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Heaven Bent

S8E2: Bad for the Bethel Brand

Heaven Bent

Heaven Bent Media

Cults, True Crime, Miracles, Toronto Blessing, Prophecy, Religion & Spirituality, Bethel Church, Christianity, History, Church, Revival

4.3897 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

When Jedidiah Hartley realized that his Dad was a false prophet, what did he do about it? On this second episode of 'Son of a Prophet', Jed confronts his Dad, and Bethel Church and IHOPKC - two influential organizations that backed him for years.

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0:27.5

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0:33.6

This is Heaven Bent, Season 8, Son of a Prophet.

0:44.0

So it's been 10 years now that you first wrote and published a book called I Hope It's Not Hereditary,

0:51.5

The Mostly True Stories, about my father, Bob Hartley.

0:54.6

Was that a, like, a loving tribute to your father?

0:58.6

Yeah, so it's really, because when I first started writing the book, it's probably,

1:04.0

I went through the process of disillusionment while writing that book.

1:09.9

But yeah, it was very much a very affectionate ode to this

1:14.2

storyteller who was my father and a collection of some of his most absurd stories growing up

1:22.4

and retelling of those stories. But then as I kind of wrote it, I personally realized that he wasn't the man that I was talking about in those stories.

1:38.3

On this series, Jedediah Hartley is sharing what it was like growing up with a father who claimed to hear from God.

1:46.7

And on this episode, the lengths Jedediah went to support his father's fraudulent ministry

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