Todd Bentley False Prophet

Todd Bentley was born in 1976 in Sechelt, British Columbia, Canada

This was written by me back in 2008 and I am republishing because the false prophet is back and being promoted by some churches and well-known ministers.

Todd's upbringing was predominantly situated in Gibsons, British Columbia. At age 6, his parents divorced. He continued residing with his mother, who lost her hearing years before the divorce. Despite the divorce and his father moving away, Todd visited his father regularly. At age 11, Todd began undertaking illicit alcohol consumption under his father's supervision. Later, at age 15, Todd was sentenced as a juvenile delinquent after perpetrating sexual assault on a minor.

Following his release from jail, Todd continued struggling through adolescence, transferring between several foster homes in the vicinity of Lower Mainland, B.C. before finally rejoining his father.

At age 17, Todd was unconsciously hospitalized after swallowing a bag full of illicit amphetamines and hallucinogenic pills. His stomach pumped of the drugs, the doctors posited him to be irrecoverably approaching certain death. Albeit notably bleak, his health gradually ameliorated. Afterwards, Todd dedicated his life to God, pursuing a life as a "revivalist" missionary. Todd credits God for his healthy recuperation and life transformation.

Criminal history

According to The Report Newsmagazine, a social conservative publication that is now uncirculated , Bentley was jailed for 18 months when he was fifteen years old for crimes of a sexual nature against a 7-year-old boy.

As a juvenile offender, Bentley's record should have been protected from public disclosure. The article in The Report acknowledged the Canadian law, but stated that Bentley freely provided details of the offence. Two years later Bentley said he had no idea the reporter interviewing him would publish his acknowledgment of the molestation. "[The reporter] did not tell me he was doing a follow-up story," Bentley told Charisma. "He was just friendly and told me what the mother had said, and I admitted to him in what I thought were off-the-record comments that it was true, but that it happened years ago and I had since been changed by the gospel."

A few months after the article in The Report was published, the mother of the victim contacted the media in Kewlona, B.C. where Bentley was holding a crusade. In response, "Bentley decided to address the local outcry by going on the 6 p.m. local TV-news broadcast. He admitted the crime on-air, asked for forgiveness, told viewers how ashamed he was, and how he was transformed five years after the incident by the gospel's power."

Bentley willingly admits his past: "I turned around and did what had happened to me. I was assaulted too." He states in his book "Today I want to be sure that in the future no one can say I hid things or mislead people about my past" . (Journey Into The Miraculous, p.24, used by permission)

Ministries and activities

Todd Bentley has travelled internationally holding church services and crusades in over 55 nations including South Africa, Malaysia, Peru, Ethopia, and Uganda where he has a children's home for orphans called the "Uganda Jesus Village." In addition to these activities, "Freshfire Ministries," which Todd serves as CEO since 1998, oversees a Supernatural Training Centre in conjunction with a group in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Efforts to train native pastors to help set up a Supernatural Training Centre in Kampala, Uganda were undertaken in January 2008. Todd's claim is to raise up sons and daughters for his kind of ministry. His home church is Global Harvest Centre.

Florida Healing Outpouring

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In April 2008, Todd Bentley was invited to Ignited Church in Lakeland, Florida for a several-day conference. Meetings moved from the church building to local auditoriums and stadiums, continuing daily and broadcasted live via God Tv satellite channels and online streaming.

Personal life

Todd currently resides in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. Bentley is married to Shonnah, and has three children —Elijah, Lauralee, and Esther. His father lives on Vancouver Island.

Bentley lives in an Abbotsford home when not in revival, and he owns a 2007 GMC Sierra and a 2003 Harley Davidson motorcycle, as well as a 2008 f150 35-foot travel trailer (The Province Newspaper) .

Todd Bentley's current interests as expressed on his MySpace page are: Family, Sushi, Harley Davidson's, Music, Starbucks, Movies, and hanging out with friends.

His heroes are listed as: Jesus!, Paul the Apostle, true Spiritual Fathers (anyone who can be a true father), David and The Mighty Men, Overcomers, and those who take up the cause of the widow and the orphan.

Todd has a number of impressive tattoos and piercings which, he claims, God told him to get.

Views and beliefs

Todd is associated with the controversial "Kansas City Prophets", and has had various prophets speak in support of his ministry and the event in Lakeland, Florida.

Here are a couple of extracts from Todd's 2003 article 'Angelic Hosts':

So when I need a financial breakthrough I don't just pray and ask God for my financial breakthrough. I go into intercession and become a partner with the angels by petitioning the Father for the angels that are assigned to getting me money: "Father, give me the angels in heaven right now that are assigned to get me money and wealth. And let those angels be released on my behalf. Let them go into the four corners of the earth and gather me money.

Todd continues...

Jane, ANGEL of The PROPHETIC

Now let me talk about an angelic experience with Emma. Twice Bob Jones asked me about this angel that was in Kansas City in 1980: "Todd, have you ever seen the angel by the name of Emma?" He asked me as if he expected that this angel was appearing to me. Surprised, I said, "Bob, who is Emma?" He told me that Emma was the angel that helped birth and start the whole prophetic movement in Kansas City in the 1980s. She was a mothering-type angel that helped nurture the prophetic as it broke out. Within a few weeks of Bob asking me about Emma, I was in a service in Beulah, North Dakota.

