In Christ For All Nations’ Impact magazine for June 2007, Rob Birkbeck reported on the “tropical storm of ‘supercell’ proportions” which brought an abrupt and premature end to the final meeting of Reinhard’s crusade in Aba, Abia State, Nigeria.

 

“Lightning had struck four times within close proximity, striking the sound towers three times.” Three depicts finality; four, the world.

 

Birkbeck also reported that many thousands of people came “hungry for the Word of God. Before a full Gospel message could be preached,  however, a huge ‘supercell’ unleashed its full fury directly over- head in a powerful electrical storm that shook the city.”

 

Satan is the prince of the power of the air (Eph 2:2), but Jesus demonstrated – by stilling the storm (Mk 4:37-39) – His complete control over the forces of nature and Satan’s fury.

 

Why did Jesus not demonstrate His power in that way over Aba? – even though He healed and delivered many people. He was making an unspoken statement which the perceptive will understand. He withheld His hand of blessing from Reinhard and his CfaN crew, even though He showed grace to the people.

 

The fact that “a full Gospel message” was not preached is another sign of God’s displeasure with what is being preached. It is not a full message!

 

What God allows to occur in the physical can be a direct parallel of what is taking place in the spiritual which you would otherwise not perceive.

 

No one in Christ For All Nations perceived that the untimely termination of the final meeting was a sign from God, albeit negative. It is a portent of the untimely end of Reinhard’s ministry, approaching.

 

Driving, horizontal, torrential rain drenched the attendees and created a serious electrical risk, so Reinhard had to close the meeting. This presages the closure of Reinhard’s Gospel outreach because of the serious spiritual risk to those coming to Christ through his auspices.

 

This is in striking contrast to the miracle we reported of how God prevented heavy rain falling on Alex’s Sabbath fellowship meeting in Kenya (see p 16 of Don’t ABUSE It, USE It!), and of a similar miracle cited on page 32 of Who Is The End-Time Elijah? enabling the Gospel to be preached.

 

Reinhard’s ministry is no longer in God’s will, as explained with dreams from God in MM’s publication Some Pitfalls of Reinhard Bonnke’s Ministry.

 

The fact that large numbers gather, or that God still performs miracles of healing for the needy, are not proof that God is pleased with what is taking place. God is merciful to people, even though ministers He uses can be out of His will. In His grace, He heals, delivers and saves, despite human failings. Popularity, large numbers and responses are not divine signs. Don’t misinterpret the signs of the times.

 

Begging For Money

 

Reinhard recently sent out a letter, asking for money from supporters. One sentence was: “Would you please stand in support with your best possible gift at this time?”

 

It is not ethical to ask for money from people if God is the One in whom you place your complete trust. To look to people is to deny faith in God. Psalm 118:8-9 is a pivotal principle in this regard.

 

In fact, Reinhard has consistently compromised his outreach for many years by forming an unspoken ‘political alliance’ with church leaders in the areas where he preaches. He relies upon church support, which is relying upon man, not upon God alone. It’s no wonder Reinhard was not healed.

 

I have written to Reinhard on a number of occasions, and have never had any adequate reply. This was my most recent letter:

5th August 2007

Dear Reinhard,

Your recent plea for money

Although I have written to you before on several occasions, I have not received a reply from you, so I don’t expect to receive a reply from this letter either. But I write it just the same as a witness against you, for you have not only rejected me, you have rejected what God has given me for you, so you are shutting the door on Jesus.

That’s why you are not receiving what you would like to have to finance your outreach. Is the Lord’s Arm too short to save (Is 59:1) that you now have to resort to asking for money from people?

Why is God not helping you any longer? I enclose an article on that, Is The Lord’s Arm Too Short?

If Morris Cerullo or Benny Hinn wrote to you, you would reply. If they called you, you would give them all the attention they ask for. I write to you, and you ignore me, as does your unbelieving office manager Bernard Jones, who doesn’t think the dead are going to be raised through our ministry. You won’t be ignoring me for much longer, for I do not come in my own name, but in the name of the One whom you have represented all these years, but Who is now turning His back on you.

I wrote to you on 13th February 2007:

I read with interest your recent ministry letter Multiplication Made Easy! Very good article.

At the end you write: “...the Cross meets every need known to man. By faith in Jesus Christ, we inherit all that His mighty act encompassed, every blessing and benefit for this life and the next, transferred to us by the Holy Spirit.”

By the cross, we can be healed. Why then were you not healed of prostate cancer? Why did you have to resort to the doctor’s human alternative, something which Smith Wigglesworth vowed that he would never do? And, although he suffered acute pain from kidney stones for 6 years, he trusted in God’s promise of healing, and finally God healed him.

