Why Are Charismatics So Weird? Bobby Conner Speaks a Squirrel Into Existence! My Open Challenge.

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Welcome to the program, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Justin Peters. I hope that this finds you and your family doing well today.

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I want to thank you so much for joining me for this podcast. This is the next installment for my ongoing series entitled,

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Why Are Charismatics So Weird? And today, we will be looking at Bobby Conner.

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Now, Bobby Conner is not someone I've mentioned before, but he is a pretty big deal in the charismatic prophetic movement.

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He has a ministry entitled Eagle's View Ministries in East Texas.

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He's been a frequent preacher at Bethel Church. You see him here at Bethel Church, Redding, California, Bill Johnson.

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He's been a guest several times on Sid Roth's program. Here he is at Guillermo Maldonado's church in Miami, Florida.

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So he's had some really big venues and I've seen him a number of times, but just never done a video on him.

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But you read the title right. He claims to have spoken a squirrel into existence.

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Animals can communicate to you. They really can. I could tell you some stories. They're pretty wild.

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You want to hear a wild story? Yes, Bobby. If you read, remember there's some little books about William Brannan, little blue books.

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Now let me pause it here. William Brannan, who is that? William Brannan is one of the revered

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God's generals in the charismatic movement. It's a very familiar name in this movement, the prophetic movement.

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Benny Hinn and Kenneth Copeland, they all revere him. William Brannan was a father of the post -World

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War II healing revival movement. He was heretical on a number of levels.

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False prophet, he prophesied that the rapture would occur just before the destruction of the world in 1977.

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Well, we're a few years past that now and that didn't happen. He was a racist.

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He was known for this serpent seed doctrine. Convoluted to get into it maybe at some point later.

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But he also denounced the Trinity as a demonic doctrine. And he said,

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I have this on audio. He said, and I quote, Trinitarianism is of the devil, thus saith the

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Lord. So he denounced the Trinity as a demonic doctrine. And of course, therefore, that alone puts him outside, well outside of Orthodox Christianity, Biblical Christianity.

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And he proclaimed himself to be the angel of Revelation chapter three, verse 14, and also no less than the reincarnation of Elijah.

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In fact, a lot of these charismatic prophets from yesteryear, the gods, generals, many of them claimed to be

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Elijah. But William Branham was just a complete fraud. He had many, many falsified miracle claims, claimed that people were healed and they objectively were not.

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Claimed that he healed King George VI in 1950 on a trip to Finland.

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But there is actually no record that William Branham ever met King George VI and such records are pretty fastidiously kept when you're dealing with world leaders.

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So I mean, just lie, just made it up. So anyway, that's a very brief rundown of William Branham.

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So let's get back now to Bobby Conner. And I was reading one of those little blue books about Branham.

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And it says that one day he spoke a squirrel into existence. Isn't that strange?

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That is. Well, under normal theological circumstances, yes, that would be a very strange thing. But speaking things into existence is not strange at all in the charismatic movement.

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In fact, it is one of the staple doctrines of the Word, Faith, NAR theology, speaking things into existence.

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This is the doctrine of positive confession. All of the major luminaries in the

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Word, Faith, NAR movement teach this, all of them, that we can literally speak things into existence just like God did.

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In fact, this is a quote from Creflo Dollar. As spiritual beings who possess the nature of God, we have the ability to speak things into existence just like God did.

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So yes, with any sane, true Christian, yes, it would be very strange indeed, but not in the charismatic movement.

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Pretty normal. That is. Okay. And that was so he could shoot it, right? Yeah. No, no.

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I don't know about that. And he spoke a squirrel into existence. So I'm down in the East Texas woods.

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Trees are 100 feet tall, and I'm down there, and I'm hunting. I'm deer hunting. I'm sitting on the ground with my back up against a tree about the size of a telephone pole like this.

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And I'm sitting there, and the furthest thing to my mind was Branham's little blue book.

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And the Lord said to me, Bobby, what do you think about William Branham speaking that squirrel into existence?

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And I said just like this. Oh, I know it's true. And then he says to me, you know,

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I'm no respecter of persons. See, that's how I got most of my gifts from God. I'd find it in the

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Bible, and then I'd say to God, you're no respecter of persons. If you spoke to Moses face to face as a friend communicates, you can do it to Bobby.

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God is no respecter of persons. Bobby Connors said that he found that in the Bible. And he said, well, if God spoke to Moses face to face, he can speak to me face to face because God is no respecter of persons.

