"It is the very powerful non-verbal language that Rome and other anti-christ counterfeits have been using for years to side-track us. The flying buttresses, the gold, the silver, the statues, the paintings are all very wonderous but our minds want to think that the religious and financial system BEHIND the architecture are as orderly and spiritually righteous as well. " (Lewiston:The Edwin Mellen Press, 1984)

To all,

This is extremely interesting to me and may explain things I have been questioning and wondering about myself. This may put some more puzzle pieces together for me. I think I need to get this book for myself. Where did you find it? One of the things I loved at the time while in deception was the visual effects created with music, lighting, banners, flags, praise hoops & tamborines, props, interpretative dancing, costumes, candles, incense, drama, mime, etc. You could create different moods to effect emotion from people and to bring in the presence of God it seemed. Sometimes with candles, incense and eerie worship music (like some of Paul Wilbur's) it made us feel we were in the holy of holies. It seemed a thick heaviness like a cloud was upon us with the smoke from the incense.

At Brownsville, they even made a replica of the Ark of God where "leaders" were to go and touch be relieved of their burdens and God would anoint and bless them. It makes me shudder now at what I used to think was so spiritual. One time our pastor brought a bread machine to church and baked bread in the sanctuary so we would smell the aroma causing us to think fresh bread from heaven was coming down. Crazy, isn't it? With the tamborines, banners, marching, stomping our feet and dancing to the beat of drum beats we were summoning Yaweh to fight against our enemies, even swords were lifted up. Wow, this is really scarry to me now as I talk about it.

In the town I live many churches of different denominations gather together once or twice a year (preferably on Halloween night) to hold celebrative praise gatherings and really go all out with choreographed dances and all the revival paraphanelia. I was involved in one and the Lord told me to not go to another. I found out later that some of the people at the gathering were seeking for the gold dust to fall.

Anyway, here's I thought for you all to consider. Something I read somewhere that said that the Reformation brought us not only out of from under the false doctrine of the Roman Catholic church and pope rule, but also from all their pomp and religious paraphanelia with rosaries, statues, candles, etc. Those who led the Reformation held the Word of God in such high esteem that they didn't want any thing that distracted from it as it was being preached so their meeting places were very plain and simple. The preaching of the Word of God was central to their meetings. However today, as we can all see, our modern day churches they want to go back to the pomp and glory of Rome.

It's special effects that's more important than the preaching of the Word. In many cases things like drama and special effects actually REPLACE the Word being preached. I think too that all this is creating false converts in the church. People are being swayed by their emotions to "accept Jesus" rather than coming to a knowledge of the truth that they are sinners in need of a Savior and only the redemptive work of Christ will save them. These days you don't need to understand any truth with your mind you can just be moved by emotion and feeling. This false revival is all based on feeling, manipulation and raising emotion and that's how it survives and how false doctrine makes it's ugly infiltration into the hearts and minds of the people. [Email: Carol]

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Jack Taylor will soon be doing a series of meetings at the church we are currently attending. I had done a Google search on Jack Taylor before he came to our church and had not found much that stated any clear connection with anyone else with
whom I had concern.

Last night I found the following. As I listened to him preach yesterday, I felt attacked. Those who might question any experience that was "from God" or be offended by manifestations has "religious flesh," "did not want to be embarrassed," would not be one who "would do whatever God asked them to do,"..... Most of the congregation was giving positive encouragement to his words by laughing at statements which were continuing to reinforce the above type of thinking however subtly with a smile.

Please pray for us as we make our needed decisions. We had already begun to ask about the direction in which the church is heading, but had been assured that it was not in this direction.

http://www.lighthouse-fellowship.org/JACKTAYLOR.htm

http://www.wordspiritpower.org/

Jack Taylor spoke at the church I attend about 4 years ago. His sermons caused a split in our church and many people left. It took 3 years for our church to recover and we still have problems thanks to Jack Taylor's "renewal" viewpoints. He and his wife laid hands on people who were hurting and we soon had folks laying all over the place. Once this occurred we had people from all around the Athens area filling up the church to be slain in the spirit. The desire for an experience with God became the theme of the meetings and scripture was twisted and abused. I hope there is a way that you can keep him out of your church. [Source: Ed Tarkowski http://www.ncinter.net/~ejt/ ]

Hi All,

During spring break in 2000, I went to see a friend who had been in Maranatha for over 15 years. He locked onto to Bill Hamon's School For The Prophets in Santa Rosa Beach Florida. I was still naive as to who Bill Hamon was and I confess I was a prophecy junkie until I found out about how the New Order of The Latter Rain had infiltrated the church. The services at Hamon's lair, Christian International, implimented non-verbal imagery of water via woman dancers, clad in sequined vests and somewhat fairytalish black loose pants flipping up an electric blue sheet up and down trying to simulate the river. The choreographed message along with the lyrics of the songs was for us to "jump into the river." Fun, right... There were flags and banners and the prayer room was riddled with spiritual warfare maps that were territorially being interceeded for. What's coming to mind is the concept of voodoo dolls. The practicioner wants to take control of something or someone and puts up a proxy. Then words are decreed and spoken to the proxy object. In the case of Christian International and the NOLR coalition of "apostles and prophets" that are on this bandwagon. The roots and core doctrines of the concepts and words spoken over the proxies are cloaked in Christian and biblical lingo. "Hey we invoked the name of Jesus so it must be OK, right?"

If you couple the spiritual warfare concepts with the Euro dollar and the ungodly concept of "truth sacrificed on the altar of unity" one can see a mesmerizing, razzle dazzle set before our eyes. The devil sneaks in the back door and whammo! Were all flipping rosary beads under the jurisdiction of the Pope and the secret Star Courts of the resurrected European monarchy.
I just want somebody to tell me how "they" are going to put a spin on all the guillotines to make them appear politically correct? Maybe they will call being beheaded a prophetic sign seeing as how "they" are the new "christ" and since we refuse to be the body of their head we don't deserve to have one either...who knows? [Source B.]

Email - After attending the Pensacola Revival, my former A/G church duplicated all of the banners we saw there. One service our pastor announced to us that the Lord told him to never fail to blow the shofar at every gathering of the people whether it be a church service or class. We also introduced them to the Cleansing Stream. I had to leave the church after 16 years because they were "taking" us to a new level and starting to"cross pollinating" us with ministeries from other revival churches...... Pretty soon, our sermons became motivational speeches..... We were told that God could give us new inventions through dreams and prosper us so we could prosper the Kingdom. We were taught to stay under the pastor's spiritual or all hell could break out in our lives and we were also told that we were part of the end time spiritual army. We have always had the prayer circles...

The reason I stayed so long in this environment was because I could not imagine my pastor being deceived. To this day, I know that he believes he is hearing from God. He is a devoted man of God but I have come to realize that he is very religious. Bible reading was encouraged with all us using the same reading schedule and at the end of the year if you completed the reading, your name was put on a plaque call the Bible Reading Hall of Fame... Fasting became a ritual and everyone was expected to fast every Wednesday and other special called times... Six years ago, you could have never convinced me that this could have happened to our church! I left behind many wonderful loving christian brothers and sisters who will follow the pastor wherever he leads. [Source: K ]

Miracle man and glitter  dispenser  Bob Shattles (ran Revival Fires Ministry) died of cancer his body shot through with it. God is in everyones face reminding us we are nothing but corruption and dust but they won't hear. He was supposed to have a "special anointing" - however in the end he sought surgery and chemo. Just like us! [ 8.18.2001 - GRFisherNJ@aol.com ]