Pastor Mike Hoggard of Bethel Church - A LIAR and FALSE PROPHET!

There has been a widespread and growing 'deadly cancer' in the Christian church as of late and that 'cancer' is the pulpits profusely proclaiming that anyone who wishes to do 'JUST AS' Jesus did and to walk in the same manner as Jesus did, those who choose this path have fallen out of grace and are claimed to have joined a cult. So is this true?

In his March 5, 2013, Mike Hoggard vehemently shouted at the top of his lungs during his radio broadcast that the 4th Commandment of God was nailed to the cross. Now mind you, this is the ONE Commandment of God that contains the 'sign/mark" of His Covenant with all mankind that dates back to the seventh day of creation. So could the Jesus that Hoggard preaches be the true Messiah that never spoke against or did anything in disobedience to God the Father? I would say without a doubt, NO, Mike Hoggard is not proclaiming the true Messiah that Moses and the Prophets wrote about but a different messiah and a different gospel and here is why.

Deu 13:1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, 2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.

Exo 31:13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.

Isa 56:1 Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed. 2 Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. 3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people, ...6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; 7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people. 8 The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him. ... 10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. 11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.

Mike Hoggard claims to be a watchman but teaches that His seventh day Sabbath is not for all mankind and those that claim it is are heretics and members of some cult. So what else do the Prophets have to say of His Sabbath as being valid for ALL mankind?

Eze 20:11 And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them (Rm 10:5). 12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.1 between them and Me, to know that I am יהוה who sets them apart. Footnote: 1See Ex. 31:13-17.

Eze 20:23 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries; 24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols. 25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live1. Footnote: 1Ps. 81:12, Isa. 30:28, Acts 7:42, Rom. 1:24-28, 2 Thess. 2:11.

Isa 66:19 "And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles. ... 23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.

So we see that it was NOT prophesied that the Sabbath would be nailed to anything, but rather it will be restored in all its glory as it was in the beginning. So did Jesus of Nazareth speak to the continuation of the Father's perpetual and everlasting seventh day Sabbath for all mankind? Why yes Jesus of Nazareth certainly did.

Mat 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, "Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. ... 11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 2 And because iniquity (lawlessness / transgression against the Law of God) shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. ... 20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the SABBATH DAY: 21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be."

So as this false prophet Mike Hoggard claims that his Jesus nailed the 4th Commandment to the cross and that we no longer are bound by this burdensome law, but as we can see, the true Jesus of Nazareth of the King James bible tells us just the opposite of what false prophet Mike Hoggard prophesies and that the true Jesus will be expecting us to keep and honor the 4th Commandment because as a disciple, one who imitates and emulates the Master, if one is a true disciple of Jesus, then one will joyfully do as Jesus did and not call ANY command of the Father burdensome.

Mat 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

1Jn 5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous (burdensome).

Rom 10:5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them (Ez 20:11). 6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) 7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) 8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

Deu 30:10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. 11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden (too hard, too burdensome) from thee, neither is it far off. 12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? 14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.

interestingly enough, Hoggard did quote from Paul about making void the Law of God, but then in the same breath he denied that which he just spoke while also ignoring the fact that Paull also taught us that we are to 'establish' the Law of God by doing it through faith just as Abraham 'established' the Law of God by doing it through faith.

Rom 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

Rom 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

1Jn 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. 4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. 5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. 6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. 7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. 8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

We are sons and daughters of God through the begotten Son of God and therefore, as He did, we are to do likewise so that through the Son, we also can be transformed into the likeness of the Father.

2Co 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

1Jn 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. 3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. 6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

Now I implore the readers to remember, these are NOT my words or accusations, these are the words and accusations of God the Father and His only begotten Son that Hoggard claims to represent yet in the same breath Hoggard denies both the Father and the Son. Therefore, in denying that the WHOLE Word of God, from Genesis to Revelation is for ALL mankind, Hoggard is denying the very existence of the authority of God the Father and His only begotten Son and creating his own authority upon the earth with a new Gospel message of lawlessness towards God the Father that the only begotten Son of God never taught or preached.

Ecc 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. 14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

What does the word " CHRIST " mean ?

It comes from the Greek word " christos " the meaning, anointed, chosen.
It has the same meaning as the Hebrew word " mashiach " i.e. Messiah.

But wait a minute ? isn't the false messiah, the anti-Christ supposed to set him self up as a messiah ?

The problem is ? the one that is to come, the anti-Christ is not " ANOINTED and CHOSEN " of God.

Jesus Christ Yeshua Messiah was the ONLY ONE who was " ANOINTED " to redeem and save his people.

How did he do that ? not by the law, he did it by being crucified on the cross.... i.e. the blood atonement that God required.

What is the false messiah ? the anti-Christ ? ( i.e. the one who is NOT anointed by GOD, the one who is NOT chosen by GOD ) .......

