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We're starting a series here covering news on Todd Bentley, who we believe is directly under a delusional influence from demonic forces. We'll be posting up stuff as it happens, so if you have news, send it to us directly and remember to pray for Todd and for the people involved in this movement. Todd Bentley is leading the largest demonic movement in North America that I've seen in years. Using a perverted form of Christianity, India religions and New Age beliefs he's been sweeping over Florida (focusing on the Lakeland area) after making a silent crusade over Canada. What's worse is he's specifically targeting US. He purposely tailors his clothing, wearing black shirt, baggy jeans, tattoos and piercings, he prefers grunge to Gucci. His message is aimed to the youth, appealing to the disenfranchisement we often feel with today's church. This hits close to home in even more ways. Lakeland is the center of Bentley's activities in Florida, an area close to Patrick (Gamers Underground here on ICE). In fact, the Church of Patrick's own brother, Michael, is apparently being ensnared by Bentley's enticing words, from the leadership on down to Michael's own friends. Lastly, Bentley's home is in BC, here in Canada. His movement destroying people and churchs across the country. The enemy is getting more and more prevalent in North America as humanitarian spiritualism and it's ilk is becoming the more prevalent belief of many. Further down the road we'll start to see the demonic activity that we see in other European and African countries come home and the culling of believers happen.
Fortunately, some people have been catching on. Tons of websites and videos are being posted on the net warning believers and churches not to let this false prophet in. Unfortunately, much of the damage has already been done and we need to pray for God to heal people damaged by this movement of the enemy.
Insane and unbelievable as his stories and movement is, there's thousands and thousands of people being mislead by this false prophet.
Summary (that I've pulled together with freely available YouTube videos and information online):
+) Todd was abducted by 'angels' through a ‘portal pillar of fire’, locked down to a operating table, cut open with a buzz saw and stuffed full of white boxes containing ‘wisdom’ and ‘knowledge’ because God said "He didn't have time to prep a vessel". Todd was locked down to the table and couldn't move, basically being forced to this procedure. When has God ever forced someone to do something? Never. He gave us the gift of free choice, why would He take it away? +) Todd was visited by two 'angels', one who calls herself Emma, in searches of various texts the only name that comes up similar to Emma as an entity in the spiritual realm is the Japanese buddist god Emma-O "Lord of the Underworld". He later denies this but the proof can be found here. The other ‘angel’, not named, said it was bringing the "Winds of Change", this ‘angel’ is said to have relation to William Branham's ministry--a heretic and a false prophet who claimed he was the reincarnated Elijah and denied the Trinity. Todd is pulling all his claims from his website and replacing them. More on that at the bottom.
+) Todd says that God said that "the church already knows about Jesus, but they need to know The Angel", when asked about this Todd said that it's the ‘angel’ bringing the "Winds of Change". +) In the later stages of his "ministry" Todd seems to be focusing more on the youth, especially the 'hard to reach' punk/metal/goth youth. He shaves his head, gets arms full of tattoos and constantly wears black. He preaches that "if only I was clean shaved and better looking more people would listen to me" - classic youth entrapment statements. +) Todd describing how he's instructed by God to punch, kick, slap and beat people for them to receive the anointing. I believe in laying on of hands and reaching out hands to pray for someone, but not slamming into a man so hard that he flies backwards, hits his face and breaks a tooth off. +) When these people are 'anointed' or they get close to Todd they start to convulse and shake uncontrollably. I've seen people touched by the Holy Spirit for 8 years, in different churches, in different buildings, in different countries and I've never seen them act the way they do in the videos. It's very similar to the shaking demons do when Jesus rebukes them and casts them out (Mark 1:21-28 / Luke 4:31-37). People look like they're being smacked around, their faces filled not with peace but a mark of confusion.
+) His MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/tdbentley) shows thousands of comments made by thousands of youths, adults and leaders saying that they've "brought the fire" back to their churches and the 'angels' have been empowering the church and it's people. He’s also been targeting many of the youth oriented music bands. Pray that these ‘on the edge’ bands in the Christian metal scene--those who preach where most don’t won’t to go--do not get sucked in. +) At the end of all this Todd wrote a letter saying that most of the articles that he's written and posted online are being removed at his request to his staff. He's also been changing his tune, down playing the topics that have been causing so much up stir, and instead refocusing on a strong-yet-vague Jesus message. We believe that the enemies plan was becoming unfolded and they've gone covert and changed tactics. What people don't realize is that the enemy was once aligned with God and now they're not, the same with us God gives all His creations FREE WILL. So it doesn't mean that their naturally created abilities would be taken from them. Demons can manifest anything they like in the mortal realm as a delusion all for the purpose of deceiving us. They KNOW the Bible better than anyone, they KNOW what's going to happen to them after Great White Throne Judgment, they're going to be tossed in the Lake of Fire and they want to bring as many people as they can with them. It's their way of flipping the bird to God and screwing you out of your rightful inheritance that God wants to give you. Pray for Todd, pray for those who believe in him and what he’s teaching. Pray that God will clean up his life and fix him up, pray that he'll be willing to receive that from God. Be on the lookout for more articles on this topic.
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November 26, 2008 by C. KingHisglory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHIUX2THGa8
LYING SIGNS AND WONDERS Benny Hinn - Freedom from Deceptive Revival (2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym0vidNCNuk&feature=iv&annotation_id=event_956536
“They have refused the love of the truth, they don’t want to hear the truth, they just want to feel good”
Benny Hinn - Freedom from Deceptive Revival (3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLaKP1VEdaY&feature=iv&annotation_id=event_58149
BENNY HINN SAYS IT'S POSSIBLE TO BE A CHRISTIAN AND EXPERIENCE THE DEMONIC AND IT’S POSSIBLE TO BELONG TO TWO CAMPS – GOD’S AND THE DEVILS. GOD WARNS US AGAINST MIXTURE
Having sat in his audience while Mr. Bentley talked up the blessing of giving to his work, I suspect that he would still receive what he calls "Pentecostal handshakes", and still have people sticking money into his pockets as he talks, to get the particular blessing from God that he is speaking about at that moment. I saw this happen. He could get donations without having to issue receipts. So, perhaps he might prefer not having to answer to tax authorities at all.
http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2009/01/todd-bentley-inc.html
All this was predicted, ya know, centuries ago. Our generation will see the end of things, and will see the coming "Magog" war that was predicted (200 million man army surrounds Israel. GOD protects Israel, causing the Magog army to destroy itself! Research shows that "Magog" includes Russia and Iran. Well, who are big buddies these days? For the first time in 1500 years, the Russians the the Iranians.
Time to get right with God!