Official Statement from Ryan Wyatt re: Todd Bentley Affair

Thans to Scott of Northwest Musings for letting me know about this statement from Ryan Wyatt’s website here.

For the record, Ryan Wyatt is one of the people who ministered at Lakeland. He is associated with other false prophets like Bob Jones and Jeff Jansen, and I have a few videos of him telling his own sets of tall-tales. There are some people on the ‘Christian’ circuit that you know are sincerely deluded but mean well (this does not excuse them or their actions but…). There are others, like Todd Bentley, whom you know are not at all sincere, do not mean well and are deceivers more than being decieved.

“REGARDING TODD BENTLEY AND OUR UPCOMING BREAKTHROUGH KINGDOM OUTPOURING CONFERENCE IN KNOXVILLE, TN

By Ryan Wyatt

I am sure that many of you have heard the recent news reports about Todd and Shonnah Bentley and the fact that they are experiencing significant friction in their relationship and have separated.

Many of the “naysayers” and even many in the Body of Christ will most likely take this opportunity to display an “I told you so”  attitude and be severely critical of Todd Bentley.

[Endtimes note - The "naysayers" being all those that clearly said that Todd Bentley was a false prophet, blatant liar and greedy crook who had severe moral issues. So we are proved right and you prophets are proven wrong. What does that say about either your prophetic ability OR your moral integrity (or both) as many leaders were more than aware of Todd's public and private sin and yet covered it over for him, or kept quiet about it. 

There is nothing wrong with naysaying where and when it is justified as not everything that comes into the church is of God - the Bible clearly says this fact and orders to test the spirits and the ministers for this reason. So if we test the spirits and find them false then we with God are bound to say 'NO' or 'Nay'.  We notice how many times Bentley supporters keep on saying God can use anybody, and even mention Balaam's donkey as an illustration;- well even the donkey would say 'nay' if speaking for God on this issue!

Indeed the prophetic-apostolic movement are very hypocritical in this as they say 'nay' to any criticism of them. If naysaying and criticism was wrong, then they should not naysay or criticise the critics, but they do, so this illustrates that they are decieving liars and hypocrits who will not even uphold their own unbiblical commands!

Severe criticism has a place when it is deserved, and I do not know anybody who can condone long-term lies and fraud and blasphemy with sexual sin on top, and accept it without any acknowledgement of wrong-doing let alone an apology! Bentley has not once said sorry for anything - instead we are commanded by all the latest emails to give him kisses and hugs and go 'there there' and pray for his "healing" while he gets covering ministry from the false "spiritual fathers" who promoted this in the first place - and covered over Todd's previous sexual indiscretion/s before. I do not think so! Like I said in a previous post "ministry and healing for Todd? You mean more like turnaround of attitudes, repentence and confession of SIN? Why is nobody mentioning this? Instead people are saying let’s all love and cuddle and forgive poor old Todd. What about SIN SIN SIN? Sure he can be forgiven, but he needs to confess his GUILT and repent of his SIN first."

Furthermore Wyatt like all the Bentley supporters wrongly accuse critics of crowing about this - already Fresh Fire's PR machine and its supporters have been spamming websites including this one in mutliple false names accusing us of being unloving and judgmental and all the usual hooey. I do not crow or rejoice over this. I am deeply grieved. Wheras this lot do not seem to really care at all. Not only do they completely negate Todd's accountability and blame it on the devil or God, or pressures of working at Lakeland or whatever, but they lack any real genuine grief for SIN. The only 'grief' I see them express is what this public exposure will do to them and their reputation! Hence all the lying and backtracking and distancing now. These guys do not grieve about sin for they are darkened themselves - darkened liars and hypocrits. If thy grieved about sin and deception their movement would be very different and Lakeland would never have happened.

Also speaking about 'taking the opportunity', look at these so-called "spiritual fathers" seeking to take the opportunity of promoting themselves through Todd Bentley - before when he was flavor of the month, and now afterwards. And all those only NOW coming out the woodwork claiming they had deep reservations re: Lakeland all along! What hooey! And what hypocrits and decievers! The church should have NOTHING to do with such men. I would much rather someone hold their hand up and say "I was duped - I'm sorry" or "I was scared-I'm sorry" or "I did not care - I liked manifesting or my own reputation more than truth - I am sorry" then lie now about their real discernment and intentions.]

