The Spitting Prophetesses

NEW DOCUSERIES 'PREACH' TO FEATURE FEMALE CHEST-BUMPING, FACE-SPITTING 'PROPHETESSES' [Excerpts]

A new docuseries to be featured on the Lifetime channel features four self-proclaimed female “prophetesses” who state that they are called by God to preach and use means such as chest-bumping and spitting in the faces of those who attend their meetings to purportedly bring about physical and spiritual deliverance.

“With the religious leadership world primarily dominated by men, the show produced by CORE Media Group follows four powerful female leaders who believe God has given them the ability to heal the sick, see the future and rid people of their addictions,” an outline of the broadcast, debuting on June 5, reads on the program website.

“Known as ‘prophetesses,’ these women speak as the interpreter through whom the will of God is expressed,” it continues. “In order for their legacy to continue, they must enlist a ‘protégé’ and teach them how to carry on their gift. These Queens of the Church each have different styles and their own special way of delivering God’s message, but all are united in their love of the Lord.” Belinda Scott, one of the women featured in the docuseries, is stated to have given counsel to celebrities and politicians across America. “[Scott] has the ability to predict child birth and specializes in blessing the wombs of barren women,” her bio reads. Taketa Williams is stated by the network to be the “Beyonce of the preaching world” and is mentoring a single mother of three to carry on her preaching and prophetic work. Others featured on the broadcast include Linda Roark, also called the “blue-eyed soul sister,” and Kelly Crews, who “has trouble finding a man who can handle her gift.”

While Lifetime lauds the upcoming series as being a positive program where “prayers are about to be answered,” others state that the broadcast brings shame to the Body of Christ.

“The new docuseries ‘Preach’ looks to be the latest embarrassment to the church and another tragic debasement of the Great Commission that Jesus Christ has given to His people (Matt:28:19-20 [19] Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: [20] Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
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He found several biblical violations in the broadcast....“Scripture is adamant that men have been assigned the roles of leadership in the church (Mark:3:14-19 [14] And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, [15] And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils: [16] And Simon he surnamed Peter; [17] And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder: [18] And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite, [19] And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and they went into an house.
See All...; Acts:6:3Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
See All...; 1 Cor:11:3But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
See All...; 1 Tim:3:1-7 [1] This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. [2] A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; [3] Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; [4] One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; [5] (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) [6] Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. [7] Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
See All...; Titus:3:5-6 [5] Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; [6] Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
See All...), and they alone are permitted to publicly preach and teach the Word of God (1 Tim:2:11-12 [11] Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. [12] But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
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“But even more serious than their usurping of roles reserved for men, are their claims of being channels of divine revelation that interpret the mind of God and reveal His will to men,” he continued. “The foundation of these boasts is a forthright rejection of the biblical doctrine of the authority and sufficiency of Scripture (Isa:8:20To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
See All...; 2 Tim:3:15-17 [15] And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. [16] All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: [17] That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
See All...). Mouths that make such protestations to divine inspiration need to be stopped by the ‘faithful word’ and ‘sound doctrine’ (Titus:1:9-11 [9] Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. [10] For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: [11] Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
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