The prophetic manipulation is now public Larry. Your buddy claimed God showed him that his wife, who you seem so appreciative of, was going to DIE in order that he and the woman half his age could marry. The allegations were entirely sexual in nature! The exact description is everything up until intercourse! Do you need diagrams as to what that means Larry? Now that the current leadership has heard the evidence from the victim, they have severed all ties with Bickle. Where is your apology, Larry? Where is your apology for regurgitating these bold-faced lies? The sole purpose of this from Tomczak was to smear the victims as liars and the former IHOP leaders who represented them as worse. Larry was second fiddle however to Steven Strang. The CEO of Charisma used his fake news platform to peddle lies and conspiracy theories in order to defend Bickle.
"Today we will be looking at the report regarding the very serious accusations against Mike Bickle. It appears as if he has been exonerated. Now, its not quite that simple. There's all kinds of nuances and we are going to talk about that today. Full disclosure, I have been a friend of Mike Bickle for many years since around 1990. I have personally supported his ministry since IHOP KC started in 1999. Before that he was a local pastor in KC. It is important that there be a thorough investigation and the first part of it is now complete. We try to get to the truth, and we need to take these allegations seriously. But there are such a thing as wrong allegations. It's no secret that there have been church fights. No secret that certain ministries, that certain people have tried to take them over or even destroy them and as we go through this, I think you will see sort of a pattern. It's a spiritual attack. It's spiritual warfare. I could tell very early that something was not right. First of all Mike did not really defend himself. Second of all, other victims did not come out of the woodwork. In fact, exactly the opposite. Usually when there is a scandal, other people come out of the woodwork. Also, he did not confess. Usually when people get caught they go ahead and just confess and get into a defensive mode. None of that happened." - Steven Strang
Exonerated? That is perhaps the most irresponsible writing I have seen in some time. It also did not start in 1999, but rather 1996. Why did Strang distort the date? Because 1996 places the start of the scandal when Bickle was pastor at Metro Christian Fellowship in Kansas City and the four-year abusive relationship would carry into the early IHOP years. Where is the apology to the victims you accuse here of wrong allegations? Where is the apology for the inference that this was just church fights? That people were just trying to destroy poor IHOP? That instead of believing these women, you tried to sweep it under the piety rug as a "spiritual attack." The only spiritual attack was your good buddy spiritually attacking this 19-year-old victim. You knew something wasn't right early on? Really Steven? Mike has tried to defend himself by claiming he thought his four years of prophetic and sexual abuse was "under the blood." How does that sit with you Steven? Bickle defended himself recently by claiming Jesus personally told him that all was ok. Never mind that whole your wife is going to die thing. Disgusting. So was Strang's attempts to smear the former IHOP leaders who just wanted to help the victims:
"'I consider Mike Bickle a very effective leader and he has raised up a lot of staff. But apparently some who have left have some kind of offense. I am just concerned that it appears that some wounded leaders apparently had it in for Mike for some reason and they came representing this group.
"I have already commented on the fact that a couple of the victims have said no and the others there was not a shred of evidence, there were not text messages, there were not emails.
"So here we have this group of leaders and one of whom, and this is all hearsay, but I was told one of these people told someone at IHOPKC and this is absolute hearsay, that they wanted to see the ministry burned down. So you have to wonder about their motives." - Steven Strang
No Steven, you know full well you were lying when you typed these words. The three former leaders did not have some kind of offense against Mike. They were not wounded leaders. They were former leaders protecting wounded sheep. It turns out they did not "have it in" for Bickle. Note how Strang uses the poisoned well stories of Misty Edwards and April Rose and mixes them with the asinine expectation of emails and text messages from a relationship that pre-dated regular usage of email and text messages. Strang also continues to act as if the direct testimony of the victims somehow does not constitute evidence. It certainly does. It is not hearsay, which means someone stating what someone else said. This is firsthand testimony. Strang gives away his motives here by trying to convince you to doubt the motives of the victims and their representatives. Once again, disgusting. As was Strang's attacks on the victims themselves:
"Alleged victim number one - they said that Mike Bickle emotionally pursued and prophetically manipulated her more than 25 years ago. Well, I am not sure exactly what that means. To prophetically manipulate someone. I would ask the question if this was true, why wasn't this dealt with at the time? The second and only detailed allegation is from 26 years ago. It included physical contact with Mike Bickle and an adult woman. It was also insinuated that he may have committed a crime but IHOKC has not been able to determine whether this criminal allegation has any credibility. Nevertheless in light of the detail provided to IHOPKC, the leadership team asked Mike Bickle to step away from his duties at the church while the allegations were investigated. Meanwhile the ministry attorney has reached out to the victim by phone, as recently as November 9th, without any success. That apparently is the only one that comes close to having any credibility." - Steven Strang
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