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I was heartened the other day
when I read that the President of the United States took time out of his
busy schedule to allow an "Evangelical Minister" to lay hands on
Him and pray. He needs prayer, and the support of the evangelical church,
as much as possible.
But then my joy turned to angst
when I read further, that the "evangelical minister" who prayed
for Trump, was in fact a spiritually dangerous counterfeit, a purveyor of
false doctrine and gnostic, experience based spirituality named Rodney Howard
Browne.
I shouldn't have been surprised
because one of the President's closest Spiritual advisor, is a
televangelist and Word of Faith heresy proponent Paula White who is
of the same heretical ilk as Rodney Howard Browne.
In short Rodney Howard Browne is
the Father of the so called "Laughing Revival" of mysticism and
Spiritual Drunkenness which led directly to the disastrously destructive
"Toronto Blessing" which spread through Pentecostal, Charismatic
and Even evangelical churches in the late 1990's spreading heresy, false
doctrine, mystical experience, deception and delusion throughout the world.
Howard Browne is famous for
calling himself the "Holy Ghost Bartender" and inducing people
into states of Spiritual Drunkenness, and has destroyed much of what was
left of the sense of the true Fear of God in many, many Pentecostal,
Charismatic churches. I consider him a minister of Judgment and part of the
Strong, God sent Delusion.
Who Is Rodney Howard Browne?
He was born into a Pentecostal
home, an atmosphere that was bathed in prayer. By his own testimony, he was
saved at the age of five and baptized in the Holy Spirit at age eight. Both
at home and in the Pentecostal church he attended, he testifies of
“continually [seeing]
supernatural manifestations.”2
His own “baptism of fire” occurred in 1979, while he was still a teenager.
Hereis how he tells it.
I knew that there was more, much
more...In July of 1979, I cried out to God in sheer desperation. I wanted
Him to manifest Himself to me and in me. I was hungry...As I prayed that day,
I told the Lord, “Either you come down here and touch me, or I am going to
come up there and touch you.” I was desperate. I must have called out to
God for about 20 minutes that day. Suddenly, the fire of God fell on me. It
started on my head and went right down to my feet. His power burned in my
body and stayed like that for three whole days...I was really praying,
“Lord, I am too young to die.” In the fourth day, I am not praying, “O Lord
send your glory,” I am praying, “Please lift it off me so that I can bear
it.” I was plugged into heaven’s electric light supply...my desire has been
to go and plug other people in. My whole body was on fire...Out of my belly
began to flow a river of living water. I began to laugh uncontrollably and
then I began to weep and then speak with tongues. I was so intoxicated on
the wine of the Holy Ghost that I was beside myself...Because of that
encounter with the Lord, my life was radically changed from that day on.3
Rodney Howard Browne proceeds in
the book to relate changes in his ministry after that anointing with fire,
while preaching in a Methodist church. I’ll let him tell it in his own
humorous way.
We were preaching in a Methodist
church. I was back in the vestibule—which is a holy name for a plain old
office—preparing for service. One of the young ladies came into the office
and asked me to pray for her because she was in terrible pain...I got my
hand halfway to her head, almost like a gunslinger would draw a gun out of
a holster, and point it at his opponent. Suddenly, unexpectedly, it felt
like my finger tips came off. I felt a full volume of anointing flow out of
my hand. The only way I can explain it is to liken it to a fireman holding
a fire hose with a full volume of water flowing out of it. The anointing
went right into her. It looked like someone had hit her in the head with an
invisible baseball bat and she fell to the floor...4
On and on it goes.
Notice the sensuality of the
testimony, though. The fire of God courses through his body, it shoots out
of his fingers, like a gun, she gets hit by an invisible bat! The concept
behind the word sensual is not always referring to “sexual.” Sensual refers
to the things pertaining to the five physical senses. Rodney Howard Browne
has a very sensual ministry. The promise is held out that you are going to
be touched by God, you’re going to feel God, you’ll even get drunk on the
new wine! You’ll laugh, stagger, get stuck to the floor, and generally have
an all out good time! It’s “fun” going to these meetings!
