In 1984 Bob Jones of the Kansas City false prophets according to Wes Campbell (TAV 14/10/'94 audio tape) was told by "god" "The Church is going to go into a time of deprivation." After that time "god" was going to "throw a massive party." This was to be followed by a bloody civil war in the Church.

Dr Clifford Hill's audio tape Occult Links with Toronto Blessing identifies Bob Jones as a person with a familiar spirit who used his occult powers to obtain sexual favours from women. Counterfeit revivalists like Wes Campbell, Rick Joyner and James Ryle have built on this false prophecy to project ideas about the civil war which is about to engulf the end time Church. They speak of the 'blue coats' from the North fighting the 'grey coats' from the South.

In their crazy dreams and visions they have obviously super-imposed the historic facts of the American civil war upon their fertile imaginings regarding the church even going so far as to claim that ".. the blue coats stand for the revelatory - the revelation, and the grey for grey matter - man's wisdom."

According to Hanegraaff: "In 1996 God allegedly told Counterfeit Revival leader Rick Joyner 'to begin preparing for this great war with the resolve to fight until there was a complete victory'".

Joyner is convinced that the grays, whom he characterises as 'spiritually ruthless and cruel,' must be 'confronted and exposed and either converted or removed from their place of influence in the church'. After the grays, who he says constitute ' nearly half of the believers in the world today', are defeated, there will be 'an entirely new definition of Christianity'. As Joyner declared, 'Believers and unbelievers alike will think that it is the end of Christianity as we know it, and it will be. Through this the very definition of Christianity will be changed, for the better.'

This is scary stuff for 3 reasons:

1. It's built upon an occult foundation and not on revelation from God;

2. It gives a false rationale to the current conflict and division in the Church and thus exacerbates it;

3. It projects a change in historic Christianity, which means these men are preaching 'a different gospel and another Jesus.'

Fact is, if you alter "christianity" so that it's no longer recognisable, then it's no longer Christianity! Little wonder our Lord warned, "when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth" Lk 18:8 and " ... to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect" Mk 13:22 c/f Matt 24:24

Our solemn and urgent warning to all God's people is to keep away from the mystical teachings and false prophecies of men like Rick Joyner, James Ryle, Wes Campbell et al. They will lead you astray.

Appeared in Volume 4.1 January/February 1998