Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. — Genesis 2: 19-20 (ESV)
Kris Vallotton is the co-founder of the School of the Prophets and Senior Associate Leader of Bethel Church. We’ve covered him a few times, such as during our Bethel Leader Says Prophets Can Cause Randos To Prophecy + be ‘Activated’ Just By Being Around Them, our story on Bethel Prophet Reveals Miracle of ‘Second Virginity’: ‘Hundreds of Hymens Grew Back’ the time Bethel ‘Prophet’ Who Falsely Prophesied Trump’s Victory Headlines Prophetic Conference and Bethel’ Pastor’ Says Michael the Archangel Dresses in ‘Wrestling Tights,’ is ‘always Grumpy’ posts, and our most recent Bethel Church Prophet Says Jesus Frequently ‘Took the Scripture out of Context’’
With men like discernment minister Mike Winger affirming that he would freely fellowship with the Bethelites and that ‘real prophecy and real healing are coming out of this group,” we continue a brief series on Vallotton, such as this clip from 2018, where he claims that when Adam named the animals, he was “procreating” and co-creating” with God- and that we can do the same thing.
And God begins to create creatures that Adam names. Now you can imagine that this was probably a long process because there’s a lot of creatures, right? A couple of things I want to point out here. Did you notice that by the sixth day, God stopped talking? Like God did not speak the creatures into being, he did not speak Adam into being. He literally molded them from dirt. I’m simply saying that sometimes when God’s silent, he’s doing his best work.
And so, God begins to form creatures from the dirt, and he passes them by Adam. And I’d like to suggest to you that when Adam’s calling the creatures names, that he’s not calling them ‘Spot’ ‘Fefe’ and ‘Trigger’.
And that literally, and the connotation in the Hebrew is that Adam is calling them names. He is actually procreating with God. He’s actually prophesying your divine destiny, and it says, ‘and whatever Adam called them, that was their name’.
In other words… let’s say that Adam sees the creature that God has formed and Adam goes “Lion.” And when Adam says “Lion”, suddenly that creature takes on the dynamics of a lion. Are you with me? Adam is co-creating with God. God was silent, so therefore it gave room for Adam to speak.
It gets worse. This is not the first time he’s said he’s talked about ‘procreating with God’. He preached at a business convention in the Netherlands in 2018 that Adam was procreating and co-creating with God, and we can too:
You’re running around like, “I don’t know why bad things keep happening to me — you’re not sitting in your proper seat. You’ve relegated your seat to someone else. When we pray for healing and bad circumstances, we are praying in reaction to something that went wrong. But how many understand that when we are living from heaven towards earth? ” Jesus said to the Apostle John — come up here and I will show you what must take place after these things.
How many know if you live from your heavenly seat, your heavenly seat gives you an eternal perspective so that you see things not as they are, but as they should be. Then your prayers become prophecies and your words become worlds. So no longer am I always in reaction to what has already happened, but now I am living in response to God’s word and I begin to procreate with God.
And instead of always being like ‘hey this person’s sick/hey this bad circumstance has happened’, God goes, ‘hey this is how I want the next 50 years to go.’ And I begin to pray and prophesy into that, and I am not just praying to God but actually praying with God. I’m actually procreating with God. I become an heir — a co-reigner with God.”
…. When we are called to be ministers for God, one of the ways we do that is we create by speaking for God. ‘Earnestly desire the spiritual gifts but especially that you prophesy.’ Why especially prophecy and why does the devil hate it when we prophesy? Because you are co-creating with God. When Adam named the animals he was prophetically declaring their DNA.
When he said “lion,” the characteristics of the lion were now on that creature. Adam wasn’t just naming the animals — he was defining them. I am simply saying that part of what we get to do with God is we get to sit with Him, listen to what God thinks about something that isn’t, and call it as if it were.”
Editor’s note. We are hunting down the video for that last clip. Kris Vallotton has made a copyright strike and removed it, but we have confirming testimony in 2018 from BSSM students who heard it and made notes that repeat the same thing.