Would you like to know the reason?

A prophet in a foreign land was given a dream by God last year about you. It revealed that the power was departing from your ministry. There is a reason. Would you like to know?

No reply! So, clearly you don’t want to know. You think you know, and your recent article Healing and the Word of God attempts to address this unanswered question in your mind. But it doesn’t, because you are floundering around now without the full enlightenment of the Spirit. If you reject a prophet He sends, you reject Him who sends him (Luke 10:16).

 

Your article Healing and the Word of God is in error

You rightly write that Jesus healed people seemingly without conditions, but fail to understand that for us who are His chosen, there ARE conditions. When He reached out to the unsaved to grant healing, He did so because He was fulfilling God’s Word that He would be a sign that would be spoken against (Luke 2:34). The demonstration of God’s power was a testimony of God’s grace, as you say, yes. It created a platform for the listener to begin to hear, just as Jesus has done for you in your Gospel campaigns.

You then get into the realm of half-truths and doubt, creating confusion and questions in people’s minds by saying that: “To know and love God is more important than healing...” We know that. Most people should know that – if they have been fed properly on God’s Word for some time. But the inference in what you write is negative. You are suggesting by inference – just as Satan did to Eve – that God is capricious and His Word cannot be trusted. God says He heals ALL your diseases, just as He forgives all your sins (Ps 103:3), but you are contradicting His Word, insinuating that God does NOT heal all our diseases. You are basing your assumption on your experience, rather than on the pure Word of God.

You wrote: “Many go unhealed despite prayer and faith...” Come now! Do you not believe James 5:15? [The prayer of faith WILL save the sick.] Your assumption about their faith is wrong. They don’t have faith, because they are in sin.

You have left one thing out of the healing equation: SIN. If you sin wilfully (or sometimes even in ignorance or partial ignorance), there remains no more sacrifice for sins (Heb 10:26). Thus, Jesus’ sacrifice is ineffective to the one who draws back from repenting of wrongdoing (Heb 10:38).

I came to you with ‘new’ truth that God wants you to accept and incorporate into your teaching and practice. But you shut the door and rejected me and what God has revealed as part of the Final Restoration in this age. So, you shut the door on Him. Your response was rooted in self-will and pride. You weren’t going to let me correct you! You aren’t willing to accept that you have anything wrong in your theology or spiritual practice.

God spoke to me about you in dreams, revealing various aspects to do with your theology, and life. Some were positive, some were negative. He showed me your hostility towards the truth we promote on Church Government (in God’s Church – Whose Authority?). You take exception to what God has revealed and which I have recorded on that topic. Perhaps you hold resentment towards me because of my previous challenges to you. You will have to examine yourself on that score. I do not condemn you. I am merely pointing out areas that you may need to look at.

I also wrote to you in the past concerning ‘new’ truth (to you) revealed in:

The Controversy Concerning Law and Grace

Our Sabbath Rest

Sunday Versus Sabbath: The Final World Crisis.

You rejected all that, and with it, Jesus.

That’s why the power is departing from you and your ministry. Here is what God said to Kassahun Ayele, a prophet in Ethiopia:

July 26/05. K. Reinhard Bonnke.

I was listening to Reinhard Bonnke preaching in a large auditorium. He seemed very old and weak. The audience wasn’t impressed by his preaching. The miracle-working power was also gone from him.

Meaning: Reinhard’s ministry is on the wane. God is removing much of the anointing that accompanied his ministry, because it is time for God’s ‘new thing’ on earth. What this ministry (Midnight Ministries) brings is part of that ‘new thing’, restoring truth which has been neglected, ignored or rejected.

The enclosed leaflet about the Pitfalls of your ministry provide some of the other revelations which God has given about you. I hope you can accept them and change. I do not come with malicious or vindictive criticism. My only desire is to help, so that we can be in unity. At the moment you don’t want that, and God is not pleased.

Sincerely, in His love,

Malcolm B Heap

 

Reinhard needs to come to realise that God does not want mass evangelism of this sort more than He wants purity of truth restoring. Evangelism is fine so long as people are properly taught afterwards. But they are NOT! There’s no point in bringing people into churches that trap them in another kind of bondage – subservience to men.

Truth is being restored. These are the days of ‘Elijah’ and the Final Restoration is top of God’s list of priorities. Tragically, at the moment, Reinhard rejects this Restoration. 

 

Malcolm B Heap  August 2007

 

CfaN Christ for all Nations

Looking to man, instead of to God

 

Reinhard Bonnke’s ministry, Christ for all Nations, is seriously out of the will of God. Dreams which God has given to His prophets reveal the demise of CfaN. (See also the booklet, Some Pitfalls of Reinhard Bonnke’s Ministry.)

