Paul sent this letter by mail to George Warnock on July 6th, 2009:
Mr. Warnock,
Paul Cohen here; I spoke to you on the phone the morning of June 30th
about sending you some letters and writings, which you agreed you would
like to see. Victor Hafichuk, brother in the Lord, met with you in
1999, at which time he spoke and wrote to you about how things were
not right in your walk, and as a consequence there were plagues on
you and your loved ones. Here is his letter, followed by your reply
(after which I will resume my letter):
August 15, 1999
To: Mr. and Mrs. George Warnock
Warren and Sharon
From: Victor Hafichuk
Box 89, Monarch, AB. T0L 1M0, Ph. 403-553-2252
Greetings to All!
In March of 1976, the Lord spoke to me, starting
by saying, “I
am hurting! I am hurting!” I could feel the agony. I could “hear” His
pain. He then proceeded to show me basically that His people were suffering
because they were partaking in the things of the world, the pleasures,
customs, traditions, religious observations, vices, etc. They lacked
discipline, disregarding the Law of God, ignorant and stubborn, proud
and foolish.
Oh, they went to church, red some Bible, partook
in various “spiritual” or “Christian” or
religious activities in Christ’s Name, witnessed, preached, and
all those things one commonly thinks are done within a relationship
with Christ, but God said, “they were doing their own thing,
choosing their own ways, ignorant of His.”
I’m writing to tell you that God’s
Word holds true, saying:
“He said, ‘If you will listen carefully
to the LORD your God and do what He considers right, if you pay attention
to His commands
and obey all His laws, I will never make you suffer any of the diseases
I made the Egyptians suffer, because I am the LORD, Who heals you’” (Exodus
15:26 GW).
If we are with the world in their customs, philosophies,
and activities, we are with the world in the consequences for same.
The two go hand-in-hand,
and God is no respecter of persons.
Many a prayer has gone out for your Rebekah
and healing has not come, as it did for those who were healed as
recorded in the Scriptures,
whether by Jesus, the apostles, prophets, or other saints like Philip.
God is not a liar; neither is He slack concerning
His promises. Here is one for you:
“If My people, who are called by My Name, shall humble themselves
and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I
will hear from Heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their
land” (2 Chronicles 7:14 MKJV).
You have prayed and prayed, and others have done so. But you must
humble yourselves, and what is left of that promise in terms of requirement
but to turn from your wicked ways?
Do not get into the “condemnation” bit.
I do this not to condemn but deliver and not by carnal reasoning,
either. You must
cleanse yourselves of idols and worldly ways. You must become violent
and “storming.” I do not believe that it was age or natural
tiredness that I witnessed there. What I saw was compromise, in the
name of nonjudgmentalism, rationalization resulting from getting no
desirable and needful results from God - discouragement, skepticism,
defeat, and even cynicism.
Mr. Warnock, from your own lips I heard numerous
confessions of justification and rationalization, which ought not
to be there. In your home, I also
saw, without looking, many things that ought not to be. Please do not
get offended, seeing as how we were guests, as though we are ungrateful.
For your sakes and for Rebekah’s, and all your family, please
listen.
I’m sending some papers; please read them,
all of you.
“And He said to all, If anyone desires to come after Me, let
him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever
will save his life shall lose it, but whoever will lose his life for
My sake, he shall save it” (Luke 9:23-24 MKJV). Read also verses
25 and 26 before you go on.
Those who are ashamed of the Lord seek this
world’s good, be
it financial, social, whatever.
You say you did not know the truth about vaccinations. But why did
not the Lord inform and/or keep you? You were flowing with the world.
You still are.
When there is repentance and wholesale identification
with the Lord, and a forsaking of acquaintances and relationships
with the world, “Christians” or
otherwise, that are not pleasing to God, I believe that healing is
going to come, not only for Rebekah but for others,
not only in terms of physical health but all other areas as well.
There is much that could be said. For now, I
will see if truth or pride will win. I believe I speak in answer
to those prayers gone up
for Rebekah’s healing, and you must hear what the Lord requires
of you and do it if you are ever to see the desired results – desired
by Him even more than by yourselves.
Victor
George H Warnock
P O Box 652
Cranbrook BC
Canada V1C 4J2
Dear Victor
Evan and his friend dropped by yesterday, and
we enjoyed a good time of fellowship. They dropped off some of those
videos you mentioned…which
we have not had opportunity to see as yet. They also gave me the envelope
containing a personal letter to be shared with Ruth and with Sharon
and Warren – which I will do. Also some of your writings, which
I will pass on to them.
