The Charismatic DECEPTION
Some years ago, a charismatic believer gave
me a copy of a book which was introduced as “A Divine Revelation of the
Coming Revival”. The Next Move Of God was written by a well-known
lady in charismatic circles, Fuchsia Pickett.
I gratefully accepted the book and read
it. It contained a mixture of truth and error, fact and fiction – as is
the case throughout the charismatic movement. In the charismatic church there is
true and false, and the false contaminates the true.
Mixture is a deadly thing, as we know from
the episode in the Garden when Satan
contaminated truth with his suggestive questions, half truth and deceit.
Where God gives revelation in considerable quantity – as it has been
throughout the charismatic church – people complacently and arrogantly tend
to think that there could be no or little error with it. But:
...where envy
[pride and selfish ambition drive envy]
and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there
(James 3:16).
Tragically that is the case with the
audience to whom Fuchsia Pickett was writing in her book. Excesses and
pursuit of ‘revival’ experiences for their own sake, as we have witnessed at
Toronto (denounced by Paul Gowdy, an ex-Toronto Vineyard pastor, see Coming Out of the Toronto Deception
from MM, and also challenged in our
book Testing The Spirits), have played right into Satan’s hands. When
you analyse what was taking place, here is the nub of it:
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The desire to be ‘part of the
action’, where God is at work; the desire to be successful. This can be from
a wrong motive – the pride of life (1 Jn 2:16).
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The itch to get ‘a spiritual
experience’ – the lust of the flesh (ibid.).
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And the hunger for something
new, exciting, gratifying, that you see others ‘enjoying’ – lust of the eyes
(ibid.)
All these are not from Above (ibid.), but
are:
...earthly, sensual, demonic (James 3:15).
It’s hard to stomach when you have been IN
such a move – believed wholeheartedly to have been of God – to come to
realise that it was so misguided:
...having eyes full of an adulteress
[margin], and that cannot cease from
sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous
practices, and are accursed children. They have forsaken the right way and
gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the
wages of unrighteousness (2 Pet 2:14-15).
This is not just my claim. It was revealed
in dreams from God (see the following pages). We have published some of
these dreams in:
1. Dreams From God About The
Charismatic Church;
2. The Charismatic Church
Shrine;
3. A
Message To Charismatics, etc.
God gave a pastor’s wife in the USA a vision
in which she saw lots of whitish papers – representing God’s revelations in
dreams, prophetic words, etc. – coming down from heaven. They looked light
as they descended, but when they piled up on the ground (it was a large
pile) they became dark.
In other words, while God gave much
prophecy it became contaminated by wrong emphasis, pride, self-seeking,
self-glorification, ambition and other bad human character traits. God
gave it to promote righteousness (pure and white), but it ended up promoting a
compromise of good and evil (grey).
Many false ministers ‘adorn’ the charismatic
church’s portals. They have controlled and influenced
what has come in and gone out. Hence
the corruption.
Once again, it’s hard for many to believe
these words could apply to ministers they highly respect:
These, like natural brute beasts, made to be
caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and
will utterly perish in their own corruption, and will receive the wages of
unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to carouse in the daytime.
They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while they
feast with you... (2 Pet 2:12,13).
They mouth great swelling words (Jude 16)
that appeal to pride – they want to impress. But the deceit in this pride is
lost on the majority. Under the facade lurks a demonic counterfeit, a lie.
(Explained in Apostasy in God’s
Church, and Testing The Spirits.)
Fuchsia Pickett was influenced by these men
(and women) who deceive with impressive words. As a result, some of the
conclusions of what God told her have been contaminated. For example, she
says:
I think today I can
hear God say, “My people, heaven’s
windows are opened. The blessings are being poured forth now. They will
continue throughout this year, throughout this decade [nineties] and into
the next century. My glory is going to come forth in a continually greater
measure.” We won’t have to say God is moving in Canada or Florida or
California; in England, Germany or Argentina. We will be able to say it is
happening right where we are.
God is visiting
His people again. The floodgates are about to open, bringing a
heaven-sent, gully-washing, sin- killing revival... There will be such a
shout of victory... We won’t have to fight the ungodly leaders of the
world [we shouldn’t be doing that, anyway; Jesus’ gospel is apolitical].
