IS IT LIVE OR MEMOREX?
As one who has drunk from various streams flowing into today's mighty river of renewal or revival I understand many still flowing with the recent flood will challenge my point of view.
The primary Charismatic argument is simply this "we have the genuine, and the occult is the counterfeit."
POINT #1 -
To begin with the Kashmir Shavites can rightfully lay claim to having the "original." Kundalini Yoga can trace its roots (and subsequent manifestations) back almost 1,900 years BEFORE Christ. It is very very old. So they are the ones who can claim that the "Toronto Blessing" is the counterfeit or at least owes its manifestations to spontaneous Kundalini Awakenings.
POINT #2 -
For something to be counterfeited there, obviously, must first be an original or genuine article. The manifestations from H. R. Browne/Toronto/Pensacola have NO CONTEXTUAL BIBLICAL SUPPORT. There is no genuine Biblical example of these manifestations, thus there is nothing to counterfeit. These manifestations are at best EXTRA-BIBLICAL and FLESHLY CARNAL displays and at worst are DEMONIC FORCES deceiving God's people.
POINT #3 -
As stated above these charismatic manifestations totally lack Biblical example BUT correspond on a ONE-TO-ONE basis with the occultic demonic manifestations clearly associated with the serpent power of Kundalini Yoga.
Why would any Christian endorse or be willing to participate in something DEVOID of Biblical precedent, yet full of occult similarities?
The ONLY answer is that these sincere
Christians are:
(1) IGNORANT of the true history of these "new" (to
them) manifestations and (2) DECEIVED by angels of light
masquerading as ministers of righteousness
I challenge ANYONE to prove me
wrong in my comparisons.
Benny Hinn "throwing
the anointing over the crowds" is an EXACT parallel to
the actions of the power gurus - with the same resulting
manifestations.
The manifestations at
Toronto & Pensacola are an EXACT parallel to those in people
having the serpent power awakened in them.
In both camps people obtain
these manifestations through the laying on of hands, via
impartation of an anointed individual.
Like the old saying goes "if it walks like a duck and quackes like a duck...its a duck."
These seemingly new manifestations in the Charismatic segment of the Body of Christ are NOT of God. They do not have their origin in the Holy Spirit of God.
From all I have experienced, seen, and studied what I see is a mixture of both FLESH and DEMONS at work in these manifestations. We need to warn the brethren and pray for their deliverance from demonic oppression and deception.