Monday 26 February 2024

THE HOLY SPIRIT BOARD GAME: PLAYING WITH ETERNAL FIRE!

"Wherefore I say unto you,
All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men:
but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost
shall not be forgiven unto men."
(Matthew 12:31)


The unpardonable sin. Friends, whilst we might endlessly debate among ourselves exactly what could be deemed to be blasphemy against the Third Person of the Trinity, I am here prompted to respectfully suggest that the board "game" referenced in this posting could well constitute such a terrible thing. Of course, God alone knows for sure if its originator, and by extension anyone involved in its manufacture and sales have rendered themselves unsavable as the consequence of what they have created and marketed; I can only say that I for one would not want to be in their shoes come the Day of Reckoning!  

Available via Amazon USA and also most regrettably in these Isles via Amazon UK, let's look at their sales blurb, which is concerning in the extreme:

The Holy Spirit Board by Holy Spirit Games - Christian Religious Talking Board for Seance with Planchette

About this item

*GET THE ANSWERS YOU NEED! - The Holy Spirit Board can answer all of life's most important questions, straight from the man himself!

*Huge 12x18" game board with beautiful artwork featuring the crucifixion and the angels of heaven.

*Beautiful golden Magic Cross planchette with metallic mirrored finish.

*Perfect for churches, prayer groups or just getting together with friends.

Product description

The Holy Spirit Board is the only spirit board designed to directly contact our lord and savior Jesus Christ! Unlike other spirit boards that are often used to contact ghosts and demons, this is a one way ticket straight to heaven. Try it today, and discover a new way to pray!

(Source: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Holy-Spirit-Board-Games/dp/B09QH3HC72/ref=sr_1_5?) 

OK, do I really need to spell it out why this "game" is so seriously twisted? It is nothing less than a reconstituted Ouija board, long used in seances for communicating with familiar spirits aka demons. But as a picture can paint a thousand words, I reproduce below the boards of both of them, so it will be very clearly seen that the selfsame features of yes/no, alphabet, goodbye and planchette (pointer) are all there.


So, from whence came this most sickening piece of Satanic deviancy? Their own website, from which the following is taken, is as revealing as it is disturbing:

Holy Spirit Games presents: The Holy Spirit Board! A new way to pray! With other spirit boards, you have to worry about ghosts and demons haunting you and your family, but with the Holy Spirit Board, you only have a direct line to Jesus Christ himself. It's all the fun of speaking to the dead, with none of the risk! Simply place your hands on the Magic Cross and let J.C. guide your hands to answer all of your prayers!

Let's face it, we all pray to Jesus but sometimes the message he sends us isn't so clear. Now, you have a fool-proof way of understanding the Lord's will right in the palm of your hand. Try it today!

And remember: Anyone who says The Holy Spirit Board doesn't work is both a liar, and a sinner in the eyes of our Lord, Amen!

(Source: https://www.holyspiritgames.com/ - please be warned that their promotional YouTube video embedded on this site is wholly vile, and best avoided!

Just reproducing these words here is utterly nauseous, but necessary to emphasise just how perverted this thing is in what it so brazenly - and I would say completely blasphemously - claims. Oh yes, as many dabblers have found to their cost, Ouija can indeed open a channel of communication, but it is ALWAYS with a DEMON! And yes, such an evil toying entity can indeed pretend to be Jesus Himself! How this abomination all came about is noted here on the same webpage:

Meet Our Founder: Jish Matthews

Jish Matthews is a devout Christian, accordian (sic) player, and ventriloquist (Note: ventriloquism is an occult art) from Beaver, Utah. In October of 2021, Jish had a prophetic dream where he was visited by an Angel, who told him that he must deliver the message of Jesus Christ to the world. He was shown a vision of a magical board with beautiful colors and letters, accompanied by a shining golden Cross. When he awoke from the dream, he got his sketchbook out and drew the first designs for his marvelous invention, and behold! The Holy Spirit Board was born!

God Bless You, Jish!

There's no shadow of a doubt that if this claimed visitation was for real (rather than just imagined or simply made up to cover Ouija re-branding), it was by an angel of the fallen variety! In any event, the "spirit board" that Matthews came up with is Satanic to the core, a hideous mockery of  Biblical prayer, the Christian Faith and the Name that is above all others; rather than its advertised use being a one-way ticket to Heaven it is assuredly one to Hell, and anyone naive or foolish enough to mess around with this deeply occult tool is essentially playing with eternal fire!

"Verily, verily, I say unto you,
He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold,
but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber."
(John 10:1)


Monday 1 January 2024

FOR THE FEW: GOD WILL ALWAYS HAVE A FAITHFUL REMNANT!

