"Is not My word like fire?" declares the LORD, "and like a hammer which shatters a rock?" (Jeremiah 23:29)
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Images are from Bethel’s School of Supernatural 
Ministry – the first year Commissioning ceremony (2023). This is an expensive school of Simony – $5,750 for the year. Students are “knighted” and receive “impartations” from Bethel’s leadership…these lucky ones received an impartation of “splendor.”
Really, really good and thorough work by Mike Winger. Includes Brian Simmons’ claim of Christ “breathing” on him in commissioning him to produce The Passion Translation. Simmons also claims he named The Passion Translation after an angel he encountered.
This is from the Revealing Truth YouTube channel. Although The Word Like Fire previously covered this particular teaching, Revealing Truth brings out things we never touched on. Only 11 minutes long and well worth the viewing.
HT: Marsha West
It seems like Brian Simmons, author of The Passion Translation, does whatever he wants to the meaning of the Scriptures, whenever he wants, and however he wants.
“There is no reference to the Antichrist in the book of Revelation.” (The Passion Translation footnotes, l. Rev 13:18)
Yet, according to the Book of Revelation:
5 There was given to him a mouth speaking arrogant words and blasphemies, and authority to act for forty-two months was given to him. 6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemies against God, to blaspheme His name and His tabernacle, that is, those who dwell in heaven.
7 It was also given to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them, and authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation was given to him. 8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been slain. (Revelation 13:5-8)
Brian Simmons– Well, it’s obvious that five times John uses the phrase antichrist. He never uses the definite article ho in Greek ho, the Greek definite article. The antichrist is not in the Bible. The never occurs with antichrist. It’s either a spirit, or the one who denies that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is antichrist.
So, we’re convinced, although there are other interpretations we make obvious room for, but I’m personally convinced that the antichrist is everything in us that is yet to be brought into submission, the subduing influence of Jesus, that opposes Christ. (16 minutes 30 seconds in video)
According to the footnotes in The Passion Translation (l. Rev 13:18):
There is no reference to the Antichrist in the book of Revelation. The beast is equated to the nature of humanity. The number 666 is the number of man; not an incarnation of the devil, but human nature. The number six is always equated with man, for man was created on the sixth day. The wild beast rising out of the ground (which man was made from) is the sin of man that wars against our souls and prevents the image of Christ from emerging in fullness within believers. The number 666 cannot be literal, for a literal number would need no wisdom to interpret. Both the mark of the beast and the mark on the foreheads of God’s faithful followers is a metaphor of the character of the beast revealed by thoughts (foreheads) and by actions (the hands).
Brian Simmons– So you’re not mad I took away your Antichrist? It’s really amazing, Americans, you take away their rapture and the Antichrist and they, like, whuh whuh buh buh buh buh buh. (34 minutes in video)
2 Thessalonians 2 states:
3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4)
Obviously, fake Bibles such as The Message and The Passion Translation are the devils’s strategy to keep people from the (real) Word of God.
Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path. (Psalm 119:105, NASB)
The Bible guides us in matters of wisdom. Strength. Love. Forgiveness. Obedience. Salvation. Sanctification. Correction. Knowledge. And so much more. It’s been said many times that if you really want to hear from God, open the Word of God and start reading. If you really want to know God, open the Word of God and start reading. And, no, this is definitely not referring to The Passion Translation.
And, finally, thanks to Andrew Chapman, who offers this correction to Brian Simmon’s alleged translation concerning antichrist:
Simmons at 16.34ff in the Patricia King video: ‘five times John uses the phrase antichrist. He never uses the definite article, h o in Greek ho (ὁ), the Greek definite article, ‘the’ antichrist is not in the bible. ‘the’ never occurs with ‘antichrist’.’
EXCEPT IT DOES! in 1 John 4.3b – ‘.. καὶ τοῦτό ἐστιν τὸ τοῦ ἀντιχρίστου..’ ‘and this is the [spirit] of the antichrist – τοῦ is the article in the genitive case. ὁ is the article in the nominative case.
Also Greek doesn’t have an indefinite article (a, an in English), so it’s not actually correct for Simmons to say that John doesn’t use the ‘definite article’ ὁ. But that’s a relatively minor point.
