Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.You will recognize them by their fruits (Matthew 7/15-16)
I haven't looked at TLC on FB for a while, but this is the latest 666 display from a young man promoting TLC's alleged "School of the Spirit". Obviously, his parents did not teach him to speak properly, but that is another matter. It is a little late to try and put you off attending this event as it took place in August I believe.
The founder/promoter of the "School of the Spirit" is Simon Braker, a senior leader at Holy Trinity Church Leicester (ecumenical CofE). Braker claims to "operate in the office of aProphet", and is a member of the UK Wagner Leadership Institute and also a member of Ad HOC of the European Coalition of Apostolic Leaders. {1} In other words, he is a New Apostolic Reformation dominionist. Dominionism is NOT the gospel of Jesus Christ! (2 Corinthians 11:4). It is tragic that these young people are being sucked into false doctrines at TLC. Dominion theology is postmillennial and is at complete odds with the pre-trib rapture which is an AOG doctrine. How TLC manage to combine both these false contradictory doctrines is yetanother question that needs to be addressed.. that is, if they are as interested in following the teaching of Jesus Christ as they claim to be! (Luke 6:46). What an NAR ecumenical dominionist "prophet" can do for TLC spiritually is unfathomable!
The hand signal being displayed by this young man is the Illuminati 666 sign that is prominent in Luciferian circles. It is superficially known as the A-OK sign, but there is much satanic double talk in apostate churches teaching false doctrines these days. (1 Timothy 4:1). It would be extremely naïve not to realise that this sign is one of a number of Illuminati mainstay symbols in plain sight i.e. the all seeing eye of Lucifer combined with the number 666. Many politicians and celebrities blatantly and continually parade this sign, some of them openly admitting to having sold their soul to Satan.
"This is their way of letting each other know that they have accepted the Antichrist.. that they are one with Lucifer, one with Satan. To them it means the approval of their divine king or the lord of light.." I recommend Joe Schimmel's YouTube video: Which Pop Stars Are Promoting 666 and Satan?
Flaunted by TLC, the bent or broken cross. The bent cross is a cross with the crossbeam curved slightly downwards, aka the Peace Symbol, Druid's Foot, Druxtenfuss, Nero Cross, Neroic Cross, Raven's Foot, Sign of the "Broken Jew", Symbol of the Antichrist, Teutonic Cross, the Teutonic rune of death "Todersrune", Witch's Foot. {2} The bent cross represents the distortion and destruction of Christianity.
Also flaunted by the Pope
This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666. (Revelation 13:18).
Alarm and consternation about CERN continues to grow with various theories doing the rounds on the internet. These are perilous and godless times. (1 Timothy 3:1). Nevertheless, the Lord reigns. (Psalm 93:1). Satan is a liar, a deceiver from the beginning. (John 8:44). Firstly, the earth will not be destroyed.
He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded forever. (Psalm 78:69). He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved. (Psalm 104:5). Your faithfulness endures to all generations; you have established the earth, and it stands fast. (Psalm 119:90). A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. (Ecclesiastes 1:4). Secondly, there is speculation that CERN is opening the Abyss, and that the fallen angels currently held there will be released. The fallen angels held in Tartarus (the Abyss), will not be released, even if this is the goal of CERN. These fallen angels are held in the Abyss until judgement day according to the scriptures which cannot be broken. (John 10:35):
And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day— (Jude 1:6). For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell (tartarōsas)and committed them to chains of gloomy darknessto be kept until the judgment; (2 Peter 2:4).
