Listen to John

Back in ’87, I decided I needed to find a church. In large part, this was because I had had experiences that were indisputably supernatural and consistent with the Christian Bible and wanted help and understanding from other people who were in the same boat.

Of course, I was disappointed. Local churches were not very helpful, and big ministries I wrote to were dismissive and/or predatory, or they were just too busy to do anything for me.

In 2007, I started attending Trinity Church in Miami, and as far as I could tell from my experiences there, it was nothing more than a racket. The pastors were all about money, power, fame, and admiration. They treated the poor like chickens to be slaughtered for Sunday dinner. The ones at the bottom were the least corrupt, and it got worse on the way up.

They didn’t have anything to offer a sincere person who had had visions, healings, and visits from Yeshua. They treated me disgracefully until I left.

In 2012, I started attending New Dawn Ministries in Miami, and things were about the same, except that the pastor, Albert or Alberto Lee Santiago turned out to be a pedophile. This revelation came out after I left. He and his wife persecuted me for telling the truth about this and that. One day after I moved to Northern Florida, I learned he had been raping a very young girl for something like a decade.

Many times during my walk, I have seen people who also claimed to have had supernatural experiences. They have appeared on television and the Internet. Some of them were telling the truth. I would guess that the majority were either lying or just mistaken.

I used to watch Sid Roth’s show, It’s Supernatural. He interviewed all sorts of Christians who spoke of wild experiences. The big problem with Mr. Roth was that he never vetted anyone. If you were telling the truth, he would give you a platform. If you were very obviously lying, he would still interview you and help you sell your book or CD. Did he know he was interviewing liars? I can’t say. He has seemed very sincere at times. As far as I know, he has never been caught committing fraud.

Now two of Roth’s former employees, Janie DuVall and Vladimir Prokhnevskiy, have big Youtube channels. They feature guests who say they have had death experiences and visions and so on. They refer to death experiences as “near-death experiences,” but that seems inaccurate, since most of these people say they actually died.

Another famous Christian, Randy Kay, has a similar channel.

Channels like this are very popular, because, of course, we really want to know what’s going on. Is our doctrine correct? Are we in danger of damnation? What are we really supposed to be doing down here? What weapons and tools do we have?

Have things gotten better? No. The charlatans keep getting air time. As is typical of believers, the people who watch rarely have anything critical or perceptive to say. Regardless of how badly testimonies line up with our prior knowledge, commenters generally praise the guests and talk about how wonderful they are.

Modern charismatics have reduced the Bible to two words: “Judge not.” Anyone who criticizes a liar, pervert, heretic, or apostate is immediately flamed to oblivion by supremely confident ignoramuses who think criticizing any self-proclaimed Christian is a ticket to hell. What does the Bible say about that? Here is 1 John 4:1:

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Here’s a fascinating bit of obvious hypocrisy I love pointing out: if “judging” others is a terrible sin, why is it not a sin to judge those who judge?

Of course, the Bible calls on us to judge, just as Yeshua and the apostles did. God is only against judgment when it’s just plain wrong or when the standards we apply to others are harsher than those we apply to ourselves.

Paul publicly delivered a sexual pervert to Satan for the destruction of his flesh in hopes that the spirit would be saved. Isn’t that judging? Sure seems like it.

That brings me to Ivan Tuttle.

He’s a wandering preacher. He claims he died, went to hell, was pulled back out, went to heaven, and learned all kinds of things. Christians love him.

His story is very appealing. Everyone would like to know what’s really going on in heaven and hell. But he’s a fake.

I can prove it pretty easily.

1. He prophesied that Donald Trump would win the 2020 election. He said it on Sid Roth’s show. Didn’t happen.

2. In spite of claiming Trump would win, he said that if Biden won, there would be horrible rioting and other internal chaos, and it would break out by February of 2022. Didn’t happen.

3. He said that as he was taken to hell, he punched the demon holding him, and he said he knew it was a demon because his punch didn’t break bone or knock the demon out. He said he had studied karate for 14 years and that if he hit anyone, it would break bone or knock the other person out. That’s juvenile, in addition to dishonest. Do I even have to explain it? George Foreman and Mike Tyson hit people thousands of times without breaking bone or knocking them out. A person who will tell a silly lie like that will lie about other things.

4. He said that when he went to hell, evil spirits were looking forward to the development of video games and that they could see it coming because they could see all of time, including the future. That’s insanely wrong. Do you think Lucifer saw himself falling from heaven and being tossed into the lake of fire before he chose to crucify Yeshua? And don’t get me started on spirits of divination. What is their track record?

5. He predicted things after they happened. Predicting the past isn’t prophecy. He said big holes would appear in the ground in Russia. He said this publicly in 2014, and the holes were well-known by 2013. He wrote about them in a book. The first version was written without the hole story. After the holes became known, he put the story in a revised book. He claimed God had told him not to reveal the story earlier. What good is a prophecy you keep to yourself?

6. He predicted Trump’s ascendence 9 years after it happened.

PROPHECY FOR USA [Fire emoji] 2026

Up out of the water a great giant comes. He has been sleeping for 250 years, but now is the time to behold this giant! As spiritual bridges twist and turn, and some fall apart, God is in the midst of it all. God appointed someone like Cyrus, who may seem crude, but God chose him because he can’t be bought.

Many nations will tremble and shake because the leader of this giant says what he means and means what he says. There will be wars and rumors of wars until this giant speaks, and then there will be peace. Nations will tremble at the power this giant possesses.

One nation will try to tests the leader of the giant, but will tuck tail and run once the giant roars! God is on the throne, He watches all and has directed this leader’s ways!

The demonic within his own country will become vile and strike out against the leader, but they too will fail. The demons will be exposed all the way up to the top, including top officials in government! God is furious and He will help expose those people, including the financial ties.

Woe be unto those that oppose this leader, for what they try to do to him, will be done to them! The giant has been awoken and the rath of the giant will spare no one! [Fire emojis}

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On my own blog, I just found a reference to Trump as Cyrus dating back to September 11, 2016. God showed me the similarity. I didn’t hear about it from someone else. He showed a lot of people. Since 2016, many people have made the comparison. Making it in 2026 puts you a decade behind the curve.

Tuttle made his prediction on January 8, 2026. Trump was elected in November of 2016. Which nation “tested” Trump this year? Mainly, Iran. Has Iran turned tail and run? No. They are fighting with deranged intensity, like Monty Python’s Black Knight.

7. Here’s something discouraging: a pastor at a Gateway Church in Virginia publicly turned Tuttle over to Satan for the destruction of his flesh. The claim: married Tuttle showed up at Gateway Church with a woman 42 years younger (that’s a “4”) and claimed she was his wife. When he was questioned, he insisted the woman was his wife. After being pressed, he admitted he was lying. He was told he would be exposed if he didn’t admit the truth, end his ministry, and go back to his wife. He refused, hence the pastor’s actions.

I can’t embed Gateway’s Youtube short, but here is a link: https://youtube.com/shorts/ERvqRS8SjnU?si=rTQHpCGpZsHEpev1

I supposed I could go on, proving Tuttle can’t be trusted, but by now any rational person would consider the issue settled.

We really have to start applying basic responsibility. There is no limit to what Christians will swallow as long as you give them a good story.

The key to knowing the truth from falsehood is time in the Spirit. I have fallen for plenty of lines, but as I have grown in the Spirit, it has happened less and less, and the time I have spent in each delusion has contracted sharply. You can’t expect to figure everything out on your own.