5 i) Introduction: I felt the Lord wanted the main
focus of this Chapter to be on the various spiritual warfare strategies
Joyner was led to engage in during his visions and dreams. He is calling
his followers enact this spiritual warfare against other Christians in
the real world today. These target any Christian who will not accept
his side’s new revelations or the leadership of judges over the
church. The books first dream is all about this “Christian Civil
War”, (p. 22), fought for control of the church. This is not, therefore,
a conflict over the existence of the spiritual gifts. This civil war
is between those who agree with Joyner’s New Age teachings and
those who don’t. What Christian background or denomination a believer
comes from is not the issue. In the first type of warfare Joyner uses
his new revelations as spiritual weapons/arrows. He projects these through
the spiritual realms, towards the Christians who disagree with him, in
a bid to get them to accept these revelations against their will. This
is extremely controlling and no different to the casting of spells to
influence people in witchcraft. This first type of warfare proves ineffective
in converting the other Christians as Joyner had hoped. Joyner then tries
different warfare strategies which also all fail and accidentally wound
the opposing Christians instead, Joyner “We did wound many of our
own brethren,” (p. 129). Joyner’s final strategy involves
him commanding the spirits of deceased saint’s, the great white “eagles,” (p.
67), into the spiritual battle on his side’s behalf. This is an
aggressive form of spiritualism which clearly isn’t scriptural.
Joyner’s New Age based visions have led him into occult spiritual
warfare against other Christians. In these visions the same spirits of
the dead/white eagles also minister great prophetic insights and powerful
spiritual gifts to some of the “dreaded champions,” (p. 56),
on Joyner’s side. In his visions they are then able to emerge as
the victorious prophet judges who then rule the church alongside Joyner.
These judges are involved in judging and removing from the body of Christ
all those Christians who continue to resist Joyner’s side’s
leadership, his new revelations and teachings. This is extremely authoritarian,
controlling and further evidence of the occult at work. Since Joyner
received the first dream in “The Final Quest” in 1995 he
has probably been engaging in these forms of spiritual warfare for the
last seventeen years or more. Although not mentioned in this book Joyner
is also a high ranking official within the Catholic Order of the Knights
of Malta and as such has sworn an oath of loyalty to the Pope. This must
surely influence his interpretation of his dream of a Christian civil
war in the church, (see Ch 11 for more details). I have referred as briefly
as possible to other issues that emerged from this study where these
are important in giving context and a timeline to Joyner’s predictive
and “prophetic” messages.
“But
the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing
to yield, full of mercy and good fruits,” (Jms 3: 17).
5 ii) Joyner’s dream definitely concerns a Christian spiritual
civil war in the church: There is no doubt that the conflict
described by Joyner is a call by him for “Christian
Civil War”,
(p. 22), within the church. Joyner makes this very clear in his
own summary of the first dream,
on pages 36 -38 of his book, stating that “a
great civil war now looms before the church,” (p. 37), and “the
Lord is now preparing a leadership that will be willing to fight a spiritual
civil war,” (p.
37). Joyner also tells us that “non – Christians,” “were
not a part of either of these armies,” (p.31), which reflects
the fact that this dream describes an internal struggle against other
Christians
for
control of the body of Christ. Joyner likens this to the “American
Civil War,” (p. 37), which parallels a vision received by
Bob Jones in 1984. Joyner believes that this war will liberate existing
Christians
from “the
institutions and doctrines that have kept men in spiritual slavery,” (p.
37), so they can then accept his new revelations. Those who read
through the book quickly may not realise that its central theme is a conflict
between Christians because Joyner describes angels on his side and a horde
of demons on the side of the opposing Christians which obscures this.
Since Joyner calls this Christian civil war the “ultimate conflict,” (p.
37), and “the battle of the last days” (p.115), he clearly
believes these visions relate to the end time’s. As he is the major
figure within these dreams he must therefore expect this to take place
within his lifetime. However, it is not Gods will for Christians to focus
on fighting against one another, with spiritual warfare, for control of
the church in the end times, as Joyner claims. These visions and dreams
cannot be from the Lord so Joyner must have opened his heart to occult
counterfeit visions. This would also appear to be reflected in his comment
that we should “open our hearts and minds to realms we do not now
even know exist. This is what Satan is attempting to counterfeit through
the New Age Movement,” (p.127).
"
Now I urge
you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to
the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them,” (Rms
16:17).
5 iii) Joyner’s side in this conflict – the Kansas
City Prophets: After he received the books first dream Joyner claims that, “Months
later I sat pondering this dream. Alarmingly, certain events and conditions
in the church had seemed to parallel just what I had seen when the horde
from hell had begun to march,” (p. 36). In a letter dated Aug 28th
1996, *[i] Joyner also claimed that “this war is already upon us,” which
reflects the fact that the dream concerned the situation in the church
at that time not events in the distant future. The beginning of the dream
therefore describes the situation in the church just prior to 1995, but
from Joyner’s perspective. In the real world, from 1990 onwards,
Joyner’s compatriot prophets within the Kansas City Prophet’s
Movement, most notably Paul Cain, Bob Jones and John Paul Jackson, were
coming under a barrage of criticism from other leaders for their false
teachings, failed predictions and cases of sexual immorality that emerged
amongst them. In 1994, just one year before Joyner had this dream, Bob
Jones had to step down from public ministry after he admitted using his “spiritual
gifts” to manipulate and solicit sexual favours from women in his
congregation. Many other leaders, including those who had previously believed
these “prophets” claims about themselves, expressed consternation
at these things. This parallels Joyner’s statement at the start
of his dream that his side were “greatly outnumbered,” (p.
22), and coming under a barrage of arrows fired by the opposing Christians.
Joyner’s dream describes these as arrows of “Accusation,” “Gossip” “Slander,” and “Faultfinding,” (p.16),
although in reality all the criticisms and points made proved to be completely
justified and not in the least bit slanderous. The opposing leaders quite
rightly called for some form of accountability and attempted to stop the
deceptions and false teachings from these “prophets” leading
others astray. Even these “Kansas Prophets” newly adopted
Apostle, John Wimber, lost confidence in them and said that their prophecies
were “infantile” and “babies are messy and make messes,”*[ii].
Due to the negative connotations that became associated with them Wimber
even had them change the name of their church from “The Kansas City
Fellowship,” to the “Metro Christian Fellowship.” This
is also reflected in the text and Joyner’s claim that “I felt
that we were on the verge of destroying ourselves,” and “soon
a major division had been created within our own camp,” (p. 24).
