James Goll is the Director of Prayer Storm, Coordinator of
Encounters Alliance, and co-founder of Encounters Network, as well as author of
numerous books (we don’t know them in detail, but titles like The Seer: The Prophetic Power of Visions,
Dreams, and Open Heavens, Dream
Language: The Prophetic Power of Dreams, Revelations or Angelic Encounters are not testament to
a healthy relationship with reality). Goll is a proponent of Seven Mountains dominionism,
affiliated with C. Peter Wagner,
and instructor at the Wagner Leadership Institute. So he is not only a raging
fundamentalist, but a true dominionist of the kind who wants a literal reading
of the Bible to serve as the law. Of course, he is also, demonstrably, a false prophet,
and the Bible is pretty clear about what to do with those, but the laws of the
Bible should presumably only be interpreted literally when they apply to those
who disagree with Goll.
His Mitt-Romney-will-win-the-2012-election prophecy is actually rather hilarious: During a baseball game in a dream he had in 2008
“the external voice of the Lord came to
me saying, When the nation has been thrown a curve ball, I will have a man
prepared who comes from the state of Michigan and he will have a big mitt
capable of catching whatever is thrown his way… But the Lord said there would
be a man prepared who would come from the state of Michigan who would have a
big mitt. Little did I know at that time that Mitt Romney, former governor of
Massachusetts, was born in the state of Michigan. Little did I know, when I
received this in 2008, that he would win his party’s primary for the 2012
national elections!” The level of delusion required not to laugh at this
drivel is staggering, but apparently people listen to James Goll. His
“prophetic insights” for 2014, for instance, were less detailed (they concerned the future, after
all; descriptions predictions you allegedly made about past events can be as
detailed as you’d like, but predictions about the future must necessarily be a
bit woolier); they still managed to reveal an absolutely deranged mind:
Apparently Goll meets with angels (including “warrior angels”) the way whale.to
tinfoil hatters meet with aliens, and with the help of angels Goll has received
prophetic insights about spiritual warfare,
the visions of “prophet Bob Jones”
and achieving “the full restoration of the supernatural” and such things. Goll
has also written extensively on faith healing,
claiming that it trumps “science and the medical arts” (though admitting that it
is a bit unpredictable).
Diagnosis: Blathering maniac; ragingly insane fundamentalist
of the kind one really should expect to meet only in parodies of
fundamentalists. But despite appearances to the contrary, Goll isn’t funny.
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