Note:  I found this over at True Discernment and just had to comment on it.  I wanted to give a Hat Tip and a thank you to True Discernment for bringing this to my attention.  The article and my comments are below:

 

 

Just like infomercials that promise you a spectacular deal if you phone within the next 20 minutes, Benny Hinn’s crusade in Johannesburg, South Africa goes above and beyond any money ploy we have seen before.

Now, I want it made clear that Hinn didn’t speak the offensive words I’m going to quote, but it was done on his stage at one of his crusades by someone he invited to speak.  Therefore, he was there under the approval of Benny Hinn.  This is what happened:

Johannesburg – God’s blessing would last only two minutes and it would create 500 churchgoing millionaires or even billionaires – all they had to do was use their credit cards to pay $1 000 in offerings to televangelist Benny Hinn.

Pastor Tommie Ferreira of the AGS Church in Johannesburg was so upset about the “blessing” that, after a week, he wanted to know who of the donors actually had become millionaires.  Source.

Pastor Todd Koontz told an audience of 18,000 people that 500 of them would receive an exceptional blessing from God.  That blessing?  They would become millionaires.  All they had to do was take out their credit cards and donate $1,000 to the ministry, because this “exceptional blessing” hinged on the condition that the people who received it had to donate $1,000.  But, wait, there’s a catch!  He told them that not everyone who donated would receive the blessing.  The blessing would only be poured out for two minutes.

I don’t know how these wolves can say these things and keep a straight face.  Moreover, I don’t know how people can accept this nonsense and think it is of God!  When Koontz made this absurd claim, “People stormed to the front [to donate] - poor people, rich people, people from all sections of [their] society.”  However, Hinn’s ministry was well prepared to handle the stampede of eager donors because “Hinn’s co-pastors apparently had credit-card machines ready with which they could take donations.”  Source.

God is a God of justice and compassion.  He cares for the needy and poor, and tells us repeatedly in His Word to look after the needy among us and not to oppress them.  These are things God hates.  Fleecing the flock, oppressing the poor, robbing the less fortunate, and using the Word of God to do it is an extremely fearful thing.  They obviously have no fear of God.  God help them!