Angus Buchan, Benny Hinn en God TV

Ek het onlangs n artikel deur Prof. Johan Malan gelees waarin hy sy besorgdheid uitspreek oor Angus Buchan. Hy sê ondermeer die volgende in sy artikel, Geetselike Misleiding en Angus Buchan — Prof. Johan Malan, Suid-Afrika (Mei 2010)

Dit is duidelik dat die Suid-Afrikaanse herlewingsprediker, Angus Buchan, weliswaar n verhouding het met Jesus Christus en Hom as n lewende werklikheid in sy lewe ervaar. Hy waarsku mense ook om hulle te bekeer en help families om met mekaar versoen te raak, wat prysenswaardig is. Aan die ander kant is daar besorgde stemme wat opklink oor sy groot onkunde m.b.t. verskeie aspekte rondom Bybelse leerstellings—in so ‘n mate dat hy hom begewe het op die terrein van die koninkryksteologie, die ekumeniese beweging en selfs ook die bevordering van twyfelagtige tekens en wonders. Hy het by sekere geleenthede positiewe opmerkings gemaak oor Benny Hinn en Kathryn Kuhlman. Sy opmerklike onkunde oor hierdie sake is kommerwekkend en selfs verbysterend . . . Die ander kwessie het betrekking op die koninkryks-misleidings wat Angus aan die skares opdis. Hoe kan hy, volgens sy eie insigte, mense belowe dat Suid-Afrika en Zimbabwe geheel en al herstel gaan word? In hierdie verband tree hy lynreg tweenstrydig op met Jesus Christus self, wat gesê het daar sal ‘n groot verdrukking op die aarde wees soos nog nooit tevore nie (Matt. 24:21). Iemand wat die Bybelse boodksap omtrent die eindtyd verstaan, sal sy volgelinge waarsku teen ‘n tyd van groot spirituele en morele afvalligheid terwyl hy ook die moontlike vervolging en verwerping van Evangeliese Christene uitlig. Hierdie dinge is nie deel van Angus se boodskap nie. So-ook verkondig hy nie die salige hoop van die Wegraping aan Christene nie, om hulle te bemoedig om vas te staan totdat die Here Jesus ons wegneem na sy hemelse woning (1 Thessalonicense 4:16-18). Die feit dat soveel mense na Angus se byeenkomste stroom, is ‘n bewys van die gebrek aan leierskap wat die blankes in beide die politieke en godsdienstige arenas ervaar. Hulle soek iemand wat die Boere kan lei. Selfs sommige van die Israel- groepe (Britse Israelisme of Wit Teologie ondersteuners) beweer dat Profeet van Rensburg verwys het na ‘n leier wat die Boere na ‘n Boerestaat sal lei waar hulle vry kan wees van swart oorheersing. Kan dit nie miskien die rede wees vir die gewildheid wat Angus geniet nie  . . . Hy kan nie naastenby in dieselfde asem genoem word as die herlewingsprediker Andrew Murray nie. Om die waarheid te sê dit is hoogs twyfelagtig of die beweging wat hy as n herlewing beskryf so genoem kan word.

