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From: "Vinny Samarco" <[log in to unmask]>
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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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