went on. I began to discern a spirit of error so thick I could almost smell it but was unable to identify exactly what the false teaching was. Three years ago, when I started walking with the Lord, I was blessed with spiritual parents who have been given a lot of wisdom from the Lord about cults, the occult and false teaching. They encouraged me to go to the Word with everything and trust God to lead me into truth and expose the error. God gave me a lot of grace and He began to unravel much of the false teaching cloaked in truth. He used your blog to help point me in the right direction. I am in the early stages of putting together the research I have done. Would it be ok to use some of your information and site you in what I write? I thank God for giving you grace, courage, love and faithfulness to expose the danger in this movement. As you come to mind I will pray for you that the Lord would continue to give you discernment and revelation, and that He would protect you from the enemy. He has used you so much. Praise God that He is so faithful. Feel free to email me…
Because of Him,
EW
This blog has been an answer to my many doubts about the prophetic movement and the Church in general lately. There is so much confusion and so many movements these days and so many falling away. How do you know which church is teaching the truth and not twisting the Word of God for financial or power gain? I have watched my daughter step away from the church and the truth and I have recently stopped attending my church and it seems that everywhere I visit either teaches the whole Apostolic movement or the “give me all your money so God can bring the wealth to the righteous. Everything is about what God will do for you materially and everyone needs entertainment. People are running to this prophet and that prophet looking for a “Word” without ever getting on their face before God and searching the scriptures for themselves what the Word says. I have been guilty of this myself just wanting someone to tell me what to do and where to go and make it all easier so when it doesn’t happen I will have someone to blame it all on. We are truly in the last days and I want to be ready and utilized “just as I am”. May God bless you and keep you as He uses you to expose the “TRUTH”
IF
Sincerely I do agree that there are apostles and prophets that are fake ones but I do not think it is wise to put all of them in the same basket. Some of the doctrines that are being preached by Apostolic churches can be found in the Bible and I do think that there are genuine apostles today.
It will not be wise to go against the LORD. Every new movement has been resisted in the past be it pentecostal and charismatic. It is perfectly normal for the Apostolic movement to be having trouble then.
I will advise any one that read this blog to behave like the Berean christian and check the scriptures and the Holy Spirit before taking a decision on what is right or wrong.
God Bless
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I was part of such a church for the past 20 years. We left in May. If you or any of your readers want to see what happens with this kind of teaching or if anyone wants to know why you are so adamant that people find out about it, please link to my blog, start from the beginning and see how the teachings of this “new doctrine” get played out in real people’s lives.
Thank you for this site
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Holly,
We are missionaries in Poland. THis past year the teaching of the New Apostlice Reformation almost split our church. The pastor ended up resigning when he didn’t have the support of the church. Sadly, though we are aware of many other churches being divided by this movement throught Europe and North America.
We now have our antenas up, but to be honest we were blindsded by this stuff. We are now much more cautious. In a week there is another professor coming from Fuller (it seems this place is a seedbed for this movement to grow) and I was wondering what you kinow about him. Dr. Robert E. Logan. He is coming to do a seminar on church planting and Coaching. There is some interest from a couple of our members to attend. Can you give any advice or direct us. I haven’t found a lot on the internet about Dr. Logan.
I thank God for the Apostolic Prophetic Movement. Jesus said “my sheap here my voice” you can’t deny that God speaks to everyone! Anyone can hear God’s voice. I think that who ever is behind this blog has way too much time on there hands. the kingdom of God is at hand! Are you prepared?
Sister, You are spot on with your blogging. I had gotten involved with several professed christian and outwardly “godly” people that had lots of outlandish stories, took me to services where confusion reigned and blamed everything on a demon or satan himself. Then I started seeking biblical support for what they said and what I experienced and instead of finding it, I found the clear warnings against it and how to spot the deception. Praise God for that. Anyhow, I started doing a little blogging myself on myspace but don’t like the environment there. I feel called to write and teach others and may indeed set up my own site soon.
I have found most people caught up in this movement suffer from a serious bout of spiritual pride and false humility, which I have studied and blogged on. I know because I had caught the malaise myself but the Lord saved me through his word.
God Bless You, I know you are sowing good seed.
Hi.
I was linked to this site from a search on the internet on something about Todd Bentley and his apostolic prophetic partners. I’ve been reading some of his teaching, and find it really problematic. I’ve seen his link to R. Joyner and it was that article of yours that got me interested. I’ve not been able to find so much stuff about him, so when I read your article on what he says about the new thing for the christians to live in, and when I see what’s going on in Lakeland, I feel like we’re in the times that Jesus warned us all about, Mattew 24…
Just wanted to say God bless you – and hope you will be back in order to write more on this movement, the Christian community really needs it.
Bless You from Norway. May our Father give you all you need in your ministry and life, so as many as possible will be saved and learn to know the truth!
Thanks for this information that Christians need to help arm themselves against false apostles. I’m sorry to see that the last entry is over a year ago and it appears this blog is no longer maintained. There is a need for current, well-written articles on the false movements calling themselves Christian.
Holly,
I came across your blog as I was searching for information about a worrisome turn a friend of mine has taken with respect to extra-biblical teachings. Thank you so much for all your time putting this together. I see the last posting was a while ago. I hope to see more from you soon.