The Full Account: Bride Ministries Responds to Public Accusations
Opening Thoughts
A year and a half after Carolyn Hamlett broke ties with Daniel Duval, Bride Ministries, and his associates, the ministry is issuing its full response. That extended window gave Daniel time to contemplate the unfortunate series of events that began in late 2016 and arrive at what he believes is a relatively complete understanding of what transpired. Daniel believes he owes that perspective to his followers and to those who support the ministry.
The ministry also owes a response to those who keep coming across derogatory information about Daniel and Bride Ministries and have been left to decide for themselves what to believe without an extended official statement to consult.
After a year and a half of relative silence on the malicious attacks and slander that Carolyn Hamlett and her associate, Loren Grace, have leveled against Daniel and Bride Ministries, the ministry is finally going to address the attacks and provide explanations that are in order.
A few things simply need to be said at the outset. This response is not being issued for the sake of Daniel's ego or to save face. Thousands of people support the ministry, and the organization is stronger than ever.
It does not bother Daniel that there was an attempt to drag his name and the name of the ministry through the mud by writing and speaking against the things he has been called to do. Others have taken content from Carolyn Hamlett and Loren Grace and produced YouTube videos against him. That also does not bother him.
Daniel does not mind if people disagree with him or the things he teaches. That is their prerogative. What does bother him is that people continue to find libel published about him, his friends, and the ministry God has called him to build without a public response on record.
Daniel does not regret choosing to let God be his defender for the past year and a half. He does regret not sticking up for his friends sooner. The ministry also acknowledges a debt to the survivors who only received one side of the story and for that reason were scared away from resources and community that could have made a real difference in their lives.
The Reality That Everyone Should Know
1. Daniel considered Carolyn Hamlett to be a very close friend. He worked with her to minister inner healing and deliverance between 2013 and 2016. They spent countless hours undoing the programming she had received from the organization she was born into and from government projects. Daniel never charged her a dime and was never compensated for the work he did with her.
Loren Grace was Daniel's first paying client. He began working with her in 2014 and continued until the spring of 2016, when she chose to stop working with him. The private details of things that came up during those sessions will not be divulged in this response. Bride Ministries restricts its comments to things which have already been acknowledged by Carolyn and Loren publicly.
Regardless of how a client or survivor smears the ministry, Daniel would never publish intimate details, tying their names and stories to his work with them, without express consent.
2. Both Carolyn and Loren have publicly testified to being survivors of satanic ritual abuse and government sponsored mind control programming. Daniel's heart breaks for them over this fact, as it does for every survivor that Bride Ministries works to help.
As with all survivors, they have had parts that include soul fragments, spirit fragments, and fragments that are a combination of soul and spirit. Whenever a person is shattered in this way, these parts can carry programming or inlaid demonization that can be triggered to make them do things that fall within the objectives of the powers of darkness.
3. Carolyn was raised in an organization that programmed their people to take down ministries. This is evidenced by her mother, who was trained to infiltrate ministries and take them down. Carolyn publicly testified to this on Daniel's podcast.
In other words, she was trained by abusers in the kingdom of darkness to destroy ministries that the powers of darkness deemed a threat. Many ministers who have begun a path toward helping survivors have endured public attacks and accusations by the survivors they tried to help, and for this reason, some of them have quit.
Daniel has met some of these people and heard some of their stories. The sad truth is that when a survivor is triggered to carry out a program to take down a ministry, the survivor is typically not in full control of their actions and will even believe they are being led by God.
Those on the receiving end of these attacks often internalize them as a personal failure, or as a failure of God to step in, and can be left in a very low place after the attack has been executed.
Steps to Take Down a Ministry Through Division
The enemy can and does use infiltrators, who may be well-meaning but triggered survivors, to take down ministries. Before going further, Daniel lays out a systematic strategy for taking a ministry down with an infiltrator. Another survivor, who has been featured on Daniel's podcast and who has publicly testified to being programmed to take down a ministry, has fully agreed with the points below.
