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Jesse Duplantis aka the 'Ragin Cagun' from Louisianna.

Apparently he is a great orator and a very funny entertaining man, sadly enough though, the joke is on those who support him and his erroneous teaching financially and by word of mouth.
It is said that Jesse Duplantis shows great disdain for sound doctrinal teaching. "Jesse Duplantis encapsulates the radical Pentecostalism of today.

He's gone to heaven and received new revelation and has written a book on it. He slays people in the spirit. He yells at the devil and he has never ending tales of the supernatural.

He screams, "Jesus. Jesus. JESUS!" into the converts ear that any devil would run from the sheer volume.
"Take the Holy Ghost!" he says.

He speaks in tongues in between stories and yells while he lays hands on them. (Let Us Reason Ministries)

"If God told a lie, it wouldn't be a lie because it would become truth." Jesse Duplantis (Oct. 6, 2000)

Um, okay well you see, God never lies, so Jesse is talking a bunch of mumbo jumbo clap trap in order to get people to opne their minds to new ideas, NOT QUITE in line scripturally, but hey, if God told a lie, it wouldn’t be a lie because it would become truth! CAN YOU SEE IT YET?

Jesse claims in his plane travels that it has been hit with lightning a number of times. He has quite a story for each one. The Devil was after Jesse and sent some lightning but he missed him. One time it blew a hole in the plane right above him and he got up out of his seat and yelled, "You missed me Devil."
But just to be safe he went out and bought his own plane. Like his discipler Copeland, Duplantis flies to "protect the anointing."

Go ask someone who flies a plane if lightning can hit a plane and blow holes in them and not affect those on board. I will most certainly look into this and get back to you.
Jesse espouses that the first thing on Jesus’s ‘to do list’ was getting rid of poverty.

"Would you like to know why some people, including ministries, never get out of poverty? Its not because they aren’t smart. Its not because they don’t have windows of opportunity. Its because they’re not anointed. If you’re not anointed, poverty will follow you all the days of your life. His first objective was to get rid of poverty." Jesse Duplantis.

Apparently Jesus (according to Jesse) found salvation, Leprosy, blindness, boils, homelessness etc to be less worthy of his attention, yes poverty was the number one thing that people needed to be saved from….What a load of old tripe!

But this is what Jesse asks, "If poverty is so wonderful, how come Jesus left?"

Further to this he says, "He (Jesus) ain't poor no more!… I've had many people say, you can't believe like that! Well, bless God, watch me! What faith will do for one man, faith will do for another. … You watch me and this Mr. Cessna man here, I'll be the first preacher to buy a brand new, spankin' new, brand new jet that will fly all over this world. Get that sucker out of that glass hanger!...You can say all you want, Jack. I'll fly by your house and tip the wing. I'm gonna get something for Jesus. I'm gonna do something for God." (Jesse Duplantis Show, TBN, 9/ 8/97)

Jesse also boasts that, "Jesus has done EVERYTHING I asked for."

Well if that is the case then may I suggest that Jesse pray for the entire world healing of AIDS, HUNGER, POVERTY, TERRORISM etc. If Jesse has that much more pull with God, than the average person, then I do not believe that MY request is unreasonable, I mean JESSE said it, not me, I am merely responding to his claim. If Jesus has done EVERYTHING that Jesse Duplantis asked for then we don’t need to pray, nor do we need the bible nor do we need to worry about our own salvation, Jesse has it all under control.

Again, WHAT A LOAD OF UTTER NONSENSE!

"I had a man say, "You look so prosperous, Brother Jesse." I said, "Well, I'm backed by a very rich Jew. Yeah!! Yes, I am! His Name is Jesus. I'm backed by Him." (Jesse Duplantis, TBN, Sept. 21, 1998)

God seems to have been reduced (in Jesse's mind) to being Jesse Duplantis’ servant.

Duplantis claims the anointing of increase is so much on our lives that, "our washing machines don’t break down." (Apr.29, 2001 TBN).

Jesse seems to have a proclivity for putting words in Jesus’ mouth. He speaks of when Jesus was tempted by the Devil to turn stone into bread and he asserts that Jesus responded, "NO! I don’t take orders from a low classed most low barely angelic fool," (Aug. 12 2001).

