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Kansas City Prophets Q&A: False Prophecy, Mike Bickle, and Discernment May 19, 2026

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Joshua Lewis and Michael Miller answer your questions from their recent livestream on the rise and fall of the Kansas City Prophets. They tackle some of the toughest questions surrounding false prophecy, discernment, and the legacy of Mike Bickle and IHOP.
Topics covered include:
-How many false prophecies does it take to be considered a false prophet?
-Did God really speak to Mike Bickle in Egypt while he was actively sinning?
-Can movements rooted in Branhamism or the Latter Rain be redeemed?
-What is the value of prophecy if words can't be taken at face value?
-Was Jonah's prophecy over Nineveh a false prophecy?
-Which charismatics have actually stood up and called out bad leaders?
-Why didn't Rick Joyner publicly expose Paul Cain?
Plus, Josh and Michael reflect on Remnant Radio's own history of prophetic reviews and why they believe charismatics need to be the ones holding other charismatics accountable.
PREVIOUS LIVESTREAM:
The Rise & Fall of the Kansas City Prophets:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojy0CtsS0e8

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The Doctrine That Tried to Fix Feminism — And Got the Trinity Wrong: EFS with Dr. Malcolm Yarnell May 13, 2026

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There's a version of complementarian theology that quietly reshapes the Trinity to make its argument. Most people who hold it don't realize that's what they're doing. Dr. Malcolm Yarnell does — and he wrote the book on why it matters.
Dr. Malcolm Yarnell, professor of Theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and author of the Theology for Every Person series, joins Joshua Lewis to work through some of the most contested terrain in Christian doctrine: the person of Christ, the unity of the Trinity, and the debate over eternal functional subordination (EFS).
What We Cover:
- Why the Trinity and Christology are the two doctrines that everything else in systematic theology depends on
- The three senses of "Word of God" in scripture: the personal Word (Jesus), the written Word (scripture), and the proclaimed Word
- What eternal functional subordination is, where it came from, and why Dr. Yarnell considers it a grave theological error
- How EFS was crafted primarily to answer feminism — not to answer a theological question — and why that origin matters
- The unified will of the Trinity, and why the garden of Gethsemane is about the submission of Christ's human will, not an eternal subordination within the Godhead
- A close reading of 1 Corinthians 15:28: what is actually being subjected — humanity, not deity
- The Athanasian scope of scripture: limitations in the text refer to Christ's humanity; perfections refer to his deity
- Why you don't need to reconfigure the Trinity to be a complementarian
0:00 – Introduction
2:08 – Theology for Every Person
5:38 – Christ's Deity and Humanity
10:42 – Word: Person vs. Scripture
15:23 – Eternal Functional Subordination
26:32 – Doctrine and Cultural Moments
33:43 – The Divine Will
54:46 – 1 Corinthians 15:28
1:00:46 – Closing Thoughts
INTRO TO CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY:
https://www.theremnantradio.com/intro-to-christian-theology-course
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📖Word (Theology for Every Person, Vol. 2) https://a.co/d/0ddyCS4F
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The Rise & Fall of the Kansas City Prophets | Reviewing Dr. Sam Storms May 12, 2026

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Dr. Sam Storms has been one of our own. He's served at our conferences, he's connected to us through the Convergence Church Network, and he's been one of the clearest continuationist voices in evangelical Christianity for decades. His new book, The Rise and Fall of the Kansas City Prophets, is the most detailed insider account of the Kansas City prophetic movement ever written — 310 pages covering 1982 to 2000, the era of Bob Jones, Paul Cain, and Mike Bickle's rise to prominence.
And people are asking some tough questions about it.
This episode is not a hit piece on Sam Storms. He was lied to like the rest of us. He has acknowledged that his discernment failed him. That kind of accountability takes humility and bravery. As we review his book, we're going to do our best to call balls and strikes. What does Sam get right? Where does he miss?
What this episode is ultimately about is discernment — not just the discernment of individual prophetic words, but the communal discernment of a movement. How does proximity to leadership shape what we're able to see? And after everything that has happened, what does it look like to hold continuationist convictions with both faithfulness and sobriety?
There is grief in this conversation, but there is also hope. We're not abandoning the prophetic because Mike Bickle and others abused it. We're asking hard questions — with honesty, with care for Dr. Storms, and with deep love for every person still healing from the IHOPKC collapse.
Previous Episodes on Mike Bickle:
- How Do We Process the Allegations Against Mike Bickle?
https://youtube.com/live/dlkA_FjimJo
- IHOP: A House Divided - Mike Bickle & IHOPKC
https://youtube.com/live/EpcaPgqCaGo
- Behind the Scenes at IHOP: Stories of Systemic Abuse Part 1
https://youtu.be/Y9tDHlOLriM
- Surviving a Toxic Church: Victims of IHOP Speak Out, Part 2
https://youtu.be/rpo8wJkm--I
0:00 – Introduction
1:09 – Sam Storms' Book
8:21 – Bob Jones Controversy
12:19 – Sam's Apologies
17:46 – Sam's Skepticism
42:51 – What About Empirically Verified Prophecies?
59:51 – Paul Cain
1:02:57 – Closing Thoughts

