Showing posts with label Theology of Prosperity. Show all posts
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Thursday, June 20, 2019

Prosperity gospel televangelist, who is a Trump spiritual adviser, officially opens Trump’s reelection campaign launch with prayer spiritually destroying the demonic network against the president and saying his 2020 victory assured in the name of Jesus Christ


Prosperity gospel televangelist, who is a Trump spiritual adviser, officially opens Trump’s reelection campaign launch with prayer spiritually destroying the demonic network against the president and saying his 2020 victory assured in the name of Jesus Christ

By Julio Severo
Paula White, one of the most prominent prosperity gospel televangelists in the U.S. and President Donald Trump’s evangelical spiritual adviser, took stage to deliver a powerful prayer at the start of the president’s 2020 reelection campaign launch on June 18, 2019.
Paula White
As the televangelist asked the thousands of Trump supporters gathered in Orlando, Florida to join hands with their neighbors, she attacked the spiritual forces opposing Trump as a “demonic network.”
“I pray for the Spirit of the Lord to rest upon our president, and let Your favor cause his horn, his power to be exalted according to Psalm Chapter 89 verse 17,” White prayed before the packed-out rally. “Father You have raised President Trump up for such a time as this.”
“Now, I need you to really go with me here,” she said to the crowd. “Let every evil veil of deception of the enemy be removed from people’s eyes.”
She also said to Trump’s crowd in Orlando, “I’m gonna deal with some principalities now,” and then she went on to pray from Ephesians 6:12 (NKJV), which says: “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”
She continued her powerful prayer saying, “Let every demonic network that has aligned itself against the purpose, against the calling of President Trump, let it be broken, let it be torn down in the name of Jesus. Let the council of the wicked be spoiled right now.”
The charismatic televangelist has used this language in the past in reference to Trump. While speaking at the White House for the National Day of Prayer last month, she demanded “every demonic network to be scattered right now.”
“I declare that President Trump will overcome every strategy from hell and every strategy of the enemy – every strategy – and he will fulfill his calling and his destiny,” White prayed.
During her almost five-minute impassioned prayer, White prophesied no weapon would be able to be formed against Trump. She also prophesied that it was the will of Jesus that Trump was president and it was His will that he would win again in 2020.
“I deploy the hand of God to work for him,” White prophesied. “In the name of Jesus, I secure his calling, I secure his purpose, I secure his family, and we secure victory in the name which is above every name — the name of Jesus Christ.”
Paula White praying at Trump's inauguration
The prosperity gospel televangelist does not hold any official post in Trump administration, but does lead a White House evangelical advisory council and said the prayer at Trump’s inauguration.
Trump has a lot of support from U.S. conservative evangelicals, but White’s theology is controversial, even among evangelicals, who also disagree with her because they believe that the Bible does not authorize women to lead churches.
Even though Trump was born a Presbyterian and seldom attends a Presbyterian church, he does not understand spiritual issues. Even so, he has been generously open to evangelicals. And he feels in the prayers of White a spiritual power he was not used to see in the Presbyterian church.
Trump and Paula White
Before beginning the prayer, White said that she has known Trump and his family for 18 years. Their friendship began after Trump called her to praise her televised sermons.
Paula White mentions in a commentary for CBN, “the President’s extraordinary commitment to religious liberty has been obvious since the very beginning of his presidency — just two weeks after his inauguration, Donald Trump attended the National Prayer Breakfast where he stressed the importance of preserving and cherishing religious values.”
In May, White stepped down as pastor at City of Destiny megachurch in Apopka, Florida. She said she wants to focus on opening a Christian university and 3,000 churches in the United States.
For some reason, Trump chose White to make the opening prayer of his reelection campaign. It was a very important opportunity, which White did not waste. Her prayer was extraordinarily impacting.
It seems that Trump’s evangelical supporters — including charismatic televangelists, Presbyterians, Baptists and others — are afraid to lose their chance to be heard by Trump if they mention his left-wing stances on the gay issues.
Paula White’s prayer was interesting and powerful. And her prayer, and the prayers of other U.S. evangelical leaders, could be much more interesting by breaking, in the name of Jesus, every demonic network influencing Trump to support the same demonic homosexual cause Obama supported for 8 years.
White could have added to her powerful prayer: “Let every evil veil of deception of the enemy be removed from Trump’s eyes regarding celebration of LGBT ‘Pride’ Month and a global campaign to make sodomy legal around the world.”
Even if you totally disagree with White and how she lives the Bible, there is no way to deny that her prayer was powerful.
God has already given a big victory to Trump for the sake of his evangelical spiritual advisers: He delivered Trump from Steve Bannon, an occult adviser who was trying to use Trump to advance his esoteric fascist movement.
With the powerful prayers of White and others, God can do much more to deliver him from the demonic network of homosexualist forces.
With information from DailyMail, CBN News and Charisma.
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Justin Peters: an American Cessationist Teaching “Apologetics” to Brazilian Pentecostals


Justin Peters: an American Cessationist Teaching “Apologetics” to Brazilian Pentecostals