After explaining the strategy, this response overlays the series of events that transpired between Daniel and Carolyn Hamlett, and by extension Loren Grace, with that strategy. Then the response addresses several specific accusations.
- Get close to the leadership or become a leader yourself within the targeted organization.
- Bring accusation against the man or woman of God at the head of the ministry and promote slander and gossip against them.
- Try to take as many people as possible out of agreement with the leader over the organization, urging them to leave with or without an actual solution as to what they should do.
- Make the case against the leadership an ultimatum and force people to make a choice while providing no room for reconciliation with the leader. Paint a portrait of the leader that is beyond redemption and beyond hope. Generate an atmosphere of fear and panic so that people become reactionary.
- Recruit as many public voices as possible to the case against the targeted leader and/or organization.
- Continue to write and speak against the organization and its leadership. If this phase is successful, it will render the leader and organization incapable of effectively executing its mandate from heaven. The ministry will be taken down, and its influence will be left in tatters.
The Steps That Carolyn and Loren Ultimately Took
1. Carolyn became one of Daniel's closest friends. They did many podcasts together. Daniel invested countless hours over a period of years into her, praying with her and ministering deliverance and inner healing to her.
Eventually, Daniel invited her to join the board of Bride Ministries because he wanted a trusted survivor to provide perspective on the decisions the ministry was making. She had the hearts of many people who had connected with the ministry because of her testimony and blog.
In all of this, Daniel believes she was very genuine. This may have been naivety, but even now he does not believe that either of them were aware of dormant programming that would eventually be triggered. This is not an accusation that she was knowingly infiltrating the organization from day one. Nonetheless, point 1 was achieved.
“Get close to the leadership or become a leader yourself within the targeted organization.”
2. On October 31st, 2016, Daniel received a text from Carolyn while he was on his way back from a short trip to California to meet with a friend at a church conference. It was followed up with a phone call during which she was agitated, suggesting she was "leaving Bride Ministries."
The following day, Daniel received a text saying she was going to divorce herself from Bride Ministries, followed by more communication efforts on his part to address her concerns. (Daniel later realized that this was when dormant programming began to be triggered.)
She brought accusations regarding a gentleman Daniel had hosted on the podcast and a beloved woman, named Darla, who has blessed the lives of many survivors connecting with the ministry. Daniel offered to take the offending podcast down until they could have more dialogue.
When Daniel attempted to arrange a conversation between himself, Carolyn, and Darla, she refused. No reasonable effort Daniel made to address her concerns was acknowledged or received, and the few conversations they had were circular, frantic, and inconsequential. Looking back, this was evidence that a dormant program had been triggered, flinging her into a state of manipulated consciousness.
3. The following weekend, without notice, Carolyn publicly posted an article on her blog saying she was divorcing herself from Bride Ministries. She posted it while Daniel was speaking at a conference in Tennessee. At that time, she was still a member of the board of Bride Ministries. She did not consult with any of the other board members before making this move.
She immediately began to share this initial article through private Facebook messages to many common friends to raise as much controversy as possible. In this, point 2 was achieved.
“Bring accusation against the man or woman of God at the head of the ministry and promote slander and gossip against them.”
4. This initial post went live during one of Daniel's messages at a conference she knew he was going to be speaking at that weekend. Even now the question remains: why did the post have to go up at that time?
Looking back, if she had been operating from a place of sound-mindedness and a foundation of friendship and trust that had been established through countless hours of conversation over a period of years, it is hard to argue that this was a reasonable course of action. Do people really betray their friends and associates like this without outside influence?
She was still on the board of the ministry as she was beginning to attack. She went from bringing accusation against people Daniel was associated with, to accusing people firmly connected to Bride Ministries, to ultimately making the entire conversation a direct attack against Daniel.
5. As she came out publicly against Daniel, she did not request to speak at a board meeting about her alleged concerns, nor would she agree to civil conversations about them. She never submitted a formal resignation apart from her public statements.