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Inside a Therapist's Office: Mental Health, Demons & Deliverance May 06, 2026

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What if your mental health struggles were something more than what the DSM identifies? What if there was a spiritual aspect keeping you from walking in freedom?
Dr. Natalie Atwell has spent over 20 years as a licensed therapist, and she'll be the first to tell you she ignored that question for most of her career. Then the cases got darker, standard treatments stopped working, and a deep dive into Dr. Michael Heiser's divine council worldview changed how she reads both her Bible and her intake forms.
There's a quiet crisis happening inside Christian counseling offices. Clients are arriving with presentations - dissociation, compulsive sexual behavior, debilitating anxiety, sleep paralysis - that don't resolve the way they should. The DSM has no category for what some of these people are experiencing. And the therapists treating them are quietly asking a question they're not sure they're allowed to ask: Is something spiritual going on here?
Dr. Atwell says yes, and she's built a clinical framework to navigate it. Drawing on the Deuteronomy 32 worldview and Dr. Michael Heiser's understanding of the three rebellions of Genesis 3, 6, and 11, she maps categories of mental health suffering back to specific entry points of spiritual darkness. It's a careful, clinically-informed attempt to take Ephesians 6:12 seriously in a treatment room.
The demand in the broader body of Christ is real. Pastors are referring people to therapists because they don't have a framework. Therapists are getting stuck because they don't have the theology. Dr. Atwell's work, including her assessment tool that asks about Ouija boards, occult involvement, and even alien abduction experiences, is an attempt to build a bridge between those two worlds. Not to replace either one, but to help clinicians ask better questions.
0:00 – Introduction
1:25 – Dr. Natalie Atwell
3:58 – Satanic Ritual Abuse
7:01 – Counselor's Awakening
9:35 – Darkness Uptick Explained
17:01 – Divine Council Worldview
25:21 – Oppression vs. Possession
29:07 – Three Categories Framework
37:31 – Deliverance Treatment Model
40:06 – Other Influences Assessment
47:58 – Client Case Study
54:36 – Mental Warrior Consulting
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Can One Demon Possess Thousands at Once? The Truth about Jezebel, Azazel & Named Spirits May 04, 2026

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Is there one giant spirit of Leviathan demonizing thousands of people simultaneously or is something else going on? The answer cuts deeper than spiritual warfare. It goes straight to the nature of God.
The body of Christ has a problem with demon taxonomy. On one end, cessationists deny the category entirely. On the other, some corners of charismatic practice have quietly handed evil spirits divine attributes they were never meant to have, treating Leviathan or Jezebel as omnipresent cosmic forces saturating the earth. Neither position is biblical. And the confusion isn't just theoretical. It shapes how people pray, how pastors minister, and how the church understands the very nature of God.
Join Joshua Lewis, Michael Rowntree, and Michael Miller as they work through the biblical catalog of evil spirits and make the case that demons are kinds, not singular entities. They also tackle the deliverance question head-on: is naming demons in ministry Gnostic secret knowledge, or is it something more like Adam naming the animals, an exercise of discernment and authority?
If you're looking for a biblically-serious review on demon taxonomy, this episode is for you.
0:00 – Introduction
7:09 – Demon Taxonomy Overview
15:18 – Effects Match Names
19:50 – Jezebel Spirit Defined
27:06 – Naming Demons, Authority
39:28 – One Spirit or Many?
43:54 – God's Omnipresence Only
46:43 – Speculative: Demonic Breath
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Who Is Lilith? What Isaiah 34, the Dead Sea Scrolls & 3,000 Years of History Actually Reveals Apr 30, 2026

