You Should
Defy
Not Deify
Church Authority!
A
timely reminder not to exalt church leaders or spiritual autocracy.
Jesus said: "You know that those
who are considered rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them,
and their great ones exercise authority over them.
Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among
you shall be your servant.
And whoever of you desires to be first shall be slave of all"
(Mark 10:42-44).
The date of writing this is 21st
January 2003. Last night before I went to bed, I had typed in the title,
intending to continue with the text today. This morning before she awoke,
Helena (my wife) had this dream:
I was
doing some cleaning [symbolises the spiritual clean-up which our literature
effects when people change accordingly].
I
reached under an armchair [where someone sits, a symbol of what they are
used to, their ‘comfort zone’; also their seat of authority] and found a
piece of equipment which was old and useless [church authority without the
Spirit]. It was used at Ambassador College 30-40 years ago. [AC was a
training college for ministers in the Worldwide Church of God. It had a very
rigid system of control; they deified their human ministerial authority.]
The only
value this piece had was scrap value from the plastic which could be
recycled. [Plastic is a man-made product, a cheap substitute for the ‘real
thing’, just like the authority in question here.]
God is
showing that some church practices should be scrapped like the piece of
rubbish. God is doing a new thing and we have to use new methods to do what
God wants done to prepare the Bride for Jesus’ return.
What Helena wrote above is highly
relevant, which is why God gave the dream! It backs up what I was to write
about here, today.
Remember what Jesus promised to His
true followers in Mark 16:20? As you preach the truth of God, Jesus backs it
up with signs following. That is why He gave the dream to Helena, as another
witness – it is a supernatural sign that what you are reading here is from
the Throne Room of God. The dream was given at the precise time when I was
going to expose again the wrong system of authority in most churches.[1]
IT IS A SATANIC COUNTERFEIT! Human
authority in churches masquerades as God’s authority through ministers, but
it is nothing of the sort! It is Satan’s means of controlling people, and
limiting their spiritual freedoms!
Abomination in the Church!
The aforementioned college and church
taught that their ministers had intrinsic divine authority vested in them.
They claimed they were God’s Government (with a capital G!) in the church!
(And they invariably capitalised that word, too, implying that they were
God’s only Church!) Their assertion was blasphemous!
They taught that since they were God’s
Church and their ministers were divinely appointed and divinely led, members
had a duty to submit to and obey those ministers. Church authority was
sacrosanct. Obedience to that authority structure was the unwritten eleventh
commandment!
What they did not see was that they
were asserting human authority only, and calling it divine.
The legacy of this massive heresy has
been a totally misguided and satanically infected church!
Jeremiah prophesied of it:
The prophets
[one who speaks for God] prophesy
lies, the priests [one who represents God]
rule by their own authority, and my people love it this way. But what will
you do in the end? (Jer 5:31, NIV.)
Well, the end is evident to those with
eyes. It is total disaster!
Notice the irony: “my people love it
this way”.
Many of God’s people are trapped in
this system, but they like it! It’s their armchair. It’s what they are used
to. They feel comfortable with it, spiritually speaking.
But it’s abomination to God! What
should people like? What they have grown up being used to? Or what God says
is right, fitting and proper? No prizes for answering correctly.
The trouble is, this vile satanic
counterfeit is still as solid as ever in places frequented by God’s people.
And ministers indoctrinated by this error still continue to subtly exert
their control, thereby abusing others, limiting their spiritual freedoms.
God Warns of Conflagration!
On 5th December 2002, I awoke with this
dream from God:
5th Dec. M. The
Fire.
I was in a pleasant open space like a village green. Our car [symbolises our
ministry] was there and I was copying some tapes in the car. Suddenly a
conflagration erupted in the car and we rushed to grab hold of a hose to put
the fire out. It was quite a large fire!
Then, later the same day, someone wrote to me about a
particular minister about whom I had made and copied some tapes previously
(notice the reference to tapes in the dream). At first I didn’t know what
the dream signified, but after that letter came, I could see what God was
predicting.
