Open denunciation & curses

Open denunciation and curses. Members are subjected to denunciation and disparagement as well as voodoo-like witchcraft "prayers" (curses) upon departure of the group.

It is very common for group members under the teachings of Klaus Pesch to experience curses even though they are dressed up as the Prophet speaking out the will of God, which would be backed up by the spirit of God;

and the reasoning goes like this:- In 2 Kings 2v23 When Elisha was taunted by 42 children shouting “go up you bald head”. He curses them in the name of the Lord. After he has said this two bears comes out and kill the children. The explanation given by Klaus Pesch is that Elisha pronounced something against the offenders and God backed up the words of the prophet by sending the bears, thus giving weight to the prophet’s authority. This is the difference between prophet with a small ‘p’ and prophet with a capital ‘P’. Klaus Pesch affirms that he is a prophet with a capital ’P’ and has the spiritual right to proclaim God’s will over people.

Many of the group members are regularly subjected to ‘Guidance by proclamation’ as Klaus Pesch forecasts how events will transpire, confident that God will back him up. Men within the group are regularly told that they will fail in this or that because they are like their father or that they are was Lazy or not sensitive to the Holy Spirit and so on. This has a profound effect of group members who after a while start to think ‘what’s the point’, unconsciously surrendering to the conditioning of their attitudes by an abusive spiritual leader.

Another technique that the Klaus Pesch uses, and used even against his own family is that in the middle of a conflict or disagreement he will take a bible and say something like ‘Lets hear what the Lord has to say about the matter” and open the Bible to a random place and read the passages of scripture at the top of the left page and the bottom of the right page, then subtly twist their meaning to prove that he was right and the other person was wrong.

The tragedy is that God does uses his word to speak to his people and many believers have experienced a word from him through their devotional or quiet time. But when it is enforced like this and abused on this almost industrial scale, the word of God becomes something quite different, a weapon of destruction and an instrument of disappointment.