APOSTASIA: A PROPHECY THAT'S NOW COMPLETELY FULFILLED!

"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine;

but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers,

having itching ears;

And they shall turn away their ears from the truth,

and shall be turned unto fables."

(2 Timothy 4:3-4)

APOSTASIA

Pastor, you are just the best

Bringing us all we request:

Fun and frolic, zing and zest,

All that we don't like suppressed!

Feed us milk (and never meat!)

Gently warmed and oh so sweet -

(Nothing salty will we eat!)

We aim to be chaff not wheat!

Speak with smooth words, never rough,

Spare us all that End Times stuff!

Tell it soft, we don't take tough,

Being made of so much fluff!

Ditch the doctrine, that's old hat -

We've had quite enough of that!

It's just not where we are at...

Keep your treasures: we want tat!

We for signs and wonders lust;

Let God's Word grow thick with dust:

We've decided that we must

In new revelation trust!

Pastor, pat us on the back,

Smile, affirm we are on track

To be leaders of the pack

Turning what was white to black!

Dim the light, it hurts our eyes!

Spin us fables: pretty lies

That well serve us for disguise!

We are sold on compromise!

Masks of righteousness we'll wear:

Naked truth we cannot bear!

We'll spread hogwash everywhere:

Strong delusion is our fare!

Armour stripped, in civvies clad,

Death to self we think quite mad;

All our ears are itching bad

To hear tidings solely glad!

Trusting wolves to mind the sheep,

We will shut our eyes and sleep!

To the broad road we will keep...

Lemmings heading for the leap!

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"When the Son of man cometh,

shall he find faith on the earth?"

(Luke 18:8)

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SYNCRETIC INFUSION: AN ODE TO THE 21st. CENTURY "CHURCH"

"Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see,

and ask for the old paths, where is the good way,

and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.

But they said, We will not walk therein.

Also I set watchmen over you, saying,

Hearken to the sound of the trumpet.

But they said, We will not hearken."

(Jeremiah 6:16-17)

SYNCRETIC INFUSION

Syncretic infusion,

Truth's rapid extrusion,

The deepest delusion,

Is what gives the people delight!

They heap to them leaders:

Determined tare seeders -

Apostasy breeders,

Who love not the day but the night!

The straight gate abhorring,

The wide way adoring,

The bride is out whoring:

The world's both her lover and friend!

The salt's lost its savour,

Its power to flavour,

Its worth does it waiver:

To uselessness does it descend!

With prideful rejection

Of rightful correction,

They choose a confection

Of flesh-pleasing fables and lies!

With soulish invention,

And sense in suspension,

They've every intention

To ruin the salve with dead flies!

They boast of the blessing

Which they are progressing:

It's all window-dressing,

With nothing of substance behind!

While claiming great vision,

High calling to mission,

They've made the decision

To poke out their eyes and be blind!

The Word they are ditching,

Their ears always itching,

Their loyalty switching 

From that which is right to what's wrong!

Strange fire is burning,

To which they are turning:

They have no discerning

That judgement is coming along!

Syncretic infusion,

Truth's rapid extrusion,

The deepest delusion,

Is what gives the people delight!

They heap to them leaders:

Determined tare seeders -

Apostasy breeders,

Who love not the day but the night!

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"Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary

to send forth a stinking savour."

(Ecclesiastes 10:1)

"But we are all as an unclean thing,

and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags;

and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities,

like the wind, have taken us away."

(Isaiah 64:6)

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KENNETH COPELAND'S WELSH COHORTS:- ROBBIE AND DONNA HOWELLS, LEADERS OF THE WAREHOUSE CHURCH IN NEWPORT.

"Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name:

I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them:

they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination,

and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart."

(Jeremiah 14:14)

When I read in the Bible where He says, "I AM," I just

smile and say, "Yes, I AM too!" - Kenneth Copeland.

Just what is it about so very many professing Christian leaders that, despite their most determined misuse and abuse of the Gospel in every which way, they somehow expect God to pour out His richest blessings upon them and their fellow purveyors of spiritual putridity? That in the midst of their prideful peddling of apostate alternatives to His Truth, He will greatly exalt them and cause them to become the bringers of revival to the land? Assuredly, any such claimed "revival" will be only a shoddy counterfeit one of their own manufacture, a shameful sham marked by a delight in the death of discernment, a reinforced concrete refusal to test the spirits, and an unrestrained fleshly enthusiasm for strong delusion.

In this very context, I wrote recently about Paul Button and the Wales Revival Alliance that he founded, warning about its roots being deep in the New Apostolic Reformation and Toronto "Blessing" deceptions, and yet in all its Biblical unfaithfulness promising a great outpouring of God's blessings. See: 

https://watchman4wales.blogspot.com/2023/07/wales-revival-alliance-its-origins-and.html

Very sadly, there are of course other most virulent Scripture-debasing diseases in the Body that so many have either willingly or quite wilfully contracted, incredibly actually preferring spiritual malaise to spiritual health. One such Christian cancer, if I might use that term, is the Word of Faith movement, with one of its largest and most aggressive tumours manifesting itself as the so-called "prosperity gospel." On this note, let us now turn to another Welsh operation having false revival firmly in its cross hairs, this being the Warehouse Church in the city of Newport as (mis)led by its husband-and-wife "pastors" Robbie and Donna Howells. Such a completely unscriptural arrangement was flagged up in another article on this site:

https://watchman4wales.blogspot.com/2022/09/ladies-in-leadership-husband-and-wife.html