As ‘n menigte mans na Angus Buchan se byeenkomste stroom omdat hulle hunker na ‘n leier wat hulle na hulle “Beloofde Land” kan lei, dan moet ek onomwonde byvoeg dat hulle byeenkomste, in die geestelike sin van die woord, van meet af ‘n volslae mislukking was, ten spyte van die feit dat honderde duisende mans dit in die afgelope paar jare begewoon het. Motief speel ‘n ontsettende belangrike rol in God se ekonomie van herlewings. ‘n Verkeerde motief sal nooit God se hand beweeg om ‘n herlewing te stuur nie. Ek twyfel baie sterk of Hy ‘n herlewing sal stuur wanneer dit die motief is om ‘n leier te vind wat in staat is om die Suid-Afrikaanse Boere na hulle “Beloofde Land” van hoop en glorie en vrede en voorspoed te neem net om die swart gevaar te ontsnap. In baie gevalle in die verlede het herlewings gedy toe omstandighede baie gevaarlik en lewensdreigend was. Die motief van die Christene wat vir hierdie herlewings gebid het, was nie dat God hulle lyding moet versag nie of om hulle na ‘n plek van veiligheid te neem nie. Hulle enigste motief was dat God mans, vrouens en kinders oortuig van hulle sondes en verlore toestand en om hulle op te roep tot ‘n Bybelgefundeerde bekering en ‘n ferm geloof in die Evangelie van Jesus Christus (Markus 1:15). Maar is dit nie Angus Buchan se hoofdoel nie, om die sondes van sy Mighty Men en van ons mede landsburgers op die naam te noem nie? Dit mag miiskien so wees maar wat is sy motief? Om ‘n wortel van hoop, liefde, vrede en ‘n voorspoedige toekoms (God se Koninkryk in hierdie lewe, hier en nou) voor die neuse van sy Mighty Men te hou en aan hulle te vertel dat dit ‘n belofte van God is as hulle sou ophou om met hulle sekretaresses te slaap en om die Ontvanger van Inkomste te verneuk, om op hulle knieë voor hulle vrouens te gaan en hulle om verskoning te smeek, is nie herlewing nie. So-ook is dit nie wanneer hy hulle leer dat hulle die gemanifesteerde seuns (en dogters) van God is in Romeine 8:19. Dit is nie eens die Evangelie volgens Jesus Christus nie. Bekering met die doel om jou materiële en fisiese welvaart in hierdie wêreld te verbeter, neig jou daartoe om jou oë op jouself en jou selfsugtige behoeftes te fokus.

Rory en Wendy Alec van God TV wat al baie van Angus Buchan se Mighty Men Konferensies uitgesaai het, is ook alewig besig om ‘n wortel van voorspoed voor hulle kykers se neuse te hou. Op die oomblik flikker die rooiligte vir hulle omdat hulle desperaat is vir ‘n deurbraak in hulle finansies en om die kettings van hulle ontsaglike groot begrotingstekorte te breek. Om dit te kan doen, pleit hulle by hulle kykers om hulle geld in oorgawe (offervaardiglik) te gee. Ten einde hulle so ver te kry om hulle hande nog dieper in hulle sakke te steek, gebruik hulle wêreldbekende predikers soos Benny Hinn, Steve Munsey en Cindy Jacobs om hulle kykers te vertel dat hulle eie deurbrake alleenlik sal kom wanneer hulle hul geld offervaardiglik gee. Dieselfde ou boodskap is op hulle lippe elke keer wanneer jy inskakel op God TV: “God sal jou eer en voorspoedig maak NET wanneer jy jou saad offervaardiglik saai.” Benny Hin het met groot bravade verklaar dat God se beloftes vir jou SLEGS vrug sal dra wanneer jy jou saad in die geloof saai. Dit is ‘n infame leuen uit die onderste dele van die hel. Jou geloof is nie afhanklik van hoe jy gee nie. Jou offers bepaal nie hoe groot of hoe klein jou geloof is nie. want God sê: “. . . Want hoeveel beloftes van God daar ook mag wees, in Hom is hulle ja en in Hom amen, tot heerlikheid van God deur ons. (2 Korinthiërs 1:20). Hierdie belofte het nie betrekking op tydelike goeters soos gesondheid, rykdom, voorspoed en ‘n land vry van misdaad, korrupsie en armoede nie. Die beloftes van God wat deur Christus gemaak word, het betrekking op die vergewing van sondes, die heiligmaking van sy kinders, onderskraging in versoekinge en beproewinge, leiding in moeilike omstandighede, vrede in die dood en ‘n ewige heerlikheid anderkant die graf. Al hierdie dinge word moontlik gemaak deur ‘n Groot Verlosser en nie een van hulle sal faal nie (Albert Barnes se Notas opde Bybel)