During the first weekend of November, when she released her first blog article against Daniel, she immediately began accusing him of sending threatening texts to her. This happened over social media as Daniel tried to ask her about the article she had written via private texts.
She had written, released, and promoted an article that people were suddenly asking Daniel about, with good reason, because it suggested there were deeply concerning things about him and the ministry. She would not answer Daniel's phone calls, she would not be civil, and she used his efforts to text her as further accusation against him.
There was no availability for reconciliation. When Daniel realized that any communication with her would be misrepresented and used in her case against him, he promptly stopped reaching out. That concluded their communications. By this point, the ministry surmises, the program to take down Bride Ministries was fully activated.
6. Carolyn continued to use Facebook to private message Daniel's employees, close affiliates, friends, the Bride Ministries survivor community, and even people that Daniel was loosely connected with. She sent them her slander, libel, and eventually her slanderous videos against Daniel and Bride Ministries.
In this, she continually created ultimatums for anyone who responded back to her or tried to better understand her, suggesting that if they wanted to be responsible, they had to get away from Daniel and the ministry as fast as possible. This was reported to Daniel by numerous individuals, including his own employees at the time. In this, point 3 was achieved.
“Try to take as many people as possible out of agreement with the leader over the organization, urging them to leave with or without an actual solution as to what they should do.”
7. Carolyn went after survivors in the community to try to recruit them to her cause. She first went after Eleyna, who was still Daniel's client at the time and who had done several profound programs on the podcast. At first, Eleyna believed Carolyn's accusations and responded by publicly leaving Bride Ministries as well. Not long afterward, she realized what Carolyn was doing and decided to stop cooperating.
When Carolyn could not get Eleyna to follow in her path, she turned on Eleyna, attacking her publicly as well. The stress of everything drove Eleyna into a very dark place, and she got incredibly sick. In her own words, she was "left devastated."
Carolyn continued to accuse everyone who did not immediately separate themselves from Bride Ministries, suggesting that they were wrong or deceived because they were not hearing and responding to what she called "the truth." The accusation was that Daniel was unreasonable, deceptive, and could not be trusted under any circumstances. The information always came with an ultimatum.
She then made the official statement that anything Daniel said that was contrary to what she claimed was "the truth" were "lies." In her mind, she had all the truth, and Daniel had all the lies. She was right, Daniel was wrong. She was good, Daniel was bad. This is pure black-and-white thinking often associated with programming.
She then evaded all accountability by disabling comments on the slander and libel she published to various platforms such as Facebook, her personal blog, and eventually YouTube. This was to ensure that no one could be seen publicly disagreeing with her.
She then connected with Loren Grace and recruited her to be an associate against Daniel and Bride Ministries. By this time, point 4 was achieved.
“Make the case against the leadership an ultimatum and force people to make a choice while providing no room for reconciliation with the leader. Paint a portrait of the leader that is beyond redemption and beyond hope. Generate an atmosphere of fear and panic so that people become reactionary.”
8. Together, Carolyn Hamlett and Loren Grace assembled a slanderous article accusing Daniel of all sorts of terrible things, such as being a Luciferian, a practitioner of witchcraft, a teacher of heresies, a cult leader, and an abusive coach.
They did not only attack Daniel. They also published private emails between themselves and Dr. Rob Ruckert and Dr. Bailey without permission to try to strengthen their case and promote division. They wrote many half-truths as they assembled a case against Daniel, concluding that the only sensible thing anyone could do after reading their libel about him was to get as far away from the ministry as possible. Again, this reflects the ultimatum.
That blog remains published on the internet, waiting to be found by any skeptic who would otherwise connect with the ministry's tools or community. A negative testimony page was added to it, achieving point 5.
“Recruit as many public voices as possible to the case against the targeted organization.”