The book of 1 Enoch fills in many details about the fate of the fallen angels presently held in the Abyss. Their leader, Azâzêl, to whom is ascribed all sin, is particularly singled out and prioritised for judgement, followed bySemjâzâ and his associates, the full number of the Watchers who defiled themselves with women: 1 Enoch X 4. And again the Lord said to Raphael: 'Bind Azâzêl hand and foot, and cast him into the darkness: and make an opening in the desert, which is in Dûdâêl, and cast him therein. 5. And place upon him rough and jagged rocks, and cover him with darkness, and let him abide there for ever, and cover his face that he may not see light. 6. And on the day of the great judgement he shall be cast into the fire. And heal the earth which the angels have corrupted, and proclaim the healing of the earth, that they may heal the plague, and that all the children of men may not perish through all the secret things that the Watchers have disclosed and have taught their sons. 8. And the whole earth has been corrupted through the works that were taught by Azâzêl: to him ascribe all sin.' 9. And to Gabriel said the Lord: 'Proceed against the bastards and the reprobates, and against the children of fornication: and destroy [the children of fornication and] the children of the Watchers from amongst men [and cause them to go forth]: send them one against the other that they may destroy each other in battle: for length of days shall they not have. 10. And no request that they (i.e. their fathers) make of thee shall be granted unto their fathers on their behalf; for they hope to live an eternal life, and that each one of them will live five hundred years.' 11. And the Lord said unto Michael: 'Go, bind Semjâzâ andhis associates who have united themselves with women so as to have defiled themselves with them in all their uncleanness. 12. And when their sons have slain one another, and they have seen the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them fast for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth, till the day of their judgement and of their consummation, till the judgement that is for ever and ever is consummated. 13. In those days they shall be led off to the abyss of fire: 〈and〉 to the torment and the prison in which they shall be confined for ever. And whosoever shall be condemned and destroyed will from thenceforth be bound together with them to the end of all generations. 15. And destroy all the spirits of the reprobate and the children of the Watchers, because they have wronged mankind. Destroy all wrong from the face of the earth and let every evil work come to an end: and let the plant of righteousness and truth appear: ⌈and it shall prove a blessing; the works of righteousness and truth⌉ shall be planted in truth and joy for evermore. {1}
In my view it is likely that CERN are working to make contact with various evil entities from what is sometimes described as "another dimension". The statue of Shiva the destroyer stands in a courtyard of CERN, giving us a good idea of their intentions. Dûdâêl appears to be synonymous with the Abyss, Tartarus or the "bottomless pit". (2 Peter 2:4). Revelation 9 tells us that it is an angel, not CERN, who opens the shaft of the bottomless pit. Biblically it is Abaddon the destroyer, the angel of the bottomless pit, who will lead a five month long regime of unspeakable torment upon those who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads: And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth. They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. they were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone. And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.
In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces, their hair like women’s hair, and their teeth like lions’ teeth; they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle. They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails. They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon. (Revelation 9:1-11).
God will ultimately destroy those who are destroying the earth:
The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”
Richard Seed, Nuclear Physicist, Human Cloning Research on advancing technology:
"We are going to become gods, period. If you don't like it, get off. You don't have to contribute, you don't have to participate, but if you are going to interfere with ME becoming god, you are going to have big trouble. It will have warfare." {2}(Isaiah 14:14).
From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” (Matthew 4:17). Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. (Isaiah 45:22).
Watch out for the false prophets who bring the gospel into disrepute with their concocted calculations: David Meade, Scott Clarke, Mark Biltz, Michael Rood. (2 Peter 2:2; Romans 16:17). Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself, who frustrates the signs of liars and makes fools of diviners.. (Isaiah 44:24-25).
You are wearied with your many counsels; let them stand forth and save you, those who divide the heavens, who gaze at the stars, who at the new moons make known what shall come upon you. Behold, they are like stubble; the fire consumes them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. (Isaiah 47:13-14).
David Meade: "Christian numerologist", and self-described “specialist in research and investigations”, originially claimed that the rogue planet Nibiru aka Planet X would collide with the earth on September 23rd and that this event would coincide with the rapture. Meade and other false teachers refer to the "Revelation 12 sign", due to the astronomical alignment involving the constellations Virgo and Leo, the sun, moon, and planets Mercury, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter occurring in September 2017. {1}
And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth. And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it. She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days. (Revelation 12:1-6).
