No, Beavis is not filling in for the blogmaster. Instead, here is a very astute article about the Lakeland Meetings in correlation to the Florida wildfires.
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I think this “very astute article” is reading a little too much into the Lakeland craziness and Florida wildfires. From experience with spiritual warfare visionaries/crazy occultists/Witchfinder General-wannabes, I tend to exhaust natural explanations before I go to supernatural ones — a variant of Occam’s Razor.
1) It doesn’t take a vision from God to understand that tropical vegetation + drought = massive wildfires. Such wildfires happen most every summer where I am (Southern California), especially when the Santa Ana winds blow from the desert down the mountain passes. In the Nineties, I personally witnessed a sudden eruption of spreading smoke plumes as described in the vision; that was the summer almost all the hills around Los Angeles burned, and I was witnessing the start of one of the fires in the hills above me. Last fall, his vision of the entire horizon on fire WAS the RL view out of my shop’s break-room windows as the Saddleback fire burned to within half a mile of me. I don’t know how often such a thing happens in Florida, but if you’re not used to it, it DOES feel like the end of the world.
2) As for the Lakelanders, I forwarded a copy of the videos on your site to my writing partner, a burned-out country pastor. He couldn’t figure whether anything supernatural was going on, but whatever was happening, these Lakeland “prophets” were batshit crazy. I’ve seen similar behavior among lunatic-fringe fanboys in a lot of contexts, including one “Master of Mighty Magick” whose “spirit guides” were almost certainly fictional characters from his imagination; these lunatics have just been able to convince others that their delusions are Truth.
Both these situations are bad enough in their own right, without involving anything supernatural. “The wisdom of God is foolishness to the world” does not mean that foolishness is thus automatically the work of God, and the Lakelanders are not the only ones to get it backwards, just one of the most spectacular.
P.S. I have a crazy preacher character in a work of fiction in-progress. After this, I’m naming him “Lakeland”.