Graven Images

"To Charismatic teachers, leaders and prophets:

"Why are My people chasing shadows? Why are they going to and fro to leaders and conferences seeking anointings as if they were relics? Why are they taught to speak in difficult words and terms that no one can understand outside of your group? You speak of anointings, revelations, levels, manifestations of glory, 'release' and many more things which are like Latin—a dead language to the people outside your walls. You are building ministries, websites, libraries of books and 'words' like giant cathedrals—impressive in structure but doomed to perish with the things of this world. You have established a hierarchy of authority to keep believers in submission to you and paying indulgences in tithes. You declare believers to be in rebellion when they disagree with your teaching. You claim to be led by My Spirit and to speak My word, but you are leading My people to the shadows of the dark ages. And My children who know no better are desperately trying to catch up to you, to the image of Me that you have set before them. You are not teaching them to seek Me for themselves but to be dependent on you and your teaching. You are confusing My people; you are building Babylon.

"But I will save My children. I will call out My people from among you."

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See also: "Images/Shadows" (art link)