Discernment Newsletter
“…how is it that ye do not discern this time?” Luke 12:56
Volume 18, Number 3 May/June
2007
The “New Breed”
Jewel Grewe
In researching the subject further there seems to be overwhelming writings that
do indicate that a Children’s Crusade did occur and in Cloyes, France there is
a stain-glassed window that portrays the same. However, the important point is that children are not to be
manipulated and taught what is beyond what a child is to learn. They must be
taught the very basics, line up line – precept upon precept. – and allowed to
be a child. They are not prepared to be “trained” in the spirit realm.
It is disturbing to witness leaders opening up young children to the
“supernatural.” and teaching them to become “prophets”. From the website below, Becky Fischer, the children’s leader of
the controversial Jesus Camp, says:
Easily a third of them involved children ages six and
under. In trying to determine why this was, I came to the conclusion it's
because children are more sensitive to the supernatural world at that age than
any other time in their lives.
Their innocence, openness, and lack of pretense makes them perfect candidates
to interact with heaven regularly and report what they see or hear. They
haven't yet caught on to what's "politically correct" in Christian
circles. Peer pressure to be like everyone else is a few years down the road
yet. So they just honestly report what they are experiencing. However, because
they also naturally have a unique, over active imagination, it's hard for us
and them to determine what's real and what's make-believe, because their
make-believe is so real to them. For this reason, we adults are far too quick
to dismiss almost everything they say as being fantasy. As such I believe we
have missed many true things God was trying to tell us through our smallest
children.
Jesus Camp
A movie entitled “Jesus Camp”
was filmed in 2006. It was the winner
of several awards and called “Riveting,” “Provocative.” “Eye-Opening,”
“Startling,” etc. by some of the largest newspapers in the U.S.A. On January 23, 2007, "Jesus Camp"
was nominated for the 2007 79th Annual Academy Award (Oscar) for Best
Documentary Feature.
As I viewed the movie, there was a choking sensation in my throat. Children dressed in fatigues with swords in
their hands were obviously the “army” that was being raised up. We have been writing and warning about this
Joel’s Army for many years. Now that
children are becoming involved, it takes on a new sense of urgency to again
warn parents to be on guard as never before.
In the film children are being encouraged to go into the “supernatural”
realm and to prophecy.
Yes, growing up in an Assembly of God pastor’s home, I knew about seeking
the Lord at the altar after the Sunday Evening services. Many times I experienced wonderful blessings
from the Lord. But, Jesus
was always the focus of our worship. It
was all about our devotion to Him and a desire to live day by day
to please Him.
What I viewed in this movie was adults manipulating children to become what
Scripture certainly does not teach for children!
There is a
reason we do not send children into battle.
Children need and deserve our protection. One of the things that greatly disturbs me is the current effort
to spread many of the manifestations of the prophetic among children. There are now conferences to teach children
to enter altered states of consciousness such as trances, to prophesy and to
engage in a number of other experiences…
This gentleman goes on to say that he dealt with a
number of children from a Christian school in Kansas City.
One family
spoke of walking into the school and finding children doing “carpet time” in
the middle of the hallway, in trance states and claming to visit the second and
third heaven. Another family had their
son come home and inform them that his class spent most of the day
barking. This same family had a
daughter in the school who told them she went to the second heaven and spoke
with her dead uncle.
(www.signofjonah.wordpress.com)
There are still so many Christians who don’t have
a clue to what is happening. A magazine
ElijahRain Magazine is full of Heavenly “download,” through
various prophets, prophetic people, healing ministries, dream interpreters,
intercessors, worshippers, and artisans of all types – demonstrating what God is saying in this
very hour to all His Creation.
So, in order to understand the “now” Word of God –
you must obtain this magazine. The Word
of God (the Bible) is evidently not sufficient for this day in which we
live. We are to “download” direct from
heaven for today.
In the U.S. we now get God TV through DirecTV.
Yes, you didn’t know God now has a television station all of His own
where you can also “download” His latest revelation. One program after another takes one on a journey of the
supernatural realm. Elijah List Ministries parade their
prophets through this channel. The
grand line-up is there. Now I
understand why I heard some of these “prophets” say that the Apostle Paul would
stand in line to shake their hands. The
Apostle Paul certainly did not prophecy on such a grand level. Would he have flourished on God TV? I wonder if they would have shown the part
where Paul describes his life.
Who shall separate us from the
love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword?
As it is written, For thy sake we
are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Nay, in all these things we are
more than conquerors through him that loved us.
For I am persuaded, that neither
death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things
present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any
other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:
35-39)
The truth of the Word of God is sound – causing
the soul to flourish. We walk on this
earth in flesh as men and women. We
fail and falter, but God in His wisdom gave us Jesus. We learn to walk in His ways and become lights in this dark and
perverse generation.
Ye are the
light of the world. . . Let your light so shine before men, that they may see
your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Matt. 5:14(a), 16.
We are not “supernatural” and are forbidden to go
into that realm. In Christ are hidden
all of the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Don’t let anyone come and deceive you with enticing words. (paraphrased
from Col. 2:3&4). The 18th
verse of the same chapter warns us against going ito the supernatural realm (intruding to those things which he hath nor
seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind). What happens when folk go into this supernatural realm? Verse 19 shows that they lose sight of the
Head – which is Christ – “from which all
the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together,
increaseth with the increase of God”.
Pastors, know what your “sheep” are getting in to
when they start going to other meetings that give them a “spiritual” air. Are they running after “prophets” who will
give them a “fresh Word”? Do you have women in your church who now have
an anointing to be a prophetess qhilw their family is neglected? Are your youth being influenced to set up
Prayer Rooms that are Occultic rather than true to the Gospel of Jesus
Christ? One mother recently wrote:
Not long ago
I ran into Pete Greig's book, "Red Moon Rising", along with 24-7
prayer site, releventmagazine website, and other "Emergent/APOSTATE"
websites on our church's youth choir director's profile. After noticing this on
his site, I completely investigated those sites thoroughly along with the
shocking site connections to other "occult" sites that deceitfully
appeal to youth. My son sometime after my looking into this "profile"
info, came to me to tell me the youth group had created a special "prayer
room" that "freaked him out" because of the darkness and
material within. Of course I investigated this prayer room only to find Pete
Greig material, along with other "Contemplative"
authors.
This 24-7 prayer site with it's boiler rooms universal and it's connection to
"The order of the Mustard Seed" (totally occult) which promotes a vow
to be mailed in, a ring to order, and tattoos etc. is NOT anything of the Lord
Jesus Christ who loved us so much that he died on the cross for our sins to
give us eternal life! It is
OCCULT
Don’t let your young people run here and there
without discernment. What does the
House of Prayer down the street teach?
Are they taking the young people into the “supernatural” realm. It isn’t what you remember as the
Pentecostal church when you were young.
There has been a paradigm shift.
You need to understand that shift and be on the alert.
Some of my greatest memories are of Bible quizzes
and challenges that made me study the Word of God. Also, a Sunday School teacher who debated with the students and
would take an opposing view and we had to find the scriptures to defend our
position.
Many years ago we had the clues that things were
changing. One of the songs that was
sung over and over was “Listen to the
Music.” Yes, indeed – why has the
music changed? On the same GOD TV –
the music programs are called “Extreme Prophetic.” Slowly the music has woven its’ web around the hearts and minds
of the youth. Unless they are being
entertained, they can’t sit in church.
It is a burden to actually sit and listen to a sermon that makes one
think. The seduction has come in
through every door.
Prophetic Connection
The website www.kidsinministry.com is the
official ministry for this group. On
this site there are many “prophecies” by various prophets of the New Apostolic
Reformation as well by what is called the “pee-wee prophets”. This all follows the familiar pattern. The “prophets” speaking the “new word” for
this generation.
This scenario is so grieving. Children who are so easily influenced and
who need to be learning the basics of the Scriptures are being rather taught to
be part of “the New Breed.” On this
website it is called the “Samuel Generation”.
(look under the prophetic teachings of Catherine Brown):
The birthing of the Samuel generation
represents an increase in apostolic/prophetic authority in the church and
speaks of a people willing to lovingly submit to Christ's governmental
authority. This Samuel generation will have impeccable character and be honest
and virtuous and will be a testimony to God's righteousness (1 Samuel 12).
In
1990 we published a newsletter entitled A New Breed. Already then we were seeing the developing of what we are now
witnessing.
A New Breed
The
children are the best of all the generations that have ever been upon the face
of the earth. . . those ELECTED SEEDS that will glorify Christ in the last
days. . . they will move into the things of the supernatural that no one has
ever been in the Bible – they’ll move in it consistently….they themselves will
be that generation that’s raised up to put death itself underneath their feet.
. . a church that has reached the full maturity of the god-man!” (Transcripts, Kansas City Fellowship 1988
interview Bob Jones with Mike Bickle).
In the newsletter, we wrote a newsletter about the
“New Breed” of Apostles and Prophets who were arising to perfect the “New
Breed” of people and usher in the New Order of government on the earth. Seventeen years later, it has been amazing
to see how this strange fire has spread around the world, seemingly
unchecked.
Characteristics of the New Breed Revival
1. Uses the Scriptures deceitfully.
2. Revival of “sorcery” (the magic art of manipulating).
3. Wants to see the walls of Churches and
Denominations crumble and come under the authority, structure and network of the
“New Breed” (which we know now is the Apostolic Network).
4.
Rejects the literal Rapture of the Church.
5.
Rejects sound doctrine as a basis for unity.
6. Teaches
that it is wrong to judge the prophets according to the Word of God.
7. Says
that the Church (corporately) is the literal presence of Christ.
8. Says
“Touch not God’s Anointed” so no matter what is said or how wrong it is, do not
question.
9.
Obsessed with a “New Breed” of people and a political agenda on the
earth.
10. Bent
on turning the youth into a militant people with war-like mentality designed to
take dominion of the world and, if need be – by force.
11. Owes
its character to a group of specific persons who are misinterpreting the Bible,
and like the cults, supple-menting it with their own dreams, visions and mystic
ideas.
The plot has indeed thickened. In 1995 we published a book which is on our
website entitled Strange Fire – The Rise
of Gnosticism in the Church. The
following brings us to the crux of the whole matter. My late husband worked with me on this book and it was published
shortly after his death.
New Breed = The Elite Concept
No
matter how we view Gnosticism, it is always an elitist faith. Each member
esteems himself superior to heaven (no wonder the “Gnostic Christian” shows no
interest in heaven or the personal return of Christ). Only the “elite” (the
subjectively illuminated ones) can achieve godhood.
All
evidence of the writings of the Gnostics leads to an egocentric direction which
is a religious life, with self as the object of its devotion. It is a form of
narcissism with an escape from the real world into a world of myth and fantasy
where no absolutes, parameters or judgments apply. This is why “spiritual
warfare” as promulgated today has such an appeal to many. The imagination is
titillated as the “spirit realm” is unveiled, and excited warriors find they
can do battle with creatures of the netherworld.
The
essence of a “Gnostic” is a life-long journey into self. His (imaginary)
pursuit is perfection, immortality, godhood and an “elite” form of godliness
that sets him apart from the flesh and the world and takes him into the “unknown.”
Elitism. There are certain groups of Christians that fall into
the category of “elitism” notwithstanding their affiliations. They use the same
catch phrases: “Come out of your man-made systems,” “Denominational walls are
breaking down,” and “Christians need to be ‘delivered’ from ‘Spirits of
Religion’ and sound doctrine.” The guilty groups are primarily among the Charismatics.
They go by many names and sometimes no name at all. We spot them by the
teachers that are involved and by similarities in their teachings. There may be
some variations among the different groups; however, the common denominator
that ties them together is the “elitism” concept. This is set out as follows:
God is forming an overcoming company within the body
of Christ called, among other names, “The Manchild Company”, etc. (Revelation
12:5). The Manchild is the true church. Those that are the real Christians are
the Overcomers (Revelation 2 & 3) and are becoming more and more perfected
so that they will be able to drive Satan from the world. This must be done
before Jesus can return. They believe that the church is not ready for the
coming of the Lord. They are not looking for His imminent coming. They believe
that Christ must come TO His Church before He comes FOR His Church.
All do not necessarily use this terminology, but the premises are the
same. The language is becoming increasingly militant as the “Army of God,”
“Gideon’s Army,” or Joel’s Army” take shape. A common thread is that they are
expecting a “New Order”: “In all
revolutions there are noisy and dangerous times as the OLD ORDER is replaced by
the new . . . after the dust settles, we can proceed to build the beautiful
kingdom that the Lord has purposed from the foundations of the world”, says
Vinson Synan, one of the leaders of A.D.2000.” [Fulness, Jan-Feb 1990, Vinson Synan, p. 24]
It all has such a
spiritual sounding ring. One of the modern day prophets, Paul Cain, calls this
elitism the “inner court experience.” He announces joyfully that there is an
empty place on Jesus’ bosom for those who can “enter in”. The problem with this
“elitism” theory is that Christians are to enter into the “inner court” of God,
not by the way of the Cross, through faith, but through a subjective experience
of a “nirvana” experience. A Manifest Son adherent says:
“But the purpose of God reaches from before the
foundation of the world. It plans the transplanting of his sons and his
daughters. It plans the creation of a NEW ORDER (the elite) on the earth and
thus it transplanted celestial children to a physical world. It brought them
forth into being in the bodies of the Adamic race. (Tape recording by William
Swift)
A “prophet” from the Kansas City Fellowship in an interview session in
1988 proclaims that the Lord looked at him and said, “I have called the best of every blood line in earth unto this
generation . . . I have elected to bring them forth in this generation . . .
the ELECT GENERATION.” (Bob Jones transcribed from 1988 tapes)
This “New Breed”
does not believe in the Rapture eschatology. According to Rick Joyner, one of
the “Prophets”: “the doctrine of the Rapture was a great and effective ruse of the
enemy to implant in the Church a retreat mentality . . . already this yoke has
been cast off by the majority in the advancing church, and it will soon be cast
off by all. (The Harvest, Rick
Joyner)
The Scripture, Then shall two be in
the field; the one shall be taken and the other left. (Luke 17:34-36) is
being construed to mean that the imperfect one shall be taken (removed from the
Earth) and the perfect one left. Since the Elite (The Manifest Sons) are being
perfected on Earth, the true Church is to become The Christ – the ongoing
Incarnation of Christ. Therefore, the Church as “The Christ” is empowered to
drive all demons from the Earth, perfect the Church and establish the Elect’s
reign. The emphasis is always on the super spiritual race rather than on the
person, Jesus Christ. One well known teacher summed it up as follows: “It is time to take him (Jesus) off and move
up into the place God has ordained for us.” This
is heresy in its diabolic essence.
The Foremost Danger in Elitism. The foremost danger in these divisive
teachings is that Jesus Christ is removed from His high place as God the Son,
to the level of all the sons of God. The sons of God are moved up to Christ’s
place. The truth of the humanity of Christ is taken to an extreme. This is one
of Satan’s chief ways to discredit and finally destroy God’s Word – to add to
His message by pushing it to the extreme. History shows that the worst danger
in Gnosticism, especially in the concept of elitism, is its inherent propensity
to extremism. Given free reign, it inevitably leads to moral, political and
spiritual extremism. An immediate case in point is its extremist abuse of the
Scriptures. Gnosticism has a notorious reputation for riding roughshod over the
Scriptures then adding and subtracting in pursuit of extreme religious ideals.
Revelation 22:19 clearly reveals what happens to anyone who adds to God’s Word.
And if any man shall take away from the Words of the
book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life,
and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Undermines Evangelism.
The
new Elite doctrine undermines the message of evangelism. Everyone is just where
he is supposed to be – where God wants him at that time. Recruits for the movement
are not obtained from the ranks of the unsaved, but are plucked off one or two
at a time from Christian groups by phrases like “Wouldn’t you like to learn
new, deep truths?”, “Have you entered in?”, “Come into the inner court”, or “Surely,
you want to move on with God?”. These phrases stir spiritual pride and elitism
in most, as well as a sense of inferiority or feeling of being unspiritual if
we do not understand and want to participate. Everyone else seems to
understand, why not us? Spiritual pride comes to those who think they
understand and are part of the “New Thing” because they have these “new deeper
truths” and the rest are just poor babes.
The Restoration Movement has had a profound impact on the Charismatic
movement. With the new call to “unity” with no regard to doctrine, the
influence is flooding all aspects of evangelical Christianity. Restorationism
presents a great challenge to conservative Biblical interpretations and is
successful because it appears to be more “spiritual”. This “spirituality”
actually causes a deterioration, becomes divisive and splits churches. A
spiritual “elitism” is formed. Others who do not get into the same “deep
revelations” of the hidden meanings of Scriptures are left out and made to feel
that they are not “spiritual.”
Elitism Undermines the Word of God.
The
new and yet old elite doctrine that has suddenly burst forth in the church is
in actuality the brain child of New Age Christian Gnostics. Many of them do not
even realize they are Gnostics. At the expense of God’s Word, the Scriptures
are spiritualized to illustrate “The Church” (as they define it) as a special “breed”
of God’s people.
The Bible is perceived as a symbolic book. As a result of symbolic
interpretations, preposterous thoughts and blatant cultish concepts have
emerged. Rejecting the literal sense of the Word allows the Scriptures to be
interpreted and applied indiscriminately. For example, 2 Corinthians 3:6 (The
letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life) is allegorized to mean the
Scriptures is a dead letter without the Spirit. However, that is not what the
Apostle Paul is saying. Paul is making a difference between the Old Covenant
and the New Covenant. The old brought death whereas the new as a life-giving
spirit.
To the mind of the Gnostic, the true meaning of the Scriptures appears
only when they are allegorized or spiritualized. Unless this rule is applied,
the Scriptures remain a dead letter. By this non-literal method of
interpretation, the neo-Gnostics have spiritualized themselves into being “Sons”
equal with Christ and part of the “elite order” in the Church.
Immortality for the Elite.
This teaching is becoming more
widespread as popular circuit “Prophets” proclaim in Kansas City
. . . There is a ministry after the five-fold called
the ministry of perfection – the Melchisedek Priesthood . . . your children
will be moving into the ministries of Perfection . . . coming into that Divine
Nature of Jesus Christ . . . they themselves will be that generation that’s
raised up to put death itself underneath their feet . . . because the Lord
Jesus is worthy to be lifted up by a church that has reached the full maturity
of the GOD-MAN! (Bob Jones, (Kansas
City Fellowship, transcribed from 1988 tape)
Those who are overcomers believe they will never be sick or die, and they
will be here when Christ returns. They believe they are now living in the
prophetic time when the Church is being restored and perfected by the five-fold
ministries (apostles, prophets, etc.). The Elite (Overcomers) are now in the
process of putting on immortality, perfection and godhood and taking dominion
of the earth. The Church is about to birth the Man-child – the Sons of God, the
incarnation of Christ and brotherhood of Christ.
The essence of
this concept is pure Gnosticism and actually accords with the following New Age
thought (Gnosticism):
The real object of man’s life on earth is primarily
his self-improvement and his own ultimate perfection. This perfecting process
depends upon the attainment of unity within himself, a harmonizing between his
physical and spiritual forces; the unity of human with the Divine nature, which
is the essence and, in a spiritual sense, the NEW BIRTH. This perfection, or
unity, becomes a STATE of the Soul, a degree of being, a SENSING and FEELING
rather than a mere belief. This condition or state of being is possible only
through the development of the divine nature of man from WITHIN himself and is
the result of a process by which whatever is evil and unworthy is transmuted,
i.e. changed or SUBLIMATED into the higher or spiritual entity – IT IS A
BECOMING; the change from the purely animal-human to the human-Divine.
The second object of man’s
life on earth is to lead other men VIA the same path so that ultimately all men
shall have developed and brought into manifestation and activity this same
nature and thus will God’s church or universal Brotherhood become an
established fact. (The Sons of God by R.
Swinburne Clymer, Published by The Philosophical Publishing Company [emphasis
theirs])
Secret Coming for the Elite.
The
neo-Gnostic believes the manifestation of the Sons of God comes about in a
secret inner coming of Christ TO some Christians which would transform them
into “Overcomers.” “Christ should visit
the saints . . . and minister His life ‘in secret’ before He is openly
manifest.” (The Feast of Tabernacles, George Warnock, Springfield, MO –
Bill Britton, 1951, pp 108) In doing this they reject the literal Resurrection
and Rapture (the personal coming of Jesus Christ FOR His Church). It is
interesting to note they will acknowledge Christ is coming, but His coming is
off in the future. The emphasis is not on Christ’s soon appearance but on the
great “power” or “new anointing” that is to be manifest in the Church. Again, a
subtle change of emphasis.
An Old Order
Christian. Change is not always
positive. As I write this newsletter
there is chaos on the campus of a university in Virginia. Young students are being killed randomly by
a crazed individual. Students whose
whole lives are ahead of them. Families
are stunned by the tragedy. What is the
only comfort in this hour? The Words of
Jesus, “Lo, I am with you always, even
unto the end of the world.” It is
only by pointing souls to Jesus that there can be hope and comfort. “Prophets” can prophesy until they are blue in the face, but those
words do not compare with the majesty and glory of the Word of God spoken
through His son, Jesus Christ.
God, who at sundry times and
in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Hath in these last days
spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom
also he made the worlds;
Who being the brightness of
his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the
word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the
right hand of the Majesty on high;
Heb. 1:1-4
Yes, I chose to take my place at the foot of the cross. A spirituality that bypasses the cross is
deception. There is no other way other
than building our faith on that which has proven true throughout the
generations. Mans’ methods will come to
naught. When the heavens and earth pass
away – God’s Word will remain.
The hymns of the church are timeless.
This one gives us the assurance and confidence we need as it is based on
absolute truth!
No Other Plea
My faith has found a resting
place, Not in device nor creed;
I trust the Everlasting One, His
wounds for me shall plead.
Enough for me that Jesus saves, This ends my fear and doubt; A sinful soul I come to Him, He’ll never
cast me out.
My heart is leaning on the
word, The Written word of God, Salvation by my Saviour’s Name, Salvation
through His blood.
My great Physician heals the
sick, The lost He came to save: For
me His precious blood He shed, For me His life He gave.
Chorus
I need no other argument, I need no other plea, It is enough
that Jesus died, And that He died for me.
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