Meade tied his dubious prediction to the following verses in Luke's gospel:
And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.(Luke 21:25-26). The impossibility of Meade's prediction is easily demonstrated. The signs recorded in Luke 21:25-26 immediately precede the second coming (Parousia) of Jesus Christ following the great tribulation and the reign of the Antichrist. The "sign", if we want to call it that, is when the man of lawlessness aka the Antichrist, is revealed i.e. when he takes his seat in the temple of God and proclaims himself to be God. The rapture will not precede this event! (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4). Astrology is the occultic interpretation of the movements and relative positions of celestial objects, allegedly to gain information about human affairs and terrestrial events. If we recognise the validity of the book of 1 Enoch, the teaching of “astrology” and “the constellations” originated with the fallen angels.
1 Enoch 8:1-4:
“And Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all 2 colouring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjaza taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, ‘Armaros the resolving of enchantments, Baraqijal (taught) astrology, Kokabel the constellations, Ezeqeel the knowledge of the clouds, Araqiel the signs of the earth, Shamsiel the signs of the sun, and Sariel the course of the moon. And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven . . .”
The scriptures trace astrology and other forbidden practices back to ancient Babylon. Various practitioners: ..astrologers, magicians, spiritists, enchanters, stargazers, sorcerers, fortune tellers and diviners are all part of what the bible describes as abomination / detestable (2 Kings 21:2). ..for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD (Deuteronomy 18:12). Astrologers are incapable of interpreting anything. (Daniel 4:7,18).
Leviticus 19:26, 31; Leviticus 20:6, 27
Deuteronomy 18:9-14
2 Kings 21:6
Isaiah 8:19; Isaiah 47:13-14
Daniel 2:27; Daniel 4:7, 19
In Matthew, the first words Jesus spoke when asked about signs of the end of the age was a warning about deception. (repeated in verse 11):
As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.All these are but the beginning of the birth pains. “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake.And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.But the one who endures to the end will be saved.And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. (Matthew 24:3-14).
The sun, moon and stars are related totime i.e. they separate day and night and they mark various seasons: And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be forsigns and for seasons, and for days and years.. (Genesis 1:14). The sun, moon and stars were given for light v15, and to introduce chronology to creation. He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for setting. You make darkness, and it is night, when all the beasts of the forest creep about. The young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God. When the sun rises, they steal away and lie down in their dens. Man goes out to his work and to his labor until the evening. (Psalm 104:19-23).
The phrase for signs and seasons has been interpreted by some to mean astrological signs in the constellation of the Zodiac (Mazarroth), to indicate human destiny. However, there is no evidence whatsoever in the scriptures that the heavenly bodies were intended as astrological signs to predict human destiny.
The following passage isprophetic and indicates astronomical events that will occur after the great tribulation at the end of the age (Isaiah 13:9-10; Joel 3:15; Matthew 24:29-31; Luke 21:25-26). When these things dohappen, no one will be in any doubt that the world as we know it is coming to an end, these "signs" will be terrifying and unmistakable!
When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale. The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”
(Revelation 6:12-17).
A common excuse when date setting prophecies do not come about is to say that the prediction was miscalculated. True to form, both Meade and Clarke went on to alter their predictions. Clarke changed his date to September 24th! Meade: “The world is not ending, but the world as we know it is ending... A major part of the world will not be the same the beginning of October.” {2}
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. (2 Peter 2:1-3). Scott Pruitt (NOPRETRIB) has demonstrated the logical inconsistency of pretribulationists who break their own rules of imminence when date setting!"If a person were to correctly ascertain a future date for the rapture, then from the time the prediction is made until the event itself occurs, imminence no longer applies."{3} Our wisdom comes from God alone and the scriptures. (James 1:5; Psalm 119:105).
Avoid these men and leave them to their delusions!
Southern California pastor John MacArthur, head of the "Grace to You" Ministry, lives to jump into theological controversies and prove to his opponents that his "grace" is more biblical than their "grace"!
