Benny Hinn’s hand gestures and jacket-waving accompany people collapsing, with these displays presented as encounters with the Holy Spirit. Kenneth Copeland Ministries instructs people to begin speaking unfamiliar syllables by faith, while Bethel’s Kris Vallotton describes feathers falling in church and goldlike dust appearing on people’s faces and hands. John Arnott promoted supposed miraculous changes to dental fillings and crowns, turning them to gold. Todd Bentley said that angel feathers began falling during his many ‘revival meetings’. Somewhere along the way, the spectacle itself became the credential. People fall, therefore the preacher must be anointed. Something glitters, therefore God’s glory must have arrived. Unfamiliar syllables pour out, therefore heaven must be speaking. But every one of those conclusions demands examination. Calling something a manifestation of the Holy Ghost does not establish its source, and a congregation’s excitement doesn’t equal scriptural authority.
“To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God. And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.” Acts 8:10,11 (KJB)
The King James Bible records a crowd making precisely that dangerous mistake about Simon, a man who had bewitched them with sorcery. They were impressed by the power but deceived about its source. That warning belongs in every church where questioning a manifestation is treated as resisting God. Paul’s instruction remains explicit – “But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.” 1 Corinthians 14:28 (KJB). FUN FACT: a claimed anointing cannot authorize disobedience to Paul’s command. Witchcraft does not become holy through Christian vocabulary, and religious showmanship deserves no exemption from biblical scrutiny. Before you surrender your discernment to the man or woman commanding the platform, open your Bible and test what he or she is telling you. Be a Berean! The preacher making the claim must answer to the Book. Paula White, Kathryn Krick, and Stacey Campbell belong squarely in this examination of the supernatural claims being made inside the Charismatic Church. During her November 2020 election prayer, White repeatedly chanted “strike” and declared that angels were being dispatched from Africa and South America to secure victory. Kathryn Krick presents herself as an apostle, and her church claims a mandate to release anointing, cast out demons, heal the sick, and raise the dead. Stacey Campbell describes violent shaking and loud tongues, while her ministry promotes “ecstatic prophecy” in which someone is supposedly overtaken by the Holy Spirit in body, soul, and spirit. Is this confusion and chaos of God? Come on, now, you know it’s not, and today we’ll prove it to you..
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On this episode of the Prophecy News Podcast, the problems in the Charismatic Church go way deeper than just pretending to speak in tongues or play-acting to heal gullible donors. The real problem inside the Charismatic Church is witchcraft.