Book Review: When Heaven Invades Earth, by Bill Johnson

Wow! That pretty well sums it up. What a great book. This guy has put into words, and actions, many of the things that I have been struggling with and toward for the past 26 years. Imagine a world where the actions that Jesus took and brought about were the standard for any believer in Jesus as Lord, Savior, and God. Imagine a world where the Holy Spirit headed up an invasion force of untold millions who shamelessly and with abandon command the infirm to be healed, cast out demons left and right, give sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, actually move mountains, route armies with a word, and do greater works than these!

Now quite imagining with the imagination of one who "knows" that doesn't happen today, and believe the words of Jesus as found in the Gospels. Not to do so is only one thing, SIN! Ok, it's more than one thing, it's also a doctrine of demons. How do we put up with such obvious lies? Did Jesus lie to the world when he said in John 14:12 that, "he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father."? You decide. But if He was just talking crap, what the hell are we doing wasting our time going to church all the time? Better yet, what do I do with all the miriad encounters that I personally have had with the Holy Spirit, with the visions of Jesus that I had as a young man, with the obviously real casting out of demons, with visitations of angels my children and others have had, with the miracles of gold dust falling out of nowhere all over everyone in certain locations around the globe, of gems appearing out of nowhere? Am I halucinating? Not a chance!

Jesus wasn't talking out His *ss when he said all these words so long ago. ALL the works of Jesus have been going on all along, they just haven't been allowed to be talked about by Big Media, or most governments, not to mention Big Church. That's right, if I experienced a big miracle and went to several mainline denominational churches declaring the event to them, I WOULD be met with scorn, if not physically thrown out. They would certainly, at least, say that it was of the devil.

The thought (doctrine) that all of that ceased with the death of the apostles is not only entirely without biblical evidence, it's obviously a demonic doctrine, as Jesus said nothing of the sort, but rather the opposite. End of story.

Jesus rocks!

Frank J. McAvinchey