For many years he's been involved with the "Lordship Salvation controversy" (see Wikipedia). In recent years he's sparred over Revelation's mark of the beast. To see how he's raised many temperatures, look up "John MacArthur OUTRAGE - take Mark of Beast, still be saved..." on YouTube! Since last fall MacArthur has inspired articles like "John MacArthur Sends 500,000,000 Charismatics to Hell" which is still all over the web. A forthright article explaining this incendiary headline is titled "John MacArthurs Strange Fire (Calvinists hating on Arminians, again?)" which can be found on Google and which is a response to the "Strange Fire Conference" MacArthur had held earlier at his church which is still causing aftershocks around the world! MacArthur's controversies began after he was exposed early in life to 19th century dispensationalism which he constantly (and arrogantly) reflects by sneaking in the "any-moment rapture" into whatever his topic happens to be. At the same time he tries to somehow combine Reformed theology with Deformed Dispensationalism. (Sorry, I couldn't resist the temptation to add the word "Deformed"!) Who knows, maybe John (Reformedispy) MacArthur is right and the greatest Greek scholars (Google "Famous Rapture Watchers"), who uniformly said that Rev. 3:10 means "preservation through" and not "raptured away from" were wrong. But John has a conflict.
On the one hand, since he knows that all Christian theology and organized churches before 1830 believed the church would be on earth during the tribulation, he would like to be seen as one who stands with the great Reformers. On the other hand, if John has a warehouse of unsold pretrib rapture material, and if he wants to have "security" for his retirement years and hopes that the "big California quake" won't louse up his plans, he has a decided conflict of interest. Maybe the Lord will have to help strip off the layers of his seared conscience which have grown for years in order to please his parents and his supporters - who knows? One thing is for sure: pretrib is truly a house of cards and is so fragile that if a person removes just one card from the TOP of the pile, the whole thing can collapse. Which is why pretrib teachers don't dare to even suggest they could be wrong on even one little subpoint! Don't you feel sorry for the straitjacket they are in?
While you're mulling all this over, Google "Pretrib Rapture Dishonesty" for a rare behind-the-scenes look at the same Johnny-come-lately (or better yet, Margaret-come-lately) fantasy.
I wonder how soon California's famous underground saint (San Andreas, who's hardly faultless) will get a huge statewide kick out of what's been going on over his head!
At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. (Matthew 18:1-6).
As I read the various reports about "alleged" historic abuse at the Jesus Army cult my blood boils. These are the heart-breaking words of former Jesus Army member Philippa Muller yesterday: “The abuse wasn’t just sexual, it was physical, it was financial, it was spiritual” she said. “I spent my entire upbringing based on one man’s interpretation of the bible.” {1}
It now appears that at least 40 people are planning to sue Northamptonshire's Jesus Army over historic abuse claims. Thank God that these false leaders are now being exposed. (Ephesians 5:11). I personally hope that these developments signal the end of this wicked cult!
Below is a further report from the Northampton Chronicle and Echo By Paul Lynch Published 18th September 2017:
A top lawyer has called the police investigation into historic abuse at the Jesus Army “half-hearted” amid reports that more than 40 people are now pursuing civil claims against the cult.
In June, the Chron revealed that a number of claims the cult used “rodding” or corporal punishment to discipline children were not pursued by the police because the practice was not illegal in the 1970s and 1980s.
Noel Stanton founded the sect in the 1970s.
However, dozens are now in the process of taking up civil claims against the cult and a bulk of the cases are being handled by two solicitors who specialise in child abuse cases.
David Greenwood, partner for the Yorkshire-based law firm Switalkskis, said he was currently working on legal claims for at least 30 people “who grew up there as children under the Jesus Army regime”.
“They are alleging they were subject to a regime that was restrictive and that was emotionally damaging,” he told the Chron.
“Some also allege they were sexually abused. Most allege that they were physically abused. Not necessarily from their parents but from their supposed guardians,” he said.
New Creation Farm was set up as a working farm in the 1970s to provide income to the growing Jesus Fellowship on the outskirts of Bugbrooke.
“They weren’t allowed toys. They weren’t allowed to engage in competitive activities at school, they weren’t allowed to go out to the cinema like young people did.”