Dear friends and readers, what I wish to alert you to here in this new piece is the fact that this ear-tickling couple are the Welsh cohorts of that wolf among wolves, the fleet- of-jets-and-private-airport-owning and foremost fat-cat profiteer from "Christian" entrepreneurism, "Mr. Prosperity Gospel" himself... Kenneth Copeland! Since 18 June 2015, Robbie (Robert) Howells has been a Trustee of Kenneth Copeland Ministries, one of the 6 such appointees overseeing its UK wing. Furthermore, this very organization's accounts for the year ended 31 December 2021 show that it gifted the Howells' Warehouse Church £10,300 that year; this was for the purchase of equipment for their TV ministry project. (Warehouse Church accounts state £10,000. Interestingly, the accounts reveal a £10,919 hike in its ministers' salary from the previous year, from £59,000 to £69,919; make of that what you will. All figures given are easily verifiable via the official records of the  Charity Commission). Filming of their 'Taking You Forward' programme began in the latter part of that year, with episodes being aired on the 'Victory Channel' of - yes, you must have guessed! - Kenneth Copeland Ministries. Stars of this show? Surely you'll have guessed this too? Robbie and Donna Howells, of course! Please refer to: https://www.govictory.com/show/taking-you-forward/

That the Howells are dyed-in-the-wool adherents of the "greed is good" heinous mockery of the Faith once delivered that is the "prosperity gospel" can be in no shadow of doubt, given the proof that they are joined at the hip to Kenneth Copeland. For evidence of just how amazingly far removed this dollar-adoring deceiver is from sound doctrine, and how twisted is his theology, please read the long list of Copeland quotes I supply below as an appendix to this article. You could only ally yourself - and so deeply - to such a man if you are similarly following a different "Jesus" and have a different gospel and a different spirit, things which were warned about by the Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 11:4. 

With all this firmly in mind, we will now move on to look at how Mr. and Mrs. Howells and their Warehouse Church, like Paul Button and his Wales Revival Alliance, see themselves as "movers and shakers" in the bringing of revival to the land... all when the Scriptures tell us that the End Times are marked not by a great awakening but by great apostasy! Extremely ambitious plans have been formulated for creating a huge Revival Centre in Newport, as can be seen at https://www.thewarehousechurch.tv/newbuildingproject. This "prosperity gospel" megachurch will naturally have Robbie and Donna both directing and starring in the show, the Welsh equivalent you might say of Joel ("Your Best Life Now") and Victoria Osteen. We can only hope and pray that the project never gets off the ground; it's the very last thing that Wales wants, being well awash with counterfeit Christianity already!

We might well note here that Mission 24, of which Paul Button is the lead in Wales, has partnered with the Warehouse Church for a 'Connect Day' on 25 November. Salvation is free, but unless you're a student you'll have to pay £16.96 advance booking (£20 on the door) to hear Mission 24 chief Jonathan Conrathe preach the Good News. I'll only say that you can draw your own conclusions about this event and what it signifies.

The institutional "Church" has no excuse for her endless infidelity. The Word of God in 2 Timothy 4:3-4 clearly reveals that the time would come when professing Christians would not hold to sound doctrine but turn to fables, heaping to themselves teachers who would tickle itching ears with words to delight and not to dismay, things they want to hear rather than what they need to hear. Isaiah once lamented of the people that their demand was this: "Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits." (Is. 30:10). As then, so today; as the wise Preacher declared: "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun." (Ecclesiastes 1:9). Deception is both the desire and the delivery of the hour we find ourselves in.

What is so urgently needed to be heard is that it is not thoroughly undeserved revival but fully deserved judgment that is coming down the line. Time is short; the last grains of sand are streaming through the glass, and all of us need to be completely awake to eschatological reality, not slumbering on in the comfy eiderdown of illusion. As Peter put it, so succinctly:

"For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God:

and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them

that obey not the gospel of God?"

(1 Peter 4:17)

EPILOGUE: WRECKERS AND FALSE LIGHTS

Centuries ago, so legend says, ruthless coast-dwellers would lure passing ships onto the rocks, then plunder the hapless wrecks of whatever cargo they might be carrying, even bludgeoning surviving sailors to death so they could carry no tales of what had befallen them. Tying a lantern around a horse's or mule's neck, they'd lead the animal along the clifftop; upon seeing the swaying light and mistaking it for the stern lamp of another vessel, a captain would think that he was a lot further out at sea than he really was; he'd only know otherwise when he heard the ship's timbers splinter on the jagged rocks and it was all too late.

Please, my friends and readers, hear this warning and take it to heart: there are false lights out there, projecting an illusion of safety while in reality they are treacherous in the extreme. A new religious Babylon is arising, a darkness masquerading as light that can lead to the wreckage of your souls and the looting of all that is held in your hold of hope. Discernment and wisdom is of paramount importance in these perilous times, an age we were told would come and has now arrived. Exercise these vital gifts that God will freely give if you would but ask and receive, and in so doing steer well clear of each and every hull-shredding reef! As Paul adjured Timothy, his "son in the faith":

"This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy,

according to the prophecies which went before on thee,

that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;

Holding faith, and a good conscience;

which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck."

