“…a voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.’”
Mark 1:3
Dear brothers and sisters,
I actually didn’t want to write another letter until I came back from 4 weeks of mission. But the conditions and the events within the body of Christ have forced me to write this letter now.
Many brethren have thanked me for all of the information and warnings I have sent. So that you can see where some of these brethren stand, I would like to mention a few special reactions: One sister felt that I need to be released from bitterness. She related that she had that problem and it turned out that she had 5 personalities, so that all 5 had to convert to Jesus. She recommended that I do that, too. I won’t comment on this, I have written enough on the subject. It seems that this false doctrine is more widespread than we think. A brother who leads a housegroup absolutely wanted to meet me. He had the impression that all of these Bible teachers who are blind and don’t want to see the truth might have a captive spirit. He learned at a mega church in Africa that Satan can capture our spirit and then exchange it. They had had to call one person’s spirit, which was captive in China, back to Switzerland and make the exchange. I told him what I think of that sort of thing.
A sister wrote me and was very worried about something odd that had happened in a church in the Berne area. A group of young people was with their pastor on a mission in M. and later on, at a church service, they told what they had experienced. They also said that they had received the Holy Spirit with “a clash....”. During the service the young people behaved strangely, moved their heads like roosters, rolled their eyes, etc.; the pastor could hardly preach because he had the same problem. You would think that the congregation would be worried about such events! No, quite on the contrary, the congregation was excited about it, they wanted to have the same thing. I sent this sister a short video by brother Andrew Strom about the Kundalini spirit. She had felt this name inside herself but didn’t know what it was. The Kundalini spirit has been spreading in the body of Christ ever since the Toronto blessing and again very rapidly since Lakeland. It is one of the spirits which the Indian gurus or magicians in Africa pass on when they pray for someone. Instead of resisting, the leaders in Toronto in 1994 accepted him as the Holy Spirit. I have already said enough about it in earlier letters.
Another dear brother recommended that I apologize to Jens Kaldewey and act according to Matthew 18:15. I would like to state clearly that Mr. Kaldewey did not sin against me, but against the entire body of Christ and must therefore apologize to the body of Christ like all emergers and/or contemplatives. I did write him a few words and his reply was, among other things: you have cemented an opinion against the Catholic Church and do not see the good … In www.netzwerkkontemplation.ch under wie und was it is written: “Christian contemplation is about the encounter with the God who loves us. It is based on the consciousness that God is there and on the desire to surrender to Him. The traditional way to do this is spiritual reading, meditation, prayer and contemplation. Contemplation typically consists of repeating a short word of prayer, and is often combined with basic rhythms such as breathing, heartbeat or steps as well as complete silence in God’s presence.” (Walter Gasser, VBG manuscript)
In www.jenskaldewey.ch/index.php/D/file under Download, you will find several articles by Jens (in German). I recommend reading “Im Dialog mit Ignatius” (Dialogue with Ignatius), which Mr. Kaldewey learned from the Jesuits at a spiritual centre. At the end of the article there are recommendations for more information, mainly addresses of monasteries and Catholic houses, for example www.lassalle-haus.org, which is a Catholic establishment in Bad Schönbrunn/Zug, where contemplation and Zen Buddhism is taught. The article “Anregungen für die stille Zeit” (Tips for your quiet time) is interesting. I am convinced that Mr. Kaldewey loves Jesus, but he is going the wrong way and is also leading others astray, too!
