Inside the Modern Baptism of the Spirit: Holy or Un-Holy?

Over two years ago, I did a series on the false Holy Spirit. The study traced the modern phenomenon of speaking in tongues back to the mystical occult practices of the Jewish Kabbalah and the mystery religions. We also learned that this "religious experience," also known as Kundalini Enlightening, is strangely similar to the baptism, in that it also has feelings of ecstasy, love, and joy.

As a continuation of the earlier study, I'd like to make some important additions which were lacking from the first study. Since so many of today's Christians speak in tongues and believe they are speaking in a heavenly tongue, I hope to further prove that this is a deception.

I have personally experienced it, while seeking a closer relationship with the Lord. It wasn't until I discovered the information within the earlier study that it made me see it for what it is. I discovered that the experience I believed was biblical, wasn't biblical at all, and has nothing to do with the works of the Holy Spirit. 

Point #1 - Modern-day Tongues Movement Sweeps across Denominational Lines

The baptism of the holy spirit surfaced in the Pentecostal movement in the early part of the 20th century. In 1901, Agnes Ozman, a young woman attending Bethel Bible College in Topeka, Kansas, claimed to have received a special "baptism of the spirit" and had been given the gift of tongues. Shortly afterward, others at the college began to report similar experiences. Motivated by a newfound zeal, they began to evangelize. One of their converts was William J. Seymour, the same man who helped to kick-off modern Pentecostalism at the small Azusa Street church in Los Angeles.

 William Seymour was a follower of Charles Fox Parham, 

who rejected the idea of denominations.[3] Seymour attended Parham's school. He would have a huge impact on the development of Pentecostalism. Seymour went to Los Angeles in 1906, and using the preaching credentials he earned from Parham, he opened a mission in an old warehouse located on Azusa Street.[1]

According to this account, William Seymour's mentor 
was formerly a Mason. Upon Parham's return from 
a trip to Jerusalem (1928), he brought back a gavel 
and presented it to the Baxter Springs Masonic Lodge.[2]

This Azusa Street event gave birth to groups such as the Assemblies of God (1914), International Church of the Four-Square Gospel (1923), United Pentecostal Church (1945), and crept into the already established  Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee). There are many offshoots, such as Calvary Chapel and the Vineyard Movement. 

While watching her preach about the baptism 
of the un-holy spirit, Kathryn Kuhlman 
appears to have been possessed by spirits.

Through tent revivalists by Aimee Semple McPherson, A. A. Allen, Kathryn Kuhlman, and Oral Roberts, growing attention was given to the charismatic movement in the first 50 years of its existence. During the 1960s, the Charismatic Renewal crossed-over to the Roman Catholic church and mainline Protestantism. In the last 25 years or so, its popularity has skyrocketed. [3]

During the 1980s, another renewal movement emerged called the "Third Wave of the Holy Spirit" (the first wave was Pentecostalism and the second wave was the Charismatic movement). Third Wave Charismatics stress that the preaching of the Gospel should be accompanied by "signs, wonders, and miracles." They believe that all Christians are baptized with the Holy Spirit at conversion, and have a subsequent experience of the "filling" with the holy spirit.[4]

Though many names and movements have been left out, the cooperation of the Roman Catholic church seems the most significant. In the following video, the Catholic Charismatic Renewal is presented. Note the fervor of those who received the baptism, even though Roman Catholicism is completely pagan, and the papacy is Luciferian.

(YouTube link)

• Point #2 - Harbinger of Ecumenism
  

Some Roman Catholics initially supported the tongues movement as being a harbinger of ecumenism. It helped create the grounds for greater unity of the Gospel witness among the different Christian traditions - even apostate ones. It was thought that these practices would draw the Roman Catholic Church and Protestant communities closer together in true spiritual ecumenism.

Devil's horns

 

Pope kissing the Koran.

Without a doubt, the "Charismatic Revival" is strongly ecumenical. A "Charismatic" Lutheran pastor, Clarence Finsaas, writes: 

"Many are surprised that the Holy Spirit can move also in the various traditions of the historic Church... whether the church doctrine has a background of Calvinism or Arminianism, this matters little, proving God is bigger than our creeds and that no denomination has a monopoly on Him." (Christenson, p. 99)

Exactly like the Ecumenical Movement itself, it's part of the system of Antichrist. The union with apostate churches only brings about a snare. The Bible says:

"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you." 2 Cor. 6:17

"As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed." Gal. 1:9

• Point #3 - Why are only some Christians able to receive the gift of speaking in tongues?

