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Global News Christian Views: Kathryn Krick, "The Prickster"
The Bible warns us over and over about false teachers that are going to rise up. Today we're looking at Kathryn Krick. Call her the prickster. And she's not a minor case. When the research gets done on false teachers, she comes out as one of the worst of the worst. If you're anywhere near her, run for your life.
She's kind of like the AOC of the religious realm. Run for your life. She actually started out as an actress wannabe and she couldn't hack it, so she found her niche in false religion, and she is gaining momentum.
Why focus on this now? Two reasons. First, conviction, because so many people have been hurt by this false teaching that is everywhere. Second, it's becoming so much more evident every day. Go back twenty, twenty-five years and this wouldn't have gotten much attention. Now it's really infiltrating the church.
So who is Kathryn Krick? She really became a viral TikTok apostle, involved with the whole NAR supernatural gifts Word of Faith movement, known for her healing and deliverance ministry. A lot of people don't totally realize this is a growing movement, that healing and deliverance is supposedly all these ministries do.
It's not legit. What baffles anyone paying attention is that there's video upon video of Kathryn Krick doing these little routines with actors who mess it up, and yet she still just stands there with her hands over them and they go on as if it's legitimate. Hey, you're not legitimate. Look at all this. We just ignore you. We just ignore you because there's enough people that'll fall for it. And that's what makes this a little bit sad.
Turning to Matthew 7:15-16: "Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor figs from thistles." They're not thistles. They're wolves. They're coming to devour you.
The Tanzania Connection
She's been in the news lately. It's not like her hijinks haven't been exposed before, but now it's really getting serious, because she's been connected with a so-called prophet out of Tanzania. She connects with him, watches him do these healings and deliverance over in Tanzania, and decides it's time this comes to the United States. People have been warning about her for years. But now, big bad allegations against this man have risen to the surface, and the problem is Kathryn is covering it up. She knew this was going on.
There's footage of the commissioning of Kathryn Krick by this guy, and he's really a creepy dude. Not that she's not, either, those are not Holy Spirit eyes right there. This is Kathryn Krick, a very attractive gal on the surface who was trying to be an actress, and that's the dude who claims to be the lone guy between God and Jesus and us. During the commissioning, she was actually doing worship, got down on her knees and worshiped this man. It broke hearts to see any human being this deceived, and worse, to take that deception and try to make a multimillion-dollar ministry out of it, because then she's hurting people. Plant your seed, have enough faith and you'll be healed. So hey, it's not my fault, you didn't have enough faith.
The ministry started on TikTok and grew and grew and grew, and even though there's tons of evidence to expose her out there, she still continues forward. That's what's frustrating, because people need eyes to see and ears to hear for such a time as this. Every single sold-out, born-again believer needs to not get caught up in this nonsense.
"Don't Speak Against Him"
The things this man taught her, she's just repeating. She's turning and repeating, so people are starting to worship her too. When allegations arose within her ministry and people brought it to her attention, her response was incredible. Instead of saying, "these are serious allegations, we need to investigate and get to the truth," her actual written response, reportedly by email, said something like this: "After all that Davi has done for you, the love he's shown you, and all that we have done for you at Advanced Anointing, it is very sad that you would stoop so low to publicly speak against him and this ministry."
In other words, they can do whatever they want, break the law, break ethics, sexual deviancy, doesn't matter. Don't speak out against it. This is the common Word of Faith phrase in action: don't attack God's anointed.
Anybody who tells you they have a spiritual father, click off. Chances are, at a minimum, they're just really weak in their faith and probably easily deceived. But there can be people who claim Jesus, who have a sort of faith, and get caught up in this mumbo jumbo. The hope is that people can help pull them out of it. That's the whole point of not apologizing for being authentic, Bible-believing Christians who take Scripture seriously, take it literally, and know it's inspired and our final authority for life here on earth. When you lay some of this nonsense down next to Scripture, it fails so spectacularly, so amazingly, that you can't miss it if you have the eyes to see that Jesus has given you.
That's why these movements focus on people who are really, really desperate. People who become very desperate for whatever reason are more likely, out of desperation, to fall for these farcical things. And that's where people get hurt.
Krick reportedly calls him her daddy, and her followers call her mama. It's just weird. Don't do that. The Bible says don't call anyone your father except your heavenly Father. You have an earthly father, but he's there to reflect your heavenly Father. That's how that works. End of conversation.
Know the Language: Titles and Terms That Should Make You Run
This Tanzanian figure has taken on quite a few monikers. He calls himself a general. He's also the landmark prophet of the equator. And he goes by government spokesman for the kingdom of God. Did he win on mail-in ballots?
They establish this hierarchy because chain of command matters in the subconscious of the human being, whether we know it or not, especially for military people who are trained by it. When he's a general, the instinct is to hold back any possible criticism, even though everything he says goes against the Bible.
For anyone wanting to go deeper on exposing this kind of thing, Chris Rosebrough's podcast Fighting for the Faith is a strong resource, a Lutheran pastor whose approach is to talk about what people are saying in the name of God against the Word of God.
Scripture already settled this. Jesus handpicked His apostles. God handpicked His prophets. They recorded it all. Now, whether pastor, elder, congregant, man, woman, or child, the only one we are under is the authority of Christ Jesus, and who did He pick? The prophets of the Old Testament, the apostles of the New Testament, and it ends there. We all come under Christ through His Word.
Here's the vocabulary this entire movement uses over and over. If you pick up on these words, run for your life:
Modern-day prophets and apostles. There are none. You can prophesy without that making you a prophet. Hearing something from God in a moment of prayer and having it come true doesn't confer the office of prophet. Likewise, laying hands on someone and seeing them healed doesn't give you the gift of healing. It means God, in His sovereignty, chose to heal in that moment. There have been plenty of times prayers for healing didn't work, and blaming the person's lack of faith is a total copout.
God's generals. Functionally, Satan's generals, a phrase used to falsely put authority where there really isn't any.
God's anointed. Thrown around like popcorn in a theater. Anointed has become the new "love," wildly overused. To be anointed biblically is rare: someone specifically set aside for a specific mission or purpose, marked by an actual ceremony. Calling a talented Christian singer "anointed" just because they're a good singer and God gave them a good gift doesn't make it so. Stop it. Just stop it.
Spiritual father or mother. Straight from Jesus: don't call anyone father but your Father in heaven. A pastor mentor who spoke truth into your life is not the same as a spiritual father, that framing is anti-biblical. At the cross, especially in Luke, when Jesus gave up His spirit, the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. That means believers now have direct access to the holy of holies. No intermediary required.
Five-fold ministry. Rooted in Ephesians 4:11-12, twisted into a claim that new prophets and new apostles exist today. The biggest person to bring this to the public scene was Jim Jones in the 1970s, one of the first to openly call himself a prophet, at the time a massive red flag recognized throughout Christendom. He led his followers to commit suicide, demonstrating the ultimate false teacher, and yet his teachings still echo through a lot of folks, including Kathryn Krick.
Seven mountain mandate. A dominionist framework where these cult leaders believe they've been given authority by God to take dominion over seven sections of life, including education, government, and the arts. They believe that once they've taken dominion over these seven mountains, they will usher in the second coming. As the world declines and gets darker, they get more aggressive about it, because they believe they control God.
The mantle. Drawn from Elijah handing his cloak to Elisha at God's direction, a singular, historically recorded transfer, not a repeatable ritual. Elijah has fourteen recorded miracles; Elisha, who asked for a double portion, has twenty-eight. God answered that request. But people today claiming "I have a mantle" or "I'm going to give you a mantle" is nonsense through and through. It's not about chasing that kind of significance. It's about being humbly saved in Christ and watching God's sovereignty, whether the audience is big or small.
Touch not God's anointed. Say this phrase out loud and watch the reaction. It's found in Psalm 105:15 and 1 Chronicles 16:22, God's covenant promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that they would not be harmed, and separately, protection for the Levites who cared for the ark of the covenant. Very specific people, on a very specific mission, during a very specific time in history. It doesn't continue now for all eternity for every self-declared "anointed" leader. That's circular reasoning. That's manipulation, plain and simple. And it's exactly the shield used to deflect the allegations against the Tanzanian figure, echoed in Kathryn Krick's own defensive response.
What Scripture Actually Says About False Teachers
2 Peter 2:1-3 lays it out: "But false prophets also appeared among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you who will secretly introduce destructive heresies... Even denying the master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. Many will follow their indecent behavior and because of them, the way of the truth will be maligned... in their greed, they will exploit you with false words. Their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep."
Someone as obvious as Kathryn Krick can be spotted a mile away, but there are other destructive heresies that are far more subtle. That's why being grounded in the Word matters. It comes in very subtly, entering non-charismatic, non-Pentecostal churches and planting seeds, tying into Revelation 13:14, where false authority rises up and eventually overcomes the saints. These leaders are self-appointed. They are not put there by God.
Revelation 2:20-23, the letter to the church in Thyatira, hits even harder: "But I have this against you that you tolerate that woman Jezebel who calls herself a prophetess and she teaches and leads my bond-servants astray so that they commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. I gave her time to repent, and she does not want to repent of her sexual immorality. Behold, I will throw her on a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of her deeds, and I will kill her children with plague, and all the churches will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each of you according to your deeds."
Two things stand out. First, the sexual immorality that runs behind these ministries. This isn't the occasional isolated pastoral failure, it's a movement rife with sexual issues and abuse, a hallmark that repeats and repeats. It runs from the Azusa Street revival in the early 1900s, through William Branham, through Oral Roberts, through Kathryn Kuhlman (watch her old videos, that's not the Lord of peace at work, that's demon-possessed), and it's happening right now in the Word of Faith movement and the NAR.
Second, and easy to miss: verse 22 doesn't say unless "they" repent of "their" deeds. It says unless they repent of her deeds. That's the church at Thyatira being held accountable, not for participating, but for tolerating. You don't get to wash your hands of it just because you're not the one doing it. Ignorance doesn't get you off the hook.
Matthew 7:21-23 is the harshest passage in all of Scripture: "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out demons, and in your name perform many miracles?'" And then verse 23, the most horrible verse in all of Scripture: "I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you who practice lawlessness.'" In old-neighborhood language: step off, you don't belong here.
Notice it's not "a few" in verse 22. It's many. Not the fringe. Many will point to their prophesying, their demon-casting, their miracles, their seven-mountain mandates, their untouchable anointing, their generals, and none of it will matter. Exegete the text. Don't put yourself in it. Pull the meaning out for your own walk with Christ, your own pursuit of righteousness, your own sanctification.
There's nothing more crushing than that verse. Which is exactly why the posture has to be: I deserve God's wrath. Jesus became my substitute and took it. I'm just happy to be in the room.
Final Thoughts
If you're dancing around Christianity, dancing around religion, getting deceived by the Kathryn Kricks of the world, repent. Come back on your knees to Jesus and focus on Him. Live a vertical life, and the horizontal will go better for you.
One more final thought. The last six to eight months have brought a real transition, a shaking, a sifting, and it produced one question worth sitting with, because it's humbling and it wakes you up to the evil swirling around you: do I want to be the guy who honors God while I'm serving myself, or do I want to really abandon self and be a full disciple of Jesus Christ?
So much of adult ministry over the last twenty-five years has leaned toward the first option, even while genuinely wanting to honor God, wanting to reflect Jesus, wanting to make His name great. But the pull to secretly serve self is something everyone has to deal with, and it has to get laid down again, sometimes a couple times a day, sometimes once a week. Scripture says this is ongoing, daily, in keeping with repentance. His mercies are renewed each day. That's the day repentance continues, self gets crucified, and full discipleship goes forward.
God warns us about these false teachers, and He doesn't warn us without telling us what it's going to look like. "Didn't we cast out demons? Didn't we perform miracles? Didn't we prophesy?" Who does that sound like? Not the ordinary person who says, "Jesus, I just have to depend on Your work on the cross for my salvation." It sounds exactly like the word of faith false teachers described here. So know who they are. Warn people. Don't be afraid to warn people, because people really do get hurt. Know God's Word, know what the Bible actually says, and discernment will follow.
Get into the Word of God today. Go and serve your King.