The anti-Christ is just that.... anti, against, counter, a counterfeit, the one who sets him self up and deny's everything that Yeshua Messiah has done.

The anti-Christ will be against the blood atonement and God's free grace...

That's how you can recognize the spirit of the anti-Christ... those who are dogmatic against the blood atonement and God's free grace.... and those who deny that Christ has come in the flesh, and that Yeshua Messiah was GOD actually in the flesh.

The false prophets will proclaim that there has to be " WORKS " to enter heaven, there has to be " WORKS " to be accepted by GOD.

The devil and the anti-Christ hates the blood atonement and God's free grace...

I find it so amazing how the law preachers, the law teachers are so preoccupied by other people's sins and not their own... does not the bible tell us that to " WORK OUT YOUR OWN SALVATION " ?
He that is without sin cast the first stone.... isn't that what Jesus told us ?

So ? are you so perfect in keeping the commandments that you deserve more than others for God to let you into heaven ? yes or no ?

Ohh yeah ?

The part in : John 14:10 “Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me?

( He was asking them a question, do you not believe that I and the father are one ? he was asking them ? do you believe that he was in the father and the father was in him ?
He was saying that both him and the father are one, it has nothing to do with keeping the law ).

The words that I speak to you I do not speak from Myself.
But the Father who stays in Me does His works.

( What works ? the law preachers would have us think and believe that this is keeping the law, the 10 commandments.)
( But wait a minute ? how about when Jesus and his disciples were eating corn in the field on the holy Sabbath ? how can you explain that patlin ? how ?)

11. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me >
( Once again, Yeshua was saying that he and the father are one.
( Jesus Christ is GOD in the flesh, this has nothing to do with keeping the law )
Otherwise believe Me because of the works themselves.

( ahh, the law preachers and law teachers would have us to believe this is about keeping the 10 commandments.)
( This has nothing to do with keeping the 10 commandments.)
( It has to do with the signs and miracles that the Christ will do to prove that he is the " ANOINTED ONE ).
( this word works here means that the works, signs, miracles, that he is the one ).
( John the baptist asked ? is he the one ? is this the Christ, the messiah that we have been waiting for ?
That news got back to Jesus and he told them to tell John that ? the blind see, the deaf hear, the lame walk.)

12. Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he shall do also.

( works, i.e. miracles, ).
I believe you have a failed understanding in how to interpret the scriptures.

Are you a Jehovah Witness ? Mormon ? 7th Day Adventist ?

So then ?

You want everyone to see how " HOLY " and " RIGHTEIOUS " you are by being so dogmatic in keeping the holy Sabbath...

According the ancient Hebrew laws.. the commandment of the Sabbath.... your not suppose to do any work... opps, there's that word again.. work.
Your not even suppose to walk a certain distance on the Sabbath day.

Let's see how well you REALLY keep God's holy commandment and we will only focus on the commandment of the Sabbath.

Let's see now ?

Do you get up in the morning and get out bed ? that's work.... broke the Sabbath right there.
Do you cook food on the Sabbath ? broke the Sabbath right there.
Do you get in the car and drive to the store on the Sabbath ? broke the Sabbath right there.
If you own a farm and the horse or animals got lose and had to find them and put them back in it's barn ? you broke the Sabbath.
Do you clean the house on the Sabbath ? broke the Sabbath right there.

We can even get into the other commandments...

Thou shall not covet thy neighbors property or anything your neighbor owns.

Let's see now how perfect you really are.

Do you wish you had a nice and newer car like so and so has ? right there you broke that commandment.
Do you wish you had a nicer and newer house like so and so has ? right there you broke the commandment.
Have you ever said NO to your father and mother ? or had a disagreement with them ? right there you broke that commandment.
Wow... it's getting really really hard to live by the law, isn't it ?
Have you ate pork ? unclean meats ? right there you broke the dietary laws of the Hebrews.
Jesus Christ healed people on the Sabbath, did he broke the 10 Commandments ? for the bible tells us that if we broke just one law or commandment, we are guilty of braking ALL the law.
SO now ? are you that perfect for God to allow you into heaven and into the Kingdom of God ?

Certainly NOT !

You are just as guilty of braking God's holy laws as are the rest of us... no one is exempt.. no one can escape.
You live by the law ? you shall keep ALL the law... and you can't brake any part of it.

Your not saved, or have salvation if you are trying to earn your salvation by works.
Salvation alone comes by Jesus Christ and his blood atonement......

All those bible verses you are trying to show me ? guess what ? it's taking about you, yes, you personally.

God's holy law pertains to you too... your not exempt to keep it.

Actually ?

In God's word ? he's asking you, yes, you how well you keep his law ? his commandments since you are so dogmatic in keeping them.

Guess what ?

The Nation of Israel could not keep them perfectly either, so what makes you so special from Israel and the 6 Billion of other people on this planet ?