If Simmons had actually translated 1 John from Greek he would know this. I wonder if he was looking for ὁ and couldn’t see it and didn’t know that the article declines? He doesn’t know basic Greek, and in reality is cobbling together a new English fake ‘translation’ from real translations, adding and changing things to suit his purposes and predilections.
An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land: The prophets prophesy falsely, And the priests rule on their own authority; And my people love it so! But what will you do at the end of it? (Jeremiah 5:30)
Brian Simmons, author of The Passion Translation, is teaching heresy about the return of Christ. Simmons says the Bible uses “clouds” as a term for men eight times. Simmons states the Bible says Jesus comes within clouds, so therefore it means Christ is coming from within us.
Here is what Simmons said to Patricia King:
The Book of Revelation is “not primarily a manual of coming events. A sneak preview of what’s coming. Rather it is the coming one. It’s the unveiling of who is coming. And His coming is within us. We experience that unveiling in our lives.” (5 minutes 9 seconds in video)
Here again is Simmons to Patricia King:
Brian Simmons– What about the clouds? Jesus is coming, Greek is meta nephele, He’s coming, meta nephele, within clouds. He’s coming within clouds. Not on clouds. Within clouds. Eight times in the Bible, CLOUDS ARE PEOPLE. (11 minutes 14 seconds in video)
P.K.– Right. Wow.
Brian Simmons– So, maybe the Second Coming isn’t what we think.
P.K.– Wow.
Brian Simmons– Maybe we don’t have it all figured out.
Here is Brian Simmons at the Glory of the Last Days Conference:
Something about clouds. God really likes clouds. He rides, His name is cloud rider. I put that in Psalms, the translation of the Psalms. Thou shalt get the Book of Psalms on your way out too. But His name is Yah, cloud rider, ha ha ha ha. He rides upon the clouds. Okay, you’re the cloud. Eight times in the Bible. Uno, dos, tres, quatro, eight times. Men are clouds. Cloud of witnesses. Jude speaks of false teachers that are clouds with no rain.
Throw up Isaiah 60 verse 8. Put up Isaiah 60 verse 8, if you dare to read this. The Passion Translation: Who are these that soar like clouds, like doves flying into their portals. Jesus is coming in the clouds! I’m here to announce to you, ladies and gentlemen. Everybody missed His first coming. Everyone missed the first coming. Only people who got revelation understood the first coming.
Even though they had the Bible, they knew it’d be Bethlehem, but yet He was from Nazareth so they, He purposely let them get offended over being in Nazareth, but He wasn’t, He was from Bethlehem, but they called Him from Nazareth. He didn’t set the record straight. He let them be deceived.
But those with spirit revelation would understand. He was from Bethlehem. Micah 5:2. So if everyone missed the first coming except by divine revelation, how is it you got all the Second Coming figured out? There’s so much more to the unveiling. I want to unveil, I want to lift some of that veil as we go into Revelation 1. After lunch I want to show you some secrets about the coming of the Lord. (10 minutes 54 seconds in video)
We’re the seed of Christ, the 42nd generation, we complete the genealogy of Jesus. Christ is no longer a man, He’s a people. YOU AND I CARRY LIKE MARY. WE WILL BRING FORTH THE CHRIST. THE SECOND COMING IS THE BECOMING OF THE LORD. The Father loves the Son so much, he is going to fill the earth with people just like Him. (4 minutes 31 seconds in video)
Please note that Simmons proclaims, “Christ is no longer a man, He’s a people” and “The Second Coming is the Becoming of the Lord.” It appears that Simmons, beneath his New Apostolic Reformation exterior, is promoting a New Age, corporate manifestation of Christ.
Related Article: Christians determine when the Second Coming will occur, says The Passion Translation author
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Mike Bickle of IHOP-KC and Brian Simmons, author of The Passion Translation, teach that Christ’s return is dependent upon the actions of the Church.
According to Mike Bickle,
“He is not coming any day. He is not coming until the people of God globally are crying out in intercession with a bridal identity under the anointing of the Spirit.” [1]
Brian Simmons states,
“You hold the reins to the Second Coming. You determine when it comes.” [2]
Many of the Latter Rain heresies have never really gone away. They are percolating away in one form or another in the teachings of New Apostolic Reformation leaders Brian Simmons, Mike Bickle, Bill Johnson, and others.
