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From: "Vinny Samarco" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 8:44 PM
Subject: Fw: [revival] A FALSE HEALING REVIVAL?? -Florida
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> Subject: [revival] A FALSE HEALING REVIVAL?? -Florida
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> A FALSE HEALING REVIVAL?? -Florida
> -Andrew Strom.
>
> Many of you will have already heard about the "Healing Revival"
> that has purportedly broken out in Lakeland, Florida. Today
> Charisma Magazine put out a piece on it entitled 'A Holy Ghost
> Outbreak in Florida' - "...Charismatics are flocking to the sleepy
> town of Lakeland, Fla. to attend evangelist Todd Bentley's
> unconventional revival services." Is Charisma preparing to hype
> this one to the skies like they did with Toronto and Rodney Howard-
> Browne? It seems perhaps they are.
>
> But why am I opposed to this 'Healing Revival' so soon after it has
> been announced? -It is because I already know Todd Bentley's
> ministry all too well, and this whole thing centers around him.
>
> Todd Bentley actually has deep roots in the Prophetic movement,
> and he is one of the very few ministers that I have ever felt I had
> to publicly warn people about by name. -His ministry is that bad.
> False "angel" encounters of the weirdest kind, gold dust, guided
> visualizations of the "Third Heaven" that are straight out of the
> New Age, etc. And yet there is a "power" with it that makes it
> all the more dangerous.
>
> Here is how Charisma describes his Florida meetings-
> "His methods are far from polished. When he prayed for people in
> Lakeland, he usually began by laying his hand on their heads and
> then yelling, "Bam!"
> Often the people fell backward to the floor. After one elderly woman
> fell, Bentley told the audience: "She doesn't know why she fell
> down." The woman then laughed and said to him in the microphone:
> "Because you pushed me!" He prayed for her three more times that
> night, and she said she could hear better...
> During the past three weeks people have testified of being healed
> from heart conditions, skin rashes and back problems, and many
> said scars disappeared...
> Many charismatics are wondering if the protracted meetings will
> become a phenomenon similar to what happened in Rodney
> Howard-Browne's meetings in Lakeland in 1993, at the Toronto
> Airport Vineyard Church in Canada in 1994 and at Brownsville
> Assembly of God in Pensacola in 1995..." [END QUOTE]
>
> Sadly, the Charismatic movement is in such a sick state today
> that it would not surprise me at all if this happens. (-I say this as
> a strong Spirit-filled, tongues-speaking believer myself. I am by no
> means opposed to genuine miracles). Have we completely
> forgotten the warnings of "Lying signs and wonders" in the Last Days?
>
> Below is a testimony by Lynn Clark who is a Moderator at our
> website 'RevivalSchool.com'. This is what she wrote about her
> involvement with Todd Bentley's ministry:
>
> "I decided to check out Patricia King and Todd Bentley and,
> ignorant of their 'third heaven' guided visualizations, attended a five
> day conference of Patricia King and then two of Todd Bentley's
> conferences and began to imagine third heaven visitations - guided
> visualization - still not realizing that these are actually spirits of
> darkness - the New Age calls them spirit guides - demons is what
> they are. And so I bought Todd Bentley's teaching on third heaven
> visitations and brought it home to listen to.
> "I was in my living room laying on the floor listening to the teaching
> on how to visualize the third heaven and what to say and was
> getting caught up into his teaching and all of a sudden I began to
> shake uncontrollably and jerk and groan, and no sooner had this
> taken place I became frozen stiff - I could not move any part of
> my body and I knew this was a demon trying to take hold of me,
> and so with all the effort I could muster I cried out, "God save me -
> Jesus help me" - and as soon as I cried out to the Lord my body
> went limp. God spared me that night and I will be forever grateful.
>
> "I spent much of the night in tears asking God to forgive me - and
> renouncing all the hands layed on me and all the awful deception
> I had opened myself up to..." [END QUOTE]
>
> ANDREW AGAIN: I myself have heard the tapes of Todd Bentley's
> "Third Heaven Visualization" teachings, and I want to tell you - they
> are straight out of the New Age handbook. -Terrible stuff. And yet
> so widely accepted by thousands of Christians today.
>
> Do these kinds of practices (above) produce a genuine 'Healing
> Revival'? -These are the kinds of questions that we need to be
> asking Charisma Magazine. I leave it for you to decide.
>
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> God bless you all.
>
> Andrew Strom.
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