"Even so then at this present time also there is

a remnant according to the election of grace."

(Romans 11:5)


This is for the few, the embattled Remnant, whoever and wherever they may be. It is my hope and prayer that this little blog might perhaps lend some solace to them that they are not alone in what they see and feel, and that this one small voice speaking out publicly here against deception - which is the overriding spirit of the age we find ourselves living in - would resonate somewhat with them. As we enter a New Year, where the only thing that will be certain is uncertainty - other than in the imminence of the Lord's coming - if anyone is so touched by chancing upon this little site, I'd be delighted and encouraged to hear from you. You can privately message me via the site's dedicated email: watchman4wales@yahoo.co.uk  


GOD WILL ALWAYS HAVE A FAITHFUL REMNANT


God will always have a faithful Remnant:

Outcasts, finger-tips upon the edge,

Ostracized and branded trouble-makers,

Isolated on their narrow ledge!


God will always have a faithful Remnant

Who refuse to go a different way;

They defy the falling of the darkness,

Waiting for the breaking of the day!


God will always have a faithful Remnant,

Clinging to the right and not the wrong,

Unafraid of being shunned by others,

Steadfast in the One who makes them strong!


God will always have a faithful Remnant,

Ridiculed and sidelined for their stand;

Pilloried as being non-progressive,

Leaving not the Rock to try the sand!


God will always have a faithful Remnant

Who won't be the roaring lion's prey,

Sheep who hear their Master, and Him only:

Close to Him they will forever stay!


God will always have a faithful Remnant,

Seeking to please Him rather than men,

Carried not with every wind of doctrine:

Holding fast to Truth means all to them!


God will always have a faithful Remnant,

Keeping to the old paths not the new;

They will never move the ancient markers:

They'll not be the many but the few!


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"Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God,

that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day,

and having done all, to stand."

(Ephesians 6:13)


Monday 20 November 2023

APOSTASIA: A PROPHECY THAT'S NOW COMPLETELY FULFILLED!


"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine;

but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers,

having itching ears;

And they shall turn away their ears from the truth,

and shall be turned unto fables."

(2 Timothy 4:3-4)



APOSTASIA

Pastor, you are just the best

Bringing us all we request:

Fun and frolic, zing and zest,

All that we don't like suppressed!


Feed us milk (and never meat!)

Gently warmed and oh so sweet -

(Nothing salty will we eat!)

We aim to be chaff not wheat!


Speak with smooth words, never rough,

Spare us all that End Times stuff!

Tell it soft, we don't take tough,

Being made of so much fluff!


Ditch the doctrine, that's old hat -

We've had quite enough of that!

It's just not where we are at...

Keep your treasures: we want tat!


We for signs and wonders lust;

Let God's Word grow thick with dust:

We've decided that we must

In new revelation trust!


Pastor, pat us on the back,

Smile, affirm we are on track

To be leaders of the pack

Turning what was white to black!


Dim the light, it hurts our eyes!

Spin us fables: pretty lies

That well serve us for disguise!

We are sold on compromise!


Masks of righteousness we'll wear:

Naked truth we cannot bear!

We'll spread hogwash everywhere:

Strong delusion is our fare!


Armour stripped, in civvies clad,

Death to self we think quite mad;

All our ears are itching bad

To hear tidings solely glad!


Trusting wolves to mind the sheep,

We will shut our eyes and sleep!

To the broad road we will keep...

Lemmings heading for the leap!


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"When the Son of man cometh,

shall he find faith on the earth?"

(Luke 18:8)


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Wednesday 1 November 2023

SYNCRETIC INFUSION: AN ODE TO THE 21st. CENTURY "CHURCH"


"Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see,

and ask for the old paths, where is the good way,

and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.

But they said, We will not walk therein.

Also I set watchmen over you, saying,

Hearken to the sound of the trumpet.

But they said, We will not hearken."

(Jeremiah 6:16-17)




SYNCRETIC INFUSION


Syncretic infusion,

Truth's rapid extrusion,

The deepest delusion,

Is what gives the people delight!

They heap to them leaders:

Determined tare seeders -

Apostasy breeders,

Who love not the day but the night!


The straight gate abhorring,

The wide way adoring,

The bride is out whoring:

The world's both her lover and friend!

The salt's lost its savour,

Its power to flavour,

Its worth does it waiver:

To uselessness does it descend!


With prideful rejection

Of rightful correction,

They choose a confection

Of flesh-pleasing fables and lies!

With soulish invention,

And sense in suspension,

They've every intention

To ruin the salve with dead flies!


They boast of the blessing

Which they are progressing:

It's all window-dressing,

With nothing of substance behind!

