THE "WILD GOOSE" SATANIC ANOINTING DECEPTION - TODAY'S "CELTIC CHRISTIANITY" REBIRTH AND THE EMERGING CHURCH.

"But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward."

(Jeremiah 7:24)





I want to start this article by quoting a (false) prophecy - specifically referencing Wales - by the (false) prophetess Kathie Walters, as published on the notorious 'Elijah List' website of Steve Shultz on 25th April 2014. (The 'Elijah List' has been well described by Sandy Simpson at the Apologetics Co-Ordination Team as "the biggest distributor of false prophecies in cyberspace!")
 

"A Strong "Wild Goose" Anointing Will Flow Between Canada, the USA, Wales, And The Rest Of The UK

I saw the anointing like the wild goose flow over Canada and down into the USA. Now, there are many wonderful ministries in Canada that are unknown, and relatively few ministries from there become well-known. There are people like Patricia King, and Todd Bentley, Stacey and Wesley Campbell, Charlie Robinson, Samuel Robinson, and others, but there are many more that are hidden inside Canada, and we don't hear about them.

But God is going to draw back the curtain and those ministries will be seen and they will follow the Wild Goose all over the world. They will carry the wild goose anointing. It will flow down into the USA, across the Niagara, and from Quebec and Vancouver. A strong Wild Goose anointing will flow between Canada and USA and Wales and the rest of the UK."

So what is this supposed "wild goose" anointing?

Ms. Walters describes its origin thus:

"It was said that the early Celtic Christians referred to the Holy Spirit as the "Wild Goose," or "An Geadh-Glas." In Gaelic that means "the goose-grey." It really can't be proved, but certainly in the 20th century the Holy Spirit was called the "Wild Goose" by Celtic groups."

Note: The "prophetess" actually admits that it cannot be proved that Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit the "Wild Goose!" The fact of the matter is that there's not a shred of textual evidence in existence to back this claim up! In plain English, it is a mere myth, a FABLE! And what does the Word of God say about such things? 

"And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto

fables."

(2 Timothy 4:4)

So what else does Ms. Walters have to say about this fable?



"The dove was considered a tame bird - but... the wild goose was adopted by the Celtic Christians, who had such a boldness anointing among them: Historically, if it meant anything to the Celtic peoples, it would have been a symbol of war-likeness. But the Wild Goose sermon of George Macleod caught people's imagination, and the image stuck. Most 'Celtic' Christians today have adopted the wild goose as their emblem..."

N.B. Full text, from which these key excerpts have been extracted, can be found at:



http://www.elijahlist.com/words/display_word.html?ID=13359



So who is the George Macleod referred to above?

 

George Macleod was a minister in the Church of Scotland, who in 1938 founded the Iona Community in Glasgow and the Isle of Iona, and popularized the concept of the Holy Spirit as the "Wild Goose" in a supposed rebirth of the Celtic Christian tradition of St. Columba. As seen above, the Iona Community uses the wild goose as its logo, and runs Wild Goose Publications as an important part of its mission.

It should be well noted that the Iona Community is absolutely dedicated to doctrine-diluting ecumenism, and also has peace and disarmament as a key objective, either in woeful ignorance or wilful rejection of Biblical warning that there will be NO peace until Jesus returns and rules as King of kings and Lord of lords!

"For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape."

(1 Thessalonians 5:3)

AT THIS POINT, LET IT BE EMPHASIZED THAT THE ONE AND ONLY BIRD THAT HOLY WRIT ASSOCIATES WITH THE THIRD PERSON OF THE TRINITY IS THE DOVE. IN FACT, THE WORDS "GOOSE" AND "GEESE" ARE TOTALLY ABSENT FROM THE BIBLE! TO DESCRIBE THE HOLY SPIRIT AS A WILD GOOSE HAS NO SCRIPTURAL VALIDATION WHATSOEVER! IT IS AN ABSOLUTE INVENTION OF THE HUMAN IMAGINATION, AND IS EMPHATICALLY NOT A THING OF DIVINE INSPIRATION!

"And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a

dove upon him."

(Luke 3:22)

With the thoroughly UNBIBLICAL origin of the Wild Goose = Holy Spirit concept firmly in mind, we will now have an extremely eye-opening look at an annual event in the USA which rejoices in the name of:

The Wild Goose Festival

Its Wiki entry gives this crisp and very revealing synopsis:

"The Wild Goose Festival is a festival held annually in the United States focused on justice, spirituality, music and the arts. The festival is "rooted in the Christian tradition" and is popular among progressive Christians and many involved with the emerging church movement. The name Wild Goose comes from a Celtic metaphor for the Holy Spirit. The Wild Goose Festival is inspired by and modelled after the popular Greenbelt festival in the United Kingdom. It is the only Christian music festival in the U.S. that caters to "theological liberals."

