Author	Thread: FALSE TEACHERS CLAIMING TO RAISE THE DEAD EXPOSED‼️‼️‼️
LittleDavid View Profile History	FALSE TEACHERS CLAIMING TO RAISE THE DEAD EXPOSED‼️‼️‼️ Posted : 25 Apr, 2025 11:18 AM By taministries ‘Doug Fournier did everything he could to keep his 6 week old daughter alive. After she died, he did not stop trying. He packed her body into a picnic cooler, surrounded it with ice and drove 350 miles from Gainesville to Pensacola. His destination was Brownsville Assembly of God Church, where he believed Brownsville Revival leaders, could bring his dead daughter back to life. Pastor John Kilpatrick and Vann Lane...gathered some staff members around the cooler in the church’s sanctuary and began to pray. For at least two hours they prayed to God to bring Fournier's daughter back to life’. (1) Despite the ‘faith’ Doug Fournier had, his child was not raised from the dead; Jesus was not glorified; and no doubt the father’s grief was increased. The above sad circumstances occurred because of false teachers (in the Pensacola ‘revival’) such as Steve Hill, who lied and said: ‘I know that we could all get to the place where the dead are raised. We’re seeing miraculous healings, cancerous tumours disappearing and drug addicts immediately delivered’. (2) The Pensacola ‘revival’ leaders supported speakers such as David Hogan, a missionary in Mexico, who claimed to have raised many from the dead. Hogan sold fraudulent videos telling how to do these feats. The claims of raising the dead are almost exclusively a trait of the 20th Century Pentecostal/Charismatic movement. Smith Wigglesworth, a hero of many in the modern Pentecostal movement, is supposed to have raised six people from the dead. However, the stories were told mainly by a Lester Summeral, himself a false prophet. (3) Thousands of people are today still duped by such handed down stories. A.A. Allen, a forerunner of Pentecostalism, was supposed to have raised two people from the dead. He launched a ‘raise the dead’ campaign which became a farce when his disciples refused to bury the dead until urged by Allen himself. Allen was excommunicated from the Assemblies of God in the mid 1960’s. Mel Tari, who wrote ‘Like a Mighty Wind’, a book about the Indonesian revivals, wrote of several people being raised from the dead - even a body that had been dead two days and was decaying badly. However, another book (much less popular!), was written after this revival, refuting the claims with evidence of false or third hand reports. The research showed that many of the ‘dead’ people had rather been in comas and that the local people often did not understand the difference between the two states. Today’s Benny Hinn claimed to have seen a dead man raised from the dead on the platform, and claimed to have it on video. However, when the media challenged him on live TV he admitted it was not on video and that he had only heard about it second-hand. Sadly, Benny Hinn has lied too often about such claims. He once prophesied: ‘But here’s first what I see for TBN. You’re going to have people raised from the dead watching...TBN. I’m telling you, I see this in the Spirit...people around the world who will lose loved ones, will say to undertakers, ‘Not yet. I want to take my dead loved one and place him in front of that TV set for 24 hours...People are going to be cancelling funeral services and bringing their dead in their caskets...waiting for God’s power to come through and touch them...You’re going to hear it from Kenya to Mexico to Europe to South America, where people will be raised from the dead. So much so that the word will spread that if some dead person be put in front of this screen, they will be raised from the dead and they will be by the thousands. I see rows of caskets lining up in front of this TV set and I see them bringing them closer to the TV set and as people are coming closer I see loved ones picking up the hands of the dead and letting them touch the screen and people are getting raised as their hands are touching that screen...’ (4) On 6th October, 14 people were crushed to death in Nigeria when they attempted to rush the stage to try to touch evangelist faith healer, Reinhard Bonnke. The parents of one of the dead, a little baby girl, tried unsuccessfully to get the body to Bonnke, hoping he would raise her from the dead. The family then did the next best thing and laid the body on Bonnke’s Mercedes Benz. Apparently they were putting their faith in the ‘anointing’ of the faith healer who claimed an abundance of miracles. None of those crushed were raised from the dead. Reinhard Bonnke continued to sell videos of miracles and healings despite some of them being exposed by Christian doctors as fraudulent. (5) One Reinhard Bonnke video was promoted for a minimum donation of $35 which gave an account of a Nigerian Pentecostal pastor, Daniel Ekechukwu, being raised from the dead at a Bonnke meeting. Pastor ‘Eku’ had a motor vehicle accident and with chest injuries left the nearest hospital for another, against the advice of the physicians, and then ‘died’ but was ‘revived’ at a Reinhard Bonnke meeting. Eku was pronounced dead on a stethoscopic and ocular response examination only. Among many anomalies there was no autopsy report documenting post mortem, no coroners report and no police accident report. There were also conflicting accounts concerning the time the patient was ‘dead’. Pastor Ekechukwu claimed, contrary to scripture, that Hell had a ‘welcome sign’ and that the rich man’s prayer of Luke 16:19-31 was answered and he was sent back to warn people to repent and believe. There are others who have made fraudulent claims of raising from the dead; and some videos of these are still sold in Christian bookstores today. Yet not one authenticated case of modern day raising of the dead exists! When will Christians learn from this sad history? When will those in the Pentecostal/Charismatic movement question the constant array of lying false teachers and prophets? The Bible has some Old Testament prophets and Jesus, Peter and Paul, raising people from the dead. After this no evidence exists of such events. All such Biblical events were for specific purposes. The New Testament miracles specifically were to prove the Messiaship of Jesus Christ. Do we walk by faith or by miracles? Terry Arnold (1) 1999 - John Allman, News Journal staff writer, as cited in internet site: http.//www.discernement.org/raisethe.htm (2) Nov/Dec ‘Ministries Today’ (3) Summeral prophesied that Jesus appeared to him and showed him he would see the return of Jesus in His lifetime before the end of 1999. But Summeral died! He was also exposed by the media for fraud to do with his ministry ‘Feed the Hungry’. (4) Benny Hinn, Praise the Lord, Trinity Broadcasting Network, Oct.19, 1999 (5) Diakrisis (Australia), Dec/99 ‘Something to Shout About? -the healing of Jean Neil Post Reply