I think of what Paul said concerning the outworking
of his ministry. He found the approval of God in different ways…both in the positive
and in the negative. I think it is good if we can learn God’s
approval in both ways, without having any bitterness in the heart.
And so Paul discovered God used both ways to work out a good purpose
in his life and ministry, and to enlarge his heart. “By honour
and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet
true (2 Cor. 6:8). When the report is ‘evil’…I have
learned to seek the Lord in the matter, and search out my heart, praying
as David did: “Search me, O Lord, and know me…try me and
know my thoughts. See if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me
in the way everlasting”. And so either way, if our hearts are
right, we will discover that He “giveth more grace”. In
the ‘the good report’ we find a lot of encouragement. Yet
we know that somewhere down the line there will be an ‘evil report’…which
leads to heart-searching. We have felt the Lord would have us keep
our hearts open to receive God’s people – knowing full
well that there will be from time to time some who might see a few
cob-webs on the ceiling – but we are thankful for the many who
go away refreshed and renewed in their faith, and encouraged to fight
the good fight of faith.
May the Lord bless…and lead you and your
family into the good pastures of His grace and truth.
Sincerely,
(Signed) George H. Warnock
Mr. Warnock, Paul again.
What happened at that time was that pride, and not Truth, won the
day with you. You brushed aside the Word of God in order to keep your
life, and so there was no answer to your prayers for healing, as you
were warned there would not be if you continued in your ways.
What other losses have you sustained because you didn’t listen?
[Rebekah, his granddaughter, had died.]
Living in defeat while presuming to minister Christ to others is a
terrible thing in itself. You have no idea what you have been missing
because you rationalized away God’s warning to repent and to
forsake the corrupt ways of men. Instead, you continued in your accommodation
with man and false religion that kept you separated from God.
You liken your compromising in the things of Christ and His righteousness
to a few cobwebs on the ceiling. You were being addressed regarding
something more akin to eating out of the toilet, while you chose to
throw the good food of God down the garbage disposal. This is not poetic
exaggeration; it is the reality of what you chose for yourself.
Is it any wonder that you and those following you are suffering in
so many ways? How can you renew and encourage others in the faith of
Christ when you rejected His Words that would have led you into His
faith? You have been teaching doctrinal knowledge, not faith. You are
in delusion and hypocrisy.
Will you continue to write off the Word of God that came to you through
Victor? We write you again, not to condemn you, but in the hope you
will recognize your sin and God’s mercy in sending someone to
warn you by exposing the agents of death and destruction in your lives.
Whether you believe us or not, we are not speaking to you in vain.
The Word of God accomplishes His will. It is His will that every person
comes to a place of repentance:
Philippians 2:9-11 MKJV
(9) Therefore God has highly exalted Him, and has given Him a Name
which is above every name,
(10) that at the Name of Jesus every knee should bow, of heavenly ones,
and of earthly ones, and of ones under the earth;
(11) and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
Mr. Warnock, despite your many years of religious life and works,
you have not been bowing to Jesus Christ and confessing His Name. You
are doing your own thing in His Name.
In your letter to Victor, you wrongly applied the apostle Paul’s
words to the Corinthians about how he was proven to be an approved
minister of God by the good and evil reports circulating about him.
The report Victor gave you of yourself was not an evil report of the
kind Paul was referring to – one of darkness, hearsay, and false
accusations made behind the back. What you received were the wounds
of a friend – light from God for correction for your sake. Your
rejection of correction manifests God’s disapproval of your works
rather than His approval.
But this doesn’t mean that all you have taught or said is untrue.
The Pharisees taught the resurrection and other true things. That did
not make them right with God.
We have found some of your statements to be true and of great significance,
because God has given us the very things you write about. Here is a
glorious one. You write:
“I am confident God will yet raise up
a true Testimony of Jesus to carry this Gospel of the Kingdom to
the land of Israel, as well
as to the four corners of the earth. And I do not mean a message only,
or a teaching from the Bible only, but a living Word that will go forth:
'not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration
of the Spirit and of power' (1 Cor 2:4).”
The Lord has done this with us. We have been prepared and sent by
Him to carry the true Testimony of Jesus Christ to Israel and the world.