This minister had plagiarised my written material, but
after I pointed out his error, he did not put things right with me. Instead,
he vilified me to his tape audience, accusing me falsely. So I made the
tapes in my defence.
A major reason for his reaction is probably to do with the
fear that governs his behaviour over our promotion of the Baptism in the
Spirit and the demonstration and exercise of spiritual gifts. All that is
out of his league. He has yet to move into that sphere where the Spirit
kicks in.
Another reason is centred in his desire for control. He
was trained in the WCG ministry and still retains that modus operandi. He
has never left it behind. He fears losing his influence, and the exertion of
this ‘old style’ human authority helps him retain such power. So, he rejects
me, and will not acknowledge our prophetic status, because it would
seriously undermine his own power and control without the Spirit.
Another man who temporarily learned from us later rejected
me because he wanted to continue basically the same way, filtering
everything through his own intellect, and whatever he could not filter via
the intellect, well, that could be dismissed – which is why he finally
dismissed us and the operation of the Spirit.
That behaviour is governed by demons!
It’s the same way this particular minister operates, and
many others like him from that background, who regard their intellect as an
idolatrous edifice. They don’t do as Proverbs 3:5-6 instructs:
Trust in the Lord with all your
heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways
acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths (Prov 3:5,6).
Most will not do that. They prefer to
trust in themselves. So, their human authority is exalted.
What they don’t see is that they have
shut the Spirit of God outside their door. Jesus stands there knocking, but
they don’t care to hear Him, or open the door, and let Him in (Rev 3:15-20).
As the dream above shows, God wants to purify this man (I
will call him JR), but that can only happen through a rather nasty
conflagration, which God predicted in the dream.
The same night, Helena had a dream
about this individual, too, and the group he ‘ministers’ to:
A woman was sitting
higher up in a religious pose, [symbolises how this minister elevates
himself and has caused his 'clientele' to adopt a stand-off-ish religious
pose], without any activity [no true outreach to others via the Spirit of
God], sad looking, unreachable [because of their exclusivism and pride], cut
off from normal life [they are cut off from the rest of the body of Christ
by their exclusivist rejection of other believers and Spirit-led ministries,
and from Jesus’ Spirit].
This woman thought
that, through her religion, she was close to God. She thought she didn’t
need contact with other believers who are Spirit-led; that there would be
nothing to be gained from it. This approach elevates such people above other
believers and cuts them off from benefiting from them, and from the 5-fold
ministry.
I have seen people
like that in the Catholic Church. They are also in other churches who
promote themselves as though they are God’s vehicle for the furtherance of
His truth on earth, and as if they are the only ones who are necessary or
important in such a capacity. They worship idols – their human leaders, and
their organisation or structure.
JR makes a very good
idol by the way he speaks and presents his message. He speaks with authority
and self-importance. People feel secure with him and his preaching because
of this authority he exerts over them. People love it so (Jer 5:31). But
it’s human authority, a substitute for real spiritual power and divine
authority through the Spirit.
Their religion is the
same as Catholics. JR makes a very good pope!
In the dream I was
hoping to reach out to this lady by making her a cup of coffee [God
portraying the good that is in our hearts; we don’t minister for selfish
reasons; we have not spent 12 years writing publications for selfish gain;
they’re to help others, not for personal glory; they’re to glorify Christ
who alone is worthy of adulation], start a communication and bring her to
reality where she could show concern for other Christians by receiving and
sharing God’s love.
But, it’s hard to reach such people. Their minds are
closed. They are resistant. Their religion is empty and selfish. It quenches
the Spirit. They block it through inaction and pride.