Mr Greenwood, a specialist child abuse lawyer, broadly supported the Chron’s calls for a full, independent inquiry into the Jesus Army. But he said that, as part of his work with the clients, he will be calling on Northamptonshire Police to reopen its investigation into historical abuse there.
He said: “I think we need to establish the level of offending that was taking place there.
“Part of my remit will be to persuade Northamptonshire Police to reopen their investigation into this.”
Operation Lifeboat, he went on to say, was “half-hearted” as dozens of rodding claims were not pursued.
“There is more information coming through every week,” he added. “I believe those people in charge at the Jesus Army need to sit down and work out some sort of compensation scheme for the people who suffered emotional, physical and sexual abuse. There also needs to be compensation for the individuals who tried to leave but were unable to get their assets back.”
Many who joined the Jesus Army handed over homes to support the common purse, but several pursuing legal claims feel they were not adequately recompensed on leaving the organisation, Mr Greenwood said.
Another lawyer, Robert Shaw, a partner at Robson Shaw Solicitors, has taken on more than 10 cases against the Jesus Army, mainly from people who grew up in the communal houses of Northamptonshire.
He says his clients are also claiming they were victims of physical abuse, though neither lawyer has officially issued proceedings against the church as of yet.
Mr Shaw’s clients claim they were subject to a “barbaric regime, which involved corporal punishment for tiny matters,” he said. Some of his clients claim the manner of their punishment was “sexualised”.
“The children were often asked to take their underwear off in order to be beaten,” he added.
Northamptonshire Police launched Operation Lifeboat to look into allegations of historical sexual abuse within the Jesus Army back in 2015.
So far there have been three prosecutions, the most recent being that of Karl Skinner, a former member who was found guilty of three counts of indecent assault on a male and was given a suspended sentence.
Northamptonshire Police declined to comment. "In response to the Chron’s investigation, spokesman for the Jesus Fellowship, Laurence Cooper, said: “On safeguarding, the Jesus Fellowship church, much like the UK as a whole, is in a very different place now to what it was during the last century. Safeguarding is much higher up the agenda for every organisation in the modern day. "Our leadership teams are now well trained, and well aware of safeguarding issues. We have a central safeguarding team who are employed to keep our safeguarding efforts on track. "It’s not like the 70s and 80s, when even big organisations like the BBC had very little in place to guard against these issues. "Physical punishment, such as was commonly used in school even when I was a boy has been outlawed in the UK and is not practised or condoned by people in the Jesus Fellowship. "The Jesus Fellowship church opposes illegal physical punishment and we’d report abuse we became aware of to the police immediately. "People in the church these days profoundly regret that some people were hurt emotionally, spiritually and in other ways in the past. We’re sorry – and this has been expressed on many occasions in public. "We’re sorry that people feel let down by the church. Sorry that they don’t feel they were cared for. We acknowledge that people feel hurt and pain. My personal hope is that they will - eventually - be able to find some release from this.” http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/at-least-40-people-planning-to-sue-northamptonshire-s-jesus-army-over-historic-abuse-claims-1-8156433
The Northampton Chronicle & Echo
By Paul Lynch 18 September 2017
SPECIAL REPORT: Alleged victim of historic abuse reveals traumatic childhood growing up in Jesus Army
Ex Jesus Army member Philippa Muller believes there must be a public inquiry into
allegations of historical abuse at the religious sect.
A former Jesus Army member who claims to have been molested as a child in the 1980s believes a full public inquiry must be held to give voice to damaged ex-members.
Philippa Muller, who has agreed to waive her right to anonymity to tell her story, spent her early life in Woking, Surrey, with her parents and three siblings, but sold up everything they owned to join Noel Stanton’s Jesus Army movement in the 1980s.
Noel Stanton in the 1980s. The founder of the Jesus Army, who died in 2009, is alleged to have abused members sexually and financially.
The firebrand preacher formed the evangelist movement in 1969 at Bugbrooke Chapel, before expanding it to a series of communal houses, a farm, and later a network of businesses ranging from a bakery to a solicitors’ firm.
