Posted on 01/21/2005 2:42:01 PM PST by samsonite
[India News]: Bangalore, Jan 21 : American evangelist Benny Hinn Friday evening began his much-awaited "Festival of Blessings" prayer meeting here, which saw a shutdown call and incidents of stone throwing by protesting Hindu activists earlier in the day.
About 8,000-10,000 policemen have been deployed in and around the sprawling venue to regulate crowds.
Organisers of the show, being held at the Jakkur airstrip on the outskirts of the city, said earlier that about 400,000 people had already gathered for the event from all parts of the country, especially south India. A few hundred also came from abroad.
Speaking to IANS on phone from the venue, they said, "People are still trooping in, awaiting the arrival of Hinn to conduct the mass prayer and deliver sermons. We are expecting 200,000 more people in the night."
The function started with a 2,400-voice choir singing hymns and prayers in several Indian languages apart from English. Giant screens and mega speakers have been installed all over the grounds for a closer view of the massive stage and to listen to Hinn's religious discourses.
Undeterred by the "Bangalore bandh" shutdown call given by the Hindu Jagaran Vedike with the support of the Sangh Parivar, including the Bharatiya Janata party, the organisers are going ahead with the three-day programme, armed with a high court order.
Earlier in the day, the city witnessed stray incidents of stone throwing at moving buses and processions by anti-Hinn activists, demanding a ban on the programme.
According to police, about 60 state-owned buses were damaged in some parts of the city during the day-long shutdown that led to closure of shops and commercial establishments.
Friday being an official holiday on account of Eid, schools, colleges and government offices remained closed, and there was less traffic on roads.
But roads leading to the venue, about 20 km from the city, were choc-a-bloc with hundreds of buses and other vehicles jamming the national highway.
"We have nabbed about 100 miscreants who were indulging in stone throwing and attempting to torch some buses. We have also rounded-up some leaders of the Vedike when they were trying to disrupt traffic and create disturbances," city police commissioner M. Marisamy told IANS.
How come these televangelist "miracles" always involve the "curing" of physical problems that cannot be seen by the naked eye? Funny how Benny never is able to grow a new leg on an amputee.
Really..Maybe you can tell me what he is preaching? What lie is he telling?
If he is a Charlatan Jesus will judge him not you or I.
You are quick to point a finger at me...You don't even know me.
I Preached The WORD of GOD Last Friday evening at Shabbos Services.
I am a Messianic Jewish pastor and servant of The HOLY ONE of Israel, Yeshua The Messiah...JESUS THE CHRIST.
I answer to The LORD...Not to You.
Well, Missy, I have never yet figured out how to help anyone who doesn't care about truth. When it comes to Hinn, you're looking that way.
How many of those links that PresbyRev gave you did read through? This is, what, the sixth time I've asked you.
The Gospel? Where in the Bible is the Gospel defined, Missy? When has Hinn preached it?
Healing. How many years doing his act, and still NOT ONE verified healing within ten miles of him?
Goodness.
Dan
I've never seen his show, but whenever I see his name on the tv listings I always misread Benny Hill.
Yes I am ready because I am not standing in Judgement. I am sure you know the verse on Judgement.
Benny Hinn has not been accused of Fraud or telling a lie.
He has brought many of people and introduced many people to the Saviour of the world. I doubt Jesus is sending him to Hell for that.
My question stands...why so much venom against Hinn, in fact a native son, pastor?
Put a more simple way for the simpletons in this thread: Is it okay to use fraud and lies as long as it "brings people to Jesus"? I seem to recall that the Bible isn't too big on such ends-justify-the-means moral relativism.
Benny Hinn preaches a message of prosperity and health.
Here is a post from that other thread that I wrote on Tuesday. I am copying it here partly in response to your query, as well as for the edification of others who have never been to one of Hinn's "miracle crusades" and may have only seen him on the television:
I've been to more of those Benny Hinn Miracle Circuses that I care to admit. If you want to see the true face of Benny Hinn Ministries, try this some time: go stand outside a venue where Hinn is holding his dog and pony show and carry a sign that reads "False Prohpet." You will see classic cultist behavior. Some people will yell at you. Some people will cuss you. Others will spit on you. Some will writhe on the ground in front of you and others will holler oogah-boogah at you in an attempt to drive the demons from you. When that fails, the Benny Hinn Bouncers will come out to intimidate you from exercising your first amendment rights on a public sidewalk. They will claim you need a permit. They will threaten to call the police. When that doesn't work then they will station some of the "faithful" around you to run interference and keep you from talking with passers-by. They will use intimidation tactics on people who are trying to talk to you. They will yell at them, too. They will call you crazy and dangerous. They will call you of the devil. They will try to prevent you from holding a conversation by yelling in your ear interrupting everything you say. And this is nothing compared to the madness that ensues inside.