My letters to Reinhard do not receive any reply. Silence can speak volumes. His office manager probably never even passes them on to him, such is CfaN’s somnolence!

At the end of this section is a recent letter from Reinhard to his supporters, asking for money, and using a gimmick to try and rally support for his outreach. If you can’t see what is wrong with it, he is appealing to people, rather than to God.

What you are witnessing is the demise of a formerly Spirit-led ministry, degenerating into one of human reliance, human effort, human programmes, human tricks and human deceit.

 

Relying Upon People

Instead Of Upon God

 

Reinhard writes to his mailing list:

 

“...right now, dear friend, I need to ask you to prayerfully consider sending a [financial, monetary] gift of soul-winning support.”

 

If you rely upon the Spirit, you don’t ask people for money. If you are led by the Spirit, you look to the Spirit for help, not the flesh.

 

It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes (Ps 118:8,9).

 

Someone did a complete survey of the Bible to find that verse 8 of that psalm was the central verse of the Bible. Whether or not that is accurate it is certainly accurate that the central issue in our lives is whether we will put our trust in God or in some substitute.

 

When we should rely upon God, reliance upon anything else or anyone else is an idol.

 

I wrote in The Bible Speaks Vol 2 (page 41), why substitution is Antichrist. Anti does not just mean ‘against’. The most subtle deception is not one that directly opposes or contradicts the truth, but one which substitutes or supplants it. It is very subtle.

 

By appealing to human beings for support is to court disaster. Reinhard is under a curse for so doing:

 

Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the Lord (Jer 17:5).

 

You might think it outrageous for me to make the assertion that Reinhard’s heart has departed from God, but it has according to Scripture, and the Word of God cannot be broken (Jn 10:35). Whoever puts their trust in the arm of flesh has departed from trusting in God. It grieves Him.

 

More Of What Is Wrong

 

Here are other biblical criticisms of Reinhard’s letter overpage:

 

1) It is deceitful.

 

He employs the slogan “one soul at a time”, yet displays a picture of tens of thousands at a ‘crusade’. The inference is that your money, donated to him, will bring souls to Christ. But that overlooks the most fundamental reason why people are converted. It is God who gives the increase (1 Cor 3:6), because no man can come unless God calls them (Jn 6:44).

 

Thus, God is being replaced by money. It is a subtle transfer of loyalties. Reinhard is deceived.

 

2) It is meant to impress, humanly.

 

His claim that 43 million have been converted through Reinhard’s efforts is one that cannot be substantiated. Certainly Reinhard has reached millions, but we should not be impressed by numbers.

 

However, numbers are stated because people are impressed by the sound of large figures and the men who run his marketing machine know it. So, they appeal to human impressionability. It helps you to undo your wallet.

 

3) Milking human weaknesses.

 

The marketing strategists who wrote that letter (I doubt very much that Reinhard wrote it himself, which is another deceit!) impress you with the claim that if only he had the money, tens of thousands could be saved. The reader is softened up ready for the appeal: “WE NEED YOUR HELP”. “We need you to open your heart.” It works every time. Money pours in. The suggestion “listen to the leading of the Lord” tells the gullible and trusting (in Reinhard – in man!) that it would be wrong not to cough up! It plays on your guilt feelings. Readers assume that Reinhard IS listening to the leading of the Lord. Sadly, no longer!

 

He’s out of the will of God, but doesn’t know it.

 

Here is the letter to his supporters:

CfaN Christ for all Nations

Keeping Christmas instead of…

 

I reported in Newsletters 41 and 42 (2007), that Reinhard Bonnke’s ministry, Christ for all Nations, is seriously out of the will of God. In this instalment, we would bring to Reinhard’s attention where he is missing the mark in matters of biblical purity, and why these are important to God. This is not human opinion! It’s divine precept!

 

Christmas is a lovely time of year. So say those who observe it. But what does God say?

 

Would you be surprised if I told you that God HATES it?! He has said just that to others who have been on His prophetic ‘wavelength’. For example:

 

November 23, 1998: I speak to you today to maintain a pure conscience before Me. Walk in truth and light. Refuse to fall into the fantasy of the days ahead.

Some would call these days "holidays" or holy days, but do not be deceived into thinking there is anything holy about the world's traditions and materialism. I say it is idolatry in its grandest form.

Loose yourselves from this bondage and idolatry, and seek Me with a whole heart. Have nothing to do with self interest and greed; rather rise up in spiritual purity before My face, and refuse to be distracted by what is unholy.

Marsha Burns, Kremmling, CO, USA.