Have you ever known anyone seeking the baptism with evidence of speaking in tongues, and they weren't able to receive it? I've personally known many sweet-spirited God-loving believers who have waited at the altar seeking to receive, but weren't able to get the filling. Funny that cases like this weren't reported in scripture, or that some who seek it would be rejected. Could it be that they cannot receive another spirit because they are already truly sealed by the Holy Spirit? (Rev. 9:4) 

One YouTuber said that there may be hindrances in a believer's life that could prevent them from receiving  the filling, but is that scriptural? She says that sin and personal choices can prevent the filling, but it seems to me that the Baptism that seals us until the day of redemption through genuine faith in Jesus Christ would be tougher to receive than the so-called second filling. One is by simple faith, and the other by begging? Do you see the inconsistencies?

Personal holiness can easily be disputed when you look at the life of Lonnie Frisbee. Frisbee was a key figure in the Jesus Movement, and he became the spark that put Chuck Smith's Calvary Chapel on the map, along with the Vineyard Movement, and some of the largest evangelical denominations to emerge in the last 30+ years. Unfortunately, while Frisbee functioned as a preacher, he privately socialized as a gay man, before and during his evangelism career. He was heavily devoted to spreading the baptism experience and the gifts of the spirit. So it is apparent that purity of life can't be used as an excuse here. The true Baptism requires obedience:

"And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey Him." Acts 5:32

Incidentally, Lonnie, who already leaned towards mysticism and the occult, liked to consider himself a Catholic mystic, and he got saved while tripping on LSD.

 A cleaned-up Lonnie with a clerical collar.[6]

In the following video, Lonnie talks about his mystic practice of infused prayer with God. This same practice comes from the occult meditation and visualization of the founder of the Jesuit Order, Ignatius Loyola. These are the same mystical practices and techniques that were found in the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, all of which are Satanic.  

(YouTube link)  

"For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the Lord." Jer. 29:8,9

Lonnie was brought in to Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa to serve as a hyper-Charismatic means to reach the youth. Chuck's embrace of Lonnie was truly Emergent and Post-Modern for the era. Using a false convert LSD-taking Hippie to reach out to the seeker sensitive group of the late 60s early 70s, was truly monumental. The negligence of true biblical doctrine and focusing on "experience" is what Lonnie knew best.

Point #3 - The Kundalini/Witchcraft Experience

 

 The great set-up: waiting in openness to be indwelled by the (holy) spirit.

Similar ceremony within this Pagan ritual.

Based on my earlier research, we learned that the baptism of the holy spirit, and the New Age practice of Kundalini are very closely related. Kundalini is a pagan experience that results in enlightenment and complete bliss. Most unbelievers know that the baptism of the holy spirit is the same experience, yet Pentecostal and Charismatics don't see it that way - even after having been confronted by it. Funny how it works that way!

In a letter from a Christian friend who was once involved in the occult, he gave his perspective on the modern-day tongues movement, and how it ties into Kundalini. Since he has been on both sides of the fence, I think we should hear what he has to say. He said:

"Satan can appear as an Angel of Light. It's a false light, but it is so real and so loving, even the very elect could be fooled by it. Biblical tongues was a real language, but not the way it is today.

The Kundalini experience is not always fire, as stated by some who have experienced it. It manifests in whatever form the person being messed with will accept. If they are Christian, then they could see visions of Jesus, or hear His voice. If they are Hindu, it might be Krishna. It depends on the victims beliefs, as to what way that particular devil will manipulate the person."

He goes onto explain this one point, which is very crucial:

"I don't believe in Kundalini as it is presented in the world. Kundalini, in my view, is a devil entering into your body, playing with your cerebral cortex and nervous system. It seems as if you have powers, but it is the devil that is in you, or working with you that gives you that power."

Kundalini and the Charismatic experience is tied to spirit possession. When you listen to the testimony (with bad language) of this Shamanist/Satanist, possession no longer seems so far-fetched.  Primitive shamanism is  a particular expression of a "religious" phenomenon which, far from being foreign to the modern West, actually plays a significant role in the lives of some contemporary "Christian" mediums. [4]

This comment was posted below that video:

"I am a Wiccan, and speaking in tongues was a very powerful thing in my own spiritual life. While I am no longer Pentecostal, I still have a prayer life that sometime moves into the holy spirit filling me and I speak in tongues."