The words I've highlighted in bold type should be screaming out a clear warning to anyone who loves the pure and uncompromised true Gospel of Jesus Christ!

The festival is much more than music. It has a whole raft of speakers, and the reality of the matter is that anything goes. And when I say anything goes, I really do mean ANYTHING! Take, for example:

The Carnival de Resistance



The organizers describe it thus:

"The Carnival de Resistance is an "art intervention" experiment, a rip in the veil, throwing off the yoke of social niceties, restless sanitation, and religious piety to provide a raucous expression of grief and longing and hope for Creation. The Carnival de Resistance is an arts carnival, a school, and a village demonstration project. Using symbols, song, theater, poetry, music & dance, the Carnival makes "church" happen under the Big Top, and then spills out shape-shifting-trickster style to engage with all using games, performance and interactive art projects."

OK. If that description hasn't done quite enough to convince you that this has nothing whatsoever to do with Christianity and everything to do with 'New Age' abominations, then just check out how each day of this "raucous expression" commences:

"Morning Meditations of Earth, Body & Soul

We will start our days at the Carnival with exercises and reflections to shake up and wake up your body, heart and mind. Come join our morning prayer times as we focus our Spirits through Qigong, poetry, sacred song and earth conscious meditations."

THIS IS ALL 'NEW AGE' PAGANISM, WITCHCRAFT, OCCULTISM, MYSTICISM AND THE "EMERGING CHURCH"... OF LUCIFER!

Deeply worrying is that they are targeting CHILDREN with this!

Healthy fun for the youngsters at this year's festival includes morning yoga sessions, story time with Emerging Church leader Doug Pagitt and "Christian atheist" (???) Frank Schaeffer, writing protest songs and "making mandalas as a spiritual practice!"

The Wild Goose Festival warmly embraces the wildest and the whackiest and the worst of  all that passes for 21st. century "Christianity!" Here it can be seen exactly how deranged and degenerate are the Emerging Church leaders like Brian McLaren and Doug Pagitt, who are prominent participants in this repugnant Hell-birthed extravaganza!

One of this year's other featured speakers...

WHILST I WOULD NOT NORMALLY FOCUS ON AN EVENT TAKING PLACE IN THE USA, IT HAS BEEN PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT TO DO SO HERE, FOR IT HIGHLIGHTS QUITE CONCLUSIVELY THE TERRIBLE TRUTH THAT THE "WILD GOOSE" CONCEPT IS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD, AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH WHAT THE APOSTLE JOHN DESCRIBED AS "THAT SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST, WHEREOF YE HAVE HEARD THAT IT SHOULD COME; AND EVEN NOW ALREADY IS IT IN THE WORLD!" (1 John 4:3)

Festival website: http://wildgoosefestival.org 

The Wild Goose and Witchcraft

The goose has long been associated with WITCHCRAFT, which sees it as representing feminine power. Most informative is this description found on the Museum of Witchcraft site:

"In the West Country witches make (Note use of present, not past tense!) use of geese in many ways when working at their craft, for to them geese are endowed with numerous magical qualities and have played an age-old part in the domestic mythology of the western counties. The origin of Mother Goose is almost certainly the Central European Goddess Holda. Night-flying wild geese were believed to be Holda and her spirit companions flying through the sky."

N.B. The "goddess" could take on the form of a goose. Does the "shape-shifting" reference in the Carnival de Resistance's description of itself become a little more meaningful now?

See: http://www.museumofwitchcraft.com/displayrecord_mow.php?ObjectNumber=515


God... or goddess?

This Holda connection is really quite significant; it might perhaps be obvious to some, but also easily missed by others, so it's worth making the point here that a GOOSE is essentially FEMALE, as the MALE of the species is a GANDER! To call the Third Person of the Trinity a Wild GOOSE is to label Him FEMALE! This ties in completely with the occultic notion of the "sacred feminine," the "goddess," but utterly contradicts how the Creator describes HIMself! Oh, the great subtlety of Satanic deception...

Wild Welsh Women and the Wild Goose!