 

If you dismiss that with the retort that Reinhard is not governed by self-interest and greed, I would agree with you that he is not governed by greed, but he IS governed by self-interest in relation to his work. That is why he goes along with a custom which God does not sanction, and shuts his ears to the arguments of objectors. (More of that in a moment.)

 

Why Keep Christmas?

 

If Christmas is such a delicious time of year for the unconverted, shouldn’t that start bells ringing in the minds of the converted?!

 

The majority in Christendom go along with this custom of celebration and revelry. Even Reinhard promotes it for Jesus’ sake (see later). I don’t question his commitment to God, but I do question the means.

 

I’ll explain why God says it’s not right. Either you care about what He says, or you don’t. You won’t have to answer to me for your decisions, but to Him.

 

We publish comprehensively in a booklet the reasons why keeping Christmas on December 25 is wrong and a sin. It’s entitled Why Keep Christmas?

 

Quite simply, here is God’s reason – not mine – the Almighty’s:

 

You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you (Deut 4:2, NKJV).

 

Be careful not to be ensnared by inquiring after their gods, saying, "How do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same." YOU MUST NOT WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD IN THEIR WAY! (Deut 12:30,31, NIV.)

 

See that you do ALL I command you; DO NOT ADD TO IT, or take away from it (12:32).

 

You won’t find one word in the Bible exhorting us to keep Christmas – a pagan festival which was (before it was renamed by Constantine in AD 325) the date celebrating the rebirth of the sun god at the time of the winter solstice.

 

An Associated Press release of 23rd December 2007, from Rome, reported:

 

The church where the tradition of celebrating Christmas on Dec. 25 may have begun was built near a pagan shrine as part of an effort to spread Christianity, a leading Italian scholar says.

 

Italian archaeologists last month unveiled an underground grotto that they believe ancient Romans revered as the place where a wolf nursed Rome's legendary founder Romulus and his twin brother Remus.

 

A few feet from the grotto, or "Lupercale," the Emperor Constantine built the Basilica of St. Anastasia, where some believe Christmas was first celebrated on Dec. 25.

 

Constantine ended the frequent waves of anti-Christian persecutions in the Roman empire by making Christianity a lawful religion in 313. He played a key role in unifying the beliefs and practices of the early followers of Jesus.

 

In 325, he convened the Council of Nicaea, which fixed the dates of important Christian festivals. It opted to mark Christmas, then celebrated at varying dates, on Dec. 25 to coincide with the Roman festival celebrating the birth of the sun god, Andrea Carandini, a professor of archaeology at Rome's La Sapienza University, told reporters Friday.

 

The Basilica of St. Anastasia was built as soon as a year after the Nicaean Council. It probably was where Christmas was first marked on Dec. 25, part of broader efforts to link pagan practices to Christian celebrations in the early days of the new religion, Carandini said.

 

"The church was built to Christianize these pagan places of worship," he said.

"It was normal to put a church near these places to try to 'save' them.”

 

The trouble is, it didn’t convert the masses. It perverted them. Can you make divine or holy some- thing pagan or human? Of course not. It’s either divine or it isn’t.

 

You can take a command of God and alter it. But it’s no longer God’s command. It’s Satan’s.

 

You can’t make ‘Christian’ something that Satan designed in his deception to take people away from God, from true worship, and into idolatry. Syncretism has no place in God’s order of things for mankind!

 

Constantine did more than any other emperor to pervert Christian truth and bring confusion. It may have had the temporary effect of standardising belief, but it was a false move, not a move of God. It was one main cunning way Satan infiltrated the Church.

 

And it has effectively deceived the majority ever since. Today multiple millions are deluded, thinking they are honouring God by keeping Christmas while they are honouring Satan, the mastermind behind it!

 

Reinhard Is Obstructing God’s Truth

 

God says categorically in the Bible that we should not take something pagan and try to use it to worship Him (Deut 12:31). However, Reinhard is encouraging people to do just that, against Scripture! In Son of God, Son of Man by Reinhard Bonnke of 1st and 15th Dec 2007, on CfaN’s web page (at http: //uk.cfan.org/bible-study.aspx?id=10314), Reinhard makes these statements about the Christmas fallacy:

 

1.       In Bethlehem, in Judea, on that very first Christmas Day, the Lord arrived from Heaven...

 

No, He didn’t. He was born in the autumn, at the time of God’s autumn festivals which God gave Israel. Those included the Feast of Trumpets which depicts Jesus’ coming, and the Feast of Tabernacles portraying His 1,000 year rule on earth (Lev 23).