While claiming great vision,

High calling to mission,

They've made the decision

To poke out their eyes and be blind!


The Word they are ditching,

Their ears always itching,

Their loyalty switching 

From that which is right to what's wrong!

Strange fire is burning,

To which they are turning:

They have no discerning

That judgement is coming along!


Syncretic infusion,

Truth's rapid extrusion,

The deepest delusion,

Is what gives the people delight!

They heap to them leaders:

Determined tare seeders -

Apostasy breeders,

Who love not the day but the night!


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"Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary

to send forth a stinking savour."

(Ecclesiastes 10:1)


"But we are all as an unclean thing,

and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags;

and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities,

like the wind, have taken us away."

(Isaiah 64:6)


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Saturday 21 October 2023

KENNETH COPELAND'S WELSH COHORTS:- ROBBIE AND DONNA HOWELLS, LEADERS OF THE WAREHOUSE CHURCH IN NEWPORT.

"Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name:

I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them:

they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination,

and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart."

(Jeremiah 14:14)

When I read in the Bible where He says, "I AM," I just
smile and say, "Yes, I AM too!" - Kenneth Copeland.

Just what is it about so very many professing Christian leaders that, despite their most determined misuse and abuse of the Gospel in every which way, they somehow expect God to pour out His richest blessings upon them and their fellow purveyors of spiritual putridity? That in the midst of their prideful peddling of apostate alternatives to His Truth, He will greatly exalt them and cause them to become the bringers of revival to the land? Assuredly, any such claimed "revival" will be only a shoddy counterfeit one of their own manufacture, a shameful sham marked by a delight in the death of discernment, a reinforced concrete refusal to test the spirits, and an unrestrained fleshly enthusiasm for strong delusion.

In this very context, I wrote recently about Paul Button and the Wales Revival Alliance that he founded, warning about its roots being deep in the New Apostolic Reformation and Toronto "Blessing" deceptions, and yet in all its Biblical unfaithfulness promising a great outpouring of God's blessings. See: 

https://watchman4wales.blogspot.com/2023/07/wales-revival-alliance-its-origins-and.html

Very sadly, there are of course other most virulent Scripture-debasing diseases in the Body that so many have either willingly or quite wilfully contracted, incredibly actually preferring spiritual malaise to spiritual health. One such Christian cancer, if I might use that term, is the Word of Faith movement, with one of its largest and most aggressive tumours manifesting itself as the so-called "prosperity gospel." On this note, let us now turn to another Welsh operation having false revival firmly in its cross hairs, this being the Warehouse Church in the city of Newport as (mis)led by its husband-and-wife "pastors" Robbie and Donna Howells. Such a completely unscriptural arrangement was flagged up in another article on this site:

https://watchman4wales.blogspot.com/2022/09/ladies-in-leadership-husband-and-wife.html

Dear friends and readers, what I wish to alert you to here in this new piece is the fact that this ear-tickling couple are the Welsh cohorts of that wolf among wolves, the fleet- of-jets-and-private-airport-owning and foremost fat-cat profiteer from "Christian" entrepreneurism, "Mr. Prosperity Gospel" himself... Kenneth Copeland! Since 18 June 2015, Robbie (Robert) Howells has been a Trustee of Kenneth Copeland Ministries, one of the 6 such appointees overseeing its UK wing. Furthermore, this very organization's accounts for the year ended 31 December 2021 show that it gifted the Howells' Warehouse Church £10,300 that year; this was for the purchase of equipment for their TV ministry project. (Warehouse Church accounts state £10,000. Interestingly, the accounts reveal a £10,919 hike in its ministers' salary from the previous year, from £59,000 to £69,919; make of that what you will. All figures given are easily verifiable via the official records of the  Charity Commission). Filming of their 'Taking You Forward' programme began in the latter part of that year, with episodes being aired on the 'Victory Channel' of - yes, you must have guessed! - Kenneth Copeland Ministries. Stars of this show? Surely you'll have guessed this too? Robbie and Donna Howells, of course! Please refer to: https://www.govictory.com/show/taking-you-forward/

That the Howells are dyed-in-the-wool adherents of the "greed is good" heinous mockery of the Faith once delivered that is the "prosperity gospel" can be in no shadow of doubt, given the proof that they are joined at the hip to Kenneth Copeland. For evidence of just how amazingly far removed this dollar-adoring deceiver is from sound doctrine, and how twisted is his theology, please read the long list of Copeland quotes I supply below as an appendix to this article. You could only ally yourself - and so deeply - to such a man if you are similarly following a different "Jesus" and have a different gospel and a different spirit, things which were warned about by the Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 11:4. 

