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According to revival.com, Carpenters
Home Church of Lakeland Florida is hosting Holy Ghost Night with
Rodney-Howard Browne on October 31st. According to their
website, Halloween is Carpenters Home Church's 10th Anniversary!
[note: This article was written in October, 2003.]
Rodney-Howard Browne manipulates
a spirit that he refers to as the Holy Spirit that causes people to break
into uncontrollable laughter and other uncontrollable
manifestations. He accomplishes this feat rather consistently with
the point of a finger, or by simply staring at people.
Pointing and staring happen to be
two methods witches use to unleash demons on people. I was
a recipient of both methods during the time Gary and I were
members of the pseudo Baptist church. (See About
Gary and Lisa Ruby)
It appears that women succumb
more easily to Brown's spiritual manipulations, and Rodney is
aware of this. His response to the question, "What's it like
to be in the influence of this 'spirit'?" is as follows:
"The ladies enter in
easier than men, for they have had to learn to submit." (1)
I watched Rodney-Howard Browne
perform his unsanctified antics on taped video. This was not just
a short clip. It was footage of an entire program! Rodney called a
woman out of the audience so she could come up on stage and share
what the Lord had done in her life. This woman was unable to utter
a single word because she was immediately gripped with fits of
laughter. The entire time she was on stage with Browne, which was
several minutes, she was literally doubled over with laughter. Do
not confuse the forced laughter of this spiritual victim with
merriment. It was not joy in the Holy Spirit; it was involuntary
laughter, which had complete control of her.
At times the woman seemed
breathless due to the continuous nature of the explosive
laughter. She even emitted some slight screeching sounds after the fits of
laughter went on for an almost unbearable length of time.
All the while, Rodney gave the
woman and the audience a bored, deadpan look which added to the
incongruity of the situation. He even quipped that she gave the
same testimony every time he asked her what the Lord had
done in her life! Rodney's placid expression, amidst the scene of
a woman literally bound by hysterical laughter, was not fitting
and almost eerie. It was a religious reality show in which the
loser (the woman who received evil spirits) was deceived into
thinking she was the winner (that she had received Holy Spirit
joy.) The Holy Spirit is not dispensed or manipulated by the will
of man. He is God, not a force that can be dispensed at
man's will.
I was saddened to watch this
woman in the throes of demonic manifestation while being convinced
that the Holy Spirit was the author of all that confusion. Yes, the
elect can be deceived if it is possible. The demons will remain
with this woman and lead her into the paths of apostasy for
Satan's name sake if she does not repent and in the name of Jesus
Christ, renounce Rodney
Howard-Brown and every spirit he unleashed upon her.
Uncontrollable laughter is not a
manifestation of the Holy Spirit. It is a manifestation of mocking
evil spirits, who are laughing at the strongholds they are gaining
in the lives of many Christians via Rodney Howard-Browne's "laughing revival"
spirits.
The following excerpt is an
example of evil spirits urging laughter on a young man who had
picked up this demonic manifestation through past occult
activities. Troubled, he went to a psychic and she told him that he had
darkness around him. He spent a lot of money following her
directives to be free of this demonic torment, but of course the
psychic could not help him. Only the Lord Jesus Christ has the
power to deliver a person from the power of darkness. Finally, the
man wrote to an online priest (2)
and expressed his concerns:
He said he did not think i was
possessed but i feel like always laughing when bad things happen
to other people or feel like laughing in general because it
seems i endorse evil. It seems also that i laugh at good or
maybe holy things. I can not say for sure because i have had a
hard time to explain this to others.(3)
This is an example
of how evil spirits create an urge to laugh through an individual.
This desire to laugh occurs when bad things happen to others
(demons enjoy human suffering) and the laughing is also directed
at goodness and holiness--attributes of God.
Even this
non-Christian young man suspected that his urge to laugh might be
demonic:
My friend who is
somewhat involved in white magic has told me since the day i
knew her she could not go to a church because she laughs out
lound.[sic] Could i have picked something up from her.(4)
The Holy Spirit does
not perform on Rodney Howard Browne's cue, or anyone else's
for that matter, but demons do. October 31st is Satan's "holy"
night and he is the one who "blesses" with spiritual
curses on this night in particular. He also can and does
"bless" at any time in which God's people
unknowingly give him permission to do so by accepting occult manifestations in the name of Jesus Christ.
Carpenters Home
church is making its intentions rather obvious by calling
Halloween, Holy Ghost Night! I could not find a single
website listed on google.com with the search words: Halloween and
"Holy Ghost Night." It seems that to call Halloween a
"Holy Ghost Night" is a new satanic paradigm in the
church.
Referring to
Halloween as "Holy Ghost Night" is mixing together and
blurring what is of Satan and what is of God. The Left Behind
Series does this as well as their associates Christianity Today
and Rapture Ready. Indeed almost every big name ministry in
modern-day "Christendom" is guilty of synthesizing light
and darkness. This is done for the purpose of preparing the church
for Antichrist.
Acknowledgements:
(1)
WEIGHED AND FOUND WANTING by Pastor Bill Randles http://www.picknowl.com.au/homepages/rlister/charis/randles/randle9.htm
(2) Note:
Roman Catholicism is not Bible Christianity, and many of
the priest's directives will not help Anthony, but only further
his spiritual bondage, such as: performing the
"sacraments," devotions to the saints, using Holy Water,
Holy salt (salt is used in occult rituals), wearing scapular,
mass, etc.
Anthony needs to surrender his life
in faith to the Lord Jesus Christ, renounce every work of
darkness, and cleanse himself of all spiritual filthiness of flesh
and spirit in Jesus' name. I provided this online example to
illustrate that even a lost person realized that his urges to
laugh at inappropriate times and situations were not normal and
were from demons.
(3) Demonic
Interference: Question From Anthony
(4) ibid.
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