I can’t even scoff because I used to be caught up in all this demonic foolishness🙁🫣 All praise to God Who delivered me from deception & opened my eyes to the fraud👍🏾🇬🇧
Think an important aspect of Lake is the South African years and his devastating neglect of wife and kids there resulting in her untimely death and his kids subsequent resistance against their fathers ministry.
Lake allowed his first wife to starve to death during his "missionary healing" work in South Africa. According to his own words, she was known for her generosity and godliness and kept giving food to the native people while he was away. She was being hustled for food continuously and he neither got his family to a safer location nor provided for them sufficiently during his absence. Where are his grandchildren and what do they have to say about what was really happening in the family during his lifetime? Did they stay in the cult or drift away as the opportunities presented themselves? Somewhere, some of his descendants have some memories of what it was like in the family in those days. Just saying.
(I'm in my 60s and I'm just now realizing what was really going on in my family in the very early 20th century. No great scandals to speak of, but my generation is probably the last who can remember hearing about and reading old letters about that time and understand it. Someone in their 40s or 20s just can't imagine that era, but there was so much of it left when I was a child in the 60s that it's not beyond my ken. If ever the truth can be known, people my age and older will have to share their memories soon.)
Once again great video!!! I have done a lot of research on John G Lake and can dispel the myths propagated by Robert Liardon in his book “Gods Generals” vol 1. Among them the 100,000 “healings” in Spokane Washington and that Lake was an insurance tycoon. And may other myths taken as fact by so many in the Pentecostal/Full Gospel world. And Cal Pierce is somebody I looked into here is my research on him and the “healing rooms” of the Rookery building.
Mr. Cal Pierce who left Redding California and went to Spokane Washington to reopen the “healing” rooms of John G Lake. His website is “Healing Rooms Ministries". The information used here can be found on a video of Mr. Pierce’s interview with Sid Roth on Mr. Roth’s show. The video is entitled “Angel Waits 80 Years to Finish His Assignment!” from 2018. In the interview Pierce and his wife share how they moved to Spokane. Then Mr. Pierce has some interesting things to say about the Rookery building where John G Lake had his “healing” rooms.
Of course, during the interview Mr. Roth mentions the obligatory 100,000 “healings” of John G Lake in Spokane. After checking out and searching out the area, Mr. Pierce says he found the old Rookery building and there were very few tenants on the third floor. He also states that he had a group of people who were an intercessory prayer team. Then one day as Pierce was looking things over there was one room where everyone stood outside but inside the power of God was so strong that nobody could stand. They called it the silver room because the carpet was silver.
Later he said he asked the Holy Spirit why was there such a strong anointing in that room. And per Pierce the Holy Spirit told him that he (the Holy Spirit) had deposited an angel there, that’s been waiting 80 years for these rooms to reopen so that I can pour out the anointing to bring healing once again to the city of Spokane. And this was the same angel that was there for John G Lake.
Sonds like a good story. And that’s the problem, it is just a story. When the historic facts are brought to light the story falls apart at the seams.
A Short History of the Rookery Building to Dispels the Myths
From the Spokane Review. This is a conglomeration of facts from several articles found in the Spokane Review.
The original building or at least part of the original building was completed in 1888 but was destroyed in a devastating fire in 1889 which wiped out much of downtown Spokane. According to the Spokane Review of April 21,1929 they stared rebuilding the Rookery from the smoldering ashes of that fire in 1889 and completed it in 1890. There was a fire in 1893 in the Mohawk part of the building. And yet another fire in 1914 also in the Mohawk part of the building.
The Rookery was actually four interconnected buildings wrapped around the southeast corner of Howard Street and Riverside Avenue were simply called the Rookery, the word for a colony of birds’ nests. The apartments and offices were very small.
All of that predates Lake’s stay in Spokane. But the key question is what happened after Lake’s tenure. The ownership of the building changed hands in 1929 and after a court fight over back rent with the United Cigar Stores, the original building was then razed in 1933. An interesting side light was that when they brought down the original, building down they found a brick with the name of John Larvis Cook on it. He was the original contractor in 1889. And they were able to present it to his son Sam H. Cook in 1933. Due to public demand they decided to keep the name of the new building as the Rookery. But that incarnation of the building came down in 2006.
As I stated earlier Mr. Pierce’s story has several problems. First, he said the Holy Spirit told him there was an angel who had been waiting in that room since 1920. Kind of hard to do when that building was demolished in 1933! Either the Holy Spirit was wrong, or Mr. Pierce is not hearing from the Holy Spirit. Second, John G Lake moved back to Spokane and finished out his years there 1931-1935. Guess that angel didn’t help him during those years.
Now if Lake claimed 100,000 “healings’ in his 5 years there that would mean that would average out to about 20,000 healings a year. And then further divide that by 52 weeks for the year and Lake would have had to have averaged about 385 “healings” or so every week. His ads show that he held Sunday services at the Masonic temple and healing was on the 3rd floor of the Rookery building.
