I believe John’s interest in the occult opened the door to many strange visions. In Acts, the new believers burned their occult books – not built a library to better understand the spirit realm. It's a different spirit than God's Spirit! I have been suspect of John’s visions ever since I started using Jesus’ words as a plumb line. In John’s first vision of “Jesus” in Holy Jim Canyon, he was told that Jesus sought to kill him for his withdrawal. Jesus said, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they have life, and have it to the full.” Does John’s vision sound like the thief or Jesus? TLWF leadership has demanded that they be obeyed like Old Testament prophets without the accountability of death if you called something a word from God that really wasn’t. It never was about bringing life to people, but to use people for personal gain - otherwise you would speak Jesus' words to them, not your own. John’s vision of the future was a false prophesy – it didn’t happen. To cherry pick it now and say it was about being the Father’s family and ignoring the predictions that never happen is choosing to be blind.
Jesus also said, “At that time if ANYONE says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect – if that were possible. See, I have told you ahead of time.” Against the backdrop of those words, you can decide if the leadership of TLWF is Christ in the flesh or not – what Jesus calls deception, G&M called revelation. Jesus said that he came to serve, not be served. Imagine what he thinks about a human saying they are God and demanding they be served. He said to call no man leader, teacher, or father – you have one, and it’s the Christ and you are all brothers. So much for using God to make yourself important.
I was reading Jude and thinking how many verses were applicable to TLWF:
4 For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord. (God told me to divorce my wife and marry another so we could go into ministry together. Nobody will even notice if we have our followers call us "Mom and Dad"- they'll only read the parts of the Bible we tell them to they are so enamored with us.)
8 In the very same way, on the strength of their dreams these ungodly people pollute their own bodies, reject authority and heap abuse on celestial beings. 9 But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not himself dare to condemn him for slander but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”[d] 10 Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct—as irrational animals do—will destroy them. (Think of the false visions that caused so much destruction and the ministry of judgement that supposedly came from God. Jesus said they did not know what spirit they were of when they wanted to call down fire on the Samaritans. The only ones that were damaged by the judgments of TLWF were the ones who ministered it – the rest of us who have chosen to walk on with God are doing much better than we ever did in TLWF!)
2 These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves. (So much for the upward flow! Where are those that actually care for God’s people the way He does?)
19 These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit. (Instead of participating in the oneness that Jesus prayed for, the leadership has isolated those in TLWF to serve their own purposes. If they were actually in fellowship with the rest of the Body of Christ, instead of claiming (like many others) to be the only true church, they would be able to see the error of their factions and divisions. A cult leader isolates to control, not to benefit his followers.)
Jesus also said, “At that time if ANYONE says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect – if that were possible. See, I have told you ahead of time.” Against the backdrop of those words, you can decide if the leadership of TLWF is Christ in the flesh or not – what Jesus calls deception, G&M called revelation. Jesus said that he came to serve, not be served. Imagine what he thinks about a human saying they are God and demanding they be served. He said to call no man leader, teacher, or father – you have one, and it’s the Christ and you are all brothers. So much for using God to make yourself important.
I was reading Jude and thinking how many verses were applicable to TLWF:
4 For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord. (God told me to divorce my wife and marry another so we could go into ministry together. Nobody will even notice if we have our followers call us "Mom and Dad"- they'll only read the parts of the Bible we tell them to they are so enamored with us.)
8 In the very same way, on the strength of their dreams these ungodly people pollute their own bodies, reject authority and heap abuse on celestial beings. 9 But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not himself dare to condemn him for slander but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”[d] 10 Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct—as irrational animals do—will destroy them. (Think of the false visions that caused so much destruction and the ministry of judgement that supposedly came from God. Jesus said they did not know what spirit they were of when they wanted to call down fire on the Samaritans. The only ones that were damaged by the judgments of TLWF were the ones who ministered it – the rest of us who have chosen to walk on with God are doing much better than we ever did in TLWF!)
2 These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves. (So much for the upward flow! Where are those that actually care for God’s people the way He does?)
19 These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit. (Instead of participating in the oneness that Jesus prayed for, the leadership has isolated those in TLWF to serve their own purposes. If they were actually in fellowship with the rest of the Body of Christ, instead of claiming (like many others) to be the only true church, they would be able to see the error of their factions and divisions. A cult leader isolates to control, not to benefit his followers.)