In the case of JR, with his tone of voice, he speaks down
to people. He talks to them from an elevated position, one in which he
considers it his right to control their minds by his rhetoric. He doesn’t
know that this is the psychology behind his behaviour and preaching, because
it is demonically inspired. People who are conversant with deliverance
ministry recognise this form of behaviour as governed by a spirit of
witchcraft, which:
1. Intimidates (it can be very subtle!)
2. Manipulates (that can be equally unseen)
3. And dominates (or controls).
These are the three main essences of
the working of this evil spirit. It supplants Jesus’ Spirit. Ministers often
follow it. Its workings are not perceived for what they are – demonic, evil
and countering the Spirit of God.
So, I challenged JR on the evil
spirit(s) governing his psyche. A con- flagration erupted, as you will see
in the correspondence that now follows.
Stoking Up the Fire!
The letter that follows expounds
principles of governance and corrects JR on his wrong approach.
Dear JR,
After the disciples
were baptised in the Holy Spirit, they went out and preached the word, and
supernatural SIGNS FOLLOWED THEM, so says Mark's account (16:20). Those
signs confirmed that Jesus was behind them (ibid.).
There are undoubtedly
some things in what I wrote to you yesterday that you take exception to. So
God has confirmed His word in a dream to Helena last night. He always
confirms the words of His prophets. They do not fall to the ground, because
what the prophet is commissioned to say (in the course of his ministry, that
is) are not his own words but from the Throne Room of God.
This confirmation
which God has given is to assure you that He is speaking to you through us.
The Broken
Roof Window
Before I come to Helena's dream last
night, I also had one the night before last. (This was BEFORE your e-mail
came yesterday. I didn't receive that until the afternoon, and I replied
during the evening yesterday.)
The dream was of a
broken Velux window which I put right in the dream. [This depicts how his
wrong spiritual approach could be put right by what I am writing here, if he
were to accept it and change, which he is not willing to do.] A Velux window
is a roof window, which lets light in through the roof. It is well
constructed and can be opened. It has clever swivelling hinges, specially
designed for its purpose. In this dream, it was not able to be opened or
shut because it was damaged and needed fixing. That's what I did.
The dream was
fulfilled through my reply to you. God reminded me of the dream today.
A Leader’s
Idolatry
Now to Helena's dream:
Helena saw a man
preaching. That man is you. You had ornamental items on your head and around
your head.
You became like a grandfather clock, ornate, attracting attention to
yourself.
I will explain the symbolism:
Ornamental items on and around your head:
These represent how you idolise (think too
much of) your mind, and elevate yourself through your message. In Eastern
religions, people afix ornaments to themselves as tokens of their idolatry.
These items represent how you think much of yourself, which consideration
God regards as idolatrous. Oh you talk about God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit
to your audience, but YOU are the one dispensing that knowledge, and YOU are
the one through whom people must come to receive from God. [He cleverly
manipulates people with words, to gain a following for himself.]
By such subtle means,
you have usurped Jesus' place in the part of the body to which you minister.
He is our Leader, our Guide, our Teacher, our Lord, but some or all of those
prerogatives you usurp, depending upon the situation.
God is using many
people in the Vineyard. If people focus on just one teacher, he becomes
their lord and master spiritually. He stands before them in an idolatrous
position, like a pope, standing in the way of Jesus, blocking out light from
Him.
Tapes?
People sometimes ask me why we don't
make tapes. One reason is that people, being the way they are like sheep,
tend to look to the personality of the man and latch onto him if they like
the look or the sound of him. When they do this, the Holy Spirit can be
blocked, and often is.
Conversely, in
writings, the minister is not seen.
His personality does not come across so overtly. His voice is not heard, so
the way he is as a human being doesn't get in the way of his message from
God (if he has one). People tend to look to the outward packaging, and not
to the inward package which the Spirit wants to convey.
We read of Paul that
he was nothing much in person; that he was not a match for the great orators
of his day, and people compared him with others like Apollos, and so Paul
was short-changed. He didn't have their respect for his office as apostle,
nor the financial reward he was entitled to. Actually, it was not so much
him but the people who were short-changed. They only saw his outward
packaging, so they missed the spiritual package He brought from God.