Related Article: Brian Simmons’ heretical view of Christ’s Second Coming
Source Notes:
1. Mike Bickle audio message #2; given March 6, 2008
2. Brian Simmons, Glory of the Last Days, Session 2, Part 1 (1:45:19 in video )
One reason I like the Famine in the Land blog (and Facebook) is it keeps me informed of the false teachings and movements in Africa and elsewhere. The following article shows how the New Apostolic Reformation is seemingly rising to dominance in South Africa.
According to Rick Becker:
The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) has poisoned many of the influential leaders in the visible church in South Africa, and sadly, one of the most significant voices in South Africa’s leadership – Chief Justice Mogoeng. The Chief Justice hosted a virtual prayer meeting on Monday, 25 May, with nearly 1000 leaders from across the continent. Instead of the gospel featuring, the meeting revolved around the goals and methodologies of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) …Continue reading article…
“We are the Word made flesh again. We are the Reincarnation of Jesus Christ.”
“Christ is no longer a man. He’s a people. You and I carry like Mary. We will bring forth the Christ. The Second Coming is the Becoming of the Lord.”
“As Christ comes forth and emerges on the earth in a corporate expression, there will be a people who become the feet. The beautiful feet. … They will be untouched by sin, darkness, even death.”
“Stop being in love with your tradition, opinion and understanding of the Bible that’s so shallow, and so, like, feeble, and we barely make it in our lives because we don’t have that rich treasure yet.”
From the teaching of Brian Simmons, author of The Passion Translation (on Youtube):
Brian Simmons claims Christ came to him and gave him the task of issuing forth The Passion Translation. Simmons is a New Apostolic Reformation leader, and The Passion Translation serves many as an NAR “Bible.”
Please note that the Latter Rain heresy of a coming group of saints who do not sin and cannot die is included in this video teaching.
Simmons has changed the meaning of Antichrist, and claims the seals, trumpets, and bowls in Revelation are…people.
The video is only 16 minutes long, and you can also scroll down as the video has been transcribed, with some statements given emphasis in bold.
Beginning of video:
He’s within us. The Revelation 12 Virgin Bride will give birth to a Man-Child company, a corporate expression, one has become the many, the seed has now fallen into the ground and died but is now bearing many seeds, there’s a many seeded Christ.
He will prolong his days and take pleasure in what He sees. Isaiah 53 says that He will see his seed and prolong his days. We are extending the ministry of Jesus throughout the nations. We are carrying his life and his nature and his DNA wherever we go. We are prolonging his days, the Acts 29 company. We are expressing the Christ wherever we go.
43 seconds into video– And as the corporate maturity continues, and we rise to be the holy temple unto the Lord, there will be that apple tree conception. And the Christ we long for will be seen. In a corporate way.
1 min 10 seconds– There’s a coming glory. If you look at antichrist, the devil, you look at judgement, you know, bowls, trumpets, and uh let’s see, seals, trumpets and bowls, all three of those–I don’t know how far to go with you guys–all three of them refer to people. You’re sealed with the Holy Spirit, I could show you the seven seals from the New Testament. Seven times it says you’re sealed.
1 min 36 seconds– The sealed book is you. He’s the Word, the volume of the book it is written of Him. We express the Word. WE ARE THE WORD MADE FLESH AGAIN. WE ARE THE REINCARNATION OF JESUS CHRIST. The corporate expression.
Seals. Seven seals of the Holy Spirit. Trumpet. Our message, it’s a revelation, it’s a message that trumpets the truth of God. Sounds into the ears and hearts of those with ears that have been pierced and whose hearts are prepared. It is a message of coming glory.
2 min 10 seconds– And a bowl, isn’t that what we are? We are jars of clay, we are vessels. We are vessels of honor before him. It’s interesting, when Jericho was under a curse, Elisha said get a bowl. Get a bowl full of salt. Right. Jesus said, you are the salt of the earth. And take a bowlful of salt and go to the headwaters of the river of the waters of Jericho that are undrinkable and put a bowl full of salt into the water and it’ll be drinkable again. We break the curse off our cities, the expression of Christ in us. The salt bearing company.
