It appears almost inevitable that those who are moving toward higher worship and devotion to Christ will also move toward community—or common-unity—with one another. This quote is from one of the self appointed prophets Rick Joyner, who is seated on high with authority among the New Apostolic Reformation group. Despite their outward sheeps clothing, they are emerging as wolves who are dangerous purveyors of biblical deception. They purport to speak for God and they claim to hold the greatest authority over the direction of the Church in this age of apostasy. These apostles and prophets are the people that the majority of the leaders in the charismatic movement look to for new insights, revelation, and vision for the future of the Church. Mr. Joyner condemns those in the Church who refuse to allow any departure from the Holy Scripture. He believes it is time to lighten up and quit being so serious. Here we are on the verge of the darkest times of human history when there will be trouble worse than there has ever been from the beginning of the world until now, and there will be nothing like it again, and we are advised by this super prophet to abandon sobriety, and its time in Mr. Joyners theology to lighten up? Rick Joyner has suggested from the earlier quote, that unity is a good thing, but unity in error is never good. The importation of rogue and heretical ideas into the Church which would have not been received by the first century believers has now become mainstream, having only a semblance of Biblical basis. It matters little in this present age of apostasy (2 Thessalonians 2:3 ~ Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For the Day will not come until after the Apostasy has come...) that these new age leaders tend to diminish the Word of God for Newer Revelation. This is because other things are used to usurp its place. Melded in between thier script (even though they may drop in a line at times about following the Scriptures, it seems to be only gratuitous against the larger agenda), are the words of leaders, prophecies, experiences, emotional feelings and so on, which will all gradually claim priority to their followers over the Good News that was once and for all delivered to us.. Some of their leaders actually condemn those who would check their teaching against the Bible. If a radical idea is questioned as being unbiblical, the defense is that, God is doing a new thing and, as such, cannot be tested by scripture. The Apostle Shual (Paul) faced this very thing in Corinth in 2 Corinthians 11:5-15. He confronted and reproved men who boasted that they were superior. For the first time Shaul ventures a name for the new evangelists in Corinth, calling them “super-emissaries.” They were self proclaimed spiritual supermen or aristocratic, because they claimed to go beyond Shaul and others in both message and life. This all falls very close to the proverbial tree that the self proclaimed prophet Rick Joyner has fallen from. This man with a spirit that cunningly mixes a message with lots of persuasive Christian terminology, stated that whilst he was in heaven he had a long conversation with the Apostle Paul.” Then this spirit of Saint Paul tells him, “I fell short of all that I was called to do... I did not walk in all that was available to me... I (Saint Paul) fell short of the highest purposes that I could have walked in. This is not the response that Shaul delivered to the former super apostles that he confronted. The weakened version of Joyners interpretation of Shaul (Paul) buttresses Joyner in his belief that his New Revelations are greater than Shauls and the other New Testament Apostles. Joyner believes that he has discovered, and is operating in, a superior form of spirituality to them. This spirit also tells Joyner that we should only use “the gospels” for “teachings as a foundation,” not the other two thirds of the New Testament. This would mean the Book of Acts, and all the Epistles written by the Apostles, right through to the Book of Revelations, Joyner is suggesting that they cannot be trusted for such teachings. Proverbs 16:25 ~ There can be a way which seems right to a person, but at its end are the ways of death. Though the prophetic and apostolic movement is being called new, most people are not aware that this whole movement of super apostles and prophets is not new at all, but only a new window dressings on old errors. Joyner’s concepts are not just repackaged Latter Rain ideas, but have even deeper roots that become subtly persuasive for many, even the elite, whose time has come to not have patience for sound teaching, but cater to their passions and gather around themselves teachers who say whatever their ears itch to hear. In scripture, we are advised to be as those of the church of Berea, who were of nobler character than the ones in Thessalonica; they eagerly welcomed the message, checking the Tanakh every day to see if the things Sha’ul was saying were true.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 14:55:21 +0000