It is fitting that
God preserved so many letters from this great man of God. His personality or
appearance are out of the way, and now people (if they have spiritual minds)
can glean the depth of his message which was from the Throne Room of God.
So, tapes are a poor
medium of exchange for spiritual teaching. The written word has great
advantages in God's agenda.
People can go their
own pace when studying, whereas on a tape they have to go the pace of the
speaker. Some can't do this. Some merely listen for entertainment. Many like
it because it's easier than reading. Some get lazy through the practice, and
many wither and die spiritually because they do not reach out to God like
they should when reading His Word. Many become dependent upon the speaker
instead of reaching out and learning to hear from God.
And worst of all,
those whose habit is to be continually fed spiritually by one man via tapes
end up following that man without realising the idolatrous trap they have
been dragged into.
When A Man
Takes Centre Stage
This is what has happened in your
ministry. YOU have taken centre stage, and Jesus has been pushed onto one
side. He CANNOT take centre stage through your modus operandi, until you put
yourself down and allow those whom God is using elsewhere to also minister
to your flocklet.
But, of course, if
you don't recognise those whom Jesus is using elsewhere, you won't do this.
And you won't recognise them until you submerge your pride and humbly
acknowledge their divinely appointed office. I have given you plenty of
evidence in supernaturally given signs that God is behind us, but you
arrogantly refuse to open the door or acknowledge us to your 'clientele'.
Manipulation
Can Be Subtle
You are a manipulator. You are
clever with words. But the root of all that is control, a selfish control,
one that seeks to dominate others for your own selfish reasons.
In the 1990s, an old
lady met with us for fellowship – Miss Barbara Jackson. She died in 1999,
aged 85. One of her comments rather hit me broadside one day, after
listening to one of your tapes. I thought they were very good at the time
(this was about 1995), but she simply stated "he uses a lot of words to say
very little". That was insight from Above. It could have been a word of
knowledge implanted by the Spirit. I don't know. She didn't say.
And it epitomises
your problem, how you use words to control people, to subjugate them, to
dominate them. That is all the working of a wrong spirit, not the Spirit of
God.
The Baptism
In The Holy Spirit
People need to receive the baptism
in the Holy Spirit, so that signs and wonders can accompany their evangelism
(yes, you are supposed to be training them to go out as disciples and
disciple others, but you are merely having tea parties or picnics with
them). But they can't receive that baptism in the Spirit while a man stands
in the way and dominates them spiritually, as their overlord (this is a very
subtle form of it which you manifest). You are preventing the Holy Spirit
coming into their lives.
Oh, they have a tiny
fragment of the Spirit, but they have many demonic strongholds, too. And you
are consolidating those strongholds.
We came to you 7
years ago with the truth about the need to receive this baptism, but you
shut the door on the Spirit of God then and put yourself centre stage. There
is an unseen pride behind your behaviour that caused you to do this. You
were not going to have anyone else interfere in YOUR ministry, or tell you
what to do, not even if he was sent directly by Jesus!!
I have been strong
with you here and in my missive yesterday, because you are still resisting
the moving of His Spirit. In love and consideration for you and the flock I
say this: Either move out of the way or the Holy Spirit will blow you out of
the way. You have had seven years to change, that was longer than Judas had
to change his greed. Your blockage or hindrance to the Work of God is
different from his, and I am not suggesting that you are a Judas. I come to
you as a brother, and am hopeful that you will change.... So, I adjure you:
OPEN the doors to the Spirit, LET the people have 'our' literature,
RECOMMEND it to them, PREACH on the baptism in the Spirit, RECEIVE the
baptism yourself, MANIFEST spiritual gifts, RECEIVE signs and wonders, RAISE
your level of faith, MEET Jesus personally, COME OUT of religious Babylon
where men stand in place of Christ before worshippers. Then the times of
REFRESHING can come and you will see the salvation of your God and the
mighty renewal of the Holy Spirit!
