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Archive for April 30, 2008

Sheep Dip

If you were to track Todd Bentley even further back to 2001, you would find him driving one of his sheep/followers who was in a wheelchair through “a fire tunnel” – something he calls “a sheep dip.” When she came out the other side, she had a brand new eye ball. Remarkably, this amazing miracle never made it into the 2001 Edition of Ripley’s Believe it or Not.

CREATIVE MIRACLES
BY REVIVALIST TODD BENTLEY

PART 1

CREATIVE MIRACLES SPEAK PROPHETICALLY!

[…]Although some people think that God only does miracles overseas, over the years we’ve seen God perform many creative miracles in North American too. At an international healing conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota in October 2001, a woman testified to an incredible instant healing of her blind eye. As a child her eye had been severely damaged when her brother shot it out with a BB gun. The doctor had to reconstruct her eye using silicon and part of a cadaver. I was one of several guest speakers and the miracle took place over several days as she sat in the healing atmosphere. I can’t think of one individual who specifically prayed for this creative miracle. In fact, because this woman was in a wheel chair, I and many others were actually praying that God would raise her up from her wheelchair. Then, at one meeting, she passed through a “fire tunnel” (actually a sheep dip). When she came out the other side, God had recreated her eyeball. When she went to visit the doctor, he was so confounded by the fact that she had a creative miracle in her eye that he called in five other doctors to examine her. They were all totally amazed after concluding that a woman who had her eye reconstructed with a cadaver and silicon could now see with perfect 20/20 vision.[…]

Believe it or not, but read all about it at freshfire.ca, here.

Aside from the fact that real “sheep dips” are extremely toxic to humans and contaminate surrounding soil, perhaps it is time that people start asking Todd Bentley to track down authentic medical records to back up his bizarre claims. Maybe someone should call Oprah so she could include Todd Bentley in her current series of New Age tall tales.


Back Tracking Bentley

Near the end of 2005, Todd Bentley decided to take a sabbatical. He began stepping back into the ministry in May of 2006. (Possible related item of interest: Todd Bentley: Why was he out of ministry for about a year?) Bentley said that as he was praying about taking steps back into ministry, the Lord spoke to him “very clearly about a day of new beginnings and new anointing.”

If you were to track Todd Bentley’s post sabbatical trail of ‘new anointing’ you would have found him at the Living in the Supernatural Conference with Rick Joyner, James Goll & Ryan Wyatt:

“At this conference Todd Bentley ministered publicly for the first time since going on sabbatical. Hear the incredible revelations and deep workings of God Todd shared about as he stepped back into the pulpit at the conclusion of his Sabbatical.”

In October, 2007, you would have found him at the Worship and Warfare Conference where once again he was on the speaker list with Rick Joyner of Morning Fellowship Star Church.

For anyone who doesn’t know who Rick Joyner is or what he teaches, see these:

*The False teachings of Rick Joyner
http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/joyner.html

*Rick Joynerhttp://www.apologeticsindex.org/j08.html

There are some very very strange things going on at Rick Joyner’s Morning Star Ministries. This movement is being called a Holy Spirit “break out,” but it looks more like a kundalini serpent power break out to this sheep. Watch the video clip evidence here:

http://www.morningstarministries.org

http://www.morningstarministries.org/Group/Group.aspx?ID=1000029627

James Goll, author of The Seer, is another one who sees flying angels. He also teaches contemplative practices, like the third phase of contemplative prayer – spiritual ecstasy and spiritual drunkenness, the state of being inebriated in God’s presence. (See: Be Still and Know By Jim W. Goll, Charisma Magazine)

Was it really God who spoke very clearly to Todd Bentley about his new anointing? Can this really be the Holy Spirit? Would God’s anointing truly lead one of His sheep to keep company with wolves in sheeps clothing like James Goll and Rick Joyner?

Listen to Todd Bentley on this podbean.com podcast speak about the electric anointing of the Holy Spirit that he can feel, and the voice of the Holy Spirit telling him about the Florida healing revival.

Is this really the Holy Spirit? Does Todd Bentley even recognize the voice of the Lord? Should the sheep follow in Todd Bently’s tracks? Or should they follow in the foot steps of the real Shepherd?

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me John 10:27