A Warning to Pastors and Leaders in the Church
(Blog 0001 AndrewHadden.com)
Dear pastor or leader in the Church:
I am a man of prayer who hears from God about strategic things, and has a track record of that being proven out over many years. I mention quite a bit of my education and experience on my websites, but that does not really define me. I have had many roles, but if anything defines my greatest value so far, it is hearing accurately from God, especially about things coming on the nation and the world, and speaking what God says for me to say on his behalf to churches, and leaders in the Church, and leaders in government. That has come at a high price in time spent in prayer and daily obedience to God in whatever he asked, on top of any other role I have had. It has also cost a great deal in trials. One cannot earn gifts that come from God, but that does not stop them from costing you almost everything, and everyone. That is warned of in scripture, but few preach and teach it. Christ, after all, was prophesied to be “. . . despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief . . .” (Isa 53:3 KJV). Before his greatest service to all, he was abandoned by all. Yet God rewards me greatly, with exactly what I asked for – his presence and his voice.
I obey God now to list things which God spoke to me, and I told others, and they came to pass. I would have preferred modesty, but I understand that you will need some proof if you are to really hear what God wants me to convey to you.
In the spring or very early summer of 1995, God sent me to the general superintendent of my denomination to tell him I could not take the top-level administrative position they had planned for me, because God had told me no, and that God had said he wanted the first of my strength in prayer, and I had been very burdened to pray. God also told me to tell him, while there, about the vision and prophetic word I had heard from God about sweeping revival coming. When I thought to obey meekly and share exactly what I had seen and heard in a vision, God manifested his Spirit’s anointing on me and it came out as a strong prophetic word that could have been heard down the hall (to my embarrassment). But it came to pass with the Brownsville Revival in Pensacola, Florida, starting about that time, unnoticed, and growing to be the most significant spreading revival since our denomination’s founding, and lasting five years or more and greatly affecting the denomination, even internationally.
Ten months before the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001, God sent me to a top executive of my denomination to warn of Arab Islamic terrorism coming. I warned of a threat there, as well as on the nation, and worldwide. When seeking confirmation of a revelation of a threat there, I had seen a vision of red marks all over a bronze relief map of the world in a church sanctuary and God had said, “It is blood.” I shared it then, and, five years later, I saw a map of terrorism across the world on the news that had terrorism events marked, much like what I had seen God mark on the map in the church. The executive said he would share it with the general superintendent after he recovered from a surgery. God sent me back to that top executive ten days before 9/11 to ask if they had taken the threat seriously.
In early 2007, I sent a letter to denominational leaders across the country, and beyond, that warned of things coming on the country. I warned that the judgments God lists, in Ezekiel 14:12 and following, that God says he will bring on nations that sin grievously, or break covenant, or are persistently unfaithful (depending on the translation) were coming on America. Those judgments are the sword (war or violence), plague, famine (shortage of supply), and wild beasts. I also noted, as confirmation, that a missionary friend shared that people in South America were hearing Ezekiel 14 judgments are coming as well. With coronavirus, plague has come. Violence has also come.
I preached a sermon on the end times in April of 2016. In the middle of the night before I spoke, God gave me a list of things to tell them were coming on the nation. That list included hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drownings, violence, brutality, riots, and plague. At this point, everything I list here has come since that sermon. Hurricanes, floods, and drownings were repeatedly in the news, as were severe tornados. Violence and riots have come because of brutality. Without repentance, items still on that list I shared will come shortly: an earthquake and tsunami in Los Angeles, and Muslims attacking within and without. In 2019, a few weeks after I warned someone in the White House about the devastating L.A. earthquake and tsunami coming, Southern California had its largest earthquake in 20 years – something God called “punctuation” on the warning.