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Lilith keeps showing up: in video games, TV shows, ancient mythology, and feminist websites. But she also shows up in the Bible. And most Christians have no idea.
Michael Miller sits down with Nelly Van Sickle, pastor of Evergreen Calvary Chapel and host of The Dancing Toaster podcast, to trace the biblical and historical case for Lilith as a genuine supernatural entity. Starting with Isaiah 34:14 and working outward through the Septuagint, the Vulgate, and the Dead Sea Scrolls, this isn't mythology dressed up as scripture. It's scripture first, history second.
Nelly also shares what happened when he started researching her. The demonic oppression that began almost immediately. And what finally made it stop.
Along the way they cover the "Adam's first wife" theory and why Genesis 2 shuts it down, the connection between Psalm 91:5-6 and "the terror of the night," a Dead Sea Scroll exorcism hymn that names a lilit-type entity by class, and the question of what happened to the women who cohabitated with the sons of God in Genesis 6.
If you've been curious about Lilith and wanted an answer that actually starts with the biblical text, this episode is for you.

Scripture References: Isaiah 34:14 | Psalm 91:5-6 | Genesis 4:22 | Genesis 6:1-4 | Leviticus 17:7 | 2 Chronicles 11:15 | Deuteronomy 12
0:00 – Introduction
5:52 – Supernatural Encounters
16:24 – Lilith in Isaiah 34
27:15 – Ancient Near East Context
39:19 – Adam's First Wife Debunked
45:51 – Dead Sea Scrolls Evidence
56:07 – Female Demonic Entities
1:03:56 – Final Thoughts
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What Is the Gift of Discernment of Spirits? (It's Not What You Think) Apr 29, 2026

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Most teaching on this gift goes one direction: detect the demon, cast it out, move on. But what if that's only a fraction of what Paul actually meant?
In 1 Corinthians 12:10, Paul lists the gift of discernment of spirits and says nothing else. The silence has fueled real debate, and in this episode Michael Rowntree walks through the three most serious scholarly positions and tells you where he lands.
Michael examines the Source Testing View (held by Wayne Grudem and D.A. Carson), the Prophecy Weighing View (from Gordon Fee's commentary on 1 Corinthians), and the Prophecy Interpreting View (from scholar Doenberg). Each view has real exegetical arguments behind it. None of them are dismissed lightly. But they're not all equally convincing.
But stay for the story at the end. It happened at a Remnant Conference. A quiet prayer room. Three words that showed up and shouldn't have made sense until they made all the sense in the world. That story is why this gift matters.
0:00 – Introduction
1:36 – Source Testing (Grudem & Carson)
7:31 – Prophecy Weighing (Fee)
10:57 – Prophecy Interpreting (Doenberg)
13:31 – Where Michael Lands
14:50 – Discernment in Practice
18:17 – Conclusion
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Can Christians Be Cursed? Responding to Smart Christians Channel Apr 28, 2026

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Corey Minor of the Smart Christians Channel recently posted a detailed response to Michael Miller's appearance on Deep End with Lecrae, challenging the biblical basis for generational curses and deliverance ministry. In this episode, the Remnant Radio team engages that critique directly with respect for Corey as a Christian brother and honest disagreement with his conclusions.
The core question on the table: Can believers be cursed? Can unbelievers? Is anyone born under a curse? And is the term "generational curse" even biblical language? The guys unpack the Hebrew words ārar, qālal, and ālāh, expose what they believe is an etymological fallacy at the heart of Corey's argument, and trace the theology of blessing and curse from Genesis 3 through the Deuteronomic covenant all the way to Galatians 3 and the new covenant promises of Jeremiah 31.
They also wrestle honestly with their own disagreements. Miller makes the case for demonic spirits traveling down family lines (citing Mark 9 and the demonized boy who'd suffered "since infancy"). Rowntree prefers the language of "generational consequences" over "generational curses." And Lewis draws a distinction between God as active agent vs. passive agent in the Deuteronomic curses -- with both Job and 1 Kings 22 shaping his thinking.
Part 2 is coming. The team still needs to address whether unbelievers can curse others, how curses actually operate metaphysically, and why not everyone in a family line seems to be equally affected.
0:00 – Introduction & Episode Roadmap
10:24 – Corey Minor Clip One
14:14 – Responding to Clip One
31:09 – Hebrew Words for Curse
36:48 – Covenant Curse Framework
56:42 – Jeremiah 31 New Covenant
1:00:09 – Automatic vs. Active Freedom
1:04:59 – Deuteronomic Curses Today
1:13:27 – Closing
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The Redacted History of Deliverance in the Church | David Miller Apr 22, 2026

