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Open Letter Addressing Prophecy Fulfillment of Not Allowing Christ to be the Head
By Joie Pirkey 31 May 2010 When, in 2000, I was asked to go to a local pastor and rebuke him for not allowing Christ to be the head of his church and tell him that the devil would be loosed if he failed to repent I was a bit confused. I actually thought that it seemed to be a bit of an overreaction. However, as these prophecies played out and the Lord continued to reveal the foundational meaning of leaving His headship and how that leaving birthed a man centered religion instead of a Spirit lead Body I saw the enormity of its significance. The number of manifestations of not allowing Christ to be the head listed in this newsletter speaks to just how serious the sin is. Delivering these prophecies about headship have yielded quite an education regarding how the Holy Spirit works in His Church. I have personally gleaned many-a-lesson from these experiences and believe they will be deeply beneficial for the Body of Christ at large. The messages began with the simple topic of Christ’s headship and became quite complicated and amazing as they played out in our local churches. I have created a document in an open letter format that speaks to how we received these words, how they were discerned, what processes we took according to Biblical principles, how those involved responded and how the Lord worked in these bodies to accomplish what He set out to do in and through us. This letter speaks to a time of shaking that the churches here in our region have been enduring and that time is yet not complete. But much of what the Lord had told us has come to pass and I believe that everyone can learn a great deal regarding the Headship of Christ by taking some time and reading through what is represented in this letter. There are facts in and linked to this letter that have not been made public until now. They have been a deep source of conflict for me personally because to make them public will hurt a number of people. That is the difficult part of Christ’s headship and I submit to His request of sharing these details with much prayer and a heavy heart.   
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The Lord has been speaking to me about a number of different issues that I have been compartmentalizing in my thoughts: the "Insider Movement," "Seeker Sensitive," "Social Justice," the "Emergent Church," and "Prosperity Gospel" to name several. I have been seeing these issues as separate and distinct from each other and have been praying about them, prophesying about them, and doing some research as time permitted. But this past week at the prayer group called "the House of Prayer" the Lord began to reveal to us how each of these issues that the modern day Church is dealing with are inter-connected in that they are manifestations of the same foundational sin. This sin is not allowing Christ to be the Head.
Nearly ten years ago the Lord began to speak to me about a time of shaking that would occur in the churches in our region here in northeast Wisconsin. He told me that He was about to begin to remove a large number of ministers that were not allowing Christ to be the Head of the Church. As this time of shaking transpired the prophetic words that I was receiving began to veer in different directions, or so I thought. The Lord spoke to me about Church leaders pigeonholing Christianity with Islam. He revealed that this is what a method of missions called the Insider Movement was doing. He told me that it was spreading quickly and then asked me to prophesy publicly that He hates this. He spoke to me about the Seeker Sensitive method to church growth and ministry and how that belief system was avoiding the cross, repentance, and the need for a savior. Seeker Sensitive methodologists are saying that they are building bridges to the lost. But the Lord told me that these bridges are actually overpasses. He said that they are the symbol of not allowing Christ to be the Head. These so called bridges are actually overpasses to get over the cross. To overpass the cross is to overpass Christ. He spoke to me about something called "Social Justice". He told me that He is not involved in this work and to stay clear of it. He also told me not to take it into my thought life and not to consider it regarding missions or evangelism. He said that the way in which it is "sold" is deceptive. Assisting the poor and repressed needs to be directed by the Holy Spirit not by the logical deduction of man. Like the woman who poured the expensive perfume on Jesus’ feet, the disciples rebuked her for not selling it and giving the money to the poor, but Jesus was pleased with her action. Giving needs to be directed by the Holy Spirit. He spoke to me about the Emergent Church and how at its foundation it holds a humanistic world view. He said that people embracing this movement are relativeizing truth. Last night the Lord showed me that each of these seemingly separate issues were all manifestations of the very thing He had been speaking to me about in the beginning: Not allowing Christ to be the Head. When men step out from under His Headship they begin to create philosophies, methods, and ministries out of their own ideas, logic, and flesh. This lack of Headship has created a very weak, ineffective, and unholy church. It has created a mongrel. At the House of Prayer, as we spoke about these issues, I found it difficult to address the topic without a name. We prayed about a name and the Lord led us to the name Ichabod.
But when the "Insider" deceives the Muslim with his cunning ideas, and the politically-correct pastor misleads the "seekers" with crafty teachings, they move themselves out from under the Headship of Jesus Christ. Thus resulting in Ichabod and the glory of God departs from them. When the "Prosperity Preacher" "claims a new car" instead of the cross he is to pick up and carry, he moves himself out from under the Headship of Christ. When the "Emergent Evangelist" agrees with the homosexual that he was born with this sin and can bring it into a relationship with Christ, he has removed himself from the Headship of Christ. These ideas are spreading through the Body of Christ and they are generated by man and not by God. God has been explaining to me how these philosophies are wrong and in what ways they are connected to the same source, how they all result in Ichabod. What He is asking me to do is to expose this sin for what it is, of not allowing Him to be the Head, and to warn those who seek to please Him to avoid these "winds of teachings." He is asking those who have an ear to hear to pray for the Body of Christ that is being beset by such immaturity. He is asking us to put on the Armor of God.
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