The hurricanes since that prophecy in April 2016 were an extreme shift. Hurricane Hermine made landfall in Florida in September of 2016 as a category one and was reported to be the state's first hurricane landfall since Wilma in 2005, a dearth of hurricanes lasting nearly 11 years (per weather.com). The weather channel reported five category five hurricanes in the Atlantic basin since then. Hurricane Matthew, in October of 2016, hit the southeastern United States hard as it moved very close to the coasts of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina, even though it finally made landfall as a category one (per weather.com). In 2017, Irma ravaged parts of the Caribbean and made U.S. landfall as a category four. Later in 2017, Maria devastated Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, with a death toll eventually set at 2975, and caused emergencies to be declared on the U.S. East Coast. Hurricane Michael, in 2018, was a category five at U.S. landfall, only the fourth in U.S. records. Dorian, in 2019, made landfall in the U.S. as a category five. Before the prophecy in 2016, there had not been an Atlantic category five since 2007. There had not been a hurricane hit the U.S. as a major hurricane in ten years when Hermine hit in September 2016 (http://weather.com/news/news/hurricane-hermine-florida-hurricane-drought-september2016 accessed 06/18/2020). Floods and drownings accompanied the hurricanes.
At the Lord’s insistence, I will list more. There was a minister, an associate pastor, whom God had me warn of judgment and who suffered much, intended to bring him to repentance. He nearly died of sickness, acknowledged it was judgment he was facing – but failed to repent, and then died from injuries from a car wreck some months later. I counted him as a friend and wished no harm upon him. I am compelled to tell the story in some detail. This man knew what I had faced for years, because I told him at God’s command and with my first wife’s permission. Then he led a team of very prophetically gifted people in ministering to me. He had told them nothing. They then, as a group, had a series of prophetic revelations that exactly matched what I had told him I had been facing. Someone was slandering me. It was demonically inspired. A relative of the slanderer was involved. It was thwarting a very big call on my life. They received revelations, which they indicated were from God, telling all that and more, even more detail than I had shared with the associate pastor. Then that associate pastor caused that team and much of the church to believe the slanderer, even after he had endorsed that God was saying this person was slandering me – with demonically inspired “lies and deceptions,” as they put it. In fact, they saw visions of a demon using the person as a puppet, and a demon behind the relative involved.
How I came to warn the associate pastor was as follows. I had learned to let God be my defender, and, at God’s insistence, love my enemies. I even loved the slanderer. I generally did that by considering what most would consider enemies to be friends, no matter what they did to me, and perpetually forgiving, even those never asking for forgiveness. When this associate pastor then went to speak at a conference out of town, he was struck down with sudden illness and hospitalized. When I was praying for his healing, I heard God say, “Death.” I was concerned for him. Later, I was praying alone at my prayer center ministry and God told me to read Jeremiah 28, which I discovered was the account of Jeremiah’s ministry and message of warning being opposed and destroyed by the false prophet of peace, Hananiah. When I got to the part where God sends Jeremiah to warn Hananiah of death, and Hananiah dies, God spoke this associate pastor’s name. I began to pray again and God added, “Warn him.” I went to him and meekly shared the two things I heard, that I shared above (in this paragraph), and told him that I loved him (as a Christian brother). I went in obedience to God and love for this brother.
God gave this associate pastor seven years, in which great harm was done to me, to my reputation and my ministry. He violated the clear commands of scripture about how to judge. (The scriptures require two or three witnesses to receive an accusation, and diligent inquiry we call “due process,” with the accused being there to hear and answer accusations – per 1 Timothy 5:19, 2 Corinthians 13:1, and Matthew 18:15-17 where Christ quotes from the process taught in Deuteronomy 19:15-21). This associate pastor also went against what he had endorsed God had said about me, and the situation coming against me. This man is just a sample of what many men and women of God, and many in churches did to me, and it was an example and warning to them that they almost never regarded. God had me warn them in love as well, eventually listing many more similar judgments that were falling on those sinning similarly, especially ministers, whom God warns in the New Testament of “stricter judgment” (James 3:1 NKJV).
