"... there shall be false teachers among you... And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you..." (2 Peter 2:1-3)
Having just completed this little video and uploaded it to my YouTube channel, I thought to share it here on the blog also. It forcibly struck me just how poignant the words of this old Gospel song are, when comparing the lyricist's sincere sentiments to the dollar-driven and shallow worldliness of the 'Word of Faith' merchants, whose gross misrepresentation of the Faith has seduced so many into equating God's blessing with the size of one's bank balance, and substituting grace for greed.
No agency on the planet has played a greater role in promoting the heinous "prosperity gospel" globally than TBN, whose programming is a veritable "Who's Who" of 'Word of Faith' charlatans, who have amassed vast personal fortunes at the expense of those who they have cynically conned into trusting their twisted message.
These are men and women whose assumed spirituality is the very antithesis of that of the good lady who many years ago wrote the heartfelt words of this beautiful song. These are folks who under the guise of Godliness unashamedly present a counterfeit "Christianity" of covetousness and carnality. Pernicious indeed are their ways, and the Way of Truth is indeed evil spoken of because of them. Unsaved people see them for what they are, and tragically want nothing to do with the Faith in consequence of what they see; it's only professing Christians who are hooked by the hype!
"Silver and gold have I none" declared the Apostle Peter, as recorded in Acts 3:6.He'd never have had acceptable credentials for getting aired on TBN...
TBN UK = TRUE BLESSING UNKNOWN!
Watching TBN? Do yourself a very big favour: pick up your TV remote and press the 'OFF' button. Then do yourself an even bigger favour:
"Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 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 4:2-4)
TBN? Ray Bevan to a tee...
RAY BEVAN AND TBN It is with deepest regret and considerable distaste that I return here in this post to the subject of Ray Bevan. It is, quite frankly, a singularly unpleasant subject that I'd sooner avoid and have nothing more to do with, but it would be a woeful dereliction of duty if I did so, for this man has to be warned against, and in no uncertain terms, for he is a very seriously deceived and deluded individual who unfortunately enjoys great influence, and on a global scale at that. It is this far-reaching powerful imprint of his which is my personal overriding concern in not leaving this subject alone, and flagging up the all too real issues.
"A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the Church will have clowns entertaining the goats."
(C.H.Spurgeon)
Ray Bevan is a showman. An entertainer. A Christian celebrity. The stage is his natural habitat. He knows how to work a crowd, to have them eating out of his hand. He's been practicing and polishing his act over many years, and he's become an international performer. From South Wales to Scotland, and from South Africa to Singapore, Bevan has topped the bill. Audiences just love him. Go wild for him. But there are some who see the real Bevan behind the part he plays, the grand illusion, and who rue the gut-wrenching fact that instead of quietly retiring from his long-term residency at King's in Newport to his beloved golf links, Bevan has decided that in classic showbiz fashion, "the show must go on!" RAY BEVAN, GOLF FANATIC AND GOAT WHISPERER, HAS NOW EAGERLY THROWN IN HIS LOT WITH TBN, A CHANNEL WHERE HE WILL BE VERY MUCH AT HOME, BEING A MAN WHO CAN ALWAYS BE RELIED UPON TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED... COUNTED THAT IS AMONG THOSE WHO HAVE PAINSTAKINGLY RE-WRITTEN THE BOOK, CAREFULLY RE-CRAFTED CHRISTIANITY, AND PROUDLY PRESENT "ANOTHER JESUS... ANOTHER SPIRIT... ANOTHER GOSPEL." (2 Corinthians 11:4)
IF RAY BEVAN WAS REALLY A TRUE MAN OF GOD, WITH THE MEREST PINCH OF DISCERNMENT IN HIS MAKE-UP, WITH JUST AN OUNCE OF REAL CARE FOR PEOPLE'S SPIRITUAL WELFARE AND WITH THE LIGHTEST SPRINKLING OF CONCERN FOR UPHOLDING UNCOMPROMISING BIBLICAL TRUTH, HE WOULD BE USING HIS INFLUENCE TO STEER FOLK SAFELY AWAY FROM TBN'S SHEEP-FLEECING 'WORD OF FAITH' WOLF-PACK. HE WOULD CERTAINLY NOT BE GLEEFULLY HIMSELF BECOMING PART OF THEIR SELECT TEAM OF SHAMELESS, CASH-GRABBING SCAM MERCHANTS. THE CONCLUSIONS TO BE DRAWN ABOUT JUST WHO AND WHAT RAY BEVAN REALLY IS ARE SADLY ALL TOO INESCAPABLE...
The late Paul Crouch, founder of TBN, with Benny Hinn, who
Ray Bevan hosted at King's Church, Newport, in August, 2013.
RAY BEVAN, THE "WILLIAM WILBERFORCE" OF SPIRITUAL SLAVERY - NOT! Bevan commences filming for TBN this month, and he actually begins September in suitable style with a starring appearance at Restorationist/Dominionist "Apostle" Andrew Owen's Destiny Church in Glasgow. The other headliner at Owen's 'Encounter 2015' extravaganza (3rd. - 5th. Sept.) will be none other than Tommy Tenney, of "Pensacola Outpouring" and "God-Chasers" infamy. (See 'Topics' list on the right for info. on Tenney). Bevan, of course, absolutely delights in sharing the most dubious of platforms with the most questionable of Christianity-contortionists, hoisting his sails high to catch and be "carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive." (Ephesians 4:14) (Source: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/encounter-2015-tickets-17526364829?aff=erellivorg) Consider this quote from Ray Bevan, plugging his book, 'Grace Shouts Louder' which is as bitter an irony as you can get:
"I felt God say to me 'I am sending you out into my Church as an abolitionist.' The greatest area of slavery on earth is in the Church. Christians who love Him and want to serve Him - but do so in chains, particularly the chain of condemnation."
