Pastor
Mike Hoggard in the above video seeks to show that a
Christian claiming to have learned to hear God's voice delivering a personal message is not hearing God at all but is instead
under a dangerous deception and he likens it to occult automatic writing. I had actually decided to watch the video
to see what Pastor Hoggard had to say about Sid Roth but when I found
out that Dr. Mark Virkler was the guest on the Sid Roth program in
question and having had previous knowledge of Mark Virkler and his very
good teaching on the subject I was even more interested to see what
Pastor Hoggard had to say.
I
have also learned to hear God's voice and I know that what Mark Virkler
teaches is good and biblical. Yet to someone like Pastor Hoggard who
does not move in the same spiritual dimension, I can understand how he
could think the way he does for there are plenty of suspect or
questionable things out there. Anyway, I decided it would be fun to not
only ask God what He thinks
but to also do as Mark Virkler teaches and begin to write down or
"journal" what I receive from God as He speaks it to me. I've been
hearing God speak to me for many years but only in the earliest times of
learning this did I used write it down (I didn't call it journaling
then but
it was a way I just did it for my own keeping and later reference.).
But I decided it would be fun to write down whatever He said this time
and here is what I got:
I
know how you have been awaiting the rapture for a long
time and I’m very proud of you for this. Do not be discouraged at how
long you
think it is taking for the time to arrive. You have been doing exactly
as I
have desired for you and Linda and I trust that you will continue to do
so. I
also want you to know how special and rare you are for believing the way
you do
about me and how special is the regular contact that I have with you and
my
other people like you. As I told you back that day that I made the
promise to
you if you do this, (a task that he asked of me that required great faith and I finally did do)
you will be one of the few true disciples that I
have in
the earth today. This is still true today and I want you to understand
how important
you are. I am glad that you saw how Mark Virkler was portrayed by
Michael
Hoggard and am glad for my people like you who understand the truth in
these
situations because very few do, compared to the great numbers of my
people who
think they know the truth but are settling for a severe error when it
comes to
knowing me. I am not known merely through reading the bible but must be
known in Spirit. Satan is very
good at allowing people to think they can know me by reading the bible
but
instead they come away the same way that the Pharisees did in that they
cannot even
recognize me though I am standing right in front of them. This is life
eternal
that a man know the one true God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent.
Knowing a
book is not knowing ME. I AM Spirit and the true worshipers must worship
Me in Spirit and in Truth. I therefore highly favor and value those of
my people
like you and Linda who are coming to really know me and my ways. All
creation
groans to this day awaiting as you also are, for the adoption
of sons
to be revealed. If my first coming was important and it was, how
important
also is
my second coming? It is not without great consideration and much
strategy that
this coming time is planned and will be carried out. I know how thankful
you
are for the place that you have been brought to and rightly so. It is
fitting
to speak of it today, Thanksgiving Day. My knowledge is never a stagnant
thing
but rather the Word of the Lord is alive always every day and will not
return
to me void but will accomplish the thing whereunto I send it. Man lives
by
every word that proceeds out of my mouth. The same word gives life to
some and
death to others. I give every man the choice as I set before you this
day life
or death, blessing or cursing and urge you to choose life. It is so easy
to
choose life if you want to but many will choose death and many do not
realize
that they are doing this. Like Peter my apostle who would not
allow me to wash his feet when I wanted to. He thought he was being an
example of
something
admirable by this but he was in fact placing his own will above mine and
by
doing this, cutting off my ability to be his Lord. That is why I had to
tell
him if I do not wash your feet you have no part with me. Then he
continues to place himself above me by saying, in that case
wash me
all over. He misses the point that it matters not whether I actually
wash him
or not in this particular example, but rather what matters is whether or
not I
have the right to decide what I want to do with him. As long as Peter is
calling the shots, I am not his Lord and I cannot save him. Satan has
been
using this same tactic on many of my people in numerous subtle ways
today. Though they may mean well, they are not submitting to my will for
them but are trying to bring me under their will. Pastor
Michael Hoggard is just like Peter was that day. He and many like him
have
believed that, like Peter, they can figure out for themselves what is
right and
wrong and good and bad and they then even try to tell me what is proper
or out
of order. In doing this they are not open to hear what I have to say but
override my attempt to correct them. This leaves them open to the wiles
of the
enemy and there is little that can be done for them at that point but to
wait
for their own way to fail them. For him with ears to hear means that
each
person needs to know how to hear my voice for himself. My sheep hear my
voice,
I know them and they follow me. I give to them eternal life and they
shall never perish and
no one can snatch them out of my hand. If they are not hearing my voice
they
will be claimed by whoever’s voice they are instead listening to and
that is a
grave error for those who believe that they are my sheep but are not
hearing my
voice and following me. Many of my people have claimed this verse for
themselves and yet do not hear my voice and therefore do not follow me.
Yet you
notice that I still call them my people. Yes, just as I still called
Peter my
disciple even as I warned him of the danger of him having no part with
me if he
continues in his way of rebellion for that is what it is. I warned Peter
that
Satan has desired to have him, to sift him as wheat. Peter knew well how
Satan
as a roaring lion seeks whom he may devour, by first hand experience.
Peter was
able to humble himself and allow me to be his Lord. I look forward to
when my
people will do the same and learn to allow me to be Lord over them also,
so
that I can save them too. Some respond to my compassion for them, others
will be
saved through fear when it is thrust upon them in the tribulation
period. It is
as it must be and I wish for you to know of a surety that your heart and
all
those like you are known of by me and highly regarded and you all will
be
rejoicing for your diligence when the time does finally come. Continue
holding
fast what you have that no man takes your crown.