2 min 47 seconds– We are the salt that purifies, that sanctifies, that cleanses and the stream of water is often teaching. So the stream that we can bring is a sweet stream. Sweet stream coming out of us, the teaching of the Lord. That strengthens the spirit, puts hope back in our heart, pep in our step, zippity in our doodah.
3 min 12 seconds– The glory. So the seals, trumpets, and bowls have not been understood. Well, what about judgment? Yeah, God’s gonna judge a lot of things in you. All the ways of the world, the ways of the mind of man, He’s gonna come against every one of them and target them. Because, whatever He judges He removes, and gives unhindered love. He judges whatever stands in the way of His love. That’s what He judges. Healing is judging the devil’s work.
3 min 52 seconds– See? The positive aspect of judgment is because He’s preparing a people for glory, so He’s gonna remove everything. And it starts right here, folks.
4 min 3 seconds– Don’t look now, but I found the antichrist. Deal with it. Get him out. Stop being in love with your tradition, opinion and understanding of the Bible that’s so shallow, and so, like, feeble, and we barely make it in our lives because we don’t have that rich treasure yet. We’ve not unlocked the deepest places of spirit life [indecipherable]. Where we bring healing because of a touch or a word that speaks and life comes forth.
4 min 31 seconds– We’re the seed of Christ, the 42nd generation, we complete the geneology of Jesus. CHRIST IS NO LONGER A MAN, HE’S A PEOPLE. YOU AND I CARRY LIKE MARY. WE WILL BRING FORTH THE CHRIST. THE SECOND COMING IS THE BECOMING OF THE LORD. The Father loves the Son so much, he is going to fill the earth with people just like Him.
4 min 48 seconds– He’s the pattern Son, He’s the cornerstone into which everything must fit to become that dwelling place of God. And the New Jerusalem company will emerge on the earth. The New Jerusalem is not a place you are going to, it is a people you will become. And the 12 gateways of the New Jerusalem were worn in symbolic form over the breastplate of the High Priest. And to qualify as the High Priest, to represent men before God was that you had to carry the revelation of your heart over your heart.
Carry this, wear this breastplate, priests of the Lord, wear this breastplate. That we are the dwelling place. We are not going to. You need a new heaven and a new earth. The throne of God has wheels on it. I’m coming here. You want to go so bad up there and God says sweetheart, you don’t understand, I’m coming here.
5 min 55 seconds– The earth will be my footstool. There will be a feet company that will represent me on earth. When a mother gives birth, what’s the last part of the body to come forth. Feet. The feet. There will be a feet company. AS THE CHRIST COMES FORTH AND EMERGES ON THE EARTH IN A CORPORATE EXPRESSION, there will be a people who will become the feet. The beautiful feet. How beautiful are the feet. God will, uh, you know, God will soon crush Satan under YOUR FEET.
6 min 33 seconds– There will be a feet company, a Satan crushing company that will devour, like a threshing sledge, they will devour every work of the enemy. THEY WILL BE UNTOUCHED BY SIN, DARKNESS, EVEN DEATH.
6 minutes 43 seconds– They will carry like Mary, and it will be as though the second coming has come. The destiny of this planet is not what you think. Oh, but it’s gonna be destroyed by fire. Yeah. You got some things in your earth that need to be destroyed so start now.
7 min 10 seconds– The natural elements, the natural realm, will be destroyed. And we will become the paradise of God once again. When God said, I have made you in my image and my likeness, now rule and take dominion. To the measure we carry his image and likeness, to that measure we rule and take dominion. You can’t rule and take dominion without the image and likeness. You guys getting this? We know a little about image.
7 min 52 seconds– That we’re made in the image of God. God is not a man but he has hands. The hand of the Lord. God is not a man but he has eyes. He sees. The eyes of the Lord search throughout the whole earth. He has ears, aren’t you glad, He hears our prayers. He has feet. Ezekiel saw the feet through the [indecipherable].
8 min 7 seconds– There is an image upon us that is stamped like God. We are a God-image people. Isn’t that amazing. This is why we honor every human life, the handicapped, the pre-born and we honor life because it’s the image of God. Even James says we can’t you know slander those who were made in his image with our mouth.
