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Bethel Leader Bill Johnson Continues to Lie About NAR ties

photo credit Remnant Radio via YT

Six months ago we celebrated what has affectionately been called the “charismatic day of infamy.” On that day, June 23, 2008, 17 high-profile charismatic “apostles,” including Bill Johnson, Jon Arnott, Rick Joyner, Che Ahn, and C. Peter Wagner, came together in a ceremony of “apostolic alignment” over 32-year old Todd Bentley, commissioning him to lead the Lakeland Revival and recognizing him as an evangelist doing the work of the Lord led by the Holy Spirit. This was to be an important step in the ‘Seven Mountain Mandate’ vision and theology of the New Apostolic Reformation.

Within a month of his alignment ceremony, Bentley would announce that he was leaving Lakeland and stepping down. A few days after that, he told the world he divorcing his wife and it was revealed that during his time as leader of the revival, as he was getting aligned by the apostles, he had been engaging in “an unhealthy relationship on an emotional level with a female member of his staff,” and getting drunk all the time, spiraling into depression, anxiety, and babbling on stage in a series of pseudo-spiritual slurs that were gobbled up by desperate and deceived charismatics as words from the Lord.

Despite the clear evidence that he’s up to his elbows in it, in a series of apologetic videos released on YouTube, Johnson repeatedly denies being part of the New Apostolic Reformation, saying “we don’t belong to anything of that nature.” Yet we see:

h/t to Salt & Light for the video

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California Loses Lawsuit, to Pay Church $1,350,000 For Shutting Them Down

A California District judge has given the win to Harvest Rock Church (HRC) and ordered the State to pay them $1.35 million in legal fees and attorney costs, the result of landing a monstrous victory over California Governor Gavin Newsom. HRC and other churches sued the governor for imposing pandemic rules limiting the size of church services and attendance, as well as the ban on singing and chanting, which they say violated their First Amendment rights.

Mat Staver, the Liberty Counsel Chairman whose firm has been representing Harvest Rock, was ebullient over the news, saying in a statement:

Newsom has now been permanently quarantined and may not violate the First Amendment rights of churches and places of worship again. We are grateful for Pastor Ché Ahn, Harvest Rock Church, and Harvest International Ministry. Pastor Ahn’s leadership and courage has toppled the tyranny and freed every pastor and church in California…

For over a year, California prosecutors were levying threats of criminal charges for each individual congregation member at HRC, amounting to thousands of individual $1000 fines and jail time for up to a year for violators.

In fact, the prosecutor’s office in Pasadena informed HRC, led by the defacto head of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), Pastor Ché Ahn, that they were revved up and ready to criminally charge every congregant member who chose to show up at the church, including the pastor, the staff, and the parishioners, if they did not immediately desist worshipping together on the Lord’s day, sending letters like these.

Though Pastor John MacArthur’s Grace Community Church has garnered most of the attention and publicity for restarting their services after a lengthy shutdown, hundreds of Churches in California have been defying Newsom for weeks and months before GCC ever did, if many even closed at all.

Harvest Rock Church opened its in-person services back in late May of 2020, joining 1200 other pastors in a day of defiance that set the date for reopening their services despite shutdown orders. They launched a lawsuit against the state in June, and have been a thorn in the side of government officiants wanting to shut them down ever since, battling it out in court over and over with the help of the Liberty Counsel.

It was Harvest Rock Church’s win that resulted in the statewide permanent injunction against COVID-19 restrictions on churches and places of worship being put in place, meaning every church in California owes them a word of thanks and gratitude. In a statement, Pastor Ché Ahn said:

This is a momentous day for churches in America. After nearly a year-long battle defending our religious freedoms, our lawsuit has reached a permanent settlement in our favor.

I am thrilled to see the complete reversal of the last discriminatory restrictions against churches in California, knowing this case will act as a precedent, not only in our state, but also in our nation. We are incredibly grateful to our attorney Mat Staver and to Liberty Counsel for their relentless support and fierce determination. Most of all, we give all the glory to God for moving mightily in this historic season.

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NAR Heretic Ché Ahn’s Church Has a 24k Gold Ceiling, $1,000,000 Chandelier

Charismatic pastor and head of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) Ché Ahn has revealed that his Church is bursting at the seams with all sorts of wealthy accouterments and treasures, detailing in a recent service how their church building has a 24-karat gold ceiling, a chandelier worth more than $1,000,000, and walls filled with precious gemstones – more so than any mine in the western hemisphere.

We bought our church building in 2004…called the Ambassador Auditorium. It was valued at $32,000,000 when we bought it. We’re talking about the ceiling is covered in 24-karat gold. The wall is pure Onyx. In fact the largest amount of Onyx, which is a gemstone, is in our building, in the whole western hemisphere. If you want to find it it’s not in some mine, it’s in our building. The chandelier is huge, it’s worth a million dollars just itself.

Though Ché Ahn has done some good work in the last few months in defying the government trying to shut his church down, his wild charismaticism and New Apostolic Reformation nonsense always shines through, as being one of their apostles, he tirelessly works to bring about the “Seven Mountain Mandate.” In fact, it wasn’t that long ago that he declared that Micheal “knock-’em-down” Brown was an “apostle” – a title which had him tickled pink and grinning like a fool for days on end.

We last saw Ahn explaining that Jesus appeared to his fellow NAR ne’er-do-well James Goll in a dream and told him that Ahn’s recent book was the most “important book in the world” for the hour.

H/T to Salt & Light for the video.