The person the very prophetic team saw with “lies and deceptions” coming out of her mouth and with a demon behind her, using her as a puppet, was my wife at the time – who eventually left me and divorced me without scriptural grounds, but gave me scriptural grounds to remarry. Elijah warned Jezebel, arguably the most wicked woman in the Bible, and, in his sovereignty, God waited thirty-eight years, giving mercy in the face of wickedness, to carry out the judgment. Another was pushed by God to tell me that God was going to judge my wife – and it was when I was in the pit of despair. I was stunned and had never even considered that God might judge her. I interceded for my wife. I pleaded with her and with God. I did all I could to try to turn her from her pattern of unrepentant sin. Over time, God spoke to more and more people of her death coming. But God gave her more than two decades to repent. God does judge, but delaying it is great mercy. Often, it is the righteous who are suffering while the wicked are given the mercy of delayed judgment. That is a side of judgment few today consider. Judgment on one is justice and relief from oppression for another. If you want a God that relieves the oppressed and makes right the injustices one faces, you must also accept that he must also judge the wicked and the oppressor – when they fail to repent and make right their wrongs. They are two inseparable sides of the same coin.
Eventually, God made it clear that he weighs all that he does, but especially judgment, in the souls to be spared and brought into heaven in the end, versus lost forever to hell. For that reason, he may judge a relative few to get the attention of millions, in order to spare them being in hell for eternity. If we focus only on those judged, we will miss God’s loving heart for those who will be spared hell due to a relatively small amount of visible judgment. If people are reminded that there is a just God, and that people will be judged at the end of life for the unrepented evil they have done, they will more likely turn from their sin, and accept his offer of forgiveness through the payment for their sin’s penalty, by Christ’s death on the cross for them all. Even the untaught in scriptural things can read Christ’s words in the Bible and see that he warned again and again of judgment at the end of parable after parable. Both Christ and John the Baptist began their ministries by crying out, “Repent!”
I am instructed to address when prophecies don’t come to pass. Scripture gives answers for that. In Jeremiah, God says what can happen when God declares a judgment, but people repent:
The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it, if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it. (Jeremiah 18:7-8 NKJV).
In that case, a prophecy of judgment would not come to pass – like Jonah’s prophecy of judgment on Nineveh. Scripture does not record Jonah saying the stated prophecy of impending destruction was conditional, but, with repentance, it was avoided. And Jonah was not considered a false prophet, and the book of Jonah was included in the Bible.
Right after that, God explains what can happen when God declares that he will bless a nation, but the nation turns toward sin and God cancels the promised blessing:
And the instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it, if it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey My voice, then I will relent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit it. (Jeremiah 18:9-10 NKJV).
In that case, anyone God used to prophesy that blessing would appear “wrong” by the rules of some today, but actually be approved by the rules and examples of scripture.
Those who despise prophecy like to point to Deuteronomy 18 and say if a prophet is ever wrong, they are a false prophet. But that ignores, violates, these rules and examples clearly given in scripture. Scripture, rightly interpreted, and rightly translated, does not violate scripture. So, what’s wrong here? Deuteronomy 18 is translated incorrectly. Both Deuteronomy 13 and Deuteronomy 18 contain rules on judging prophets, but both include going after other gods and the translators ignore that in translating Deuteronomy 18. I understand the Hebrew there is very, very vague, with many options available as to the meaning of some words, and even which part of speech they are used as, such that the meaning has to be taken from the context – and they ignored the context a few verses down which mentions going after other gods. And most current translations are at odds with rules clearly stated elsewhere in scripture and a number of examples of how Deuteronomy 18 was applied over scriptural history. However, there are a few translations that come closer to the true meaning.
And what God says about prophesied judgments and blessings of nations – groups of people – should be applied to words given to individual people as well. And we see those examples in scripture as well. God made all kinds of promises to people in scripture, but those declared promises did not always come to pass because those people did not always walk in continued obedience. And, in scripture, people did not consider the prophets that declared the prophecies false prophets. And the same applied to judgments when people repented.