(1 Timothy 1:18-19)

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APPENDIX: A COMPILATION OF SHOCKING KENNETH COPELAND QUOTES

First published here: 

https://watchman4wales.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-compilation-of-shocking-kenneth.html

KENNETH COPELAND'S ELEVATION OF HIMSELF TO GODHOOD:
When I read in the Bible where He says, "I AM," I just smile and say, "Yes, I AM too!"

KENNETH COPELAND'S ELEVATION OF ALL BELIEVERS TO GODHOOD:
1) Every Christian is a god.


2) You don't have a god in you - you are one!

3) Now Peter said, "By exceeding great and precious promises you become partakers of the divine nature." Alright. Are we gods? We are a class of gods!

KENNETH COPELAND'S INSTRUCTION TO MEN TO PRAY TO THEMSELVES, AS BEING ONE WITH THE GODHEAD:
Pray to your self, because I'm in your self and you're in my Self. We are one Spirit, saith the Lord.

KENNETH COPELAND, CONCERNING MEN'S ABILITY:
You have the same creative faith and ability on the inside of you that God used when He created the heavens and the earth.

KENNETH COPELAND'S CLAIM THAT ADAM WAS GOD INCARNATE: 
God's reason for creating Adam was His desire to reproduce Himself. I mean a reproduction of Himself, and in the Garden of Eden He did just that. He was not a little like God. He was not almost like God. He was not subordinate to God even... Adam is as much like God as you could get, just the same as Jesus... Adam, in the Garden of Eden, was God manifested in the flesh.

KENNETH COPELAND'S TEACHING THAT GOD REPLICATED HIMSELF IN ADAM: 
1) God spoke Adam into existence in authority with words. These words struck Adam's body in the face. His body and God were exactly the same size.

2) If you stood Adam upside God, they look just exactly alike. If you stood Jesus and Adam side-by-side, they would look and sound exactly alike.

KENNETH COPELAND'S ASSERTION THAT GOD HAS A (HUMAN-SIZED) PHYSICAL BODY:
1) So you see, that faith didn't come billowing out of some giant monster somewhere. It came out of the heart of a being that is very uncanny the way He's very much like you and me. A being that stands somewhere around 6' 2, 6' 3, that weighs somewhere in the neighbourhood of a couple of hundred pounds, little better...

2) God is a spirit-being with a body, complete with eyes, and eyelids, ears, nostrils, a mouth, hands and fingers, and feet.

KENNETH COPELAND'S ANDROGYNOUS ADAM AND ANDROGYNOUS GOD:
And then He created Eve out of Adam... When God said "Adam!" they both came... They had always been together. Even when she was still a part of him, he was as much female as he was male, like God is!

KENNETH COPELAND'S BELIEF THAT FAITH IS A FORCE:
Faith is a power force. It is a tangible force. It is a conductive force.

KENNETH COPELAND'S TEACHING OF (OCCULT) VISUALIZATION:
Words create pictures, and pictures in your mind create words. And then the words come back out your mouth... And when that spiritual force comes out it is going to give substance to the image that's on the inside of you. Aw, that's that visualization stuff! Aw, that's that New Age! No, New Age is trying to do this, and they'd get somewhat results out of it because this is spiritual law, brother!

KENNETH COPELAND'S DENIAL OF THE ETERNAL PRE-EXISTENCE OF JESUS:
1) Jesus existed only as an image in the heart of God, until such time as the prophets of the Old Testament could positively confess Jesus into existence through their constant prophecies.

2) Jesus has a beginning and an end.

KENNETH COPELAND'S DESCRIPTION OF JESUS AS A "FAITH" PRODUCT OF GOD:
The faith it took to make fingers was loosed, the faith it took to make arms was loosed in the earth, and now God had a way to hover over a little woman by the name of Mary. And there was born of that virgin woman a product of God. Once again, something has happened from the insides of God.

Now, you see, God is injecting His Word into the earth to produce this Jesus - these faith-filled words that framed the image that's in Him. .. He can't just walk onto the earth and say, "Let it be!" because He doesn't have the right! He had to sneak it in here around the god of this world that was blocking every way that he possibly could.

God was making promises to Jesus, and Jesus wasn't even there. But, you see, God deals with things that are not yet as though they already were. That's the way He gets them to come to pass.

KENNETH COPELAND'S ASSERTION THAT GOD HAS NO RIGHT OF ACCESS TO THE EARTH:
God's on the outside looking in. He doesn't have any legal entree into the earth. The thing don't belong to Him. You see how sassy the Devil was in the presence of God in the book of Job? God said, "Where have you been?" Wasn't any of God's business. He didn't even have to answer if he didn't want to... God didn't argue with him a bit. You see, this is the position that God's been in... Might say, "Well, if God's running things He's doing a lousy job of it." He hadn't been running 'em, except when He's just got, you know, a little bit of a chance!

KENNETH COPELAND'S DENIAL OF THE SUFFICIENCY OF CALVARY:
When Jesus cried, "It is finished!" He was not speaking of the plan of redemption. There were still three days and nights to go through before He went to the throne... Jesus' death on the cross was only the beginning of the complete work of redemption.