OK. Back to Wales now, to show that this Wild Goose chase is happening right here! Take this bulletin from Cardiff's 'Company of Burning Hearts' (COBH) announcing this "colourful feast of joy... to kick start 2014" as they billed it:

"This is going to be a really fun weekend for all you wild Goose chasers out there! Hosted by Jane Schroeder and Friends this is one that's definitely not a run of the mill event! Wild Welsh Women is a gathering to release the indigenous in the land and to gather those who love to drink from the deep wells of Spirit Life."

COBH is a group who I can simply best describe as D.D.T., that is to say Demonic Deception Traffickers! Their "Spirit Life" is a riotous party-time, with their masquerade guests being demons from the depths of Hell!

An article on COBH appeared on this blog last September, and can be found at:

http://watchman4wales.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/company-of-burning-hearts-cardiff-based.html

Latter Rain-fall over Wales

Returning to the supposedly God-given "prophetic word" of Kathie Walters, let's look for a moment at the essence of its content: an anointing starting in Canada flowing across the Atlantic to Wales and the rest of the UK. Are there any indications of such an anointing occurring? Well... only a bogus Satanic one...

Back in 1948 Canada gave birth to the Latter Rain movement, which was instrumental in laying down so very much of the false foundation of the apostasy-ridden Church that we see today. One of its notable far-reaching errors was the "restoration" of the Five-Fold ministry, a pyramid structure of Church control (I use the term 'control' advisedly) with "Apostles" at the top of the tree and "Prophets" as second-in-command. Interestingly, two of the key players in British Restorationism were Welshmen, the brothers Bryn and Keri Jones from Aberdare, who have had a profound influence on the movement throughout the UK from a base established in Bradford. Bryn is now deceased, but Keri retains "Apostolic" authority over the All Nations Church in Cardiff. Many churches in Wales - as elsewhere - now hold to a Restorationist ideology, which goes hand-in-glove with the grievous error of Dominionism (aka 'Kingdom Now') with its lying promise of a great global End-Times revival, and a Church triumphant over all ares of society.

Also noteworthy in this context is an American lady describing herself as being in the Five-Fold office of "Prophet," Mary 'Moriah' Burt, who runs 'Word and Spirit International Ministries' from her base on the North Wales coast. Apparently called 'Moriah' by God (Er... who says?) she is heavily influenced by the counterfeit Brownsville, Pensacola Outpouring, and by 'Signs & Wonders' merchant Bill Johnson's notorious Bethel Chuch in Redding, California.

Which brings me to the other massively influential movement to emerge from Canada: the so-called Toronto Blessing, which is in reality one of the worst delusions ever to have taken hold in the professing Church. This utterly false "anointing" is promoted big-time by great Bill Johnson aficionados New Wine Cymru, and is inseparable from the ecumenical Alpha Course deception. A recent most regrettable resurgence of this counterfeit spirit was to be found at the much-hyped "Welsh Outpouring" at Cwmbran, under the (mis)leadership of Richard Taylor and Andrew Parsons. Let us not forget, either, that the appalling Todd Bentley, who has held a week-long crusade in Wales - also in Cwmbran! - is a Canadian!

Conclusion

That which Canada has spiritually exported to Wales and the UK  is most definitely not of the HOLY Spirit, but of a most UNHOLY one! Of the Walters "prophecy," Steve Schultz commented: "It's about time you can go on a WILD GOOSE CHASE and it's a GOOD THING!"  Er... no, Steve, it's an exceedingly BAD thing! It leads to every kind of extra-Biblical excess that springs from the flesh, sensual and sinful, and is the broad road that leads only to destruction!

As noted in this article, the "Wild Goose" fable has been taken to heart by the Emerging/Emergent Church movement, spearheaded by notable apostates like Brian McLaren and Doug Pagitt. With this observation and warning to the Body, I conclude here with this little video which was originally made for and posted on my YouTube Channel:

This is the triquetra, or triskele, a widely-used symbol of "Celtic Christianity" -

Three interlaced number sixes: 666

"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils."

(1 Timothy 4:1)

"UNCLE" ANGUS BUCHAN AT BRONYDD MAWR, BRECONSHIRE - SIGNS & WONDERS, DOMINIONISM AND COUNTERFEIT REVIVAL!

All over Wales, as in the world at large, a Satanic snare is being set. It is cunningly concealed in the "Christian" cultural undergrowth to catch the unwary, and its effectiveness is truly terrifying. It has a clinical precision, and its brutal simplicity is the key to its phenomenal success rate. It relies heavily on a dearth of discernment and lack of will to "try the spirits," the wanton neglect of an unswerving obedience to the Word of God coupled with the reckless abandonment of its absolute authority on all things, and perhaps above all the temporal and base desire of men to feed the flesh at the expense of the spirit's eternal need to build up treasures not on earth but in Heaven! The snare is an amalgam of "Signs & Wonders" and Word-Faith teaching, which forms one of the jaws, and a subtle blend of ecumenism and Dominionism (with its promise of a great End-Times revival) which forms the other.