Philippa’s family used to go to a free church in their area and her brother was baptised there. But sometime in the mid-1980s her mother and father befriended a couple who were part of a growing Baptist movement in Northamptonshire. They were Jesus Army members seeking out new recruits for the sect and Philppa’s parents, inspired by the idea of a rural community devoted to Christianity, settled to join them. Her father, who worked for the Ministry of Defence, dropped everything and within months they had moved north to live at Bugbrooke.
The family took up residence in a communal house, Shalom, shared by around 15 other people when Philippa was just five.
Her childhood was “idyllic” in a lot of ways at the time, she said, filled with long walks and picnics, a sense of belonging.
Noel Stanton.
“It was free in many senses,” she said. “I remember being allowed to help in lambing season, we had a big a garden that we enjoyed.
“My parents were really good at maintaining a sense of normality as well.”
But the regime operated by head pastor Stanton was strict – and breaking the rules often led to consequences.
She remembers, as a child, drawing underneath the chairs in Bugbrooke chapel during worship and scribbling crude nude drawings on the paper.
When the doodles were discovered, she was hauled into a quiet room with a fireplace – so a community elder could cast demons from her.
“You couldn’t talk about anything to do with your body, it would be seen as indecent to do so, she said. “All the women wore skirts and you weren’t supposed to show your ears, it was seen as sinful.”
Members were also expected to renounce all material possessions under Stanton’s teachings.
Clothing was communal, birthdays were replaced with ‘honouring days’, households were judged in league table type format with the worst performers being ‘visited’ by a ‘fire’ team who would renew zeal for the cause.
Gradually Philippa remembers separating from the outside world and took on the lingo that had developed in the community.
Outsiders were known as ‘worldlings’, those not towing the line were known as ‘backsliders’.
Soon her older sister and brother were moved into different households as the natural family was seen as secondary to the spiritual family, she said.
Her parents were convinced to sell up their home and plough their wealth into a common fund. Discipline made life tough for children, she said - but even tougher for girls. Then, as she moved into her teenage years, the restrictive regime began to take its toll.
“I remember having to ask permission to revise for my GCSE exams, because of the continuous routine of meetings throughout the week. Education was not encouraged, it was seen as the way to material wealth, which was evil.”
Later she went on to study business at Northampton College while trying to fit her revision exam around a seven-day roster of meetings and activities that included a three-hour Sunday worship held by Stanton.
A recording sent to the Chronicle & Echo from a 1990s ITV broadcast saw Stanton preaching about inherent “sin” in the “genitals” at Cornhill Manor, a regular topic of his firebrand sermons.
She believes the leader - who called on members to take a vow of celibacy and has since been the speculation of sexual abuse claims – saw women as a threat to the Godly path of the males in the community. “You could never talk about anything to do with your body with anyone, it would be seen as indecent to do so”, she said. “Women and girls were there to serve only, serve the elders and the men in the community.
“Women had to wear ankle length skirts for modesty and you weren’t even supposed to show your ears, it was seen as sinful.”
“I grew up assuming there was something wrong with me, I could never attain redemption because I was born of Eve, and I cast sin into the world by making Adam eat the apple from the tree of life.
“Where can you go from such a negative starting point?”
It meant that when two teenage boys molested her at a young age, she never reported it. Philippa felt no one would believe her.
“We didn’t have a voice to question,” she added.
When Philippa was still a teenager, she saw something that would change the course of her life.
She saw a fellow Jesus Army being molested by an elder, who was later jailed for the sexual abuse.
During the trial she was ostracised from the community to the extent she had to sit through a sermon by Stanton in which he talked about ridding the sect of ‘liars’.
She knew the sermon was about her.
The ordeal left her with little choice to leave the Jesus Army aged 18 and without a penny to her name.
Philippa, now 38, says her time in the religious sect has left her scarred.
She said: “We helped the needy - bringing the homeless alcoholics and drug addicts back into our homes, with no regard for the safeguarding of our own.