With all this firmly in mind, we will now move on to look at how Mr. and Mrs. Howells and their Warehouse Church, like Paul Button and his Wales Revival Alliance, see themselves as "movers and shakers" in the bringing of revival to the land... all when the Scriptures tell us that the End Times are marked not by a great awakening but by great apostasy! Extremely ambitious plans have been formulated for creating a huge Revival Centre in Newport, as can be seen at https://www.thewarehousechurch.tv/newbuildingproject. This "prosperity gospel" megachurch will naturally have Robbie and Donna both directing and starring in the show, the Welsh equivalent you might say of Joel ("Your Best Life Now") and Victoria Osteen. We can only hope and pray that the project never gets off the ground; it's the very last thing that Wales wants, being well awash with counterfeit Christianity already!

We might well note here that Mission 24, of which Paul Button is the lead in Wales, has partnered with the Warehouse Church for a 'Connect Day' on 25 November. Salvation is free, but unless you're a student you'll have to pay £16.96 advance booking (£20 on the door) to hear Mission 24 chief Jonathan Conrathe preach the Good News. I'll only say that you can draw your own conclusions about this event and what it signifies.

The institutional "Church" has no excuse for her endless infidelity. The Word of God in 2 Timothy 4:3-4 clearly reveals that the time would come when professing Christians would not hold to sound doctrine but turn to fables, heaping to themselves teachers who would tickle itching ears with words to delight and not to dismay, things they want to hear rather than what they need to hear. Isaiah once lamented of the people that their demand was this: "Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits." (Is. 30:10). As then, so today; as the wise Preacher declared: "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun." (Ecclesiastes 1:9). Deception is both the desire and the delivery of the hour we find ourselves in.

What is so urgently needed to be heard is that it is not thoroughly undeserved revival but fully deserved judgment that is coming down the line. Time is short; the last grains of sand are streaming through the glass, and all of us need to be completely awake to eschatological reality, not slumbering on in the comfy eiderdown of illusion. As Peter put it, so succinctly:

"For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God:

and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them

that obey not the gospel of God?"

(1 Peter 4:17)


EPILOGUE: WRECKERS AND FALSE LIGHTS

Centuries ago, so legend says, ruthless coast-dwellers would lure passing ships onto the rocks, then plunder the hapless wrecks of whatever cargo they might be carrying, even bludgeoning surviving sailors to death so they could carry no tales of what had befallen them. Tying a lantern around a horse's or mule's neck, they'd lead the animal along the clifftop; upon seeing the swaying light and mistaking it for the stern lamp of another vessel, a captain would think that he was a lot further out at sea than he really was; he'd only know otherwise when he heard the ship's timbers splinter on the jagged rocks and it was all too late.

Please, my friends and readers, hear this warning and take it to heart: there are false lights out there, projecting an illusion of safety while in reality they are treacherous in the extreme. A new religious Babylon is arising, a darkness masquerading as light that can lead to the wreckage of your souls and the looting of all that is held in your hold of hope. Discernment and wisdom is of paramount importance in these perilous times, an age we were told would come and has now arrived. Exercise these vital gifts that God will freely give if you would but ask and receive, and in so doing steer well clear of each and every hull-shredding reef! As Paul adjured Timothy, his "son in the faith":

"This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy,

according to the prophecies which went before on thee,

that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;

Holding faith, and a good conscience;

which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck."

(1 Timothy 1:18-19)


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APPENDIX: A COMPILATION OF SHOCKING KENNETH COPELAND QUOTES

First published here: 

https://watchman4wales.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-compilation-of-shocking-kenneth.html

KENNETH COPELAND'S ELEVATION OF HIMSELF TO GODHOOD:
When I read in the Bible where He says, "I AM," I just smile and say, "Yes, I AM too!"

KENNETH COPELAND'S ELEVATION OF ALL BELIEVERS TO GODHOOD:
1) Every Christian is a god.


2) You don't have a god in you - you are one!

3) Now Peter said, "By exceeding great and precious promises you become partakers of the divine nature." Alright. Are we gods? We are a class of gods!

KENNETH COPELAND'S INSTRUCTION TO MEN TO PRAY TO THEMSELVES, AS BEING ONE WITH THE GODHEAD:
Pray to your self, because I'm in your self and you're in my Self. We are one Spirit, saith the Lord.

KENNETH COPELAND, CONCERNING MEN'S ABILITY:
You have the same creative faith and ability on the inside of you that God used when He created the heavens and the earth.

