On the NAR Gnostic Heresy AND 30 RED FLAGS OF DECEPTION from “Magical Mystery Church” Investigation

IF YOU ALREADY HAVE SOME FAMILIARITY WITH THE NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION (NAR) YOU MAY WISH TO SKIP DOWN TO TODAY’S GUEST VIDEOS AT THE BOTTOM. IF NOT, SOME BACKGROUND INFORMATION MIGHT BE HELPFUL. HERE IS A LISTING OF A NUMBER OF THE SALIENT TOPICS JUST FROM MY OWN INVESTIGATION, ON ASSIGNMENT.

See also book recommendations* on this movement, although there are many books, articles, expert analyses, interviews, and so on, found both in print and Online, a lot of which are incorporated into my own investigation, too, linked above.

Note: Part 2 video features 30 red flags of deception in NAR churches and teachings which can be applied to nearly every cult- or occult-influenced movement.

TO THE TWO-PART FEATURE “Final Gnostic ASSAULT FROM WITHIN – occult infiltration & red flags 🚩 of deception link 👇 PART 2” featured by Laura Srocki on her website Magical Mystery Church.

Part 1

Part 2

 

*Books:

Counterfeit Kingdom: The Dangers of New Revelation, New Prophets, and New Age Practices in the Church by R. Douglas Geivett and Holly Pivec

A New Apostolic Reformation?: A Biblical Response to a Worldwide Movement by Holly Pivec and R. Douglas Geivett

And their newest publication (see also this interview with the authors of their latest book on this topic on a recent Jan Markell radio broadcast.)

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ACCESS TO DISCERNMENT BEGINS HERE: ABCs of Salvation

Next, find a Bible-believing and teaching church. Here is one “locator” available Online:

Interactive Church Locator

 

MOST IMPORTANTLY: STAY IN THE WORD OF GOD

 

 

Guest Video from “Magical Mystery Church: ‘New age – OLD HERESIES'” in the New Apostolic Reformation

After investigating literally hundreds of hours’ worth of books, articles, and interviews over the past year or so on assignment for a pastoral staff, I have become familiar with many presentations in print and Online formats of the heresies and aberrant teachings of the amalgamation of movements, cults, and occultic influences of what is known as the modern “New Apostolic Reformation” (NAR) movement.

The site featured in today’s post is found here: https://www.youtube.com/@magicalmysterychurch3424/playlists

Jan Markell Interview of Holly Pivec and Dr. R. Douglas Geivett RE Their Newest Book Exposing Bethel Church and the NAR Movement

https://www.lightsource.com/ministry/understanding-the-times/player/

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Related: https://pnissila.blog/new-apostolic-reformation/

The above series on this blog includes an example of a biblical approach to sharing concerns with your pastor/elders when the New Apostolic Reformation theology is brought into your church whether by simple ignorance of the fast-growing global movement–or on purpose. The church member cited the entrance into her church’s teachings of just one of the most concerning aspects of NAR theology: that Jesus wasn’t fully God and man while here on earth https://pnissila.blog/2024/02/09/what-she-said-and-how-to-her-pastors-on-leaving-a-nar-influenced-church/

Book referenced in Markell’s interview

Reckless Christianity, The Destructive New Teachings and Practices of Bill Johnson, Bethel Church, and the Global Movement of Apostles and Prophets (new, by Holly Pivec and Dr. R. Douglas Geivett).

Other books by Pivec and Geivett:

Counterfeit Kingdom: The Dangers of New Revelation, New Prophets, and New Age Practices in the Church 

A New Apostolic Reformation?: A Biblical Response to a Worldwide Movement

In the War of Good and Evil: On Weaponizing the Mind of Christ

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila

Few doubt, anymore, we are in another world war, a very sigificant war, both temporal and spiritual, perhaps even that war prophesied to close out the end times just before Jesus comes back the second time to rule for the next millenium.

Although I’ve written over 260 “survival” posts the past 12 years (along with the rest of my topics) that are featured here and here, there seems to be no end to perspectives and strategies as I glean more and more from the Word of God and parallel secular sources. Thus, I continue.

This time I want to share a kind of personal writing prompt, from several years ago, that I always keep in mind and that seems especially apropos just now.