 

2.                  The  least we can do is to keep one day to remember His coming, and if it changes a pagan festival into a Christian one even better! Christmas Day is the radiant jewel in the crown of the year.

 

If you take something designed by Satan and call it holy, it doesn’t make it holy. Only God makes something holy or Christian, by His command or Spirit. So, Reinhard is promoting a lie, opposing pure truth of God, and committing an abomination in God’s sight.

 

The only days you can keep in obedience to God, in honour of Him, are those He commands in His Word. They are the festivals He gave Israel.

 

3.                  We do not indulge in heated debates about doctrine or the right road to heaven. We talk about Jesus; just Him...

 

That’s the problem. What good is it talking about Jesus when you don’t fully obey Him?!

To say you don’t indulge in heated debates is a cop out. The point doesn’t need debating. God tells us plainly in His Word what to do. Ours is just to obey.

 

4.       Christmas is a time to revel, if ever we do revel.

 

5.       At Christmas we indulge in all sorts of good things...

 

Oh yeah? Are fleshly indulgences good?!

 

6.       Whatever the heathens have made of 25 December, the noise and tinsel has been swept aside by the birth in Bethlehem. The Redeemer has claimed back and redeemed this mid-winter day, bringing the glow and warmth of eternal love to our winter skies.

 

No, He hasn’t! Another lie! He doesn’t redeem heathen observances. He redeems people.

 

7.       That is the One He sent on Christmas Day...

 

8.                  Christmas is not just a time for children. It is a million times more than carols, sparkling lights, and colourful decorations. It is the day when Heaven came down to adopt earth as a suburb of the Kingdom of God.

 

What codswallop! It is human justification for not giving up pagan customs that a carnal emperor and Catholic Church have foisted upon gullible people in the name of Christ. Christmas is not Christ’s birthday but Nimrod’s, from Babel. See what God says about the vile Babylonian customs of Catholicism in Rev 17. God calls that system some very explicit epithets!

 

Reinhard also says in his essay:

 

9.       The Bible is a manual on faith and how to believe.

 

Yes, so why disobey it by keeping Christmas?

 

10.     Our Gospel Campaigns free multitudes.

 

They free them from some deceptions and then bring them into bondage into others. Christmas is one.

 

11.     We are Christ’s messengers proclaiming deliverance...

 

No, that’s a half truth, a misconception. God has revealed in a dream that Reinhard is leading many people to spiritual death because he won’t give them the whole truth of the Bible. (See Some Pitfalls Of Reinhard Bonnke’s Ministry.) God is not pleased!

 

12.     not religionists making proselytes.

 

That’s not true. Although Reinhard doesn’t make proselytes for CfaN or for himself, he makes them for churches, so that people are brought into bondage in all the churches with whom he cooperates.

 

13.              what the world does not know cannot bless it.

 

Yes. And what Reinhard doesn’t know – or refuses to acknowledge – cannot bless the millions whom he reaches. So they are missing out.

 

What God Wants

 

This short piece will tread on toes, but I make no apologies for a true prophet’s commission (Is 58:1).

 

God doesn’t want His people keeping Xmas. He wants them to accept HIS holy days. Reasons why are given in the booklet The Festivals of God.

 

More truth is revealed in The Faith Once Delivered To The Saints and other MM publications.

 

We are commanded to CONTEND earnestly for the faith which Jesus entrusted to the saints. However Reinhard isn’t contending for it. He’s compromising it!

 

At the beginning of Reinhard’s ministry, God gave a vision of a blood-washed Africa. But that has a dual meaning. Not all who profess Christ after CfaN’s gospel crusades will be saved. The parable of the ten virgins in Matthew 25 reveals that only half will make it.

 

Prophets have been shown that the Church is being prepared for slaughter! Reinhard is leading many the wrong way by watering down the sanctity of the truth of God. Read Ezekiel 22:26 and 22:31. That’s what’s coming!

 

Malcolm B Heap  January 2008

 

Further Reading: Preparing A Flock For Slaughter

CfaN Christ for all Nations

Is Lacking God’s Guidence

 

Reinhard Bonnke’s ministry, Christ for all Nations,

is seriously out of the will of God.

There are severe spiritual drawbacks in what has been established.

Cult mentality, close-mindedness,

and other spiritual weaknesses are evident.

 

Over the years, I have written to Reinhard, his wife, and his office managers, only to be completely ignored. I don’t have space to reproduce all those letters here, except the most recent.

 

When Reinhard stands on stage and preaches to you, if you were to shut your ears, to whom do you answer for ignoring him? If he is guided by the Spirit of God, you are ignoring God, aren’t you? You will have to give an account for your failure on the day of judgement.

