Judgement To Fall On All Falsity And False Ministers!

For new Christians, one of the most amazing discoveries is to come to learn that God uses and works through false ministers as well as those who are true. By false, I mean those who will not inherit eternal life in God’s Kingdom.

This poses huge problems, however, for naive and immature believers who either overlook this fact, or who are ignorant of it. New ‘sheep’ are most vulnerable to ‘wolves’ in sheep’s clothing (Matt 7:15).

O how many simple-minded people thus become victims of the devil’s subtlety and God’s wisdom!

You might not think it’s wise of God to allow false ministers to rule the ‘roost’, but everyone must be tested, just as Jesus was in the desert (Matt 4:1-11), except that your tests will be less severe than what Jesus had to go through.

Jesus won His spiritual battle against Satan because He refused to allow His obedience and loyalty to God to be compromised in any way. At the apex of the battle, He told Satan:

Away from me, Satan! For it is written “Worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only” (Matt 4:10).

How many simplistic believers think they are serving and worshipping God but who are actually serving and worshipping Satan? Many! Because they are following false ministers, and want to do so.

There is something about their minister’s teaching which appeals to them, so they prefer to follow him and what he says, instead of God.

They overlook some very important principles which Paul highlighted in his letters.

1) Firstly in Romans:

Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey? (Rom 6:16.)

The most vital part of worship is obedience and loyalty. Yet, multitudes are happy to be subservient to false ministers and loyal to them and to the doctrines they preach.

These believers are enmeshed in idolatry! How often it is that church members think that they are being loyal to God by being loyal to their church? Or to the ministry of their church? They haven’t got a clue that they are bowing down to Satan by so doing! (This truth is fully explained and expounded in the book God’s Church – Whose Authority?)

2) Secondly, Paul pinpointed to the church at Thessalonica what is at the heart of the matter of falsity in believers and ministers:

They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved (2 Thes 2:10).

Inside every person there is an unseen but very powerful tendency of self-will – to dismiss what God says, and stick with what a man says but which is not right. So, God allows false ministers to be a test of loyalty for many. Impostors have a lot of latitude in the Church! And God lets them have that – for a while.

But a time of reckoning comes to all. It came for Judas – the prime example of treachery in the New Testament. That spiritual traitor had been with Jesus and heard pure and perfect teaching from His lips for more than 3 years; he had been given spiritual authority to preach the same beautiful spiritual truth that Jesus taught, cast out demons and heal the sick (Luke 9:1,2; 10:17). But Judas did all that for his own vain glory. He would not relinquish his self-will, and there are many others like him today – Christians and ministers whose loyalty is to self more than towards God. Their fate will be similar to Judas’. Jesus said:

Not everyone who says to Me, “Lord, Lord,” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven. Many will say to Me on that day, “Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name and in Your name drive out demons and perform miracles?” Then I will tell them plainly, “I never knew you. Away from Me, you evildoers!” (Matt 7:21-23.)

These ministers will have genuinely done all that they claim, because God gives power to ministers who go out in Jesus’ name and who exercise the faith He gives them. With God’s power, they can prophesy, heal the sick, cast out demons and raise the dead! God performs all these miraculous feats for HIS name, not for the name of the man who is His instrument on those occasions. But if a man does not surrender his self-will to obey God from the heart, he will be cast away on the final day, regardless of all the wonders he has seen in his ministry.

Self-glorification, self-seeking in ministry, or striving for pre-eminence is a huge problem in the ministry today. I relate later how one minister boasted to me about all the wonderful things he had seen in his ministry as if HE was more important than God who did the miracles! And he sought approbation for himself. He wanted elevation, and because he had such a vaunted opinion of himself, he expected me to bow down and worship him – not literally, but in the spirit.

While he has these satanic traits, he is a false minister. Satan wanted elevation and pre-eminence. He didn’t humble himself; he did the opposite. It was that which caused his downfall from the exalted position he held as Lucifer (“shining one”) (Is 14; Ezek 28), and those who are his spiritual offspring seek the same elevation for themselves (Jn 8:42-47).

Jesus didn’t have that motive:

I am not seeking glory for Myself (Jn 8:50).

3) Thirdly, pride leads to deception. Where people do not humble themselves, but instead seek elevation, that root of pride has opened up the door to the devil to deceive them.

Deception is the poison of the Church! There is plenty of deception around today. The Church (I use the term here in its broadest sense) is full of false teachings! These heresies sound good to people. Many like them! The majority fall for error masquerading as truth.

God explains why:

...every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie, and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness (2 Thes 2:10,11).

Notice the word refused. People are not entirely ignorant. What you believe, ultimately you choose to believe. And, whenever God presents truth to you and you deny it by rejecting it in favour of something more palatable or ‘easy’ you have shut the door in Jesus’ face (Rev 3:20).

That is the Laodicean trait which is so prevalent today! Many refuse pure truth!!

We have seen it so often in our ministry. I did not choose to be a prophet. God appointed me. In my duty to Him, I have had to ‘go’ to many ministers and give them more of God’s truth, or tell them something about themselves that God is pointing out which they need to change.

In 99 out of 100 cases, people reject this input. Judgement then falls.

That is one of our functions as a prophetic ministry. I don’t bring judgement upon them. God does.

I have seen men of God, who were really talented, struck down in one way or another because they were taking too much glory upon themselves. Some died; others fell in different ways – all as God determined.

None of them fell without warning. God didn’t say beforehand specifically what He would do. He merely had us challenge them. After sufficient notice, God either cut them down or removed them from their place in some way.

God will share His glory with no one. He will share His Word, His truth, His righteousness and His love, but not His exalted glory.

I have written in The Prophet’s Role in Countering Deception^[1] about the unusual role we have had in our prophetic ministry. I don’t hesitate to compare it with Elijah’s, because this is the time for the work of the end-time Elijah which was prophesied millennia ago (Mal 4:4-6). Some may think I am elevating myself by saying that. I’m not. I’m merely stating one fact.

Elijah was used by God to restore truth at a time of gross deception and apostasy. So has God used us, but few people are spiritually perceptive enough to see that, or they don’t want to because it hurts their pride. There are others today who are used in this work of Elijah. So, I’m not saying that it’s just us who are used by God as part of His end-time work. But, God has given various indicators to show that what He has given us is a vital foundation for the whole Church in the matter of doctrine.

Our prophetic ministry has been divinely ordained to restore true biblical ideology for the Church in its entirety. Revelations which others (who are also involved in His service) have received from God confirm the correctness of my statement.^[2] Our role has been to counter deception – which is possibly a unique prophetic calling. Other prophets have had other prophetic tasks to perform, but I know of no one else to whom God has said, “I will get you to lay out in writing a complete and accurate foundation for the Church, explaining My true doctrines from the Bible, to counter the many deceptions that hold My people in bondage!”

That has been my primary commission. I’m sorry if the claim offends anyone, but if it does, you need to take a look in the mirror at your pride or jealousy. I don’t seek glory for myself. I seek to do the will of God. In laying out this written foundation, which is from Above, I have done as best as I could and I hope the King is pleased with it. I know many people are not!

Judgement Time Is Here!

Since this is God’s time for restoration, the ‘new’ truths He now lays out before His people are causing a great shaking! Confrontation and consternation are the cause and effect we see.

