An April 20th, 2011 press release from the gay-rights activist group Truth Wins Out "called on Jacksonville, FL City Council candidate Kimberly Daniels (D) to bow out of the race after shocking videos [see bottom of this story] revealed offensive comments about Jews and slavery." But wait! There's more!
"I took my hand and put it over the lowest part of her stomach area and cursed the seed of Satan from her womb. By the authority of Jesus Christ, I performed a spiritual abortion and killed Satan's baby. Her body then fell limp as I called the spirit of Dracula out of her and broke the curse of the living dead off of her."---Kimberly Daniels, page 113, From A Mess To A Miracle, 2002, Creation House Press
"Regardless of political opinions, the Bible makes it clear: Those who support the homosexual agenda and the murder of unborn babies will be judged (see Rom. 1:32). These were the main issues in the days of ancient Israel, and they are critical issues today.
The pro-abortion movement is tied to the worship of two idols, Chemosh and Molech, the gods of child sacrifice... How can we vote for politicians who favor these ungodly movements?"---Kimberly Daniels, October 7, 2008 Charisma magazine blog post
They call her the Demonbuster. A professed exorcist (it's in print) who claims to cast out "gay demons", Kim Daniels is vying in an upcoming runoff election, as a Democrat, for Jacksonville, Florida City Council. She's not your average exorcist though--over the past several years her colleagues, Daniels' fellow apostles, could be found meeting and praying together with Barack Obama, championing the religious right's battle to prevent hate crimes legislation and fighting to roll back reproductive rights and thwart legalization of same-sex marriage.
Accompanying my story are videos of Daniels making statements such as, "the Jews own everything!" and thanking God for slavery, without which, according to Daniels, "I might be somewhere in Africa worshiping a tree!" [for more notable quotes, see A Kim Daniels 'Demonbuster' Quote Base]
"I praised God as the eerie sound of the birds ceased when I commanded them to die in Jesus' name." --Kim Daniels, page 161, Delivered To Destiny (Charisma House, 2005). See below for context of quote
They call her the Demonbuster. A professed exorcist (it's in print) who claims to cast out "gay demons", Kim Daniels is vying in an upcoming runoff election, as a Democrat, for Jacksonville, Florida City Council. She's not your average exorcist though--over the past several years her colleagues, Daniels' fellow apostles, could be found meeting and praying together with Barack Obama, championing the religious right's battle to prevent hate crimes legislation and fighting to roll back reproductive rights and thwart legalization of same-sex marriage.
Evangelist, Apostle, and exorcist Kim Daniels, who has long been a member (link to PDF of ICA membership, circa 2009) of the International Coalition of Apostles and currently is listed as a Core Faculty Member of the Wagner Leadership Institute, is a colorful figure, to put it mildly. As described by the neo-Pentecosal Charisma magazine (run by ICA apostle Stephen Strang),
"Daniels is a frequent speaker at spiritual warfare conferences hosted by C. Peter Wagner, who has written extensively on the subject, and she is part of Ohio pastor Rod Parsley's ministerial fellowship. Her testimony has been featured on The 700 Club and on Trinity Broadcasting Network's flagship Praise the Lord program."
--- from Setting Believers Free, Charisma magazine, May 31, 2003
The following is a sourced collection of Kim Daniels quotes.
"Demonic manifestations that I had never experienced before began to occur.
The first thing I noticed were the birds squawking in my hotel room wall. The person I was talking to on the phone could hear them also. I thought of a story I once read in one of Benson Idahosa's books.
Once during a meeting, voodoo doctors in his country sent giant birds to scare people away from the meeting. Benson commanded the birds to die, in the name of Jesus, and the birds dropped dead. I had nothing to lose, so I did the same thing. I praised God as the eerie sound of the birds ceased when I commanded them to die in Jesus' name." ---Kim Daniels, page 161, Delivered To Destiny (Charisma House, 2005)
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"We bind the ministry of psychics, the teaching of black liberation theology, and every New Age and secular humanist doctrine away from the White House.
[...]
Lord, we come against every stronghold that keeps the president from the truth. We break every soul tie and vow that has been established between him and Harvard, secret societies and the illuminati." --- Kim Daniels, Charisma magazine, A Prayer For Barack Obama, January 19, 2009
The folks from Westboro Baptist showed up in Brandon, Mississippi to protest at a military funeral for a local soldier killed in the line of duty. Turns out, the people of Brandon got wind of the plan to protest and did some planning of their own.
They succeeded in thwarting the protest, but the winner is yet to be determined, no doubt in a court of law. Westboro Baptist has legal representation and are not shy about using it. For Brandon, it may be a case of winning a battle but losing the war, if a large settlement is awarded to Westboro.
(The following is reposted.)
From an Ole Miss sports message board, a tidbit of information...
A couple of days before, one of them (Westboro protestors) ran his mouth at a Brandon gas station and got his arse waxed. Police were called and the beaten man could not give much of a description of who beat him. When they canvassed the station and spoke to the large crowd that had gathered around, no one seemed to remember anything about what had happened.
Rankin County handled this thing perfectly. There were many things that were put into place that most will never know about and at great expense to the county.
