New Mystic stigmatic Lucy Rael caught faking angel feathers & word of knowledge
I wrote earlier this year of Glenn Smith of Shem Ministries caught faking it by planting gemstones before one of his meetings. http://endtimespropheticwords.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/gemstones-fraud-glenn-smith-caught-redhanded/ Others have been similarly caught planting plastic glitter in their hair before their meetings. A lot of us always knew this stuff was fake, but would people hear it? And many of them still won’t hear it, even with the irrefutable proof in!
The whole gold dust/gemstones/angel feathers/oil/stigmatism is popular with the new prophetic-apostolic crowd - Bob Jones and the Kansas City prophets brigade, Patricia King of Extreme Prophetic, Joshua Mills, John Crowder, Todd Bentley, etc… as well as the Catholics who ‘invented’ it.
Stigmatism has become a new sign and wonder for these folk, although it is yet to really catch on like the gold dust and gemstones. Although Lucy Rael has been on the scene for a while, she has become better known as one of the new Mystics linked with John Crowder and crowd. http://endtimespropheticwords.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/john-crowder-and-the-new-mystics-sons-of-thunder/ She appears at Bethel Christian Center (Bill Johnson’s church) regularly - no surprise, they love angel feathers and other questionable signs and wonders. She also appeared at last month’s Manifestations of Glory Conference in Gergia with John Crowder, Joshua Mills, Georgian Banov, Kay Beyer, and Benjamin Dunn.
The Elijah List say of Lucy Rael: ‘For decades, Lucy Rael’s life and ministry have been marked by supernatural signs, demonstrating a powerful witness that has led countless souls to believe on the Lord for salvation. She has also shared the stage with greats such as A.A. Allen, Kenneth Hagin, and other signs and wonders forerunners.’
Back in the late 1980s, Lucy Rael’s alleged stigmata was being sponsored by T L Osborn. Although Lucy was raised a Catholic, and has not renounced Roman Catholicism, she and her husband Sito then considered T. L and Daisy Osborn their pastors.
There is an article about stigmata and on whether her stigmata is faked or not here: http://www.mediaspotlight.org/Stigmata-IsLucyRael-ForReal.pdf
From that article, I wanted to particularly highlight the following incident of Lucy Rael caught planting heavenly feathers. Although it was then called dove feathers (to testify to the dove of the Holy Spirit), this belief has now morphed into the far more popular angel feathers, but it is the same old charlatanism at work - angels feathers bring in more crowds, evidently, and can now tie in with the heretical mania for the attention-diverting-away-from-Christ angels in all their glory. You know the ones like ‘Emma’, ‘Swift’, ‘Breakthrough Anointing’, ‘Winds of Change’ and ‘angels of Finance’ promoted by all prophets of the William Branham school. I wonder if there is an angel called ‘Colossians Heresy’? After this, is another article where Lucy Rael was caught faking prophecy. As she was giving out words of knowledge, every name called out by her was in that day’s church Bulletin…..
On Thanksgiving day, 1988, Lucy appeared as a mistress of ceremonies at “The Church Reunion,” held at the Mabee Center of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa. Several prominent leaders within the charismatic movement were speakers during the four-day event. On this occasion the stigmata did not manifest in Lucy’s body. But something even more remarkable took place. Calling songstress Vicki Jamison to come forward, Lucy had her close her eyes and look upward, as she had the audience do. To the accompaniment of the song, “Sweet Anointing,” Lucy encouraged everyone to “Just close your eyes and worship Him.” Her words to Vicki Jamison set the stage for an unsettling incident:
Sister Vicki, today you’re going to have a visitation from the Holy Spirit. You’re going to be anointed afresh and anew. You’re going to feel the anointing of God come all over you when you minister.
