The Lucrative Business of Prophecy

I heard an interesting thing a few weeks ago. Someone from my town had received a word from the Lord at a convention in Whistler, B.C., featuring Jedediah Tham and Charlie Robinson. According to this person, Mr. Jedediah Tham is world renowned for counsel he provides to senior financial executives (for which he charges a small fee of $100,000 per hour in advance). Anyways, this person who went to the convention now had a testimony to share about the word he got 'from the Lord' at the conference. The word concerned greater works (global restoration) that God would give us, new prophetic gifts from the Holy Spirit, uncommon answers and understanding beyond our present knowledge. To top it off, this word from the Lord also included Canada, which has a 'destiny in Kingdom business'. Finally, the word was that ‘our words create our climate.’

Sorry to say, but in my humble opinion, this sounds like a load of positive thinking, extreme prophetic, kingdom now theology nonsense!

And here is why…

There was indeed a conference recently in Whistler B.C. It was called “Ahead of the Nations,” and the speakers were Jedidiah Tham, Charlie Robinson, Stacey Campbell and Marc Brisebois. (Who can forget Stacey Campbell and her infamous head shaking ecstatic prophecies?) But there's more. This week, these guys are heading to Toronto (to TACF - home of The Toronto Blessing) with Patricia King for something called the Canadian Oil Conference. (See more conference promos here.)

This is a bit different than the 'greater glory' and 'catch the fire' thing of last year. It appears that the modern day prophets are now using current issues that will grab people’s attention (the economy), and are focusing on the prophetic/financial realm. In addition to these financial conferences, they also sell the DVD's, so that those who are in the midst of impending financial crisis and are worried about their emptying wallets will need to pay only 32 bucks to walk in abundance during the recession! Like this one...

Prophetic Wisdom for End Time Finances

Charlie Robinson and Dr. Jedidiah Tham join Craig Buroker for an in depth look at what God is saying to His church in the midst of impending financial crisis. Dr. Tham carries a global financial anointing that speaks a clear prophetic word enabling people to see why the economic crisis may worsen and how they can prepare themselves to align with God and prosper in it. The depth of anointing and spiritual wisdom on these teachings will change your thinking about finances and allow you to walk in abundance as God prepares His church for the great end time transfer of wealth. -[Source]

After the Toronto thing, Dr. Jedidiah is going to be speaking in Taiwan this August about overcoming global financial calamity through divine wisdom (see here). Also speaking at this same conference will be fellow birds of a feather Jeff Jansen (see his contemplative soaking CD here and his out of body experience CD here) and Matt Sorger (of The New Breed).

While one cannot always judge a bird by the flock he is flying with, in this case, it's pretty obvious that these teachers are all in the same modern day prophetic/business category. Therefore, it is my humble opinion that these might be the kind of men that we are warned about in the Bible (Acts 20:29).

If these things concern you, here are some related items for further research (regarding Charlie Robinson) that might stir you to warn those who are following so called anointed prophets of prosperity and their business partners.

Charlie Robinson video clips
www.xpmedia.com

“The Rest Room of God” by Charlie Robinson
www.freshfire.ca

Charlie Robinson and his 'Pillow Fight with Jesus'
Does the word BLASPHEMY ring a bell?!
by Bud Press, Director
www.christianresearchservice.com

Another thing that is a little on the outlandish side:

JUDGMENT AND REVIVAL

Charlie Robinson, a recognized seer prophet from Abbotsford, began by describing the message about the glory that God birthed in his heart years ago. The Lord had promised that he would see the goodness (glory) of the Lord in the land of the living (Ps. 27:13). He also described prophetic words God had given him many years before about revival in Canada and in Abbotsford, before describing manifestations of that revival in the city and through Fresh Fire.

Charlie spoke about the power that is released when God puts a roar like a lion in our spirits and we release it. Years before the Lord called him to roar over each province in Canada in order to disarm the religious spirits in the nation. He said that recently, when he was in Indonesia, God prompted him to roar like a lion—six days later there was an earthquake and the tsunami hit. Charlie noted that this event was actually just a natural manifestation of God's judgment of a spiritual principality—it wasn't a judgment on people.

-www.freshfire.ca

Note: In regards to Freshfire Ministries, it is now called Transform International. Mr. Bentley has flown south and unabashedly started a new USA Freshfire Ministry (www.freshfireusa.com) after unexpectedly divorcing his wife and marrying his nanny.

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By the way, as an added note, God does want to prosper us, but not in the way the prosperity gospel preachers present it. Here is a very good article to read regarding these things...

The Way It Was Meant To Be
by Jack Kelly
gracethrufaith.com