“In 2019, Bethel orchestrated what can only be described as a modern-day necromantic ritual. A two-year-old girl had died suddenly, and rather than mourn as Christians—clinging to the hope of the resurrection to come—they launched a social media campaign under the hashtag #WakeUpOlive. They danced. They sang. They commanded her lifeless body to rise….”
(The Dissenter) In the ancient world, the sick and dying would embark on desperate pilgrimages to the sanctuaries of Asclepius, the Greek god of healing. These were not hospitals. These were temples—shrines of mysticism where hope and illusion walked hand in hand. Scattered across Greece, with major centers in Epidaurus, Kos, and Pergamon, these sites lured the suffering with empty promises of divine intervention, wrapped in elaborate rituals and sacred theater.
Here, the desperate underwent a practice called incubation—sleeping in the temple, waiting for Asclepius to visit them in a dream, whispering their cure or, if they were particularly lucky, performing the miracle himself. Priests—acting as intermediaries—administered sacred baths, dictated diet restrictions, and dispensed medicinal plants with the same confidence as a faith healer commanding a wheelchair-bound man to “rise in Jesus’ name.”
Research: New Apostolic Reformation
CRN has compiled a list of false teachers and several other professing Christians we’ve warned you about over the years. The list also contains those we must keep an eye on plus movements, organizations and “frauds, phonies and money-grubbing religious quacks” to mark and avoid as per Romans 16:17-18 such as Bill Johnson.