Have you noticed that no matter how many times charismatic
televangelists make outlandish false prophecies, they never lack for
followers, and they don’t stop claiming the Lord has spoken directly
to them?
Benny Hinn, for example, made a series of celebrated prophetic
utterances in December of 1989, none of which came true. He confidently
told his congregation at the Orlando Christian Center that God had
revealed to him Fidel Castro would die sometime in the 1990s; the
homosexual community in America would be destroyed by fire before 1995;
and a major earthquake would cause havoc on the east coast before the
year 2000. He was wrong on all counts, of course.
That did not deter Hinn, who simply kept
making bold new false prophecies. At the beginning of the new
millennium, he announced to his television audience that a prophetess
had informed him Jesus would soon appear physically in some of Hinn’s
healing meetings. Hinn said he was convinced the prophecy was authentic,
and on his April 2, 2000, broadcast, he amplified it with a prophecy of
his own: “Now hear this, I am prophesying this! Jesus Christ,
the Son of God, is about to appear physically in some churches, and some
meetings, and to many of His people, for one reason: to tell you He is
about to show up! To wake up! Jesus is coming saints!”
Hinn’s failed prophesies are more outlandish but nearly as memorable
as the notorious claims Oral Roberts began making about three decades
ago. In 1977 Roberts said he saw a vision of a 900-foottall Jesus, who
instructed him to build the City of Faith, a 60-story hospital in south
Tulsa. Roberts said God told him He would use the center to unite
medical technology with faith healing, which would revolutionize health
care and enable doctors to find a cure for cancer. Continue at Christian Research
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