9. After a number of people were swayed, Carolyn and Loren continued to make videos and write articles, ultimately composing a book and making it their platform to take down the platform of Bride Ministries. In the process, they brought accusation against many fruit-bearing leaders in the body of Christ, naming individuals they neither had personal knowledge of nor experience with, but who they grouped into a massive accusation against leaders in the body of Christ.
They continue to publish any material they can secure from others to strengthen their case. Though radically unsuccessful, they continue to pursue point 6.
“Continue to write and speak against the organization and its leadership. If this phase is successful, it will render the leader and organization incapable of effectively executing its mandate from heaven. The ministry will be taken down, and its influence will be left in tatters.”
Carolyn clearly followed a proven strategy to destroy a ministry from the inside. She used proven techniques to introduce division and brought Loren Grace in as her partner.
Some Scriptures to Consider
There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword, But the tongue of the wise brings healing. (Proverbs 12:18)
These six things the Lord hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: A proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood, A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that are swift in running to evil, A false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren. (Proverbs 6:16-19)
Bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. (Colossians 3:13)
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. (John 13:34)
Moreover, if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother. But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that 'by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.' And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector. (Matthew 18:15-17)
In the process of all that transpired, Carolyn broke Daniel's heart, because he considered her a very close friend. Daniel had grown to love both her and Loren Grace as sisters in Christ whom he believed were incredibly brave for the healing paths they took. Nonetheless, they did many things that were simply not right, and the ministry will now address a few things that deserve to be confronted.
Offences of Carolyn Hamlett
1. Carolyn brought false accusation against Darla Guerra, who is one of the most loving and compassionate women of God Daniel has met, and publicly bullied and slandered her. This was not right.
2. Carolyn denounced her longstanding friend Karolyn Otlewski as a deceiver trying to gain influence by using her name. Karolyn was a supporter and prayer warrior for Carolyn Hamlett long before Daniel met her. She was also a huge blessing to other survivors who had connected with Bride Ministries.
3. Carolyn broke fellowship with every survivor who did not break fellowship with Daniel, accusing them of being cowards and of leading other survivors into deception, creating massive confusion in the survivor community with her ultimatums.
4. She forced the ministry to call a meeting to vote her off the board because she did not follow Godly protocol in respectably resigning from the board of Bride Ministries. Is this really the fruit of a sound-minded, Christian woman of God whose actions are entirely inspired by the Holy Spirit? No. This is not how the Holy Spirit works.
Offences of Carolyn Hamlett and Loren Grace
1. They took private communications between themselves and men of God (Dr. Preston Bailey and Dr. Rob Ruckert) and published them without permission. This was done with the agenda of establishing discord between Daniel and men that he loved and respected.
2. They assembled many half-truths and distortions of information and continually rewrote and reworded their libel to try to form the most potent case against Daniel and Bride Ministries.
3. They brought accusation against men and women of God, many of whom have fruit-bearing ministries. Some of those they attacked are personal friends of Daniel's that he respects and admires. In addressing their actions, Daniel is standing up for those who he believes should be respected and honored. The Bible is clear: do not touch the Lord's anointed and do His prophets no harm.
4. A year and a half later, they continue to make their platform entirely dedicated to the attack of ministries they do not theologically agree with, posting not only their slander and libel, but anything they receive from others that will strengthen their case.
The Testimony of Bride Ministries
While being betrayed, attacked, and slandered did not feel good, God worked all things together for good. In the beginning, it was hard. Within a few months of the attacks, financial support dried up as many supporters struggled with whether to trust Daniel and Bride Ministries. Many people walked away or went on the fence to see what would happen.
With reduced funding, Daniel could no longer afford to pay staff or to continue to support as many survivor healing paths as the ministry had committed to. At one point, Bride Ministries only had $600 in the ministry bank account. That was an all-time low for the ministry.
Daniel had to personally put thousands of dollars of his own money into Bride Ministries on top of his tithes just to prevent the organization from failing to meet its financial obligations. The mandatory financial cutbacks ultimately led to the dissolution of the entire staff and a lot of hurt feelings. At one point Daniel had three staff members and several contractors. Things transitioned to a place where he had to do the day-in and day-out duties entirely by himself.
