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Destiny City? Brian Tamaki’s Cult-Like Plans

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“Brian Tamaki announces plans for standalone community in South Auckland

Destiny Church is planning to create a holy city for its followers in the heart of South Auckland.

The church’s leader, Bishop Brian Tamaki has told supporters the plans are well advanced, and that donations for the project have topped $2.4 million.
 
He is urging church members to sell up their homes around the country and move to his promised land – a suggestion that is not being welcomed by everyone.

Tamaki unveiled his vision in front of thousands of parishioners at Destiny Church’s 10th birthday conference.

He is planning to sell Destiny headquarters at Mt Wellington and create a ‘Destiny City’. He has already secured a plot of land to build it on in the middle of South Auckland.

“We’ve signed literally for 10 acres, with a possibility of another five acres when we want it, then another five when we need it,” says Tamaki. “So that gives us 20 acres right in the heart of the largest city in our nation.”

Tamaki told his parishioners the city will hold a church to seat 5000, maraes, medical centres and schools, so his parishioners never have to leave.

“Every child of every member of this church will never go to a state school again,” says Tamaki.

Destiny has 10 churches and over 7000 members throughout New Zealand.

Tamaki wants all of them to sell their homes and move to his holy nation where he can protect them.

“You’d shift for a payrise?” he asks his followers. “Would you shift for the purpose of God? To see something happen? Would you do that?”

3 News was contacted by a concerned man who attended the conference with his mother. He says she is now planning to sell her six properties in Nelson, donate the money to the church and move to Tamaki’s Destiny City.

Mark Vrankovich from Cultwatch says Tamaki’s plans are dangerous, because his followers will be isolated from society.

“There is a danger there that the people will focus on Brian as their only source of reality,” he says, “and then if Brian becomes deranged or goes extremely strange we could end up with a Waco.”

Waco was the site in the US state of Texas where in 1993, 76 followers of the Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh died in a fire following a 51-day siege by the FBI.

Destiny Church told 3 News it would be another few weeks before the purchase of the land was confirmed, and it was too early to reveal its exact location.”

November 1, 2008 - Posted by endtimespropheticwords | Brian Tamaki, Cults, False Prophets and Teachers, News, Prosperity Gospel/Seed Faith | , , , | 13 Comments

13 Comments »

  1. Sounds like a Jim jobes expedition here
    Justify it Biblically or Flee for your lives

    Comment by wodadler | November 1, 2008

  2. That was of coures JIM JONES

    Comment by wodadler | November 1, 2008

  3. About 5 yrs ago Mr Lewis, one of Brians men, prophesied that he would be the next Prime Minister of NZ.
    Our elections are also next week, and I don’t think they
    even register 1% on the list.

    However, they are like Palin, and determined to be a militant force in the land.
    There is much contraversy here about them, but they just proclaim it is because people are jealous of them, and their wealth. They say if we are not properous, we are living under a spirit of poverty…..you know like the one
    Jesus, Paul and apostles lived under, by not storing up on earth, and being content with what they had.

    It will be interesting to see if/when they loose a lot of their prosperity in this financial crisis, that they recognise the spirit of poverty has visited their house.
    As also, I wonder if the same people who prophesied that McCain/Palin would be the next President ticket, will repent before God and the people for falsing speaking in Goids name, if this does not come to pass.

    Comment by Paula | November 1, 2008

  4. Yikes! I’ve never heard of this cult – erm, church before… but that’s always a sure sign — when folks want to withdraw onto their own “island” … to whom will they be preaching the Gospel then…? That is our Great Commission, no?

    Comment by Lavrai | November 1, 2008

  5. Herding to sheep into the pen for shearing and/or slaughter.

    Comment by Canadanorth | November 1, 2008

  6. Scarry! That people fall for this. What about freedom?
    Is that not what this nation is about? Living free under God. Not is a group, cult, controled by men? They must be lonely people/isolated already, to fall for this!

    Blessings,
    Sherry

    Comment by sherry | November 2, 2008

  7. sounds alot like jim jones

    Comment by mark | November 3, 2008

  8. This reminds me of Jim Jone, when he moved his church down to Ghiana, South America. Some of my mothers friends were caught up in that deception. When they left they never returned. They drank the Cool-Aid.

    Comment by Renee | November 3, 2008

  9. Paula

    I would be interested to hear more about them if you have the time? I know you are NZ based.

    Comment by endtimespropheticwords | November 7, 2008

  10. anyone reading this part of ‘destiny’ or any other church etc. Go and see whats going on in the rest of the world, I have been all over and i can tell you NZ is a drop in the ocean, and if you have been anywhere with a brain, not only hicktown america, (sorry for any straight thinking US citizens reading this) you will find that places such as europe you will go all over and find that the overwhelming majority of people have no time for religion and all of the devide, hate, descrimination and thousands of years of rediculas killings, you need to cleanse your minds and stop alowing people to fill your minds with ideas that will land you in hot water in a allot of places, and for what??? relegion is the scurge of the earth

    Comment by jason | December 9, 2008

  11. The Counterfeit and the Authentic
    =================================

    Jason, don’t let offense about counterfeit and fraud put you off “the real money”.

    Jesus Christ said about himself “I am the way and THE TRUTH and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)

    The ENTIRE BIBLE is the authority of Christianity, NOT CHURCH LEADERS like Brian Tamaki, Jim Jones, Catholic Pope, etc.

    2 Tim 3:16-17 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good WORK.

    If you don’t follow the Bible then you are isolated from God THE CREATOR and prey for the devil and false religions.

    Even Athiesm and humanism are religions. Belief in evolution is a religion requiring faith.

    Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

    The Bible asserts God gives us FREE WILL, but warns of the consequences of sinning:

    Deut 30:19 I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now CHOOSE LIFE, so that you and your children may live

    Karl Marx asserted “religion is the opiate of the masses”, then set up communism with compulsory atheism. However these regimes have collapsed in many countries, such as Russia, and they have now requested Bibles for the population to read.

    Karl Marx should instead have said FALSE RELIGION is the opiate of the masses, as it is FRAUDS that cause harm.

    When the common man reads and follows the Bible DIRECTLY then he is able to resist the MANIPULATION of cult leaders like Brian Tamaki, Jim Jones, Catholic Pope, etc. It is false religious leaders that incite the problems, persecutions, etc.

    B.I.B.L.E. = Best Instructions Before Leaving Earth

    Comment by billcnz | February 11, 2009

  12. AMEN!

    Comment by ianvincent | February 11, 2009

  13. Brian Tamaki thinks hes God and is on a mission to save the people and unfortunately people are vunerable and put their faith in him instead of God Almighty. Watching Brian on TV today and he seems like a crazy mad person!!

    Comment by Sunny1 | February 14, 2009


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