If you read the book of Jude & 2Peter 2 , you will see that we are warned sternly about people who speak irreverently of angelic beings, and as much as the Devil is the Devil, he is still an expelled from Heaven angelic being.

"I tell you what I have made God laugh many many times. One time the funniest was I'm embarrassed to say this, this is when I first started preaching I knew enough to be dangerous (no difference now) you know how that is. We didn't stay in hotels in those days,..Stayed in peoples homes...I got this apartment, I got this bedroom and I always take my bible before I go to sleep… when anyway I fell off to sleep with the bible hit me on the chest and I woke up and there’s this big gray object in the corner and it would move. That scared me but I wasn't getting off that bed, I said no I ain't getting off this bed, I said I rebuke you, you devil from hell get out of here get out of here…I spit and hollard and screamed and rebuke all until 5, 5:30 till my throat was horse. And the light began to come through the window and it was a raincoat hangin’ over a hat rack. I can't believe I that I actually rebuked the raincoat for 3 hours. Now here’s the funny part I got mad at God, I said why didn't you tell me? He said "Jesse that’s the funniest thing I ever saw." Rebuking a raincoat boy."

I firmly believe that God has a sense of humour, but I doubt the ways of Jesse Duplantis are causing God laughter.

But apparently Jesse can talk to God (as we all do) BUT Jesse is so special that God speaks audibly in his replies to Jesse….
"I'm going to say something that may sound controversial. Not long ago I was in prayer in my own study, and I know the Lord just like you know the Lord. And man I went in there and started off my day with the lord and said 'Lord Lord how you doing today. It’s going to be a great day. And I noticed the lord wasn't acting right, …cause I know God, you know when your child is not felling good, right. Hinn, right! You know when something, you may not know what it is but he wasn't acting right for lack of a better term. I know God I know him and I know the fulness of his presence , and I know him. And I said something’ wrong. And this is what I'm saying, it wasn't with me. And then it hit me, I said Lord you had a bad day? Now watch this (whenever faith teacher says this you need to pay careful attention, here it comes) I said and he said "Yea my children have been disobeying me" then it dawned on me. I said somebody hurt you today, I said lord I don't ever want to hurt you anymore so lord I’m going to cancel all my appointments and all this stuff that we call ministry and I'm gonna sit here and I don’t know how to say this God for a lack of better term, till you fell better. Cause so many people hurt him that day… Lord I said I'm just going to bless you I'm gonna praise you I'm gonna just call your name. And it dawned on me and the Lord went "Thank you Jesse." (Interview-This is Your day, B. Hinn Feb. 2,000)

So not only does God talk to Jesse audibly, but Jesse comforts God, hmm interesting isn’t it?

Now I do not for one second think that God would not audibly speak to someone, but with everything else we know of Jesse Duplantis, I am sure this claim of his is as bogus as most of the others.

God does not have ‘bad days’ and God is not a human with the frailties that are inherent within humanness. Our God is the God of all comfort, he does not need us, we need him. God does not need a psychiatrist or a word of comfort from us, not only have I never heard of God seeking this, I have never read in the bible anywhere where God sought words of comfort from the prophets of old or anyone else. Come on Jesse, now we KNOW you’re not telling us the truth.

Another time Jesse claimed, "Jesus is tearful in heaven and I put my hand on him to comfort Him. I didn’t realize how much he needs us, I always thought we needed him."
In reply Jesse says that God responds, "But I need you boy, I need you Jesse."

A Scary Insight to Jesse’s Teachings...a note from his 'visit to' Heaaven....

"I saw new lives of little babies singing and flying around God's Throne. It seemed to me that babies just came out of the breath of God. They looked like they were wearing nightgowns. They flew into the presence of Jehovah. I realized they were new souls who came from the thoughts of God. God thinks kids. Now I know why those newborn babies are so precious. Babies are gifts given to us directly from the Throne of God. I heard them saying to God, "Can I be a spirit? Would you send me to the earth so I can be a spirit? I want to be a redeemed person. Can I be a spirit?" And while I watched, I heard that mighty sound of God's power, Whooosh! I saw these babies leave the Throne by the power of God." (Heaven Close encounters of the God Kind p.119.