Elijah’s Mount Carmel showdown was a mere sideshow to what God is doing now. Every false prophet at Carmel was judged that day when fire came from heaven (1 Kings 18:36-40).

Now it’s judgement time again for the false prophets and false apostles who think so much of themselves and their achievements for Christ!

When Jesus came the first time, God sent His messenger before Him (Matt 3:1-3; Mal 3:1). Then Jesus came, and He continued with the spiritual restoration. But, like every prophet before the Prophet of all prophets, Jesus tore down before God built up. That is the divine order of things – tearing down is first. Notice it:

This Child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against (Luke 2:34).

Jeremiah was told by God:

See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant (Jer 1:10).

Likewise, God has appointed this ministry over the spiritual jurisdiction of the Church to tear down and destroy false doctrine, and to plant the new. Why?

...so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed (Luke 2:35).

In revealing ‘new’ truth to many preachers, much resistance is revealed. The carnal areas of a person’s life – the areas which have not yet been surrendered to God – are exposed.

Many are offended. Their hearts are revealed. That is the prophet’s commission. That is his work from Above. Jesus made many enemies by telling the truth. Only His true friends were prepared to obey all He said (Jn 15:14). The others were impostors – false believers masquerading as true. In the course of time they were cut off from the vine (Jn 15:2).

The same divine pruning continues today (Heb 13:8; Matt 24:10). Just because a man is a minister does not mean that he is OK. Many are not (Matt 7:15; 24:4,5).

The revelation of ‘new’ truth now at this juncture will sift all, before the Tribulation comes upon us. The foolish virgins will not heed, but the wise will understand and accept what God now makes available.

I thank God for the impeccable nature of His truth. He requires you to accept it with an equally impeccable approach, uncompromisingly, and unwavering in obedient commitment to Him. He wants total obedience to all which He reveals.

But, the wicked refuse to accept it, and refuse the one whom He has sent to deliver it. In their pride, they choose a path of stubborn rebellion instead of submissive repentance. Like many in Jesus’ time, they step back (Jn 6:66).

Charlatans Exposed!

Ten years ago God brought a minister across our path whose agenda was elevation – not elevation of Jesus, but elevation of himself! He couldn’t see his innate desire for glory, because it was mixed with preaching the gospel, and that covered his real motives.

I didn’t realise at the time that God had sent him our direction to expose his hubris (pride) which would lead to his downfall. I thought that we were to learn from him, while he could learn from us, and we were only too willing to do so. It wasn’t long before it became clear that the interchange was very much one way!

(We have ‘unearthed’ a lot of arrogant people like that. I remember writing quite early on in our ministry about the need we each have to learn from one another. I had just written The Missing Dimension in Christian Living, and humility was constantly high on our agenda. We had seen so much arrogance and pride in our former church association! There, ministers were elevated and placed above the congregation, but that caused their stagnation spiritually, and led to members becoming bogged down in spiritual mediocrity. I longed to see that situation reversed, so I regularly referred to everyone’s need to be willing to learn from others. We were willing to learn from anyone who was obviously being used by God. However, I soon found that our willingness attracted false ministers and ‘glory-seekers’ who palmed their spiritually mediocre materials off on us, thinking that we had a need to learn from them. They clearly viewed themselves as paragons of virtue whom they thought we should learn from! And they tried to use our openness as a platform for their elevation.)

Of course, such self-elevation or seeking pre-eminence does not work in the long run. It may fool some of the people some of the time, but in the arena where God is in charge, the charlatans are exposed in the end.

Diotrephes (3 Jn 9) is a classic example of a controlling, manipulating, evil-minded deceiver, masquerading as a minister of God, jacking himself up against others for his own glory and self-elevation. He didn’t make it into God’s Kingdom. The door was shut on him!

And there are many others like him. The Church today is riddled with false ministers! How you can identify them is explained in two of our publications: Apostasy in God’s Church! and Testing The Spirits.

Regarding the man whom I mentioned at the top of this column, I have elaborated on that case in the article The Insidious Effects of Pride and the Elevation of Church Leaders (article ‘Elevation’ for short, on page 24.)

What follows is correspondence I had with another evangelist who has raised the dead and has done many wonderful things in his ministry. But the unseen pride in his life is leading to his downfall.

God has an incredible way of doing things! His ways are perfect, as the Scriptures declare. He is so ingenious. He knows how to trap the wicked, and expose them for what they are – deceivers and conniving schemers! Hypocrites!

God utterly detests hypocrisy! That was the one sin which Jesus most reproved! And arrogance is its sister. So, God’s approach is this:

With the pure You will show Yourself pure; And with the devious You will show Yourself shrewd. You will save the humble [afflicted] people; But Your eyes are on the haughty, that You may bring them down (2 Samuel 22:26-28, NKJV.)

Uncovering An Evil Heart

A false minister doesn’t wear a label around his neck, identifying him. He appears altruistic and well-meaning, but what is in the heart is very different. When God sets up circum- stances to expose his heart, then you can see the real person and the spirit that motivates him.

On the surface, he can seem very nice, charming, and affable. He can be warm and friendly. He can have personality and ‘charisma’. Many people will behave in the way they know that brings them what they want from others. But, underneath that exterior is manipulative guile (cunning), motivated by self-interest.

Jesus extolled Nathanael as a rare man indeed. He had no guile! (John 1:47.) But false ministers have plenty! Deceit is the name of their game!

When ‘Bill’ (not his real name) wrote to me in February 2003, I thought I had ‘found’ a good man. He was zealous, made pleasant remarks, and sounded positive:

I’m the pastor of the above [ministry and church]. I’m writing to request a catalogue of your books. I’m especially interested in the book titled The Imminent Fall of America. I had one such copy, but I gave it to a minister in Africa.

But he was quick to blow his own trumpet:

I’ve raised up over 50 ministers in Africa out of the miry clay and they are preaching the gospel and healing the sick and casting out devils. They are not just preachers, but they are ministers of His power.

We also have raised up 30-40 crusades. We go there every year and also to other parts in Africa. Kenya is the mainline, but we have now started some churches in Uganda, and in Benin...

Preach the gospel until the door of grace is closed and then I’ll preach you’re doomed! Amen. Let’s shake the world for Jesus!

Well, I’d never received a letter quite like that before! Initially I was impressed. I thought, “Wow! It’s good to meet a guy like this! He’s on fire!”

And he certainly was! But why? Was he genuinely fired up with zeal by the Spirit of God or by another spirit, one that was self-serving? I was soon to find out.

After he received the literature which we sent, he responded by sending me some articles he had written. One was about himself. Others were thundering, bombastic messages of doom and destruction – calls to repentance – signed by himself as the Prophet with a capital ‘P’ – not merely ‘a prophet’, but ‘THE Prophet’! That signal was disconcerting.

Clearly he thought much of his ministry. And he had done much, too, which is why it was easy for him to be trapped by the devil’s pride.

I don’t doubt for a moment that what he narrated about his exploits in Africa were true. Many ministers have gone out into the harvest fields and seen the Spirit of God perform great feats. Signs and wonders are always on God’s agenda where there are hurting people who need Him, and where a man (or woman) can be harnessed up to the Spirit of God by faith.

Believers receive!