[2]
The Power In
‘Our’ Literature
One final word. When you recommend
‘our’ literature to others, and they take it to others, THAT'S when they
will see God backing them up with signs and wonders. Others can vouch for
the truth of that statement. We have printed testimonies of those who have
found out that what ‘we’ have written carries the anointing of the Spirit.
When that literature is used in outreach, the Spirit of God is present to
challenge and bring down demonic strongholds, to sift the chaff from the
wheat, and to lift up the Most Holy.
Men Keep
People In Spiritual Prisons
Unless you allow ‘your’ people to
take ‘our’ literature to others, you are keeping people in a JR prison,
where they are not free to come and go (as John 10 states they should be
able to), and they worship at your feet. They will not hear from God, and
the consequences on you will be severe. You can spare yourself that, and I
hope you will.
Some while ago, God
brought a man across our path to support our ministry, but in his pride and
self-will he stepped back from what God wanted him to do. Instead of lifting
up the words of God through 'our' publications, he made himself centre
stage, just like you have done. The results to him were catastrophic. He
lost everything and God put him in a prison until he heeded the words God
had us tell him. You can read about that in Midnight Ministries Price Tag. I
don't want to see that happen to you, but the ball is in your court.
That letter could have been written to
any number of ministers today. There are so many who are busy elevating
themselves! It hit him hard, and, although he replied, he was no more
receptive. Like Pharaoh, he was not about to relinquish HIS control over the
people. I replied (his comments in << >>):
Dear Job,
I suppose it was too
much to expect you to realise that it was not MY words you take umbrage at.
There is so little spiritual perception in the branch of the Church where
you hang out. They don't accept prophets; they don't accept the Spirit; they
don't really accept the supernatural. And as for Jesus talking to them
through another person, well, they don't want to hear that if it treads on
their toes. And when it comes to Jesus speaking to them individually, that
is generally dismissed. So, He leaves where He is not wanted.
Pride And
Resistance To The Spirit
When Jesus spoke to you in your
spirit about packing in the tape ministry [he admitted he had seriously
thought that he should quit making tapes because of the way they cause
people to follow him], you didn't do it because it brings in your income and
keeps you in a position of power. Yep, you minister for power and money, the
two main motives that are pitfalls of ministry, because they are branches
attached to the trunk of pride. They take you from ministering for Jesus, to
ministering for Satan. Jesus can't work with you in such an arrangement. You
have built your house on sand and the winds of change are about to destroy
it, unless you change first.
But all you want to
do is argue that you're not such a bad guy. "Really, Malcolm, you don't know
me. You haven't seen all the good I've done. You haven't seen all the
changes I have made over the years. You haven't seen how much I have moved
ahead."
With that amount of
pride, I've seen enough, which is why the Lord had me knock on your door
again after these 7 years.
<< I know, for the
most part, that the way you come across is a part of your personality >>
No, you're wrong
there. My personality is much different from that (which you should have
realised if you listened to the three tapes I sent you). But when the fire
of the Spirit burns within, a prophet can only prophesy. He must follow the
lead of the Spirit, or he's worthless. Jesus wants to save you and those
whom you are holding in bondage, but you are firmly resisting His
correction, using clever and devious manipulative words to try and be ‘buddy
buddy’ with me while you reject His words.
<< your constant
criticism and negative comments about me >>
Not mine. Jesus'.
<< a lot of your
opinion was formed years ago, >>
If ‘my opinion’ of
you is wrong, then pray tell, what is the meaning of the dreams about you
which I have relayed? If you disagree with those, you should remonstrate
with the Giver of those dreams, not with me, and tell Him why He's got it
wrong.
You were quick to
respond, and it would seem that you didn't first ask Jesus whether what I
was saying WAS true and whether I WAS speaking for Him.
Are we here to
justify ourselves, or to justify Jesus? Are we here to lift up ourselves, or
to lift up Jesus?