Additionally, God makes it clear that sometimes he will delay, or maybe even turn back, declared prophecies of judgment because righteous people intercede before God on behalf of others (such as in Ezekiel 22:30.) So that needs to be considered in judging prophecies of judgment that get turned back or delayed a long time. God is merciful on sinners, and we should also be merciful on his messengers, or Christ’s warning in Matthew 7:1-2 might come upon us – that of being judged like we judge others.
I must obey in addressing yet another topic. Instead of trying to explain it in my own words, God just told me to include what I heard from him:
What else? You need to address it . . .. Leaders, judged more swiftly. They know better. They are not ignorant. They know the scripture, my commands, and ignore it. They think they are above it, above me. I won’t tolerate it. It’s coming down – the whole system. I didn’t build it, not this way. You don’t “own” sheep. They are mine, not yours. The buildings, from their tithe, are mine, not yours. Don’t steal – from me. You are under-shepherds. When you lead the wrong way – direction and method – I will lead them out. Let them go or suffer judgment. Let them go if I lead them out. Let them go.
God initially spoke to me and confirmed through another that this letter would address “politics.” That is why it had to be on my dot com site, my personal web site, instead of my ministry web site. God had me address all of the above first.
Many years ago, God stopped me from praying for the pastor of the church I was attending while ministering, serving, at my denominational headquarters, by saying “That’s not your burden.” I prayed on other things a while and finally asked, “What is my burden?” God shocked me with his answer, “The nations.” Since that time, I have studied nations at God’s direction, from scripture and many other sources. I have also been taught by God about his dealings with nations, empires, and cities. In scripture, God called people into government, not just what we would call “ministry” today. David was called and anointed to be king, as were others. Joseph was destined by God to rise from a prison cell to be a ruler of the superpower of his day, second only to Pharaoh, and thereby preserve God’s people, the nation he served, and the people of many other nations. Much of history recorded in scripture deals with God’s dealings with nations and their leaders. Surprisingly, God also indicated that he put even pagan kings in place, and anointed them, and made even Israel submit to them – like Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. In fact, scripture even says God made even the beasts of the field submit to him. But God also humbled pagan kings and their gods.
We have too narrow a view, today, of the callings of God. We also lose sight of the fact that God chooses and anoints even manifestly imperfect people. We tend to forget that David was an adulterer and a murderer, though a repentant one. We tend to look past that to him being referred to in scripture as a man after God’s own heart – even after those sins. We also forget that Moses could have been called a murderer, or at least guilty of manslaughter, in his misguided first try at setting God’s people free from unjust slavery. Yet he returned forty years later with an anointing unmatched to his day and far beyond it. Maybe we forget because we try to present an image of perfection to those we lead – even when we know better. But, if we faced today’s modern media, even social media, the way it operates against anyone they disagree with or don’t like, what would our public image look like? If we had to make all of our difficult decisions, and answer the most difficult questions, publicly and quickly, how would we look through the lens of our media critics?
Pastors get prayer support, as do denominational and institutional leaders. Do presidents – even after the worst accusations have circulated in the media, true or not, to where people are being encouraged or forced to distance themselves from a leader they voted for initially with high hopes? Even if we lived in a predominately pagan nation with a pagan king, we would still be well advised to carry out the command of scripture to pray for those in authority – even if our motives were entirely to seek our own benefit. If we abandon them to those who pray against them to demonic gods, would we not suffer for it in the end? Believe me, we would.
I think of the biblical prophet Daniel, who served a series of pagan kings, but in so doing preserved the people of God and others. I have already mentioned Joseph, whom God prepared very uniquely through betrayal, enslavement, false accusation, and imprisonment, to rise to be the number-two ruler in the superpower of his day – again to preserve the people of God and many others. I mention them because God has repeatedly used others, including distinguished ministers, to compare me to them – because he was going to eventually call me to serve in government, after many years of unique preparation. I prepared many years, knowing God would eventually have me be close to a president, but I thought I would only assist him as a friend, minister, or consultant. I made efforts to advise people in government, and warn them of things coming. But then God shocked me, in mid 2017, and made it very clear that he wants me to be in government myself, eventually. Not long afterwards, God told me to ask to serve the President. I was shocked both times – at being in government, and at being told to ask to serve the President. But God also made it clear that the survival of the nation would be at stake, which, as someone who loves his country, and the people of God in this country, I could not fail to obey. But God had to console me that I could still do spiritual ministry as well, which I will.