 

When someone without prominent standing ‘in the Church’ is likewise guided by the Spirit of God to tell Reinhard something of critical spiritual importance and he ignores it, he will also have to answer to God for his failure to listen. Mind you, before that event arrives, spiritual penalties are incurred in this life.

 

Where a man of God fails to listen to God, and then veers away from the direction God wants him to go, he is not only walking away from God, he is taking others with him. Hence this dream God gave me:

 

19th Jan 2002. M. The Funeral Procession.

Reinhard Bonnke leads a funeral procession.

There were a number of people going to a funeral. All the bodies – and there were many of them, probably 20 or 30 – were loaded onto a flat-bed cart which people were pulling. The corpses were covered with reddish-brown sheets, like the colour of burnt soil.

On other smaller trailers, small people were sitting (in sixes), totally covered (over their heads as well, so they couldn't see anything) with charcoal coloured blankets. Also, they were facing the other direction to the way the procession was going. Reinhard Bonnke was at the front, leading them.

I couldn't help but think, "Why doesn't he show them what is wrong with their customs? Why does he just go along with them without correcting the error in their tribal traditions?!"

Comment: Here God is revealing that there is a need to forcefully address the matter of wrong traditions in the Church, such as Sunday worship, Easter, Christmas, hierarchic church authority, etc., which are as pagan in their origins as tribal (demonic) traditions.

It is now time to move on. The old church structures and teachings are inadequate to prepare the Bride of Christ to accept the full purity of God's teachings in His Word.

'Elijah' must do his work. He must challenge all the false prophets of ‘Asherah’ and ‘Baal’ and their compromised teachings promoted by Jezebel in the Church.

Meaning: What the imagery of this dream portrays:

Funeral. The Church with its present teachings is heading towards death, as in Sardis. It needs new revelation of truth to revive it.

Many dead bodies. There are many dead Christians, who are not alive by the Holy Spirit.

People sitting in sixes. Six in biblical numerics denotes the evil which men subscribe to. From God's perspective, these small groups of people (churches) need to come to terms with the evil in their Christian practice.

Totally covered... they couldn't see anything. The Church’s blindness. They can't see where they are headed. They are blindly following customs that have no biblical basis.

Facing the other direction to which the procession was going. Reinhard is pointing people towards God's Kingdom of righteousness which Jesus introduced. Despite the fact that he has got some things wrong in his theology, the overall thrust of all his work is towards God. But many believers are facing the other way. They don't share his aspirations. They are selfish and self-orientated, which is backward-looking.

Reinhard was at the front, leading them. God holds him responsible as their spiritual leader for not showing them the folly and unbiblical nature of their religious practices.

 

Reinhard, my dear friend:

There needs to be a radical re-emphasis in your teaching to these people. You need to upgrade the content and spiritual depth of your preaching. After all, you are not preaching to the unconverted. Most of those gathered at your meetings are church folks (with a minority who are not), and they need to be fed and challenged not merely entertained.

Your evangelistic meetings are opportunities for all these people to come together for a big celebration, which is wonderful. But there needs to be more. As long as spiritual instruction stays in the shallows, how can they be made ready for the final thrust of preaching that is needed to prepare the Bride?

Will they be ready when Jesus comes? Or from now on will they just continue to remain in the dark, heads covered, going backwards towards their own funerals, after they have attended those of others?

 

That is what I wrote in 2002 about that dream. God has also given several other dreams highlighting issues Reinhard should address. God is not pleased with his ministry now. It is taking most people in the wrong direction.

 

Of course, God in His grace and mercy will still use Reinhard to reach people with the gospel, and will still heal some and deliver the seriously oppressed because of His love. But don’t let that fool you into believing that there is nothing wrong with Reinhard’s practice or teaching. God is calling him to greater purity, and to major reform. Whether he listens is up to him. God never violates a person’s free choice.

 

CfaN Is Becoming A CULT!

 

On 5th Nov 2007, I wrote this to CfaN:

 

Mr Mark Oakes

UK Director

Christ For All Nations

250 Coombs Road

Halesowen

W Midlands

B62 8AA

5th November 2007

Dear Mark,

1. Would you kindly put me on your mailing list to receive regular letters about the progress of CfaN’s work. Thank you.

2. May I ask also what revelations from God – i.e. dreams, visions and other prophetic input –  CfaN or Reinhard has received to give God’s guidance for the progress of the work in Africa and elsewhere.

3. Also, which prophets do you, Reinhard, and CfaN accept for the purpose of receiving God’s guidance upon your ministry outreach?

I enclose a complimentary copy of a recent MM Newsletter for you, and also to pass on to Reinhard.

Thank you.