Joyner would have been powerless to answer these criticisms or defend
these “prophets” since there was no scriptural way of doing
this. This is reflected in his comments about how the situation appeared
to him to be a “one-sided slaughter,” (p. 23), and that he
had a “feeling of helplessness,” (p. 24), about this. Because
Joyner and these other “prophets” believed that their prophecies
and visions superseded scripture they were not, however, open to these
corrections. In his dream those on Joyner’s side are also referred
to as the “dreaded champions” (p. 56), which was a term used
by the Kansas City Prophets about themselves at that time. There can,
therefore, be no doubt that the few warriors on Joyner’s side at
the start of his dream represent the Kansas City Prophets and their followers,
those who Joyner was closely linked to in the real world. This should
not really surprise us. Like Joyner this group of “prophets” sought
after unbiblical mystical revelations which the dream symbolises as them
climbing up the spiritual mountain of new revelation with him.
“Test all things, hold fast what is good. Abstain from every
form of evil,” (1 Thess 5; 21,22).
5 iv) The opposing Christians: The opposing Christians are those who
disagreed with Joyner’s, (and the Kansas City Prophets), new unbiblical
revelations. They are depicted in Joyner’s dreams as part of Satan’s “terrible
horde from hell,” (p. 16). They are even described as being the “vanguard” and “most
powerful,” (p. 16), part of the devils entire end time’s army.
To understand this we must realise that Joyner expected his compatriot
prophets to emerge as the elite leaders and saviours of the church. From
Joyner’s perspective the opposing Christians who led to their demise
were therefore the most powerful adversaries of Gods plans. Joyner views
them as even more dangerous than the most powerful principalities and
powers. The accurate biblical criticisms from these other Christian leaders
would have fallen on deaf ears so far as Joyner was concerned because
he believed that his side’s new revelations superseded scripture.
We saw, in 2008, and the Todd Bentley saga, how Joyner appears to overlook
almost any error or sin of those on his side so long they continue to
adhere to same spiritual agenda’s that he does. The fact that the
Kansas City Prophets were outnumbered at that time is also reflected in
Joyner’s quote that, “there were actually many more Christians
being used by the evil one than there were in the army of the Lord,” (p.
22). Joyner’s occult dream therefore demonises the more bible based
Christians, a repeating theme throughout “The Final Quest,” (see
Chapter 9 of these notes for more details). Joyner even claims that “demons
were urinating and defecating upon the Christians...and they actually
thought the slime was the anointing of the Holy Spirit,” (p.21).
“ bless those who curse you.. pray for those who spitefully use
you” (Matt 5; 44).
5 v) In the dream Joyner gives up communicating verbally with the
opposing Christians: Initially, in the dream, Joyner attempts to
convert the opposing Christian by communicating verbally with them, “I
immediately began yelling to the Christian prisoners,” (p. 22). However,
Joyner soon comes to the conclusion that this “had been a very foolish
mistake,” (p. 22). This was because
instead of receiving his messages the opposing Christians started shooting
at his side with their arrows of “Accusation,” “Gossip” “Slander,” and “Faultfinding,” (p.16),
instead. This again appears to reflect the situation that emerged when Joyner
and the Kansas City prophets tried to defend their new revelations and beliefs
through dialogue with other more bible based Christians. Joyner no longer
attempts to promote his messages to these other Christians in the normal
way in the dream
after this. In the real world this was reflected as Joyner and the other
Kansas City styled prophets effectively went underground with their messages
in the
mid 1990’s in order to avoid further public scrutiny and scriptural
criticism of them. They stopped openly promoting the “Manifest Sons
of God” doctrine,
for example, (which is based on a very basic misunderstanding of Romans 8).
We will see later on in this chapter that Joyner continues to promote this
very
same doctrine today in the “The Final Quest” but in an encoded
form which many of his critics and the Christian public have not noticed.
“
You lust and do not have. You... covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war,” (Jms
4. 2).
5 vi) Intoxicated Christians – calling those in the Toronto
Movement: Behind Joyner’s sides small army at this point in
his dream is a “a
trailing mob...overly happy, as if intoxicated. They were playing games and
singing songs, feasting and roaming about...This reminded me of Woodstock” (p.
23). This sounds like a description of Christians involved with the
Toronto phenomenon, a movement Joyner would have been very aware of since
it started in 1994, just
a year before he had the dream. These Christians also come under an attack
of arrows from the opposing Christians. This was so intense that Joyner claims “the
scene among them was even worse,” (p. 24). In reality there
was even greater concern, criticsm and scriptural debates about the Toronto
phenomena than there
had been about the Kansas City Prophets, (for example concerns about the
way many of these Christians started making animal noises and claimed that
the Holy
Spirit manifesting through them as various animals). The Toronto Airport
Fellowship, where this Movement started, was expelled from the Vineyards
Movement because
they refused to listen to their Apostle, John Wimber, who did not believe
that all of their new spiritual manifestations were of God. Joyner views
these intoxicated
Christians as being on his side from the very start of the civil war although
most were unwilling or unprepared to actually fight in the battle at the
beginning of the dream. In the real world the Kansas City Prophets fellowship
left Wimbers
Vineyards group in sympathy with the Toronto church so they were very close
to the Prophetic Movement that Joyner was a part of from the very beginning.
Those
involved with Toronto are also amongst the most open to new teachings and
new spiritual experiences such as those Joyner is advocating in “The
Final Quest”, whilst often being the least likely to test such things
against scripture. Many today are turning to the very doctrines of the Kansas
City Prophets
that had previously been exposed as unbiblical by other more bible based
leaders in the early 1990’s. Joyner has surely always interpreted these
intoxicated styled Christians as those who belong to the Toronto Movement
symbolised here
as this “trailing mob.” Some of
these Toronto Christians then started “snapping to attention,” (p.
23), as they responded to Joyner’s call, put on armour, formed new
ranks and prepared to engage in this spiritual civil war with Joyner, “no
longer with the mirth of the party but an awesome resolve... forming new
ranks,” (p. 25). As deception and apostasy increase the signs are that
in the real world this could start happening more frequently. More of these
Toronto style believers could then start engaging in spiritual warfare along
with Joyner against the more bible based Christians. Joyner’s occult
prediction could then come to pass, albeit in a distorted form, with the
ranks of deceived warriors on his side swelling and attacking their brothers
in Christ with a witchcraft form of spiritual warfare. Joyner, “I started
to wonder if the next battle would be against our own brothers again,” (p.
129).
“narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life,
and there are few who find it,” (Matt 7; 15).