Now this is just crass and more along the lines of Mormon teachings/fairytales. For the aforementioned statement to be true it infers that we all asked to come to earth to be born and when God said "Yes," It would mean He did this knowing that some of us would not be saved and yet He INTENTIONALLY sent us to a place of harm, sin and hopelessness so that He could turn around and, (in some instances yet not others,) ‘rescue’ us.

They have a name for people who deliberately hurt their children and then play rescuer, it is called Munchausens by Proxy. I am 110% certain that God is NOT in the Munchausens market.

In order for Jesse Duplantis assertion to be true, we would have to reduce God to the level of a sadistic, cruel, vicious entity who cares for nothing but his own ends, this sounds more apt of the Devil to me. My God is the comforter, the friend, the trusted confidant who loves me and who never sits there thinking of ways to hurt me in order that He be blessed.

"How do we test a spiritual experience to see if it is from God, by the spirit? No. The Bible tells us to test the spirits, but not just by the spirit, we test the spirits by the objective word of God. And if someone does not speak according to this word they have no light in them. Does God still speak today, certainly, but he does not give new doctrine or more information on a subject that even the apostle Paul dared not speak on. This does not stop Jesse Duplantis or a host of other Charismatics writing books on their special tours from "the other side." Paul says it was crime to speak of the things he saw in heaven, Jesse goes out and tours the country and writes a book. So did he see what Paul did?" Let Us Reason Ministries.

Duplantis claims he was taken up into Heaven. When Isaiah saw the Lord in a vision he was undone, when John the apostle saw the Lord he fell at his feet as if dead. When Paul went to heaven he kept his mouth shut, but Jesse? Not is the experience itself filled with erroneous suggestions presented as fact by Duplantis, but it is all out there for public consumption and he has grown very rich off it through writing a book about it....

He claims to have been to Heaven in 1988 in a hotel room.
"I felt a suction as if I was being pulled up out of the room, zooming along at a phenomenal rate of speed, being carried in something like a cable car. It was a chariot without a horse."

Apparently there was a man in the chariot with blonde hair (an angel) with him.
"Where are we going?" asked Jesse.
The angel smiled and said, "you have an appointment with the lord God, Jehovah"

So Jesse sets off in this chariot with the blonde haired angel and arrived in Heaven and when he gets there he sees, "babies flying around, singing, and playing little harps."
Jesse also claims that he sees many other chariots with people in them just like the one he is in. Jesse then says that the place is pretty similar to earth with dogs and cats and other animals roaming around. Jesse also notices that some in Heaven are dressed differently to others and it is explained to him by the angel that, "The ones wearing gowns have not yet seen God as they are too weak to withstand God’s glory." (oddly enough Jesse reports that he himself still was wearing jeans and a shirt, why wasn’t he in a gown too?).
The angel picks him a piece of fruit from a tree and tells him it will help him withstand the glory of God when he meets Him face to face.

Hebrews 12:23 "to the church of the first-born, whose names are written in Heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all men, to the spirits of righteous men made perfect."

(AND Jesse still isn’t wearing a gown).

Jesse then claims to have met Abraham and then Jesus himself."Jesus was taller than I thought he would be. I would guess him to be from five feet, eleven inches, to six feet, one inch. I thought at first his hair was white; but when he turned his head, I caught a glance and saw that it was light brown. When he looked at me, the glory of God was emanating from him. I said, "Jesus!"
He said simply, "Do you like this place?"
I said, "Yes, Sir."
Jesse then asks Jesus why he is doing this, you know, bringing him up to heaven and Jesus apparently replied, "I want you to tell my people I’m coming."
Jesse argues that people won’t believe him and Jesus responds, "They didn’t believe it for centuries, but I came, and I am coming again."
He then goes on to tell Jesse that there are many things that Jesse needs to learn while he is there. Jesse then reiterates his assertion that people already know that Jesus is coming and Jesse claims that Jesus responded, "No they don’t know that I brought you here to tell them that I’m coming. Do you hear me? I’m coming. Go tell them."

