Bill Johnson Reveals Ominous Consequence if He Doesn’t Get $100 Million for Apostolic Training Center
Yes, people do still fall this stuff...
Four months ago Bethel Church broke ground on their new $96,000,000 Campus and Apostolic Training Center, with lead pastor Bill Johnson explaining “We are partnering with other catalysts from around the world to propel this mission forward, and are believing for an entirely new, state-of-the-art campus where we can continue to pursue God’s decree over our movement.” Video link HERE
Now, following the playbook of master manipulators, Bill Johnson has sent out a plea asking undiscerning Christians to donate to his devilish cause, pressing the need for urgency and revealing that his friend Michael Maiden prophesied last year that: “(If Bethel) does not build now, we would not be ready for what is to come.” Maiden is about as crazy as a rat in a coffee can, and no one ought to pay him any heed, as a retarded monkey with a pen taped to its hand could write a more lucid and spirit-filled prophecy than him. Facebook post HERE
Naturally, we have many questions, such as if ‘the Lord is erasing the line between spiritual and natural’ -whatever that means- then why the importance of having a physical place? Second of all, it’s worth noting that Bill has some skill here when it comes to these huckstering practices. A beginner manipulator would say that he had a word from the Lord that people need to give to him, whereas one more skilled like Johnson only quotes what someone else has to say about it, giving him plausible deniability.
In terms of pitches, it’s not as crass as when Oral Roberts told his viewers that God was going to strike him dead if he didn’t raise 8 million dollars in 3 months. Luckily for Roberts and unluckily for the church, he received 9 million and lived to see another day. Still. It’s so, so greasy.
We suspect that whether or not Bethel raises their tenth of a billion dollars, whatever is ‘to come’ won’t depend on some factory of false prophecies to stave off its terror.