KENNETH COPELAND'S BELITTLING OF CALVARY:
Now it wasn't the physical death on the cross that paid the price for sin... Anybody could do that.

KENNETH COPELAND'S ASSERTION THAT IT WAS NOT JESUS ALONE WHO COULD HAVE ATONED FOR SIN:
Any O.T. prophet could have atoned for our sins, if they knew what Jesus knew.  

KENNETH COPELAND'S WEAK JESUS:
We are the body of His Word. We are carriers of faith. Without us, people die and go to Hell. Without us being strong, Jesus is not strong.

KENNETH COPELAND'S DENIAL THAT JESUS IS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD:
Jesus is no longer the only begotten Son of God. 

KENNETH COPELAND'S CONTRADICTION OF HEBREWS 13:8:
Jesus has not remained the same, He has changed.

KENNETH COPELAND ON JESUS' RIGHTEOUSNESS:
Jesus had to give up His righteousness.

KENNETH COPELAND ON JESUS BECOMING SATANIC:
Jesus took on the nature of Satan when He was on the cross.

KENNETH COPELAND'S PRONOUNCEMENT THAT IT WAS SATAN WHO HAD THE VICTORY AT CALVARY:
Satan conquered Jesus on the Cross and took His spirit to the dark regions of Hell.

KENNETH COPELAND'S TEACHING ON JESUS IN HELL:
Jesus was dragged down into the bowels of Hell, where He was beaten and bruised by Satan and his demons until Jesus could finally fight His way out of Hell three days later.

KENNETH COPELAND'S "BORN AGAIN" JESUS:
1) Jesus was reborn in the pits of Hell.

2) Jesus was born again - the firstborn from the dead the Word calls Him - and He whipped the Devil in his own backyard.

KENNETH COPELAND'S DECLARATION THAT JESUS NEVER CLAIMED TO BE GOD:
They crucified me for claiming I was God. I didn't claim that I was God. I just claimed that I walked with Him and that He was in me. Hallelujah! That's what you're doing!

KENNETH COPELAND'S CLAIM THAT HEAVEN IS A PLANET:
1) You don't think earth was first, do you? Huh? Well, you don't think that God made man in His image, and then made earth in some other image? ... This is all a copy. It's a copy of home. It's a copy of the Mother Planet. Where God lives. He made a little one just like His and put us on it.

2) Heaven has a north and a south and an east and a west. Consequently it must be a planet.

KENNETH COPELAND'S MAJORING ON MATERIALISM:
1) Prosperity is a major requirement in the establishment of God's will.

2) God's will for His people today is abundance.

3) God... needs you rich.

4) Clearly, our prosperity is important to God. It's so central to His will that He included it in the price Jesus paid for our redemption. So it doesn't matter whether or not we think we need it. What matters is that God needs it!

KENNETH COPELAND'S FALSE PROPHECY RE ISLAM:
And we're going to see the move of God like we've never seen it before... Because, you mark my word, 1995 is the beginning of the "Beyond what we are able to ask or think." 1995 is that beginning. It has come. There are many Muslims that while they are trying to worship what they think is God, Jesus is going to appear right in the middle of it. And under the influence of the power of the Holy Ghost, Islam will fall. Islam will become nothing. (Published 25/12/94).

KENNETH COPELAND'S ECUMENICAL ACCORD WITH THE POPE:
Thank you, sir. We do bless you. We receive your blessing. It's very, very important to us, and we bless you with all of our hearts, we bless you with all of our souls, we bless you with all of our might, and we thank you, sir. We thank God for you. And so all of us declare together, "Be blessed!" Once again, altogether, "Be blessed!" Amen.

KENNETH COPELAND'S DENUNCIATION OF GOD AS A FAILURE:
I was shocked when I found out who the biggest failure in the Bible actually is... The biggest in all the Bible is God!
He lost His top-ranking, most anointed angel, the first man He ever created, the first woman He ever created, the whole earth and all the fullness therein, a third of the angels at least! That's a big loss, man! I mean, you figure it all, that's a lot of real estate, brother, gone down the drain. Now the reason you don't think of God as a failure is He never said He's a failure. And you're not a failure till you say you're one!

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'WE ARE THE NAR, DILLY DILLY!' - AN OLD FOLK SONG, RE-SUNG.

"Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things,

to draw away disciples after them."

(Acts 20:30)

"Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets,

that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!"

(Ezekiel 13:3)

"For if a man think himself to be something,

when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself."

(Galatians 6:3)

I have of late been much focused on researching the steady infiltration of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) with its Dominionist 'Seven Mountain Mandate' into Wales, a phenomenon which is hugely worrying. A few days ago, for some quite unfathomable reason, that ancient folk song/nursery rhyme 'Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, Lavender's green' suddenly started cascading through my mind. Just so random! But then, little by little, a whole new set of words began to formulate, the end result being the little parody I now set out before you...

'WE ARE THE NAR, DILLY DILLY'

We are the NAR, dilly dilly,

Creme de la creme;

We will decree, dilly dilly -

You'll say "Amen!"

Jump off the Rock, dilly dilly,

On to the sand:

There we will build, dilly dilly,

Castles so grand!

They'll have thick walls, dilly dilly,

Towers so high -

And from each one, dilly dilly,

Proud flags will fly!

