Mike Bickle
Mike Bickle is the senior pastor of the Metro Christian Fellowship in Kansas City. Mike teaches that prophets do not have to be 100% accurate, "Someone suggested that I write a follow up book that revealed all our mistakes in the prophetic ministry. He suggested I call it Some Said We Blundered. I almost agreed. Indeed, we've made many mistakes on our journey in the prophetic ministry."
Mike Bickle claims that christians need, "In my understanding, it includes angelic visitations, dreams, visions and signs and wonders in the sky, as well as the increase in prophetic revelation, even the kind given through the subtle impressions of the Holy Spirit."
Hear the warning from Jonathan Edwards from the danger of going outside of God's complete and revealed word:
"That it is God's manner in these days, to guide his saints, at least some that are more eminent, by inspiration, or by immediate revelation. They suppose he makes known to them what shall come to pass hereafter, or what it is his will that they should do, by impressions made upon their minds, either with or without texts of Scripture: whereby something is made known to them that is not taught in the Scripture. By such a notion the devil has a great door opened for him, and if once this opinion should come to be fully yielded to, and established in the church of God, Satan would have an opportunity thereby to set himself as the guide and oracle of God's people..." Thoughts on the Revival, Works IV page 404.
George Whitefield has this to say about seeking signs and experiences:
"I think it is tempting God to require such signs...I think it will encourage the French Prophets, take people from the written word, and make them depend on visions, convulsions, etc., more than the promises and precepts of the gospel," PFO Quarterly Journal, July-September 2002, page 1.
Mike Bickle:
"The Lord simply said, 'I will change the understanding and expression of Christianity in the earth in one generation.'"
"The increase of prophetic ministry in the local church involves more than verbal, inspirational prophecy. In my understanding, it includes angelic visitations, dreams, visions and signs and wonders in the sky, as well as the increase in prophetic revelation, even the kind given through the subtle impressions of the Holy Spirit."
"Now, the 'two-thirds,' you know when Bob first said it, I said, 'two-thirds?...Well, that's better than its ever been up to now, you know. That's the highest level it's ever been."
"When God sends the wind of the Spirit, we can expect to see great signs and wonders such as the sound of rushing wind and the shaking of buildings as well as extraordinary healings raising the dead and the recovery of paralytics. A great harvest of souls will come as a result of this. ... He will send the wind of the Spirit, which includes a manifestation of the ministry of angels. ... all believers not just prophets will have dreams and see visions. The greatest and fullest manifestation of the kingdom of God the Day of the Lord, the restoration of all things and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit is reserved for the consummation of all things at the end of the age. I believe there will be an unprecedented revival in which all believers will experience dreams, visions and everything Joel prophesied just before the second coming of Christ."
"Paul Cain, whom we regard very highly, speaks to our church about two to three times a year. However, he gives most of what he receives for us to our main leadership group either in person or by telephone."
"Someone suggested that I write a follow up book that revealed all our mistakes in the prophetic ministry. He suggested I call it Some Said We Blundered. I almost agreed. Indeed, we've made many mistakes on our journey in the prophetic ministry."
"This personal and contemporary application of an end times, dramatic, worldwide visitation of God is without doubt based partially on my subjective experience. But it is also based on the Scriptures."
"God offends the mind to reveal the heart."
Even more frightening is Bickle's Appendix on "God's Manifest Presence." In this section, Bickle presents a list of phenomena from contemporary experience such as:
"Shaking, jerking, loss of bodily strength, heavy breathing, eyes fluttering, lips trembling, oil on the body, changes in skin color, weeping, laughing, 'drunkenness,' staggering, travailing, dancing, falling, visions, hearing audibly into the spirit realm, inspired utterances (that is, prophecy), tongues, interpretation; angelic visitations and manifestations; jumping, violent rolling, screaming, wind, heat, electricity, coldness, nausea as discernment of evil, smelling or tasting good or evil presences, tingling, pain in the body as discernment of illnesses, feeling heavy weight or lightness, trances (altered physical state while seeing and hearing into the spirit world), inability to speak normally and disruption of the natural realm (for example, electrical circuits blown)."
"After Dueling Prophets Sunday a few months earlier, we had begun to work out a system for administrating the flow of prophetic words in our worship services."
