Heresy Hunters
By Tom Adcock
New Age author Jose Aguellar, in his book called The Mayan Factor called for 144,000 to join together in certain locations such as the pyramids and Mount Shasta on August 16-17, 1987, for a “harmonic convergence” that would usher in the new age and avert Armageddon. According to the ancient Mayan culture calendar, the present era will end in 2012 (UFO’s In the New Age by W. Alnor, pp.27-28.) In June of this year 2008on Nationwide Christian TV Jack Van Impe said dogmatically and specifically “the Rapture will take place in 2012 at the beginning of the great tribulation.” Naturally he had DVDs to sell about it. The problem is Jack Van Impe has said many ridiculous things like “Juan Carlos, the King of Spain is the anti-christ.” (The E.C. Anti-christ by Jack Van Impe Ministries, 1992), Jack got mad on his program when Hank Hanegraaff called him a false prophet. Well Jack, if you are unlucky on your guess of 2012, I will call you a false prophet myself. What other name could I possibly use?
I will admit some people change their message. For example, Joyce Meyer appeared long ago preaching the blasphemous doctrine of the Born-again Jesus. “There is no hope of anyone going to heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell” Joyce Meyer, from her booklet The Most Important Decision You Will Ever Make, 1991, p.37 Kenneth Hagin made it famous in his writing From the Cross to the Throne. It basically teaches Jesus did not pay for our sins on the cross but had to be tormented in hell by demons. In fact he had to take on the very nature of Satan and be born again in Hell to defeat Satan. Kenneth Copeland and many charismatic preachers preached this to millions and many still do. The Bible states Jesus said on the cross, “It is finished.” The very scriptures about communion show it was the body and blood which saved us from our sins. This is very basic. But millions of “charismatic groupies” were/are deceived. What else can I call you but “groupies”? You follow blindly your “favorite preachers” from seminar to seminar, buy all their tapes and books and apparently don’t know what the Bible actually says. If “you people” believe Todd Bentley’s stories of going to heaven and talking to Paul, where Paul told him Abraham helped Paul write the Book of Hebrews and his story of his trip to heaven where his insides were cut out and gifts of Spirit were put into him (sounds more like a UFO story) and if you believe “God told me to kick the old woman in the face with my biker boot so the power of God could fall”, I pity you. Hundreds of other things Bentley says God told him could be listed—obviously the people who believe and follow “faith healers” like this should questions their own relationship with God and they absolutely are biblically ignorant. The only reason any of these people change their message is because “heresy hunters” expose them and their following drops off. Few really repent of their lies and none of them ever give credit to the people who corrected them. They are proud and arrogant, corrupted by power and/or money. And it’s the ignorance of their groupies fault as much as their own. They still call their critics “heresy hunters” and other derogatory names.
Some may object and say, “But I know someone who was healed or saved watching Todd Bentley or Oral Roberts or Benny Hinn, etc.” I reply “I know thousands who were not saved, thousands who were not healed.” In a past newsletter I told the story of Marjoe Gortner, you should reread it. Let me put it this way. If an atheist went on TV and just read the Bible verse by verse, he could get results. That doesn’t mean the reader is from God and only a fool would financially support him. I know one person who was saved on a L.S.D. trip. Does this validate L.S.D. as a way to God? Get the point??
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