By Julio Severo
A guest speaker of VINACC (a Brazilian conference of evangelicals), an American evangelical made headlines by blasting preachers of the Prosperity Gospel as “false prophets.”
Justin Peters
Justin Peters gave his apologetics lecture at an Assemblies of God church in Campina Grande, Brazil in February 16, 2015. VINACC held in this church its Second International Apologetics Meeting of Paraiba.
In the event, Peters said, “Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, Joel Osteen, Myles Munroe, Joyce Meyer and others are, all of them, false prophets. What they teach is not the Gospel preached by our Lord Jesus Christ, but a teaching with no Bible basis.”
Yet, his criticism did not stopped at the “false prophets.” He also taught, in the name of Christian apologetics, about the gift of tongues and “how God does not speak to us” through prophecies and revelations.
In the Doctrinal Statement of his website, Peters says “the miraculous gifts of tongues, interpretation of tongues, divine revelation and physical healing” were gifts only to Jesus’ Apostles. He also says that these “gifts are no longer in operation today… and they are, therefore, unnecessary.”
Unnecessary? Power evangelism was an essential and vital component of the ministry of Jesus and his disciples. Supernatural gifts are tools of Jesus for spreading his Gospel. These gifts have been vital for effective evangelism in Brazil, to equip Christians to confront dark forces and deliver people from Satan’s claws.
If they were extremely necessary for Jesus and his disciples, why would they be unnecessary today? Have the dark forces died away?
To treat the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit as “unnecessary” has never been a part of the true Gospel. Cessationism (the heretical doctrine that says the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit ceased 2,000 years ago and that they are no longer available today) has never been a part of the ministry of Jesus and his Apostles.
If Peters taught such “apologetics” in an Assemblies of God church in Brazil, surely he offended many Brazilians! Pentecostals, neo-Pentecostals and charismatics comprise most of Brazilian evangelicals.
I have no hard time with criticism at abuses by Calvinist, Lutheran, Pentecostal and charismatic preachers. But to label Pentecostals as “false prophets” or “heretical preachers” just because the critic’s main motivation is cessationism is hypocrisy. To teach against the Holy Spirit is a heresy.
Justin Peters eventually showed in Brazil that Myles Munroe, Kenneth Copeland and believers in prophecies, tongues and revelations are all headed to Hell. Apparently, the motivation for his opposition to Pentecostalism and the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit for today is his love for his petty human religious doctrines that limit God and his power and actions — disguised as love for “truth.”
This kind of “apologetics” — deserving a fair title of false apologetics — would have caused trouble in the churches of Apostle Paul, who saw a lot of abuse of the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit in the church of Corinth, but his answer was not to ban them or to preach cessationism. His answer was to correct the abuses. Never did he condemn, criticize or lambaste these gifts. Never did he discourage his people from seeking more supernatural gifts.
Unsurprisingly, the false apologetics of Peters caused confusion among Brazilians. And his ministry gave a public report of what happened:
“At the end of his session, to give a preview at the next session Justin spoke about the abuse of tongues and how God does and does not speak to us. Apparently that rattled some cages so to speak. Some folks apparently confronted the organizers and convinced them to require Justin to adjust/modify his message as to not mention tongues and the abuse of tongues, under the premise that speaking on such things would offend many. Of course Justin explained that he cannot, in good conscience and before God, adjust his message or water it down to suit the proclivities of an audience. In reality the only thing which can help folks get out from under false doctrine is not placating, but speaking the truth in love. Justin told them this and they forbad him from speaking the rest of his seminar… shame on the organizers for having so little apparent backbone. Of course I am sure that ardent sheep among the organizers did strive to not allow compromise to happen. Alas it did. This is another reason why we ought not, as believers, to yoke with reprobates. Better to have a small conference holding to the truth than a huge gathering which compromises truth. Those under false doctrine will not bend easily because false doctrine is a spiritual battle.”
“False doctrine”: to believe in the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit for today.
“Speaking the truth in love”: to teach cessationism.
The VINACC public was not upset because Justin preached against Benny Hinn and others. In fact, they were there to hear him attack these preachers. They got upset because he wanted also to attack their personal experiences with God.
There are many Calvinists apologetics experts in Brazil who love cessationism. With the same passion, they love to lambast Pentecostals, charismatics and neo-Pentecostals. At the same time, often they hide their true motivation. At least in this, Peters is more honest than Brazilian Calvinists. In fact, I have an e-book (“Theology of Liberation versus Theology of Prosperity”) exposing their duplicity.
Because Peters is an American and does not know that Brazilian evangelicalism is essentially Pentecostal, he was unable or unwilling to conceal his motivation for blasting Prosperity Theology preachers.
For his human theology, Christians who speak in tongues, hear God’s voice and have spiritual prophecies and revelations are as “false Christians” as all the other preachers condemned by him.
I disagree with Peters’ theology. In my view, his cessationism is a heresy. Yet, I applaud his sincerity and honesty. In this respect, anti-Pentecostal Calvinist critics in Brazil have a lot to learn from him.
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Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Liberation Theology and Neo-Pentecostalism: A Leading Challenge to the Evangelical Churches in Brazil


Liberation Theology and Neo-Pentecostalism: A Leading Challenge to the Evangelical Churches in Brazil

By Julio Severo
Traditionally, major theological trends — good or wicked — came from Europe and America.
The single major theological trend originating outside Europe and America is Liberation Theology, which is prevalent in Latin America, especially Brazil.
In this original and exclusive e-booklet, I trace this movement in Brazil and how its leaders recognized openly that the only force capable of challenging Liberation Theology was neo-Pentecostal churches.
In fact, the Brazilian Left admits today that neo-Pentecostal churches are the only hindrance to the advance of its leftist ideology.
My new e-booklet, “Theology of Liberation versus Theology of Prosperity,” will help you understand the challenges of the Brazilian evangelical churches in their relation to Liberation Theology and neo-Pentecostalism.

Download right now — free of charge — my e-booklet, “Theology of Liberation versus Theology of Prosperity,” using this link: http://bit.ly/1a6brwP
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Source: Julio Severo in English: www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com
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