Previous failed prophecies of Benny Hinn, made on New
Year's eve of 1989:
The Spirit tells
Benny that Castro will die in the 90's. (© 1989 by Benny Hinn)
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Orlando Christian Center, Dec. 31st, 1989.
"The Spirit tells me — Fidel Castro will die — in the 90's. Oooh my!
Some will try to kill him and they will not succeed. But there will come
a change in his physical health, and he will not stay in power, and Cuba
will be visited of God."
— Benny Hinn. |
The Lord tells Benny that homosexuals in
America will be destroyed by fire by 1995.
(© 1989
by Benny Hinn)
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Orlando Christian Center, Dec. 31st, 1989.
"The Lord also tells me to tell you in the mid 90's, about '94-'95,
no later than that, God will destroy the homosexual community of
America. [audience applauds] But He will not destroy it — with what many
minds have thought Him to be, He will destroy it with fire. And many
will turn and be saved, and many will rebel and be destroyed."
— Benny Hinn. |
Note that Benny Hinn claimed that God revealed the above prophecies to him.
Now either God has erred, or Benny Hinn invented these prophecies and he never
heard from God. The truth should be obvious — Benny Hinn does not hear from
God, he is without doubt a false prophet.
Jer 14:14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my
name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto
them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of
nought, and the deceit of their heart.
Ezek 13:2 [NIV] "Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who
are now prophesying. Say to those who prophesy out of their own imagination:
'Hear the word of the LORD!
Ezek 13:3 This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to the foolish prophets
who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!
Ezek 13:4 Your prophets, O Israel, are like jackals among ruins.
Ezek 13:5 You have not gone up to the breaks in the wall to repair it for
the house of Israel so that it will stand firm in the battle on the day of
the LORD.
Ezek 13:6 Their visions are false and their divinations a lie. They say,
"The LORD declares," when the LORD has not sent them; yet they expect their
words to be fulfilled.
Ezek 13:7 Have you not seen false visions and uttered lying divinations when
you say, "The LORD declares," though I have not spoken?
Ezek 13:8 "'Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because of your
false words and lying visions, I am against you, declares the Sovereign
LORD.
Ezek 13:9 My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and
utter lying divinations. They will not belong to the council of my people or
be listed in the records of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the
land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.
Now with that kind of record for Benny Hinn, Trinity
Broadcasting Network began its Spring 2000 fundraising Praise-A-Thon with some
rather astounding claims. On the April 2nd TBN program, Benny Hinn claimed
that God is about to make a major move to anoint the people of God, as soon as
Israel signs a treaty with the ailing Hafez Al-Assad* of
Syria, which will likely be within the next year. This will signal the
impending large scale shift of financial wealth from the wicked to those
obedient to God. But, in order to benefit from this unprecedented supernatural
anointing, you must be obedient to God and sow your financial seed (to TBN)
now!
However, its not the money that really concerns God,
its your total obedience. The greatest danger that Christians face now,
according to Hinn, is disobedience against God by not contributing
financially to the coming harvest of God with your seed money! You must be
willing to give your all, in order to demonstrate your true obedience.
In fact, Benny revealed that God is even now healing those who call in their
contributions to TBN. But this is not selling healing for money, he
says, it is God blessing those who are truly obedient and worthy to receive
his coming unusual anointing! Indeed, God will even be saving people
you know as you are calling in your pledge to TBN. Great signs and wonders are
anticipated this coming year, and Benny even told Paul Crouch to expect that
there will be dead people raised this year! (R.
W. Schambach claimed to have raised a dead man on another later TBN
program, in addition to healing the blind, deaf, mute, and lame.) The
implication is that you will be bypassed by God and miss out on the
supernatural anointing to come if you are not totally obedient to God and call
in your pledge to TBN now!
* The death of Assad on June 10th 2000 shows that
Benny Hinn did not know what he was talking about, and is further proof
that he is a false prophet, if any more evidence was needed.
Benny Hinn's failed prophecy of a peace treaty with Syria's Hafez Al-Assad
(© April 2nd, 2000 by TBN) Note: this clip has
been edited for the sake of file size, and has several places where content
has been edited out. A brief pause occurs at those points.
On the
25th of July, 2000 (©
July 25th, 2000 by TBN) when peace talks between Israel and the
Palestinians broke down in Washington, Benny Hinn again appeared on a TBN
program and said, regarding the recent death of Hafez Al-Assad and his failure
to make peace with Israel, — "... it was God's plan for it not to
happen, really."
Perhaps God had not foreseen Assad's death, or neglected to
tell Benny about it, and maybe God had also misinformed Benny about His
alleged "coming move" that was merely weeks or a few months away. That,
or God does not talk to Benny Hinn, and Benny invented the entire "move
of God" thing in order to extract money from TBN viewers. Which is more
likely?
[NOTE: physical manifestations and visions are two
different things. A physical manifestation of Christ would involve a
literal in-the-flesh appearance, likely to be visible to everyone, while a
vision would be a private dream, seen only in the mind of the beholder.]
Benny should have invited the world press to
witness such a great event! Millions would surely have journeyed to Nairobi
just to be present, but, can it be true? Will Jesus really appear
physically at any of Benny's Crusades?
The Testimony of Scripture
Isa 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not
according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Mat 24:23
Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it
not.
Mat 24:24 For
there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great
signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive
the very elect.
Mat 24:25 Behold,
I have told you before.
Mat 24:26
Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not
forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
Mat 24:27 For as
the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so
shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Rest assured that Jesus will not be visiting Benny
Hinn's crusades in person, nor will he be physically appearing at any other
meetings, secret chambers or churches, since Benny Hinn clearly contradicts
scripture.
Here is an audio clip
29mar2000 (© 2000 by Benny Hinn Ministries) from the "This Is Your Day" program of March
29th, 2000, when Benny apparently first announced that Jesus would appear at
his meetings. This occurred about 10 minutes into the program. Here is a
transcript of the clip:
"FIRE ... FIRE ... FIRE"
Notably, Benny in the March 29th program showed a video clip
of a Toronto Canada crusade where he was slaying young people in the spirit
saying "FIRE, FIRE, FIRE, ... put FIRE on these kids ... He's being
electrocuted by God's power ... Fire on you ... I never thought I would
see this in Canada, ... FIRE, FIRE, FIRE." The stage was nearly full of
young people who had fallen down and were incapacitated under the alleged
imparting of the Holy Spirit. There is no scriptural precedent for "slaying in
the spirit". In fact, it is contrary to the scriptural nature of the
Holy Spirit to knock down or incapacitate people, even briefly. Acts chapter
2, which describes the great initial outpouring of the Holy Spirit at
Pentecost, doesn't have the slightest hint of anyone being "slain in the
spirit." The baptism of fire (Matt 3:11, Luke 3:16) was a visible tongue of
fire above the head (Acts 2:3) and not an incapacitating
"electrocution." Slaying in the Spirit is simply unbiblical, and should
be considered a counterfeit!
Signs and wonders may be happening at Benn Hinn crusades, but
according to scripture, there can be false and misleading miracles, designed
to deceive if possible even the very elect of God:
False Prophets Work Miracles That
Deceive!
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Jan Crouch shows the Sunday Standard
newspaper
report on Benny Hinn's Nairobi Crusade on TBN's
"Behind the Scenes" Image © 2000 by TBN |
Rev 13:13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh
fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, (See update
below)
Rev 13:14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of
those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast;
saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to
the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Rev 16:14 For they are the spirits of devils, working
miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world,
to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Rev 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false
prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that
had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image.
These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
So by what means will the elect of God avoid being deceived by
false signs, wonders, and miracles? When the government teaches people how to
spot counterfeit money, it is not the fake that they study intently, it is the
genuine article. When you know the genuine, the fake is then very easy
to spot. The only way to spot the false prophets, false signs and wonders, and
false miracles, is to be so familiar with the word of God, the Bible, that
only the genuine will be accepted, and the counterfeit easily discerned.
Simony
Now, listen to this clip:
02apr2000-clip4 (© 2000 by TBN).
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April 2nd, 2000 — TBN Praise-a-thon
"And Paul, while you were speaking, the Lord spoke to
me, and I have to obey Him. He said, tell Paul — Thank you Lord for
this. You know I have been praying about a, something I have asked the
Lord for when it comes to the anointing. And the Lord said, you tell
Paul, that in the - in the next few months, and I'll — I'll do
this in — no more than six months, I will sow $150,000 dollars, into TBN
— no I have to — I have to obey the Lord, because the Lord wants to
bring something to me in our ministry. You see the ground here is
very anointed right now. So Lord, I am doing it now. I am sowing
Master, and I am expecting this miracle too Lord. But Lord I am proving
myself worthy again of your trust. Lord we know its not the
money. We know its our hearts and its our obedience to you when you
speak to us. To you be praise Jesus [Benny briefly speaks in tongues]
Now some of you, at home, need to do the same."
— Benny Hinn
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Benny Hinn, desiring a gift from the Holy Spirit (the
anointing), represents God as commanding him to give a large sum of money to
TBN in order to receive his requested spiritual gift. This suggests that God
sells spiritual gifts for a price. Scripture deals explicitly with this
situation, and it has been called Simony ever since it was first attempted by
Simon the sorcerer:
Acts 8:14 Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem
heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter
and John:
Acts 8:15 Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might
receive the Holy Ghost:
Acts 8:16 (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were
baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
Acts 8:17 Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy
Ghost.
Acts 8:18 And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands
the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,
Acts 8:19 Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands,
he may receive the Holy Ghost.
Acts 8:20 But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou
hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
Acts 8:21 Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is
not right in the sight of God.
Acts 8:22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps
the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
Acts 8:23 For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the
bond of iniquity.
Necromancy
On the 4th and 5th of May 2000, Benny Hinn had as a guest, Dr.
D. G. S. Dhinakaran of
Jesus Calls ministry in
India, who claims to have been to heaven and back multiple times. While in
heaven, he claims to have spoken with Jesus, God the Father, and the apostles
Peter and Paul. He described the apostle Paul as a short man, and his spirit
soul in heaven still bears the marks of his trials and tribulations while on
this earth. The soul in heaven, according to Dr. Dhinakaran, retains the
outward appearance of the earthly physical body, which he says, is why Moses
could be recognized by the apostles at the transfiguration (Matt. 17:3, Mark
9:4, Luke 9:30).
Again, knowing what scripture teaches about the state of the
dead, it becomes clear that Dr. Dhinakaran's visits to heaven are either
concocted, or delusional deceptions, because he could not possibly have spoken
to the disembodied souls of Peter and Paul. In fact, he is basically repeating
Satan's first lie in the garden of Eden to Eve, see
What really happens when you Die? Moses was
not at the transfiguration as a bodyless soul, he had been resurrected
(Jude 9), and was as much present in the flesh at the transfiguration as
Elijah and Jesus, but Peter and Paul are both still dead, asleep in the
grave, awaiting their resurrection at the second coming. Claiming to have
contacted the dead (Peter and Paul), is actually necromancy, and is
forbidden as an abomination by God:
Deu 18:10 There shall not be found among you any one that
maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth
divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
Deu 18:11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard,
or a necromancer.
Deu 18:12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and
because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from
before thee.
The state of the dead is a crucial point to understand
as we near the end of time, because it allows one to discern the truth
and exposes the deceptions of false prophets and deceiving spirits.
NEWS FROM NAIROBI
Benny Hinn — A False Prophet!
"I have never seen so much money in my
life"
"We counted the money for two days... I have never seen so
much money in my life," says Charles Babbler, who hosted the Benny Hinn
miracle crusade in April, attended by an estimated 1.2 million faithful. -
Daily Mail
& Guardian, Johannesburg, South Africa, June 7th, 2000.
2 Pet 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the
people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall
bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and
bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 Pet 2:2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the
way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
2 Pet 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make
merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not,
and their damnation slumbereth not.
Benny Hinn was the guest on the May 9th Behind the Scenes
program of TBN with Jan Crouch, and video from his Nairobi Crusade was
shown, but there was not even the slightest mention of Jesus physically
appearing, and neither did Benny Hinn explain why the widely prophesied
appearance had not happened.
The point needs to made that Benny Hinn is a false prophet,
not just because Jesus failed to appear in Nairobi, but because scripture
in advance warned us not to believe a word of what he was saying. Should
some supernatural being appear at a future Benny Hinn crusade, it will not
be Jesus, no matter how impressive, and no matter what "miracles" are done
in the name of Jesus. Again, we have been warned by Jesus Himself in
scripture:
Mat 24:23
Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe
it not.
Mat 24:24 For
there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great
signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive
the very elect.
Mat 24:25 Behold,
I have told you before.
Mat 24:26
Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not
forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
Mat 24:27 For as
the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so
shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Isa 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not
according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
False Prophets call down false fire
from Heaven.
A little over a minute and a half into the May 24th /
June 8th, 2000, "This is your day" program, Benny Hinn claimed that "fire
is falling down from heaven."
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May 24th, 2000 — This Is Your Day
"You know what days these are? The days of Elijah. We are in the days
of Elijah! Fire is falling down from heaven!"
— Benny Hinn |
Rev 13:13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh
fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, (See update
below)
Rev 13:14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of
those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast;
saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to
the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
On his
June 7th, 2000,
"This is your day" program (© 2000 Benny Hinn Ministries), taped
in Nairobi Kenya, Benny Hinn made the following pronouncement, beginning 19
minutes into the program:
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June 7th, 2000 — This Is Your Day
"Today, I do not say, as the old covenant prophets used to say, "Thus
saith the Lord". For thousands of years prophets would say "Thus saith
the Lord", and only when they'd say it, the power of God would fall. But
this man [Jesus] didn't say "Thus saith the Lord", He just said "I say".
He looked at the storm and said "Peace be still". It obeyed Him. He
looked at death and said GO! and it fled. He looked at demons and said
GO! and they fled. He looked at disease and said GO! and it fled. He
never once said "Thus saith the Lord." He just said "I say". Now, here
is the amazing thing. He came to the twelve and He went (blow, blow,
blow, blow), on all of them, and said "Go in my name." Ladies and
gentlemen, you haven't heard me say "Thus saith the Lord", have you? You
haven't heard me say "I say", have you? No you know what we say? We
don't say "Thus saith the Lord, we don't say "I say", we say I say in
the name of Jesus! I say in the name of Jesus! In the name of Jesus! In
the name of [crowd] Jesus! [Benny Hinn] The prophets of old said
"Thus saith the Lord". Jesus, for thirty years said, "Verily I say unto
you". Ever since the resurrection there's been men and women all over
this earth, there's been prophets, there's been preachers, there's been
evangelists, there's been believers like yourselves who simply stretch
the hand and say "I say in the name of Jesus". "I say in the name of
Jesus". "I say, in the name [crowd] of Lord Jesus". [Benny Hinn]
My brother, when Jesus said "I say" disease fled, demons fled, darkness
fled, bondage fled, death fled. And when we say "I say in His
name", its the same, because when we say "in His name" He is saying
it, when we say "in His name", He is doing it!"
— Benny Hinn |
Well, Benny Hinn has prophesied the imminent physical
appearance of Jesus (before the actual second coming) in Jesus name, but this
clearly contradicts scripture. Merely invoking the name of Jesus does
not mean that Jesus will respond to the will of Benny Hinn, or that
Jesus is working miracles through Benny Hinn. Featured in the May 24th / June
8th, 2000 program is a clip from the Nairobi Crusade where Benny claims to
cast out 13 devils from a Hindu woman. Does this prove Benny Hinn is a man of
God? No, it does not!
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Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in
that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy
name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I
never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. |
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Benny Hinn in Nairobi allegedly casting
out 13 devils.
Image © 2000 by Benny Hinn Ministries |
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The August 10th, 2000 "This is your day"
featured an extraordinary clip from the recent Chicago crusade where Benny
Hinn casts the fire of the Spirit on portions of the audience, and many
are "slain", falling in large groups.
False Prophet Goes Forth to the Kings
of the Earth!
Benny Hinn gave a crusade in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea,
on April 30-May 1st, 1999 at the invitation of Prime Minister Bill Skate.
- Religion Today News Summary of Thursday, May 6, 1999
On the April 21st, 2000 "This is your day" program,
Benny Hinn stated that the President of Kenya "would be on the platform", and
that "his government was backing up the whole crusade." (See 24 1/2 minutes
into the program.)
On the June 12th, 2000 "This is your day" program,
Benny Hinn announces that the government of China has given its approval for
the "This is your day" program to be aired daily in China, without
restrictions, beginning as soon as July 3rd, 2000. China's government has also
approved a crusade to be held there by October, and a personal meeting with
the Premier of China will be arranged!
Rev 16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits like
frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the
beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
Rev 16:14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which
go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to
gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Benny Hinn gives every appearance of being a False Prophet by
scriptural standards, and not a man of God!
Is The
Second Coming Imminent?
TBN's LAST Tel-A-Thon?
Benny Hinn was the guest preacher on Trinity
Broadcasting's fall 2000 Praise-A-Thon on the evening of Tuesday, November
7th. He claimed that God clearly and audibly spoke to him in a vision on the
previous Saturday, while under a "fearful anointing" at First Presbyterian
Church of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania:
The Last
Tel-A-Thon (© 2000 by TBN)
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November 7th — TBN's Fall
2000 Praise-A-Thon
STOP what you are doing and hear this!
The Lord said to me last Saturday, I heard His voice in that church, and
He said, "Tell them, time is running out", and His voice was coming in
waves in into my heart. "Time is running" and then there was a second
voice. Now hear this one. ...
"Tell the people, I am passing by many"
Hear this — "I am passing by many and if I pass by it would be as though
I never knew them. I am passing by many and if I pass by it
would be as though I never knew them." My friend we're all
being tested right now on whether we are gonna stick with this or
walk away from it. Tonight is decision night. It is not only
decision night for America, for the next four years, this is decision
night for eternity. What you do for God tonight, you do it with your
soul, you do it with your life. This is not, my friend,
just another Tel-A-Thon. This is — this may very well be the last
one. Time is so short people, I'm tellin' ya, never have I
sensed it — I am telling you I am speaking to you prophetically.
— Benny Hinn |
A little later in the same program, Benny said the following:
God Is
Passing By Many (© 2000 by TBN)
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November 7th — TBN's Fall 2000
Praise-A-Thon
The Lord said to me audibly, I
heard it. People I don't often hear the Lord's voice audibly, but I
heard the Lord's voice audibly. He said "Tell them — time is running
out". Then I heard another voice, that I believe is the voice of the
Holy Spirit. He said "Tell the people", and the atmosphere changed when
that happened, He said "Tell the people, I am passing by many, and once
I pass by it would be as though I never knew them." In other words,
there's, its, its the last call. Do you remember what He said in the
scripture, when, when he said, the young virgins, that some had the oil
and some didn't have any? The five wise, the five foolish. It, we are in
it. We are in it. People, He is passing by many. Thank God He is not
passing you by.
— Benny Hinn |
The message is clear. Give to TBN now or
God will pass you by, and you will be forever lost! It will be as if God
never knew you! Benny also claimed, on the same program, that the Lord
told him that December 12th will be a historic day in the Kingdom of God!
Could it be true? Well, just as true as
Castro dying in the 90's. Just as true as the
homosexuals in America being destroyed by fire by 1995!
Just as true as Assad signing a peace treaty with Israel.
Just as true as Jesus Christ appearing physically
on the stage at Benny's Nairobi Crusade in April of 2000! Which is to say, TBN
will have more Tel-A-Thons, and Benny Hinn will again beg for
even more donations. But, you can be saved without giving a single
nickel to TBN. What we don't know, is what gimmick Benny will use at
the next TBN Tel-A-Thon, what alleged word from God he will claim to have, in
order to coerce money from the viewing audience.
Benny Hinn curses all
those who speak against his ministry (HTML5 Video).
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Yes, Lord, I'll do it. I place a curse on every man and
every woman that will stretch his hand against this anointing. I curse
that man who dares to speak a word against this ministry.
— Benny Hinn |
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