Wycliffe Bible Translators is partnering with the International House of Prayer (IHOP) for an annual Onething Conference. The first was held in January in Kansas City, with 30,000 in attendance. Wycliffe is represented by its Seed Company subsidiary. IHOP was founded by Mike Bickle, who holds the most radical Pentecostal latter-rain doctrine, believing that an apostolic miracle revival will precede Christ’s return. IHOP promotes 24/7 prayer, which sounds great, but their weird prayer meetings are accompanied by rock music, hypnotic repetition, women preachers, and charismatic deception. Consider this description from 2002: “Onstage at the Spiritual Warfare and Prophetic Worship conference, Mike Bickle sways with his eyes closed as he cradles an open Bible. Beside him, guitarists play and a woman sings. Two thousand Christians again and again sing a simple lyric: ‘Pour your spirit out over this place. Pour your spirit out over this place. Pour your spirit out over this place.’ For fifteen minutes, they repeat the line until, finally, the music quickens and a woman in a red dress on a rear balcony whirls, waving a shredded white flag of surrender from a pole ... In the mosh pit, a middle-aged woman jerks her head forward then back between her raised arms as she dances. She opens her eyes and blows kisses toward the rafters from her open palm, drops her head to giggle, then sends Jesus another kiss or two” (Deb Hipp, “Return of the Prophets,” The Pitch, Oct. 10, 2002). Wycliffe Bible Translators has long been involved in this type of Pentecostal heresy. See my eyewitness report on the North American Congress on the Holy Spirit and World Evangelism. It is titled Charismatic Confusion and is one of the free eBooks we offer at www.wayoflife.org. See also our report “Wycliffe Bible Translators” at the Way of Life web site. For more about Mike Bickle, the latter rain, and the new prophets see the book The Pentecostal-Charismatic Movements, available from Way of Life in print and eBook editions. At the North American congress in 1990, John Wimber was promoting both Mike Bickle and Paul Cain. The latter turned out to be a homosexual. (Friday Church News Notes, April 4, 2014, www.wayoflife.org, [email protected], 866-295-4143) Comments are closed.
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