KENNETH COPELAND'S CLAIM THAT ADAM WAS GOD INCARNATE: 
God's reason for creating Adam was His desire to reproduce Himself. I mean a reproduction of Himself, and in the Garden of Eden He did just that. He was not a little like God. He was not almost like God. He was not subordinate to God even... Adam is as much like God as you could get, just the same as Jesus... Adam, in the Garden of Eden, was God manifested in the flesh.

KENNETH COPELAND'S TEACHING THAT GOD REPLICATED HIMSELF IN ADAM: 
1) God spoke Adam into existence in authority with words. These words struck Adam's body in the face. His body and God were exactly the same size.

2) If you stood Adam upside God, they look just exactly alike. If you stood Jesus and Adam side-by-side, they would look and sound exactly alike.

KENNETH COPELAND'S ASSERTION THAT GOD HAS A (HUMAN-SIZED) PHYSICAL BODY:
1) So you see, that faith didn't come billowing out of some giant monster somewhere. It came out of the heart of a being that is very uncanny the way He's very much like you and me. A being that stands somewhere around 6' 2, 6' 3, that weighs somewhere in the neighbourhood of a couple of hundred pounds, little better...

2) God is a spirit-being with a body, complete with eyes, and eyelids, ears, nostrils, a mouth, hands and fingers, and feet.

KENNETH COPELAND'S ANDROGYNOUS ADAM AND ANDROGYNOUS GOD:
And then He created Eve out of Adam... When God said "Adam!" they both came... They had always been together. Even when she was still a part of him, he was as much female as he was male, like God is!

KENNETH COPELAND'S BELIEF THAT FAITH IS A FORCE:
Faith is a power force. It is a tangible force. It is a conductive force.

KENNETH COPELAND'S TEACHING OF (OCCULT) VISUALIZATION:
Words create pictures, and pictures in your mind create words. And then the words come back out your mouth... And when that spiritual force comes out it is going to give substance to the image that's on the inside of you. Aw, that's that visualization stuff! Aw, that's that New Age! No, New Age is trying to do this, and they'd get somewhat results out of it because this is spiritual law, brother!

KENNETH COPELAND'S DENIAL OF THE ETERNAL PRE-EXISTENCE OF JESUS:
1) Jesus existed only as an image in the heart of God, until such time as the prophets of the Old Testament could positively confess Jesus into existence through their constant prophecies.

2) Jesus has a beginning and an end.

KENNETH COPELAND'S DESCRIPTION OF JESUS AS A "FAITH" PRODUCT OF GOD:
The faith it took to make fingers was loosed, the faith it took to make arms was loosed in the earth, and now God had a way to hover over a little woman by the name of Mary. And there was born of that virgin woman a product of God. Once again, something has happened from the insides of God.

Now, you see, God is injecting His Word into the earth to produce this Jesus - these faith-filled words that framed the image that's in Him. .. He can't just walk onto the earth and say, "Let it be!" because He doesn't have the right! He had to sneak it in here around the god of this world that was blocking every way that he possibly could.

God was making promises to Jesus, and Jesus wasn't even there. But, you see, God deals with things that are not yet as though they already were. That's the way He gets them to come to pass.


KENNETH COPELAND'S ASSERTION THAT GOD HAS NO RIGHT OF ACCESS TO THE EARTH:
God's on the outside looking in. He doesn't have any legal entree into the earth. The thing don't belong to Him. You see how sassy the Devil was in the presence of God in the book of Job? God said, "Where have you been?" Wasn't any of God's business. He didn't even have to answer if he didn't want to... God didn't argue with him a bit. You see, this is the position that God's been in... Might say, "Well, if God's running things He's doing a lousy job of it." He hadn't been running 'em, except when He's just got, you know, a little bit of a chance!

KENNETH COPELAND'S DENIAL OF THE SUFFICIENCY OF CALVARY:
When Jesus cried, "It is finished!" He was not speaking of the plan of redemption. There were still three days and nights to go through before He went to the throne... Jesus' death on the cross was only the beginning of the complete work of redemption.

KENNETH COPELAND'S BELITTLING OF CALVARY:
Now it wasn't the physical death on the cross that paid the price for sin... Anybody could do that.

KENNETH COPELAND'S ASSERTION THAT IT WAS NOT JESUS ALONE WHO COULD HAVE ATONED FOR SIN:
Any O.T. prophet could have atoned for our sins, if they knew what Jesus knew.  

KENNETH COPELAND'S WEAK JESUS:
We are the body of His Word. We are carriers of faith. Without us, people die and go to Hell. Without us being strong, Jesus is not strong.

KENNETH COPELAND'S DENIAL THAT JESUS IS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD:
Jesus is no longer the only begotten Son of God. 