Een van hulle grooste geldinsamelingsfoefies om jou te por om £1,000 (+- R10,000), €1,000 (+-1 R11,000), or $1,500 (+- R11,000) te gee, is om jou vrygewigheid te beloon deur jou naam op ’n fondasiesteen in hulle uitsaaisentrum in Jerusalem te grafeer. Wanneeer jy £30,000 (+- R330,000) €30,000 (+- R280,000), $50,000 (+- R380,000) of meer skenk, plaas hulle jou naam op ‘n Mezuzah in een van die sewe inange in hulle uitsaaisentrum. Wee jou egter as jy ‘n Suid-Afrikner is; jou Europese, Amerikaanse en Engelse “God TV” families het ‘n baie beter kans as jy om hulle name geplaas te kry op ‘n Mezuzah in een van die sewe ingange na God TV se uitsaaisentrum. Hulle geldeenhede is baie sterker as jou rand. Maar wees gerus, as jou naam geskryf is in die Boek van die Lewe omdat jy jou heelhartig en met oorgawe van jou sondes bekeer het en in Jesus Christus en sy Evangelie glo (soos die Skrif sê en nie soos God TV sê nie) dan het jy sekerheid oor jou ewige lewe. Jy het nie nodig dat jou naam gegrafeer word op ‘n plaat of fondasiesteen in Rory en Wendy Allen se uitsaaisentrum nie omdat jy hulle R300, 000 of meer gegee het sodat die evangelie na bewering oor die hele aarde versprei kan word nie. Bowendien hoef jy nie ‘n enkele sent te betaal om jou naam opgeteken te kry in die Boek van die Lewe nie omdat God se verlossing gratis is. Dit is ‘n geskenk aan elkeen wat dit deur die geloof in Jesus Christus wat die volle prys vir ons sondes en oortredinge betaal het, ontvang. As iemand jou enigsins iets anders wysmaak en sê dat jy iets moet gee of betaal om God se seëninge te ontvang, is hulle besig om die Roomse ketter, Johann Tetzel se leuen voort te sit. Hy het gesê:

As soon as the gold in the casket rings; the rescued soul to heaven springs [So wie die das Geld im Kasten klingt, die Seele aus dem Fegfeuer springt].

Hoeveel mense is daar nie wat na God TV kyk en die verkeerde indruk van die Evangelie van Jesus Christus kry? Patti Roberts, die eks-vrou van Richard Roberts, het baie ontnugterd geword het met haar skoonpa, Oral Roberts se “saad van geloof” evangelie. Sy het Al Bush, die President van die Oral Roberts Evangeliese Assosiasie gebel om haar diepe kommer daaroor uit te spreek. Die gesprek het so gelui:

Al, in die veertig optredes wat ons verlede jaar opgeneem het, hoeveel keer het ons vir mense die plan van verlossing gegee?

Die plan van verlossiing? Sjoe Patti, ek weet nie. Ek is seker ons moes dit ten minste een keer gegee het.

En hoeveel keer het ons die Saad-Geloof beginsel vir hulle gegee?

Hy het gelag. Patti, jy weet wat die antwoord daarop is. Ons gee die Saad-geloof beginsels by elke optrede. Waaroor gaan dit alles?

Al, in die briewe wat jy van kykers ontvang het, hoeveel van hulle het gedink dat miskien as hulle geld gee hulle ‘n plekkie in die Koninkryk gekoop het? Hoeveel van hulle het gedink dat dit God se mening oor hulle ewige bestemming verander het?

Hy het vir al lang ruk nie geantwoord nie. Toe hy uiteindelik antwoord, het hy sy stem laat sak en meer besadigd en huiwerig gesê: ‘n Hele klomp van hulle het, Patti.¹  (klem bygevoeg).