My prayer is that the church will pass this test…

{This test? This is not a test in the sense Ryan Wyatt means it.  It is sin and deception, another thing entirely.  It is not so much for the church to pass the test, as they are not the ones that committed adultery (albeit they did so spiritually but that is another thing entirely to what Ryan is talking about), but it is for the leaders and Todd Bentley to confess and repent their wrongs and go into a restoration process and not come back into ministry – until if ever they are proven men of integrity with a true gospel. I mention a restoration process but in many cases these men are false ministers and always have been, and many are not even true Christians – so they cannot be restored back to real true ministry as there was never one in the first place, and no true call either - but if they are genuinely called by God into a different ministry after being genuinely born again, deep repentence, confession and restoration and radical changes, all well and good after they have been tried and tested – but this process will take years and not just months. C Peter Wagner is proposing a laudible nine months to restore Todd! And this is after multiple adultery and all the sin he has done (greed and fraud and false gospel?) These men do not grieve about sin – they only grieve about sin being exposed and how THEY look! They are not shepherds but wolves!]

and take this opportunity to handle this situation with maturity and Christ-likeness and sincerely intercede for the Bentley family and for Fresh Fire Ministries.

{It takes more than intercession. True Maturity and Christlikeness means public rebuke and renouncement of the sin and the minister and public shunning where there is no repentence – and remember it is repentence for all the false prophecy, lies etc not just his multiple sexual indiscretions.]

Let’s not be like the ones that celebrated Jesus when he made a triumphant entry into Jerusalem and then days later said, “Crucify Him!”

{Wow! Comparing a brazen liar and greedy manipulator and false prophet and fraud to Jesus? Wow!

Todd is not being ‘crucified’ – if anything most are not calling for any accountability at all. But accountability for sin is hardly crucifixtion!

Todd has had no triumphal entry into the holy city as he is part of the outside of the camp, the darkness.

Note also that we are not like the ones who called on Barabus, because we have not suddenly turned on Todd because of his “personal issues” – I was always against Todd, even before Lakeland, because he was obviously a demonically influenced liar, false prophet and greey and evil charlatan. There is thus no hypocrisy on my part.

If anything the apostolic-prophetic movement are being the hypocrits in this, as many have now publically distanced themselves from Todd and have hung him out to dry for their own ends – but for all the wrong reasons without any righteousness or truth being involved – for many knew this stuff before and allowed him to minister just as there is sin in others in the camp too that is regularly covered-up. They are the ones turning on and ‘crucifying’ Todd – not the critics.]

I also want to say that, although the Bentley family is having a very hard time, this situation absolutely does not invalidate the Lakeland, Florida Outpouring.

[A hard time of their own making - both him and Shonnah, it should be stated. The kids I feel sorry for. But not the parents. For years they wilfully deceived and cheated and allowed deep blatant deception to be perpetuated. Both of them.

Although sexual sin in itself does not invalidate something being of God or not, it does raise many serious questions about whether it is of God. And of course let us not forget that Lakeland was invalidated anyway, weeks before this personal stuff came out, and so this personal stuff is a deflectionary smokescreen to hang Todd Bentley while saving Lakeland and the apostolic-prophetic movement.

Questions Raised:

• One has to ask why, in somebody allegedly in the glory and healing anointing practically 24/7 under an open heaven, with a portal overhead, as Todd claimed, with numerous healing angels on tap, why he and his marriage was not healed.
• Why something of God is blamed for causing or excarbating the marriage problems - as has been claimed? Even when it is evident this is not the truth anyway.
• One wonders what "anointing" the minister is in to repeatedly sin in this way, or whether he is of God, based on I John - especially given there is no repentence now.
• When the minister claims that God and the anointing/impartation has imparted to him instant character and holiness, and boasts he is so anointed and gifted because he has such a pure heart, and when prophets declare wondrous things about him and his character - and this is evidently not the truth - it raises questions as to the truth of any of the goings on at Lakeland, the anointings, the prophecies and the prophets.
• When the leader boasts from the platform and falsely testifies to his marriage being saved and restored, and even falsely testifies to it in June 23rd to the Wagners. it calls into question anything the leader says that God does through Him and in Him.
• When the revival leaders (not just Bentley) are proven to have lied and covered up it raises questions - and when they lie and cover up now, ditto.
• When the prophets claim to have not known, ditto.
• When at least two people from Bentley's ministry have committed adultery with him, it raises questions as to the integity of the ministry as a whole, its people and the anointing and whether they are of God.
• The lies, coverups and fraud re his personal life are just one more sign, and testifier, of the ongoing lies, coverups and fraud re other aspects of the ministry.