As I mentioned, all the descriptions I read about the rooms of the original building describe them as small. That means you would have to be running a lot of people in and out of there all week long. Again, there is no contemporary reports of any such immense activity. Keep in mind the Rookery also housed other businesses while Lake was there.
And as I said I have more information to show the 100,000 “healings” are a total myth!!!!!! And many other things about Lake as well!!!!
I went once and felt right away extremely uneasy . Everyone went forward for prayers and healing and I stayed back by myself . I never returned. The Holy Spirit convicted me right away .
I am really glad you're exposing this fraud – both Lake and Pierce
I get Pierce's ems from time to time – same-o anti-American, anti-Christ, radicalized NAR hooey… Heard all before – been there, done that… grew up – and decided Jesus was far more important.
In April of 2000 my husband and I traveled from Montana to Seattle for my husband to receive an operation for anaplastic thyroid cancer which is stage 4 from the beginning and is considered terminal. After 14 days in Seattle where they were not able to remove all the cancer, we stopped at the healing rooms in Spokane through the advice of some friends. Cal Pierce himself took us into the "silver" room where the angel was and he prayed for my husband. He then prayed for me and said that I had a healing anointing in my hands. As we left we felt such a horrible heaviness. My husband died June 5th. I went back to the healing rooms a year later with some friends and I looked at the wall where many prayer requests were written which were for things like cancer. On the side were written praise reports….healings for headaches, backaches….no praise reports for cancer being healed. I do believe God heals, but I quit looking to these people.
The mayor of Seattle gave Lake a plague for all of the healings in his ministry. The mayor also said Seattle was the healthiest city in America because of Lake's ministry
This video is a waste of time. Like all critics the people behind this video shame about a fourth of what was said or verified by and about Lake and the healing rooms
I guess it's beyond God to call a man in mid-life, transform the man by the Holy Spirit, and use the man for God's purpose. Oh, wait – I forgot about Moses the murderer. Oh, and Saul, the murderer. Or Matthew the tax collector. The author would do well to read 1 John 4:20 for your hatred comes through loud and clear.
They were motivated by money
Jesus is never enough for these wovles
I can’t even scoff because I used to be caught up in all this demonic foolishness🙁🫣
All praise to God Who delivered me from deception & opened my eyes to the fraud👍🏾🇬🇧
Think an important aspect of Lake is the South African years and his devastating neglect of wife and kids there resulting in her untimely death and his kids subsequent resistance against their fathers ministry.
Oh thank you!! We have a Healing Rooms here and I NEVER trusted it!! BIG Red flags 🚩🚩🚩🚩
Lake allowed his first wife to starve to death during his "missionary healing" work in South Africa. According to his own words, she was known for her generosity and godliness and kept giving food to the native people while he was away. She was being hustled for food continuously and he neither got his family to a safer location nor provided for them sufficiently during his absence. Where are his grandchildren and what do they have to say about what was really happening in the family during his lifetime? Did they stay in the cult or drift away as the opportunities presented themselves? Somewhere, some of his descendants have some memories of what it was like in the family in those days. Just saying.
(I'm in my 60s and I'm just now realizing what was really going on in my family in the very early 20th century. No great scandals to speak of, but my generation is probably the last who can remember hearing about and reading old letters about that time and understand it. Someone in their 40s or 20s just can't imagine that era, but there was so much of it left when I was a child in the 60s that it's not beyond my ken. If ever the truth can be known, people my age and older will have to share their memories soon.)
Does anyone know if grave soaking was invented at Bethel or if people were doing that before Bethel?
Just like all these other guys who started tbis movement, Lake was a bad person!
Why revive something that was never of God to begin with?
These healing rooms sound too much like Dowie's healing houses. Was this healing physical or spiritual orboth?
Will you also critique Curry Blake? He claims to have Lakes “mantle” 🤦🏼♂️
Once again great video!!! I have done a lot of research on John G Lake and can dispel the myths propagated by Robert Liardon in his book “Gods Generals” vol 1. Among them the 100,000 “healings” in Spokane Washington and that Lake was an insurance tycoon. And may other myths taken as fact by so many in the Pentecostal/Full Gospel world. And Cal Pierce is somebody I looked into here is my research on him and the “healing rooms” of the Rookery building.
Mr. Cal Pierce who left Redding California and went to Spokane Washington to reopen the “healing” rooms of John G Lake. His website is “Healing Rooms Ministries". The information used here can be found on a video of Mr. Pierce’s interview with Sid Roth on Mr. Roth’s show. The video is entitled “Angel Waits 80 Years to Finish His Assignment!” from 2018. In the interview Pierce and his wife share how they moved to Spokane. Then Mr. Pierce has some interesting things to say about the Rookery building where John G Lake had his “healing” rooms.
