"With any moral failure " whether it's done by a home-fellowship leader, pastor or evangelist " it's important to distinguish the ministry from the sin. In this instance, we encourage those of you who have been positively ministered to by Bob to hold onto those good things God has done in you. We encourage you not to make judgments against the value of the prophetic based on this incident" - John Wimber
There is this false narrative occurring throughout the decades that when someone is revealed to be false that somehow God was still moving in them, and we need to "hold on to" whatever we received. We see this recently with Dr. Michael Brown insisting that the holiness teachings of Ravi Zacharias or even Mike Bickle somehow still have merit. They do not. They were lies spoken by liars. Bob Jones told women that in order to receive a prophetic word, they would need to undress before him. Mike Bickle assured children he was sexually abusing that God told him his wife was going to die so they could be together. Why in the world would I want to "hold on" to anything these miscreants had said? Ahh, because the False Prophetic industrial Complex is a million-dollar industry, and we cannot have people question the overall construct that allows scum like Jones and Bickle to not only survive but to thrive at the literal expense of the lives of their victims. Speaking of victims and IHOPKC, let us not forget the horrific legacy of Paul Cain, once revered in false prophetic circles. That was until it was revealed that he sexually abused boys at IHOPKC, and it appears that Bickle knew and looked the other way until it became public knowledge. Then the predator Bickle, publicly rebuked the predator Cain. Emails were released this year showing Bickle behind the scenes trying to bully Jack Deere into redacting a chapter in a new book that exposed Cain.
Now, this is admittedly a lot to have to try and sift through but it is important to God and His church because so many have been victimized and continue to be so by IHOPKC. Realize beloved, that the Dr. Michael Browns of the world and those who have spent decades protecting wolves, put forth a most absurd narrative involving God Almighty. They originally thought Mike Bickle could be restored. People like Steven Strang would still welcome this. We saw even in the 1991 letter defrocking Bob Jones that the powers that be do not care one whit about the sheep they pretend they have been entrusted to protect. They exist to protect the machine that supplies their wealth and power. We are seeing the same thing now with IHOPKC. This corrupt empire was built upon lies and false prophecies. We know this now! It is not speculation! We have a picture of the gravestone of Paul Cain's mother! Some may say it is not big deal that she died a day later than Bickle's story, but this was not just a story! This was Mike Bickle lying about something to pretend God ordered something He most certainly did not! He used this fake story, that he created, to raise the money needed to fund the carnal 24-7 prayer nonsense and IHOPKC in general. Keep in mind while he was doing this, he was having the affair with Jane Doe Number One, who was 19 at the time. Keep in mind that this is after having years long affairs with two underage girls as well, not to mention the other 8 victims we have yet to hear from. Then we need to consider that the two corroborating prophecies Bickle used throughout the decades and used to indoctrinate the youth with came from two other sexual predators. Now, I know that Charismatic leaders like to pretend God still uses people in scenarios like this but He does not. Bob Jones is not King David and Paul Cain is not Moses. They were just two sleazy snake oil salesmen molesting little boys or making women undress in order to receive a false prophecy.
Along with Mike Bickle, these were the venerated Kansas City Prophets. They ran roughshod over countless victims for decades but now God has brought every one of them into the light. There was nothing special about them. There was nothing holy about them. There was nothing Christian about them. What they produced is not fruit. It was and is satanic. God does not require us to force kids to pray for college credit. The 24-7 prayer model sounds pious, but it is far from it because ultimately flawed men have to run it. Until recently, false prophet Bob Hartley was still a regular leader in the prayer room at IHOPKC while sending pictures of his genitalia to unsuspecting women in his spare time. This is what the legacy of IHOPKC truly is. When people in the current leadership, who have only been trying to avoid accountability, insist that they are just rebranding, realize the implications of such. It is only Satan that wishes to save IHOPKC because he has spent the past four decades pouring into it. Spare me the sincerity of those who have prayed over the years. It is irrelevant. Prayer is vitally important but that room, founded on these lies, by these sexual predators and false prophets has nothing that is of God. Saving IHOPKC in any fashion, only cements the false belief that there is anything worthy of being saved. Those that have advocated for the prayer room continuation still talk favorably about the prophetic history, which we now know to be 100% bogus and created by hucksters exposed as predators as well. We saw in the 1991 letter from John Kimber in dismissing Bob Jones that it was paramount to those in leadership to protect the prophetic instead of the sheep. Didn't matter if the prophetic is proven false and completely satanic. As we said at the start, this is revealed whenever the Charismaniacal leadership talks about the prophetic and how 1Thessalonians 5:20 is so important. They never present verse 20 however with the context of verses 21 and 22, as we see in the key verses above. So yes, we are not to despise prophecies but in the same breath God instructs us to test everything and hold on fast only to what is good. What does that mean? That not everything labeled prophetic is "good." Not everything labeled prophetic is from God. We should absolutely not hold on fast to what is not good - or what is false. In fact, verse 22 reveals that the flip side of good prophecies we are to hold fast to are false prophecies that are evil, and we need to abstain from them, period. The prophecies used by Mike Bickle to launch, fund and build the IHOPKC empire are now proven to be false and uttered by three men that God was NEVER using. As such, they were and remain evil to this day. I understand that we do not want to admit that we were duped for over forty years by such charlatans, but we were. Perpetuating this delusion only re-assaults the victims, continues the false teachings, and lends credibility to the works of the devil.
Reverend Anthony Wade - May 21, 2024