KENNETH COPELAND'S CONTRADICTION OF HEBREWS 13:8:
Jesus has not remained the same, He has changed.

KENNETH COPELAND ON JESUS' RIGHTEOUSNESS:
Jesus had to give up His righteousness.

KENNETH COPELAND ON JESUS BECOMING SATANIC:
Jesus took on the nature of Satan when He was on the cross.

KENNETH COPELAND'S PRONOUNCEMENT THAT IT WAS SATAN WHO HAD THE VICTORY AT CALVARY:
Satan conquered Jesus on the Cross and took His spirit to the dark regions of Hell.

KENNETH COPELAND'S TEACHING ON JESUS IN HELL:
Jesus was dragged down into the bowels of Hell, where He was beaten and bruised by Satan and his demons until Jesus could finally fight His way out of Hell three days later.

KENNETH COPELAND'S "BORN AGAIN" JESUS:
1) Jesus was reborn in the pits of Hell.

2) Jesus was born again - the firstborn from the dead the Word calls Him - and He whipped the Devil in his own backyard.

KENNETH COPELAND'S DECLARATION THAT JESUS NEVER CLAIMED TO BE GOD:
They crucified me for claiming I was God. I didn't claim that I was God. I just claimed that I walked with Him and that He was in me. Hallelujah! That's what you're doing!

KENNETH COPELAND'S CLAIM THAT HEAVEN IS A PLANET:
1) You don't think earth was first, do you? Huh? Well, you don't think that God made man in His image, and then made earth in some other image? ... This is all a copy. It's a copy of home. It's a copy of the Mother Planet. Where God lives. He made a little one just like His and put us on it.

2) Heaven has a north and a south and an east and a west. Consequently it must be a planet.

KENNETH COPELAND'S MAJORING ON MATERIALISM:
1) Prosperity is a major requirement in the establishment of God's will.

2) God's will for His people today is abundance.

3) God... needs you rich.

4) Clearly, our prosperity is important to God. It's so central to His will that He included it in the price Jesus paid for our redemption. So it doesn't matter whether or not we think we need it. What matters is that God needs it!

KENNETH COPELAND'S FALSE PROPHECY RE ISLAM:
And we're going to see the move of God like we've never seen it before... Because, you mark my word, 1995 is the beginning of the "Beyond what we are able to ask or think." 1995 is that beginning. It has come. There are many Muslims that while they are trying to worship what they think is God, Jesus is going to appear right in the middle of it. And under the influence of the power of the Holy Ghost, Islam will fall. Islam will become nothing. (Published 25/12/94).

KENNETH COPELAND'S ECUMENICAL ACCORD WITH THE POPE:
Thank you, sir. We do bless you. We receive your blessing. It's very, very important to us, and we bless you with all of our hearts, we bless you with all of our souls, we bless you with all of our might, and we thank you, sir. We thank God for you. And so all of us declare together, "Be blessed!" Once again, altogether, "Be blessed!" Amen.

KENNETH COPELAND'S DENUNCIATION OF GOD AS A FAILURE:
I was shocked when I found out who the biggest failure in the Bible actually is... The biggest in all the Bible is God!
He lost His top-ranking, most anointed angel, the first man He ever created, the first woman He ever created, the whole earth and all the fullness therein, a third of the angels at least! That's a big loss, man! I mean, you figure it all, that's a lot of real estate, brother, gone down the drain. Now the reason you don't think of God as a failure is He never said He's a failure. And you're not a failure till you say you're one!


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Monday 21 August 2023

'WE ARE THE NAR, DILLY DILLY!' - AN OLD FOLK SONG, RE-SUNG.

"Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things,

to draw away disciples after them."

(Acts 20:30)

"Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets,

that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!"

(Ezekiel 13:3)

"For if a man think himself to be something,

when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself."

(Galatians 6:3)



I have of late been much focused on researching the steady infiltration of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) with its Dominionist 'Seven Mountain Mandate' into Wales, a phenomenon which is hugely worrying. A few days ago, for some quite unfathomable reason, that ancient folk song/nursery rhyme 'Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, Lavender's green' suddenly started cascading through my mind. Just so random! But then, little by little, a whole new set of words began to formulate, the end result being the little parody I now set out before you...


'WE ARE THE NAR, DILLY DILLY'


We are the NAR, dilly dilly,

Creme de la creme;

We will decree, dilly dilly -

You'll say "Amen!"


Jump off the Rock, dilly dilly,

On to the sand:

There we will build, dilly dilly,

Castles so grand!


They'll have thick walls, dilly dilly,

Towers so high -

And from each one, dilly dilly,

Proud flags will fly!


We'll be their kings, dilly dilly,

Standing so tall;

Mountains we'll scale, dilly dilly,

Seven in all!


