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 devils 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 devils 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 (devils 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 evil spirits 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 devils.
(3)
Demonic Interference: Question From Anthony
(4) ibid.
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