But some false believers can believe, too – up to a point. Faith is a gift from God, and if God wants a man to receive it so that he can be used miraculously in God’s service, who are we to argue? That is why so many ‘Pentecostal’ or ‘charismatic’ ministers see the works of God performed even though, with some, their hearts are not right with Him.

Pride: The Root Cause of Downfall

Bill’s first problem was pride. He was puffed up because of what God had already done with him or through him. And it was not just a bit of pride. He was now taking the credit for what Jesus had done. This was serious! It was deeply rooted, too.

Then there was jealousy. Because he had come to think of himself so highly, he thought HE should be getting the acclaim which others were receiving. Other evangelists who stole the limelight were soon attacked with vituperative recrimination.

Benny Hinn came in for a real knocking! Benny has made some erroneous remarks which fault-finding sceptics and detractors have gone to town with! They have made huge mileage out of them, ridiculing their falsity and thereby calling Benny a false minister. But they don’t apply the same rigorous standards to their own silly errors and verbal mishaps. They allow themselves a wide margin for error, while they give none whatsoever to the likes of Benny Hinn or other televangelists with a huge audience. More of that later, but first...

To begin with, it seemed like he was one with us in the spirit. On 17th February, he wrote:

I greet you in that most holy blessed name of our Lord Jesus Christ. It was a blessing to receive word from you and also the literature you sent....

Like you, we are in debt for the ministry of the gospel. Every time I go to Africa it takes about a year to get ready to go again. It seems as though the deceivers on TV and the denominations have it all. But I believe God is going to turn things around and that right soon.

I’ve read a large portion of your literature already. [Actually, he had only read a small fraction of it.] I say unto you, we do see eye to eye. It is a blessing to know that God in these last days is bringing together His truth messengers, getting His sanctified ones ready for the great finale, a fire of God revival like as has never been yet!

I know right well that we are going to see the dead raised and it will be some of a long time gone. Perhaps Paul saw this when he was caught up to the third heaven. He does hint about [some unusual things] here and there.

I’ve not seen the Princess Diana [prophecy] like you have quoted, but I do believe God and what you said. She was an example of a depressed world with a need for real love. She was a good-spirited person, but found no real peace. I see her as one that was wanting a life she couldn’t find, and as one who plunged on like the world until she came to that final end. They massaged her heart, trying to bring back life – a sign that God will do just that! Only He can do it!

God could massage the heart of this world with His Gospel... they have come to a dead end. The Church is cold and dead, because there is no fire in the pulpit....

Here, Bill seems to be genuine in what he writes. He appears to be alight for God. But only a short while later, by 14th April, after my letters to him, his manner entirely changed. He wrote:

Throw away your dream diary. It’s not the book that will be opened on Judgement Day. [I have never said it is!]

...Malcolm’s book, a book of dreams that could not have possibly come from the Holy Ghost....

He also wrote many other things of a hostile or belligerent nature against us. Why?

What happened? How did he ‘flip’?

At first, he requested several copies of The Imminent Fall of America to give to ‘his’ ministers. He wanted those to back up his claim to being a prophet. He sought self-importance.

He also asked for Benny Hinn’s Dream of Jezebel and the Last Outpouring and Is Benny Hinn A False Apostle? That’s what interested him most! He wasn’t interested in the truth contained in other publications. Secretly he hoped that I would find Benny Hinn to be a false apostle.

Bill aspired to be centre stage. He wanted to see Benny Hinn, and others like Benny, put down while he ascended higher.

When we came along, I received some dreams about Bill and relayed them to him (see later under Dreams From God). They were for him to learn from and make changes. That’s when our dream diary became another threat to his supremacy. (Dreams are God’s chief means of guidance to His prophets; see Numbers 12:6.) So, he attacked the dream diary, and us too.

 He didn’t like to be corrected. Adamantly, he refused any input that did not already agree with his own teaching. Besides pride, he exhibited stubbornness and rebellion. (What God revealed via dreams also verified this.)

When we sent him a box of literature so that he could make all our publications available to his congregation, he refused it at the post office. He would not accept it! Why? He feared losing control or influence over his congregation!  He insisted that HE be in charge, not the Spirit!

He just would not learn from us or anyone else. By God bringing us along, Bill’s pre- eminent position had now been challenged, and his pride didn’t like that one bit!

After he received our two articles Benny Hinn’s Dream of Jezebel and the Last Outpouring and Is Benny Hinn A False Apostle? he responded with this hostile outburst against Benny Hinn:

Benny Hinn shall die of worms eating him!

Then in the next breath he wrote:

I exalt all others above myself, and when a prophet’s a true prophet I honour him highly above self.

He could not see that he didn’t! He neither honoured other true men of God, nor the prophets whom God had brought across his path to correct him. Because he thought he was faultless, he never expected any correction. He rejected it all! Spiritually, he had become blind!

All his reasoning against Benny Hinn was based upon an intellectual appreciation only. He wasn’t properly testing the spirits. Because he heard (some) false doctrine, he assumed that the man preaching it was false. But that’s not accurate spiritual assessment or judging. Jesus told the religious bigots in His day:

Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgement (Jn 7:24).

True judgement comes from assessing the motive or spirit of the person – why he does what he does, or what spirit underlies his behaviour?^[3]

Bill was only using his intellect or his own reasoning. The base line of reference was Bill’s own appreciation of what Scripture means. He couldn’t see what is in Benny Hinn’s heart. And he was incapable of admitting or seeing his own errors of understanding.

I gave him Why Hell? which explains that hell is not going to burn forever, like most think. Bill taught that error with adamance!

But would he examine his appraisal? No way! He wasn’t going to have anyone else suggest that he had got anything wrong!

Can You Make A Blind Man See?

It would have been easier convincing a cow in the field than Bill! He was too proud and stubborn. Soon he was to become even more rebellious and hostile!

After his nasty contemptuous statement against Benny Hinn, I wrote to him:

...one other thing... It concerns your approach to people like Benny Hinn. It’s imperative to make a distinction between the sin and the sinner. You know this already, but it’s easy to slip back into a trap when there is insufficient discernment from the Lord. That trap is to hold contempt for the person, not just contempt for their sins or mistakes.

You know what Jesus said to the contemptuous Pharisees in His time, who were so religious and thought they were so righteous! I don’t have to repeat His warnings in Matthew 5:22. Jesus paints the levels of dislike, expressed by certain words of His day, leading up to contempt for someone. Contempt against a person may well be final ground for the devil to hold his victim in his grip and sweep him into hell.

I know there are many false ‘apostles’ and evangelists out there, merchandising the gospel. They have evil hearts, selfish motives, and they are out to exploit others, using Jesus’ platform to gain a following for themselves, and earn themselves a living. Yes, quite a number have become famous, and have got stinking rich!

But, because of what God has revealed to us in dreams concerning Benny Hinn and Morris Cerullo, these men will come out right in the end, despite their misunderstandings and wrong practices, and the misuse of money and wrong fund-raising tactics, they will be in the Kingdom of God.

What we must remember is that God uses deception to humble people. That’s why He allows some of His servants to get trapped by misunderstandings, and to make some drastic mistakes.

Because only God knows our secret sins, the idols in our heart, only He can reveal them to us. And His ways of doing so seem strange to us.

Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults (Ps 19:12).

When David prayed this, I wonder if it was before his terrible sin concerning Uriah and Bathsheba? If so, that was the answer. God let him be drawn into deception and sin, to humble him. Only then could he become a home for the Spirit of God.