The Benny Hinn Circus is a carefully orchestrated excercsise in mass hypnosis. I ask you what kind of "church" subjects its congregation to two to three hours of chanting? The music and choir start of low and soft, "hallelujah" the refrain goes. Imperceptibly slowly, the volume grows over the next couple of hours, punctuated by commands by Hinn to "keep your hands up in the air" and "keep standing." A few hours of this later, the volume is so loud it makes my ears hurt. By this time the crowd is worked into a complete frenzy. People are rolling and shaking all over. When Hinn jumps to the front of the stage to begin "preaching" there is a deafening cheer from the audience, partly out of excitement partly from relief. Hinn opens his bible and throws out a few verses seemingly at random. There's no time to look them up and read along before he throws out the next one. His sermon, if you can call it that, lasts about five minutes. That's right, five minutes of preaching after three hours of chanting, and then he moves on to next segment of the show in which he begins tossing out the names of various maladies and diseases that are spontaneously being healed at that very moment. This goes on for an hour. Cancer is being healed, eyesight is being restored. Some sort of liver ailment has been cured. Hallelujah! The crowd goes wild. Now the staff begins handing out plastic buckets for donations. Hinn begins his pitch at this point, claiming if you want to receive, you must give. Money flows like water. Full buckets are exchanged with empty ones. This goes on for some time until stage hands begin tossing wheelchairs up on to the podium. No one has actually gotten up out of a wheelchair. People who came in using a wheelchair leave by them. The chairs were brought in from an off-stage entrance. Again the crowd goes wild. This is when Benny Hinn asks for volunteers to go up on stage to received his special anointing. Instantly the aisles are floode with people desparate to go up on stage, desparate to "feel" something. That's why people go on stage: to have a supernatural experience. Long before anyone gets to the stage, I can see audience members being vetted by stage handlers. Each one is asked a few questions and sometimes the staff member writes something down on a little piece of paper. Only selected people get to go up on stage. There are plenty of Benny Hinn Bouncers and they only let in few people at a time or the stage would be swamped.
It's usually late on the third day of one of his three day "crusades" when Hinn does his prophesying. He's cleaned up his act for television audiences, but he feels comfortable enough at these events to let his true message come out. Hinn preaches a message of prosperity and health. To received a miraculous healing is as easy as being saved. That's it. As easy as is it to ask Jesus into your heart, it is that easy to be cured of any disease, that easy for any money problem to solved. Truly, Hinn preaches "ask and you shall receive" to its fullest extent. But there's a catch. If you lose your faith, you lose your healing. If you don't receive a miracle healing, come back on the next night. Make another love offering. If it doesn't happen, maybe it is because you have not truly let the Lord into your heart. Miraculous healing is as easy as becoming a Christian, Hinn stresses. The implication is that if you do not receive a healing, then maybe you are not really saved after all. Your salvation may be in doubt. This is the essence of Hinn's teachings: if misfortune befalls you it is because of your lack of faith in the Almighty. Good things happen to believers. Bad things happen to unbelievers. Hinn preaches nothing resembling Judeo-Christanity. Hinn preaches prosperity. Finally, Hinn begins telling of his prophetic visions. A hush falls over the audience, people wait expectantly for news of the future. On tap for 2002 - 2004 was this: Oral Roberts and Jimmy Swaggart were to pass away within close proximity in time of each other. After this was to have happened, a second September 11th was to have occured in the United States; a terrorist attack that would make 911 look like peanuts. After this great calamity was to befall our nation, a new revival was to have taken place. People, Hinn claimed -- no prophsied -- that people would spontaneously be saved and start performing miraculous healings on the street. Just like that.
I ask you, have any of these wild fantasies come to pass? No. Benny Hinn is not just misguided. Not just unorthodox. Hinn is evil. Hinn leads people away from the Lord. If Hinn leads people to the Lord, it is only through rejection of Hinn's teachings. That he calls on Jesus' name every other breath does not make him holy. That he continuously calls on the name of the Lord is no matter. That he makes prophecy in the name of the Lord does not matter. If any of his prophecies are false, Hinn is a false prophet. Any Jew or Christian should understand that. QED.
Dan how do you know? Ronzo gave an account of a person he knows personally of a healing. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is full of miracles what Gospel do you have that is apparently different from the one I know...
Jesus said to Preach the Gospel to ALL NATIONS and that he is with us until the end.
He's a freakin' shill.
Cool
Pleeze... Have you ever been healed from GOD?
Okay folks. Let's not ruin our witness over this. We are all accountable before God and teachers are held to a higher standard.
Let's make the most of every opportunity.
rich blessings to you.
You know Benny Hinn is in Bangalore he is preaching to a crowd of people 600,000 that have no clue about Jesus Christ.
He is introducing them to the Messiah The Son of GOD Born a Jew died and was resurrected and sits at rhe right hand of the Father how you can think that is bad in a country full of Hateful Muslims and Hindus is beyond me...
I have watched Pastor Hinn on TV and nothing but "Jesus" comes out of his mouth...a word often missing in the mouths of so many pastors of various denominations these days.
Agreed!
"I am sure you know the verse on Judgement."
More Hinn quotes from our friends in Canada:
http://www.bible.ca/tongues-encyclopedia-pentecostal-preachers.htm#Hinn
I didn't think an answer would be forthcoming. Guess I was prophetic!
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