Of course, during the interview Mr. Roth mentions the obligatory 100,000 “healings” of John G Lake in Spokane. After checking out and searching out the area, Mr. Pierce says he found the old Rookery building and there were very few tenants on the third floor. He also states that he had a group of people who were an intercessory prayer team. Then one day as Pierce was looking things over there was one room where everyone stood outside but inside the power of God was so strong that nobody could stand. They called it the silver room because the carpet was silver.
Later he said he asked the Holy Spirit why was there such a strong anointing in that room. And per Pierce the Holy Spirit told him that he (the Holy Spirit) had deposited an angel there, that’s been waiting 80 years for these rooms to reopen so that I can pour out the anointing to bring healing once again to the city of Spokane. And this was the same angel that was there for John G Lake.
Sonds like a good story. And that’s the problem, it is just a story. When the historic facts are brought to light the story falls apart at the seams.
A Short History of the Rookery Building to Dispels the Myths
From the Spokane Review. This is a conglomeration of facts from several articles found in the Spokane Review.
The original building or at least part of the original building was completed in 1888 but was destroyed in a devastating fire in 1889 which wiped out much of downtown Spokane. According to the Spokane Review of April 21,1929 they stared rebuilding the Rookery from the smoldering ashes of that fire in 1889 and completed it in 1890. There was a fire in 1893 in the Mohawk part of the building. And yet another fire in 1914 also in the Mohawk part of the building.
The Rookery was actually four interconnected buildings wrapped around the southeast corner of Howard Street and Riverside Avenue were simply called the Rookery, the word for a colony of birds’ nests. The apartments and offices were very small.
All of that predates Lake’s stay in Spokane. But the key question is what happened after Lake’s tenure. The ownership of the building changed hands in 1929 and after a court fight over back rent with the United Cigar Stores, the original building was then razed in 1933. An interesting side light was that when they brought down the original, building down they found a brick with the name of John Larvis Cook on it. He was the original contractor in 1889. And they were able to present it to his son Sam H. Cook in 1933. Due to public demand they decided to keep the name of the new building as the Rookery. But that incarnation of the building came down in 2006.
As I stated earlier Mr. Pierce’s story has several problems. First, he said the Holy Spirit told him there was an angel who had been waiting in that room since 1920. Kind of hard to do when that building was demolished in 1933! Either the Holy Spirit was wrong, or Mr. Pierce is not hearing from the Holy Spirit. Second, John G Lake moved back to Spokane and finished out his years there 1931-1935. Guess that angel didn’t help him during those years.
Now if Lake claimed 100,000 “healings’ in his 5 years there that would mean that would average out to about 20,000 healings a year. And then further divide that by 52 weeks for the year and Lake would have had to have averaged about 385 “healings” or so every week. His ads show that he held Sunday services at the Masonic temple and healing was on the 3rd floor of the Rookery building.
As I mentioned, all the descriptions I read about the rooms of the original building describe them as small. That means you would have to be running a lot of people in and out of there all week long. Again, there is no contemporary reports of any such immense activity. Keep in mind the Rookery also housed other businesses while Lake was there.
And as I said I have more information to show the 100,000 “healings” are a total myth!!!!!! And many other things about Lake as well!!!!
Remember Branhams tent vision included a small room “off to the side” where he prayed for the sick?
Branham died before the vision was fulfilled
I went once and felt right away extremely uneasy . Everyone went forward for prayers and healing and I stayed back by myself . I never returned. The Holy Spirit convicted me right away .
These crooks are selling healing
I am really glad you're exposing this fraud – both Lake and Pierce
I get Pierce's ems from time to time – same-o anti-American, anti-Christ, radicalized NAR hooey… Heard all before – been there, done that… grew up – and decided Jesus was far more important.
In April of 2000 my husband and I traveled from Montana to Seattle for my husband to receive an operation for anaplastic thyroid cancer which is stage 4 from the beginning and is considered terminal. After 14 days in Seattle where they were not able to remove all the cancer, we stopped at the healing rooms in Spokane through the advice of some friends. Cal Pierce himself took us into the "silver" room where the angel was and he prayed for my husband. He then prayed for me and said that I had a healing anointing in my hands. As we left we felt such a horrible heaviness. My husband died June 5th. I went back to the healing rooms a year later with some friends and I looked at the wall where many prayer requests were written which were for things like cancer. On the side were written praise reports….healings for headaches, backaches….no praise reports for cancer being healed. I do believe God heals, but I quit looking to these people.
An ambitious business man who becomes involved with new age practitioners in Bethel Redding. What could go wrong?
The mayor of Seattle gave Lake a plague for all of the healings in his ministry. The mayor also said Seattle was the healthiest city in America because of Lake's ministry
This video is a waste of time. Like all critics the people behind this video shame about a fourth of what was said or verified by and about Lake and the healing rooms
I guess it's beyond God to call a man in mid-life, transform the man by the Holy Spirit, and use the man for God's purpose. Oh, wait – I forgot about Moses the murderer. Oh, and Saul, the murderer. Or Matthew the tax collector. The author would do well to read 1 John 4:20 for your hatred comes through loud and clear.
Religious con artist??? Really