LittleDavid View Profile History	FALSE TEACHERS CLAIMING TO RAISE THE DEAD EXPOSED‼️‼️‼️ Posted : 26 Apr, 2025 07:05 PM W&T: The Pharisees and Sadducees had enough common sense to not be duped by Jesus. LD: still not sure what point you’re trying to make but Jesus performed real miracles so there was no duping being done by Jesus. The only duping was the Pharisee who duped themselves Post Reply
LittleDavid View Profile History	FALSE TEACHERS CLAIMING TO RAISE THE DEAD EXPOSED‼️‼️‼️ Posted : 26 Apr, 2025 07:10 PM W&T: Don't you feel duped by Jesus? All the talk of miracles? LD: Absolutely not. Jesus performed real miracles, there was no duping done by Jesus. Even the false teachers knew Jesus’s miracles were supernatural that’s why they accused him of doing mighty works by the power of Satan. Post Reply
WalkNTalk View Profile History	FALSE TEACHERS CLAIMING TO RAISE THE DEAD EXPOSED‼️‼️‼️ Posted : 26 Apr, 2025 07:29 PM For us, it is Hebrews 11:13. Post Reply
LittleDavid View Profile History	FALSE TEACHERS CLAIMING TO RAISE THE DEAD EXPOSED‼️‼️‼️ Posted : 26 Apr, 2025 08:19 PM W&T: For us, it is more Luke 4:25-27 25 I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. 26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon. 27 And there were many in Israel with leprosy[g] in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.” LD: Elijah and Jesus had different ministries. W&T: Yep! Miracles aren't for everyone. LD: Agree W&T: They say seeing is believing. Then Jesus says, "Blessed are those who have not seen, yet believe." (John 20:29) LD: That depends what kind of believing you’re thinking about. There is “believing” as in the sense of evidence being presented in a court of law defending innocence or proving guilt or there is “believing” in the sense of Jesus proving he was the real Messiah when he pointed to over a hundred Old Testament messianic prophecies and by pointing to his performing real miracles also as predicted. W&T: and no miracles will be shown for us. (Matthew 12:39, Matthew 16:4, Luke 11:29 LD: You’re completely missing the point of those passages. You must understand the Pharisees had already witnessed the many real miracles performed by Jesus first hand yet they still didn’t believe but upped the ante by demanding a “sign from heaven”. Jesus rebuked them for understanding only simple weather facts in the sky but not understanding the times. This has nothing to do with “us” asking charismaniacs or any other false teacher to prove what they claim. W&T: "Very truly I tell you," Jesus said, "whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these." (John 14:12) LD: This was said to the apostles and disciples who indeed performed many more works than Jesus performed alone because there were many more of them to perform such works. W&T: Is the greater miracle that people believe without seeing? LD: No, because many false religions folk believe in false miracles having never seen a single one. W&T: Is the greater miracle that people come to Christ without seeing any miracles? LD: Perhaps so in some sense of the word depending how you define “miracle”. Abraham told the rich man that miracles do not always make people believe and Jesus proved just that. Many people including the Pharisees saw Jesus’ miracles but never believed. Abraham further explains that if people reject the prophets they won’t accept the truth even if someone miraculously rose from the dead. W&T: Maybe that is our greater work, but the Pharisees didn't fall for it. LD: ?? Post Reply
WalkNTalk View Profile History	FALSE TEACHERS CLAIMING TO RAISE THE DEAD EXPOSED‼️‼️‼️ Posted : 26 Apr, 2025 08:47 PM Yet there they are. There they are in the scriptures. You see that they are in the scriptures, but you don't see them in the present time. God is the same yesterday, today and forever. But we don't see much of those New Testament miracles going on today. Only reports of miracles two thousand years ago. Post Reply
LittleDavid View Profile History	FALSE TEACHERS CLAIMING TO RAISE THE DEAD EXPOSED‼️‼️‼️ Posted : 27 Apr, 2025 08:10 AM I don’t disagree with you here. You're right about lengthy periods throughout history when no miracles were taking place. I’m glad someone 👉👉finally👈👈 said “👉👉God👈👈is the same yesterday, today and forever”. Unchangableness is a definitive characteristic of God*. Obviously since Jesus is God the same characteristics apply—that’s why Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. To assume falsely, like many charismaniacs do when they claim that Jesus is still performing miracles on earth today, is to totally miss the point. That kind of logic doesn’t stand up under interrogation. If Jesus is the “same” all the time then why isn’t he still on the cross, still in the tomb, still walking around on earth, still being resurrected and so on. You can see then how far removed from reality the charismaniac interpretation really is. *Malachi 3:6 For I am the Lord, 👉👉I change not👈👈; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed. *Hebrews 6:18 So that by two 👉👉unchangeable👈👈 things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us *Psalm 102:27 But you are 👉👉the same👈👈, and your years have no end *Hebrews 7:21 ESV But this one was made a priest with an oath by the one who said to him: “The Lord has 👉👉sworn and will not change his mind👈👈, ‘You are a priest forever.’” *Psalm 33:11 ESV The counsel of the Lord 👉👉stands forever👈👈, the plans of his heart to all generations. Post Reply

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