“I remember lying in bed at night and worrying about the drug addicts who were sharing my dormitory bedroom. I was 10 years old.”
“Bad things were done there in an environment that was meant to be Christian and Godly,” she added.
“But those things were allowed to happen because there was no safeguarding in place.
“We operated outside of society.
“We were drawing in people, then encouraging them to behave in a way that was so ungodly.
“There are a lot of damaged people out there that need to be acknowledged.”
Philippa believes an independent public inquiry is the only recourse for others left scarred from their ordeals.
In 2015 a safeguarding report into Jesus Army by the Churches’ Child Protection Advisory Service (CCPAS) looked only at the sect’s current safeguarding practices and did not consider allegations of past abuse.
But Philippa believes that inquiry must be held by an entirely independent body, not a Christian organisation.
“The abuse wasn’t just sexual, it was physical, it was financial, it was spiritual” she said. “I spent my entire upbringing based on one man’s interpretation of the bible.”
All Nations Church Frog Island Leicester UK are hosting a Global Legacy Conference on the 5th and 6th of January 2018. It is rather grandly described as: "2018's gathering of leaders from across the UK and Europe". {1} Global Legacy is an offshoot of the infamous Bethel Church Redding which engages in all kinds of vile abominations. (Ezekiel 8:9). Bethel/Jesus Culture and associates such as John Crowder, Heidi Baker, Cindy Jacobs, Todd Bentley etc. are utterly immersed in occult activities and demonic manifestations. Bethel bases its alleged"ministry" on subjective spiritual experiences rather than the teachings of Jesus Christ and his apostles! Christians should shun lying "signs" ..fake gold dust, diamonds, angel feathers, grave sucking, spiritual drunkenness,portals, visualisation, spirit-travel, fire-tunnels, angel-orbs, glory clouds, impartations and so on. ..an evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign. (Matthew 6:4; 12:39). Bill Johnson's wife, grave sucker and occult diviner, Beni, even claims to wake up angels with "prophetic toys". {2} Jesus Christ specifically warned about the appearance of "false christs" and "false prophets" in the last days. (Matthew 24:24). In fact the Antichrist himself will eventually appear with spectacular counterfeit signs and wonders: The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders.. (2 Thessalonians 2:9). Are Trinity Life Church Leicester about to engage in yet another scandalous departure from the scriptures? In his "vision for 2018", David Hind announced that Trinity Life Church (TLC) are to hold a "Father Heart Conference" in the near future. I do hope that this event is not connected with Paul Manwaring and Global Legacy, but since TLC do not know their right hand from their left, I am not holding my breath! (Jonah 4:11).
TLC's previous attempt at hosting a Father Heart Conference took place in 2011. This event was supported by Holy Trinity Church and Knighton Free Church. That particular conference was led by false teacher/prophet Mark Stibbe, a former associate of the infamous Todd Bentley of fake "Toronto Blessing" renown! Stibbe also promoted the "Third Wave" false teaching at St Andrews Church Chorleywood for a number of years. In 2012 Stibbe gave up his alleged "ministry" due to a "moral failure". {3}
Martin60: "I found Stibbe vastly disappointing BEFORE his fall from grace and that compounded it. I saw him speak in Leicester, where he'd been effusively welcomed by our vicar, where he listed all his major blessings; wife, kids, family, home, career, success (which included describing his jet setting lecture tour of America) and actually said, "If it's on, it's in.". In other words, everything he prayed for, he got.. In a room full of poor, broken people.. Then he threw it all away for another woman.." {4}
Holy Trinity Church Leicester is already fully committed to SOZO, another Bethel abomination. Both Holy Trinity and Leicester City Vineyard Church are also contaminated by the New Wine deception. {5}
I am requesting prayers from discerning Christians that church leaders will find some integrity and protect their flocks by shunning events connected with the false revival of Global Legacy and the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR). (John 10:11-15). Please pray that believers do not get drawn into further counterfeit "Christian" events as they have done in the past. Below: The leaven spreading throughout Johnson's Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry (BSSM). Grave sucking at Bethel: Necromancy "Christian style". These pictures are more like scenes from some sick horror movie rather than anything remotely connected to Jesus Christ! (Luke 24:5).
