Cycles Of Error & Very Disturbing Trends.

The errors of today are not new, there are men who walked in those paths in times past, they're only being repeated & recycled in generations of men who fail to learn from it's history.

If we fail to learn from the mistakes made by others in the past, we will end up making the same mistakes in the future.

Many years ago we derided and even chided MFM members for the way they pray violently, chanting die, die and fire🔥 fire🔥 repeatedly. Many years after, most of us are praying that same way; praying like the heathen who think they would be heard for much speaking.
Vain repetitions & vociferous outbursts in prayer which have become a daily chant(Matthew 6:7-8)
What did we learn all these years? Virtually nothing! It's a very disturbing cycle & trend.

I have christian brethren who joined me at the Redemption camp when Pst. Benny Hinn came for a crusade there in 2005.
I remember how at the close of the first night, we saw some MFM members holding hands, shaking their heads and chanting die, die, fire, fire 🔥🔥, and we were grieved to the point that we felt like getting cords to wipe & chase em out of the crusade ground, like Jesus made a scourge of cords & drove out the money changers from the temple.
Many years after, some of those brethren who were with me that night, are now praying that same way. Waking up every morning to shout fire, fire repeatedly. This is very disturbing. I ask myself what exactly have we learnt all these years?
What are we now seeking that would make us cling to an error we once derided?

Please stay with me and pardon my burden and lamentations on the cycles of error and disturbing trends, as I still have other examples of this very disturbing trend in christendom.

Go back to some 20-35 years ago, the pentecostal/charismatic movement derided and criticized catholicism for papacy/papal hierarchy; the system of church leadership with the pope as the head of the church and vicar of the Son of God, having the final authority and say in matters concerning the church as one physically representing Christ.

Today papacy has pervaded the pentecostal/charismatic movement, breeding many popes ie. papas and heads of churches, who are the supreme authority and have the final say in church matters, running the assembly of God's people, like an organisation they own.

With unbridled temerity, they preach and tell the congregants that they are physically representing Jesus, they project themselves as vicars of the Son of God, mediating between God and the people.

I have heard a good number of pastors say to their congregation such words like: "I am the Jesus you see"; projecting themselves as vicars of the Son of God, mediating between God and the people.
Once again I ask, what have we learnt all these years?
Is it not failure to learn from the mistakes of those we once derided that has got us right in the same trenches of error they fell into?

Years ago we derided christian religious sects that preached and taught that nobody's going to heaven, that we will inherit the earth, for the earth has God given to the sons of men. Today many of us are preaching the same old crap; vehemently & unashamedly teaching against the heavenly hope, calling, inheritance & homeland.

A preacher who sometimes may read Philippians 3:20 which says our citizenship is in heaven or Hebrews 12:23 which speaks of the church of the firstborn written in heaven, or Hebrews 6:19-20 which says Christ as our forerunner has entered into heaven for us, or Hebrews 3:1 which clearly calls us partakers of the heavenly calling of Christ, yet comes out teaching that nobody's going to heaven, is that not utter confusion?
What exactly have we learnt after all these years of our profession of faith in Christ?

The burden is so much that I can't even go on. Little wonder why the apostle was weeping when he was writing about those who have become earthly minded, as resolved upon the earth, contrary and opposed to our heavenly citizenship and calling - Philippians 3:18-21.

May God have mercy upon his people and deliver us from these evil cycles of error.