The enemy has tried to destroy you. Hc’s come against you in sickness. But God’s not through with you He’s not through with you, sister Vicki. But you’re going to have a visitation from the Holy Ghost this day,that you’re going to go forth with such scope and power. Hallelujah! You’re going to enter the second phase of your ministry.While exhorting the audience to worship Jesus, Lucy reached with her left hand, palm closed, and placed it on Vicki’s right shoulder, opening her palm downward. Vicki’s eyes were closed, her arms lifted. Praising God, Lucy removed her hand from Vicki’s shoulder and placed it upon her forehead. As her hand lifted from the shoulder a small, white feather could be clearly seen to drop from Lucy’s hand onto Vicki’s shoulder. Lucy glanced at the feather but continued to praise God and walk elsewhere on the stage. Feathers began to drop where she walked. Suddenly, Lucy stopped and, in a surprised tone, exclaimed, “There’s feathers all over this place! Oh, my God! My God!”
Calling Billye Brim, another of the mistresses of ceremony, and Blaine Amburgy, the host for the affair, to join her, Lucy continued: A mighty visitation of the Holy Ghost! Hallelujah! Turn around [toward the audience) sister Vicki, very slowly; very slowly! HaJlelujah! On your shoulder! On your shoulder! The visitation of the Holy Ghost! My God! We're having a visitation of the Spirit of Almighty...you say somebody said, "I don't understand this; I don't believe this!" You know, the mind cannot receive the things of the Spirit! Sometimes the mind gets troubled! But Honey, glory to God! Get out of that natural mind and get into the supernatural! The supernatural power of God! [Turning to people picking up feathers]: Are you finding some over there? Hallelujah! There’s some over here! There’s some over there! You say, “What does that mean?” The Dove of the Holy Spirit is flying all over this place! My God! Worship Him!Isn’t it typical that mystics exhort us to “get out of your minds.” But God’s Word tells us that He has given us a sound mind Dr. Craig Rumedy used his mind and acquired two of the feathers. He sent them to Bob Jennings, an ornithologist and a naturalist at Oxley Nature Park in Tulsa.
Mr. Jennings’ conclusions:
I) The feathers had a straight edge at callus (the point where they attach to the skin). This is not characteristic of a feather that has been plucked out or fallen out;
2) The feathers were pure white and have a size and shape described as semiplume-like, and are typical in size, shape, color, and appearance of down feathers;
3) The feathers had no cage marks and were therefore not from a caged bird;
4) The edges of the individual branches of the feathers were frayed in such a manner as to suggest the feathers were several weeks or months old or they had been handled “very roughly.”
5) The feathers are definitely not from a dove or pigeon:
6) They are quite typical of the underbelly feathers of a large waterfowl, eg., egret, crane, heron, or goose;
7) They could well be goose down feathers?
This following piece was written by a Judy about Lucy Rael in 2004 - http://www.mail-archive.com/truthtalk@mail.innglory.org/msg14544.html
“I don’t know whether you have heard of the Rock Church in Va. Beach but we used to go there and they had a lady called Lucy Rael come there who was supposed to have the stigmata (they said she had oil and blood on her hands in the place where the nails would be on Christ’s hands). We went to the service where she spoke and she had this supposed Word of Knowledge going on.
I don’t buy the stigmata thing for a start and our pastor’s wife who was there with us noticed that every name her gift called out was in that day’s Bulletin. We went to the pastor Giminez about it and they released her, later apologizing to their congregation publicly for allowing her to have the pulpit (which was right). This woman went on to other Churches, I would see her in Charisma and in one story she was said to have dove feathers coming out from under her sleeves (I believe this was in John Osteen’s Church in Houston TX). Eventually she was exposed as a fraud. Sad that it took as long as it did. I hope she has retired for good.”
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I’m really enjoying your site. Your analysis of the “end-times” views of most of the so-called prophets was absolutely excellent. I’m planning on linking to your site from mine, in a future article. Thanks for getting the word out about the deceptive signs and wonders movement.
Funny thought. Why do all these stigmatics see blood/oil on there hands? Jesus could not and was not crucified through the hands because the weight of His body would have ripped His hands in half and He would have came off the cross. He was pierced through the wrists and the bones kept the arms in place. If this was through the hands the simple act of pulling Himself up to take a breathe would have ripped His hands off the nails.
That in of itself should remove credibility. People need to read there history on Roman practices and crucifying