I am enclosing the capstone writing of a series of writings prophetically
spoken to the dead bones and nation of Israel, which God has given
us to raise the Jews from the dead (The
Key for Israel and the Jew).
You also write in The Vision and the Appointment about a new man (created
in Christ) in whom God rests, and who rests in God. The Lord said to
Victor many years ago, “You are my Sabbath.” In 2000 Victor
entered into this rest, the fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles.
I have also included his testimony that briefly goes through the steps
the Lord took him.
There is much more on our site, Mr. Warnock, available to you if you
wish to have anything printed off and red to you. If your heart is
turned towards the Lord, you will no doubt do that. But if it is not,
you will walk away once again, insisting on your own righteousness
and perishing in your sins.
Paul Cohen
George sent this letter in reply:
July 12, 2009
George & Ruth Warnock
PO Box 652
Cranbrook, BC V1C 4J2
Canada
To: Paul Cohen
I received your envelope a few days ago, containing your letter, and
a testimony of Victor Hafichuk, and an article entitled “The
Key for Israel and the Jew.” You may recall I mentioned that
I really did not have time to read a lot of material that comes my
way .. but at your insistence I agreed to receive what you wanted to
send -- with a promise I would go through the material and read some
of it at least, which I did. I get many articles in the mail, and if
and when I have time I look through it. But with failing ‘eye-sight’ I
do not attempt to read all these articles that come my way. But I did
appreciate Victor’s testimony how he came to know the Lord Jesus,
and the struggles he went through in the process of God’s dealings
in his life. And how eventually he found peace through our Lord Jesus
Christ.
As for his personal letter to me, I was a bit shocked to hear him
judge me this way. He said when he visited us, what he saw was “compromise,
in the name of nonjudgmentalism, rationalization resulting from getting
no desirable and needful results from God, discouragement, skepticism,
defeat, and even cynicism”. And after a few more comments he
said, “For now I will see if truth or pride will win”.
So he clearly takes the place of my judge. He also accused me of allowing
our little grand-daughter take that crippling vaccination. Their parents
allowed it innocently - and they are in charge of their home, and I
knew nothing about the vaccination till some time later. In his letter
he charged me as one who disobeyed the Lord, by refusing to follow
the counsel he gave me.
Then you Paul, saw fit to enlarge on the “judgment” with
words like this: “You chose to throw the good food of God down
the garbage disposal. This is not poetic exaggeration; it is the reality
of what you chose for yourself”. A few other ‘choice’ but
very ignorant charges: “Your rejection of correction manifests
God’s disapproval of your works..” And then when you found
those words in my writings about God raising up a true ‘testimony’ in
the land of Israel, you boasted “The Lord has done this with
us”. And again,. “God has given us the very things you
write about..”
Frankly, I do not recall a word from either you (Paul, or Victor)
disclosing our errors .. except that one about the vaccine given to
our grand-daughter .. which neither Ruth nor myself knew anything about
at the time. But there were plenty of unfounded judgmental words. The
Lord burned into my heart His will for my life, as I was earnestly
seeking Him in prayers.. sometimes with fastings: it was a passage
from Micah the prophet:
“He hath shown thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the
LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk
humbly with thy God?” This was quickened to my heart when I was
in my early thirties, (I am close to 92 at this time). Many times the
Lord has reminded me of it. I know I have failed God many times.. but
the Lord has been faithful to remind me of this high calling .. and
bring me to repentance. For many years after having received this message
.. I was inclined to think somewhat lightly of it. And then one day
I realized my failure: and I discovered the full impact of that vision.
Why did I not understand earlier, that there can be no higher calling
than “to walk humbly with thy God”?. How could I have waited
so long to appreciate this ‘call’ of God in my life? Then
it became clear: it was because I did not know God well enough! Since
this revelation to my heart, I cannot now conceive of any higher calling,
in this world, or in the world to come: than to humbly walk with my
God!
Sincerely,
(Signed) George Warnock
PS Please do not send me any more of those Judgmental letters. God
is my Judge, and I do not care to receive any more letters like the
one you sent .. much of it based on a misguided concept of what you
have seen or heard.
Our final response to George Warnock, which, although he asked that
no reply be sent to him, is published for the sake of all others who
will read and learn from his evil example, or choose to follow
it and be destroyed.
Mr. Warnock,
First, let’s set the record straight: I didn’t insist
that you receive the materials, but when I told you what they were,
you readily volunteered that you wanted to receive and see them. I
didn’t have to urge you to do anything.