Pride and stubbornness are very deeply rooted, and have many long-lasting threads.

God bless!

His response was not one of receiving the blessing of God – by humbling himself and being willing to change his sinful attitudes. Instead, his heart became hardened, like Exodus says of the arrogant Pharaoh, whom Moses challenged.

Other letters I wrote to him caused this hardening. The most significant parts of those letters follow. As progressively more was expected of him, so his attitude became progressively worse.

God Caused His Heart To Harden

3rd March 2003

Thank you for your [letter, etc.]. You asked us to pray. After doing so this evening, Helena and I were talking and this is what came out of it, regarding your next trip to Africa. Rather than go in person, I sense in the spirit a better alternative for you – send them a box of all ‘our’ literature. It might sound unusual, but I’ll explain.

The written word, when it is inspired by the Spirit, is powerful. Unlike a message from a preacher, the message can be referred to time and time again. We never get all the spiritual benefit from what we hear or read first time. We read again and again and again. Each time we learn a bit more than before. The more spiritually minded receive more than the less spiritual. And each person can accept what they are capable of accepting at their particular stage of development. So, in various respects, the written word has more potential than the preaching engagement. It can be copied relatively easily and passed on to others. It doesn’t need an organised distribution programme. Each individual can spread the word, as the Spirit leads him or her. It can obviate blockages created by unspiritual church leaders. (There is often a problem there. We have found they are the main hindrances to further spiritual advancement in the Church. And they invariably stand in the way of pioneering brothers.) [He was about to do just this! - Editor.]

If you want to do this, we can send the box of literature from here to your designated address by parcel post. It costs about £60 (approx US $96). I will donate the literature, if you cannot afford to contribute towards it, but whatever you can will be greatly appreciated as none of us here get paid, and our debts are substantial. Because of the lack of support (because most in the Church are so unspiritual they cannot see what God is doing, etc.), our elder daughter Tonya gives most of her wages from her secretarial job to ‘bale us out’ each month until God provides support from other channels.

We already send quite a lot of our materials to Africa. We have outreaches in Nigeria, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Kenya, Uganda and Ghana. And because we can’t afford to give publications to each individual, they set up libraries where people can come and borrow the books and return them later. That way a lot of people get to read them. It’s quite cost effective.

You mentioned Benny Hinn’s ‘tutorial’ under Kathryn Kuhlman. [His was not a positive comment. He was trying to find fault with Benny Hinn. - Editor.] I did know that already, but thanks for mentioning what you think I might be interested to know. There is a biblical precedent for that. Elisha went in the spirit and power of Elijah, after his death. Likewise, Benny Hinn mimics that God-fearing lady, and God backs him up with miraculous power, to fulfil His commitment. I’m sure you know that the gifts of God are irrevocable, so when God gives a spiritual gift, He does not withdraw it. Miraculous power, for a public witness to the gospel of Christ, is what God bestowed on Benny Hinn, as part of his ministry calling. So, God makes good His part of that charge. If Benny Hinn fails to fulfil part of his obligations, or operates under any misunderstanding, or makes mistakes, that does not negate the gift. It is still operative, for Jesus’ sake. The principle is bound up in the precept: “Let God be true, even though every man may be a liar.” I’m sure you know.

All these comments trod on his pride. He didn’t really want to share our literature with his congregations, or accept that he might have appraised Benny Hinn wrongly. And he was not about to make any sacrifice on ‘our behalf’!

A Dream From God

In my next letter on 7th March, I told him about this dream from God:

Of B, and $1150 which he was to donate to us, and our $500 which I wanted to give to him from the bottom of my heart.

He didn’t like me telling him this dream. This is what God was saying by the dream:

1. The value of what we were sending him in the literature was more than what he was giving to us – in spiritual terms. In other words, he should be learning from us, but he didn’t want to.

2. My motive was portrayed as genuinely wanting to give, whereas his was implied as being mechanical or obligatory.

3. The $500 which I wanted to give him depicts man’s spiritual release:

50 (Jubilee, or release) x 10 (man).

But the $1150 from him depicts:

23 (hypocrisy) x 50 (release).

If he were to accept all the truth in our literature and pass it on to others, he would find spiritual release from the demons still dominating his life.

My missive crossed in the post with one from him (9th March). But he was already getting more self assertive. The following is his reply [my comments in square brackets - Editor]:

9th March 2003

I think I should tell you more about my ministry, although I’m not one to say much in exalting myself in any way, shape or form. [What a bold-faced lie!]

Right now in Africa, there are three areas that are praying for me to come there as soon as possible. Literature and tapes are sent to those that I have brought into the Kingdom by signs, miracles and wonders. [So, he is adamant that he doesn’t want nor need ‘our’ literature.]

Since 1991 I have gone to Africa every year. The first time, I raised the dead and many who were sick were healed of all manner of sickness and disease. On one occasion there were approximately 2,000 people gathered to hear the Word. I said to the Lord, “How can I pray for so many sick folk?”

He said, “Put a handkerchief on each side of your body, form two lines and let the people come and touch them, and as they pass through they will be healed.”

The blind were led by others. All went seeing. Cancers were healed, demons of drunkenness were cast out. Lame with walking sticks were healed. People with Aids were healed. People with fevers were healed. Many came back the next day with more people giving testimonies of how they were healed of so many afflictions.

There was a man who had been insane with demons who ran the streets of Nakuru, Kenya, for 12 years. He had not bathed; his hair was almost to his waist. He had fingernails like claws and he was barefoot and partially naked! He fell down at the feet of one of the preachers that God had shown me had a call of God on his life.... He had a vision of this man in a dream a few days before. He cast out the demons and the man who was wild, and whom everyone feared, was now like a lamb. That preacher had gone to meet him with a pair of scissors and a sheet and some clothes. He also took a razor, towel and soap. He cut his hair, gave him the razor, took him to the river where he bathed and was baptized. He repented of his sins and was filled with the Holy Spirit.

Another preacher was awakened at 2 o’clock by a friend who said, ‘Please come, my wife is dead! She died in bed. He went to the man’s house, the body was cold and lifeless. He took one of the mantles I gave him (a large bandana) and he struck the ground by the bed with it and said, ‘Where is the Lord God of B? I command this woman to live! Nothing happened. He was on his way home when a man who was running caught him up. The preacher told him what he had just done but said, ‘She did not rise up.’ The runner said, ‘Oh, she is now in the yard with a basin washing her face.’ The preacher ran back and jumped over the fence and hugged her. She had died of a disease but now she was alive and healed.

I was preaching near a town called Kericho on a tea plantation. A man sent a friend of his to the service with a name written on paper. He said, “The name on this paper is the name of my brother who is possessed with many demons, running in the hills among the wild animals, bitten by snakes even, so demon-possessed that even venomous snakes didn’t kill him.”

He told his friend, “You don’t need to say anything to anyone, not even the prophet of God. Just hold up the paper while he is preaching. The friend did so. I was unaware of what was being done. This demon-possessed man lived miles away from where his brother lived, and even further away from where I was preaching. The following day, the man went to the village where the family of that demoniac lived. He found his brother sitting there clothed and in his right mind with his family and wife. He asked what time this took place. He was told it was the hour that the man’s name was held up in front of the voice of the preacher.

