Leg growing huckster Robbie Dawkins mangles the bible to defend Bickle...

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"Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. - Matthew 7:1-5 (ESV)

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For the uninitiated, Robbie Dawkins is a Charismaniacal charlatan. My first exposure to him came through the staggeringly heretical Holy Ghost movie series. Dawkins would travel to various cities and play psychic parlor tricks to pretend that God was healing people. Never visiting emergency rooms mind you, instead finding people at midnight in public parks that suffer from non-descript pain that they then ask if it has receded and voila! It's a miracle! Except it isn't of course. So, since these movies, Dawkins appears to have carved out a little niche for himself and has a radio show that he hilariously calls "radical radio." The only radical thing of course is the level of his deception and lack of biblical understanding as he weighs in on the Mike Bickle fiasco at the link above. Throughout this video there are many rabbit holes of personal testimony and things that I will summarize to save us all time. Let us reason once more together beloved.

"We are called in the bible to restore those who have fallen into sin." - Robbie Dawkins

This sleight of hand is often used by Bickle backers. This verse about restoring is talking about restoring one's walk with Christ, not about restoring one to ministry. The foundational problem with Dawkins, Vallotton, Dr. Brown and all of those who have tried to save Bickle and IHOP is that every consideration is given to the wolf and none to the sheep. The false narrative Dawkins tries to set up here is nothing new. It is to pretend that we should be more concerned about Mike Bickle's restoration than we are about his many victims. Dawkins is of course, dead wrong.

"Satan ministers shame. We have to be careful as the church of Jesus Christ that we don't minister shame." - Robbie Dawkins

This video from Dawkins is peppered with threats and silly innuendos towards people who might dare say a correct word about the predator Bickle. The point he is trying to make here is that exposing the sins of a minister is shaming them and that shaming people forces them into hiding. The inference is that it is somehow the fault of other people that Mike Bickle preyed on young women. It is the same nonsensical argument that Vallotton tried to make recently. That if only we had a better way for minister-predators to confess and repent instead of "shaming" them or having them lose their job, maybe they wouldn't abuse so many others. Seriously. This premise is of course morally absurd and biblically offensive. On Vallotton, Dawkins actually said that he should not have apologized for his unbelievably tone-deaf nonsense that did not mention the victims one time. Instead, he agreed with Kris V by saying that people in the church should not take to social media making accusations about things they do not know anything about. Except how accurate is this blather with the benefit of hindsight in the Bickle situation? The leadership of IHOP we know were lying when the story first broke as they tried to cover it up and protect Bickle and the brand. We now know that the early leaks regarding Misty Edwards and April Rose were lies and disinformation spread by IHOP itself. We know that the only people who had it right, were the very people Dawkins seems to be saying should have shut up. It is the same garbage Dr. Brown, who Dawkins raves about, was trying to sell us. It was only through social media and people speaking the truth to the cover up lies that the other victims, who were minors when Bickle abused them, felt empowered to come forward. Dawkins wraps up this line of irrational reasoning by saying:

"People start passing judgment and let me warn you that scripture says whatever judgment you use will be used to measured back to you." - Robbie Dawkins

Let us first deal with the red herring argument about passing judgment. I have seen very few people passing eternal judgment upon Mike Bickle even though it is completely fair to say that he was clearly never saved. Correctly saying that Mike Bickle is a predator is not passing judgment. Correctly saying that he abused multiple women and children is not passing judgment. Correctly saying he is a false prophet who never hard from God is not passing judgment. These are all verified facts. The scriptural point he tries to make is his core message throughout and highlights how little Robbie Dawkins understands about scripture. I have included this scripture fragment with the entire context in the key verses today. Now, what are these verses saying? What is Jesus trying to teach us? Are these verses teaching about judgment? No, they are not. They are in fact teaching about hypocrisy. How can we be so sure? Because it does not suggest that we leave the speck in our brother's eye but rather remove it after we have dealt with our own hypocrisy. To properly apply it to Bicklegate, Jesus is saying that if you are a minister who likes to sexually abuse minors by lying about prophecies regarding your wife dying, you should not be judging the Mike Bickle situation. Why? Because that same measure stands against you!

Dawkins actually gives a decent example in Jimmy Swaggart, who was very critical about Jim Bakker when he fell. Turned out Swaggart liked to go to prostitutes, so that measure was still out there waiting for him when he criticized Bakker for his immorality. That fits these verses. The Mike Bickle situation does not. For some strange reason, Dawkins presents a tortured defense of Bakker, claiming he was unable to "perform" so he did not actually have sex. Is that really the point? Dawkins claims Bakker was set up by a fellow minister but it seems the source he relies on, is Bakker! Dawkins then launches into a very personal story about his own father, a minister, who had multiple affairs on his mother. It was touching to hear that his mom forgave his father, even after multiple lies with multiple women, spanning multiple years. At the end however, Dawkins says that decision was only his mom's, not yours and woe be unto you for passing judgment, as it was only his mom's place to do so. The comparison of the situations was interesting. One of the reasons why his father was able to have these multiple affairs was he never faced proper removal from ministry for the first offense. I know that we all want to sing kumbaya with the wolves in the sheep pen but the bible actually says they are disqualified. Once again, calling his father an adulterer is not passing judgment. Dawkins then cites the following verses:

Do not admit a charge against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses. As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear. - 1Timothy 5:19-20 (ESV)

Based on these verses, Dawkins makes some ridiculous statements. The first of which being that everyone has value to God, the victims and the perpetrator. Now technically, this might be true but is this really the place to be selling this? It just goes back to one of the opening points here which is why all the love for wolf and none for the slaughtered sheep? Can Mike Bickle find Christ and be saved? Absolutely. Should we pray for it? Sure, no problem. But that's it. Goodbye Mike. Disqualified from ministry and IHOP needs to shutter its doors. Then Dawkins goes back to his signature bullying and warnings for anyone who might be willing to speak the truth. He says that the church wants to know all of the gross details of everyone's sins and that he worries for those who feel this way because again, shame is Satan's game. So, Dawkins is trying to shame everyone who might want to know what happens, by claiming shame is Satan's game. Look, the bottom line is we do not want to know the specific details of the sins, but rather the general notion of what happened, with whom, and when. Remember, people tried to go to Bickle for the truth and they were lied to and gaslit. It only came to this point when the people realized their supposed religious leaders cared more about protecting the brand than protecting the sheep.

Dawkins then regales us with another personal story when he was 24 years old and working at a mega church. One night God woke him up, stood him up, and audibly said, "make war." He didn't know what that meant but felt an imaginary sword in his hand that he started swinging and the God said, "speak in tongues" As he was mumbling gibberish, God said you haven't spoken in tongues in the three years since you came to this church. Huh? He then told another story about how a minister had fallen and asked him to stand with him through it. Then it was revealed he had other multiple affairs and Dawkins had to retract his support by saying he didn't know! That's the entire point Robbie! Maybe if you had listened to people discerning you would not have found yourself so compromised. It is the same lessons people like Dr. Michale Brown are grappling with to this day regarding Bickle. Not content with the browbeating he has engaged in so far, Dawkins advises victims to not seek revenge because that is God's business. Like the problem in Bicklegate are those pesky victims seeking all that revenge. This is not only tone-deaf but it is cruel. Dawkins tries to sound wise by declaring that of course the victims need to be heard but qualifies it as so:

"I agree the victims need to be heard but only by the right people, the right leadership. We need to protect people who have a calling on their lives by making a way for them to be restored. Not to abuse again, but to walk in wholeness. To walk in health. Mike Bickle has written that his father sexually abused people, even in his family. Maybe that affected Mike. We need to show compassion and to see him come to the place of repentance but also to come to the place of healing. I would encourage Mike to get a good counselor, lay it all bare." - Robbie Dawkins

I would say this is disgusting but we have been through this before with other Bickle backers. Who were the "right people" Robbie? Who were the "right leaders?" Was it the IHOP leaders who lied to them, smeared the victims, called the advocates liars? Was it Dr. Brown who told them to grow up? Was it Steven Strang who said they were trying a coup of Mike, called this all a nasty church fight, and falsely declared Bickle exonerated in December? This is the same tired angle Dr. Brown tried by saying that because they had set up a place for the victims to go tell their stories, everyone else should shut up. Except they didn't really do that. Corrupt leadership is primarily corrupt. They are not leaders let alone the right ones. Even though the wolves hide their sins in the dark, there is nothing wrong with the victims shouting it from the rooftops. Why are we tying their need for healing to restoring the wolf? This is beyond disgusting.

In closing, when speaking against the criticism of Kris Vallotton not caring about the victims, Dawkins posits that actually, appealing to a fallen minister to come and repent and to turn it around and to make a way for them to openly walk in truth and the light is the best thing for the victims. You just cannot make these things up. Realize the fatal flaw in Robbie's reasoning, as well as Dr. Brown and other Bickle backers. In order to even discuss the concept of restoration for Mike Bickle you must somehow have concluded that while he was sexually abusing a 14-year-old when he was 20 and a 15-year-old when he was 26 and married, and then a 19-year-old when he was 42 and married, that he was also saved and somehow doing the Lord's will. Even though we now know the prophecy used to generate IHOP and the 24-7 paradigm was false. We now know that the two other false prophets that testified to these lies were also sexual predators. We know that Mike Bickle built the IHOP abomination on the bones of lives he destroyed yet somehow you think he was saved? You see the disservice people like Dawkins and Brown do is by making all of these false comparisons they try to minimize the Bickle sins. You cannot restore what never was. Mike Bickle was and is a predator. He is and was a wolf. Pray for his salvation? Sure, but that's it. He did not make a mistake and with no apologies to the wolf Robbie Dawkins but his father was also disqualified from ministry. He was allowed to destroy other lives because he was not properly removed from the first offense. What Dawkins and Vallotton fail to realize is that the issue is not that Mike Bickle did not have a place to turn to confess but rather that he had no intention of confessing. Just like when someone tells us who they are we should believe them; when someone spends their first 20+ years in ministry sexually abusing two minors and a 19-year-old by lying about what God has said, we should believe who they are showing us they are. Robbie Dawkins should go back to making movies with Darren Wilson filming Todd White doing the absurdly fake leg growing miracle at Korn concerts. That was far more believable than believing this podcast was radical. It was just another wolf, protecting the pack and the brand. Mark, avoid, and move on.

Reverend Anthony Wade - March 28, 2024

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.