In the middle of the service I was in conversation with Ivan and another person when in walks Emma. As I stared at the angel with open eyes, the Lord said, "Here's Emma." I'm not kidding. She floated a couple of inches off the floor. It was almost like Kathryn Kuhlman in those old videos when she wore a white dress and looked like she was gliding across the platform. Emma appeared beautiful and young - about 22 years old - but she was old at the same time. She seemed to carry the wisdom, virtue and grace of Proverbs 31 on her life. She glided into the room, emitting brilliant light and colors. Emma carried these bags and began pulling gold out of them. Then, as she walked up and down the aisles of the church, she began putting gold dust on people... Within three weeks of that visitation, the church had given me the biggest offering I had ever received to that point in my ministry. Thousands of dollars! Thousands!... During this visitation the pastor's wife (it was an AOG church) got totally whacked by the Holy Ghost - she began running around barking like a dog or squawking like a chicken as a powerful prophetic spirit came on her. Also, as this prophetic anointing came on her, she started getting phone numbers of complete strangers and calling them up on the telephone and prophesying over them... Then angels started showing up in the church.

More recently, Todd stated that in one of his "Third Heaven" trips he literally visited the small cabin where the apostle Paul lives in Heaven. Paul told him that he wrote the book of Hebrews with the personal help of Abraham the Patriarch: "The authorship isn't clear because it was Abraham and I; Abraham shared the content with me." Todd's 'Third Heaven' tales are full of such astonishing claims.

In this YouTube video, Todd speaks of the angel that is going to "visit the children" and then he begins to jerk and laugh uncontrollably. He prays that a 'drunken glory' will move across the whole place, with evidence within the audience. Both Todd and Bob Jones credit an angel that carries the "Winds of Change" for the current healing revival — an angel that they say is still driving it.

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First of all, barking like dogs and clucking like chickens is unscriptural. I challenge anyone to find me scripture to back this up. It strikes me that saying that howling and roaring and making animal noises "in the Spirit" is an unusual claim. If you are claiming that God is involved with that then it seems to me that it's up to you to prove it. I'm a bit uncomfortable talking about this because even discussing it like this lends some legitimacy to it. It's kind of like saying, well, let's reflect on this for a moment and see whether this might be okay.

Ladies and gentlemen, why would anybody even be tempted to say that people thrashing about making animal noises is an evidence of the movement of God? What has the Body of Christ come to that we look at this kind of behavior and we call it the Holy Spirit? Just on the face of it, doesn't it seem--think, please think--doesn't it seem that if anyone was going to turn people into animals it would not be God? It would be Satan. I mean if I had a choice. Remember the Gad Rene demoniac? Thrashing about in the tombs, demon possessed, cutting his body, living like pardon me, an animal? That was demons, not God.

The only time I can think of God making someone like an animal was Nebuchadnezzar--and that was a judgment of God. If you recall, it was when Nebuchadnezzar came to his senses that he was released from his crazy behavior. Read the book of Daniel. He was taking all the glory to himself, not giving praise to God, so God made him into a cow. I mean, he was still Nebuchadnezzar, but he lived like a cow. He went out in the field for seven years (Daniel 4), I believe, and ate grass. His nails grew long. He was an animal. He bellowed, and mooed, I imagine. And then he came to his senses, gave God the glory and was restored to his position of authority.

I have been in church services where people were barking like dogs and clucking like chickens and laughing like hyenas. I also saw people get up and walk out and say they wouldn't come back anymore either.

I am reminded of what Apostle Paul said, 1 Corinthians 14:40 "But all things must be done properly and in an orderly manner." Also in 1 Corinthians 14:33 "God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints."

Suppose someone was considering giving their life to Christ that did not go to church? Do you think carrying on like this would make them come to Jesus? What if someone was suicidal? Would this type of carrying on draw them to Jesus? If you took a successful business person or maybe your boss at work to a church service like this, would they be impressed?

Punching people in the mouth, choking them, and knocking out their teeth as well as kicking old ladies in the face, well, I can't find where that is proper and in order. If someone can show it to me in the word then I stand to be corrected.

On the "Gold Dust" question, the God that I serve owns all the gold and all the silver (Hag 2:8) and since He owns it all, why would he just sprinkle a little dust on the crowd? Why not give the crowd a huge abundance to pay bills with since he owns it all? Why was Todd Bentley the only one who got thousands and thousands of dollars and not those attending the meeting? My God's name is El Shaddai not El Cheapo! I do not believe in this gold dust junk when the God I serve would pour out a much larger abundance than dust!

Speaking to an angel called Emma that comes from Kansas City? Where is that in the word? Show it to me because somehow in the studies I have done in the word I have missed it. I will tell you what I didn't miss though, and that is Gal. 1:8 "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed."