And why would I insist on going to the trouble of copying and mailing
you letters and writings, if you made it clear you were not interested,
but would only agree under duress? I have learned there is no point
in that and would not have wasted my time or resources.
But if I were to have insisted or reasoned with you on reading these
things, why do you assume my motive was evil? Your language implies
I did something dishonorable, if not deceitful and despicable. You
imagine I compelled you, when it was your freely-made decision to receive
and read the materials. If you see evil in what I did, it is only coming
from your own evil imagination, the prime source of the accuser of
the brethren.
I have an important question for you (though you have shut yourself
off from any two-way conversation from the beginning): If you knew
that what you had to say to another person was vitally important, wouldn’t
you possibly urge them to read something? Are you telling us that you
have been a minister of Christ all these decades, and you have never
felt or acted in this manner, compelled to speak to those who did not
want to hear?
Jeremiah 7:25-27 HNV
(25) Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of
Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all My servants the prophets,
daily rising up early and sending them:
(26) yet they didn’t listen to Me, nor inclined their ear, but
made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.
(27) You shall speak all these words to them; but they will not listen
to you: you shall also call to them; but they will not answer you.
Your lack of understanding or recognition of the weightiness of spiritual
matters, the Ways of the Lord, and how men react to His Word, says
much about your ministry, Mr. Warnock. It says you are a liar
and a phony.
However, I didn’t urge our materials on you, not for lack of
recognition of the value or importance of what we had to say to you,
but because I knew you were hardened in sin and would reject them whether
physically receiving them or not. Having been offered the personal
letters and writing, had you simply said “No,” our part
would have been done, because, after speaking to you once and explaining
what we had for you, rejecting our offer out of hand would have meant
that your blood was on your head.
But you didn’t reject. Instead you chose to see what we had
written you (and the writing fulfilling your words that God would raise
a testimony of His living Word to His people, Israel), condemning yourself
afterwards by your reaction. You took the bait, so to speak, which
was not meant for evil, but has evil consequences for you because you
judge and contemn the Truth.
You say that Victor has wrongly taken the place of your judge. Why?
Because he said we would see whether truth or pride would win out by
your reaction to the Words the Lord gave him for you. Have you not
rejected His Words, showing that your pride has won? Jesus said this
of Himself, which Words also pertains to those He sends, who speak
His Words:
“He who rejects Me and does not receive My Words has One Who
judges him; the Word that I have spoken, the Same shall judge him in
the last day” (John 12:48 MKJV).
You betray your ignorance of, and contempt for, the Ways of God.
You say we did not disclose your errors. The problem is not that we
did not disclose them, but that you are blind.
What is worse, you hold your hands over your eyes, refusing to see.
You act as if there is no offense on your part, but if this is so,
then why does God not hear your prayers, forgive you sin, and heal
your land?
After being given notice of your offending ways, you were told that
much more could be said, yet you did not for a moment seek to know
or understand. You dismissed it all out of hand, calling it “cobwebs.” But
there will be those who see and understand, who will review these letters
and see your sins for themselves, plain as day:
“From one month to the next and from one week to the next all
people will come to worship Me, declares the LORD. Then they will go
out and look at the corpses of those who have rebelled against Me.
The worms that eat them will not die. The fire that burns them will
not go out. All humanity will be disgusted by them” (Isaiah 66:23-24
GW).
You say we boast of ourselves because God has raised up His testimony
through us to the nation of Israel, according to your prayer. You are
so wrong. If we boast, it is in the Lord, Who has done such a marvelous
thing, and not in ourselves, who are merely His instruments and witnesses
to His work. You have despised God, not man, Who has fulfilled your
own words of hope, for which you have absolutely no care or interest.
You show yourself to be a brute, who is only interested in filling
his belly.
You say the Lord has given you a revelation of your high calling,
which is to walk humbly with Him. You do anything but walk humbly with
God. If you did walk humbly, you would believe what He has given us
to speak to you. You are altogether a son of destruction, a liar and
deceiver.
You mislead all those who would follow you, in essence declaring to
them, “Here is where it is at! Isn’t it wonderful here?” while
you entertain them outside the gate of the celestial city of God.
“Forget judgment,” you say, “ignore that flaming
sword over there, why should you die? What a feast we can have here!” -
with “the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the
murderers, and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and makes a lie” (Revelation
22:15 MKJV).