We'll be their kings, dilly dilly,

Standing so tall;

Mountains we'll scale, dilly dilly,

Seven in all!

What's that you say, dilly dilly?

"High comes the tide!"

Waves we defy, dilly dilly:

Breakers we ride!

Move or be moved, dilly dilly,

Out of our way!

Raised up to reign, dilly dilly,

We will hold sway!

How dare you claim, dilly dilly,

That we are wrong?

You are just weak, dilly dilly:

We are the strong!

We are the NAR, dilly dilly,

Creme de la creme;

We will decree, dilly dilly -

You'll say "Amen!"

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N.B. Much reference has been made on this site to the New Apostolic Reformation. See:

https://watchman4wales.blogspot.com/search/label/New%20Apostolic%20Reformation

WALES REVIVAL ALLIANCE - ITS ORIGINS AND CONTRADICTIONS.

"For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets,

and shall shew great signs and wonders;

insomuch that, if it were possible,

they shall deceive the very elect.

Behold, I have told you before."

(Matthew 24:24-25)

Paul and Julie Button with the Arnotts at Avivamiento

Avivamiento. A new name to you, as it was to me? Well, it came to my attention as being essentially the origin of the "vision" behind the creation of the Wales Revival Alliance last year, and in following through on this I am sadly obligated in seeing the grave dangers to sound a stark warning about what is really afoot here.

The Avivamiento World Revival Center (no small claim here!) in Bogota, Colombia, South America, is run by husband-and-wife "pastors" Ricardo and Ma Patricia Rodriguez. Now, while our ladies have a most important complementary role to play in the Church, they are not called by the Holy Spirit to positions of leadership, which He assigns only to men. So in this respect alone, this Colombian outfit is displaying open challenge to what is truly Godly, and so inevitably falls outside His blessing, making genuine revival in such a scenario an actual impossibility. But quite aside from this observation, video evidence vividly demonstrates that the only thing being revived at Avivamiento is the so-called 'Toronto Blessing' - in reality a diabolical curse of epic proportions, originating not in Heaven but in Hell, and bringing not gentleness, sobriety and orderliness which is the evidence of the ministering of the Holy Spirit, but absolute chaos in its wake! Please go to their website, and watch the shocking short 'Our Ministry' video on the Homepage. What you will see is these two artful performers working the crowd, whipping them up into an altered state of consciousness whereby all discernment, reason and inhibition is flat-lined and a grotesque mass Kundalini manifestation is engendered.

 

United in the spirit of antichrist: 

the Arnotts and the Pontiff of Rome.

Nothing new under the sun; this is all deju-vu at its ugliest. And it should come as no surprise at all that John and Carol Arnott, the similarly Scripture-sinking husband-and-wife supposed "pastors" of the Toronto Airport (Vineyard) Church, now branded 'Catch The Fire' - where the Toronto Curse broke out in 1994 under their (mis)leadership - were star guest speakers at the recent Avivamiento 'World Revival Congress 2023.'

And so from Colombia and Canada to Wales...

An attendee at said Congress was a Welshman by the name of Paul Button, hence the  photo of him there with the Arnotts - these religious renegades who he fetes as being "an amazing couple!" - as reproduced above. Mr. Button is the man claiming to have received the "vision" for establishing the Wales Revival Alliance, the day after returning from last year's June, 2022 Avivamiento conference. It is quite beyond question that his mindset and spiritual worldview has been moulded by what he has partaken of in far-off Bogota, which he is so desirous of emulating back here in Wales. I would recommend, if I may, the viewing of another short promotional video, this one being embedded on the Homepage of the Wales Revival Alliance. There you will see Mr. Button praying over a woman who is being most notably affected not by the Holy Spirit but rather by a classic Kundalini manifestation. He is clearly and most worryingly unable to ascertain the difference!

The lack of discernment in such important things extends to the abject failure to be able to recognize the true signs of the times. The WRA site proclaims that "revival is brewing" in Wales, which fantasy simply does not in any way tally with the Word of God, which in no uncertain terms tells us that these the Last Days are not marked by revival but by rampant deception and outright apostasy on every level... of which Wales is so wretchedly absolutely awash! As it is written:

"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; 

but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 

And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, 

and shall be turned unto fables."

(2 Timothy 4:3-4)

And such a fable that folks are being turned to is that "revival is brewing," which hype tickles itching ears with what folks want to hear rather than what they need to hear... which is that the axe of God is being taken to the root of the badly diseased tree, and this land is in line not for blessing but for righteous judgment! Assuredly, the only "revival" that we might witness is a counterfeit one, arising from people's insatiable thirst for untested "signs and wonders," a feel-good experiential faith, highs that excite the flesh while feeding the spirit not with the pure bread of life but with a Laodicean loaf shot through with frankly dangerously contaminated leaven!

At this point, some background detail on Mr. Button may prove helpful. A successful businessman, he pastored a fellowship formed in the village where he lives in the Vale of Glamorgan, this being Liberty Church Colwinston. Its Facebook post for July 17, 2017 is informative:

"It all started with an Alpha course which we ran in Colwinston's Sycamore Tree pub in January to March 2017. After the course ended people did not want to stop meeting so we ran another Alpha course in Colwinston village hall starting on April 30th (finishes July 23rd). People still don't want to stop meeting so we have launched Liberty Church, Colwinston (linked to Liberty Church, Swansea). We meet every Sunday at 4pm in the village hall..."