I too am a minister, and was, until very recently, the head of a 501(c)3 ministry. I knew I could not endorse a candidate, or advocate legislation, under IRS/U.S. tax code rules contrived by a Democrat sore loser, which I consider an unconstitutional infringement on both my freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Separation of Church and state is not stated in the constitution. When it was written, some states had an established state church. By the first amendment, the federal government was forbidden from establishing a national church and forcing it upon the people, as some nations had done, and given many a reason to come to America for religious freedom. The federal government was also forbidden from interfering with the free exercise of religion. Early on, Congress spent money to purchase Bibles for schools and did not see a problem with it. Since then, the Supreme Court has used unintended applications of the 14th amendment to bend our protections to the breaking point. The right to free speech in the Church has been too long infringed by government overreach, overreach of the wall of separation meant to keep government from doing exactly that – controlling what the Church and its leaders can say. How can we be salt and light and preserve the nation if we are muzzled?
At least have the courage to step out of your pulpit, ministerial robes, and roles, and speak with courage as a private citizen and preserve the nation. Ministers were on the verbal front lines, and actual front lines, of the war that formed this nation. It is historical and constitutional heresy to try to muzzle them in recent years and claim constitutional authority to do so. It is a lie. Lies must be opposed or people assume they are truth. Oppose them. Oppose the courts when they make unconstitutional decrees. Demand impeachments of judges, demand that other branches resist their overreach. There is a reason that other branches of government, and many leaders, and military leaders all have to pledge to uphold the constitution.
All the power of government, after all, comes from delegation from the people, and our rights, per our founding documents, are inalienable and come from God himself. The constitution does not give the Supreme Court the sole power to interpret the constitution. They claimed that power for themselves, outside of the constitution, early in the republic. That is a power grab it is time to oppose, or our freedoms, and we ourselves, will come to an end.
In Marbury vs. Madison, in 1803, the Supreme court claimed it had authority to invalidate laws/actions of Congress and the Executive Branch and state governments – when everyone knew the Constitution stated no such power. In that decision, the Supreme Court did that to nobly refuse to take up a power the Constitution clearly did not give them, so they told Congress they could not, even though Congress put it in the law establishing the judiciary. That apparently got the much larger power grab accepted somehow, but now we have tyranny the founders never put in our founding documents.
If you actually read the full Declaration of Independence, you will see the ridiculous actions of the King of England to do with the courts and judges that did much to push us into a war of independence. We needed courts independent from a tyrannical king, but now we have created or allowed a tyrannical federal court system. Why should we allow five people, a majority of those on the Supreme Court, to overreach to the point of tyranny over three hundred and forty million citizens who delegated their unalienable rights to government? This court has taken actions that work toward the eventual persecution, imprisonment, and death of every Christian in America – by redefining the word “sex” in the civil rights code, and suddenly making holding Christian, Jewish, or Muslim morality punishable as a crime. Five unaccountable people in government forcing the vast majority of Americans to deny their firmly held religious beliefs, and the resulting moral code, is tyranny. The court turning morality upside down and persecuting people for very widely held religious beliefs was never intended by the founding fathers, or anyone else. They also made “science” on the matter undebatable, even by qualified scientists.
In fact, God wants me to warn you, “Stand up now or die later.” Preserve the nation, and your own life, and the lives of your loved ones and congregations. Listen to this warning and stand with someone who is actually fighting for the people, however imperfect you may see him or her to be. Others are seeking an increasingly totalitarian government they control and they will use it to eventually destroy the people of God, and this nation, and put the Antichrist in power. They are passing laws, and supporting decrees of the courts, that are working toward making biblical Christianity illegal, and they will eventually make it punishable with prison and death. God says that is their plan. They are marching it along at increasing speed. Wake up and stand up – or perish.