AND JUST WHY ARE THESE WORDS SO IRONICAL? WELL, IT'S BECAUSE BEVAN IS RIGHT ABOUT THE CHURCH BEING ENSLAVED. HE IS RIGHT ABOUT CHRISTIANS BEING IN CHAINS! HE'S ABSOLUTELY CORRECT! BUT BEVAN IS NO ABOLITIONIST OF SPIRITUAL SLAVERY. HE IS NO WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, INTENT ON SMASHING SHACKLES. HE IS ACTUALLY THE DIAMETRIC OPPOSITE OF WHAT HE SAYS HE IS. EMANCIPATION IS SIMPLY NOT WHAT THIS HERESY-HUGGING MAN IS ABOUT...
THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT THE CHURCH TODAY HAS BEEN EVERYWHERE ENSLAVED BY THE VERY MEN WHO BEVAN MAKES HIS GREATEST FRIENDS AND HEROES, THE HEINOUS 'WORD OF FAITH' PROSPERITY PEDDLERS, WHO THROUGH THEIR ABHORRENT FALSE TEACHING AND DOCTRINES OF DEVILS, HAVE MANACLED THE BODY OF CHRIST! RATHER THAN BEING THE GOD-SENT ABOLITIONIST HE CLAIMS TO BE, RAY BEVAN ACTUALLY VERY ACTIVELY AND HAPPILY CUDDLES UP TO AND COLLUDES WITH THE "FAT CAT" SLAVE-MASTERS THEMSELVES, CUTTING HIS OWN SLICE OF THE LUCRATIVE ACTION.
"For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple."
(Romans 16:18)
Ray McCauley of Rhema, South Africa, a Word of Faith
belly-filler and long standing close friend of Ray Bevan.
FIRST MATE BEVAN HAS NOW ENTHUSIASTICALLY ENLISTED TO JOIN THE CREW OF TBN, THE 'TRUE BELIEVER'S NIGHTMARE,' ONE OF THE BIGGEST SLAVE-SHIPS SAILING THE SEVEN SEAS OF SPIRITUAL FALSEHOOD. BON VOYAGE, MR. BEVAN, AND REST EASY AT NIGHT IN YOUR APOSTATE HAMMOCK...
MAY WE ALL JUST TRUST IN THE LORD, AND THE LORD ALONE, FOR OUR TRUE FREEDOM!
"If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed."
"And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not." (2 Peter 2:2-3)
January 5th., 2015 will go down in history as yet another milestone marking the path to abject apostasy in the UK. Why? Because it saw the launch of TBN UK on the Freeview broadcasting platform. Terribly Bad News indeed! Here is the Digital TV Europe announcement:
Religious channel TBN launches on Freeview
January 5, 2015
US-based religious channel Trinity Broadcast Network (TBN) has launched in the UK on the Freeview platform.
TBN, which was previously available in the UK on cable and satellite, will be available on Freeview channel 65, 24 hours a day. TBN will be broadcast from a recently-built studio in West London, airing a mix of religious programming, family-oriented movies, kids programming and religious music shows.
“Something exciting is happening across the United Kingdom. A new generation is taking a deep interest in faith and spirituality, and here at TBN we’re thrilled to help fuel that interest with a network that brings solid Bible teaching, passionate worship, relevant messages, and much more to viewers across the UK,” said TBN vice-president Matthew Crouch, the son of the late TBN founder Paul Crouch Sr.
“As a pioneer in Christian broadcasting my father was responsible for taking faith television to hundreds of millions of people on every inhabited continent. But this is, by far, the biggest broadcast switch that TBN has ever thrown. The Launch of TBN UK on Freeview Channel 65 represents one of the single largest increases of faith television coverage in history,” said Crouch.
OK. THAT'S MR. CROUCH'S TAKE ON IT. THIS IS MINE... TBN is in the very forefront of the Falling Away, the great End-Times apostasy that is totally re-defining the meaning of Christianity, substituting the True Faith with a deadly Satanic counterfeit, presenting "another Jesus... another spirit... another gospel" to those "hundreds of millions of people on every inhabited continent" referenced by Matthew Crouch, who with classic Orwellian double-speak refers to the Channel's "solid Bible teaching!" TBN is undoubtedly one of the greatest promoters of spiritual deception that the world has ever seen; it is unquestionably one of the most diabolical devices ever designed by the Enemy for the purpose of ensnaring the unsuspecting!
Their new London studio, with its round-the-clock UK transmission, demonstrates TBN's determination to dominate religious broadcasting on BOTH sides of the Atlantic. I deliberately use the expression "religious broadcasting" as TBN cannot legitimately be described as a Christian ministry. It is the champion and global pulpit-provider of the pernicious Word of Faith preachers, its heinous "prosperity gospel" message being a total and unashamed misrepresentation of the real Gospel! Truly, with feigned words, they make merchandise of their deceived viewers, and cause the Way of Truth to be ill spoken of! Unfailingly accurate Biblical prophecy is being fulfilled right now through the screens in our own living rooms!
FREEVIEW 'CHANNEL 65?'
LET'S JUST CALL IT 'APOSTASY 24/7!'
"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)
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Here is a short video made originally for my YouTube Channel, featuring a little poem about TBN. (I had an American audience in mind at the time, but regrettably it now applies equally to a British audience... )