By die aanhoor weer en weer en weer van die leuen dat die offervaardige gee van jou geld of die oordadige saai van jou saad die deur na God se seëninge oopmaak, is baie van God TV se kykers reeds aan die neus gelei om te glo dat hulle finansiële gawes die deur na God se verlssoing en sy ewige heerlikheid oopmaak. Baie donateurs mag miskien alreeds hulle name op die fondasiesteen of ‘n Mezuzah in God TV se Uitsaaisentrum gegraveer hê, maar hoeveel van hulle se name is in die Boek van die Lewe opgeskrywe? Nietemin, ek was verbaas toe ek sien dat Jesus (‘n valse Jesus) sy dissipels uitgestuur het om die evangelie te verkondig dat hy presies dieselfde dinge gesê het wat mense op God TV hoor. Jesus het gesê:

Wanneer julle ‘n stad binnegaan, is die eerste ding wat julle moet doen om mense te oortuig dat hulle ‘n wonderbaarlike deurbraak in hulle lewens nodig het. Sommiges benodig ‘n deurbraak in hulle families; hulle het nodig dat hulle huwelike gered word en dat hulle eiesinnige en rebelse kinders wat van hulle huise af weggehardloop het na pa en ma toe terugkeer. Ander het ‘n deurbraak nodig in hulle kwynende besighede en finansies en om van die Satan terug te neem waarvan hy hulle beroof het. Nog andere het n desperate deurbraak nodig in hulle gesondheid. Moenie vergeet om die shofar soos Steve Munsey op God TV te blaas nie want ‘n shofar, soos julle weet, maak die hemelse vensters wyd oop wanneer dit deur ‘n ekspert geblaas word. Moenie sleg voel as julle nie ‘n ekspert is nie en nie weet hoe om die shofar te blaas nie. Hier’s vir julle ‘n opname van iemand wat ‘n professionele shofarblaser is. Al wat nodig is, is om die shofar teen julle lippe te druk en te maak of julle blaas terwyl julle die opname speel. Maar hier’s die punchline Sê vir hulle ek sal ALEENLIK, ek herhaal ALLEENLIK, ‘n deurbraak in die areas van hulle gesondheid, familielewe en besighede bewerk wanneer hulle enorme bedrae geld aan julle skenk sodat julle die evangelie kan verkondig. Maak dood seker om hulle te vertel dat elkeen wat nie offervaardiglik skenk nie salzilch, nada, geen deurbraak hoegenaamd van my ontvang nie. Sê ook vir hulle dat hulle name op ‘n fondasiesteen gegraveer sal word as hulle 30 000 denarii / shekels of meer skenk.

Ek kan nie presies onthou waar ek die bogenoemde gelees het nie maar wat ek wel weet is die volgende:

Hy sê toe vir hulle: Die oes is wel groot, maar die arbeiders min. Bid dan die Here van die oes dat Hy arbeiders in sy oes uitstuur. Gaan dan; kyk, Ek stuur julle soos lammers onder wolwe. Moenie ‘n beurs of ‘n reissak of skoene dra nie, en groet niemand op die pad nie. En in watter huis julle ook al mag ingaan, sê eers: Vrede vir hierdie huis! En as dáár ‘n man van vrede is, sal julle vrede op hom rus; anders sal dit tot julle terugkeer. Bly dan in daardie selfde huis en eet en drink wat hulle het, want die arbeider is sy loon werd. Moenie van huis tot huis gaan nie. En in watter stad julle ook al mag ingaan en hulle jul ontvang, eet wat aan julle voorgesit word. (Lukas 10:2-8).

En Hy sê vir hulle: Toe Ek julle uitgestuur het sonder beurs en reissak en skoene, het julle iets kortgekom? En hulle antwoord: Niks nie. (Lukas 22:35)

In die volgende vers het Jesus inderdaad vir hulle die opdrag gegee om ‘n beurs en ‘n swaard saam te neem sodat hulle hulself kon verdedig en selfversorgend kon wees op hulle lang evangeliese reise. Maar Hy het hulle nooit geleer om geld te vra in ruil vir hulle gebede of die blaas van die shofar nie sodat die donatuers ‘n sg. deurbraak in hulle lewens kon ontvang. Dink maar aan die weduwee wat twee geldstukkies in the tempel se skatkis gegooi het en vir wie Jesus as die grootste gewer vereer het.

En toe Hy opkyk, sien Hy die rykes wat hulle gawes in die skatkis gooi. En Hy het ook ‘n arm weduwee daar twee geldstukkies sien ingooi. En Hy sê: Waarlik, Ek sê vir julle dat hierdie arm weduwee meer as almal ingegooi het. Want hulle almal het uit hul oorvloed by die gawes van God ingegooi, maar sy het uit haar gebrek ingegooi alles wat sy gehad het om van te lewe. (Lukas 21:1-4)

Sou die groot eer haar te beurt val om haar naam gesrkyf te kry op ‘n Mezuzah of op ‘n fondasiesteen in een van die sewe ingange na Rory en Wendy Allen se GOD TV Uitsaaisentrum? Watwou, haar naam sou waarskynlik nie eens genoem word nie, wat nog van ‘n Mezuzah-verering. Sy het nie alles wat sy besit het in die skatkis gegooi om ‘n seëning of ‘n deurbraak in haar armoede te ontvang nie, of om ‘n tienvoudige of hondervoudige teruggawe of watter ander leuens die Word of Faith valse profete ookal mag opdis, te ontvang nie. Sy het God net eenvoudig gehoorsaam omdat sy Hom liefhet. Wat het geword van Jesus se ernstige waarskuwing in Mattheus 6:3-5?

Maar jy, as jy liefdadigheid bewys, laat jou linkerhand nie weet wat jou regterhand doen nie, sodat jou liefdadigheid in die verborgene kan wees; en jou Vader wat in die verborgene sien, Hy sal jou in die openbaar vergelde. En wanneer jy bid, moet jy nie wees soos die geveinsdes nie; want hulle hou daarvan om in die sinagoges en op die hoeke van die strate te staan en bid, om deur die mense gesien te word. Voorwaar Ek sê vir julle dat hulle hul loon weg het. (Mattheus 6:3-5)

Maar kom ons keer nou vireers weer terug na Angus Buchan wat dikwels op God TV verskyn en onomwonde verklaar dat ‘n magtige herlewing reeds in ons midde is. Natuurlik kan God ons land herstel tot ‘n geluksalige en vreedsame plek maar dan is dit nog lank nie ‘n motief vir ‘n herlewing nie. Die enigste motief vir ‘n herlewing is om versoen te word met ‘n eindlose heilige God wat nooit sy regverdige oordele oor diegene wat weier om hulle te bekeer en te glo soos die Skrifte sê, sal herroep nie. Soos Prof. Malan aangedui het, is Angus Buchan se evangeliese aanslag geheel en al gefokus op die bevordering van die koninkryksteologie wat die idee uitdra dat elke posisie van hoë aansien in die politiek, die ekonomie, gesondheid, onderwys, die media en kuns deur Christne beheers moet word alvorencs Christus kan terugkom. Dit is beslis nie wat Jesus geleer het nie. Jesus het alreeds sy hoop, vrede en blydskap aan sy volgelinge gegee maar dit is ‘n blydkskap wat die Heilige Gees in hulle diepste binneste ingeburger het en niks kan dit wegneem nie, nie eens die moeilikste omstandighede en vervolginge nie. Aan die anderkant is die vrede wat die wêreld gee, wat soos Jesus gesê het HY nie vir ons gee nie, afhanklik van vredesverdrae, koompromieë en niksbeduidende beloftes en ons weet baie goed hoedat hierdie sg. vredesverdrae gebreek word. Ja, dit is ook waar dat iets wat soos ‘n herleweing lyk mag plaasvind maar die vraag is: waarvandaan kom dit — van God of die verleier wat homself in ‘n engel van die lig kan verander (2 Korinthiërs 11:13 en 14). Die Here eer selgs ’n enkele motief wanneer gelowiges vir ‘n herlewing bid en dit is“om hulle oë te open, dat hulle hul van die duisternis tot die lig kan bekeer en van die mag van die Satan tot God, sodat hulle deur die geloof in My vergifnis van sondes en ‘n erfdeel onder die geheiligdes kan ontvang. (Handelinge 26:18). Die woord “herlewing” impliseer dat daar eens op ‘n tyd geestelike lewe, groei en dinamisme was maar dat dit weggekwyn het tot ‘n lewelose liggaam wat weer nodig het om opgewek te word tot ‘n dinamiese lewe in Christus.