Then King David happens along and Jesse says he immediately recognised him and that David bowed to Jesus and then Jesus told him to, "Take Jessie to his home. Show him what I have prepared for him. Then bring him to my throne. I must go. My Father wants me." Then he turned, and walked off.

When David took Jesse to his new home it was furnished in the way that Jesse likes, just as his house on earth.
Then Jesse is taken to the throne room of God, "I heard a massive Whoosh! Then I saw God’s finger barely move and when it moved, an angel that was flying near him was thrown up against a wall. BAM! It didn’t hurt the angel, but I felt if God barely moved a universe could be annihilated. I guess God better not move otherwise angels, and people will be flying elsewhere. Looks like the slain in the spirit goes on in heaven in a greater calamity’ than earth."

Jesse then describes the Book of Life, “Right inside the city I saw the Book of Life. It is huge, about five feet five inches vertically and one and one-half inches thick. It looked like it is bound in a gold lame cloth. It has an inscription in it, etched in deeply.” (p.87)

The story just evolves from there into something so fantastically awful that it is immediately recognisable as the lie that it is. One thing I will say is that Jesse might have been better to have labelled this a dream or a vision as opposed to asserting that it was an actual happening, I guess he didn’t think it through well enough. Further on the depravity of this experience of Jesse's begans to become even more obvious...

In a conversation with Jesse King David ends up saying to him, “that when he allowed God to come through him, he was able to write anointed messages like, The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He did use Psalm 23 as an example as he explained, “ I allowed God and the anointing to come through in that song. In other songs I sang strongly about my troubles. I think I should have allowed more of the answer to come through, instead of the complaining. Those weren’t his exact words, but I knew that was what he meant. Then he added, “ I wish I had written more songs about God’s answers than about my problems."

David could have allowed more of the answer and the anointing to come through his songs instead of his complaining?
Does this mean all that David wrote was not as inspired?

This is all phycho-babble having nothing to do with the truth God’s word is.

"What I see is a consistency with all those who have visitations or supernatural encounters, they all end up demeaning God’s word by adding or changing the intent. For the Bible says in 2 Tim. 3:15-17 “All Scripture is inspired by God” , so if David was wrong in what he wrote so was God. This sounds more like a charismatic friend Duplantis is having a conversation with than David." Let Us Reason Ministries.

Jesse then describes seeing Jesus, “He was a preacher full of victory, shouting and hollering, and Jesus is a preachin’ machine!"

Isaiah said something very different to what Jesse would like us to believe, Isaiah said, Isa. 42:2 “He will not cry out, nor raise His voice, nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.”

Again, Jesse has God changing His mind about what He said would happen, this is where all these experiences fall over, they either, lie, embellish or try to get us to accept that God is NOT the same yesterday, today and forever. In order to accept what Jesse has said as truth we would have to deny God's word as truth.

Secondly, why is Jesus even preaching in Heaven when the people there are there by virtue of the fact that they heard the message of salvation, accepted the message of salvation and thus were saved? It makes no sense!

Another disturbing thing that Jesse says is, "I did not know how long I was there, but I felt I couldn’t stand it any longer, that’s why I think I was there in the flesh, that my body was physically there."

Paul stated that he did not know whether he was there in body or not, he could not tell and he could not explain it. Apparently Jesse pays closer attention than Paul or his ability to interpret what is happening to him is much more highly honed than Paul’s was.

BUT there is a slight problem and this problem is biblical you see the word of God says that flesh and blood cannot enter into Heaven, flesh and blood is fallen man and cannot go into Heaven in the body, but it seems that Jesse is an exception to that biblical rule. Jesse has God changing his mind again about biblical truths.

1Timothy 6:16 "Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto, whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen."

John 1:18 "No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him."

So let’s be clear on this, the bible CLEARLY states that NO MAN has seen God, so ANY man who claims that he has is clearly lying. The bible says so in 1Tim 6:16 & John 1:18.

Well, that pretty much puts pay to Jesse Duplantis’ assertion that he went to Heaven and saw God, Jesus and all the other things he claims. His experience as an overview (never mind the intricacies of it) are CLEARLY LIES according to the bible. God's word is God inspired and never changing, God is the same yesterday, today and forever. So why are people falling for it?

Piczo