8 min 30 seconds– But likeness. We don’t have a clue yet. What it means to be in the likeness of God. You know the first thing God did with Adam? After he had the image and the likeness? Okay, God created the heavens and the earth. Gonna keep it simple. He made the trees after their kind, he made the birds after their kind, he made the fish after their kind, and He made man after God-kind.
9 min 10 seconds– He made a God-kind man. Do you know, God, this is so crazy, I may want to take a break after this, ’cause some might want to throw stones, but it doesn’t say God created the animals it says He formed them and brought them to Adam. If you’re in His image and likeness, you’re gonna do what God does.
9 min 35 seconds– God created–do the math–He created the heavens and the earth, and He formed the animals, brought them to Adam, said, your turn. He named them, gave them identity. He gave them… The image and likeness is coming.
And as the Church rises up in the image we’re made in His likeness, we’re to be conformed to the likeness, when we see Him we shall be like Him. And to see Him is not heaven. When we see Him as He really is, we get changed into that image. And likeness. We can see Him today. We can see Him come out of the shadows. We can see him emerge from the black and white pages of the Scriptures. We can see Him. When we see Him we are changed into that image and likeness. Seeing Him is so valuable in these last days.
10 min 37 seconds– Many see judgment. Many see clouds of doom. I see clouds of glory. The horizon filled with darkness is not a storm of judgment, it is the coming glory cloud that has yet to be perceived as it really is.
10 min 55 seconds– Something about clouds. God really likes clouds. He rides, His name is cloud rider. I put that in Psalms, the translation of the Psalms. Thous shalt get the Book of Psalms on your way out. But His name is Yah, cloud rider, ha ha ha. Okay, you’re the cloud. Eight times in the Bible, uno, dos, tres, quatro, eight times. Men are clouds. Cloud of witnesses. Jude speaks of false teachers that are clouds with no rain.
11 min 38 seconds– Throw up Isiah 60 verse 8. Put up Isaiah 60 verse 8, if you dare to read this. The Passion Translation: Who are these who soar like clouds, flying like doves into their portals? Jesus is coming in the clouds! I’m here to announce to you, ladies and gentlemen. Everybody missed His first coming. Only people who got revelation understood the first coming. Even though they had the Bible, they knew it’d be Bethlehem, but yet he was from Nazareth so they, he purposely let them get offended over being in Nazareth but He wasn’t, He was from Bethlehem, but they called Him from Nazareth.
He didn’t set the record straight. He let them be deceived. But those with spirit revelation would understand. He was from Bethlehem. Micah 5:2. So if everyone missed the First Coming except for divine revelation, how is it you got all the Second Coming figured out. There’s so much more to the unveiling.
13 min and 14 seconds– I want to unveil, I want to lift some of that veil as much as we go into Revelation 1. After our lunch I want to show you some secrets about the coming of the Lord. And how we can press into this greater glory.
The glory the glory the glory the glory the glory is the key to the coming days. It’s not Antichrist. It’s not the beast coming out of the waters. The sea is the picture of the sea of humanity, it’s the sin nature, it’s the sin of man coming from the nations that opposes the breaking forth of Christ’s life within us.
13 min 50 seconds– And the judgments in the Book of Revelation are not quite what you thought. The seven thunders will reveal Him. The seven thunders will be heard on the earth. Through a people who become the mighty ones of God. Psalm 29, the voice of the Lord. Thunders. And as we carry the voice of the Lord we will thunder with a trumpet sound to the nations. And there will be a radiant Bride. Shulamite lover. The woman at the well is coming. And that Revelation 12 virgin is going to come and bring forth the salvation of the planet.
Related article: Brian Simmons’ Second Coming heresy
It was just a few minutes ago these resources were given on this blog to help warn the saints about the heretical Enneagram: Richard Rohr and the Enneagram Secret and The Enneagram–An Enlightening Tool or an Enticing Deception?
Incredibly (more like predictably) Zondervan is making a documentary promoting the Enneagram. It will be released in the fall of 2020, and features the unbiblical teaching of Christopher L. Heuertz.
You can read Zondervan’s press release here.
According to the website promoting the documentary: The Enneagram reveals both the ways we get lost and the ways we find our way home to our True Self and to God. (emphasis mine)
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. (Isaiah 8:20)
HT: Don Veinot
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