That did not include the production of The Fire Place Church services, but did include the podcast, the Fire Place Church live-stream, and the incredible amount of one-on-one coaching hours Daniel was committed to.
Things did not stay that way for long before Christian, who was at that time Daniel's fiancée, stepped up and began to help with the business side of Bride Ministries. She also began fielding the emails coming into the organization. She volunteered in this capacity and began rethinking the ministry's systems from the ground up, diagnosing inefficiencies and building a website that would present a much cleaner face to the organization while streamlining many functions and eliminating the need for a larger staff.
As time went on and it became clear to more and more people that the slander and libel against Daniel and Bride Ministries was misguided, podcast listenership increased significantly. The ministry changed its approach to The Fire Place Church, and attendance doubled, and then doubled again.
The ministry reduced spending through most of 2017, but with improving systems, it was able to offer more by spending less. Then, in the last part of the year, ministry finances blossomed as financial support began to pour into Bride Ministries as never before.
Today, Bride Ministries has more reach, more influence, more resources, and more impact than at any other time in its history. God is moving, and testimonies pour in every week regarding the way Jesus is transforming the lives of those who have connected with the ministry and its resources.
The ministry is now in the early stages of building the Bride Ministries Institute, which will be the platform through which the DID Coaching school Daniel has been vision casting for years gets released. God's favor is upon the ministry, and with the recent release of Daniel's latest book, Prayers that Shake Heaven and Earth, the testimonies coming back have only increased.
In addition, many of the people who either accused Daniel, questioned him, or walked away altogether have come back and apologized. The ministry continues to receive testimonies detailing how the Lord personally revealed the true nature behind the inspiration of Carolyn Hamlett and Loren Grace.
Daniel cannot count, nor does he care to tabulate, the number of times people have come to him with revelations and discernment about the way the enemy manipulated and used these broken women. Most of those who did not come back around were people who had created challenges at Bride Ministries.
What Daniel realized in hindsight was that God used the attacks to prune the organization so that it could be repositioned to grow in a much healthier way. At the end of it all, God worked all things together for good.
Evidence of Their Bad Fruit
1. They attack the gifts of the spirit, yet these are clearly taught in 1 Corinthians 12. Many breakthroughs in inner healing and deliverance are secured by these gifts, including breakthroughs that each of them had experienced in the past.
2. They attack the Courts of Heaven, yet there are many biblical scenes depicting events occurring in heavenly courts in books such as Job chapters 1 and 2, Zechariah chapter 3, and Revelation chapter 5. This revelation has been a profound blessing in the lives of many believers and has produced great fruit. It has been applied to secure breakthroughs that are undeniably of God. This is a revelation that has been well established by many other credible, fruit-bearing ministers such as Rob Henderson.
3. They denounce spiritual warfare as unbiblical, which is merely religious programming designed to indoctrinate people into a powerless posture against the attacks of the enemy. This is very harmful to survivors and Christians in general.
The Bible says the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty to the tearing down of strongholds for a reason. In Mark 16, it is written that we shall cast out demons. In Ephesians 6, it says we wrestle against principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, and spiritual wickedness in heavenly places.
They confuse God's genuine and approved methods of engaging in biblical spiritual warfare with the enemy's counterfeit methods of engaging the spirit realm. This is a major fixture of their continued libel and slander.
4. They attack the biblical doctrine concerning the spirit of man with twisted language, completely retelling their own testimonies to make their points. Many believers are connecting to their human spirits and beginning to come into alignment: spirit, soul and body (1 Thessalonians 5:23). This concept is not original to Daniel and has been well-established by others.
They may not agree that we are created a triune man, but that is a theological debate, not a valid point by which to accuse others of teaching Luciferian doctrine. In fact, Carolyn once told Daniel that in her experience in the evil organization, they did not teach a triune man and did not distinguish the spirit from the soul.
