On 23 June 2010, Mark Woodman passed from this world, 34 years old and way too early, a life full of promise cut short.

The impact he had on lives will become evident only in the new eternity. During his illness, Mark pondered the question on whether God would preserve his life, but rested his faith in the Almighty. On 5 May 2010 he wrote "There are now only 2 options: either the Lord will perform a miracle to save my life, or He won't" and again "I long to be alive, to live with my wife and children and to preach again for the Lord. Every fibre of my being hangs on to life, but it remains the Lord's decision if the outcome of my life will be that of Job or of John the Baptist. My faith in Christ is strong. I know He can heal me in a heartbeat if He so decides, but if not, I have peace that one day we will all understand why when we see how the puzzle fits together." Read Mark's letter here. During those dark days many prayed for him, read how his friend experienced his final struggle. Gloom passed over many lives when the news of his passing was announced.

The below narrative about Mark has been taken verbatim from the article titled "Is it the End Of The World - Who Is God" on this page.

Mark was born in the New Apostolic church. He was involved as a youth leader, choir orchestrator, deacon on the way to priest and most aspects of the church. In 2002, he started asking certain questions – unable to get answers (i.e. no one could answer..How do I know who is God?...), he left the church in a search for God so as to objectively look at all the other religions in his ‘quest’ to find God. How do you really know whether Gaia, Mohammed, the cosmic Christ, etc is the real God? He wrote a letter to his church family explaining their reasons for leaving the church in their quest to find the truth. Unknowingly, they walked into the New Age Movement, because as they left the church, they also turned their back on Jesus Christ. They only realized this, when they left the New Age Movement. They wanted to learn more about the meta-physical side of religion. On the basis of the church’s belief in an immortal soul, their quest to find out more about where the soul goes, was started. On their journey to establish financial wealth, influence and affluence, he wanted to study under Edward Debono, Anthony Robbins and John Kehoe etc. Mark wrote a book: Personal purpose that was published as the foundation of his belief on how to find your life purpose and find financial and personal wealth. New Agers teach that you should apply the same success recipes as other ‘new agers’. He spent time with Cyril Rhamaposa and Chris Stals and thought that through learning their recipes and applying that to his life, he would get the same successful result. Richard Branson was one of his mentors as well as Grant Shuttleworth (brother of Mark..). He never told anyone, but they were battling financially. He thought through meditation etc, he would be able to succeeds and took his story about personal purpose etc to primary schools, high schools, SA Reserve Bank as well as the Africa Woman in leadership summit. He thought that through the power of his mind, he was creating his own success and events! Spoke at the MTN Science centre in CT..still he didn’t have much income. The more effort he put in, the less income he had and he couldn’t understand it. His wife then got involved in healing (esoteric healing i.e. crystal type healing, energy healing and carrot cards etc) as he was also involved in the esoteric, slowly migrating towards the occult. He realizes now that God’s hand was involved in these ‘financial blockages’. He himself did channeling for people and animals. Got involved in angels, realizing they were an ‘untapped power’. Now, looking back, he realizes there are 2 sets of angels – which his mentors did not tell him. (continued later). He believed he was doing everything right, but somehow, he just could not get a financial breakthrough and he realized later that not everything that seems right is from God and not everything that seems bad is from Satan. Compiled from Mark Woodman’s DVD range entitled ‘God’s final Call’ (Order: www.dievollewaarheid.org) Nicolene Filmalter Was involved in Buddhism and various others (all religions have an ‘open’ and ‘hidden’ side). Went to Debbie (a white witch) in the Cape who also did healing channeling (his wife suffered from lower back pain and he with financial success) realising their ‘blockage’ was so severe - she would have to call in the ‘biggest’ of angels called ‘Metatron’ who is an alias for satan. They didn’t realize they were busy with satans angels, as they lie just like satan does. They make you sick and they can heal you. Even Metatron couldn’t unblock these blockages! He was getting so involved in the occult in his search for God and the truth (re-incarnation, hypnoses) and eventually transpersonal hypno-therapy (where you supposedly die and come back, but your soul goes somewhere, you can trace it and listen to conversations where it was) – these are all deceptions of satan. This is a clear warning against these practices as someone that came out of this. He was getting desperate. He and his wife decided that Christ was not needed in their lives anymore. Mark actually hated Him and believed He was deceiving so many people worldwide. They didn’t want anything to do with the Bible compared to his bookshelf full of ‘enlightened’ books. They were going to change their will to make sure that they would not be buried out of any Christian church. As they made that decision, the doors opened up, but not yet the ‘financial’ door. He was actually pushed into a corner on 3Talk by Noeleen and started explaining all his beliefs etc. Noeleen contacted him to do a show ‘Finding and living your life’s purpose). He thought this channeling of energy into the future was working at last. From there…God called him out… He was put in the middle of 2 other people (which means ‘you are the man’ - the guy in charge’). A Christian on the left and a meta-physicist on the other side, he thought he was the ‘bridge’ between the Christian and the esoteric beliefs…he thought that was his purpose. The first phone call was from a Christian (Michelle) quoting several text…Mark thought,, wow..’I’m going to tear you to pieces…you are so deceived’! Sometimes New Agers know the Bible better than Christians in order to twist things around: Are we created in the ‘image of the Creator’. If you are created in the image of a teacup – you would be a teacup. Therefore, if God created us in his image – I AM THE CREATOR! He stated on national TV. Mark didn’t realize this was pantheism..(God is in everything - the tree, chair, you, the table etc). Referred her back to the garden of Eden where satan said we will ‘become gods’. He said even after his arrogance of claiming to be a creator on tv, he still couldn’t afford to put petrol in his car. Career Success magazine launches an article: “who wants to be a millionaire” and then they refer to Mark Woodman..he cannot help but laugh at that article every time he says it, as it was so ironical. Then came a day one Saturday morning at 03h30. They had no food for the next day and nobody knew. He walked down the passage to sit in the dark in the lounge. After 2 years of working at the top level, this was his ‘success’ summary:

• 4 months behind on car payments
• 5 months behind on bond payments
• 12 months behind on electricity
• no medical aid
• no income
• wife was 8 months pregnant

When you’re pregnant, you need nourishment (not food) – he had absolutely nothing, not even milk or eggs. He realized that in his own power, he had done absolutely everything possible – if he had done all this and nothing happen, he realized it wasn’t going to happen. He fell to his knees, realizing that only a higher power in the universe could do it. He was absolutely exhausted, not knowing how to pray any more. He said…’hello…I don’t know who You are, I don’t actually care, if you are Allah or Krishna, or Lucifer or whatever, but I want one of you to come through..one of you must have more power. Today I am giving everything I have over to you, whoever you are’. He was expecting something would happen..but there was just….nothing, absolute silence! He got even more bitter, shouting; ’that is absolutely typical of You, when I need You the most…nothing!”

He was expecting something physically magnificent to happen. God came into his life and answered him, but not in the way he expected. He heard Revelation 18 saying “come out of her my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues”. After than morning, certain miracles would happen…checking in the car, looking for a R2/R5..back in the house…back to the car..find a R20 on the back seat. This ‘call’ started to ‘eat away’ at his heart as well as Heb 4:12 “the Word of God is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart”. Mark’s original intent was to find the truth and help people.

Psalm 94:11 realizing God knew him…started an intense study of the Bible. Spoke to his wife to ‘stop with the angel stuff’ until we know which angels are which. Learnt about Michael. You don’t know you’re asleep, until you wake up. You don’t know you’re deceived, until you come out of deception. Satan is trying to destroy the accuracy of the Bible, especially through the media: Guardian Unlimited had an article: ‘Jesus was walking on thin ice, claimed scientist (not on water). Foxnews.com report that Jesus had to ask Judas to betray Him to fulfill prophecy; therefore, He couldn’t really be God. The Da Vinci Code says that Jesus wasn’t really God, He was married to a prostitute (Mary Magdalene) and they had children! Today these children are the kings/queens of the Morovinian monarchy. Evolution attempts to remove God as the creator. The war today is about deception and if you can destroy the accuracy of the Bible, then you destroy the authority of the Bible. If people just question Gen 1:1..God didn’t create…God used….then you create deception. Then you question everything in the Bible. Safanja 3:2 ‘the world doesn’t obey, trust etc….”