Goes like this:

When It’s Time to “Shake the Dust Off Your Feet” and Book It

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila

¹¹ “Now whatever city or town you enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and stay there till you go out.¹² And when you go into a household, greet it.¹³ If the household is worthy, let your peace come upon it. But if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.¹⁴ And whoever will not receive you nor hear your words, when you depart from that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet. (Matthew 10:11-14)

You can try your best, do your best, change-up your best, or search for a better way to clear up any misunderstanding about your intentions, words, or deeds–you can even apologize where it’s due if you know the offense–but sometimes it’s just a no-go with whomever you are trying to extend the hand of peace.

On Classic Christian Revival versus the NAR “Tokin’ the Ghost” Brand, and Good and Bad Seeds

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Phyllis Beveridge Nissila

NAR (New Apostolic Reformation) Revival–“Tokin’ the Ghost”?

You have to admit, it’s a pretty exciting experience at a toe-tappin’, rock ‘n roll, NAR revival,  jumpin’ to a 10o-decibel Jesus jam or transe-ing out to bongo and binaural beats chanting some new-revelation mantra until you fall down “drunk in the spirit“. Or maybe laughing uncontrollably or moaning and screaming and rolling around on the floor after you have gone through a “fire tunnel“…

Yeah, there’s a little Scripture sprinkled in here and there, but who takes time to “Berean it” when

Apologist Mike Winger on the Fake Physics and Other New Age Influences in Bethel Book, The Physics of Heaven

Ever wonder how New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) followers get the notion that their literal words create literal reality (a popular Word of Faith doctrine incorporated into NAR beliefs and seeded into several popular NAR song lyrics. Example)?

Ever wonder why NARites believe when they “declare and decree” certain things like raising people from the dead and changes in the very laws of nature (“Just like God,” say all the “little gods”)?

Ever wonder how to take trips to heaven at will, as taught in NAR schools of supernatural ministry? (A real mind trip)

“Beware the Borderlands” of the New Apostolic Reformation

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila

When a friend of mine first became aware of the extraoardinarily subtle nature of the deceptions of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) that sells its false doctrines with great skill and song (here’s a sampling of more of its mechanisms of attraction), she nailed the nature of its power: “But their teachings are SO CLOSE to the Scriptures!”

Yup.

The better to seduce them by, touting feelings over (biblical) foundations and experiences over exegesis, pulling the enticed deeper and deeper into a gnostic woods strewn with false apostles and prophets and promoters…

In short: so close to the real land of milk and honey yet so far, far away.

Encouragement today:

Beware the Borderlands

Beware the borderlands
of thoughts, and words and deeds,
of slippery slopes,
forbidden roads
where shine their wares and creeds.

Beware deception lands
where fakes and shills and snakes
lead and guide,
ensnare and blind,
with whate’er it takes.

Beware the conquered lands
of beauty, bucks, and brawn,
where white-washed tombs,
those, roadsides strewn,
await with gaping yawns.

Beware the borderlands.*

Stay in the Word of God, friends.

Sincerely,

pbn

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*(from “For the Workers Late in the Field
Poems of Encouragement for Such a Time as This”)

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On the Pre-Trib Rapture vs Mid-Trib, What Does the Bible Say?

Featured today is a teaching on the pre-Tribulation Rapture of believers by prophecy expert Mondo Gonzales speaking on the Jan Markell radio program.

For those who disagree with this stance but who are at least willing to take another look at the evidence provided, perhaps you will be encouraged and comforted, too. – pbn

I’ll Keep You From the Hour of Testing – Mondo Gonzales

“For the Workers Late in the Field”–Encouragement for the “Great Commissioners” in Such a Time as This

Phyllis Beveridge Nissila

Essentially, I am an encourager in the Body of Christ. We each have a role.

Although we love encouragement, it is a two-sided coin: one, the usual, positive kind, the other, however, the warning kind.

These days, given the situations in the world and in the Church, both filled with ever-expanding deception, distraction, and division (as prophesied), being human, we need all the positive encouragement we can get as the warnings increase, gaining volume and speed.

And in all our individual “ministries” we need each other–arguably more so than ever before.

Thus in what ways I can, I try to do my bit.

Here is another take on encouragement for you (perhaps just now weary) fellow worker in Christ’s Great Commission–for such a time as this: