False prophet? No way!!! Impossible!!!
(SARC)
That's a somewhat casual and callous attitude to have towards those you deceived and scammed.
Returning some of your ill gotten gain would go a long way to proving the genuineness of your claims.
Costi is right.
He needn’t apologize to any person he bilked or deceived. There is only One he needs to make his peace with. He is perfect. He will hear your pleas. It is up to Him whether you receive forgiveness. Not us.
All of these “prosperity Gospel” preachers are phony and unchristian. They just use that as a bait to bring in the unsophisticated rubes. I guess Benny has enough money now so he’s decided to come clean. Sorry but I still wouldn’t trust this fake Christian.
This article is from 2024. He’s now back to the same old shtick.
[[ but sadly, there were some prophecies I gave that were not accurate or from the Lord.”]]
Not from the Lord? Then who from pray-tell?
The very first time one of your so called prophesies didn’t come true, you should have dropped to your knees and asked forgiveness for being a false prophet, and announced to your congregation and followers that you were a false prophet, and stepped down from your position. That is what an honest butq perhaps misguided man would do! Instead you chose to keep deceiving, keep profitting from your deception!
However, don’t expect a refund from the false prophet.
No apology for the fake healing nonsense
A non apology apology. Whining that ‘we all make mistakes’ and he’s only human.
No one was forced to give to Benni. They gave in hopes of getting even more. So yeah, I blame the so called victims.
“But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.”
James 1:14
His coffers must be getting a little too empty.
He’s one of many false prophets. My neighbors are big fans of ‘Flashpoint’, a streaming program with several regular ‘prophets’ that contribute. They were prophesying that Trump would be in declared the winner in late Nov 2020, then Dec 2020, then by J6th 2021, then by Jan 2021 inauguration.
By Feb 2021, it was ‘damage control’ time for those liars.
When the Books are Opened...
Grifting liar. He’s gonna have to do far more than this. He needs to repent of it all and give up his lavish lifestyle.
HISTORY OF FALSE PROPHETS AMONG OUR CHRISTIAN BROTHERS
In every generation after the apostles, there have been Christians who mistakenly believed that they were in the last days. They have thought that their generation was the one Jesus spoke of when He prophesied that “all these things” would happen in “this generation.” Failed prognosticators have been a persistent embarrassment to Christianity. Perhaps there is something fundamentally wrong with these predictions.
Francis Gumerlock, in his book THE DAY AND THE HOUR: CHRISTIANITY’S PERENNIAL FASCINATION WITH PREDICTING THE END OF THE WORLD, lists end times prophecy predictions made by Christians beginning in the early centuries. He catalogs more than a thousand failed predictions since the early days of Christianity, beginning with the apostolic fathers.
For example, Ignatius writes around the year AD 100 that “the last times are come upon us.” Cyprian (200-258) writes that “the day of affliction has begun to hang over our heads, and the end of the world and the time of the Antichrist. . . draw near, so that we must all stand prepared for the battle.”
Martin Luther (1483-1546) made this statement: “I am satisfied that the last day must be before the door; for the signs predicted by Christ and the Apostles Peter and Paul have now all been fulfilled, the trees put forth, the Scriptures are green and flourishing. . . . We certainly have nothing now to wait for but the end of all things.”
Famous among predictors of the end of the world was Christopher Columbus (1452-1506). Columbus wrote a book entitled BOOK OF PROPHECIES in which he called on many of the same passages of Scripture that false prophets cite today to predict the imminent end of the world. He apparently thought that his discoveries marked the beginning of the end.
The famous American Puritan preacher Cotton Mather (1663-1728) believed Christ’s return to be imminent and saw apocalyptic meaning in the conflicts and challenges of the American frontier. Mather was also a date setter. He predicted the Second Coming for 1697, then 1716, and finally 1736. The New Jerusalem, he believed, would be located in New England.
Here are more examples of end-times dating from Christians as well as pseudo-Christian cultists:
―William Miller (founder of Adventism): 1843/1844
—Ellen G. White (co-founder—Seventh Day Adventist Church): 1843, 1844, 1850, 1856.
—Joseph Smith (founder—Mormon Church): 1891.
—Jehovah’s Witnesses: 1874, 1878, 1881, 1910, 1914, 1918, 1925, 1975, and 1984.
—Hal Lindsey: 1982, 1988, 2007, with contingency dates going as far as 2048.
—Jack Van Impe: 1975, 1992, 2000, 2012. Also, in May of 1991 he said the Anti-Christ would be revealed and the Great Tribulation would begin within 20 months.
—Chuck Smith (founder of Calvary Chapel): 1981, 1988
―Herbert W. Armstrong: 1965
—Pat Robertson: 1982.
—Edgar C. Whisenant: 1988, 1989.
—Bill Maupin: 1981.
—J.R. Church: 1988.
—Charles R. Taylor: 1992.
—Benny Hinn: 1993.
—F. M. Riley: 1994.
—John Hinkle: 1994.
—Grant R. Jeffrey: 2000.
—Lester Sumrall: 1985, 1986, 2000.
—Kenneth Hagin: 1997 to 2000.
—Jerry Falwell: 2010.
—Louis Farrakhan: 1991.
―John Walvoord: before he died (He died in 2002.)
—John Hagee (at age 71): before he dies.
—Harold Camping: 1994, 2011.
—Ronald Weinland: 2011, 2012.
—Perry Stone: 2009-2015
—Billy Graham: Even this venerable preacher began telling us in the 1940’s to expect the soon return of Christ.
A lot of dispensationalists right in there with cultists. Pastors all across America’s fruited plains have books of some of these authors proudly displayed in their office libraries. The same books, and videos too, fly off Christian bookstore shelves, and the money continues to flow to these authors and many others of the same ilk. While some of these authors may be good teachers on other subjects, their false predictions force us to doubt their views on eschatology. Many of the above people will be forgotten, but whenever you happen to be reading this book, you will probably be hearing from a new generation of false teachers.
All of these prognosticators had something in common: They all thought they knew better than Jesus, who over and over told his followers that his prophecies would come to pass while some of them were still alive (Matthew 10:23; 16:27-28; 26:64; Luke 21:22, 32; Hebrews 10:37; Revelation 1:1-3; 22:5-20; etc.) There are over 100 such time statements in the New Testament that limit fulfillment of prophecy to the first century.
Maybe Christians should stop “newspaper eschatology” and read their Bible―and believe it.
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See these additional lists of false prophets:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_and_claims_for_the_Second_Coming_of_Christ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events
https://www.truthmagazine.com/date-setters
(This is an excerpt from my book CHRISTIAN HOPE THROUGH FULFILLED PROPHECY. For more information about fulfilled prophecy, see my website:
If it were me, my role the next 20 years would be that of a doorkeeper in the church, maybe working my way up to teaching a Sunday School class -- and never be paid to do anything in the Kingdom of God again.
My practice was to park the car and pray before work. One day I was strongly impressed I should pray for the pregnant neighbor in the apartment next to ours. When I told her that evening she been to weep, as she had just received news she might miscarry. The baby was subsequently born in good health.
However, as I prayed for her, I “perceived” the gender of the baby. I was shook up up later when that wasn’t correct.
What ever happened to Dr. Mike Murdock?