Tell me more about Rick Joyner
I think it's fair to give you only what I know-- some of the visible and some of the invisible fruits that say that Joyner is a minister working for the enemy rather than one serving God. (He is working with an undercover group of people to basically destroy Christianity and the United States... and unfortunately, the world too.) Before thinking it's not believable, check out the fruits-- visible (observable) first, then the invisible (where the Spirit knows and reveals to us who is who):
1. Rick Joyner is a member of the Knights of Malta which is a secret society tied to the Catholic church. They are among other societies and groups working to bring in an Anti-Christ world order of the ages; much of their work is done by purposely infiltrating all Christian churches and groups. Joyner is a conscious member of this. From within, such people do many things to retard Christianity so that it is powerless, but here is one foundational thing they do:
they preempt the five-fold ministries, especially the two that pose satan the greatest threat: the apostolic and prophetic ministries. (This is why about 99% of the apostolic-prophetic movements today are powerful only in deceiving people; otherwise, they rarely if ever bring God or Jesus to anyone.)
In making the apostolic and prophetic (and the supernatural and miraculous) look horrible and fake, these infiltrators make them a bad taste in people's mouths (like the prophetic used to turn me totally
off) so that Christians reject wholesale the two ministries on which alone the Lord will 're-build' His Church in these end times: apostles and prophets. (Isa. 58:12, 61:4, 1Cor. 3:9-13.). Matt. 7:15-20 can be hard to understand, because Jesus is talking about two types of fruits there: the visible and invisible. In the below video, Joyner's visible fruits show as bad as he 'prays' for a military coup/takeover over Obama. Watch closely, but listen even closer (you may want to research General Jerry Boykin):
[video=youtube;eSBXR_PxPqM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSBXR_PxPqM[/video]
2. Rick Joyner claimed in the past he was a prophet and now claims he is an apostle. He did not fit the Bible's signs and traits of a prophet and does not fit them for an apostle. The Bible is clear that if someone claims something and does not fit the signs, traits, or fruits, then that person is a liar. By the Bible's standards, Joyner is not even standing in 'the congregation of the Saints' not to mention being any type of God-certified minister. These are invisible fruits (or the unseen standard) where the above was about the visible fruits/standard.
These infiltrators of Christianity start in the bigger or/and more successful churches, manipulating the agenda of the church till it's not about God or Jesus anymore. Ministers generally don't know to watch for this kind of thing, but most churches you visit you go in, 'have an experience', then come out the same not only because people may not want to change but because infiltration is and has been in play for a very long time to preempt the coming of God's Kingdom on earth as in Heaven. satan is afraid of the genuine apostolic and prophetic ministers (afraid afraid, like in real life). Why? Because they are the ones that show him up; they make it clear who he really is, how much power he really has, and how much authority he doesn't have. The Bible says Jesus made a show of satan when He triumphed through the Cross and says in Eph. 1 that He was lifted far above all principality.
As long as the apostolic and prophetic ministries are not functioning or pushed out the churches (and are replaced with false ministries), satan knows that no one will really ever know by experience that he is not as big as he appeared.
Goliath was really big
until someone stepped up who wasn't afraid and who
exposed that God was stronger. This is what the apostolic and prophetic ministry does to satan (it shows him to the Church and world as he really is, and he doesn't want the shame of being 'the weak one who had sway over the whole world'); and this is why satan resists them through infiltration of churches to teach one group to disbelieve in these ministries and to have the other group make these ministries look so bad that anyone with a lick of sense would want nothing to do with them. That is what is at work now in Christian churches, groups, sites, ministries, businesses, etc.; and it explains the presence among Christians of 'goosebumps and glory' but absence of 'Life and the Presence of God' in the churches.