God bless,

Malcolm B Heap

 

THERE WAS NO REPLY! Not even a simple, polite acknowledgement. Why not?

 

I was not added to CfaN’s mailing list. This is not the only letter they have ignored from me. It is the ‘umpteenth’! I have written to CfaN about important spiritual issues, but all those have been ignored! It seems serious spiritual matters are shelved, just as Jesus warned of Laodicea (Rev 3:15-20).

 

If you approach a CULT, you get the same response. Where men follow men instead of God, that’s when the door shuts in a prophet’s face. And that’s what’s happened to CfaN. It is now a humanly run organisation, not led by the Spirit!

 

That’s why CfaN’s supporters are plied with requests for money, are subjected to devious worldly marketing methods, and are not fed spiritually with more than shallow spiritual teaching, just to keep them ‘ticking over’. CfaN is now degenerating into a CULT, and OBSTRUCTS GOD’S ‘ELIJAH’ WORK!

 

Impressive

 

Look at the full colour glossy Impact magazine which CfaN uses to promote its evangelistic work. Does that impress you? Are you impressed when you read of the many hundreds of thousands to whom Reinhard preaches in gospel campaigns? Are you impressed by the fact that he has preached Christ to multiple millions, and of his claim that more than 40 million people have filled in CfaN’s decision cards for salvation?

 

If so, you are not being impressed by the Spirit, but being impressed by something less spiritual.

 

Sure, it’s nice to have success physically. It’s what every evangelist wants – to reach the largest number of people. But it’s not God’s prime objective in this age – which may surprise you. He is not trying to save ALL the world now. His agenda is explained in MM’s article series The Church Is Missing The Mark.

 

No Major Guidance From Above

 

Since I couldn’t reach Reinhard himself, I asked CfaN’s UK office manager what revelations God has given to them for the direction of their work. No reply!

 

There are none! This is the problem.

 

What is the means which God has established in the Church for its guidance? Ephesians 4:11 says.

 

Does Reinhard fulfil all those functions? No.

 

So what function or office is being ignored? PROPHETS! God speaks to prophets to redirect the Church. Reinhard isn’t listening, nor are the others in his now culticly-operated organisation hearing them either. So they are not hearing from God for proper overall direction.

 

God will speak minimally to Reinhard on stage FOR THE SAKE OF THE PEOPLE whom God is calling or healing, and delivering from some demons.

 

Ephesians 3:5 reminds us that two offices are the principal ones God uses for major spiritual direction: apostles and prophets.

 

Reinhard is neither of those; he is an evangelist.

 

These offices in the Church should listen and learn from one another, as they receive from God. I have listened and learned from Reinhard in the past, but he has never listened or learned from me. It’s time for change.

 

If he won’t change, God will take away his candlestick or lampstand from its place (Rev 2:5).

 

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent (Rev 3:19).

 

Abomination In Churches

 

In a dream on 26th Dec 2002, God showed me that Reinhard does not realise that church hierarchy is an abomination to God. The dream is recounted in Some Pitfalls of Reinhard Bonnke’s Ministry.

 

Church folks also have no idea how wrong it is. Nor do they see how wrong Reinhard is; and that he is not open to receiving certain truths from God.

 

Church hierarchy is Satan’s entry point to limit the minds of millions of believers!

 

CfaN – WAKE UP!

 

Malcolm B Heap  January 2008

 

Further Reading:

The Church Is Missing The Mark (CMM)

Wielding The Divine Axe (Axe)

God’s Church – Whose Authority? (GC)

The Truth About Easter (Eas)  Why Keep Christmas? (X)

CfaN

Is Defying God!

 

Reinhard Bonnke’s ministry, Christ for all Nations,

does not accept, acknowledge, or listen to God’s prophets.

If anyone defies a message from a prophet of God, he defies God Himself!

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God!

 

Reinhard prides himself that he is preaching the Gospel to the world and reaping a massive harvest.

 

In Impact of December 2007, he says: “The Word of God is our authority for action. I call the Great Commission, the ‘Supreme’ Commission.”

 

Yes. But there is a part of the Great Commission that he is omitting. I’ll explain in a moment. And there is another Commission from on high that is GREATER than that of evangelism at this time!

 

It’s the Work of ‘Elijah’. I will explain that also in a moment.

The Great Commission

Jesus commanded:

 

1) Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them... (Matt 28:19).

That part of the Commission Reinhard fulfils.

2) ...teaching them to observe all things I have commanded you... (Matt 28:20).

 

That part he doesn’t fulfil!