...if I were to tell you all that the Lord has done there, it would be a book. Approximately 5,000 people were gathered on a hillside way up in the bush country. I preached about the Holy Spirit and fire, about the miracles and healing that are here today because of ministers chosen and sent to heal the sick and cast out demons, cleanse lepers and make the blind to see, etc. All 5,000 were moved to repentance. They cried tears of repentance so heavily that you could literally hear the tears, at times, falling to the ground. Even the preachers that were with me and the one who was interpreting were crying out to God in repentance. All 5,000 (no one excluded) repented. I had them line up in several lines and preachers were put in charge of keeping order so that they would not rush at me like a herd of cattle.

As they came one by one and I laid hands on them, they received the Holy Spirit. There was the joy of laughter... they were speaking in other tongues. Broken legs were healed, cancers were healed, epileptics were delivered. Over 200 babies were healed of asthma, fevers, and some crippled people carried there by others who had walked for miles through the night hours, carried these so weak and sick that they were dying. Many were AIDS victims. All were healed. Not one person in the 5,000 was left sick or unsaved. Many preachers took them to the rivers throughout the next few days and they were baptized in water. This was the beginning of many churches in Eastern Kenya...

We travelled to many other villages repeating those signs, miracles and wonders. A girl 12 years of age, birthed as a vegetable, had to be fed with a straw. For twelve years she had never moved a limb, but the parents heard of one of the ministers who was raised up by this ministry, and they borrowed money to travel over 100 miles to bring this child to this man of God. They were waiting for him when he arrived home from a meeting. He said to them, “Abide here in my home, while I pray in my room. Do not leave, no matter how long you have to wait.” He went to his room and began to pray. On the third morning, he heard children outside his window. He went out and the little girl was running and playing with the others. Her mother and dad and family were repenting of their religion and came into the truth that day.

From the beginning, when I first went to Africa, I preached the right Sabbath^[4] and made many enemies. Preachers tried to kill me. Some of them were in terrible accidents on their way to do me in. I’ve had weapons pointed at me! But in ten years these have all fallen by the way. Many who were enemies at the first have now become stronger to believe.

On our last trip to Uganda, Africa, a place where I had not been before (a preacher heard about the ministry, so he invited me to come there to Kampala, the capital city), he took us to the bush country for our first meeting.

I was preaching about the power of God to heal the sick, etc., and a woman 83 years old who was brought to the service, cried out, “I can see!” A man was held on a bicycle and pushed there for miles. He was paralyzed from electrical shock. He could not even talk. He was healed instantly...

For two weeks I preached twice daily from one place to another. Great miracles took place, people were saved and filled with the Holy Spirit. People in the hotel where we stayed were saved and healed. They are now keeping the right Sabbath.

A minister came 150 miles to these services... he went back a different man. [I don’t doubt this one bit! But it is Jesus who is to be glorified and credited, not you!] ...it’s a war torn, poverty stricken people. Children are homeless, diseased and many have died as the result of war. Another large city approximately 100 miles south of there is also awaiting the Healer, as they call me. [This is the problem! They’re looking to YOU, and you like that. They’re not looking to Jesus, so you are actually now blocking the move of God.]

None of these great works of God can be done by literature. [THAT IS ENTIRELY UNTRUE! More about that in a moment.] Besides that, I have taught all, that the Bible and prayer exceeds all literature [of course] and that all of it must be confirmed with signs, miracles and wonders....

Literature has its place [which he rejects!] but it will never take the place of God’s anointed garments, handkerchiefs and the hands that work miracles. [It’s not meant to. You’re missing the point.]

While literature – to explain the Bible, so that people can find God and receive from Him – is not meant to take the place of evangelists, it is entirely untrue to say that miracles don’t take place through that means. They do!

The Power Of Inspired Literature

We have received letters from people who have received healing as they read our book Faith and Healing, and believers who have been delivered in other ways when reading other publications we have produced. I don’t say that for my credit. I say it because that’s the evidence that God has put His anointing upon our publications which Bill now rejects. Bill demands signs and wonders to authenticate everything, and they are here, but he doesn’t care to know about them. His mind is closed.

It is misleading to say that literature cannot take the place of evangelists with ‘anointed garments’ or hands that work miracles. It would be just as ludicrous to say “evangelists cannot take the place of the Bible.” They’re not meant to. They are mutually beneficial.

What is the primary purpose of evangelists – to perform wonders? No. To preach the truth of God’s Word and expound it. Then miracles back it up.

It’s the same with ‘our’ literature. It explains the truth of God’s Word and expounds it. As it finds receptive hearts, miracles occur! Bill wanted signs. They’re there to be seen, if he was not so wilfully blind!

But when I wrote to him on 17th March: “So, when Helena (my wife) was shown in a dream that God wants you to supply a box of our literature to every church in New York, for their spiritual revival, I believe that the literature is central to what He is about to do now, just as your evangelism has been central to what He was using you to do in Africa and elsewhere up to now...” it’s no wonder he blew a fuse!

He responded with utterly disparaging comments about women, as if they had no right to be heard, and could give no valuable spiritual input!

I was incredulous at his outburst! It was more appropriate of a male chauvinist ‘pig’ than a minister of Jesus Christ! (He’s obviously of the ‘old school’ who have not come out of the stone age of misunderstanding about what Paul said on women.^[5])

God knows how to touch raw nerves!

Dreams From God

God very deliberately gave Helena several dreams about him, his attitude and his situation. Of the eleven dreams (one is on p 17) which God gave us about this individual, six were to Helena.

I have alluded to the first already. It was:

§                8th March 2003 H. Literature to New York.

Dream of a huge box being sent to each of the churches in New York. The boxes contained literature and were full of heat!

Meaning: The literature was producing the heat – the fire of a spiritual outpouring. The size reflects the scope of the spiritual impact that the literature will have on believers.

God gave Bill an opportunity to do this, but he declined. If he doesn’t repent and do it, then God will give the privilege to someone else, and Bill will find himself under God’s judgement!

Then, God depicted Bill’s church like so:

§                17th March 2003 H. Church entertainment.

I was passing by a big church, in a big city like New York. I saw a preacher showing off how he could eat a tool made of metal. Next to him was a huge alarm clock. He was going to swallow it.

Meaning: God is showing how this man has lost his way. MM literature is the big alarm clock, which he rejects. Swallowing it may represent how he doesn’t want others to have it, but he has taken what he wants from it for himself.

Worse still, God then revealed how this man has rejected the input which Jesus had us bring to him:

§                18th March 2003 H. Superficial socialising.

I saw people mingling together. I heard two people speaking Polish. I recognised the language. There was a casual, superficial atmosphere and everyone was doing their own thing. I saw a tall lady [depicts Bill] with a cream coloured garment. It looked like a bridal gown with a long train. The design of it was quite ordinary, but the dress was untidy and creased. I got hold of the end of the train and the creases began to unravel. The dress got straightened out. But as I held onto the dress the lady carried on walking and left the dress behind!

Meaning: That’s just what Bill did! He is meant to be part of the Bride of Christ, but is rejecting that chance. The dream was prophetic and given before he rejected ‘our’ input. But God knows everything beforehand. Gentile (pagan, unclean, demonic) influence of Jezebel, was depicted by the two Polish speaking people (no disrespect to Poles, Helena is Polish). The help we offered to Bill, which could have ironed out the creases in his teaching was not appreciated. He is set in his ways and moves forward only in his old traditions. He is not willing to take on board a new thing that the Lord is instigating through us.