Mr. Button is here seen to be a big Alpha fan, which is not good news in and of itself. But what is also revealing is the link to Liberty Church, Swansea, which before moving to its present accommodation had been birthed at the Bible College of Wales, which is a New Apostolic Reformation institution run by Cornerstone Community Church of Singapore. Not only has he preached at the College, he actually graduated from there (as did his wife) in 2016. (Before we move on, let us note well that Liberty Swansea, just like the Avivamiento outfit, is similarly unBiblically run by husband-and-wife "pastors"). The College quite unsurprisingly runs NAR 'Bless Wales' conferences; a Liberty Colwinston FB entry for 2019 promotes the 'Bless Wales' conference of that year, when the star guest happened to be the Dominionist deceiver and NAR leader Dutch Sheets. We might also carefully note that Mr. Button was an enthusiastic participant at this year's 'Curse - sorry, Bless - Wales' shindig, which featured the dreadful "prophetess" Emma Stark. There's no question at all that this College has played a central role, along with Avivamiento of course, in formulating this man's theological make-up.

In July, 2021, Mr. Button graduated a second time, on this occasion from the Leicester-based Mission 24's 'School of Ministry & Mission,' subsequently becoming one of this organization's Team Evangelists and the Lead for Wales. Key NAR concepts are seen in the hype for this school: equipping, activating, signs and wonders, impartation... at £1,200 for an 11-month course, no less! (Friends, we will search the New Testament in vain for any hint of the need for any believer to attend such a school. Please think on this significant omission). Very concerning is that it intends to be running its courses not only in Leicester but also in South Wales. This will be at a venue to be confirmed, but it seems likely that the WRA's aim of purchasing its own building in Aberkenfig near Bridgend figures in these plans. What is also conjecture only at this stage, of course, is that Mr. Button could be installed as pastor; it would seem likely that the Colwinston venture has folded, as there have been zero posts on their FB page for over three years now. (Anyone knowing if it is actually still going, please do correct me!) 

The Wales Revival Alliance makes much of its association with Chroma Church, also located in Leicester, which has Vineyard/Wimberism/Third Wave origins, and - surprise, surprise - also has husband-and-wife "pastors" at the helm. Charity Commission data shows that they have NAR/Bethel, Redding connections; their published accounts for the year ended March 2022 contains the following entry: "This year we hosted three students from Bethel Church, Redding, California completing their third year of the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry." Bill Johnson's Bethel is a veritable epicentre of apostasy; Chroma's strong link to them sadly speaks volumes. 

The reference to "power evangelism" on the WRA site shows that Wimberism - i.e. the belief that the demonstration of "signs and wonders" is vital to get people to embrace the Gospel - is a most important pillar of their platform. This being despite the clear Scriptural teaching that "faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." (Romans 10:17). Yes, hearing ONLY! And when it comes to the question of pulling folks in via "signs and wonders" did not Jesus Himself declare, "An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign." (Matthew 12:39). It might be opportune to also make mention here that John Wimber was keenly ecumenical, as is Mr. Button. In this context four churches are involved in the WRA week-long mission to take place in the Bridgend area, July 17th-23rd.

In conclusion please, please, remember that the Bible speaks only of an apostasia, the Falling Away from Truth in the Last Days, which are now not future but present tense. Let's say it as it is: the fictional coming great revival that the likes of the Wales Revival Alliance speak of as fact is completely antithetical to the unalterable Word of God. 

WHOSE VOICE, PRECIOUS CHRISTIAN FRIENDS, WILL YOU LISTEN TO?

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Some further reading on topics touched upon in this article:

https://watchman4wales.blogspot.com/2022/09/ladies-in-leadership-husband-and-wife.html

https://watchman4wales.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-bless-wales-conference-brangwyn_30.html

https://watchman4wales.blogspot.com/2022/07/percy-is-prophet-pernicious-pied-pipers.html

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NEW WINE CYMRU LEADERS CONFERENCE WITH NICKY GUMBEL

"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.

If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine,

receive him not into your house, 

neither bid him God speed:

For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds."

(2 John 9-11)

"What unites us is infinitely greater than what divides us!" - Nicky Gumbel

The doctrine of Christ. Let's home in on a critical part of that doctrine which, if any man does not hold to, we are instructed to have nothing to do with him... and he who would receive him and bless him is held by Holy Writ to be a sharer in his EVIL works:

"Let no man deceive you with vain words:

for because of these things cometh the wrath of God

upon the children of disobedience.

Be not ye therefore partakers with them...

Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness,

but rather reprove them."

(Ephesians 5:6-11)

With these Scriptural mandates firmly in mind, let us now look to the 2023 New Wine Cymru Leaders Conference in Swansea on 9/10 June, whose keynote speaker is the Rev. Nicky Gumbel, whose very name is synonymous with the Alpha Course that he personally shaped whilst in leadership at Holy Trinity Brompton. This Anglican "church" also happened to be the springboard for launching the demonic "Toronto Blessing" (actually the most terrible of curses!) in the UK, which Gumbel delightedly participated in and promoted, which in itself should have been sufficient warning of his discernment-devoid unsoundness! Nevertheless, his tame toothless tiger that is Alpha has gone on to roam the world freely, bringing with it the triple deadly spiritual viruses of Pit-deep ecumenical compromise, easy-believism's rootless "salvation," and the heinous Charismatic excess that is in reality the Kundalini "serpent rising" of Hindu mysticism. But there is even more than this to very greatly concern ourselves about.

