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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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The meeting lasted late into the night. People were praying in tongues, collapsing, crying; at one point, according to Moore, he was writhing in a chair and screaming as three men shouted at demons to leave him in the name of Jesus. IHOP leaders pointedly asked group members about their conduct prior to Bethany's death. Moore became delusional. He said that he was supernaturally responsible for the illnesses of relatives; he said that he had used "spirit vision" to observe Tyler and Bethany Deaton on their honeymoon in Costa Rica; and he said that he had used witchcraft to induce Bethany's suicide. Eventually, Moore wrote, he was asked a "God-inspired" question by a "prophetic" IHOP leader and responded by saying that he had killed Bethany Deaton. Two IHOP members and the IHOP leader accompanied Moore to the Grandview Police Department. According to Moore, the IHOP leader continued to question him in the booking room. Moore said he thought he might not be Micah Moore but Tyler Deaton. He said he was a serial killer and named a victim – someone the leader knew to be alive. Despite these delusions, the leader encouraged Moore to confess to detectives, which he did. Not long afterwards, while still in custody, he recanted. ("We were shocked when the [sheriff's office] notified us that Micah Moore had been charged with murder," IHOP's president said in a public statement released the following day.)

Every verifiable statement Micah Moore made to detectives was proven false or contradicted by other evidence. For example, Moore provided a single detail from the alleged crime scene, and that detail was inaccurate: Bethany Deaton's body was found in a van in a county park; Moore said she had died in the front seat of the van, but she was found in the third row. Moore said that he killed Bethany before 10 a.m., but transaction records show that Bethany used her debit card after 10 a.m., and surveillance video shows that she was not in the park until after 10 a.m. Meanwhile, attendance records show that Moore arrived at a class at 10 a.m. Moore claimed that others were present at the scene of Bethany's death, including Boze Herrington (a major source for this story), but the subsequent investigation invalidated that claim. Moore claimed that he had drugged Bethany with Seroquel, but no Seroquel was found in her system. Moore claimed that he and his roommates sexually assaulted Bethany Deaton, but the medical examiner found no evidence of sexual assault and there is no evidence of it on Moore's iPad, as he had claimed; detectives interviewed Moore's roommates and found no reason to suspect them. A counselor Bethany was seeing observed nothing to indicate that she had been sexually assaulted, and Bethany's journal and emails suggest that she was a virgin when she died. No one was ever charged with sexual assault.

According to the lead detective in the case, no evidence besides Moore's confession indicates that a homicide – or any crime at all – ever occurred. Initial forensic examination of the van yielded nothing incriminating. The prosecution subsequently sent multiple items from the van to forensic experts at the FBI Laboratory, in Quantico, Va., for DNA analysis. Micah Moore's DNA was not present anywhere. The prosecution also sent a suicide note found in the van to FBI handwriting analysts, who determined that it had been written by Bethany Deaton. Walmart video shows that she bought the Equate Acetaminophen PM that was found at the scene of her death.

Forensic and circumstantial evidence indicate that Bethany Deaton's death was a suicide. She was not just depressed but suicidal in the weeks before her death. Bethany's close friends openly worried that she might take her own life. One week before she died, her husband Tyler Deaton found her holding a cup of windshield wiper fluid, intending to drink it. Tyler took the cup away and called the police. To the responding officer, Bethany said, "It would be easier to die than to change." She was taken into protective custody and hospitalized. In the hospital, she told doctors that because she was damned and could not attain salvation, she "needed to end her own life." Two days later – and five days before her death – she was released.

Tyler Deaton argued against her release, insisting that she was still suicidal. In response, a nurse asked Bethany whether she might attempt suicide again. She answered, in part, "Well, it could come to that." Despite that comment, and despite the fact that she refused medication, she was discharged.

Bethany Deaton was found with a plastic bag over her head; near her body were two bottles of Equate Acetaminophen PM. One bottle was empty. An overdose of sleeping pills followed by self-asphyxiation is a recognized method of suicide. After a physical examination and toxicological screen, the medical examiner determined the cause of Bethany's death to be asphyxia and the manner of her death to be suicide. He reexamined the body after Micah Moore's confession, and changed the manner of death to "undetermined," but the cause remained "asphyxia," and no evidence of homicide was ever discovered.


Editor's Note: In October 2014, nearly a year after this story appeared, the case against Micah Moore was dismissed. "My office concluded that we could not ethically continue to pursue the case given the current evidence," prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said. With a trial no longer imminent, Baker's office and Moore's defense attorneys released critical pieces of exculpatory evidence for the first time. When we reported this story a year earlier, without access to this new information, we presented the criminal case against Moore as entirely credible. Moore implicated Tyler Deaton in the alleged crime, and we presented that implication as credible as well. But the evidence available now suggests overwhelmingly that Bethany Deaton committed suicide and that Moore and Deaton are innocent of any crime. We now know: every verifiable statement Moore made to detectives was either proven false or was contradicted by the evidence; after the confession, investigators discovered no additional evidence that a crime had occurred; and both circumstantial and forensic evidence point to suicide. We urge readers to reconsider this story in light of the totality of the evidence. A comprehensive account of that evidence – including more detail on Moore's confession and Bethany Deaton's suicide – is printed below the original article.

This entire IHOP movement was inspired by Satan. These false prophets are very dangerous people. Regardless what anyone says or a courtroom says I still believe that IHOP leaders fabricated parts of this story in order to cover up a murder.

Matt Dentino and Marty Layton would have done the same to me had the Lord not been protecting me. -POR Admin-


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