After this revelation, God showed Helena in the next dream that Bill’s proud attitude is the root of his rebellion:

§                26th March 2003 H. Boastful woman.

A woman was boasting continually about how happy she was and how pleased she was with herself. She was proud of herself and everything was going well for her. I said to her, “All this happiness means nothing if we won’t allow the Holy Spirit to work with us. When the Holy Spirit works with us we have to be sensitive and obedient. We have to make changes to be in the will of God. We should accept those that God is using to bring fresh revelation for the Church.”

I went into a big building to take something in. The ground floor hall was cold and icy.

Meaning: This represents the man ‘Bill’, and can also include the part of the Church which is cold towards us.

Besides the above dream, God gave me this one, corroborating his pride, and predicting the lengthy correspondence that would result (if I were to include all of that here it would double the length of this document) :

§                20th March. M. Pride. In this dream, I was writing a long letter to various ministers – mostly evangelists. It contained much information, and clearly there was a lot that they needed to consider, and make changes. At the end, one thing stood out – there was a need to deal with pride. It was hindering what God can do through people on earth.

Meaning: God is warning about the damage of pride in hindering evangelism. Pride is so insidious, and so dangerous. Because of its subtlety it ‘creeps up’ on people without them noticing. It is the cause of the downfall of so many evangelists, and ruins God’s work through them.

Bill has done much in God’s service, which has caused him to become elevated. But he will come down to earth with a ‘bang’:

§                3rd April 2003 H. Man walking amongst clouds.

   I saw a man walking among the clouds in the sky. When I looked around I saw him on the ground, and this surprised me. I asked, “What brought you down to earth?!”

Meaning: This was about Bill, yet again! It depicts the way he has walked ‘in the clouds’ with the miraculous power of God, but God will humble him.

God showed that he needed to learn from us, because God has inspired the contents of our various publications to bring balanced teaching to the whole Church. As I said earlier:

§                7th March 2003. M. Of Bill, and $1150 which he was to donate to us, and our $500 which I wanted to give to him from the bottom of my heart. [God is saying that the value of what we took him was far greater than what he gave us, so he should have been willing to learn from us.]

But would Bill learn? No! His spiritual state, the confusion in his teachings, and his reaction were all depicted in this dream:

§                1st April 2003 H. Mess and hostility.

Dream of a house in a messy state. There were ants 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, and new is that which incorporates spiritual gifts with the true Sabbath.] A man was being hostile and violent to another, trying to beat him up. I shouted at him, and told him it was not acceptable in my house.

Meaning: God was warning us of Bill’s attack. He attacked us and was full of hostility as he was used by the devil. This occurred when Bill responded with hostility to Malcolm for suggesting to him that he should clean up the mess in his doctrines. The food on the floor shows how he disparaged the spiritual food we brought to him.

God still had more to say about this man:

§                26th March. M. The deformed tree. (This was again about Bill.) There was a big evergreen tree at the end of our garden. It was next to a deciduous tree that was ours and was dominating over it. Moreover, the evergreen was not a nice shape. It was misshapen and had a bough broken off. Where the bough was broken off, it had been chafing against another branch, and the stub of what was left was still rubbing against it as the tree swayed in the wind. This rather unsightly evergreen tree was high. It was higher than ours and was intent on reaching for the sky. I thought it should have its top lopped down, because it was too high and such a bad shape that it wasn’t visually appealing, but I decided that was not my duty to do that.

In the next scene, we were in our garden. Some people who knew us (I think it was two men) brought in another man who was interested to know more about us, especially what we had been doing in Africa. [This is also about Bill, conveyed in a different scene.] Some of our publications were laid out on a table, and he could see them. Perhaps he was having a cursory look at them, although they were not opened, and may not have been at that point. He seemed more interested in other things. [That was the problem. God wanted him to learn from them, but he refused to.] At that moment, he was more intent on finding out straight from me what we were doing in Africa. (But all this explaining is so time consuming, unnecessary and tiring. It is all written up already in our newsletters.) But, to be polite, I had to respond to him. As I began to explain, he took out a £20 note. It looked like he was about to make a donation. (But it didn’t show him doing that. He held back because he refused to be corrected.) Then, suddenly a tiredness came over me and I had to stop talking and put my face in my hands. I said, “Excuse me, I’m sorry, I’m so tired!” I couldn’t go on. The dream ended there.

Meaning: The struggles to reach evangelists like Bill via correspondence are so tiring! What tires you out is their intransigence and unwillingness to change. He has wasted a lot of my time because he just wouldn’t receive correction.

For all the good that he has done in the past, God’s estimation of his ministry was not very high. Much needs changing:

§                9th April. M. The cowboy builder. (About Bill again.)

Scene 1: I was in a building in which I felt a sense of possession, as if it were mine. I felt a great sense of responsibility towards it. [Afterwards I realised that the building represents part of the Church, the people of God, whom God is ‘building’ as a home for Himself. My personal identification with the building and sense of ‘ownership’ shows how we each have a responsibility towards others in this House for God, of which we are all a part. And the responsibility I felt is a reflection of my calling as a prophet, to give input where God shows me to do so, for the benefit of that part of God’s House.]

In this room, there were some heating pipes laid in the floor. Instead of being below the surface, they were proud of the top of the floor. It was really annoying that someone had laid them like that. It meant that a door would not be able to close properly, and they could not be covered adequately to make a proper floor for people to walk upon. I suggested several ideas of how the pipes could be properly covered, but there was no quick solution. The only real way to deal with this very unsatisfactory situation was for the person who laid them to take them up and re-lay them as they should have been in the first place – below floor level.

Meaning: The pipes, down which heated water flows, but which have been raised up to a position they should not occupy, symbolise the power aspect of the gospel in this ‘cowboy’s’ ministry – miracles, healings, etc. The floor depicts the living area, i.e. Christian living. It was a lounge or living room, where people could come and go, and sit and rest, etc. What God is saying is that things are out of balance in this man’s ministry. Power has been elevated to an improper place, and this has seriously affected the ability of the people to whom he ministers to ‘walk’ properly.

Scene 2: Then I saw more of this man’s workmanship. I saw some small steps, leading down to a lower level, beside which there were two low-slung ‘gates’, a bit like saloon bar doors, but much more open and flimsy, made out of what could have been bamboo, they were so flimsy and useless. I looked more closely at one, and the post on which it was hung wasn’t fixed into the floor properly. You could push it around. It wasn’t firm at all. It was dreadful workmanship! There were other aspects of building construction that were equally poor quality and needed radical repair and upgrading.

Meaning: An allegory of the teaching in this man’s ministry which is well below the standard which God now requires. He needs to get busy and revise it according to what God is now revealing. God has sent someone along with more truth, that shows up the shoddiness of his former workmanship. He needs to make improvements.

Scene 3: I was talking with the builder. I pointed out the way his gatepost was wobbling around. I told him he needed to get it fixed, along with some other details that needed equal attention. But he was nonchalant and uninterested. He said he didn’t care to make the changes. He said he would rather be outside doing landscaping work. (The trouble is, he had a responsibility to put right his shoddy workmanship inside the building, instead of pleasing himself by seeking the more enjoyable landscaping work outside.)

