A Deceptive Book and Divisive Interfaith Link
Dear fellow believers,
The Lord has led me to send out awarning about a popular“Christian” book, (this may be my last posting). This book containsdangerous anddeceptive “prophetic” messages. The author claims he received these from histrances,visions, dreams andsupposed visits to heaven. He claim’s the most important messagescame to him from the spirits of people who haddied. He blended allthese into anexciting,beguiling, prophetic story.
He states that God is calling for a“Christian Civil War,” (p. 22), within the “church,” (p. 37).Heencourages his readers to use a new form of spiritual warfare against other Christians to enable prophet ”judges,” (p.128), to gain control of the body of Christ. He predicts thatmany Christians will be harmed by his side’s spiritual warfare against them, “We did wound many of our own brethren,” (p. 129).He predicts that this spiritual civil war will appear as the “meltdown of Christianity itself”, (p. 29).Jesus, however, prayed for unity amongstbelievers not a self centred, divisive, spiritual civil warfought for control of the church, (Jn 17; 21). Jesus said;
“If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand,” (Mk 3; 24, N.K.J.V used throughout).
The authoralso falsely predicts that “the day of the Lord,” (p. 36),will occur when he andthe elite judges gainfull control of the global church. This, however,is how the bible describes that day, “Behold, the day of the Lord comes... To lay the land desolate...The sun will be darkened...And the moon will not cause its light... I will punish the world for its evil... I will make mortal man more rare than fine gold,”(Isaiah 13;9-12). No similarity!
The authorgoes on to state that we cannot trust the first Apostles but should replace their Epistles with his own“new revelations,” (he wants us to abandon 2/3rds of the N/T). The book is entitled “The Final Quest” by Rick Joyner. Itadvocates a new, interfaith, form of church which, Joyner claims, “will begin drawing all men into the Kingdom,” (p. 37).This is a distorted New Age based prediction thatadvances the Interfaith One World Religion.Joyner also encourages Christians to move on into his “superior”level of spiritualitywhich, he claims, looks more like the New Age than anything found in the bible. He states that his ultimate spiritual strategyis to call “eagles”down from heaven to earth to enable his sidetogain control of the body of Christ. Joyner teachesthat these “eagles” are the spirits of saints who have died,“I recognised the eagle as a man whom I had known soon after my conversion,” (p. 65). Thisis spiritualismnot Christianity. Thisshouldn’t be a surprise, though,as two of Joyner’s closestcompanionsopenly claimed to receive ministry from the spirit of the deceased Indian evangelist, Sundar Sigh, and a spirit that looked just like Kathryn Kuhlman.Joyner has just been more covert, cautious and subtle in revealing his full spiritual beliefs via this book. There is no mention in “The Final Quest,”of anyoneever being gifted or led by the Holy Spirit. Instead he predicts that ultimately any Christian who won’t accept being led by thesespirits of the deceased will be cast out of the global church, (see Ch 5 of the study).We would expect anyone receiving from the occult to develop these controlling attitudes.
“The Final Quest” predicts that Joyner’s elite group of prophet“judges”willthen go on togovern the entire world with no mention of Jesus’ Second Coming. Joyner isclearly spiritually confused. I believe that God has shown me that if he doesn’t relent the devil will elevate him to the highest level of leadership within anInterfaith One WorldReligion. This would alsobe a fulfilment of Joyner’sown distorted New Agepredictions. Joynerfails to mention that he had links with the Catholic Order of the Knights of Malta whilst he was writing “The Final Quest,”(Paul Cain is also a member). Joyner now leads this Order over N. America and both men have sworn an oath of allegiance to the Pope. Joyner’s call for a “Christian civil war”may, therefore,also be anti the Reformation. The last three Popes haveled the main global interfaith meetings and claimed that all the religions prayed to the same god. Both the Catholic leadership and Joyner clearly seek an InterfaithOne World Religion.All the quotes used in the full study, (entitled“Decoding Rick Joyner’s The Final Quest,”link), have been put in purple bold type to enable a faster verification of these things.May God bless you all!
S. Dobbs, December 2015.