In one of the most ridiculous articles this year, we find legions of heaven's armies, unemployed and a God who can do nothing without us...

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And behold, a hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees. And he said to me, "O Daniel, man greatly loved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright, for now I have been sent to you." And when he had spoken this word to me, I stood up trembling. Then he said to me, "Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words. -- Daniel 10:10-12 (ESV)

https://www.charismamag.com/spirit/spiritual-warfare/38237-binding-and-loosing-how-to-employ-angels-to-do-god-s-will-on-earth

Binding and loosing -- How to Employ Angels to do God's Will on Earth. Sometimes the sheer idiocy of an article title makes you stop and linked above you will find this article. I expected this to be written by angel fetishist Jennifer Leclaire but instead it is Charity Virkler Kayembe, a Christian author who penned it. One of the favorite topics for Charismaniacs has always been angels. The aforementioned Leclaire loves to pretend to release angels to do her bidding and apparently Kazembe believes similarly. Let us reason together through this article and see where she goes off the rails.

"Are you looking for a way to get through to your unsaved friend or child or parent, but there seems to be a spiritual block as they just don't see, hear or respond? Well, there probably is a spiritual wall there, and you can impact it through binding and loosing, partnering with the company of heaven. "Binding" is tying up demonic forces, and "loosing" is commissioning angelic forces and releasing the Holy Spirit to convict one's heart. God always leads us in this process." -- Charity Kayembe

We often times speak about the first sin recorded; the sin of Lucifer wanting to be God and how he deceived Eve into desiring the same thing. It comes up frequently because so many of the sins of the day are essentially the same thing. Who draws and convicts the unsaved beloved? The Holy Spirit does. Yet Kayembe is selling the notion that YOU can be like God and tear down the spiritual blocks that she claims is preventing them from coming to Christ. Who is God in that equation?

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed[d] in heaven." -- Matthew 16:19

This is the verse regarding binding and loosing. Kayembe makes the same mistake that all angel obsessed Charismaniacs make and that is who is God. The plan is God's plan, not ours. In the minds of false teachers we dictate to God but that is not how it actually works. Consider the Amplified Bible read on this:

"Whatever you bind [forbid, declare to be improper and unlawful] on earth will have [already] been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose [permit, declare lawful] on earth will have [already] been loosed in heaven."

We carry out the will of God by binding and loosing what has already been bound or loosed in heaven -- not the other way around. Again, it is a matter of properly understanding that God is God alone. He does not need our help and will not share His glory. Yet Kayembe said that binding means binding demons and loosing means commanding angels. Where did she get that from? What is worse, she believes that loosing also means to release the Holy Spirit to convict one's heart! So not only do angels sit around waiting for you to commission them but apparently the very spirit of God cannot convict someone of their sin without you releasing Him. How powerful you are!

"How to 'Employ' Angels - The Merriam-Webster Dictionary definitions for the word "employ" include: to engage the services of; to provide with a job; and to direct toward a particular activity or person. These are all things we want to do as we partner with the company of heaven. We know angels are ministering spirits sent to serve and assist us who inherit salvation (Heb. 1:14). In order for them to fully minister to us, in order for angels to thoroughly serve and assist us, they need to be given assignments. They are waiting for us to give them work to do! Scripture explains that angels obey the word of the Lord, and it is their delight to do His will (Ps. 103:20-21). They listen when we speak God's word and pray scriptural promises. When God speaks in our hearts what He wants done and we give voice to that, angels listen and are moved to action too. Gabriel told Daniel, "I have come because of your words" (Dan. 10:12c). By coming into agreement with God and His word, we are activating angels' standing orders so they are released to accomplish Father's plan." -- Charity Kayembe

This would be comical if it were not so serious. All this serves to do is distract us from Christ and the Gospel. Let me assure you that angels are not sitting around waiting for you to send them on an errand. There is also no biblical indication that angels are here to serve us. Look at the deceptive transition Kayembe tries to pull off:

Angels obey the word of the Lord and delight to do His will -- this is true

They listen when we speak God's Word and speak scriptural promises -- this is false

Back to back these sentences seem correct but there is no biblical proof that angels listen directly to us at all. Kayembe is trying to insert humans above angels. In his paradigm, God apparently cannot command his own angelic armies. Instead He needs us to command them? Then as biblical proof he offers one third of a verse. The key verses today provide the entire context. Read them ask yourself if the angel is saying he came because he heard directly from Daniel. The answer is obviously no. God heard the cries of Daniel. God dispatched the angel. He does not need nor require our help beloved. This is a narcissistic theology that is simply not supported by the bible.

"Matthew 16:18-19 speaks to this understanding of divine initiative and I appreciate how the Amplified Bible, Classic Edition, brings out the original meaning of the Greek: I will build My church, and the gates of Hades (the powers of the infernal region) shall not overpower it [or be strong to its detriment or hold out against it]. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind (declare to be improper and unlawful) on earth must be what is already bound in heaven; and whatever you loose (declare lawful) on earth must be what is already loosed in heaven (emphasis mine). We look into the spirit to see what Jesus is up to and what Father has planned, and then we agree with that. We aren't just making things up as we go along; we're modeling the example of heaven. Sickness and sin are bound in heaven, so we bind them here. Angels and holiness are loosed in heaven, so we loose them here." -- Charity Bayembe

Allow me to translate this charismess. When Bayembe say we must look into the spirit to see what Jesus is up to what she means is to look deep into our wickedly deceitful hearts and whatever bile we find floating around in there we claim to be direct revelation from God. While she portrays this as agreeing with God, she is only agreeing with herself. What is missing from this equation beloved? The bible! We do not need to peer into the spirit like a crystal ball and guess what Jesus "might be up to." He has already revealed everything we need to know in His Word! Bayembe of course cannot use the Word because it would expose her for being the false teacher that she is.

