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"Michael Fortner makes an invaluable contribution by showing that such commonly heard claims as that believing in Jesus will make you rich are totally mistaken." (Robert S. McElvaine, author of Grand Theft Jesus: The Hijacking of Religion in America) Unlike other writers on this subject, the author once believed the Prosperity Gospel, but after twenty years of financial struggle and frequent unemployment God called him to research the Prosperity Gospel. What he found proves the Prosperity Gospel is totally false, and a horrible sin, and calls for a Reformation of the Charismatic Movement. Other books on this subject take a theological point of view, but the prosperity teachers failure is in not properly interpreting the Scriptures; so he analyzes every verse they use to teach the Prosperity Gospel, and gives the correct interpretation. As a result of properly interpreting the Scriptures, this book totally destroys the Prosperity Gospel. Fortner says all Christians have been deceived by wealth, not just Charismatics, the result is spiritual lukewarmness. The Scriptures show that Biblical prosperity is having all your needs met, or not being in want, but the American definition is having lots of stuff. He also says that many pastors, especially the mega-church pastors, earn too much money, while Jesus taught that his future ministers should live without high incomes or material wealth. This book says most preachers on Christian TV today, the Bible refers to as almost true yet false prophets because they are leading people away from the truth. But he is not against all Pentecostal / Charismatic doctrines, but takes a balanced approach because he grew up attending an old fashioned Pentecostal church. He believes Christianity in America today is the church of Laodicea, and so God has already started to refine us as gold; which means suffering the fire of judgment. He details the economic and natural disasters that have come upon America in the last few years and calls it is the judgment of God upon us, and calls for Christians to repent of materialism and the Prosperity Gospel. He says that the judgment will likely get worse until we repent, resulting in another Great Awakening in America. Michael D. Fortner was called into the ministry at age 20, but because he is not an eloquent speaker he chose to spend his adult life doing in-depth study of the Scriptures. He has a B.A. in journalism with a minor in history, and is a skilled researcher, with God-given ability to figure things out. He is also the author of "The Truth About United Flight 93" (showing the conspiracy theories are false), and Discoveries in Bible Prophecy. He is the editor of The Sibylline Oracles: Revised and Updated, and The Book of Enoch Updated. This book gets under the skin of people who believe in the prosperity gospel and it makes them really angry because it proves them wrong. Introduction ... Chapter 1 - Deceived by Wealth ... Chapter 2 - Spirituality and Riches ... Chapter 3 - The Way of Balaam ... Chapter 4 - Using Proper Context and Interpretation ... Chapter 5 - No Wisdom Here ... Chapter 6 - The New Covenant Priesthood ... Chapter 7 - Rich and Poor Christians ... Chapter 8 - Supernatural Signs or Strange Fire ... Chapter 9 - The Almost True Yet False Prophet ... Chapter 10 - Holy Laughter and Strange Manifestations ... Chapter 11 - Strange Charismatic Doctrines ... Chapter 12 - Prophetic Voices Crying in the Wilderness ... Chapter 13 - The Judgment of God and Revival ... Conclusion ... Bibliography ... At this low price you can buy a print copy and an eBook copy so you can search for words and phrases. Ebooks now take the place of indexes; without an index a printed book uses less paper and sells at a lower price. Please leave a review of this book, thanks.