I was perusing some sites that I like to visit and found something from Christian Witness Ministries about Todd Bentley [PDF file]. Someone left this comment about the dangers of the Toronto Blessing that I thought was pretty interesting…
AN EX-SATANIST EXPOSES THE TORONTO BLESSING
Dear Dr. Van Zyl, I’m an ex-satanist (came out of it in the 80’s) and have heard about your endeavor to combat the move called Toronto Experience. (At least some Christians have some insight, albeit a limited number.) Thank God for that! I recognize the spirits behind the Toronto Experience as being the same spirits we unleashed on the church (to deceive) when I was against Christianity. These are counterfeiting spirits, and they are being so blatant about it that I am amazed that people can’t see what is going on. The problem is that the power of these spirits lies in deception. (They are primarily religious deceiving spirits) I would be grateful if you could send me copies of exposés that you’ve written. (or who anyone else has written) as I am collecting information on what is going on. I’d like to write some exposés myself later on. I see Dr Morphew (Renewal Apologetics) had quite a bit to say about yourself and Alan Morrison. I don’t know if he lied about you, but he sure did about Alan Morrison! It would be wonderful if a few people could get together and give a nice thick response to the garbage they are circulating. I appeal to those who are concerned enough to spend their time reaching out to those who are potential victims of the Toronto Experience, before they are “had.”
For others who have the light, please don’t keep quiet. If you saw a house on fire, wouldn’t you try to warn the inhabitants? If you saw some one about to fall over a cliff, would you keep quiet? Dr Morphew, a propagator of the Toronto Experience says in his publication, Renewal Apologetics page 15; “Phenomena of the Holy Spirit attracts loons…..” Oh? But where is the criteria for determining Lunacy? The world within these churches is no different from the world within the asylum. (If you don’t believe me, visit a mental hospital and see for yourself.) In fact, sanity is relative, and it is subjective to qualify who is sane or who isn’t, (I speak from Toronto Experience perspective) so why distinguish between loons and non loons? With Toronto Experience the distinctions are so blurred that it is a case of the insane diagnosing the insane. If a madman had to break out of his asylum cell and find himself in a Toronto experience hall, he’d surely think he was still in the madhouse.[…]
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In my years of worshipping Satan and his demons, I discovered that forces of darkness thrive on symbolic irony, with the purpose of mocking God. It is as if they have searched the scriptures for every abomination in God’s sight, and then sought to coax believers to accommodate those abominations while bearing the name of Christ.
Isaiah 28 and 29 clearly depicts the abhorrence of God for drunken leaders of his people. He warns Israel against drunken prophets – Isaiah 28:1-5: “The kingdom of Israel is doomed! It’s glory is like the fading crowns of flowers on the heads of its leaders. Their proud heads are well perfumed, but there they lie, dead drunk…. The pride of those drunken leaders will be trampled under foot. …” Then Isaiah 29:9 says; “Go ahead and be stupid! Go ahead and be blind. Get drunk without any wine. Stagger without drinking a drop the Lord has made you drowsy, ready to fall into a deep sleep. The prophets should be the eyes of the people, but God has blinded them.Would God, (who is ever the same) warn about drunken prophets, who are drunk without wine, and use this same symbolism (drunkenness) to prove a revival by his spirit? God is not like a man, who is prone to contradiction, nor is he like Satan who puts ‘good for evil’ and ‘evil for good.’ Does the same God who abhors drunkenness, suddenly use drunkenness as a symbol of his holy spirit? We can be sure that Satan, the author of opposites, is behind such contradictory symbolism – behavior. Satan is having a good laugh at God’s people who, in a drunken stupor (“Drunk in the spirit”) are praising God
(Source Unknown)
The Church is not so unlike Israel as she seems to be repeating in her sins! Isaiah was told that this book was sealed…
…this was owing, not to the obscurity of these writings, or because they were really sealed up, but to the blindness and stupidity of the people, whose eyes were closed, and their heads covered [Gill]
A further comment in response to what is happening in the Church which is also interesting is to be found HERE.
Read this prophesy carefully…
Isa 29:9-14 Astonish yourselves and be astonished; blind yourselves and be blind! Be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not with strong drink! For the LORD has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes (the prophets), and covered your heads (the seers). And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot, for it is sealed.” And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot read.” And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men, therefore, behold, I will again do wonderful things with this people, with wonder upon wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden.”
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