What's that you say, dilly dilly?

"High comes the tide!"

Waves we defy, dilly dilly:

Breakers we ride!


Move or be moved, dilly dilly,

Out of our way!

Raised up to reign, dilly dilly,

We will hold sway!


How dare you claim, dilly dilly,

That we are wrong?

You are just weak, dilly dilly:

We are the strong!


We are the NAR, dilly dilly,

Creme de la creme;

We will decree, dilly dilly -

You'll say "Amen!"


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N.B. Much reference has been made on this site to the New Apostolic Reformation. See:

https://watchman4wales.blogspot.com/search/label/New%20Apostolic%20Reformation


Saturday 15 July 2023

WALES REVIVAL ALLIANCE - ITS ORIGINS AND CONTRADICTIONS.

"For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets,

and shall shew great signs and wonders;

insomuch that, if it were possible,

they shall deceive the very elect.

Behold, I have told you before."

(Matthew 24:24-25)

Paul and Julie Button with the Arnotts at Avivamiento

Avivamiento. A new name to you, as it was to me? Well, it came to my attention as being essentially the origin of the "vision" behind the creation of the Wales Revival Alliance last year, and in following through on this I am sadly obligated in seeing the grave dangers to sound a stark warning about what is really afoot here.

The Avivamiento World Revival Center (no small claim here!) in Bogota, Colombia, South America, is run by husband-and-wife "pastors" Ricardo and Ma Patricia Rodriguez. Now, while our ladies have a most important complementary role to play in the Church, they are not called by the Holy Spirit to positions of leadership, which He assigns only to men. So in this respect alone, this Colombian outfit is displaying open challenge to what is truly Godly, and so inevitably falls outside His blessing, making genuine revival in such a scenario an actual impossibility. But quite aside from this observation, video evidence vividly demonstrates that the only thing being revived at Avivamiento is the so-called 'Toronto Blessing' - in reality a diabolical curse of epic proportions, originating not in Heaven but in Hell, and bringing not gentleness, sobriety and orderliness which is the evidence of the ministering of the Holy Spirit, but absolute chaos in its wake! Please go to their website, and watch the shocking short 'Our Ministry' video on the Homepage. What you will see is these two artful performers working the crowd, whipping them up into an altered state of consciousness whereby all discernment, reason and inhibition is flat-lined and a grotesque mass Kundalini manifestation is engendered.

 
United in the spirit of antichrist: 
the Arnotts and the Pontiff of Rome.

Nothing new under the sun; this is all deju-vu at its ugliest. And it should come as no surprise at all that John and Carol Arnott, the similarly Scripture-sinking husband-and-wife supposed "pastors" of the Toronto Airport (Vineyard) Church, now branded 'Catch The Fire' - where the Toronto Curse broke out in 1994 under their (mis)leadership - were star guest speakers at the recent Avivamiento 'World Revival Congress 2023.'

And so from Colombia and Canada to Wales...

An attendee at said Congress was a Welshman by the name of Paul Button, hence the  photo of him there with the Arnotts - these religious renegades who he fetes as being "an amazing couple!" - as reproduced above. Mr. Button is the man claiming to have received the "vision" for establishing the Wales Revival Alliance, the day after returning from last year's June, 2022 Avivamiento conference. It is quite beyond question that his mindset and spiritual worldview has been moulded by what he has partaken of in far-off Bogota, which he is so desirous of emulating back here in Wales. I would recommend, if I may, the viewing of another short promotional video, this one being embedded on the Homepage of the Wales Revival Alliance. There you will see Mr. Button praying over a woman who is being most notably affected not by the Holy Spirit but rather by a classic Kundalini manifestation. He is clearly and most worryingly unable to ascertain the difference!

The lack of discernment in such important things extends to the abject failure to be able to recognize the true signs of the times. The WRA site proclaims that "revival is brewing" in Wales, which fantasy simply does not in any way tally with the Word of God, which in no uncertain terms tells us that these the Last Days are not marked by revival but by rampant deception and outright apostasy on every level... of which Wales is so wretchedly absolutely awash! As it is written:

"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; 

but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 

And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, 

and shall be turned unto fables."

(2 Timothy 4:3-4)

And such a fable that folks are being turned to is that "revival is brewing," which hype tickles itching ears with what folks want to hear rather than what they need to hear... which is that the axe of God is being taken to the root of the badly diseased tree, and this land is in line not for blessing but for righteous judgment! Assuredly, the only "revival" that we might witness is a counterfeit one, arising from people's insatiable thirst for untested "signs and wonders," a feel-good experiential faith, highs that excite the flesh while feeding the spirit not with the pure bread of life but with a Laodicean loaf shot through with frankly dangerously contaminated leaven!

