Wake Up, Olive?
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- What you're hearing is a worship song at Bethel Church in Redding, California, commanding a little girl who died six days earlier to rise up out of the morgue and come back to life.
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- The story of two -year -old Olive captured worldwide attention as her family asked others to pray for her resurrection.
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- But none of the stories of resurrection in the Bible include a week -long appeal. Take Lazarus, who had been dead for four days, but Jesus simply stood at his tomb and said,
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- Lazarus, come out! And immediately he came back to life. Bethel Church preaches a different Jesus than the
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- Jesus of the Bible. They do not believe Jesus is God incarnate, that he is very God and very man.
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- Rather, they believe Jesus stopped being God and he was only a man. What Jesus modeled, we're capable of doing, including raising the dead.
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- Responding to the controversy, Pastor Bill Johnson said, The reason Jesus raised the dead is because not everyone dies in God's timing.
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- Jesus raised the dead to show he is God who raises the dead. No one dies outside of God's timing.
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- Job 14 .5 says a man's days are determined and God has appointed his limits he cannot pass.
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- Acts 17 .26 says God has determined the time and boundaries of our lives. Remember, Bethel is a church that dumps gold glitter on worshipers and says it's a manifestation of the
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- Holy Spirit. They're con artists, not Christians. Cherish the scriptures so that in a time of grief, you won't be taken by the words of charlatans.