The Luciferian doctrine she received did not acknowledge a triune man, meaning that by denying the triune man and the spirit of man, she is pushing people into the belief system she was indoctrinated within the cult. This point is worth stating for the record.
5. They came against partnering with Jesus in the process of ministry because of their overwhelming fear of being deceived by a false Jesus. This is by far the most telling source of their inspiration. If Daniel is not partnered with the True Jesus Christ, Yeshuah Hamashiach, he is not doing ministry, period.
Bride Ministries' Fruit Since the Attack
- Bride Ministries has continued to provide coaching opportunities for survivors who cannot afford it
- The ministry has continued to create prayer resources that help people get the freedom and breakthroughs they are seeking and make them available for free at bridemovement.com
- The ministry has continued to produce podcasts that explore the mechanics of the spirit realm, answer people's questions, and advance a platform that gives survivors a voice to the greater body of Christ
- The Fire Place Church has expanded and experienced an increase in attendance
- The organization has been blessed and financially repositioned, allowing it to take on bigger projects and exploits for Jesus
- The Bride Ministries Institute has been established
- The ministry has begun hosting monthly intercessory prayer meetings for the city of Dallas
- Survivor support groups continue to be offered to healing survivors
- People have been released to host weekly and bi-weekly groups through the ministry platform, empowering believers to step out in their gifts
- The ministry continues to create disciples of Jesus Christ and offer live trainings
Is Daniel Duval a Luciferian?
At the end of all of this, the question may remain: what about the accusations regarding what Daniel teaches at Bride Ministries? What about his spirit-man doctrine? What about the Shining Ones? Is he teaching heresy?
First, contrary to his accusers, Daniel makes his teachings public. He will have conversations on topics he is not ready to teach with people for whom those topics are relevant, but he does not have secret doctrines or teachings reserved only for survivors he is targeting with witchcraft.
Second, Carolyn and Loren are promoting a very different theology than Daniel embraces. Plain and simple, they disagree, and Daniel is okay with that. They are entitled to their opinions and views of scripture, but to accuse Daniel of deceiving others with Luciferian doctrine is a misplaced accusation.
They do not believe in the reality of the Courts of Heaven, but Daniel does and references Job chapters 1 and 2, Zechariah chapter 3, Daniel 7:9-10, and many other biblical passages. Daniel has used the Courts of Heaven and seen the fruit they can produce in the lives of believers trying to address complex problems in the spirit, and so have thousands of other believers.
They do not believe in spiritual gifts, but Daniel does, as they are clearly articulated in 1 Corinthians 12:1-11. They do not believe in the triune nature of man, but Daniel does, as it is clearly articulated in 1 Thessalonians 5:23.
They do not believe that people should work with Jesus in the process of their healing path, because they fear people will end up working with a counterfeit Jesus that is actually a demon. Daniel believes there are demons that dress up like Jesus, and that people can also work with the true Yeshua, who is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Balance is required, and yes, discernment is required, but the Bible says in John 10:4 that His sheep know his voice, and they will follow him.
Third, Daniel has been accused of teaching a Luciferian doctrine on Shining Ones. According to their main article against him, they wrote:
“"Carolyn has her own perspective to add, but to me, the entire affair with Duval boils down to this: the public 'spirit man' teaching combined with the ungodly belief that it is 'okay with God' if people are half-human and half-angel (Biblically, this human/angel hybrid came about because of fallen angels, and not something God was or is okay with…), led to the private 'Shining Ones' theology, which has led to all other sorts of occult doctrines, including astral travel (in the guise of 'spirit travel'), remote viewing (under the name, 'seeing in the spirit'), casting spells and throwing around curses (in the name of 'spiritual warfare' and 'prayer'), sending forth demons to attack people (the demons are disguised as angels, and they are doing this, again, in the name of 'spiritual warfare' and 'prayer'), necromancy (this is something I will have to discuss another time, because there WAS necromancy going on in counseling, regardless of what Duval publicly says!), and all sorts of disgusting satanic practices that Christians should have nothing to do with."”