God Himself will take care of them. There will be a great toppling. As
the walls of Jericho came down with the sound of the trumpet and a shout
(Josh 6:20), so the walls of wickedness in our country are coming down.
There will be a clamping down on violence
and wickedness in the media and an end to the destruction wrought by those
who stood against marriage and for abortion. The army of God – His Church –
is going to march through this nation [USA] and bind the powers of darkness,
praising the name of our Lord as He releases the spirit of liberty upon our
nation. ...I believe the Church will become a mighty river that floods the
earth until the knowledge of the glory of the Lord covers it. (The Next Move Of God, p 175.)
That is a miscomprehension, an illusion, a
lie.
She ends with this rallying call:
“Move back, gates of hell! Here comes the
Church!”
This sort of triumphalistic emphasis
permeates the charismatic mentality. It contains very physical elements:
large numbers of people, physical size of the Church, predominance in
influence, etc. Analyse it and see that it’s a power-based message! The real
truth is the reverse: the true Church is relatively small and persecuted,
put down, rejected and despised.[1]
Truth is not palatable. The purer it is,
the less acceptable it is. The majority (of the Church) reject it.
They Speak Evil Of...
In Peter’s discourse on the influence of
false ministers amongst believers, he says:
...[they] speak evil of the things they
do not understand (2 Pet 2:12).
Truths that God is restoring as part of
Elijah’s end-time work are alien to them. They grew up with a different
theology, with false concepts about some basic biblical truths. So, when we
present ‘new’ truth to them, they reject it. I even wrote to Fuchsia Pickett
several years before she died in 2004, but, like all the other charismatic
leaders to whom we have written, ‘our’ message from God sounded strange to
their ears, and they rejected us. Fuchsia – also like most others whom we
contacted – didn’t even reply.
She gives a salient warning in her book:
God spoke a startling message to me one
night as I was ministering in a church in North Carolina. He declared: “I
will not, I will not, I will not allow anyone who touches
My plan, My program, My prophets or My prophecy to be a part of, or
participate in, the next move of God.” (p 61.)
A threefold repetition is the most emphatic
and final which God can give! The present ‘players’ on stage don’t see the
“I will nots” applying to them. For this reason, God is departing from men
like Reinhard Bonnke, Morris Cerullo, and other mega-evangelists. They – and
numerous others like them – have either not recognised, or ignored, or
rejected and opposed the work of Elijah that God is doing in restoring truth
which the Church needs more than any evangelists!
They have even spoken evil of the next move
of God, which centres on the restoration of forgotten biblical truths, and a
repentance that accepts ALL God’s Word, not just the parts that are
palatable.
They spoke evil of God’s prophets, spoke
evil of the restored truths I brought them, and removed me from their
mailing lists, because they refused to accept the additional truth God
offered them.
It’s ironic that Fuchsia did the very thing
she was so vehemently warned by God not to do. But, perhaps because she
aspired to be a central player in the anticipated revival, that very
aspiration caused her to be blind to the next move of God in its infancy.
The heart is deceitful above all things and
desperately wicked, who can know it? (Jer 17:9.)
The subtlety of wrong motives, as
mentioned on the previous page, leads many otherwise well- meaning
believers into doing Satan’s work, obstructing or opposing the next move which God
instigates.
Repentance is an ongoing responsibility for
all.
For if we would judge ourselves, we would
not be judged (1 Cor 11:31).
But, the more elevated a person becomes, and
the more acclaim they receive, the more unassailable they feel they are. A
‘position’ in human estimation is a precarious thing. It is based on pride.
And pride always precedes a fall. So, it’s not wise to be a sage in the eyes
of man. Better to have God’s approval alone. God’s wisdom is not accepted.
To those who aspire for human success – as
do many charismatic church leaders – God says:
My son, pay attention to My wisdom;
lend your ear to My understanding (Prov 5:1).
For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey
and her mouth is smoother than oil. But in the end she is bitter as
wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death, her steps
lay hold of hell. Lest you ponder her path of life – her ways are unstable
(Prov 5:3-6).
Don’t ponder the path of life of the
charismatic church. She is an immoral woman. Her ways are unstable. She
promotes deception.
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