Is our motive to
elevate or to abase?
It should be to
elevate Jesus and to abase the self. But you are still saving face,
protecting your ministry, your reputation, your motives and your approach or
whatever.
<< It may be that God
has indeed been using me to help prepare a segment of His people for moving
into the power and gifts of the Spirit, that might otherwise have found it
impossible to do. >>
Not now. You have
shut the door, because you are only too ready to take the acclaim for such
if it were to occur.
With the cloning you
have so effectively done over the years, those people would immediately
reject God's power and those through whom He has chosen to display it.
Have you taught them
to accept Sunday-keepers? Not really. Have you shown them why there are true
Christians in Sunday churches? Not really. Have you deprogrammed them from
the wrong view that all the gifts displayed in the Sunday churches are not
authentic Holy Spirit gifts? No. [He taught them that lie seven years ago.]
Have you helped them see that prophets and apostles are just as much a
feature of the modern Church as they were in the first century? No.
How can you do any of
those things when you don't believe them yourself? How can you introduce the
gifts of the Spirit to your folks when you haven't accepted the baptism in
the Spirit yourself, and still stand up to firmly resist that inflow?
It doesn't come
through preaching. It comes through self-abasement and humbling.
<< I have thought
many times about the imposition of a human leader between God's people and
Him, and have, especially over the last several years, to try to find ways
of removing myself from the center of the picture. >>
Well, Jesus showed
you the first way and you didn't like it. Giving up making tapes that draw
attention to yourself. You did resist the devil's temptation to make videos.
But half measures are almost as useless. What if Jesus had resisted all
temptations except one and then made excuses to the Father, “Don't be hard
on me, I DID pass nearly all the tests. I only failed in one.”
Leaders Need
To Step Aside
<< In our local assembly, I used to
give messages every Sabbath, and our gathering did indeed center around me.
When I came to see this, I immediately changed entirely, and since that
time, have given virtually none, telling the brethren very frankly why I was
doing it. I have tried exceedingly hard to point people to the Messiah >>
Look, JR, I don't
want to be, as you put it, all negative about you and what you have done.
Sure, there are some
things you can think that you did well in. But Jesus wants to manifest in
meetings, and He's still not being given the latitude to do that. Meetings
must be opened up for the Spirit to lead, and that can't happen until people
are baptised in the Spirit and accept and operate in Holy Spirit gifts –
tongues, interpretation of tongues, prophesying, etc. There has to be a new
openness to the Spirit.
But this way is so
alien to most CoG-ers that most won't accept it.
So, the Church must split over it. There's no other way. Those who don't
accept the Spirit of Jesus and the way He does things will leave, as
occurred in John 6:60-66. It just needs someone, moved strongly by the
Spirit (it won't happen by self-motivation) to allow Him to turn up the
heat. Then it will all happen.
Small fellowships
are the place where it begins. Large assemblies are often too
man-dominated. (Only when most attendees move in the power of the Holy
Spirit can large gatherings work properly as times of worship where the
Spirit is given latitude to move.)
Contact with the
Spirit of Jesus is the only important aspect of worship really, isn't it,
when you boil it down?
We don't matter; He
matters. That's the right focus, or base position, where He can enter and
take control.
For most people, the
only way that can occur is if He strips all away first. There has to be a
complete separation from the past; a complete giving up of former ways of
doing things; a total giving over of the self to God, relinquishing all
personal goals and ambitions; a willingness to start all over again.
That point for most is not reached without God first taking it all away from
us like He did from Job.
I don't believe your
ministry can really effectively move ahead until you make some radical steps
that cause just that to occur. When you have lost or given away all your
'clientele', then Jesus can have His way with you.
I will make a
suggestion that, if you are still selfish, you will object to, and lay
myself open to the same accusation. Pass on your mailing list to me so that
we can send to each person a copy of God's Church -- Whose Authority?