Daniel will plainly address the "Shining Ones" accusation. Did the subject of Shining Ones come up in sessions with Loren Grace? Yes. Did the subject of Shining Ones come up in sessions with other clients? Yes. It is true. This happened and continues to happen. Daniel has no need to lie about it.
Daniel did not fully understand what the term Shining Ones even meant at the outset, and when it came up with multiple clients, it became a subject of conversation among certain survivors within the then strictly online community.
Daniel did not fully understand why the concept of the Shining Ones came up in certain survivors. When the term was raised with certain survivors, it had meaning and resonance; with others, it did not. This holds true for many concepts that have been explored and that led to great breakthroughs.
As something came up with one person, Daniel would investigate it with another, and sometimes one revelation could produce a series of breakthroughs. Daniel could list many subjects that came up during sessions that he did not fully understand: how the powers of darkness were cloning soul parts, holographic technologies, how gang-stalking could possibly make sense, how time travel could actually be possible. These are just a few examples of topics he has had to wrestle through, some of which have been addressed on the podcast.
Daniel was looking for answers, walking a path to answers with people he loved, because his heart was to see them set free.
Since Daniel did not arrive at a firm understanding of Shining Ones, he never publicly taught on it, and after a few months he stopped discussing it even with those it had come up with. Before turning his attention from the subject, he had concluded that it had something to do with the coming plans of God for him and others. That was only shared with a small group of people to test the words. He also entertained data points that others provided and considered them, since he was not the only one praying into the subject.
Frankly, Loren Grace provided quite a few data points to Daniel regarding the subject, which at the time she alleged were told to her by Jesus. When certain people, including Loren, began to take great offense regarding the subject, Daniel stopped engaging in the conversation altogether and moved on to other things.
Loren took pieces that Daniel never fully put together, created her own narrative by mixing them with things she journaled on her own as she sought Jesus on the subject, and used it to accuse him of teaching heresy. Her conclusions are not his, her explanations are not his, and nowhere has Daniel ever strung together the thoughts she has assembled regarding the Shining Ones and the occult practices this alleged heresy leads to. Yet this is the centerpiece of her entire case against him.
Daniel ultimately came to understand that there are two sides to the Shining Ones conversation. There is a Luciferian agenda around fallen beings that call themselves Shining Ones. This is the part of the conversation Loren and Carolyn focus on in order to make their accusations. The problem is that it is a moot point. Daniel agrees with their point. These fallen Shining Ones even have a planet that a particular survivor visited during their programming and occult use. That was reported to Daniel, and he believes the report. He is not deceived, and he does believe there is a Luciferian agenda surrounding certain beings that call themselves Shining Ones.
Notwithstanding that point, Daniel believes there is a God side to the conversation, as it is written: "Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever" (Daniel 12:3). Since those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the firmament according to the written Word of God, God certainly has an agenda for his own Shining Ones. This passage can have different placement depending on one's eschatology, but the point is that for every satanic counterfeit, there is a Godly thing that has been perverted. Daniel seeks to remain balanced, reasonable, and yet to continue to be a spiritual pioneer in Christ who secures breakthroughs for the precious and broken people God has connected to him.
Daniel does not have to understand everything that gets brought to his attention. That is an impossible expectation to put on any person. He does not apologize for his fearlessness in pursuing things he does not fully understand as he endeavors to see the children of God set free, children like Loren Grace and Carolyn Hamlett.
Daniel is not a closet Luciferian.
Messages to Carolyn Hamlett and Loren Grace
The ministry shares a few messages here from those who were directly attacked by Carolyn and Loren, so that their voices can be heard as well.
