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1. Hank Hanegraaff’s “Counterfeit Revival” (Nashville, TN: Word Publishing, 2001), xix-20.
2. When Hanegraaff wrote, the “Toronto Movement” of John Arnott, "Pensacola Outpourings" and the “Brownsville Revivals” were still fresh. Claims to gold fillings miraculously appearing in teeth along with spirit-fillings were rife, along with sardonic laughings, dogs barkings, howlings, spasmodic jerkings and more holy rollings of chaotic Pentecostals spun out of control. Charisma magazine, credulous advocate, reported favorably and, occasionally but infrequently, critically. They have a dog in the fight: their own credulity and support, but also funds and advertisements from the Pentecostalists. Time magazine reported that “supplicants sob, shake, roar like lions and strangest of all, laugh uncontrollably. Newsweek’s article was entitled “Giggles from God.” Here’s just one example featuring Kenneth Hagin, plagiarist of Kenyon and liar, and Kenneth Copeland at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SgByE0pX1M Paul Crouch reported that he saw “gold dust all over Benny Hinn” (xxii) and that heaven’s door “opened a crack and a little of the street dust came down on [Hinn].” Hinn was reported to have said and prophesied that Jesus would physically appear on the stage in Nairobi, Kenya. We have seen various youtube citations with Hinn claiming and denying such as possible: more of Hinn's fabrications and contradictions as a false prophet. Hinn too has used "resurrections" from the dead as a $$-raising technique during "TBN Praise-a-thons" (Fleece-a-thons). He even claimed that people would bring their dead relatives in caskets and cause their dead relatives to touch the TV to receive their resurrections. As liars, Brownsville Revivalists reported that they saw 200 resurrections from the dead (with no verifications, as usual). One story was of parents whose child died. They put the child on ice, drove 300 miles to Pensacola to receive the resurrection of their child, only to leave with despair and disillusionment. No one reports on the "back door" of those leaving with disillusionment, despair and unbelief.
3. P.T. Barnum, “Never underestimate the gullibility of the public” and “There’s a sucker born every minute.”
4. Hanegraaff offers this acrostic as the chart of his book: F-L-E-S-H.
(1) F = Fabrications, Fantasies and Frauds. We would add that lying, deceptions, exaggerations, and falsifications characterize Pentecostalism.
(2) L = Lying Signs and Wonders
(3) E = End time Restorationism
(4) S = Slain in the Spirit. We would add that an article will be forthcoming on this hypnotic manipulation, a technique known in magic and other religions, Sufi Muslims and among some Hinduists.
(5) H = Hypnotism
5. Re: F, or fabrications. Leaders in the revivals pepper their sermons with fabrications, fantasies and falsehoods. Many have become disillusioned and left the movement only to disappear in the cracks of history.
6. Re: L, or lies. Lying signs and wonders occurred during the first and second great awakenings. Edwards felt that these signs contributed to the end of the first awakening. These manifestations characterized the second great awakening.
7. Re: E, or end time restorationism. The belief that in the end time, these miracles, super-apostles and manifestations would become normative. Rick Joyner predicts a “Civil War” between those who follow these revivalists and those who believe in reason.
8. Re: S, or being slain in the spirit. John Wimber, like all Pentecostalists, attribute this to being slain in the spirit to the Holy Spirit. It has more in common with Hindu gurus, hucksters and hypnotists.
9. Re: H, or hypnotism.
10. Amongst the other letters in the acrostic, FLESH, we are heavily and mightily impressed by first one: the gross number of fabrications and falsehoods perpetrated by these leaders in the name of God. We intend, God willing, to develop this singular theme more fully. "F" for falsifiers and liars. LYING is characteristic of the movement.
11. Yet, millions watch and send money to these liars.
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