In investigating the growth and dissemination of spiritual deception in Wales, I must confess that it came as a most unpleasant surprise to find that the great Falling Away is just as apparent in the rural, sparsely-populated hinterland as it is in the heavily populated cities, towns and Valleys of the industrial south. Farmers and fencers are just as likely to be the harnessers of heresy as factory workers and foundrymen. Satan is at work absolutely everywhere. Nowhere is exempt, no-one too far geographically removed from being a target of his evil attention and his covert intentions! After all, even in the earthly paradise of Eden, the silver-tongued serpent slithered his slimy way!

Bronydd Mawr. Rural  tranquillity and "another gospel."

Which leads me to focus here in this article on Bronydd Mawr, a farm just outside the village of Trecastle in Breconshire, and a well-publicized event it is hosting on 10th June, 2014, when Angus Buchan will be speaking to an anticipated gathering of 700 people. No mean feat for a location as remote as the above photograph shows it to be!

So just who exactly is Angus Buchan? 

As the publicity blurb would have it:

"Angus Buchan is a tough, straightforward South African farmer of Scottish extraction, whose gentle but uncompromising faith has carried him through drought, financial crisis, and family tragedy. Called by God to preach the Gospel, he has found the Holy Spirit working through him in amazing miracles of provision, healing and changed lives."

There's a good chance you may not have heard of him until seeing his name here in this article, for he is not that well known in the UK. But he is HUGE in South Africa and has an immense fan-base there, where he is affectionately called "Uncle Angus!" His 'Mighty Men' conferences can attract up to 400,000, and his following has been cemented with a daily morning TV programme on 'TBN Africa', where he shares a broadcasting schedule with a veritable Who's Who of Word-Faith, "Prosperity gospel" preachers like Joel Osteen, TD Jakes, Creflo Dollar, Joseph Prince and Joyce Meyer. Truly, the 'TBN Africa' logo as reproduced below is most appropriate, for birds of a feather assuredly flock together! Mr. Buchan's appearance - indeed prominence - on TBN should speak volumes to any discerning believer as to where he stands in relation to the true and uncompromising Gospel of Jesus Christ!

True Believer's Nightmare, African style...

Angus Buchan essentially arrived on the "big time" Christian scene with the publication of his book 'Faith Like Potatoes,' which was then made into a film and can be purchased as a DVD. 

His Wiki entry gives a neat snap-shot biography of the man:

"Angus Buchan was originally a Zambian maize and cattle farmer of Scottish descent who started farming in Zambia but was forced to sell everything and move to Greytown. KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa in 1976 due to political unrest in Zambia.

In 1980 he started the Shalom Ministries to preach in his local community. Over time he has become a full time evangelist while the farm is now being run mostly by both his sons.

In 1998 Angus wrote a book about his life, Faith Like Potatoes, the book was turned into a film of the same title in 2006. Angus Buchan's Ordinary People is a 2012 semi-biographical film that tells the story of the growth of Buchan's ministry from the 1970s to the present, and that of three fictional characters whose lives are changed after attending one of his conferences."

Did something jump out at you in what you just read? No? OK, if you missed it: "Angus Buchan's Ordinary People is a 2012 SEMI-biographical film that tells the story of the growth of Buchan's ministry from the 1970s to the present, and that of three FICTIONAL characters whose lives are changed after attending one of his conferences."

Does it not strike you as singularly odd that a film supposedly depicting a full 40 years of a man's amazing, miracle-filled ministry, should be using "FICTIONAL characters whose lives are changed" by the SCRIPTWRITER'S IMAGINATION - sorry, Buchan's ministry - rather than using REAL people's REAL stories? Let's say it as it is; the film is described as SEMI-biographical. In other words, it is only HALF the TRUTH, and hence HALF a LIE! The film makers bill it as being BASED on true events, just like the earlier Faith Like Potatoes film. In plain English, neither production is an HONEST story at all! It is fabricated ENTERTAINMENT! 

