But he's sure it was a legit prophecy. Haha.

Part 1: Bickle telling prophetic history in 1986, talking about Augustine

Part 2: Ernie Gruen telling story about Augustine in 1990

Bickle couldn't admit publicly that Augustine was living a Paul Cain lifestyle, otherwise people would doubt God had called him to move to KC. Because he had already committed to that story. But he couldn't let him continue to minister at his church once the word got out what he was doing. So he had to do this soft excommunication.

Once the prophetic narrative that God had called him to move to KC collapses, other wheels start falling off the entire Bickle IHOP-KC script.