But crucially, Lakeland is invalidated scripturally and has been from the beginning. Whether Todd lived a monk like life or not does not change the lies, fraud, greed, false prophecy, blasphemy and false teaching that went on there. Not just from Bentley's mouth. But from Ryan Wyatt's mouth, Steve Strader's mouth, Bob Jones' mouth, David Tomberlin's mouth etc. Do not forget why the Lakeland tent folded long before the prophesied time. It folded because Todd Bentley was exposed as a fraud and a liar and there were no documented healings.]

This outpouring could never have been manufactured by the hands of man no matter how many networks broadcast it around the world.

{That is just what happened. It was manufactured and we have proof of the hype from the first few days! It was based on hype, lies and deceit.]

If Todd Bentley were able to do this on his own then he would have done it years ago.

{No he did not do Lakeland on his own. Many were complicit in the deception including you, Ryan Wyatt.  But it should be stated that Todd has been doing the same stuff – lying, practicing charltanism and falsely prophesying and claiming to spearhead revivals – for years. Lakeland was on a bigger scale, that’s all – and had an expensive PR firm involved from the start as well as the false apostate God TV, and the orchestration and backing of C Peter Wagner’s false apostles and its prophets even before the start.]

This outpouring was and still is a genuine move of God in which countless thousands of lives have been forever touched and changed!

{Uh Huh – so you say without any proof. God does not lie though. Nor does He contradict himself or give lying signs and wonders and lying prophecies. So how was it of God?

Touched and changed is right – for the worse!]

All of this being said, Abiding Glory Ministries and Ryan and Kelly Wyatt strongly believe in the priority and importance of marriage and family. For this reason, I have decided not to have Todd minister at our upcoming conference in September entitled, Breakthrough Kingdom Outpouring.

{Oh what a hypocrit! Ryan, you do not care about lying though do you as I have seen you bring out some porkers of your own, as well as supporting Todd’s!}

I love Todd as a friend and will always stand by him through both good and bad times. At this time, on both a ministry and a personal level, I feel that this is an important time for Todd to take a sabbatical and seek the touch of God in this unfortunate situation.

{Being exposed for fraud and not keeping his trousers up and being booted out of ministry is not taking a “sabbatical”! At least we have yet more indication what his last “sabbatical” was about!

“I love Todd as a friend and will always stand by him through both good and bad times” is also not the biblical way of dealing with unrepentent sinners and false prophets as Todd is . The Bible says to have nothing to do with them. Yet Ryan is a false prophet himself so…..it is time for him to repent of his own deceptions and get right with God.]

Even though Todd Bentley will not be joining us, the Breakthrough Kingdom Outpouring Conference, September 24-27 in Knoxville, TN will continue as planned. We are incredibly excited about this gathering, as people have already registered from all over the USA and even the world. You will experience incredible teaching and ministry as well as a display of the kingdom with miracles, signs and wonders following! Don’t miss it!

{Money making venture. Would not want to miss that would you?]

Our speaker and worship leader lineup is Ryan Wyatt, Bob Jones, Bill Hamon, Rick Pino and Vince Gibson. The only change that has been made is the addition of another incredibly anointed speaker.  To see all the details and to find out who our surprise speaker is, just click the link below.

{Anointed for what? To Decieve? To lead to another Jesus and another Gospel? Anointed for False prophecy?  Bob Jones was the key false prophet re Lakeland….does he hold any accountability at all or will his false prophecies be continued to be upheld on the circuit – even though he is proven wrong in this? What does this say about this movement’s love of truth?  Back to normal. Hang Todd out to dry and carry on back to the same fraudulent lying business. Wow!]

We look forward to joining with you in Knoxville as we go to new depths and new heights with Jesus!

{Heights of what – deception? The Lord rebuke you Ryan Wyatt and all those associated with you! May you get the come-uppance you rightly deserve – and not before time!]

Blessings,
Ryan Wyatt
Abiding Glory Ministries

Please believe with me that God will invade these circumstances and restore Todd and the Bentley family to a place of wholeness and fruitfulness.”

{Why would I believe this, when I know that Todd is unrepentent and I believe is a son of perdition destined for the lake of fire? Do I wish that he repents, oh yes – do I think he will though? Not a chance. He knows the god he serves.]