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What if the Church has been quietly erasing one of its most powerful practices for centuries, and we're paying for it right now?
The Remnant Radio welcomes Reverend David Miller, pastor of Church Tsidkenu, to unpack the hidden, and often deliberately suppressed, history of exorcism and deliverance ministry throughout church history. David is the author of Redacted, a three-year research project that traces deliverance from the early church fathers all the way to the 20th century. What he found is striking: deliverance and revival move together. And when one is removed, the other tends to collapse shortly after.
We walk through how the early church treated demonization as an assumed reality, how the medieval period saw a near-total collapse of effective exorcism, and how the Reformation ironically helped birth the modern assumption that Christians cannot have demons. David argues this isn't ancient orthodoxy. It's a pendulum swing traceable to John Calvin's polemical response to Catholic abuses, and it spread from there.
We also dig into the Azusa Street controversy. David makes a compelling case that Charles Parham's now-maligned critique of the revival wasn't racial antagonism, but rather a legitimate spiritual diagnosis. Bizarre manifestations, moral fractures among leaders, and the systematic exclusion of deliverance from the revival's framework all point to something darker than the standard Pentecostal narrative admits.
We close with the 20th-century resurgence of deliverance through figures like Derek Prince, Win Worley, Frank Hammond, and others. We discuss which schools of thought are most helpful for someone brand new to this ministry.
If you've been frustrated by a church culture that either dismisses deliverance ministry or refuses to confront the abuses of it, this episode is for you.
0:00 – Introduction
1:56 – David Miller Background
3:08 – Redacted Book Overview
7:07 – Revival & Deliverance Pattern
9:42 – Christians and Demonization
18:25 – Exorcism in the Middle Ages
34:00 – Luther-Calvin Baptismal Debate
38:50 – George Fox Redacted
41:29 – Azusa Street & Parham
50:16 – 20th Century Deliverance Figures
53:08 – Strategic Spiritual Warfare
1:00:52 – Closing Thoughts
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📖BOOK: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/redacted-david-m-miller/1144098925
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Can the Demonic Counterfeit the Holy Spirit's Gifts? Apr 21, 2026

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Warning: Not everything that looks like the Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit - and the Church needs to know the difference!
Healings, prophecies, tongues, signs, and wonders are on the rise in the Church, but so is deception. We have to ask: Can the demonic actually counterfeit the gifts of the Holy Spirit? In this episode, we explore Scripture, church history, and theology to give you a serious, grounded answer.
From the sorcerers of Pharaoh's court mimicking the miracles of Moses (Exodus 7:11–12), to the witch of Endor who brings up Samuel from the dead (1 Samuel 28), to the slave girl in Philippi whose spirit of divination produced accurate prophecy (Acts 16:16–18), the Bible is remarkably frank that the enemy is in the business of imitation. Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14), and his servants are no different.
Working through passages like Deuteronomy 13, Acts 16:16-18, Matthew 7:21-23, 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11, and 1 John 4:1-3, the guys walk through a biblical framework for discernment. Doctrine matters. But so does character, track record, submission to a local body, and the spiritual gift of discernment of spirits.
They also wrestle with one of the strangest categories in Scripture: unbelievers who traffic in real spiritual power. Balaam. Caiaphas. The judges. The slave girl in Philippi who prophesied accurate things by a python spirit. What do we do with that? The answer isn't to run from the supernatural, but rather to pursue maturity so you can recognize the real thing.
The goal isn't fear. It's discernment. Moses didn't stop demonstrating God's power just because Pharaoh's magicians could mimic a few signs. And the church today shouldn't either. We pursue the genuine. We hold it up against the false. And we trust that Yahweh is still greater than the gods of Egypt.
0:00 – Introduction
5:13 – Counterfeit Miracles Defined
7:45 – Pharaoh's Magicians Examined
13:08 – Discerning True vs. False
19:36 – Slave Girl, Deuteronomy 13
31:37 – Unbelievers Trafficking Holy Spirit
47:38 – Eschatological False Prophets
54:04 – Personal Experiences Shared
58:09 – Biblical Evidence Summary
1:00:54 – Closing: Christ-Centered Gifts
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