5 vii) The Warfare engaged in by each side: Whilst Joyner
describes this as a two sided spiritual war it is only his side who actually
use spiritual
warfare against other believers. As mentioned earlier, Joyner seeks to impose
his revelations on other Christians, against their will, by firing them as
arrows through the spiritual realms, something which parallels the casting
of spells in witchcraft. The arrows fired by the opposing Christian’,
on the other hand, are no more than verbal or written criticisms voiced openly,
in the normal way, in public. These are expressed as warnings to other believers
and attempt’s at dialogue about Joyner’s side’s false revelations.
The opposing Christians do not engage in any form of spiritual warfare against
Joyner’s side. We see this reflected in the real world. Criticisms
may hurt as will exposing sin in other ministries, but this is necessary
for the sake of accountability and to prevent deception from spreading throughout
the body of Christ. It is not a form of spiritual warfare as Joyner claims.
Many of Joyner’s side’s false teachings were exposed in public
by other leaders, in the early 1990’s, through their accurate testing
against the bible. It was wrong for Joyner to think that it was appropriate
to then attempt to impose those same New Age revelations on these other Christians
by engaging in spiritual warfare against them. The fact that Joyner was aware
of the harm his spiritual warfare would do makes this quite a serious sin, “We
did wound many of our own brethren,” (p. 129). Joyner appears to believe
that the following image justifies his side targeting these other Christians
in this way and forms the basis of his first warfare strategy, “The
most shocking part of this vision was that this horde was not riding on horses,
but primarily on Christians”, (p.17). Joyner’s first dream is
incredibly divisive and results in a civil war from his side that undermines
our Christian witness in the world.
“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe
in Me... that they all may be one... that the world may believe that You
sent Me,”(Jn 17; 20, 21).
5 viii) Joyner’s first spiritual warfare strategy fails – targeting
the opposing Christians only harms them: Joyner’s side
discover “arrows
that were named after different biblical truths,” (p. 25), as
they climb up ascending levels of new revelation on the spiritual mountain
in
this dream.
Although we are not told what these new revelations are, they double up as
new spiritual weapons which are fired at the horde of hell through the spiritual
realms. Joyner’s hope being that this will cause the opposing Christians
to accept these new revelations. Joyner claims that his side’s first
intention was to use these “arrows of truth” (p.
30), to shoot
the demons from off the backs of the opposing Christians and free them to
believe in Joyner’s
messages that way. However because they “did
not know how to avoid hitting the Christians, “(p. 25), Joyner
and his compatriots decide to directly target the opposing Christians instead
anyway. Joyner writes, “it
occurred to us that if these Christians were hit with Truth they would wake
up and fight
off their oppressors. I fired off a few arrows, as did some of the others,
almost all of them hit Christians,” (p. 25). But why is Joyner
even attempting to engage in such a dangerous practice especially if he is
aware
himself that
he “did not know how to” use these
weapons properly anyway? Joyner’s
first strategy is therefore to deliberately target not the demons but the
opposing Christians. It is not surprising that this fails to get the opposing
Christians
to accept Joyner’s new revelations as he’d hoped. Instead Joyner
states that , “when the arrows of Truth went
into them, they did not wake up, or fall down wounded,- they became enraged,
and the demons riding
on them
became much larger,” (p. 26). So instead of “liberating” the
opposing Christians so they accept Joyner’s new revelations the dream
depicts them even more bound by demons and even more opposed to Joyner’s
side as a result of this warfare. The fact that Joyner would have viewed
these Christians
falling “down wounded,” as a positive
outcome appears to reveal much about his heart; he is not so much concerned
about “liberating” the
opposing Christians for their benefit as he is removing all opposition to
his judge’s ruling the church. This warfare is an attempt to force
others to accept his revelations even when they clearly disagree with these.
This is the
new type spiritual warfare Joyner uses to propagate his revelations after
he decided he was wasting his time trying to communicate them in the normal
way,
verbally. Some Christians refer to this practice as spiritistic prayer, moving
in self will in the spiritual realms in a bid to influence or manipulate
others. It is exactly what unbelievers involved in witchcraft practice when
they cast
their spells, (words), or send their New Age revelations towards others in
a bid to get them to accept these. Joyner’s spiritual warfare equates
to witchcraft, there is no difference. This is white magic/witchcraft when
there
is no intention to harm others and the harm is accidental, however if harm
is deliberately intended, as appears to have been the case here sometimes,
then
that is equivalent to black magic/witchcraft. Practicing either form is an
extremely serious sin that will harm both those targeted and those “Christians” who
practice this form of New Age spiritual warfare.
"
Watch out for false prophets.
They will come to you in sheep’s clothing,
but inwardly they are ferocious wolves,” ( Matt 7; 15).
5 ix) Joyner’s second strategy - targeting the demons also
fails as the opposing Christians continue to be hit and wounded: As the
last strategy didn’t work many on Joyner’s side then attempt
to hit the demons from off these Christians backs instead. However Joyner
reports that, “The
demons easily dodged the arrows and let them hit Christians,” (p. 26).
So this same form of occult spiritual warfare is still being pursued by Joyner’s
side only this time without intentionally harming the opposing Christians.
Nonetheless Joyner’s side are still doing as much harm, “We
did wound many of our own brethren”, (p. 129). This is not only
based in deception by also defies common sense. Clearly you can’t destroy
demons by firing revelations at them, and you can’t force other Christians
to accept your own (unbiblical) teachings against their will this way either.
This only does harm as is usually
the case when unbelievers practice white magic. People have freewill to choose
what they believe. Neither Jesus nor any New Testament Christian ever tried
to spread their message or impose it on others, against their will, in this
way.
Instead even Jesus Christ, (Almighty God), shared his message verbally with
others, something which Joyner gave up doing earlier on in the dream because
no one would
listen or agree with him. If Joyner was being led by the Spirit then how
were these demons able to dodge Joyner’s side’s arrows of revelation
and allow these hit the Christians instead? The Holy Spirit doesn’t
make mistakes like this. Furthermore Joyner claims that when hit with the “arrows
of Truth” this caused more demons to be able to come upon these Christians
so that they then started being “transformed
into the contorted image of the demons themselves,” (p. 26).
These arrows therefore result in the opposing Christians becoming more bound
up by demon’s which is
evidence that both the arrows and this method of warfare are occult in nature.
Joyner and those
on his side are moving, mistakenly, in another spirit altogether, in a New
Age spirit of controlling witchcraft and this is bound to do harm to the
Christians
they target. Furthermore, considering the intensity of the battle, and the
number of arrows being fired by Joyner’s side surely most of the opposing
Christians will eventually take on the image of demons in the dream as a
result of this
warfare? This dream cannot be of God, not any part of it, Joyner has been
deceived into moving in an occult form of warfare.