After all, they're not YOUR sheep; they belong to the One whom you profess
to serve in ministry. Or if you object on the grounds of law in sharing
confidential information, YOU send them that booklet yourself. Tell me how
many copies you need and I'll forward them to you so you can do the rest.
[He refused!]
If you are not
willing to do that, it would show either:
1) You don't accept
this ministry as authentic, guided by Jesus.
2) Or you still want control over people and what they receive spiritually.
3) Or you no longer believe what you espoused in 1996 when you used material
from God's Church -- Whose Authority?
[He plagiarised it.]
4) Or you really don't care about the spirituality of others; you want to
manipulate them for your own selfish ends, using aspects of God's Word
according to your own agenda, not God's.
<< Malcolm, in spite
of your rhetoric toward me, I am carefully considering everything you say.
[Human nature always tries to appear
good.] Please do not take anything I may say or any other action on my part
as working against that fact. I have to work through this between God and
myself. I hope that you can understand. >>
While that sounds a
complete contradiction to what you have said earlier and objected to, I am
still hopeful that it's true. (THAT'S my personality kicking in.) Either it
is, and you will demonstrate that by the fruit of your response, or you will
again confirm that you still resist and reject:
1) Jesus speaking
through a prophet.
2) The further truth He wants to give to those in your care.
3) The agenda of the work of Elijah at this time, before the imminent coming
of our Lord and Master.
Sincerely, MBH
PS Helena was moved
by the Spirit to add this:
Dear JR,
There is no time to
argue. The tribulation is just around the corner. The USA will be taken over
by the enemy probably in about two years' time (or perhaps a little more
than that; we have not been given definite dates). Jesus has been pushed
out, not merely from the nation as a whole, but also from the churches by
men who have assumed leadership in His place. You have also blocked your
people's spiritual deliverance.
God is raising up a
new movement, a new wave, to spread His truth and holiness, which does not
depend upon men or established church structures and customs. You have had a
chance to be part of this wave, but you are unwilling to let go of the human
way of doing things to follow the instant commands and directions of Jesus
in the spirit. Truth and holiness have to be at the centre, not human
considerations, nor rational approaches that elevate the self.
You are suffering
from Job's 'disease'. That's also how Lucifer lost his position.
‘Your’ people need
‘our’ literature list so they can choose their spiritual food. You are
starving your people, giving them a rationalistic knowledge-based substitute
to the nourishment that only the Spirit can give. You are keeping them
immature and helpless babes. You are in danger of losing your own salvation
because you will not “Let My People Go!” [He became a false minister because
he refused God's correction!]
JR did not reply! Church leaders who
exert power refuse to let go! It’s high time for brethren to rise up and
defy this theological abuse!
It’s time for radical reform!
God is Turning Up The Heat!
The correspondence which I have
reproduced on the previous pages contains important aspects or principles
which church leaders must heed if they want to be in God’s favour.
It’s time for men to step down and
allow Jesus to have His way. That can only occur where there is true
humility, and people really seek God’s direct involvement in their lives.
When that hunger is there, the Spirit can enter and baptise the person,
spiritual gifts will manifest, and wonderful things can happen in their
life.
They should also be able to move on
into more of the truth of God.
All this is part of the work of the
end-time Elijah – restoring truth that sets people free; filling people with
God’s Spirit; and healing rifts and relationships. The basis of all this is
humility.
But we have a Church today in which
leaders are lifted up, and have even surreptitiously elevated themselves
using the name of Christ. While the former often cannot be avoided where the
power of God breaks through, the latter can, and should be condemned. Pride
ruins God’s work.
The letters in the preceding pages were
written to a minister who has subtly placed himself on a pedestal and shut
out the lead of the Holy Spirit. He claims he seeks to do the will of God
but he is blindly following his own way. He doesn’t have the humility to
accept correction, nor the courage to change direction. So, he covers his
misdemeanours with a shroud of words.
But God is not fooled. He sees all –
especially what is within. And one thing He hates more than anything...