Dr. Preston Bailey
“I am happy to see Daniel making a stand for those who desperately need ministry and have DID. I have been ministering to people with SRA/DID since 1983 and I have seen numerous Christian ministries like Bride Ministries infiltrated by members of Satanic Cults or the Illuminati. It has happened several times in my ministries and many have admitted that it was their job to destroy DID ministries, ministers, and their families. It is my belief that this attack on Bride Ministries was planned long ago. I have known Daniel for many years and he has always been honest and patient. His patience is demonstrated in that he took a year and a half to respond to these malicious attacks. God has blessed Daniel even while the devil kept attacking him. The slander and lies against him and his ministry are from the devil and not God.”
Karolyn Otlewski
“I just want to say that these two women have forgotten love, the most important thing about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He always cares for and loves his brothers and sisters no matter what. Carolyn Hamlett and Loren Grace coldly and maliciously allowed the enemy to hurt and destroy deep bonds that God had forged between them and others. They did it without considering the feelings of others. They caused deep pain, grief, and sadness within our survivor community at that time. They wrote lies about multiple people, including myself, and posted these lies from the enemy knowing the truth in their hearts. In my case, I was never empowered to speak directly to my accuser. Carolyn, you refused to talk to me, and this action alone caused me deep pain and sorrow. I was crushed because I know that in my heart and actions towards you I never did anything to hurt you. Despite my intentions and actions, I was accused like a criminal of offences I never committed. I wasn't given the opportunity to make things right because you refused to speak to me after your accusations were issued. For me, it has been a very long road and I have had to lay my pain in the Lord's hands time and time again. I shed a ton of tears over this. I still cry today. Carolyn Hamlett, you left a hole in my heart, but I still love you, and I still pray for you.”
Darla Guerra
“I send greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Several years ago, I felt like I had to defend the Lord in what I thought was right. But He showed me that I was like Peter chopping off people's ears with my sword. He told me to put away my sword and that He had called us to love people, not defend Him. So now, every time I see something that is not right, or that I feel is wrong, I am gently reminded that He has called us to love people, in His example. When He saw people doing the wrong things, He didn't lash out at them, spew hatred or call them names. He spoke in kindness, gentleness and love to show them the truth. He also told me not to defend myself, because if I defended myself, then He could not defend me. He told me He wanted me to respond in love and a spirit of reconciliation. Every time someone would come to me and tell me the things that were being said about Bride Ministries, myself and others (although the words hurt me deeply) I chose to respond in love. I blessed you both, Carolyn and Loren Grace, because when I bless you, I say that I want it to be as GOD wants it to be. Love and the spirit of reconciliation is where I stand to this day. I love both of you ladies, I called you friends. I continue to pray for His peace and love in your hearts, above all else.”
Request to Cease and Desist
While the initial attacks against Daniel began in 2016, the shameful fact is that Carolyn and Loren have not stopped in this agenda even through the present time. Daniel let out a sigh when he was informed that they had made comments on their website against the prayer class that Bride Ministries offered.
In a more recent article, they detail that their entire book was written to essentially come against Daniel, but they decided to generalize it since he was not the only one teaching "Luciferian doctrines" according to their opinion. It is one thing to state reasons for parting with an organization or group. It is another thing to continue to attack years later. What they are doing is not of God, plain and simple.
For all these things, Bride Ministries issues a public request to Carolyn and Loren for a cease and desist. Please feel free to encourage people to follow Jesus, but make the focus him, not Daniel and those you disagree with.
For those who will hear this, the ministry recognizes that these broken women are not Daniel's enemies, nor are they the enemies of Bride Ministries. The Bible says we wrestle not against flesh and blood. This public address has laid out strong evidence to illustrate that they have carried out a programmed agenda to take down Bride Ministries because of injustices that have been perpetrated against them. The ministry simply needs to expose and articulate this as part of Daniel's responsibility as a leader in the body of Christ.
The ministry has provided this response for those who continue to encounter the articles against Daniel and other leaders in the body of Christ. Having said this, it is in your hands as the reader to judge the matter. The response closes with 1 Corinthians 6:2-3.
“Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?”
Bride Ministries blesses those who have read this with clarity, wisdom, and discernment.
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