"
Now the fruit of righteousness
is sown in peace by those who make peace. Where do wars and fights come from
among you? Do they not come from your
desires,” (Jms
3: 18 to 4; 1).
5 x) The use of sorcery to influence other Christians: So,
by way of summary; when the Kansas City Prophets visions were tested by others
against scripture
in the early 1990’s their new revelatory teachings fell into disrepute.
Joyner therefore gave up communicating verbally or openly with others and
instead attempted to promote his new revelations by sending them towards
other Christians
through the spiritual realms, using what was to him a new form of spiritual
warfare instead. However this is exactly the same thing that unbelievers
involved in
the occult already practice. In frustration at his lack of success Joyner
has resorted to sorcery in a bid to influence other Christians. Although
he is
moving in ignorance sin must have somehow found a place in his heart in order
for him
to be willing to harm other members of the body of Christ in this way. Joyner
has also been deceived into moving in line with one of the devils plans to
attack Christians.
"Now the works of the flesh are evident... sorcery... selfish
ambitions... heresies... those who practice such things will not inherit
the kingdom of
God,” (Gal
5; 19 – 21).
5 xi) Alice Baileys strategy to use Christians to promote New Age
forms of spirituality:The well known Lucifarian/Satanist, Alice
Bailey, (1880 – 1949), claimed
that her spirit guide had given her a strategy to remove the influence of
Christianity from society and the world. She taught that first though the
Christian church
should be used to promote the New Age, a term that it is claimed she coined
herself. Her books are very well read amongst those involved in the occult
and many have
been putting her strategy into practice over the last 70 years or so. One
of the ways they do this is to send spells, (words), occult spiritual influences,
and their own New Age “revelations” toward Christians and churches
in a bid to get us to move in line in the same spirit as they do. Those involved
in black magic often do this to deliberately injure Christians and remove
what they see as opposition to the occult. Those involved in white magic/witchcraft,
however, do so in the belief that they are helping us to accept their own
superior
form of spirituality. This is exactly what Joyner practices although he may
not realise this. Joyner believes he is liberating Christians of lower levels
of
revelation to him by sending his new and superior “revelations” upon
the more bible based Christians. By receiving and following deceptive spiritual
influences Joyner has therefore been lined up with the devils plan to infiltrate
the Christian church with occult spiritual influences, a counterfeit anointing,
and towards changing biblical doctrines for New Age ones. This explains Joyner
claims that we should, “open our hearts and minds
to realms we do not now even know exist. This is what Satan is attempting
to counterfeit through the
New Age Movement”. (p.127), “(see Chapter 4 for more information).
Joyner’s appears to be one of the leading figures in the church who
has been deceived in this way. We have to wonder how much extra deception
has gained
access and entered the church as a result of the publication of his visions
and dreams.
“
...the things of which they boast. For such are false apostles, deceitful workers,
transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,” (2 Cor 11; 12, 13).
5 xii) Joyner’s s third spiritual warfare strategy fails – Joyner
continues with the same damaging and failed warfare: Next, in the
dream, an angel named Wisdom directs Joyner to climb higher up the spiritual
mountain to new
levels of revelation. The new weapons he finds become ever more powerful
the higher up he climbs. Joyner fires these new revelations as new spiritual
weapons/arrows
of truth from these higher vantage points. Joyner claims that he also becomes “more
skilful with my weapons,” (p. 27), so that he was then able
to “shoot
and hit the demons without hitting the Christians,” (p. 27).
Nevertheless this still all fails to convert the opposing Christians to Joyner’s
views and instead only “enraged,” (p. 29),
them further. In the dream Joyner is simply firing different revelations
but repeating exactly the same failed
spiritual warfare practice as before. There is not any mention of Joyner
even attempting to be led by the Spirit in any of this warfare.
“You lust and do not have. You... covet and cannot obtain. You fight
and war,” (Jms 4. 2).
5 xiii) A level on the mountain called “The Unity of the Brethren” -
leads to even greater disunity instead: Joyner then reaches a level
of the mountain called “The Unity of the Brethren,” (p.
27). However the new revelation
arrows Joyner fires from here have the following effect on the opposing Christians, “Some
became so enraged that they were now shooting at each other,” (p. 29).
Joyner writes “I knew that to the world this
was appearing as an incomprehensible meltdown of Christianity itself,” (p.29).
So instead of the promise of unity the warfare from Joyner’s side on
this level leads to the exact opposite, to even greater disunity, and the
virtual collapse of the church. This is extremely
serious and is another sign of bad fruit. This is the exact opposite of what
Jesus prayed for, “that they all may be one... that the world may believe
that You sent Me,” (Jn 17; 20, 21). This is the type of effect one
would expect to see when white magic is being practiced against Christians.
When such
spells are released these can often backfire and produce the exact effect
to that expected. It is probably that this warfare would release demonic
spirits
which minister division and grievances to others even though the arrows Joyner
fires may be called “the unity of the brethren.” This is just
a continuation of the failed and harmful demonic warfare that Joyner perseveres
with.
“ Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility
and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly
puffed up by his fleshly mind,” (Colossians 2:17-19).
5 xiv) Joyner’s warfare linked to the influence of fallen angels: As he climbs
still higher up the mountain Joyner then accesses “unlimited
arrows with the name Hope written on them.” (p.
30). Angels show Joyner how to use these even more powerful revelations
as weapons. With these Joyner’s side are then able to shoot the demonic
vultures out of the sky that had been causing a “cloud
of depression” over the
mountain which had been making the previous “arrows
of truth” “less
effective,” (p. 30). Eventually “the
sky over the mountain was almost completely rid of the vultures,” (p.
30). Then the light and glory from
three angels named “Faith, Hope and Love,” (p.
31), is able to shine
and “Their glory even radiated into the camp
of the prisoners,” (p.
31). However instead of the Christians who oppose Joyner, (the prisoners),
now understanding and accepting these angels as he expected, they “started
calling them “angels of light” who were sent to deceive,” (p.
31), (in the real world the term “fallen angels” is more
likely to be used). So Joyner’s warfare is still not producing the
fruit he desires even though he now claims that the demonic vultures are
being defeated and great
angels are manifesting near him and radiating their light on his cause. In
reality it is overwhelmingly likely that these really will be fallen angels
as the opposing
Christians in the dream declared, and that Joyner is simply deluded into
thinking his warfare is improving the spiritual atmosphere. I am convince
myself that
soon a great flood of fallen angels are going to start manifesting to Christians
as angels of light across the church of the western world, sent in order
to deceive as we head deeper into the end times. To those who are deceived
though it will
appear in hindsight as if “The Final Quest” has accurately predicted
these things in advance which will also buttress Joyner and his followers
confidence in the other deceptions the book contains.
