"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)
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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