Please understand me correctly. If Mr. Kaldewey was a Catholic priest, then I wouldn’t care what he does. But he is a Bible teacher in Freikirchen and a docent at IGW and even offers his services as a consultant and teacher for contemplation. For almost 20 years now, I have written to countless leaders and warned them personally, but the majority have not reacted. My letter “Trojans” was sent to almost all pastors in Switzerland. Most of them did not react and when they did, then they angrily asked where I had gotten their email address. Yet that’s all openly accessible on the Internet. They aren’t interested in the deception, quite on the contrary, they insult me, because many are friends of emergers and the people who follow them. And who dares question Rick Warren and Bill Hybels? I would like to say to all emergers and contemplatives: I will not speak to you anymore. You will find your names in this letter, because you have deceived and lied to God’s people for at least the last 20 years and led them astray. When we asked an emerger if he belonged to the Emerging church, he said: No, I don’t want to see my name anywhere. When we explained that we were interested in the Emerging church, he quickly sent us addresses of emergers, recommended books and praised the Emerging movement highly. These people are deceptive, so we need to encounter them the same way. You can’t just go to a contemplative and ask: “Hey, do you practice yoga?” Naturally he will say no. He doesn’t consider what he does to be yoga, he is deceived. Someone who is deceived doesn’t see any more, because he has made compromises. I don’t attack people, but rather their teachings.
Recently I received a copy of the Idea magazine “Spektrum” from June 8, 2011 from a sister. On page 14 there were articles from the IGW Bible college about “Church on the Move” (German: “Kirche im Aufbruch”.) I would change the title and instead write: “Church in free fall”. The IGW organizes group tours to churches and congregations in England, so that the Swiss can learn how you need to change the church in a changing world. These churches have to do with the emerging church and belong to the Anglican church, which also celebrates the Eucharist Jesus and is basically a fallen church. Anyone who wants to can find out that Rowan Williams, the Archbischop of Canterbury, is an atheist, who promotes homosexuals, the emerging church and even loves the Alpha course! We will see later how that is possible. Archbischop Williams is not only the head of the Anglican church, but also belongs to the Druids. The Druids used to sacrifice children to their gods. It is a fallen church and what does the IGW do? It brings Swiss leaders to emerging churches who belong to the Anglican church, to learn how to change churches in order to reach people. At the end of the article it says: “We must risk new forms of Christian presence, but not emphasize the one focal point of ‘the only true church’”! Did you hear that? That’s how the emergers work: you are arrogant when you think you have the truth. You must be prepared to learn from other religions, they all have something good in them…!!!
From September 15-16, 2011, the IGW organized a convention in Rotkreuz, Switzerland, with Alan Roxburgh, an emerger. IGW, where are you leading us and especially the children of believers? Instead of doing what Jesus and the apostles did, namely going out and preaching the simple Gospel, no matter how people react, we are instead developing methods which are leading us into the abyss, why? We want to be loved and accepted by the world; we don’t want to be persecuted, we want to be respected, we want to be somebody. IGW: how would it be if you would finally explain the difference between us and the Catholic church?
I ran across the site of Mike Bischoff by coincidence: www.lifenavigator.typepad.com. Did you know that there is “alternative worship”? All you need is incense, candles, oil, ultraviolet light, etc. and of course a labyrinth would also be nice. There are some suggestions under “Creative Writing”: for example, when you pray to God, you shouldn’t speak to him as being a male, but also call him “she” or “mother”. Mike Bischoff led studies at IGW, is still working with IGW and is spreading emerging church and contemplation in the Berne region. He also works with Sunday Plaza, a youth movement in Steffisburg. A good friend of his, Daniel Ehniss (a German emerger) says in an article on contemplation, among many other things: the time is up for hanging on the railing of a group morale. The time is past when God speaks to us through prophecy or pictures. The time is past where emotions – be it the smallest culturally aesthetic feeling to the ecstasy of speaking in tongues – ensure us that God is there. The Bible is no longer a dependable book for answers and comfort. ... More on this can be found under www.beziehungsweise-leben.de
Dear Christian parents, are you still checking on what your children are reading and hearing at church or at Bible school, etc.? These people have entered our Bible schools, their books are in almost all Christian bookstores, they are holding conferences, IGW and many others invite them and finally, they are being backed by Rick Warren and Bill Hybels. Bill Hybels’s church is in the hands of emergers and contemplatives. We have pure Last Days deception, but I have the impression that many have still not understood. Some people write: “What should I care about the deception?” These people are already deceived.
One day, I was looking at books at a Christian bookstore. Countless books by emergers and contemplatives were on the shelves. When I spoke to the proprietor about deception, he said: What do you want? Around 3% of the people in Switzerland are Christians, if 1% of them drop out, then that’s a few thousand, so what’s the point? I want to do something about the 97% who don’t know anything.” Someone who speaks so indifferently doesn’t care about the other 97%, because the only thing he wants is to sell books.