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And so we carry this out to its logical conclusion. We must also conclude that Bobby Connor must also be able to part red seas and walk on water and raise the dead.

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And yet he's not doing any of those things, is he? Well, God is indeed no respecter of persons, and that is indeed in the

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Bible. But it's in Acts chapter 10 in the context of Cornelius' vision.

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And when Peter hears about this, he responds in King James, God is no respecter of persons.

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What that means is Cornelius' vision signified that the gospel goes out to all, both to Jew and to Greek and to Gentile.

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Contrary to the view of most Jews, they did not have exclusive rights to the family of God just because they were ethnic

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Jews. The gospel goes out to everyone. The call of the gospel is to both

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Jew and to Gentile. In fact, Paul says this in Romans chapter 1, does he not?

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For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God unto salvation for everyone who believes for the

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Jew and also to the Greek, to the Gentile. That is what it means that God is no respecter of persons.

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But let's not let the Bible get in the way of our theology or of a good story like speaking squirrels into existence.

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And that's how I'd get most of my experiences. I'd hold that against God. You're no respecter. And he said to me when

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I said, oh yes, I believe it's real. He said, you know, I'm no respecter of persons. Oh, I got a sick feeling. Yeah.

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I said, uh -huh. Yeah. And then I'm trying to change the subject, you know. And then he says, no, you really.

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And I said, yes, I believe he did. And he said to me again, you know, I'm no respecter of persons. Oh man, it was such a tense moment.

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My heart was beating so hard it pushed me away from the tree like this. And then he said over there, there was a little sapling of a tree with a limb about six feet high off the ground like this.

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And he said, I want you to do the same thing. I had no faith for it at all. Nor do

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I, I have no faith in this story at all. And I'm trying to beg him out of it because I don't feel equipped to do it.

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I said, he said, nope, no, I'm no respecter of persons. And I had to speak a squirrel into existence.

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And one, one appeared scared and ran back into the tree. And then it appeared,

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I watched it for a moment and it disappeared. And then the Lord said to me, don't ever, don't you ever tell me you believe something when you don't.

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Wow. See, I believed it for Branham, but I didn't believe it for Bobby. Bobby didn't have faith in Bobby. Well, don't worry about it,

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Bobby, because I don't have faith in you either. You are a liar.

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Dear friends, this is not an overactive imagination. He thinks he spoke a squirrel into existence.

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No, he's lying about this. And he has many, many outlandish tales.

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Jesus showed up in his house and his cabin with a vial of oil and broke it over his wall or something like that.

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Jesus took him fishing one time, uh, just bizarre, bizarre stuff. He makes these things up.

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He makes these stories up to buttress his own spirituality, his own spiritual acumen.

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And if you notice charismatics spend very, very little time exegeting scripture.

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They spend almost all of their time exegeting their latest dream, vision, trip to heaven, speaking squirrels into existence, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

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So here I have an open challenge to Bobby Conner. Bobby, if you're watching this, I imagine you'll probably, uh, this'll probably come around to you.

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Here's my open challenge. You spoke a squirrel into existence. You did it once.

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You can do it again. Speak another squirrel into existence.

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Speak, uh, let's not even, I'll go easy on you. Don't even, I won't even limit it to a squirrel.

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Speak an aardvark into existence. Speak a toad frog into existence. Speak a salamander into existence.

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I want some video proof of you speaking a living organism into being, uh, no

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Photoshop. I want witnesses. Uh, I want, I want to see you speak something into existence.

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Should be able to get this on video. You can do this. Uh, you've done it before.

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You can do it again. Hey, God's no respecter of person. So, so do it, Mr. Conner.

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This is my open challenge to you. Speak something into existence, a living organism, an organism of your choice, just so that it's large enough for us to see.

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Speak it into existence. I want video proof of it.

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All right. And if you can do that, Bobby, here's my, here's my open. This will make a lot.

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This will make you and a lot of charismatics. Very, very, very happy. If you can show me proof that you can speak a living organism into existence,

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I will shut my ministry down. The very day you offer that proof you do it.

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I will shut my ministry down and I'll never open it again.

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Okay. There's, there's the challenge. Ball is sitting on a tee. Bobby Conner, do it.

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You can shut me and a lot of cessationist up. Do it. We'll see. All right, dear ones, until our next time together, may the grace of our

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Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of his Holy spirit be with you all.