Make no mistake, Nicky Gumbel - who has met with both John Paul II and Francis - is a most prominent player in the End Times drive to bring those in the evangelical and Roman Catholic camps ever closer together, eventually cementing them into a single "Church" entity, heralding a unity based in no way on Truth but on the determined axing of sound doctrine and its replacement with an experiential faith which is in fact unbelief. Gumbel has worked tirelessly to bring about such a modern-day Counter Reformation; if only his efforts were for the Faith that was once delivered, rather than for the shoddy antichrist counterfeit that seeks to displace it! Alpha lovingly licks the Pope's hand, and he in turn endearingly pats it on the head and tickles it under the chin, knowing full well how this pampered pet is playing such a huge part in bringing "the separated brethren" back into the Vatican harlot's bed.

'Alpha for Catholics' be it well noted, is EXACTLY THE SAME as Alpha for everyone else, and as long ago as 1997 R.C. Bishop of Hexham Ambrose Griffiths was quoted in that July's 'Alpha News' as commending it as a "powerful evangelistic tool... it doesn't contain anything that is contrary to Catholic doctrine." Let's be clear about this: if the Catholic take on Christianity is in no way threatened by Alpha, then Alpha's "Gospel" message cannot be being presented as Holy Writ presents it. How can this not be seen by evangelicals as being an issue of enormous proportions? Obviously, something is very amiss somewhere, in both the presentation of and the unquestioning acceptance of this globally hyped Christian primer. How can it not be seen that when a R.C. Bishop refers to it as a "powerful evangelistic tool," it is not in the context of bringing a person into a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ but in its serving as a useful bait to  entice the unsuspecting into R.C. churches, where they will then of course be taught the abominations of that religion like transubstantiation, purgatory, the confessional, Marian co-redeemership, praying to the dead, etc.?

SHAME on Julian Richards' New Wine Cymru for inviting a man such as Gumbel into their midst to peddle his apostate wares to all and sundry, in complete defiance of the clear Scriptures which headed this article! While all believers are Biblically instructed to "have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness," Richards and his blind ecumenical cohort have no problem at all with such a travesty; rather than properly reprimanding Gumbel for his brazen betrayal of the Faith, they put him on a platform and applaud him wildly! How is this so? It can only be because they are all on board the same train as him, with the same destination... and their seventy-five quid tickets to ride are stamped "THE CHILDREN OF DISOBEDIENCE!"

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AMANDA LINDSEY COOK AT 'THE BIG CHURCH FESTIVAL' 2023.

"God is a Spirit: and they that worship him 

must worship him in spirit and IN TRUTH."

(John 4:24 - my capitalization of words for emphasis)

Question. When is a Christian to avoid participating in worship like the plague?

Answer. (Which you must surely know already!) When it is not the God of the Bible who is being worshipped!

Which, in a nutshell, is the reason for me presenting this little piece concerning what is hyped as being the biggest Christian event in the UK. With an expected attendance of over 30,000, 'The Big Church Festival' taking place on 27/28 May, 2023 at the Wiston Estate in West Sussex is a jamboree of quite extraordinary proportions, with more than 50 artists performing across several stages. Such a great coming together has to be good for the health and expression of the Faith in these islands, must it not? This surely has to be something for we believers to feel good about and cheer on, yes? If only that was indeed the case...

By way of emphasizing just how cautious we must be when it comes to feted artists on the Christian music/worship scene today, I want here to focus on one example of a tare masquerading as wheat who has a huge following among the deceived, a lady hailed as a "great friend" of 'The Big Church Festival' by the name of Amanda Lindsey Cook, who will be appearing there again this year. If I've absolutely shocked and dismayed anyone by saying this of her, I will present concrete evidence - by the testimony of her own lips - that she in no way knows either the true God of the Bible or His Son, for she is NOT a born-again believer but a dyed-in-the-wool New Ager.

On April 11, 2019, 'The Christian Post' published an interview with her, which sadly provides abundant proof of what I am averring here. No-one who has experienced the new birth, and is indwelt by the Holy Spirit who witnesses only to absolute Truth, could say the things that she does in this interview, which testifies only to the fact that she is on an entirely different path to the Narrow Way; it is in fact the broad highway whose destination is destruction! (All that I quote here can be verified by accessing the relevant article: https://www.christianpost.com/news/bethels-amanda-lindsey-cook-reveals-why-she-went-silent-what-she-learned-during-difficult-season.html )

Cook: "Every day I increasingly felt like gravity and the great beyond, called God, was working in my favor. It was bringing things together, bringing things back to me and organizing puzzle pieces in a way that I didn't see they would fit together but they started fitting together. So it's as much a literal experience as it is a canon of sorts."