In the following video, this Witch draws a parallel between the holy spirit experience and the enlightenment experience. He says that he's experienced the baptism phenomena as a Christian, and it is the same experience he had through rituals of witchcraft. Please excuse the language in these videos - they are making an important point.

(YouTube link) (Main point at 9:00. You may not want to watch about 1 minutes worth.)

This comment was posted under his video:

"The way you've described the whole concept of the spirit is actually almost exactly how I see things also!! I've been filled with "holy spirit" or whatever people want to call it when I was a Christian. When I was Wiccan, and now even that I'm a Eclectic Pagan Witch, it is still just as powerful in any belief system and to me. This proved that religion itself has nothing to do with this happening. It simply has to do with how evolved someone is as a soul/spirit/being."

Here's another one. This witch says that she's seen the baptism in different countries. It's the same baptism, but called by a different name.

(YouTube link) (Watch :30 thru 4:40)

Sadly, the Bible says this about the unrepentant Christian involved in witchcraft:

"Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." Matt. 7:22-23

The Charismatic Movement in the 21st Century
With this evidence in mind, listen to Dr. Synan of Regent University. He gives Pat Robertson his educated prediction for the direction of the Church for the 21st Century. Keep in mind that apostate Christian TV will be instrumental at preparing the way for the un-holy spirit.

(YouTube link)

The Bottomline
The true Baptism of the Holy Spirit happens when you believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ. You don't need to be a believer to receive the false holy spirit. What the Pentecostal and Charismatic believers receive is another spirit, because tongues ceased.

"Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away." 1 Cor. 13:8-10

Another good point from this verse concerns "...that which is perfect is come." I don't know how you view this, but to me Paul is referring to "charity." Charity was preferred to the gifts, which the Corinthians prided themselves for. It is preferred not only to gifts, but to faith and hope as well.

When the Church was in its infancy, tongues were important for evangelism, and were a sign to the Jews that prophecy was fulfilled - which can be seen here:

 "For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom." 1 Cor. 1:22

However, when the Church attained its maturity, "tongues ceased," along with "prophesyings" and "words of knowledge." Supernatural gifts of the Spirit were replaced with the powerful preaching of the Gospel. Christians will bear testimony of Christ, and will then lead believers into truth.

"But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning." John 15:26-27

"Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you." John 16:13-14

The fraudulent (holy) spirit glorifies himself and leads his followers after deeper experiences, and the so-called baptism of the spirit.

The fraudulent (holy) spirit preacher preaches another gospel, that downgrades Christ's divinity and adds works to salvation.

The fraudulent (holy) spirit has a special purpose - to lead as many Christians to hell as possible, and to implement Satan's plan of a one world religion through the use of ecumenism. It is being used as a primer/stepping stone for witchcraft, leading young Christians who have left the Church into covens.

The fraudulent holy spirit, Kundalini, and demonic possession are one in the same.

The true Holy Spirit is being misrepresented and has been made into something it is not. Good intentioned people can learn divination and witchcraft without realizing it. If this is you, repent while you still have an opportunity to turn back.

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Texe Marrs presents evidence that famous-name Christian leaders have sold-out to Satan. Seeking to make a name for themselves and to reap financial gain, these men have been given over to a reprobate mind. 

Much of the information on this 2004 video parallels the research I've done, and Texe has come up with the same conclusions. Although it's within reach, he does not make a connection between the Republican Party and its Fascist leaders with their faith and family platform. He also does not say anything about the false doctrine of Dispensationalism, which is one reason why some of the wolves he identified are Judaizers/Zionists. Texe does have most things right, but since there are some important oversights, this is not an endorsement of his ministry.


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The Difference 
Religious ecstasy (Kundilini) was found in the mystery religions and some of the characteristics of Gnosticism were already present in the general religious attitudes in the first century A.D.  The Church, especially in Corinth, was a hub of pagan perversity and abounded in unscriptural and immoral practices.

Unlike the tongues in the Greek mystery religions, which were caused by the Kundilini experience, the tongues of the Upper Room in Acts 2 were different. The believers in the Upper Room were speaking in foreign languages, not unintelligible gibberish. The other accounts in Acts are not explicit as to form, but seem to follow the form of tongues given at Pentecost, especially since Peter, after hearing Cornelius speak in tongues, states that his experience was the same as the apostles' experience at Pentecost (Acts 11:15-16).