Meaning: He prefers to go evangelising [‘landscaping’] ‘outside’ (in Africa). That’s far more fun than the painstaking work of repairing the inside of the Church by giving it the proper teaching.

Scene 4: Outside I saw a patch of tarmac which had been done. There was a large original area in black tarmac, then a small patch at one end, also in black, which had been added to the main area. Beside it was another small patch, this time in red tarmac. It was totally out of place; it didn’t match.

A planning official [who represents God] was saying that it was totally unacceptable, and that it needed to be redone.

But the response from the man who had done the job, was defensive. He was mindlessly defending himself, [this is how he foolishly responded in his letters] saying that red tarmac is really expensive and the only place you can get it is somewhere a long way away, and that it had cost him a fortune to do this patchwork (which looked awful!). His response was silly. It was totally irrational, without any common sense or wisdom. It was a purely natural human reaction. Red tarmac is very expensive, yes. Then why didn’t he do it in black, to match? Why did he go the more costly route and use red? The reason wasn’t shown, but it was clear that this man was not listening to sense. He didn’t want to be told what to do or how to do it. He was very self-willed, stubborn and rebellious.

God waits for people to repent, but if they don’t, His judgement will fall!

Prepare For Tribulation!

I have reproduced most of Bill’s letter to me of 9th March (pp 7-8). In my reply of 17th March, I outlined why God had put in our minds that he should send a box of all our literature to his churches, and why God also confirmed that via the dream which He gave Helena on 8th March (see p 9). Here is that reply to Bill:

17th March 2003

Thank you for your long letter of 9th March. It was really good reading about all the wonderful things that you have experienced and that Jesus has done. He has certainly used you as an apostle in Kenya and elsewhere. And you have a great zeal in your soul to preach and evangelise. So, it is understandable why you would want to go again. It’s where your heart is and what the Spirit has fired you up to do.

I hear all you say. I have read every word, carefully. And, yes, I agree that it would seem right to go physically to Africa again. But, there are some other factors which I believe the Lord is bringing out, which is why He may be wanting you to consider a different emphasis. I will do my best to explain and elaborate on these points.

1. In about two years’ time (we think that’s the right timing, but we’re not absolutely certain), America will go down and be taken over by foreign powers.

The Great Tribulation will engulf the formerly ‘Christian’ nations, and impact also the rest of the world. It will be a time of universal crisis (Rev 3:10), unprecedented in history (Matt 24:21), and the worst time in the national history of the descendants of Jacob (Jer 30:7), which I presume you know comprises America, Britain and other English-speaking peoples, as well as the Jews.

2. When America collapses, Africa will not be the same either. Aid and financial assistance from individuals in America (and Britain and other wealthier nations) will no longer help the brethren in African countries. There will be a knock-on effect, and other powers will move into Africa, such as Oriental powers (I had a dream that the Japanese will move in, and be very dictatorial and ruthless).

3. Consequently, the believers in Africa must prepare for this time now, and be ready to endure it spiritually. This is where the literature comes in. I will explain in a moment.

4. The book of Revelation shows that organised religion will be shut down in the West during this time, other than that which the Great Prostitute in Rome will permit.

So, evangelism as we know it now, and the freedom of religion with open worship services, will be severely curtailed. When the 2 Witnesses prophesy, I believe they will be the only two servants of God openly ‘evangelising’, although it won’t be evangelism as we know it now. It will be prophesying judgement and woe, etc.

5. The Church has to prepare now to go ‘underground’ to survive. Many people will die as martyrs. Most of these may well be pastors, prophets, evangelists, and church leaders, etc. But God will protect some physically. The archangel Michael appeared to a lady and told her and her husband to prepare a place of safety in the Middle East to house 50 million Christians and Jews. We know the location, but are not at liberty to say more. This project is not yet underway, because other things have to happen first. God is purifying us all. But God has already shown them how He’s prepared much of the logistics of it already. She has also been shown to observe the true Sabbath, as well as the Festivals, which are equally holy.

Besides this ‘group’ of people, there will be others whom Jesus will individually protect in their own homes. As you know, He has a very individual way of helping us and dealing with us. [But those who seek to save their lives will not be protected. They will have to lay down their lives to show their loyalty to Christ!]

6. For an ‘underground’ Church, not openly evangelising because of the restrictions of the time, and with no regular large meetings, physical and spiritual survival will depend on new fellowship ‘strategy’. By this I mean that people are going to have to learn how to fellowship and meet with God in small groups, mostly in their own homes for the 3 and a half years of the Tribulation. They will not be able to rely upon a pastor to feed them. Reading spiritual literature is an ideal way to feed the spirit, encouraging spiritual growth.

7. It is also true that the majority of Christians still have much doctrinal error to sort out. And this is a major part of God’s agenda at this time in preparing the Bride for His Son. He’s going to marry a Church without spot or wrinkle. But, as you know, there are many doctrinal wrinkles that still need smoothing out on her brow.

God told us via a dream in the early 90’s that He was using me to lay a foundation for the Church. (Mentioned in Dreams and Visions From God, 1.) At first, we couldn’t see how that would be fulfilled, but as time went on, it unfolded and we can now see it has happened as He said it would.

I have been writing for the past 11 years, and these publications now form a complete doctrinal foundation for believers to understand all major aspects of Bible truth, and many lesser aspects, too.

I personally believe that this literature will be used and read by the millions in their place of refuge in the Rock of Christ during this time of trouble (although I will have been killed before then). It will help them to prepare to be part of the Bride, as they await His triumphant return. The same with many believers in Africa. After all, many can read English, and it is being translated into Swahili and Luo at the moment, and has already been translated into the Ethiopian language (Amharic).

8. So, when Helena (my wife) was shown in a dream that God wants you to supply a box of our literature to every church in New York, for their spiritual revival, I believe that the literature is central to what He is about to do now, just as your evangelism has been central to what He was using you to do in Africa and elsewhere up to now. (And He may well continue to use you in that way for quite a while yet. I don’t have any more details on that.)

That dream was in my letter of 10th March, which has crossed in the post with your letter of 9th March.

9. Then, there was the dream which God gave me about you, concerning the $1150, related in my letter of 7th March, which has also crossed with yours.

These two dreams are an indication from God that He has a plan and purpose for ‘our’ publications in the revival that you are anticipating. I believe that the revival cannot happen without the booklets, (in New York, that is), because people need teaching truth. In any revival, the restoration of truth comes first, followed by repentance to get in line with the ‘new’ revelation, and then revival follows on. I know your efforts backed by Jesus have brought revival to Third World countries. But He has not got me to sit for 11 years, painstakingly labouring to follow His lead in putting these publications together, if He did not intend for them to be used much. Although I was the human hand, I did not write them. I could not put them together now all over again if I was asked to.

It has been a prophetic exercise. You know how it goes: God gives you a word or phrase or sentence, and you speak that out. No sooner have you completed that first thought than He plants another in your mind and you speak that out. And on it goes until His prophetic task is accomplished. That’s the way these publications were put together.

I don’t claim to have followed His lead perfectly. Being human, I’m sure there are parts that need a bit of improving. But He is quite capable of causing a dumb ass to project His Word, so I’m sure what He set out to accomplish through me has been achieved pretty much on target.