Bill Johnson and his deluded followers from Bethel Church, Redding, CA.
Johnson lead a BSSM group to Bradford in England in order to engage in grave sucking
Here they are at the grave of Smith Wigglesworth.
Students from BSSM allegedly grave sucking Welsh Revivalist Evan Roberts' anointing from his grave at Loughor SW Wales
Bill Johnson's wife Beni (a Senior Pastor at Bethel Church Redding),
grave sucking at CS Lewis' grave in Oxford
Beni Johnson at the gravestone of Charles Finney!
John Crowder
If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him. (Deuteronomy 13:1-4).
Below is an excerpt from a recent post I wrote about Paul Manwaring/Global Legacy:
Paul Manwaring is on the senior leadership team at Bethel church, Redding, CA, with specific responsibility for Global Legacy, a ministry of Bethel that promotes "worldwide revival".
"Global Legacy is a relational network that connects, encourages, and equips revival leaders worldwide. We expand God’s kingdom by helping to build relationships between revival leaders, ministries, and organizations around the globe, and to equip them to transform their spheres of influence.." {1}
Global Legacy was spawned out of Bethel Church as a result of a"prophetic word" from their Senior Pastor, the infamous NAR cult leader and alleged "apostle" Bill Johnson. Manwaring, who is British, returned to live in the UK in December 2016 in order to oversee the aims of Global Legacy in Europe. Global Legacy is cross denominational and has no doctrinal statement. Critically, Manwaring teaches that there should be no secular / sacred divide.
Manwaring: “My passion is that the church equips the Saints to do Kingdom. It’s time for reformation in every sphere, to erase the secular/sacred divide and marry the natural with the supernatural. ‘Awakening Europe’ is an incredible new movement.." {2}
Manwaring refers of course to the false doctrine of Dominion theology aka Dominionism,Kingdom Now, Christian Reconstructionism, Theonomy which is based on a perversion of Genesis 1:28. Dominionists believe that before Christ physically returns to the earth, Christians must implement societal change and “take dominion” of the secular world in order to transform it into the Kingdom of God. Global Legacy is part of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) and supports the "vision" to create cultural transformation via the seven mountain mandate: Media, Education, Economy, Government, Religion, Arts, and Family.
Dominion theology is NOT the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The mantra of dominionists is based on Matthew 6:10: Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Dominionists blatantly invert the scriptures. The world cannot be redeemed.. quite the reverse in fact. Jesus was very specific in teaching that His kingdom is NOT of this world. (John 18:36 cf. Colossians 3:2; James 4:4; 1 John 2:15-17; John 15:18-21; Hebrews 11:16). The world will be in the grip of terrible rebellion and widespread religious deception when Jesus returns: Christians are not called to transform the systems of this world from within, but rather to bear witness and to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. (Mark 16:15; Acts 1:8). ..apart from me you can do nothing. (John 15:5). Christians do not belong to the world, they are those who are chosen out of the world. (John 15:19;17:6). The only way dominionists can justify their ungodly agenda is to deny the scriptures in favour of "direct revelation" from God through various false "apostles" and "prophets" whom they claim have superseded Jesus' original apostles. (Acts 2:42). Are these false teachers greater than Jesus Christ? (Luke 4:18). Bill Johnson's "off the map" approach denies the Reformation principle of sola scriptura and leaves his followers vulnerable to "every wind of doctrine". (Ephesians 4:14). These false apostles and prophets have dispossessed many believers of the precautionary mechanism to test the spirits. (1 John 4:1 cf. 1 Corinthians 12:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:2; 2 Timothy 2:15; Isaiah 9:16).
By their acquiescence and support of such events, local church leaders are exposing their congregations to very serious deception and apostasy. There will undoubtedly be terrible consequences, both for them personally and their congregations:
