Israelites, Pharisees & Sadducees In The 21st Century Church

Knowing that the system worked, and that few people can withstand the onslaught of
hours of such mental pressure, the revival leaders would frequently manipulate the guiltfeelings
of their critics and say: "You cannot justify criticising the revival until you have
personally attended a meeting. Come along and then you'll see."
"I was just wondering how someone could speak of these things negatively without
experiencing them himself. I do believe in what you call "Holy Laughter" because I have
experienced it and do experience it quite often. ... Many people, when they don't
understand something, tend to criticize it, just because they don't understand it with their
mind. Here is something very important. We will never figure out God, or understand His
power shown through signs, wonders and miracles. I would encourage you and many
others to go for yourself and not just base your opinion on what others have said. When
you get into the presence of God and allow the Holy Spirit to move, things happen. We
may not understand them with our mind, but we don't need to." [e-mail in possession of
the author]
This attitude has been taught from the pulpit right from the beginning of the revival. "You
can't know anything is wrong until you experience it". Really? How do we know
spiritualism is wrong? - or adultery? - or heroin?
People do not urge you to taste the fruit because they know you'll get an opportunity to
search the scriptures and test the spirits. No, they want you to get into the revival
atmosphere charged with deceiving spirits so you'll "let it happen". They want you to
come under the pressures of mind-control and "receive"!
I know some fine ministers who started out by writing critical articles against the Toronto
Blessing, were manipulated into attending the meetings, but were caught up,
conditioned, converted to the new paradigm, received the "blessing" and thereafter
became revival addicts just like everyone else!
Alternative Information Discouraged
Members are actively discouraged from relationships outside the church, even
with family members, if they do not approve of what is going on.
The church and its leadership and goals becomes the believer's only point of reference
and anything outside of that doctrine or experience is frowned upon or actively
discouraged. Anything contrary to the "approved" doctrine is viewed as evil and
"negative". Websites, people, books, tapes and anything else that would give an
opposing viewpoint are off limits.
Anyone within the church who dares to offer opposition or to raise a question about
doctrine is publicly castigated and pilloried, and members are commanded to ostracise
them. They then find that backs are turned on them in the street, phone calls stop, and
they are considered outcasts.
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