"Unemployment Line - In our new book, Everyday Angels, we share how my co-author Joe has seen multitudes of angels restlessly milling about, not doing anything at all. When he inquired of the Lord, He explained there's a bit of an "unemployment line" for angels in the heavenlies, as none of His kids are giving them any work to do. Many other leaders in the body of Christ have testified to seeing the same. In his book Heaven's Host, prophetic minister Bobby Connor writes, "Once my eyes were opened and I could see into the heavens, where I saw untold thousands of angels. They appeared to be bored, so I asked, "Lord, why are they bored?" "Because the saints of God have not activated them into action," He said. Jamie Galloway, in his book, Secrets of the Seer, shares the same experience: "I kept seeing angels that were sitting around not doing anything. I did not know what to make of this, and I began to wonder if certain angels were just lazy! It kept happening--when I saw them, they looked bored, like they were in need of something to do! "I asked the Holy Spirit, and He spoke to my heart: "These are unemployed angels. They are waiting for a job." I responded, "Are You going to give them one?" He spoke back: "I have given My children stewardship over My works on the earth ..." Bored, lazy and restless are not words we want describing our heavenly armies! This is why we must partner with them and with God by activating their marching orders, releasing them to accomplish His assignments for them." -- Charity Bayembe

How pathetically absurd beloved. There is no unemployment line for angels. They do not operate within the same paradigms we do. Again, notice this theology continues the pattern of wanting to ascend to the throne of the Most High and be like God. Nowhere in the bible does it indicate it is our responsibility to give angels work or activate them into action. Note the most egregious claim here is that God has given us stewardship over HIS works here on earth. Nothing can be farther from the truth. God does not need our help nor does He ask for it. What an arrogant theology to think that the hosts of heaven are milling around looking at classified ads hoping Johnny Christian will toss them a bone and give them something to do. How arrogant in that same scenario is it to assume God can do nothing about it. That He must stand there waiting for us to accomplish His will. We are not partners with angels nor are we partners with God. We are servants of the Most High or we are servants of the devil. Plain and simple. If He is not Lord -- then He is not Savior either in your life.

"My dad, Mark Virkler, shares how the Lord taught him he must commission his guardian angel, and what happens when he does, in his revealing blog post here. The heavens are the Lord's, but the earth He has given to the sons of men (Ps. 115:16). It is our responsibility to make earth look like heaven, and one strategic way we do this is by employing the ministry of angels. Because God has delegated His authority to us, in some ways the angels' hands are tied if we do not enlist their services and agree with God's work orders for them. I picture it like a dual signature check. God has written a check and signed it. Through Christ, He has already made all the resources, provision and protection of heaven available. However, it is a dual signature check. We, as the body of Christ and His designated ambassadors on this earth, must also sign that check in order for it to be validated. In order for those heavenly resources and angelic assistance to be released, we must agree and "sign off" on it as well." -- Charity Bayembe

Ahh, the false prophet Mark Virkler is her father. Now things are making more sense. This is how the false prophet network thrives. They prop each other up. Notice that in order to present her ridiculous assertion of unemployed angels she cited that three other false prophets had the same "vision." Safety in numbers. Here we are presented with another core false teaching of this group. Yes Psalm 115:16 says that God has given the earth to the children of man but nowhere does it suggest it is our job to make earth look like heaven. Once again the arrogance is staggering to think that God writes a check that cannot be cashed unless we allow it to be by signing off on it! Are you serious? Please sit down -- you are not that special. God can cash whatever checks He desires. Mercifully this foolish article ends:

"We see this principle in the book of Revelation. Father intends for Jesus to come. But it's not enough just for Holy Spirit to say, "Come." What does Scripture reveal? The Spirit and the Bride say "Come" (Rev. 22:17a, MEV, emphasis mine). There must be an agreement between heaven and earth. We, as the bride of Christ, listen to what Holy Spirit is saying, and we echo that. We see what Father is doing and what He is loosing, and we do the same. Just like Jesus, we don't do anything on our own initiative, but we seek the things above, set our mind on the Spirit, look at the unseen and live to that. We model it and by doing so, we partner with God in bringing heaven to earth." -- Charity Bayembe

The bio says that Charity Virkler Kayembe has a doctorate in biblical studies and all I can say to that is -- wow. It says that she is passionate about the supernatural and walking by the spirit, which are more code words in the experiential realm of Christianity that abandons the bible in pursuit of "experiencing God." Except it is not God they experience but demons masquerading as angels of light. It is not the spirit of God they are walking with. If it were then their teaching would line up with Scripture. It is only fitting that she butchers the Revelation verse as well to conclude. Does anyone really believe that Christ could not come back if the bride did not agree? All verse 17 shows us is that the church is looking for the second coming as is the Spirit. There is no biblical indication that this is a required agreement to facilitate the second coming of Christ! That is straight up NAR mumbo-jumbo. Beloved, we do not partner with God in anything. In all things we serve Him. Charity Bayembe needs to seriously repent of this narcissistic tripe where her theology seeks to supplant God.

Reverend Anthony Wade -- August 30, 2018

Authors Bio:
Credentialed Minister of the Gospel for the Assemblies of God. Owner and founder of 828 ministries. Vice President for Goodwill Industries. Always remember that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.