A preacher says the days are numbered for Christian Research Institute and its president, Hank Hanegraaff, unless Hanegraaff repents of his criticism of the revival at Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, Fla.
Brownsville pastor John Kilpatrick angrily raised his rhetoric to a new level during an April 6 sermon, predicting CRI’s end in “90 days” unless Hanegraaff abandons his opposition to the revival.
Kilpatrick set the stage for his videotaped morning message with, “I got a Word from the Lord last night.”
Although Kilpatrick said, “Words of death ought not to come out of our mouths and curses ought not to come out of our mouth. ... God has called me forth to speak forth the blessings of the Lord.” The message, taken from the book of Numbers, was a blistering attack on Hanegraaff and the Southern California ministry founded by the late Dr. Walter Martin.
Kilpatrick went on: “And the Lord said, ‘I want you to go before my people and tell them something.’ ... He said, ‘Son.’ It’s what He said to me last night and I heard the Lord, friend.” Kilpatrick described a long conversation he had with God, taking his words from the realm of human pronouncement and guesswork and into the divine.
“I want to say something this morning to Hank Hanegraaff: Hank Hanegraaff, you may feel like you can put on the badge of heaven and put on your white cap and saddle up on your big horse and ride through the Kingdom of God straightening everybody out. But I don’t know who called you to be the high sheriff of heaven... . You may criticize other people and other moves of God and other ministries, but you’d better leave your hands off this one! ... If you want to keep any kind of a semblance of a ministry you better back off ... because I’m going to prophesy to you that if you don’t, and you continue to put your tongue in your mouth on this move of God, within 90 days the Holy Ghost will bring you down. I said within 90 days the Holy Ghost will bring you down. And I speak that as a man of God,” Kilpatrick said.
Kilpatrick’s message drew joyous outbursts from the congregation.
Evidently, in reference to Hanegraaff’s severe criticism of the head-shaking that has gone on at Brownsville meetings, Kilpatrick added: “I want to tell you something else, if you don’t want your head to start shaking... .”
The climax of the revelation was to refer to Hanegraaff as a devil: “Mr. Hanegraaff, and all other devils, listen up! ... this revival shall turn into a national awakening.”
The revival’s evangelist, Steven Hill, later in the service reaffirmed Kilpatrick and said the revival is already reaching into Washington, D.C., at the highest levels of government and eventually millions in America will be saved as a result of it.
Hanegraaff began a 90-day countdown to July 4 on his radio broadcast. He is calling for Kilpatrick to be held to the test of a prophet found in Deuteronomy 13 and 18. He told PFO that his mind is unchanged about the Brownsville revival and continues to see it as a clone of the waning Vineyard revival in Toronto.
CRI’s Bible Answer Man broadcast
continues to receive daily calls from listeners telling of the
spiritual harm Brownsville has created.
—GRF
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