So, I hope this explains sufficiently why both Helena and I felt that your next ‘trip’ to Africa may well revolve around boxes of ‘our’ literature going. Perhaps you will go as well, but I think He is definitely working out another aspect of His agenda with you and one that links us together in some way. After all, He could have given you the money to go, but He hasn’t. So, He must have some other scheme up His sleeve and reason for withholding the money.

The Media And Publicity

A few other things...

About Benny Hinn ...What God has shown us is that he will come round to agreeing with us. Helena had a dream that he met her...

When the dead are raised (very soon now – we have waited many years until the literature was all written and ready for distribution), there will be mass publicity, media attention, and all that goes with it. In one sense I’m not looking forward to it because I’m shy by nature and don’t like the limelight. (I think I’ll hide in the garden shed while Helena does the talking!) But God has forewarned us through MANY dreams that this is coming and He has tried to prepare us for it. Only last night Helena had another dream about it, and the night before, also, showing that it’s nearly at the door.

It was so encouraging to read in your letter of how God has used you to raise the dead. The people coming back now will include many who have been dead and ‘gone’ for years. [More on this is in Dreams and Visions From God, Part 1.]

One thing I forgot to mention earlier about ‘our’ lit is that people get healed as they read it. We have had several reports of this from people who were sick and God moved them to read Faith and Healing, and God healed them instantly at some point while they were reading that book. This is another confirmation of the anointing that He has put on the writings. (See enclosed tract, What God Said About Midnight Ministries.)

Challenging Him To Move On

Also, can I encourage you to read God’s Church – Whose Authority? which explains the little realised truth that hierarchy in the Church is unbiblical and God does not want it. Hence, you need to teach the pastors you have trained so that they can teach others. (Forgive me if you already do, and I’m telling you how to ‘suck eggs’.) You have discipled them. They need to disciple others. And those disciples need to disciple others, etc., etc. That way, they are not looking to you in a wrong way or continually relying upon you.

Elijah had a school of prophets. And we know from Scripture that there were others contemporaneous with Elijah whom God used as prophets. So, they weren’t all looking to him and relying upon him to do God’s bidding.

We know, however, that Elijah and Elisha were notable; perhaps more so than other prophets. This may have been because of their function, or because of their commitment. Your commitment is very high, and because of that God has used you powerfully where you have ministered. If others have equally pure motivation, [I wrote this before God revealed to us his less honourable motives] God can work through them the same way, so Africa may not need you to the same extent. Once those men are trained sufficiently, they can do the same works, just as Jesus showed. I believe this is another important aspect of His agenda now, which may be why He has withheld money for your trip, to help redirect your attentions.

You mentioned Dumitru Duduman’s nephew. Who is that? It’s not Mike Boldea is it? No, he’s Dumitru’s grandson, isn’t he? Well, in the enclosed tome Sunday Versus Sabbath: The Final World Crisis, there’s an article Christendom’s Corrupt Sunday Society on pages 8-12 which features aspects of what Mike Boldea wrote. You might be interested to read that, and pass it on to him.

God has pointed out to us that He doesn’t want division in the Church over this issue. He wants all to consider the Sabbath truth, research it properly, ascertain the truth for themselves, and then get into line with His Word on the subject. But He has also shown us that half the Church will not change, despite all the miracles He will perform to back it up and confirm His Word. That number will have to be refined in the fires of the Tribulation.

Sunday Versus Sabbath: The Final World Crisis came about as a result of what I think was God’s prompting one day. I was sitting in my office, considering all the articles we had on this aspect of God’s truth and I began to get quite agitated. Angry might be a better word. And then the thought ‘occurred’ to me to put all the articles refuting errors about Sunday and ancillary matters, and publish them in one volume so that it can be ‘thrown at’ those who refuse to keep the Sabbath, giving them no excuse, as a final witness against them for their rebellion. I don’t suppose it will happen like that, but it’s there now for anyone who wants to take up the challenge.

Are you also aware of the applicability of the other festivals of Leviticus 23, which God lists after the Sabbath in verse 3?... I enclosed some other booklets in a previous package, which explain these things, such as:

The Festivals of God
God’s Calendar Revealed To Man
The Faith Once Delivered To The Saints

Are you also aware that the widely-held concept of an ever-burning hell is derived from paganism (Greek mythology and perhaps earlier), and that it is unbiblical? Why Hell? explains that one.

The Lord wants all these errors eradicating, so that His loving nature is properly represented and His truth is triumphant.

That’s about it for now. Thank you so much for your very interesting letter. I’d like to include most of that in our next Newsletter, because it’s always nice to be able to give credit where credit is due [It’s a pity he doesn’t!], and to challenge others and ‘stretch’ their faith.

God bless!

Well, I thought that was about it, but God knew differently! The next day, He spoke to me and I had to write to Bill again. Here’s that letter:

God Speaks Again

18th March 2003

Further to my reply yesterday, there is more I should add to explain what is on the Lord’s agenda now and about our position relative to that. Helena had another dream last night which is for you, and which I will relate in a moment.

Your calling in evangelism is not to the Church, naturally, but rather to new people, to bring them to Christ. Our calling is not the same. I am not an evangelist. I’m a prophet with a calling on my life to reach the whole Church with the prophetic cry to awake at this late hour, just as Matthew 25:6 relates. The full meaning of that verse is contained in our booklet The Ten Virgins.

I can understand your reluctance to promote the ministry of another, when you require support and promotion yourself to further your own calling. I realise why your letter of 9th March was dismissive. It’s not easy recognising where God is doing something new, and raising up another work that needs to be given more latitude or credibility. As Fuchsia Pickett says in her book about end-time revival, the ones whom God has used up to now fail to recognise the ‘new boy’ whom God sends along. ALL church leaders and independent evangelists, apostles and prophets to whom I have gone have failed to recognise the call of God upon my life. I suppose it’s not surprising. It’s difficult to see without blatantly dramatic miracles (which is why God will do these). But, also, these men are so locked in to what they are doing, that they don’t have time to consider what God is doing elsewhere.

If you don’t have time for what we have written under the anointing, then all I can do is give you a sign from God that you should. This is the sign: the raising of the dead – not just someone who has died recently, but someone who has been dead for YEARS!

If you think that your ministry is OK and has no room for improvement – and my motive is not to belittle your ministry, because from what you have shared, you have done much and I admire what you have done – then I challenge you to show me equal revelation and equal ‘anointing’ in what you have written. And, further, equal miracles as what God is about to do here.  In other words, raise someone from the dead who has been dead for years.

All that you have mentioned in your letter we can match. Even people who have come against us, and rejected the printed word which we brought them, lost their lives, just as you related happened to those who didn’t listen to you. Those who block a move of God will be taken out of the way, in whatever way God sees appropriate.

God Will Remove People

For example, we sent our literature to Bob Gordon, a man of high standing and repute in the Pentecostal sector of the Church over here. You may have heard of him. Proclaimers International was his ministry. He was a leader who trained church leaders and evangelists; a very capable and eloquent man. Month after month we plied him with our journals. He must have read enough to know what we were saying. One day my wife took an irate phone call from his right hand man asking to be taken off the mailing list, and insulting her that our literature was cluttering up his desk (and presumably his mind). Helena contested with him over the phone about why we were willing to listen to what he had to say to the Church, but