“
they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for
this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the
lie,” (2 Thess 2; 10).
5 xv) Joyner is empowered by fallen angels: It is now April 2012 as I write and a season of extreme deception
could be upon us very soon. There are already increasing numbers of ministries
online
that report strange experiences involving the appearance of angels that sound
different to those described in the bible, angels that appear self centred
and self glorifying in their behaviour, not God centred, more like those
Joyner describes.
I would therefore expect this part of Joyner’s dream to correlate with
the coming season in the real world, possible the end of 2012 to 2014, (link
to an associated article). We also see, in Chapter 7, that Joyner is
calling us back to the message and ministry of William Branham, a minister
who could
not operate without an angel (or fallen angel?) by his side as opposed to
trusting in God alone and moving directly in the power of the Holy Spirit.
In the coming
season we could therefore start to see this heresy of relying on angels instead
of God spreading to others within the church, particularly in the western
world. In his dream Joyner claims that these angels “touched
my sword, great bolts of lightning began flashing from it,” and
the angel he calls “Love
then said, “Those who reach this level are entrusted with the powers
of the age to come,”” (p. 30). I think it very likely,
therefore, this prediction will coincide with fallen angels anointing with
occult power
those
Christians who move in deception as they put their trust in these (fallen)
angels, believing they are angels from God. This is something which is likely
to lead
to a counterfeit healing revival based on New Age power sent to lead ordinary
Christians into accepting false ministers and their deceptive teachings.
Those Christians healed by fallen angels or occult power during this time
are likely
to have any demonic oppressions or illnesses temporarily put on hold by the
devil, with these illnesses returning later on once their testimonies of
healing have
been utilised to promote a false, New Age , occult healing move and counterfeit
revival within the church.
"
The coming of the lawless one is according to
the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with
all unrighteous deception among
those
who perish, ” (2 Thess 2; 9, 10).
5 xvi) Unbelievers agree with Joyner – evidence of Unitarian
Universalism and the Interfaith Movement? At this point in the dream
the light from these three angels, (fallen angels), results in unbelievers
joining Joyner’s
side whilst this still fails to convert the opposing Christians to his views.
Concerning these angels Joyner claim’s “the
non – Christians,
saw their glory and... started to come closer to the mountain....also started
to understand what the battle had been all about. This was a great encouragement,” (p.
31). There is no mention of the gospel being preached to these unbelievers
though or of them converting to a biblical form of faith. This suggests to
me that this
new angelic light that parallels Joyner’s new revelations must both
contain an interfaith message that is acceptable to unbelievers but not the
bible based
Christians who continued to oppose Joyner. This would explain why Joyner
claims that when these three angels “begin to
be seen” this “will
begin drawing all men into the kingdom,” (p. 37), which is surely
a reflection of Universalists beliefs? A Unitarian denomination exists but
many Universalists
frequent ordinary Christian churches. Some believe that Christ died on the
cross for their own salvation but also believe that people from other religions
can
get forgiven too without faith in Christ. Universalism parallels the New
Age belief that there are many ways to God and this lies at the core of the
Interfaith
Movement. The devil and deceived New Agers plan to use the Interfaith Movement
to bring all religions into agreement as one as part of Alice Baileys occult
strategy for a New World Order. If Joyner has Universalists beliefs this
would also explain he claims that “salvation” (p.
26), is one of the lowest
levels of revelation on the mountain, one that we should move beyond on to
higher revelations. Also why Joyner claims that we should “open
our own hearts and minds to realms we do not now even know exist. This is
what Satan is attempting
to counterfeit through the New Age Movement,” (p.127).
“
Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads
to destruction, and there are many who go in by it,” (Matt 7; 13).
5 xvii) Further evidence of Universalist beliefs: If Joyner
does secretly hold to Universalist beliefs this would also explain why he
believes that St Paul,
(and
the other early apostles) “fell short of the
highest purposes” (p132),
that they were called by God to walk in and teach, purposes that Joyner believes
he has obtained himself, (see Chapter 4). The more one studies “The
Final Quest” in detail the more likely it appears that Universalism
is one of the main reasons why Joyner believes a Civil War in the church
is necessary and
the existing leadership need to be replaced. The activity of fallen angels
is likely empower deceived Universalist “Christians” so they
can gain the upper hand during a time of apostasy within the church of the
western world.
If the judges who believe in Universalism become the most influential then
anyone, from any religion, could be incorporated within a pseudo New Age “Christian” organisation
led by them with New Age Interfaith doctrines at its heart. This appears
to me to be what Joyner’s aim of getting other Christians to start
climbing the spiritual mountain of new revelations with him is really all
about.
“ But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you
than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed,” (Gal 1; 8).
5 xviii) Joyner’s fourth spiritual warfare strategy – limited
success accompanied by authoritarianism: After Joyner’s side
have shot down most of the vulture that fly above both the “horde from
hell” and the
mountain then for the first time in the dream some of the opposing Christian, “the
prisoners,” start coming over to Joyner’s side as they “began
to wake up as if they had been in a deep sleep,” implying that they
start to accept Joyner’s new revelations and beliefs. Joyner continues, “They
were immediately repulsed by their condition, especially by the vomit that
still covered them, and started to clean themselves up” (p. 31),
as “they
also saw the mountain and ran towards it,” (p. 32). This is
the first time Joyner’s warfare has had any success in converting many
of the opposing Christians. Surely the Lord, however, is not likely to lead
people in a way that
would cause them to feel “repulsed” at
themselves especially not as these were already believing Christians beforehand
anyway? These Christians,
who had formerly opposed Joyner, are then said to have “begged
to be allowed to go back and attack the enemy who had held them captive” (p.
32). Joyner
and some others then decide that they should not and so do not allow them
to do this. From this it is clear that Joyner expects those who move over
to his
side in the war to submit to a very authoritarian form of leadership. They
have to obey Joyner’s decisions for them and are not free to be led
by the Spirit in these things. We saw the same thing earlier on when the
Intoxicated, (Toronto),
Christians who chose to join Joyner’s army were described as “snapping
to attention,” (p. 23), at Joyner’s trumpet call. We see
something similar once again when Joyner visits heaven, “This
really is heaven I blurted out…Immediately the entire host of heaven
seemed to stand at attention, and I knew that I was the centre of their attention,” (p.110).
Everyone in these visions therefore who ends up coming over to Joyner’s
side, even the spirits of the dead as we will see later, comes under an extremely
authoritarian
influence emanating from Joyner. This is also bad fruit and evidence of a
witchcraft spirit being present.