THIS IS FUNDAMENTALLY IMPORTANT! These films, which happily fuse fact with fantasy have had immeasurable influence in shooting "Uncle" Angus to super-stardom in the eyes of an adoring South African public, and are also giving him an increasingly global profile, as evidenced by his June 2014 tour of the British Isles which commences with his Bronydd Mawr appearance. It is both interesting and illuminating to perceive how well-loved this man is by the multitudes who flock to hear him, for did not Jesus Himself warn about what His TRUE disciples would face, as recorded in no less than 3 of the 4 Gospels:

"And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake."

(Luke 21:17; also Matthew 10:22 and Mark 13:13)

There's a glaring and most regrettable reason for a preacher being loved by all: he doesn't say it as it really is. He is a tickler of itching ears. He gives people what they WANT, and not what they NEED! He presents a God of personal gain, not a God of self-sacrifice. 

Consider if you will this 2008 Buchan quote:

"God is looking for men, and for women, for boys and girls, that will change the world! The world! Waiting! All creation is waiting with expectation, on tiptoes, for the manifestation of the sons of God! That's you and me!"

This is pure, or more correctly impure, Dominionism, text book 'Latter Rain' heresy which proclaims the emergence of the "Manifest Sons of God" who will change the world by taking over ALL aspects of society and then hand over the Kingdom which THEY have won to the Lord - who will not return until this is done!

"Uncle" Angus has persistently claimed that revival is here right now, while Scripture affirms that the Last Days are characterized not by revival but by apostasy:

"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition."

(2 Thessalonians 2:3)

The only kind of "revival" that is happening today is a counterfeit revival, emphatically not initiated by the HOLY Spirit but by the spirit of antichrist, Lucifer masquerading as an angel of light! And one of the aces up his sleeve is "healing," for he knows only too well that illness and pain can potentially cause a person to embrace anything, no matter how suspect it might be, in return for relief from physical suffering.

And "healing" plays a very big part in Buchan's crusades; indeed, it is fair to say that "Signs & Wonders" (of which "healing" is one such prime example) are an almost mandatory feature of an Angus Buchan campaign! For example, there was the heart-shaped cloud over the stadium meeting at Vanderbijlpark, SA, and at his 2012 meeting at Ein Gedi in Israel a storm was hailed as "a modern day miracle." Angus's self-posted YouTube video of this event is carefully edited and slickly presented. Below is featured a video showing the occasion in a very different light:

Did not Jesus declare that:

"An EVIL and ADULTEROUS generation seeketh after a SIGN: and there shall NO sign  be given to it..."

(Matthew 12:39)

Another short video clip here fully demonstrates Buchan's 's firm belief in the ecumenical, "Churches Together" concept of ditching doctrinal differences in the interests of "the common good" - in reality "the common bad!" To this man, anything goes!

The Scriptural position on such matters is very different:

"Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son."

(2 John v9)

But, touching upon the Word of God, Mr Buchan has very thoughtfully brought out his very own Bible - an abridged version, that is! It's called 'The Bible in 366 Days for Men of Faith.' Sorry ladies, but as that old Yorkie Bar advert used to say, it's not for girls! The Word according to Buchan is made an exclusively male preserve! His Bible selects "key verses" (obviously rejecting what he feels are "lesser" ones) in complete disobedience to the command that we are not  to take ANYTHING away! (Oh dear, is one of the omitted verses Revelation 22:19?) Is not EVERY single word and verse of Holy Writ God-breathed, and so of key importance to us? Not, apparently, to Mr. Buchan... Oh, and just in case the Holy Spirit is unavailable to guide us into all understanding, Mr. Buchan has kindly filled the possible gap by explaining the Scriptures to us himself! I wonder if his "key" verses include this one:

"Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation."

(2 Peter 1:20)

THE MINISTRY OF ANGUS BUCHAN IS CONSISTENTLY CHARACTERIZED BY HYPE, HYPERBOLE, HALF-TRUTH AND HERO-WORSHIP. HE MADE HIS NAME BY PLANTING POTATOES, A MOVE THAT APPARENTLY HAD GOD'S BLESSING. PERHAPS THE FACT THAT HIS FARM NO LONGER PLANTS POTATOES SAYS IT ALL...

BEWARE! "UNCLE" ANGUS BUCHAN IS VERY FAR FROM BEING AS STRAIGHTFORWARD AS HIS PUBLICITY WOULD HAVE US BELIEVE!

"Er, well... actually I'm no longer a potato farmer..."

Further recommended reading:

http://www.discerningtheworld.com/2009/05/09/the-dominionist-faith-of-angus-buchan-faith-like-potatoes-2/

N.B. The above site also carries several other articles voicing concerns about Angus Buchan's ministry.

"Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves."

(Matthew 10:16)