Calif. Megachurch Accused of Practicing Occult in Use of 'Destiny Cards'
By
Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Sunday, December 24, 2017
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Bethel Church, a controversial megachurch in Redding, California, is now under fire in Christian circles for allegedly promoting New Age occultism in the use of "Destiny Cards," which critics have likened to tarot cards.
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Tarot cards are tarot cards whatever you choose to call them. They also plays their congregation in spells.
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Attending Bethel’s School of Supernatural Ministry (or any of their churches) is a Dangerous Mistake for Any Christian
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They kept this child's body for five days!
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The grave sucking phenomenon originated in Bill Johnson’s
Bethel Church in Redding, California, an organization associated with other unconventional practices such as
Sozo prayer and heretical movements such as the
Toronto Blessing and the
New Apostolic Reformation. Conflicting sources claim grave sucking is an ongoing joke among students from the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry, which, if true, would be a tragic mishandling of biblical truth (
2 Timothy 2:15). Even
Charismamag, a Charismatic magazine, condemns grave sucking in no uncertain terms. Yet Bill Johnson says in the book
Physics of Heaven, “There are anointings, mantles, revelations and mysteries that have lain unclaimed, literally where they were left, because the generation that walked in them never passed them on. I believe it’s possible for us to recover realms of anointing, realms of insight, realms of God that have been untended for decades simply by choosing to reclaim them and perpetuate them for future generations” (quoted by Judy Franklin and Ellyn Davis in
The Physics of Heaven: Exploring the Mysteries of God in Sound, Light, Energy, Vibrations, and Quantum Physics, Chapter 4: “Recovering Our Spiritual Inheritance,” Shippensburg, Penn.: Destiny Image Publishers, Inc., 2012). Whether sincere or facetious, the practice of grave sucking, grave soaking, or mantle grabbing has led many believers astray.
To visit the grave of a departed man or woman of God could certainly be a blessing or offer encouragement of faith through personal reflection, but any positive effects would come from God Himself (
James 1:17)—not from the bones of the dead or some kind of mystical power trapped therein. All believers are already anointed, chosen for a specific purpose in furthering God’s Kingdom (
2 Corinthians 1:21–22;
1 John 2:20). We need go no further than on our knees to find true purpose from God (
Romans 12:2). We walk by faith, not by sight, and not by sucking.