My comment: Cook is here identifying with a force. (Word of Faith teaching commonly holds that faith is a force). But even more worrying is her reference to "the great beyond, called God," going on to call Him an IT! This shocking depersonalization of the living God is nothing less than a blasphemous denial of and a mystical New Age re-definition of who He really is.

Cook: "I love this divine essence that we so commonly refer to as God. I think it becomes this common, almost familiar thing that it has connotations because we basically impose our belief system on whatever we think God is when we say the word "God." I love the names that this essence and this divine presence gives itself. In the Old Testament, where God describes themselves as "I am," also the name Yahweh, the intake and exhale of breath. I (also) love the name Emmanuel, "ever-present."

My comment: Her "God" is again defined as an IT, a vague and impersonal "divine essence" that gives ITself names. It's important not to miss the significance of her referencing Yahweh as "the intake and exhale of breath." The contemplative movement - an exponentially growing branch of counterfeit Christianity - has sanitised what is a deeply Hindu/Buddhist practice as "breath/centering prayer" but it is an Eastern occult technique for entering into an altered state of consciousness ("the silence") allowing supposed communing with the god within, of which all are seen to be a part. We might well also note that Emmanuel does not mean "ever-present" as Cook alleges of this essence/presence, but rather "God With Us" - and it is a prophetic Name of the Biblical Jesus, whom she perceives only as a New Age entity, as we'll go on to all too plainly see.

Cook: "So for this (song), I feel like there's a few layers to it. The song comes from the phrase, "I am because you are," the whole phrase, it's acknowledging that "I exist because you exist and therefore we exist." It's this common acknowledgment, this communal aspect of living, where we're all connected, we're all part of the common thread... to be connected at the source to this divine presence, this Christ consciousness, and to celebrate that in the very center of our own heart, the center of my own soul, that's where it exists. It's holding me together and it's holding you together, it's holding us together."

My comment: Cook's panentheistic mindset is clearly evidenced here, and surely most damningly by her use of the term "Christ consciousness," which has absolutely nothing to do with the Christ of Biblical revelation and everything to do with the supposed universally present internal "IT" of New Age thinking. 

Cook: "When I got there (the house), I called one of my friends, Stephanie. I said to her, "because it's empty I thought it would feel eerie, but it actually feels really friendly." We started musing on that (and thought) perhaps that's actually what going into our soul feels like. When St. Theresa of Avila talks about the interior castle, perhaps that's what it actually feels like to go inward to the hidden spaces - the eternal internal, infinite spaciousness that is our spirit. Stephanie came out for a weekend and we talked about canonizing that kind of motif, that kind of picture in modern language. Perhaps, it's a thank you note to St. Theresa. Perhaps, it's a thank you note to everyone who has given us a language for those spaces in our soul."

My comment: OK. Teresa of Avila was a Roman Catholic mystic, and her book 'The Interior Castle' that Cook so favourably refers to here is a prominent work on "Christian" mysticism and "Christian" meditation, i.e. contemplative spirituality. "Going into our soul?" What Cook is talking about is the process of communing with the supposed god (of which we are all part) within, via occult practices.

Still not convinced? To see, and unarguably so, that Cook has completely bought into the New Age worldview and worships a different "Jesus," let's go to her Facebook posting of 19 April 2019, which reads:

"Happy Good Friday everyone. I never know how to greet people on this day... a day we mark as a moment in time when the Enlightened Master seemed to descend into shadows. It would have seemed at the time that it was a step backwards rather than a triumph. It would seem that life rolls out for all of us in a similar fashion. We want to fast forward these parts, these traumatic events."

So we know now that to Cook, the very Son of God, the Word made flesh, is merely an Enlightened Master of the New Age! Oh, may she find the real Christ while there is yet time for her to do so!

After the above exposing of the true, utterly delusional nature of her spirituality, it is easy to see why Amanda Cook is part of the Bethel stable of artists. Bill Johnson's NAR operation in Redding, California is a veritable epicentre of apostasy in these "anything goes" End Times which we have been catapulted into. And an integral part of the Bethel poison is its hugely influential music wing, which of course includes the Bethel Music "worship" group and Jesus Culture. Quite apart from Cook, and further greatly emphasizing the completely unsound and deceptive nature of 'The Big Church Festival,' Bethel Music will also be back there, as well as (Hillsong) United and Matt Maher. If perchance you didn't know, Maher is a committed Roman Catholic whose "Jesus" is the Eucharistic Christ of that utterly false faith, and not the Jesus of The Word. He is at the very forefront of the antichrist agenda to create unity between Roman Catholicism and evangelicalism, such unity being not in Truth but in Bible-debasing compromise! 

As I write these words, a multitude of professing Christians will be eagerly getting ready to travel from all parts of the UK to the South East to participate in this sad, ecumenical shindig, throwing discernment and wisdom to the four winds. As an awful consequence, they will be enthusiastically singing along with artists who have a very different "Jesus," not knowing the real One. How dreadful to be joining in with the worship of a false god, blind to the blasphemy of their actions. I can only hope and pray that even just one person might happen upon this article, and the spiritual cataracts will be mercifully cut from their clouded eyes!

MY FRIENDS, WE MUST ALWAYS WORSHIP THE ONE TRUE GOD IN TRUTH ONLY!

"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers:

for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?

and what communion hath light with darkness?"

(2 Corinthians 6:14)

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