At this point, some background detail on Mr. Button may prove helpful. A successful businessman, he pastored a fellowship formed in the village where he lives in the Vale of Glamorgan, this being Liberty Church Colwinston. Its Facebook post for July 17, 2017 is informative:

"It all started with an Alpha course which we ran in Colwinston's Sycamore Tree pub in January to March 2017. After the course ended people did not want to stop meeting so we ran another Alpha course in Colwinston village hall starting on April 30th (finishes July 23rd). People still don't want to stop meeting so we have launched Liberty Church, Colwinston (linked to Liberty Church, Swansea). We meet every Sunday at 4pm in the village hall..."

Mr. Button is here seen to be a big Alpha fan, which is not good news in and of itself. But what is also revealing is the link to Liberty Church, Swansea, which before moving to its present accommodation had been birthed at the Bible College of Wales, which is a New Apostolic Reformation institution run by Cornerstone Community Church of Singapore. Not only has he preached at the College, he actually graduated from there (as did his wife) in 2016. (Before we move on, let us note well that Liberty Swansea, just like the Avivamiento outfit, is similarly unBiblically run by husband-and-wife "pastors"). The College quite unsurprisingly runs NAR 'Bless Wales' conferences; a Liberty Colwinston FB entry for 2019 promotes the 'Bless Wales' conference of that year, when the star guest happened to be the Dominionist deceiver and NAR leader Dutch Sheets. We might also carefully note that Mr. Button was an enthusiastic participant at this year's 'Curse - sorry, Bless - Wales' shindig, which featured the dreadful "prophetess" Emma Stark. There's no question at all that this College has played a central role, along with Avivamiento of course, in formulating this man's theological make-up.

In July, 2021, Mr. Button graduated a second time, on this occasion from the Leicester-based Mission 24's 'School of Ministry & Mission,' subsequently becoming one of this organization's Team Evangelists and the Lead for Wales. Key NAR concepts are seen in the hype for this school: equipping, activating, signs and wonders, impartation... at £1,200 for an 11-month course, no less! (Friends, we will search the New Testament in vain for any hint of the need for any believer to attend such a school. Please think on this significant omission). Very concerning is that it intends to be running its courses not only in Leicester but also in South Wales. This will be at a venue to be confirmed, but it seems likely that the WRA's aim of purchasing its own building in Aberkenfig near Bridgend figures in these plans. What is also conjecture only at this stage, of course, is that Mr. Button could be installed as pastor; it would seem likely that the Colwinston venture has folded, as there have been zero posts on their FB page for over three years now. (Anyone knowing if it is actually still going, please do correct me!) 

The Wales Revival Alliance makes much of its association with Chroma Church, also located in Leicester, which has Vineyard/Wimberism/Third Wave origins, and - surprise, surprise - also has husband-and-wife "pastors" at the helm. Charity Commission data shows that they have NAR/Bethel, Redding connections; their published accounts for the year ended March 2022 contains the following entry: "This year we hosted three students from Bethel Church, Redding, California completing their third year of the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry." Bill Johnson's Bethel is a veritable epicentre of apostasy; Chroma's strong link to them sadly speaks volumes. 

The reference to "power evangelism" on the WRA site shows that Wimberism - i.e. the belief that the demonstration of "signs and wonders" is vital to get people to embrace the Gospel - is a most important pillar of their platform. This being despite the clear Scriptural teaching that "faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." (Romans 10:17). Yes, hearing ONLY! And when it comes to the question of pulling folks in via "signs and wonders" did not Jesus Himself declare, "An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign." (Matthew 12:39). It might be opportune to also make mention here that John Wimber was keenly ecumenical, as is Mr. Button. In this context four churches are involved in the WRA week-long mission to take place in the Bridgend area, July 17th-23rd.

In conclusion please, please, remember that the Bible speaks only of an apostasia, the Falling Away from Truth in the Last Days, which are now not future but present tense. Let's say it as it is: the fictional coming great revival that the likes of the Wales Revival Alliance speak of as fact is completely antithetical to the unalterable Word of God. 

WHOSE VOICE, PRECIOUS CHRISTIAN FRIENDS, WILL YOU LISTEN TO?


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Some further reading on topics touched upon in this article:

https://watchman4wales.blogspot.com/2022/09/ladies-in-leadership-husband-and-wife.html

https://watchman4wales.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-bless-wales-conference-brangwyn_30.html

https://watchman4wales.blogspot.com/2022/07/percy-is-prophet-pernicious-pied-pipers.html


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