A few days ago I ran across www.agik.ch, because I was looking for the address of a Tamil church. And by coincidence I saw the article “Witnessing about Jesus with respect towards members of other religions”. I began to read and what did I see: the World Council of Churches, the Vatican and the Worldwide Evangelical Alliance presented a document in Geneva on June 28, 2011 entitled “Christian Witness in a Multi-Religious World”. You can find the entire document under www.oikumene.org. I was shocked! Since when do we discuss with the ecumenic body and the Vatican how we should evangelize?
If you read the whole thing, it sounds very spiritual, but it’s a trap. Do you see where we’re heading? Did the Evangelical Alliance ask us if we want them to have contact with and make deals with the ecumenical movement and the Vatican? What’s being decided behind our backs? What business do we have with the Catholic church? Many of you don’t know that the Evangelicals and the Pentecostals have been in contact with the Vatican for quite a while. Let’s look at that: In the 1950’s, the Evangelicals in America split into two parties, namely the Fundamentalists and the NeoEvangelicals (or Liberals). Two representatives of the NeoEvangelicals, among many others, were Billy Graham and Bill Bright.
Until recently, I didn’t know this, but it’s no secret that since the 1950’s, Billy Graham was working together with the Catholic church. There was hardly an evangelisation of Billy Graham’s where the Catholic church wasn’t present. Even nuns belonged to the counseling team or the choir. Many unambiguous men of God and friends tried to warn Billy Graham, but he wouldn’t listen. Where did that lead? When people went forward to accept Jesus as their Savior, they were sent back to the Catholic church, and if they were Jews, back to the synagogue. It’s no surprise that after one year, barely 5% of these people were still in faith. Graham became known as the greatest evangelist of all time, but he was also known as the “man of both ways”. When he was asked: “What do you think about the virgin birth, is it important for redemption?”, he replied: “I believe in the virgin birth but I don’t see anywhere in the Bible that believing in it is necessary to be saved.” Whoever doesn’t believe in the virgin birth doesn’t believe in lots of other things either. When asked: “What about the Moslems, Buddhists, etc., are those people going to hell?”, his anser was: “I don’t know, I leave that up to God.”
Billy Graham’s replies were always diplomatic, but he was surrounded by and befriended many false people and naturally also the popes. Where did that lead? First there were the fundamentalists – simple, Bible-believing people – whose foundation was the Bible; then came the children who didn’t want to fight for the truth of the Gospel anymore, but who sought recognition. And now we have the grandchildren, so to speak ... the emergers and many others. They are not saying “we believe in the virgin birth anymore, but…”; instead they are saying: “The virgin birth is a myth!” That’s the result of compromises, moving step by step towards the bottom, until there’s nothing left.
The most well-known men in the church have brought us into contact with the Vatican and the ecumenical movement. There’s a lot in the church today which is ecumenical. Pro Christ is ecumenical and naturally our good old Alpha Course. A little bit of sourdough makes the entire dough sour. There’s lots of information on the Internet about Billy Graham and the Catholic church, so I won’t say any more. He is an old man and I think many of us want to remember him as the greatest evangelist of all time.
Dear brothers and sisters, lately I had the feeling that Switzerland is a ship without a helmsman. A gentleman from Kosovo killed his wife and a director of the social services, another man from Kosovo attacked a Swiss man with a knife... But did you hear anything from our government? Any clear message? No, only silence. The same thing happens in the church: silence and hope that Catherine and people like her will get tired of warning people. Sheep without a shepherd. Some go to M. and bring back chicken manure, others call spirits back from China, yet others convert five times so that all of their personalities are converted, the IGW takes us to England, Rick Warren takes us to the Vatican and Islam...and where are our leaders? Have they gone underground?
“Put the trumpet to your lips! An eagle is over the house of the LORD because the people have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law.” Hosea 8:1
Catherine Hafner, a servant of Jesus Christ!
