The Pentecostal spirit is satanic

We are living in the times where people are so much interested in searching for the spirit. Many are not geared towards the search for truth, but towards the search for powers and people who have it. People are looking for something supernatural and many false teachers who are willing to give them what there itching ears want to hear. “Believers are encouraged to be seeker sensitive” ¹, seeking for new gifts, powers and the Spirit

As a result people who seek the spirit eventually find the spirit but many times not the Spirit of God but the spirit of the evil one. Many pastors have resorted to using the spirit of Satan in disguise for the Holy Spirit directly or through other satanic channels like hypnosis which the “believers” call the “pouring of the spirit”

Pentecostals are always very eager to refer to them selves as people of the spirit, they consider them selves to be alive in the spirit while referring to other churches as “dead churches” without the Holy Spirit.  However, many questions have been raised about the Pentecostal spirit especially concerning the source. Some wonder whether He is the real Holy Spirit, evil spirit, hypnotisms or just emotionalism and ecstasy. In this chapter, the mystery has been un covered.

Satan has also been watching attentively as people look for more power- power to heal and be healed, power to anoint and be anointed and power to work miracles, Satan the master of the evil spirit is very willing to use his evil spirit to mislead people, this is the reason why the Bible told us to test the spirit to see whether it comes from God (I John 4:1).

Lack of discernment and use of souls forces

Though many Pentecostals confess possessing the Holy Spirit, that is their main problem, it’s true they have the spirit but many lack the gift of discernment, other wise they would leave this movement . The Bible told us to test the spirit but Pentecostals have fallen short of that. Many of their leaders directly engage in activities of un holy spirits but their followers have failed to discern the spirit for their own good.

Many people have been led into occultic/hypnotic phenomenon such as spirit slaying and drunkenness and soothsaying (which they often call "the word of knowledge) as apostolic signs,  due to their quest for more powers and favors by pastors who use soul forces and may exaggerate and prefabricate the alleged signs. They have found them selves in churches of spiritual confusion where the real Holy Spirit never exists.

The spirit of confusion

There are many strange things which take place when the Pentecostal movement Spirit comes down. Physical jerking, holy laughter, slain in the spirit, and animal sounds are some of the activities which characterize the movement. However among all the mentioned activities, there is none which stand for the truth since they are also heavily present in Satanism but sadly they are the major reason why people join the Pentecostal movement.

I watched a man who banged his head on the wall during worship and had to be taken to the hospital. If you can only see Pentecostals laughing in the spirit, groaning like animals, and swing their clothes high and low, you will not fail to conclude as the man who founded them called it “a case of spiritual power prostituted”. Parham also referred to the activities of the movement he began as “manifestations of the flesh, spiritualistic controls, and the practice of hypnotism”

It is a state of confusing a person mind into believing that the Holy Spirit has come when it just an influence of musical instrument through the use of very soft tones, hypnotism, pastors directions or nothing happening at all apart from declaring the holy spirit where it is not.

Is being slain in the spirit Godly?

Pentecostals always cherish the idea and activity of being slain in the spirit which they describe as a moment when he Holy Spirit is bringing back past painful memories to heal them, and the person is screaming out in agony or the Holy Spirit is blessing the individual so tremendously that, they are screaming out under his power or the moment when Holy Spirit is doing something prophetic in the person’s life.²

The only problem with their definitions is that, they use absolutely no scriptures to validate any of their points. The truth is that, they do not forget to quote them but there are absolutely no scriptures to support them.

Being slain in the spirit is a very old practice though it is foreign to the Bible; there is no where in the Bible where a person was slain in spirit like it is done in the Pentecostal movement. However the activity has been prevalent from shrines to occult and in direct Satanism. 

I watched a young girl who had been possessed by a demon falling backward to the ground and rolling down on the floor; she could omit certain sounds and she lost her mental conscience. The very same scenario happens in the Pentecostal movement though in Pentecostalism, it is referred to as the Holy Spirit. As we have noted, there is no incidence in Bible where the Holy Spirit slay people like the way it is done in Pentecostalism, hypnotism, occultism and in direct Satanism.

Pentecostals have frequently quoted some Bible verses out of context so as to back up their arguments concerning being slain the spirit. These include; II Chronicles 5:11-14, Matthew 17:5-7, and Acts 9:3-4, If you carefully examine those Bible verses you will discover that they  have some characteristics which are essential in discerning being slain by the Holy Spirit and being slain by the evil spirit. It seems many Pentecostals have never noticed them, these include:-

1. All people in the Bible fell forward and not backward like the Pentecostals do.
2. On the occasions people fell down, there was supernatural appearance of angles or God himself which never happens in the Pentecostal movement.
3. No one caught those who fell (there where no catchers).
4. The Holy Spirit did not make any one laugh.
5. There was no direct ministry of another person or intermediary like the way Pentecostals pastors do.
6. All the experiences where un expected.
7. People remained conscious

It is by no surprise that none of the Pentecostal reactions to the spirit fit in the biblical characteristics of people reaction to the coming of the spirit or God himself as outlined above. The Pentecostals un knowingly quote those verses forgetting that they are comparing two parallel and antagonistic things.

Invariably, Pentecostals fall when some one has laid hands on them or when some one has ordered them to do so. Nothing of the sort happened in the verses above. In the book of II Chronicles 5:11-14,  we notice a temple dedication ceremony, Note also that, all priests fell down, there is no record of any Pentecostal service where all people fell down under God’s power simultaneously (including the pastor), In many cases, the pastor remain standing which is very different from what happened in the book of Chronicles.

There fore using II chronicles 5:11-14 is a grave mistake, the Pentecostals are attempting to compare the biblical with the unbiblical which is anti Christ and satanic.

Even when you take a closer look on Matthew 17:5-7, there is nothing which indicates that God slew the disciples in spirit, nor does it say that the Holy spirit knocked them to the ground. They fell because they were afraid and they remained conscious. It is also important to note that they fell on their face (forward). What happen on that day is an exact opposite of what happens in Pentecostal Churches.

Neither does Acts 9:3-4 fit into the Pentecostal explanations, the text can not legitimately be used to prove the manifestations taking place in Pentecostal Churches,

There is no one who laid hands on Paul and I wonder how many Pentecostals can be fooled by their leaders to such an extent. Paul also never lost conciseness, his mind and other faculties were very sharp, he was able to speak rationally and with a stable mind spoke to God. This does not happen in the Pentecostal experience.

John White³ used Daniel 10:9-10 to justify falling down under the Holy Spirit power. He forgot that unlike today, Daniel’s experience was totally un expected, In today’s Pentecostal worship services, people expect to be slain in the spirit, When Daniel was over come, the angel came and gave him strength. This is something we do not see in today’s services. Note that Daniel fell face forward, almost all Pentecostals who are slain in the spirit fall backward. There is simply no legitimate manner Daniel 10:9-10 can be used to support the Pentecostals way of being slain in the spirit.

If the Pentecostal experiences of being slain in the spirit is opposite to the Biblical accounts then what is it? There is no best answer to that than concluding that the Spirit which slays them is not the same as the Holy Spirit of the bible.