Now if you do a search on Angel Emma you will find 1. EMMA-O: King of Hell. He lives the good life in a large castle covered in gold, silver, pearls and jewels. Now I know Bentley says Emma is a female but demons can appear as a male or female angel, which ever they choose. Satan is known as the deceiver. EMMA-0, The Lying demon that calls itself the angel that (it is claimed) ministered with Rev. William Branham, the famous faith healer who fell into much error before he died. He believed that he was god.

Let me say, that real revivals do not move on the power of angels. True revivals come by the Power of the Holy Spirit. God with sovereignty move, bringing people face to face with the state of their soul. He will convict them of sin and then reveal to them God's divine love and compassion that He sent His Dear Son, to suffer death in their place. Revival will sweep millions into the Kingdom of God. A demonic angel called Emma has absolutely nothing to do with salvation or miracles by the hand of God. The Holy Ghost will never lift an individual's personality up because The Spirit's job is to draw people to Jesus Christ, to convict and bring them to God.

Now I realize that some will attack me and try to say I am jealous of Todd Bentley and wish that my ministry was huge like his. Well I will stop that thought right now, because I am a high profile public figure and speak in some of the world's largest churches. I not only speak to huge crowds but I hold records in Australia and New Zealand for souls saved, and I did it by focusing on Jesus Christ and NOT an angel or barking like a dog!

I never kicked an old woman in the face either. I do not wish to attack any other person including Todd Bentley but when a fake comes along that is deceiving people that I have ministered to as well as friends of mine, then I know I have a duty to expose him as a heretic. I am in hopes he will repent of this nonsense but until he does, I am others will continue to expose him. I am not some Johnny-come-lately who has no one listening to him, so Todd Bentley should keep that in mind as he continues to fleece the flock.

Todd claims that Jesus literally stepped out of heaven and came down to visit him. http://www.christianresearchservice.com/ToddBentley1.htm

Todd claims he went to Paul's cabin in heaven and had a rap session with him as to the authorship of the Book of Hebrews. He claims that Paul told him Abraham helped him write it. Never mind the fact that Abraham had already been dead for many years before Paul wrote the book. I guess we are supposed to believe Abraham was allowed to return to life and help Paul write Hebrews even though Paul never mentions this. Don't you think something as important as this would be mentioned in the Bible? Are we supposed to believe that Todd Bentley is the ONLY one on Earth God chose to reveal this to? Well isn't that special? Oh my! Thank you for enlightening us Oh holy one!

The bottom line is this Todd Bentley is making all kinds of claims that does not line up with God's word. If we are to believe that God chose to reveal things like this to Todd Bentley so he can educate the rest of the world, even though they do not line up with God's word, then why not believe Bishop Carlton Pearson when he says things that do not line up with God's word in his new religion called "Gospel of Inclusionism" instead of labeling him a heretic? Why not believe Oprah and her new religion when she says there are other ways to get to heaven instead of just through Jesus?

Before anyone accuses me of being anti-Charismatic let me say I was mentored not only by Rev. Wade Watts but by Ps. Billy Joe Daugherty of Victory Christian Center who pastors one of the largest Pentecostal churches in the world with over 25,000 members back when I used to live in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Ps. Daugherty always taught that anything that is preached must line up with God's word and if it does not then it is not of God. I am thankful that Ps. Daugherty taught me this many years ago. I have carried these teaching in my world wide ministry and I always preach what I was taught.

Some people want a touch from the supernatural so bad they are willing to flock to these false revivals and believe anything as long as they can "feel good" and get a supernatural high. People need to stop acting like flakes and stop this insanity! If it does not line up with God's word then it is NOT of God, period!

Psalm 12:6-7 says, "The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever." Then we read in Psalm 100:5 that ". . . . his truth endureth to all generations," and Jesus said in John 17:17 that God's WORD is truth.

2 John 9 - Whoever fails to abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God.

But following human standards - whether by failing to practice what Jesus teaches, or by practicing things He never authorized - is a failure to abide in the teachings of Jesus.

So I shall conclude with a word for Todd Bentley:

Revelation 22:18,19 - Whoever adds to Jesus' words, God will add to him the plagues in the book. Whoever takes from God's words, his part will be removed from the holy city.

Again, the basic error of human standards is that they show a lack of respect for the teachings of Jesus. All human standards are written on the presumption that weak, imperfect human beings can write a better standard than what was written by the all-wise, infallible God. This is why God refuses to allow His people to follow any other standard but the Bible.

TODD BENTLEY DIVORCES WIFE AND MARRIES HIS MISTRESS!

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23332/todd-bentley-9

Todd] Bentley has married the former Jessa Hasbrook, a former intern for his ministry. Last summer, his internationally famous revival campaign in Lakeland, Florida collapsed when it was revelead that he and Jessa had begun an “emotional affair”. Charismatic leaders C. Peter Wagner and Robert Ricciardelli, however, have reported that the affair was apparently sexual. Mr. Ricciardelli, furthermore, has indicated that this affair, whatever type it was, began in January of last year, which would place it well before Mr. Bentley announced that he was separating from his wife Shonnah. This is also well before Mr. Bentley brought Shonnah Bentley and his kids to Lakeland to show them to an international T.V. audience. Shonnah Bentley even preached in a local church to promote her husband’s revival.