“
For Satan...Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves
into ministers of righteousness,” (2 Cor 11; 14 -15).
5 xix) A spirit of control: Derek Prince identified a controlling
and manipulative influence, especially amongst leaders, as evidence of a
witchcraft spirit being
present. This was contained in his teaching “Witchcraft in the church” which
can be obtained in written or tape versions online. We know already, from
the Sheppard’s rod issue in the real world , that there have been many
allegations about Kansas styled “prophets” from the prophetic
movement that Joyner is a part of, of misusing their spiritual “gifts” and
leadership positions to manipulate and control people, Joyner’s companion “prophet” Bob
Jones being perhaps the prime example o f this. The Vineyards Movement was
reported to have been inundated with this type of thing during the few years
that Wimber
allowed the Kansas prophets free reign there before they fell into disgrace.
In some of those fellowships some of these so called “prophets” had
the congregations, even the pastors there too, pass under their Sheppard’s
Rod so that the prophet could judge whether each member of that church had
produced enough fruit of the Spirit that year or not. Joyner still refers
to the “Sheppard’s
Rod” in his interviews and articles today and so this form of authoritarianism
appears to be yet another aspect of the Kansas City Prophets beliefs that
Joyner is still waiting to re introduce to the church once the time is right.
We can
therefore expect an authoritarian form of leadership to emerge around Joyner
once he starts to gaining even greater influence in the church. This is also
bad fruit especially as throughout the dream Joyner has been promising “liberty,” the
exact opposite instead.
“
the kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them... But not so among you,” (Luke
22; 25, 26).
5 xx)The fifth spiritual warfare strategy fails – the dream
now demonises all Christians who don’t agree with Joyner: Although
Joyner had just had success in converting some of the opposing Christians
to his
side for the first
time, for a short season, things then quickly return to the previous pattern
of failed spiritual warfare strategies again. Despite now having the most
effective arrows to fire, and having even more skill to do so, Joyner
records that “Even
so, after these Christians had the demons shot off them, few would come to
the mountain, ” (p. 33). In the dream Joyner also sees that
by this time, “Many
had taken on the nature of the demons and continued in their delusions without
them,” (p. 33). As many of these Christians now appear as demons
it is likely that Joyner may return to his first strategy of directly targeting
the opposing Christians again at this point.
"
We know that we have passed
from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his
brother abides in death,” (1 Jn 3; 14).
.
5 xxi) Joyner’s sixth spiritual warfare strategy fails – serpents
and another gospel? As the darkness dissipates further Joyner is
then able to see that the opposing Christians “legs
were bound by serpents,” (p.
33), “the serpents I saw were all the
same kind, and had the name Shame written on them,” (p. 34).” More
failed spiritual warfare strategies then ensue from Joyner’s side; “We
shot arrows of Truth at the serpents, but they had little effect. We then
tried the arrows of Hope, but without results,” (p.
34). It would appear that Joyner believes that this “Shame” is
associated with one of the “doctrines that have
kept men in spiritual slavery,” (p.
37), and this is probably something that most ordinary bible based
hristians believe in today. Although I can’t prove this part from the
text I believe that this “Shame” probably
represents the doctrine of “original sin,” the biblical belief
that everyone is born in sin and cannot therefore live within Gods Holy presence
without faith in Christ’s sacrifice for their sins. This seems to
me to be supported by Joyner’s earlier statements that
the opposing Christians “thought that the vomit
of Condemnation was truth from God,” (p. 20).The doctrine of “original
sin,” means that it
is impossible to be made right with God through living a good life, by engaging
in good works, or faithfully following other religions as Universalists would
have us believe. If Joyner is indeed a Universalist himself, as appears to
be the case, then we would expect him to view this as one of the doctrines
that he would be most keen to see removed from the church. This
is also one of
the main doctrines that the devil will seek to undermine with deception in
the end times. Once a Christian abandons this doctrine they will have moved
very
close to apostasy and the idea that anyone from any religion dwell in God’s
presence or be made right with Him through good works or self effort.
“
For a time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine…they will
heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the
truth, and be turned aside to fables,” (2 Tim 4: 3, 4
5 xxii) The seventh strategy fails – releasing the Great
White Eagles/the spirits of the dead: This strategy differs
in nature to all the previous ones. At first it looks as if it will be
successful but it turns
out to be the biggest
failure of all of the spiritual warfare used in the attempts to convert
the opposing Christians. At the very top of the mountain of new revelations
Joyner
sees “pure
white eagles,” (p. 35), perched in the branches of the “Tree
of Life,” (p.
34). It is important to note that these white eagles are not angels,
Joyner makes a clear distinction, instead they are the spirits of the deceased,
of people who have died. Joyner is told “They
will do your bidding,” (p. 35).
He then receives authority to command these great white eagles to fight
in the spiritual battle against the “horde of hell” on his
side’s
behalf. Joyner writes, “These eagles filled
the sky... I could hear the sounds of terror from the enemy camp at the
sight of the eagles ascending,” (p.
35), “most of the enemy horde that was
left was furiously attacking the great white eagles. The eagles were easily
prevailing,” (p. 47). These
eagles “devour the shame,” (p. 35),
which Joyner believes was preventing the opposing Christians from converting
to his side in the war. Later one eagle
tells Joyner, “We have just come from a feast,
devouring the serpents of Shame who have bound many of your brothers and
sisters. They will be here soon,” (p.
60). This at first seems as though these eagles will succeed where
all Joyners previous warfare has so far failed. As these eagles appear
to have the power and ability
to finally turn the opposing Christians away from what Joyner describes
as the “Shame” and
the “doctrines that have kept men in spiritual
slavery,” (p.37),
so that they will then move across to Joyner’s side in the civil
war. However Joyner
reveals that these eagles have the opposite effect and most
of his followers leave his side in the civil war and join the horded
from hell
instead. : Joyner reports, “I then started
to look up to see how many warriors were still on the mountain. I was shocked
to see how few there were,” (p.
55).
“Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you were
taught, whether by word or our epistle,” (2 Thess 2; 15).
5 xxiii) Many leave Joyner’s side once he reveals his belief
in calling upon the dead/spiritualism: In the real world once
Joyner has revealed his beliefs more fully and starts calling upon the
spirits of
the dead, many Christians will then realise they had been deceived in accepting
his ministry up until that time. I believe that some will then return to
a more scriptural basis but that many others will fall away from the faith
completely at this point due to confusion and discouragement. Joyner describes
the Christians who leave his side in the following way “shields and
swords; they cast them down... They started taking off their armour, saying
it was not needed... Just a few demons of delusion, who were all small
and seemingly weak, led away this once great army of glorious warriors.
They were taken to different prison camps, each named after a different
doctrine of demons. I was astounded at how this great company of the righteous
had been so easily defeated... How could those who were so strong, who
have been all the way to the top of the mountain, who have seen the Lord
as they have, be so vulnerable?”” Joyner says this was “a
major defeat,” (p. 54). Joyner believes it is only those who trust
in the spirits of the dead, (these great white eagles), who can remain
on the path he is on. One of these eagles says “we can only help
those who believe in us”, (p. 59), so it only those “Christians” who
believe and move in spiritualism who will remain on Joyner’s side.
We can expect a polarisation at this point with fewer genuine Christians
continuing to be taken in by Joyner’s deceptions whilst Joyner emerges
as a leader over an increasing number of unbelievers and former “ex
-Christians” within the interfaith movement.
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks
about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour,” (1 Pt 5;
8).
5 xxiv) Identifying what the great white eagles are, proof
that Joyner is advocating spiritualism: In order to understand
exactly what Joyner will propose to the Christians public when he is at
the height
of his popularity
we need to discover what exactly these great white eagles are. Once again
whilst this is not obvious to the casual reader this is revealed in the
text if one
has the time to study it carefully. Many readers will assume these eagles
are angels but this is not the case. One of these eagles tells Joyner “I
was one of the soldiers you so quickly passed on your way up the mountain,” (p.
65). Joyner, “it was then that I recognised
the eagle as a man whom I had known soon after my conversion,” (p.
65). This man tells Joyner “I
got to the top before you,” (p. 65). So these eagles are people
who have reached the top level of revelation on the mountain before Joyner.
We know that
Joyner was converted twenty three years prior to receiving this dream in
1995 as he claims elsewhere “I became a Christians
in 1972,” (p. 9).
It is therefore likely that the man he mentions above has since died and
these eagles
are the spirits of the deceased. There is overwhelming evidence that this
is the case. Neither Joyner nor any of the other “dreaded champions” with
him are transformed into eagles when they reach the top of this mountain
whilst they are still alive. These eagles also have wings and fly into
battle unlike
all the other warriors on Joyner’s side. They operate almost exactly
like angels but as we have seen are people not angels. One eagle claims “we
can only help those who believe in us”, (p. 59), which suggests
they are not physically present as the others who fight on Joyner’s
side are. They initially arrive as a cloud from the air “I
saw great white cloud approaching... soon it filled the atmosphere,” (p.
58), “These eagles filled the
sky with a blinding glory,” (P. 35). Joyner finds them “awaiting
instruction,” (p.35), perched in the Tree of Life on the top
of the mountain apparently unable to do anything without him first directing
them. They do not
enter the battle until after Joyner arrives at the top of the mountain.
Joyner has authority over them, not the other way around, even though they
had ascended
to the highest levels of revelation on the mountain before him. These eagles
also have advanced prophetic gifts and one eagle tells Joyner “I
am here to awaken these gifts in you,” (p. 59), as if it were
a ministering spirit not a person present physically. The eagles also have
the ability to create the
breeze of the Spirit by flapping their wings which heals the sick, “the
eagle opened his wings and began to gently flap them, stirring up a cool
refreshing breeze that flowed over the wounded,” (p. 60),
which also suggests they are ministering spirits. We can say with much
confidence therefore that these
great white eagles are ministering spirits, the spirits of people who have
ascended up the mountain in the past but have since died, both men and
women “brother
and sister eagles,” (p. 67). So in the dream these eagles
are the spirits of the dead who have returned from heaven to earth to assists
Joyner’s
side. This should not surprise us since Joyner already believes he receives
ministry from the spirits of deceased people when he ascends to heaven.
In reality both
cases will be deceptive though and these eagles will be demons, or fallen
angels, that imitate the deceased returning to earth just as happens amongst
unbelievers
involved in spiritualism and the occult. Calling upon the dead in this
way for spiritual help is an aggressive form of spiritualism.
“do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they
are of God,”( 1 Jn 4:1).
5 xxv) Who exactly are these great white eagles pertaining
to be – the
deceased healing revivalists of the last century: These Eagles
tell Joyner “we
can only help those who believe in us, only
those who receive us as who we are”, (p. 59).
Joyner keeps the interpretation of this to himself and doesn’t
openly reveal it in “The Final Quest,” but there are enough
signs and clues in the text for us to be able to decode this with
near certainty. One of
the main ministries of these great white eagle spirits in Joyner’s
visions is to heal the wounded warriors on Joyner’s side; one eagle
tells Joyner, “I
must help those who are wounded,” (p. 67), so they are likely
to be the spirits of the deceased who were once involved in healing. This
matches Joyner’s
reference to another dream he had in 2008 regarding which he states, quote: “I
shared about the dream I had been given--that if we would honor the fathers,
the Lord would release revival in America within six months. In this dream
I was shown that the evangelists from the great Healing Revival
of the 1940s and
1950s were the ones that we needed to honor. As an attempt
to do this, we hosted an Honoring the Fathers Conference.”*
[iii] Joyner
also misuses the scripture Mal 4; 6, to direct Christians to look to these
same deceased healing evangelists as our spiritual forefathers and to honour
them
in order to obtain Gods favour and a healing revival in our day. Other
prominent ministries linked to Joyner’s are preaching exactly the
same message. They also seek blessings from the spirits of deceased healing
revivalists of the last century and see this as the key to receiving their
healing anointing and revival in our day. Joyner’s great white eagles
are therefore surely the spirits of the deceased healing revivalists that
he calls us to honour. From Joyner’s twisted deceptive view point
this makes sense. Having already opened to various forms of spiritualism
Joyner seeks the spirits of these deceased healing revivalists to return
to earth to help heal today. Furthermore many, (although not all), of the
well known healing ministers from around that period went off the rails
into deception when they attempted to operate in teaching ministries, something
they do not appear to have been called to or gifted in. Those that did
therefore fell into some of the same deceptions that Joyner believes he
has discovered as he climbed up the mountain of new revelations in his
dream. Joyner claims that the white eagles had also ascended this same
mountain before him in their day. This cannot all be a coincidence, the
evidence really is overwhelming. Furthermore several of the healing ministries
that moved on into deceptive teachings, for e.g. John. G. Lake and Sundar
Singh, also taught that Christians could return to earth as angels after
they had died. This mirrors Joyner’s belief in the great white eagles
returning to earth. We also discovered in Ch 7 that as a child, before
he found faith, Joyner had also read and received the teachings of William
Branham. Branham was one of the prominent healing revivalists of the 1940’s
and 50’s, the period Joyner alludes to and was probably the most
deceived minister of modern times. Branham ‘s followers believe that
he was the angel to the last days church and that he will soon return to
earth as an angelic messenger. This all parallels Joyner’s belief
in the great white eagles returning to earth. The emphasis Joyner puts
on recovering the, (deceptive), messages of William Branham suggests that
he believes that Branham will be the leading white eagle to return to earth
from heaven. This would match the conclusion in Chapter 7 of these notes
that suggested that Joyner is a Branhamite himself. It appears that Joyner
has just extended that belief to include the return of other healing revivalists
as angelic like beings along with Branham. As we have seen Joyner puts
great emphasis on us honouring these deceased healing ministries each year.
This appears to be the first step towards him introducing the Christian
public to his practice of calling upon them for spiritual help. We saw
in the last section that these eagles are definitely the spirits of the
dead, Joyner must surely believe that they are the spirits of the deceased
healing revivalists, particularly those who ministered in Branham’s
day, in the 1940’s and 50’s. Joyner’s message concerning
this would be quickly recognised by other Branhamite’s who read ”The
Final Quest” without being noticed and arousing biblical criticism
from other leaders again as happened to the Kansas City prophets in the
early 1990’s. At the same time many of Joyner’s ordinary Christian
readership would be unaware of these things. They would be gradually introduced
to these deceptions in stages until such a time as Joyner was confident
and secure enough in his popularity to teach about these things more fully
and openly.
“Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for
in so doing you will save both yourself and those who hear you,” (1
Tim 4; 16).
5 xxvi) Further evidence of this in the Christian world today: Joyner’s
close companions Bob Jones and Todd Bentley both already call upon deceased
revivalist Sundar Singh and claim that his spirit returns to earth from
heaven to minister
to them. Whilst he was alive Singh taught that saints could return to earth
as angels himself which is very similar to Joyner’s belief in the
great white eagles returning. Jones and Bentley also claim to receive ministry
from an angel
named Emma, Bentley wrote, “Bob...told me that Emma ...was the angel
that helped birth and start the whole prophetic movement in Kansas City
in the 1980’s...she
floated a couple of inches off the floor. It was almost like Kathryn Kuhlman
in those old videos”.*[iv] This
angel, (fallen angel), therefore imitates the appearance of Kathryn Kuhlman
who was a well known healing evangelist of the era Joyner refers to. Joyner
has a
great deal of influence with both Jones and Bentley but has never spoken
against this practice of theirs which suggests that he is agreement with
this. Joyner
must surely be calling upon these great white eagles, (past healing revivalists)
himself since he had his dream directing him towards this back in 1995.The
deceased healing minister, John G. Lake, also claimed that Christians could
return to
earth as angels after they died. There are some other very influential
ministries emerging online today that are influenced by Lakes teachings
and are also
preparing to honour the same healing revivalists as Joyner. They all see
this as a key
to receiving a healing revival in our day which is clearly not biblical.
This is trusting in man, (these deceased ministers), not God. Many people
who engage in these occult practices will experience an occult power and
anointing come upon them in the future as the devil attempts to raise up
false healing ministers and false prophets in the end times.
“
The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all
power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those
who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth” (2
Thess 2; 9,10).
5 xxvii) These eagles/spirits of the dead enable the judges to emerge over
the church: Joyner’s occult based dream therefore leads him to engaged
in both witchcraft warfare and spiritualism. At the same time it prepares
Joyner for the fruitless failure that both of these strategies so that
he will not give up but will persevere with these errors regardless. The
hope held out to Joyner is that despite the failure of all this warfare,
and the harm it will do to the Christians that his side will target, it
will suddenly prove victorious as he reaches the top of the mountain of
revelations as promised at the end of his books first dream. This happens
once these same white eagles/the spirits of deceased healing revivalists
start ministering amazing prophetic gifts and insights to some on Joyner’s
side. One eagle tells Joyner “We are the eyes of those who have been
given divinely powerful weapons,” (p. 58). These eagles enable the
judges to manifest as the all knowing prophets who Joyner believes will
rule the church in the end times along with him. So Joyner believes that
God will use these spirits of the dead to “raise up judges,” (p.128),
who will be “able to know everything about everyone they encounter” (p.
130). Joyner claims that they will then “decide between people or
issues,” (p.128), as they take up their role of judging. Spiritualism
and the great white eagles are therefore central to Joyner’s side’s
final victory in his visions. All the Christians who oppose Joyner are
then removed from the body of Christ altogether so these judges can rule,
unopposed, as leaders of the entire church. Joyner describes this in the
following way, “remove all who have been forcing My people to take
sides against their brothers”, (p. 128). This is incredibly hypocritical
since it is Joyner who is calling for a Christian civil war and only his
side that engage in any spiritual warfare against other Christians not
the Christians who oppose him. Joyner believes that this new leadership
of prophet judges will lead to the “exaltation of the church,” (p.38),
and that as a result “God’s government is about to be demonstrated
as greater than any human government,” (p. 37), which “will
begin drawing all men into the kingdom” (p. 37). Joyner believes
that then he and the other judges will also go on to rule the world on
Gods behalf without any mention of Jesus Christ’s return at His Second
Coming. This might sound like a ridiculous pipe dream but we must remember
that unbelievers who are open to the same occult influences as Joyner display
exactly the same type of delusions about themselves. This is of course
so contrary to the teachings of scripture that no one who trusts the bible
and tests these things against it will fall for these deceptions as Joyner
has. There will however be a twisted occult outworking of these predictions
in the real world as the antichrists manifests as the Messiah and his beast
empire rules the world as a counterfeit form of Gods government before
Christ’s return. Unless Joyner relents, repents and starts trusting
in scripture instead of his deceptive visions he will find himself following
the antichrist and serving his one world religion not Gods Kingdom. He
may well receive great authority over unbelievers then and a powerful counterfeit
anointing to heal even but this will be from the enemy. The Lord led me
to write the following article describing how this situation will come
about in the world in the approaching end times season, entitled, “The
Coming One World Religion” for those who are interested.
"
Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless
the falling away comes first,” (2 Thess 2; 3).
| *[i] |
 |
In a letter to A. Strom, printed on
p. 97 of “Kundalini Warning,” in 2010. |
| *[ii] |
|
Taken from William M. Alnor and Robert
Lyle, "Controversial Prophetic Movement is Incorporated into
the Vineyard" Christian Research Journal, fall 1990: 5-6. |
| *[iii] |
|
Rick Joyner, “The History and
Future of the Present Revival- Part 2," 2008. |
| *[iv] |
|
Bentley 2003 article “Angelic
Hosts”, |
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