There were also FALSE PROPHETS among the people, just as there will be FALSE TEACHERS among you. They will secretly introduce destructive HERESIES, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them–bringing swift destruction on themselves…With eyes full of ADULTERY, they never stop sinning; they SEDUCE the unstable; they are experts in GREED–an accursed brood!
–2 Peter 2:1, 14 (NIV)–

FIREFLY FROM

HELL!

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…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 distributing gold dust. The Lord answered: ‘She is releasing the gold, which is both the revelation and the financial breakthrough that I am bringing into this church. I want you to prophesy that Emma showed up in this service–the same angel that appeared in Kansas City–as a sign that I am endorsing and releasing a prophetic spirit in the church 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.

–FALSE PROPHET TODD BENTLEY–

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Charisma, “Revivalist Todd Bentley Accused of ‘Sexual Perversion’ With Male, Female Interns.” August 26, 2019. “Stephen Powell, a revivalist at Lion of Light Ministries, accused evangelist Todd Bentley, president of Fresh Fire USA, of ‘sexual perversion’ involving both male and female interns…In the post, Powell asserts that Bentley asked a young single female student to send him pictures of herself and asked what she was wearing on multiple occasions. He also claims that a male intern told him that Bentley offered to pay him $1,000 to perform oral sex on him. That same intern also allegedly claims that Bentley often sent him sexual and naked pictures of his wife, Jessa. Other accusations in the post include alleged testimonies of Bentley being caught with pornography, asking an intern to send him a video of the intern masturbating and being caught drunk or using crude, sexual speech.”

Way of Life, “The International House of Prayer.” March 31, 2015. “The ‘Lakeland Revival’ ended abruptly when Todd Bentley was discredited as an alcoholic and an adulterer, so it is possible that both Jones and Bentley were simply lying and there is no Emma. If she does exist, she is a demon, as angels are never referred to in Scripture in female terms. Further, according to Bentley, ‘Emma’ preaches word-faith, prosperity gospel heresies. In 1991, Bob Jones admitted to ‘a moral failure’ (Lee Grady, ‘Wimber Plots New Course for Vineyard,’ Charisma, Feb. 1993, p. 64). Jones was using his alleged spiritual authority and ‘prophetic anointing’ to induce women to disrobe so they could ‘stand naked before the Lord in order to receive a word.’ It wasn’t long before Jones was back, though, with his own ‘prophetic ministry’ based in Mississippi, and he continued to travel and ‘prophesy’ at charismatic churches and conferences until his death in February 2014.”

Andrew Strom, Why I Left the Prophetic Movement (Revival School, 2012).

Holly Pivec and R. Douglas Geivett, Counterfeit Kingdom (B&H Books, 2022).