 The Upper Room Today

The specific instances of tongues in the New Testament set the gift apart from the tongues of the Greek religious cults, since the cults are known to speak exclusively gibberish, not foreign languages. Many of the biblical scholars state that Early Church Christianity did not borrow practices from the mystery religions, yet pagans did enter into the congregations of the Early Church. The pagan religions may have easily provided the kind of impetus for spiritual experience found in the Corinthian church. It would not be surprising that some of the Corinthians carried these pagan ideas into the church at Corinth, especially the practice of glossolalia (speaking gibberish).

Paul wrote that the ability to "speak with the tongues of men and of angels" without love is no better than his being "a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal" (1 Cor. 13:1). This may be an allusion to the use of these instruments in the mystery cults. These instruments were used to produce the ecstatic condition that provided the emotional intoxication needed to experience spiritual ecstasy. This is especially true in Dionysianism. Failure to evidence love in the expression of the gifts would be as meaningless as their former pagan rites.

Ecstatic religion by its very nature is self-oriented, not Christ oriented. Pagans were totally concerned about their own personal experience, an attitude also prevalent among Corinthian Christians,[1]and many in today's Charismatic churches.

Some of the Biblical tongues may have come in the form of a Spirit-inspired unintelligible utterance. They would be classed as a heavenly language, as directed by the Holy Spirit. [2] The utterance could be interpreted by the hearers as a known language, as such as occurred at Pentecost. But Paul did instruct that tongues, be it heavenly or foreign languages, would cease.

The Reappearance of Tongues
After the New Testament age, one of the first accounts of tongue-speaking comes from a movement of under the leadership of Montanus, circa 156. Montanism was an early church heresy initiated by a “new revelation.” He and his followers believed and claimed they were possessed by the Holy Spirit. But the Holy Spirit does not possess people, since that is not the way the Spirit works. It is likely some other spirit was involved here.

This group called themselves The New Prophecy, but church writers referred to them as 'The Phyrgian Heresy.' Another practice that the Church opposed was its use of ecstatic, semiconscious states in its religious practices. This is similar to the ‘falling out’ experienced by those ‘slain in the Spirit’ today.[2] Montanism also denied the deity of Christ.

From the third century onwards, with the decline of Montanist influence and the persistent reluctance of the Church Fathers, tongues were no longer regarded as a common practice. Most of the references to tongues concerned why the phenomenon, which occurred in biblical times, was no longer happening. [3] Over the ages, there was some discussion of the baptism of the Holy Spirit with evidence of speaking in tongues, but it was a special apostolic dispensation for evangelizing, and no more. I suspect that the tongues that were in Montanism was the time frame when the Kundilini experience re-entered the Church. I could not find references to back my claim, but the the Greek mystery religions and Christian Gnostics had been already practicing it for years, just as the Gnostics still practice Kundalini today.

Conclusion
As the days grow closer to the return of the Lord, I believe that the emphasis on gifts and spiritual experiences will increase. The future revivals planned by the New Apostolic Reformation prophets and apostles, and those who believe in Dominion Theology, will continue to open doors to counterfeit spirits, and masquerade as the Holy Spirit. What Paul feared for the Corinthians will come to pass again today:

"But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him."   

2 Cor. 11:3-4

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Kundalini: The False Holy Spirit - Part 2

"Kabbalism is a system of Jewish mysticism and magic, and is the foundational element in modern witchcraft. Virtually all of the great witches and sorcerers of this century were Kabbalists." 

William Schnoebelen, The Dark Side of Freemasonry

The Kabbalah is not new. It’s been around for centuries. The Kabbalah is actually ancient magic. It is an exotic blend of devilish, sometimes fanciful, New Age mystical practices topped by a philosophical bent of Jewish supremacism. Orthodox Judaism, or phariseeism, is rife with kabbalism, and Jewish rabbis are the Kabbalah’s greatest promoters.[1]

Through the New Age movement and secret societies, the esoteric nature of the Kabbalah has been protected. In Texe Marrs book New Age Cults and Religions, he draws a line from the New Age movement to the Greek Mystery religions and Egyptian cults. He writes:

"The New Age movement is best understood as a 20th century revival of an ancient religious tradition - Gnosticism. Their beliefs and practices trace all the way back to Rosicrucians, the Renaissance magic societies, medieval witchcraft, the Knights Templar, to Gnosticism, and back to the Greek Mystery religions and the Egyptian cults."

