In an interview on “Too Wretched for Radio,” Todd Friel and Phil Johnson rightly labeled Michael Brown as “dangerous,” calling him “sub-orthodox,” acknowledging that he is “willfully self-deceived,” and stating that he has done “enough damage.” In his response to Todd Friel and Phil Johnson, Michael wrote, "To me, this is a crown of honor, a sign of the Lord’s favor, and another indication that our message, by God’s grace and to His glory, is making an impact."
In case Michael is not aware of it, Jehovah's Witnesses and many other cults have this same outlook? They go around saying the same kind of nonsense: "People slamming the door in our face and cursing us out and this and that, this is a crown of honour, a sign of the Lord's favour, and another indication that our message is making an impact." I am sorry, Michael, but that is a fool's self-perceived "persecution" and crown. How about you look at it through the lens of reality and truth, that they are calling you out for being a false teacher and teaching unbiblical doctrines?
Mr. Brown also claimed that he "gets slandered, maligned, misrepresented, and attacked" for "confronting doctrinal errors in the Body; . . . being pro-Israel; being pro-Holy Spirit."
What about your own doctrinal errors in the Body, Michael? I am sorry to break it to you, but you are not free from doctrinal errors yourself. You have two major doctrinal errors.
First, you claim to be "pro-Holy Spirit." It is not "pro-Holy Spirit" to attribute to Him things that He is not responsible for. That is blasphemy. That is taking the Lord's name in vain. If I were to tell someone who is meeting me at the train station that he will recognize me because I will be wearing a blue hat, the blue hat is the sign. Once we have met and he recognizes me by the sign of the blue hat, the need for the sign has ceased. Isaiah prophesied that God would speak to the Jews by foreign languages and that they would reject it and subsequently be judged. The sign of this prophecy was fulfilled three times in the book of Acts (ch. 2, 10, 19), demonstrating that the way to salvation was open to people from all nations, tribes, peoples, and languages. The Jews rejected the sign and were severely judged in A.D. 70. The gift of "tongues" (properly 'languages,' as revealed in Acts 2 and Isaiah's prophecy) have ceased! What you claim to do is not "tongues," however you might imagine it. Your "experience" does not interpret Scripture, Michael! All this other nonsense taking place at Bethel and Hillsong, etc., is doctrines and practices of demons. The Holy Spirit does not shower gold dust on people. Grave soaking is demonic and does nothing. If these people actually possessed the gift of healing, they would be doing like Jesus and going to the people. These people would be healing people in hospitals and such. But they can't. They have to fake it, and everyone, including you, knows it.
Second, you are pro-Israel, and foolishly so. You ignore what the Bible says on this issue and foolishly subscribe to the untenable, indefensible, bankrupt theology of Dispensationalism. How about you take the time to read and pay attention to the book of Hebrews? This book dismantles and destroys your pro-Israel theology (and John MacArthur's) once and for all. Better yet, how about you read and pay attention to the book of Ephesians. It is almost as if God gave Paul a glimpse into the future to see the nonsense of Dispensationalism being taught, and then Paul answers their core tenets one by one. More so, read and pay attention to Romans 9 through 11. Pay very special attention to 11:17-26. What does Paul do here? He takes national, physical, literal Israel and divides them into two groups: believing Israel and unbelieving Israel. According to Romans 2:28-29, what does this say about unbelieving Israel? According to Romans 9:6-8, what does this say about unbelieving Israel? In other words, believing Israel is true Israel, spiritual Israel. The remnant God has always had. Paul then has believing Gentiles grafted in with the believing Israel. What does that make these Gentiles, Michael? It makes them true Israel, spiritual Israel. This was prophesied repeatedly through the Old Testament: the Gentile inclusion. What would they be included into? This is known as Expansion Theology.
Do you honestly believe a physical temple will be rebuilt, when Scripture makes it clear that we are the new temple and that God indwells us? Do you honestly believe we will return to sacrifices when Jesus was the sacrifice to end all sacrifices? You seriously need to read your Bible better, Michael, and pay closer attention to precisely what it says and teaches, which is not what you teach and believe! Israel is nothing and will be nothing. Scripture, from beginning to end, is all about Jesus! He is the center of it all; not Israel.
I think you would benefit from reading the books and letters of the Bible in their actual historical-chronological order, Michael. Read the prophets in chronological order alongside 1 & 2 Samuel and 1 & 2 Kings. Read the epistles in chronological order alongside Acts. God has one Body, one Bride, one Congregation—Christians! The Congregation of the Lord is the fulfillment of Israel. Jew and Gentile together, Old Testament saints and New Testaments saints together, make up the one Body of Jesus. Your theology makes the Bible say things that it does not say, turning Jesus into your imagined "Anti-Christ." How about you look up the chiasm in Daniel 9:24-27 and pay close attention to it. Look up the Hebrew, too. There is nothing in this passage about the "making" and "breaking" of a covenant. The Hebrew word means "to strengthen" an already existing covenant: the covenant of grace. The Messiah does this. Nobody else. There is also nothing in the Bible about a "one-world government." Stop ripping random, individual, isolated verses out of their immediate context and forcing them together with other random, individual, isolated verses to create your doctrines. If the surrounding context of the one verse does not agree with the surrounding context of the other verse, they are not teaching the same thing! I'm getting fed up with people using random isolated verses to teach something that the context does not support.
E.g.: The use of 1 Timothy 5:8 has nothing to do with the man of the house getting a job and providing for his family. What is the context of chapter 5:1-16? It's speaking about widows. Keeping this verse in its context, what is it actually saying? Quite different from how the majority of people falsely use it. And this goes for every denomination. Charismatics, Lutherans, Calvinists, Baptists, etc. Every since chapters and verses were added to the Bible, people have ripped individual verses out of their immediate contexts in order to argue something that the verse in context simply does not support!
You can refer to this letter as an "attack," Michael, or whatever else you need to tell yourself in order to make yourself feel better, but it is not an "attack" by any stretch of the imagination or by any sort of mental gymnastics you want to try and engage in. I love you as a brother, Michael, but you are teaching some very serious errors, and are associating with some extremely dangerous people. Feel free to label me in whatever manner makes you feel better about yourself. It will not offend me.
