Bethel Church and Jesus Culture Glory Clouds?

Bethel Church's Glory Clouds and Manufactured Worship

Using glitter and fog machines, Bethel Church and Jesus Culture make these glory clouds during their worship services, which they claim is the Holy Spirit.

I wondered if it's okay for us to run to a corner of a room and stand and watch and take pictures. I think he rather enjoys it.

Someone might say, well, do you know for certain they're using a fog machine? What's your proof that these are man-made tricks? And the answer is the Bible. If the glory of God was appearing in their church, no one would be cheering and pointing.

They would be dead. When God spoke to the people of Israel from Mount Sinai, they were terrified. When the glory of God passed in front of Moses, God put him in the cleft of a rock and covered him, because had he seen God in all his glory, it would have killed him.

After Moses had been in God's presence, even in this way, his face was so bright, people were too afraid to come near him. Hebrews 1 says, there was a time when God spoke to us in many ways by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son.

The Glory of God Revealed in Christ

Jesus is the radiance of the glory of God. Paul said that the light of the knowledge of the glory of God is in the face of Jesus Christ. We know God's glory when the word of Christ is spoken, not by manufacturing his presence with cheap tricks.

Repentance, Trembling at God's Word, and Counterfeit Spirituality

God said, this is to whom I will look, he who is repentant and who trembles at my word. The Holy Spirit is to Bethel Church and Jesus culture what Jesus Christ is to the Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses.

They believe in a Holy Spirit of their own making, not the Holy Spirit of God whom we see and hear from in the pages of scripture when we understand the text.