God's law was to show us how GUILTY all of us are before him.. and the history of the nation of Israel proves and shows that we could not keep it perfectly as God wanted us to keep it... so ? there had to be another way.

Yes, that's right.... everything you have shown me ?

All the bible verses you trow at me ?

Guess what ?

They are pointing back to you, so what makes you so special that you are exempt from them ?

I never claimed I was exempt from God's laws or God's commandments,,, I am GUILTY before GOD.... that's what being poor in the spirit means.. once pride is gone ? you can clearly see.

I am not exempt from God's laws, but, I am delivered from it's penalty of it in Jesus Christ's redemption.

Those who are in Christ are delievered from the " CURSE " of the law.

The law preachers and teachers love to say " Grace does not give you excuse to sin " but, they them selves also have SIN in their lives also, but don't want other people to see it because they want people to see how HOLY they are, or how " RIGHTEOUS " they are, rather, it's self righteiousness in which GOD hates, it's called : PRIDE.

Yup, Pride and hypocrisy.... a mask.... to pretend how " HOLY " you are, to pretend how " RIGHTEOUS " you are, while secret sins abide.
That's how the law preachers, and law preachers live, they are so dogmatic about the law and " OTHER PEOPLE'S " sins, but yet ? they got sins in their own lives that they don't want other people to see because they want to appear " HOLY " and RIGHTEOUS " before other people because of their pride....

That there, is the truth.

One must first define what righteousness means before one can presume to know whether or not theirs exceeds the scribes and the Pharisees. So let's let the Word of God define it for us shall we?

Dt 4:2 You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

Dt 6:25 Then it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to observe all these commandments before the Lord our God, as He has commanded us.’

Do I guard to do all that I am required to do according to Moses (Mt 23:1-3)? Yes. Do I do it perfect? No but the word for perfect is not what the English portrays it to be, it is merely and uprightness in ones heart, they do their best with integrity not compromising by adding to or taking away. And then as Paul and John tell us, when we stumble and we will because we are still in the corruptible flesh, we have Messiah who advocates the state of our heart before the Father and His perfection then covers our sins. As far as the rest, well it all depends on ones understanding of Jewish rabbinic law and the Law of God. Rabbinic law forbade the winnowing of grain (it wasn't corn) in the hand as they considered this work. God's Law says nothing about taking grain or fruit from the field on the Sabbath as one walks by, the key being, hunger, take and eat but do not take to store up for another day.

So it would seem that you have a lack of understanding regarding what is the Law of God and the rabbinic laws of men.

Those who think like this miss the point.

Grace salvation does not imply " Lawlessness " .

Of course we should have laws in our society, however ? salvation, eternal life is not bought, or earned by keeping the law or good deeds.
The holy spirit is the one who helps us to live the life God intends for us.
Whether the self righteous , those do gooders realize it or not they have sins in their lives that they do not see or admit.
God's standard of perfection goes beyond what any man or woman could have achieve by keeping the law.
What get's lost with the law salvaitoneers, or the works salvaiton people is that ? at what point ( in spite of their inherent condition called " THE FALL " ) does one achieve perfection here on earth for God to accept them ?.
Another thing that get's lost with the works salvationeers is that in spite of the fact that they love to ignore this fact, that ? year after year, decade after decade, century after century ?

In spite of trying to keep the law ?

The high priest had to required by God to bring in a spotless lamb sacrifice to atone for the nations sins.
The works salvationeers, the law salvationeers love to skirt around that fact time after time and can't give a explanation for that, can they ?
If they love to keep the law ? why then ? are there no more animal sacrifices as required by GOD ?
It's because God did away with the old system, God did away with the old covenant.

The original Greek and Hebrew words translated into English as perfect as it pertains to ones walk literally means to walk in uprightness, walk in integrity in ones heart.

Gen 6:9 This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

Did Noah do everything perfectly? No, but he did have it in his heart to do so and so when his flesh failed, what was in his heart redeemed him. And knowing that we are of the flesh, then why would Jesus tell us,

Matt 5:48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Did He literally mean that we must always be perfect in the flesh or is it more like what John teaches us?

1Jn 2:1 My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

But now returning to the law, salvation is not based upon the laws of the society we live in today, but the laws of the society that we can not see, the society that our hope is in, the society in which seek to enter. Those are the laws that we are to concern ourselves with first and foremost. Have you not read how Daniel refused to eat of the King's delicacies that were an abomination to God? Have you not read where Daniel and the 3 others refused to bow down and sing to the image of the King? Have you not read where Peter proclaimed that no unclean animal had ever touched his lips and then later it was revealed to Peter that the beasts on the sheet represented mankind and that we are to call any man unclean? FYI, there is no gate in the eternal kingdom labeled "gentile". They are all given the names of the tribes of Israel. Why is that?

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