Most of the morons never made it out of their hotel parking lot. It seems that certain Rankin county pickup trucks were parked directly behind any car that had Kansas plates in the hotel parking lot and the drivers mysteriously disappeared until after the funeral was over. Police were called but their wrecker service was running behind and it was going to be a few hours before they could tow the trucks so the Kansas plated cars could get out.
A few made it to the funeral but were ushered away to be questioned about a crime they might have possibly been involved in. Turns out, after a few hours of questioning, that they were not involved and they were allowed to go on about their business.
On April 1-2, 2011, the Harvard Extension Service and Learning Society will host, at the Harvard Northwest Science Building, the "Social Transformation Conference". The upcoming event has already generated considerable controversy, and Truth Wins Out, a "Non-profit organization that defends the GLBT community against anti-gay misinformation campaigns", plans to run a full page ad in the Harvard Crimson, on Thursday March 31st, protesting the event--which is being billed as advancing the "Seven Mountains" program. One of the scheduled speakers is linked (intimately) with a professed co-author of Uganda's so-called "kill the gays bill", and the 7 Mountains movement is already impacting US national politics. Below are 7 facts you should know about 7M movement and its speakers lined up for the Harvard conference.
Prominently featured on the Social Transformation Conference website is a professionally-produced video on the "Seven Mountains mandate", which instructs "Bible believing" Christians to seek control of seven key sectors of society: education, government, media, business, arts & entertainment, religion, and the family. According to the video, the "church" must regain control of those sectors, which are now occupied by "darkness". [below: Seven Mountains video]
The Seven Mountains concept is a vision for the total eradication of secular society and church-state separation. Os Hillman and Lance Wallnau, two of the scheduled Social Transformation Conference speakers, are in the vanguard of promoting the 7M idea, which Wallnau calls "a template for warfare."
The 'Seven Mountains movement' is a newly formed global Protestant mega-denomination that has coalesced out of independent charismatic Christianity; Four of the speakers, Hillman, Wallnau, Pat Francis, and Bill Hamon, are all apostles within the biggest organizational body in this movement, the International Coalition of Apostles (ICA), launched in 2001 [see footnote #1], and three are on the ICA's elite "Apostolic Council".
7 Notable facts about the Social Transformation Conference speakers
---Three of the apostles, Lance Wallnau, Os Hillman, and Bill Hamon, are on record promoting virulently antigay rhetoric. Two have labeled homosexuality an "abomination" and one, Bill Hamon, advocates the death penalty not only for homosexuality but for all sex outside of marriage.
---Two of the apostles, Os Hillman and Pat Francis, are close colleagues of ICA apostle Julius Oyet, a professed architect and co-author of Uganda's Anti Homosexuality Bill--that would impose the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality" and require citizens, upon pain of three-year prison terms, to report all homosexual activity to police and government authorities. Hillman has played a role in the American evangelical financing of Oyet. In a March 2010 interview, Julius Oyet stated that the Seven Mountains movement was successfully "infiltrating" its ideology into the grassroots of Ugandan society.
---All four apostles promote the claim that witchcraft is a pressing contemporary societal problem.
---These same three apostles also serve on the ICA's elite Apostolic Council, the ICA's accountability agency, along with top founders of the movement who are on record (with books in-print) advocating the burning of native art, Catholic religious relics, and Books of Mormon. ICA leaders also have boasted of having helped to kill Mother Theresa, through prayer-warfare.
--One apostle, Bill Hamon, serves, along with The Call founder Lou Engle, on the Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders (ACPE), the top prophetic body of the Seven Mountains movement, whose prophets profess to communicate directly with, and receive prophetic insight, from God. ACPE prophet Mary Glazier has suggested that believers will drive the unrighteous from "the land" and has has stated that at 24, Sarah Palin joined her personal prayer group which in 1995, according to Glazier, successfully hounded an alleged witch out of Alaska. In September 2008, Glazier released a prophecy suggesting that Sarah Palin, following a tragic death, would ascend, after a period of national mourning, to a higher national office.
---In November 2009, at a Hawaii conference event attended by Cam Cavasso, the Republican senate candidate running against Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye, apostle and Harvard conference speaker Pat Francis told her evangelical audience, "We put our foot on Hawaii! And you said every place we put our foot, we will rule. So we are the Kingdom, the Kingdom is here!" Francis' rhetoric dramatically contradicts apostle and and top 7M promoter Os Hillman's claim that "The 7 mountains initiative is not an initiative to establish dominion over all the earth or in governments." Footage from 2009 Hawaii event shows Francis inveighing against "generational curses" and "witchcraft".
The New Apostolic Reformation / Seven Mountains movement
ACPE and the ICA are top organizational entities in the collective movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation--an attempt to remake Christianity that is as ambitious as was the original Protestant Reformation. Leaders and membership in this global, US-based movement are not waiting for the "Rapture". They are seeking earthly power.
