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Alternate known names: Brownsville Revivals, Elijah List, Florida Revivals, IHOP, Kansas City Prophets, New Apostolic Reformation (NAR)A movement within Protestant Christianity that embraces present-day apostles and prophets who claim they govern the church and give new divine revelation needed to set up God's EARTHLY kingdom., Toronto Blessing → see false prophet list.
Mike Bickle
Love and Death In the House of Prayer
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Many of the former group members believe Moore's confession and dismiss his recantation: The confession was spontaneous, made days after her death was ruled a suicide, and it precisely captured the dynamic between Deaton and Moore. After Deaton instructed him to kill Bethany, Moore said, Deaton added that he knew he had it in him to do it.
Yea, Matt Dentino treated me the same way. Queers..... they lie, use, abuse, manipulate, and control on orders from Satan so they can bring down as many people as they can into sin and perversion and gain souls for Hell. -POR Admin-
"That's exactly what Tyler says when he wants you to do something really big," says one former member. "He said that to me – he said that to everyone at some point."
Surprisingly, some members express little anger at Moore, but Deaton's freedom seems to appall everyone. When another ex-member heard that Bethany's death might not have been a suicide, she says that "my first thought was, 'Tyler did it.' He is one of the few people I've ever met who genuinely frightened me. He just didn't care. He saw people as people only insofar as he could control them."
Within weeks of Moore's confession, the group disintegrated. Both rental houses sat empty. Parents had driven to Grandview to collect their kids or bought them plane tickets home. The women, who had known nothing about the activities in the men's house, were in deep shock. Many members have fallen out of touch with each other. Some have returned to the professional ambitions they put aside when they followed Deaton to Grandview.
In the year since Bethany's death, Tyler Deaton has kept a low profile and not spoken publicly. "Even today, he admits to nothing and shows no true remorse," a former member says. He apparently still believes in the righteousness of the worship group and has repeatedly tried to contact former followers. He e-mailed a woman he'd condemned, hoping to renew a friendship; he told another, whose wife he'd declared a reprobate, that he wished things could just go back to "normal"; and he e-mailed Herrington to say that things were not what they seemed, and he hoped they could be friends again.
Deaton wishes that everything could go back to 'normal'? Meaning he just wants to be able to pervert as many people as he can so he can help Satan to take more souls to Hell? Seriously? Deaton needs to get delivered from demon possession and get SAVED. He should probably be incarcerated for murder, if even as an accomplice. The fact that he still lives and is living free of any charges should be a message to him that the Lord is giving him another opportunity to get his life right and REPENT. -POR Admin-
Last February, Deaton successfully applied to teach pre-calculus at a high school south of Dallas. He apparently threw himself into the job. According to one parent, all the kids liked him. Then a few of his students Googled him and learned about the events in Grandview. He was placed on leave. Several former group members believe that he is now living in Corpus Christi with his family.
Deaton, a sexual pervert, and the education system hires sexual perverts? If I had children I would never allow them to go to any school, Christian or not, because of perversion being taught as normal. -POR Admin-
Bethany's family held a memorial service for her a week after she died, at a funeral home on a hillside overlooking Longview Lake. Her body had been found across the water. Some of the group members were clearly grieving, but some seemed unaffected. They stood and offered remembrances with a merry serenity. "There was a weird feeling that something was wrong, that something was just off, and it all goes back to the fact that Tyler wasn't moved at all," one says.
"As some of you know already, I am a man who is in love with ideas, with crazy paradigms!" he said when he stood to speak, and laughed. "And when they brought me Bethany's body, at first I cried. But then I laughed, because I said to her, 'Bethany, if you could see you, you would not like the way you look right now!'
"And last night, we had worship time together, very briefly, as a group, and it was wonderful and it just showed me the Lord's supremacy over this wretched thing that is death," he said. "And I thought to myself, 'What a crazy paradigm!' " He paused. "And then I thought, 'Bethany would love my paradigm, because she loved me and was so fiercely supportive, and believed me hundreds of times when I thought I was crazy or heretical.'"
He paused again, for an uncomfortably long time. Bethany loved to spend time in the water, Deaton said. She loved small animals, like birds and squirrels. He sat down.
Watching Deaton and his followers, Herrington tried to imagine how they conceived of Bethany's death. "They had somehow evaded the brokenness that should have accompanied such a devastating event," he wrote in his journal the next day. "They were still chosen, still special, still invulnerable to the arbitrary whims of mortality. They'd gone so deep into the Great Tribulation, reality no longer had the power to harm them."
It is DEMONS dwelling in these UNSAVED people and witchcraft spells making people like zombies with no emotion for anything. -POR Admin-
Update published September 14, 2015
As mentioned in the editor's note above, the case against Micah Moore was dismissed in October 2014, in light of new evidence that suggests overwhelmingly that Bethany Deaton committed suicide and that Moore and Deaton are innocent of any crime. (Moore himself has written about this experience.) Moore's initial confession was made not to a detective but to leaders of IHOP. According to Moore, at a meeting convened by IHOP leaders to break up a "demonic" prayer group founded by Tyler Deaton, IHOP leaders told him that Deaton was using demons to control him and blamed Moore and the other group members for Bethany Deaton's suicide. Moore wrote that he considered the IHOP leaders "exceptionally prophetic" and placed an "inordinate" amount of trust in them. He had a history of psychiatric problems, and several years earlier had suffered a psychotic break related to his fear of demonic possession.