It is through the Kabbalah that the practice of Kundalini can be found. The Kabbala incorporates within it the image of Sephiroth Tree of Life, which is a Gnostic symbol of both the Serpent on the Tree, as well as a map of the Kundalini serpent up the human spine through the chakras.

From a Gnostic source, the author writes:"The Kundalini is the force of the Holy Spirit that gives you enlightenment, powers. So we are not the only ones that know about the Kundalini. Many religions in secrecy also know this." [2]

This information flourished during the first century. Since Gnosticism is of the nature it is, it swiftly spread in the early heretical Church.

The Knights Templar and Baphomet
The Knights Templar had a name for the Kundalini power, which was called Baphomet. It was through the symbolic Templar kiss that the breath of life was transmitted. The "Mother of Breath" was Baphomet.

Baphomet was a pagan god, and revived in the 19th century as a figure of Satanism. The image of a black goat-god was adopted by Templar Eliphas Levi. It is the image of Baphomet that is worshiped by Freemasons and modern Satanism.

Through the occultic ceremonies of the Knights Templar and their experience with Kundalini, they had the timeless revelation of "Be still and know that I AM GOD." [3]

A Greater Gift

Perhaps you are still not totally convinced that Kundalini is being practiced in the Charismatic and Pentecostal churches. Some people say that the baptism with evidence of speaking in tongues (a manifestation of Kundalini) were stopped by the Catholic church, and Scripture doesn't support that tongues would cease. But God revealed to Paul that sign gifts would cease, when he said, "whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away" (1 Cor. 13:8).

There was a specific purpose for the sign gifts of that era. Today we have been given much more than they ever had. Plus we were given the instruction that we are to be "being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ" (Col. 2:1-2).

"For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light" (Col. 1:9-12).

So the bottom line is: That which is perfect had come, so the sign gifts had passed away.

The decision is yours.

"My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness" (2 Cor. 12:9).

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Kundalini: The False Holy Spirit - Part 1

The end times are prophesied to be a time of great deception; however Christians seem to feel that they are somehow immune to it. Jesus said, "An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it..."

What we have emerging within the Church today is no different than before. Those who do not study Church history are doomed to repeat its mistakes. I am living proof of it.

I experience the baptism of the Holy Ghost by fire early in my Christian walk. I know it was a genuine experience, and not one born of praise and not emotionalism. As I've been studying the Charismatic movement and the falsehoods it has adopted, I still wondered about the Holy Ghost experience I had. The mainline church vehemently denies it and calls it false, but never has an explanation for it.

Kundalini, an Eastern concept of enlightenment, is the counterfeit for the true Holy Spirit. Today we have a new gnostic awakening that is taking place all over the Christian. It is being called various names, but it is no different than the early practices once experienced by the heretical early Gnostic Church.

The Kundalini awakening is referred to as a Serpent-Fire that lies asleep and awakens in an up-rushing and down-pouring streams of fire." The experience is given many names in other cultures, and is known by the Hindus, the Dakota Indians, the Hurons, the Algonquian, the African Sotho, the Bantu, and the list goes on.

From a New Age website, the Kundalini experience is described as: "the capacity to ‘wash’ away our deepest tensions, eliminate our misunderstandings (lessons and beliefs) about our true nature, and to expand the flow of creative energy and consciousness within us. It is the seat of ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE."

The site goes onto describe the chakras, which they believe are centers of force and consciousness located within the inner bodies of man. There are seven chakras, with the 5th, 6th, and 7th tied into divine love, divine sight, and illumination/godliness.  All of which are experienced by those who are filled with the Holy Ghost by fire.


(YouTube link)

That seat of absolute knowledge is the driving force behind the Charismatic movement. This is why the Charismatics feel they are elite compared to the rest of the Church.

The YouTube below is the second half of the video I posted the other day. I have provided a link to part 1, for those who view this at a later date.

(YouTube link) Part 1

These videos do not speak directly to the Baptism experience, rather that of the other manifestations of the Spirit. I see no difference between the two, just the degree of manifestation.

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Part 3

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