Leaders of the NAR/Seven Mountains movement are aggressively working to move from the fringes into the mainstream. While their underlying ideology is extreme compared to traditional fundamentalism, they have managed to re-brand as pseudo-progressive by emphasizing ethnic and racial inclusivity (towards the creation of a new 'rainbow right'), and through the faith-based provision of social services. This protective facade allows ICA apostles to move within Democratic Party centrist policy circles with ease and one ICA apostle, head of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference Samuel Rodriguez, has helped write the "Third WayCome Let Us Reason Togethergoverning agenda.
Movement ties to national politicians
The Seven Mountains/NAR leadership is being aggressively courted by top-level Republican Party politicians including several who may run for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination (including Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, and Michele Bachmann (see footnote #2)), and its leaders over the past two years have shared stages with many Republican senators and Congress members, including Senator Jim DeMint and former Senator Sam Brownback, now governor of Kansas, who was Lou Engle's roommate for seven months, in a rented Washington DC condominium, as Brownback confirmed in September 2010.
The NAR / Seven Mountains movement organizes through "prayer warrior" networks and has launched dozens of ground-level political organizing efforts (see: Resource Directory for the New Apostolic Reformation) in cities across the United States. In some cases, as in Newark, NJ, Baltimore, MD, and Orlando, FL, these efforts, generally branded with the term "transformation", publicly presented as benign citywide prayer initiatives against crime and social problems, are nonetheless tied directly to top New Apostolic Reformation apostles and prophets.
The movement's top leaders, especially C. Peter Wagner, Cindy Jacobs, and Ed Silvoso, have developed novel theological concepts (see: Strategic Level Spiritual Warfare (SLSW) Glossary) that involve the need to fight demon powers, which are held to cause societal problems and crime, and prevent successful evangelizing efforts (see: Muthee and the Transformations Franchise (PDF file)).
"Spiritual Mapping" has been a key organizing tool for the movement. It involves squads of believers walking city and town streets to identify sources of demon-infestation, which according to spiritual mapping teaching are often associated with businesses, institutions, and even specific individuals. Spiritual Mapping ideas have inspired local initiatives, such as in Amarillo, Texas, which appear to be evolving into faith-based vigilante efforts. During the 1990's methods for Spiritual Mapping (and its public euphemism, called "Prayer Walking") were developed by C. Peter Wagner and Ted Hagard, at Haggard's Colorado Springs New Life Church. This American Life journalist Alix Spiegel reported on Haggard's church activities, in This American Life segment #77, "Pray". One of the ICA's apostles has taught that enemies/sources of demon infestation can be pinpointed on a map with colored pushpins.
"Dog Whistle" politics and faith-based health care
The movement has developed its own Biblical scripture-based lingo, through which its apostles and prophets can communicate political ideas in a manner that outsiders almost wholly miss. One example of this Bible-based code-talking, sometimes referred to as "dog whistle" politics, was Sarah Palin's recent claim to be a victim of "blood libel". Another example is the battlecry of the Seven Mountains movement, "The Head Not The Tail".
The 7 Mountains / New Apostolic Reformation movement is developing an international network of miracle-healing centers under ICA apostle Cal Pierce, who describes his network as a "Kingdom Health Care System." These centers, called "healing rooms", purport to heal cancer and other serious illnesses, and drive out demons. The Lifeline Ministry of professed co-author of Uganda's "Kill the gays bill" Julius Oyet runs one of Pierce's healing room franchises.
Footnotes:
1. As of 2010, the International Coalition of Apostles removed its "short list" of ICA apostles from public circulation. Here is the 2009 members list [PDF file], courtesy of the Internet Archive, listing Os Hillman, Pat Francis, and Bill Hamon as ICA apostles. Lance Wallnau became listed as an ICA apostle in 2010 and now serves on the ICA's elite apostolic council.
All four Harvard Social Transformation Conference speakers, apostles Pat Francis, Lance Wallnau, Bill Hamon, and Os Hillman, are also faculty members of the Wagner Leadership Institute (PDF file of WLI faculty members), which serves as the primary teaching institute for training evangelical leaders in the ideas and practices of C. Peter Wagner's New Apostolic Reformation / 7 Mountains movement.
2. In the linked video, evangelist Rick Joyner describes a post-2008 election trip to Congress, where Joyner met with Congressional Representatives including Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. Joyner is not officially part of C. Peter Wagner's several NAR entities but serves as a key strategist of the Seven Mountains / New Apostolic Reformation movement, participates in numerous NAR events, and contributes writing to books by Peter Wagner and his apostles. In this 2008 video footage, Joyner can be seen together onstage with C. Peter Wagner, at a ceremony for the "former apostolic alignment" of evangelist Todd Bentley, who was covered in the Southern Poverty Law Center Fall 2008 report, 'Armin' For Armageddon.
Ta da! It's a new breakout book sensation, "Heaven Is For Real", touted in a credulous March 11, 2011 New York Times book review. The plot? - When 4-year old Colton Burpo suffered a burst appendix, he had (so the book describes) a near-death experience in which the child ascended in spirit to heaven:
He woke up with an astonishing story: He had died and gone to heaven, where he met his great-grandfather; the biblical figure Samson; John the Baptist; and Jesus, who had eyes that "were just sort of a sea-blue and they seemed to sparkle," Colton, now 11 years old, recalled.
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