Back to Who is Rodney Howard
Browne?
In 1987, Rodney Howard Browne
left his native South Africa to come to the
United States, on a “word from
God.” By that time, he had already pioneered a church, pastored for a time
and been on the pastoral staff of Ray McCauley’s Rhema Bible Church in
Johannesburg. Upon arriving in America, he commenced an itinerant ministry.
It was at a series of meetings in
Albany, New York in 1989 that the unusual manifestations had begun to take
place. It began to occur at a time when both he and his wife were hungry
for God to move. As he was preaching at a morning meeting, he said a cloud
filled the room, visible to others, but not to him. He could feel it,
though. People began falling out of their seats as he preached.
While I was preaching, the power
of God began to fall. Many people began to fall out of their seats. It
looked like someone was shooting them and in some places whole rows at a
time would go down. They were laughing and crying and falling all over the
place and looked like drunken people.5
Rodney Howard Browne became an
internationally prominent revivalist after a Spring, 1993 meeting at an
Assembly of God church in Lakeland, Florida, the Carpenter’s Home Church.
He was scheduled for one week, but the meeting lasted four! People who
heard about it flew in from as far away as Africa, Great Britain and
Argentina. What made the difference in this revival meeting? According to
Charisma Magazine,
The difference was the laughter.
No matter what Howard Browne did or said, hundreds who attended the daily
sessions always ended up on the sanctuary floor in helpless laughter. When
the services were broadcast on radio, more curious seekers showed up to
join the fun.6
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In Conclusion
I suppose I could go on and on,
“building a case,” about my reservations of the ministry of Rodney Howard
Browne, but why? After all of the above, if you don’t have serious
problems, you are also a victim of the continuous conditioning that has
taken place. Keep in mind that it was a transference of his “anointing”
into Randy Clark who brought “it” to Toronto, that “birthed” the Toronto
Blessing. I hope that I have brought some clarity to the issue. This is not
about personality, it’s about truth. Can you see Jesus or the apostles even
remotely promoting anything like this? I think not.
Is Rodney Howard Browne correct
when he dismisses his critics by saying things like,
Now some would say, “I don’t
believe it,” that’s fine, those people that don’t want to believe it, they
probably wouldn’t believe anything. They probably wouldn’t believe the
Bible...16
On the contrary, I don’t buy
this, and I believe in the Bible! I also believe in the present activity of
the Holy Spirit. I consider myself to be spirit filled and have seen many
“signs, wonders, and gifts of the Holy Ghost” over the years in my ministry
as well as in many other fellow ministers. We have witnessed the casting
out of devils, healing of the sick, and powerful life transformations, all
to confirm the preaching of the gospel! So don’t dismiss me as an
unbelieving, religious dead head!
I want to close this chapter by
encouraging you to hold fast to that which is good. We know that certain
men have crept in unawares, but that doesn’t mean that we have to throw out
the validity of supernatural workings of God. The Pentecostal experience is
needed now more than ever, God’s people do need a fresh baptism in the Holy
Ghost, to witness afresh to this sin-sick generation.
End Notes
1. July 21, 1994, Testimony
Service Videotape. RHBEA Camp Meeting. Louisville, Kentucky. 2. Rodney
Howard Browne. “The Touch of God.” Page 71.
3. Ibid. Pages 73-74.
4. Ibid. Page 76.
5. Ibid. Page 100.
6. Julia Duin. “Praise the Lord and Pass the New Wine.” Charisma Magazine.
August, 1994.
7. Rodney Howard Browne. “The Coming Revival.” Page 14.
8. Ibid. Pages 13-14.
9. Francis Frangipane. “Rising to Christ’s Stature.” Charisma Magazine.
December, 1994.
10. Rodney Howard Browne. “The Coming Revival.” Page 14.
11. Ibid. Page 27.
12. Rodney Howard Browne. “The Reality of the Person of the Holy Spirit.”
RHBEA Publications. 13. Rodney Howard Browne. “Manifesting the Holy Ghost.”
Pages 25-27. RHBEA Publications. 14. Ibid.
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