Hypocrisy!
God had us contest JR's
hard-heartedness. The result was a confrontation and conflagration. Sparks
began to fly! That was in the Spirit-dead sector of the Church. But there is
equal obduracy and pride in the Spirit-led sector too – perhaps even more
so, because of all the signs and wonders which God has performed there.
Some people will find my comments
abrasive and out of place. After all, love covers a multitude of sins.
Agreed, and I have done that for many years, but the Lord prompted me to
hold back no more because now it is His time for exposure and judgement.
Don’t be deceived when it comes to
church leaders; there can be very strong unseen drives of ambition, of
power-seeking and control. Paul adjured Timothy that when ministers had to
be exposed, for the sake of the people who follow, they should be exposed
publicly that all may take heed (1 Tim 5:20).
So, let the chips fall where they may.
It is time to get God's truths out without fear or favour, as the following
dreams from God adjure:
19th
March 2003 H. Steak meat. I was given a trolley full of thinly sliced
steaks of meat. They needed to be used up quickly before they got spoilt.
Meaning: This represents the literature being prepared. It must go
out quickly, as time is short. The job is urgent and the Church needs
revival and feeding. The tribulation is just around the corner. Jesus said
to Peter three times, “Feed My sheep.”
1st
April 2003 H. Mess and hostility.
Dream of a house in a messy state [the state of the Church]. There were ants
[demons] in the bed which I tried to vacuum, mess on the floor which I tried
to clean up. I could see there was old and fresh food mixed together. [Old
food is old wrong doctrine. New in this context, is that which listens to
the Spirit, and utilises spiritual gifts.] A man was being hostile and
violent to another [to us], trying to beat him up. I shouted at him, and
told him it was not acceptable in my house.
Meaning: How others attack us, full of hostility as they are used by
the devil and so cause us problems. Spiritually, we have to clear up after
them.
10th
April 2003 H. Unhelpful contacts.
I was having contact with a man who had a ministry. I was hoping he would
show interest in MM literature, but he wasn’t at all helpful. I had contact
with a secretary who was supposed to help us, but she didn’t get very far
either.
Meaning: God is showing that the Church is not ready for what we have
to offer. Most ministers are spiritually asleep!
22nd
Feb. M. I was with Someone [Jesus] who was in charge of a huge
articulated lorry. The vehicle was massive! I had never seen anything
like it! He was backing it into a small garage. It was such a precision job
that only He could do it. There was hardly any room for manoeuvre, which is
why He was the only One with the expertise to do it. When in position, there
was a tiny gap on each side. He couldn’t have been more accurate in
positioning the vehicle.
Then I
noticed some little dangly things on the side. They were white, round, and
hung from small threads. While I was examining these unusual things, the
scene then switched to something else. There was some water and I put my
hand into the water to feel something like a wad of algae. I took hold of a
glob of this stuff and looked at it on the palm of my hand. Someone else was
standing beside me, looking at this too. As we looked, the amorphous mass
miraculously transformed into a lovely cat which came alive. I realised that
there was miraculous power in my hand, which God had placed there, and so I
put my hand into the water again and drew out another mass of this gooey
stuff. This time I got the attention of others nearby and said, “Watch what
happens to this!” Then the mass was transformed into another creature, like
a mouse.
Meaning: The articulated lorry represents the huge job ahead in
distributing 'our' publications. Jesus is putting things in place for that.
He is the Driver, not me. The garage represents where we are now.
The
dangly things were unique. I had never seen anything like them before, which
symbolises the unusual nature of what He is about to do. It also depicts His
supreme attention to, and care about, details.
The water represents
the pool of power that is available through the Holy Spirit, when we are
willing to put our hands where others would not naturally want to. God is
going to create publicity through raising the dead, and He will give power
to our hands to do miracles as the first disciples did, as a means to
promote God’s truth. You will see it and know that this is a work of Elijah
in our day.
Malcolm B
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