 

Jesus bequeathed a faith to His Church that was a body of beliefs which have since been corrupted and need to be restored. The faith once delivered to the saints is mentioned in Jude 3, a letter written very late in the first century, when apostasy was taking hold in the Church. Since then, it has progressed, and now it is deeply rooted throughout Christendom! This body of beliefs is explained in our booklet by that title: The Faith Once Delivered To The Saints.

 

Reinhard has some of that faith, but not all. He needs the remainder.

 

I sent it to him by post in MM literature, but it was rejected. God portrayed this in symbolism in this dream, cut and pasted from my Dream Diary:

 

Reinhard Bonnke And Our Van

 

29th April 2000. M. Yesterday, 28th April, I was moved by the Spirit to send God’s Church – Whose Authority? to Reinhard Bonnke. Then, God gave me a dream to indicate the response, and the immediate future of our ministry.

In this dream, Reinhard was temporarily occupying a Council house. It was a very ordinary place. Our ministry was represented as a small white van which was parked in the front garden. It was squarish, small, and white, but nothing much to look at. It was not an impressive vehicle.

There were meetings being held in Reinhard’s Council house. They were very ordinary, and the material was so familiar to us that they held little interest. I wasn’t sure whether to stay or leave, but I showed respect by sitting down and staying. I sat at the back. The meeting was soon over.

I got up and, on leaving, I passed Reinhard, who was sitting in an empty room with only his chair and a telephone. He was making a call to book his airline flight. I wanted to stop and talk with him but he was busy, so I just walked by him and left. Even if I had used sign language to him to acknowledge him and smile, that would have distracted him from his call, because he didn’t know me, so I said and did nothing as I went out.

I got in my small white van and drove off. Before doing so, there was a pile of paving slabs outside which I moved (supernaturally) from the place where they had been left to the middle of the lawn in front of Reinhard’s Council house. They must have weighed a ton or two, but they had been moved (not by human might, but by God’s). Yet, they complained that I shouldn’t leave them there, the grass would die underneath. I said “That’s not my problem; it’s yours”, and walked off.

[Dream truncated here.]

Interpretation:

Reinhard’s Council house, and the meetings: The more permanent physical nature or structure of his ministry compared with ours, and the very ordinary teaching in his ministry.

The plane booking: Symbolises the large finance Reinhard has compared with ours and what that makes possible in his ministry. He can go places fast, unlike us.

My small white van: Our ministry is nothing much to look at on the outside, but our teaching is practical. It is not a ministry backed by large resources, so it epitomises that lack of support, but it is going places by our efforts and with God’s guidance.

The flat tyre: The obstacles we have to contend with in doing this work. We face many difficulties and lack of funds.

The stack of paving slabs which I moved and left on their front lawn: Part of the work of ‘Elijah’ is restoring the way, showing the path to walk. But it is others’ responsibility to lay the pavers out and walk that route. We can’t do it for them. The symbolism shows the unwillingness of personnel at CfaN to incorporate the truth about Sabbaths and holy days into their Christian walk.

Their being supernaturally moved: What is to come in our ministry [raising the dead] will make the truths about the Sabbaths so plain to CfaN that they then have the responsibility to lay those aspects of truth out, and put them into practice.

God Opposes Those Who Ignore Him

 

Reinhard Bonnke, his office managers and staff have rejected the input from God which we sent them.

 

God holds people accountable. That is why CfaN faces difficulties and some adversities. They will get worse the more they reject God’s input. If you reject what a prophet of God brings at God’s direction, you reject the One who sent him. So said Jesus in Luke 10:16. You can read it for yourself.

 

“Who Do You Think You Are!?”

 

People who get upset at any criticism of CfaN – who think that it is above criticism because of the size of its operations – fire that volley at me. Let them. God judges them for it. They question contemptuously: “Who do you think you are?!”

 

It’s not who I am that matters. It’s the wrong question. It’s “what am I saying?” that is vital. And, “is God behind my words?” I’ll answer that for any who might be more open-minded. (See following pages.)

 

“It’s The Same Old Thing”

 

I was first made aware of Reinhard’s ministry in 1988, 20 years ago. But I made no criticism for many years. That aspect was depicted in the aforementioned dream (4th paragraph of the dream). Others did query Reinhard. It irked him that someone would comment negatively about his messages – that he was preaching “the same old thing.” The critic had a point.

 

Yes, as wonderful as the basic message of the Gospel is, it’s not enough to prepare the Church for what is to come. Does Reinhard ever preach about the coming Great Tribulation? I have never heard it from his lips. I doubt if he is even aware of how close we are to the end of the age, and of what Jesus means us to know about what is coming. Reinhard is so busy with HIS agenda of trying to reach 100 million people this decade, and raising funds for that massive outreach, that he’s asleep to what is coming.