En skryf aan die engel van die gemeente in Sardis: Dít sê Hy wat die sewe Geeste van God en die sewe sterre het: Ek ken jou werke, dat jy die naam het dat jy leef en jy is dood. (Openb. 3:1). (Klem bygevoeeg).

Prof. Malan vind Angus Buchan se positiewe kommentare oor valse profete soos Benny Hinn en Kathryn Kuhlman sorgwekkend en self sverwarrend. Ek dink weer dat die Word of Faith voorspoedkulte Angus Buchan soos ‘n handskoen pas. Hy mag miskien aangedui het dat hy geen aspirasies het om geld te maak nie, maar hy is bereid om met hoë agting te praat van Benny Hin en Rory en Wendy Alec wie se verlossingsleer geskoei is op die voorspoedkultus. Angus Buchan mag ook miskien ‘n verhouding met Jesus Christus as sy Verlosser hê en Hom as ‘n lewende werklikheid en mense vermaan om hulle te bekeer maar dan moet ons onthou dat Benny Hinn en Rory en Wendy Alec daarop aanspraak maak dat hulle dieselfde verhouding met Jesus Christus het en dat hulle ook biljoene mense met die Evangelie van Jesus Christus bereik. As Angus Buchan so begaan was oor verlore siiele sou hy ten minste ‘n poging aanwend om Benny Hinn oor sy valse leerstellings te waarsku en Rory en Wendy Alec oor die promovering van sy valse leerstellinge op hulle God TV aan te spreek. Angus Buchan sou ten minste diep bekommerd wees oor die biljoene kykers wat deur God TV mislei word. Kom ons kyk nou eers na sommige van die ketterse dinge wat Benny Hinn verkondig.

“Ek is ‘n klein Messias wat op die aarde wandel.”²

As Angus Buchan positiewe opmerkings oor Benny gemaak het, soos Prof. Malan sê, dan is hy besig om ‘n valse Messias te prys en te vereer. Na my mening behoort Angus Buchan sy positiewe getuienis oor Benny Hinn in die openbaar terug te trek want sy verfoelike aanspraak is nie net ‘n belediging van Jesus Christus nie maar hy (Buchan) is besig om baie mense te mislei deurdat hy hulle aanmoedig om ‘n valse Messias na te volg. Die Moreleta Park NGK volg dieselfde soort beleid om hulle Hinn-volgelinge te paai pleks daarvan om hulle ten hom te waarsku, en dit net omdat hulle nie die bootjie wil laat omtuimel nie. Die eer van mense is mos vir hulle veel belangriker as die eer van Jesus Cehristus. Hier’s nog ‘n paar van Benny Hin se“claim to fame” uitbarstings.

God het uit die hemel gekom, mens geword, die mense in klein gode verander, teruggekeer na die hemel as ‘n mens. Hy staan voor God as ‘n mens. Ek staan voor duiwels as die seun van God . . . Hou op met jou nonsens! Wat anders is jy? As jy sê “Ek” is” sê jy ek is deel van Hom, nie waar nie? Is Hy God? Is jy sy kind? Is julle sy kinders? Julle kan nie mense wees nie! julle kan nie! God het nie geboorte gegee aan vlees nie . . . Julle sê, “Wel, dit is kettery.” Nee, dis julle gekke breins wat so sê.³

Ek begin wonder wie nou eintlik die een is met die gekke brein. Drie raaiskote sal genoeg wees. Miskien sal Angus Buchan en Rory en Wendy Alec ons graag wil vertel of hulle met Benny Hinn saamstem (vir wie hulle tog so lief is) wanneer hy Jesus Christus op godslasterlike wyse demoveer tot ‘n sondaar (wat impliseer dat Hy soos enige ander sondaar verlore was en nodig gehad het om gered te word).

En laat my ook byvoeg: As die Heilige Gees nie met Jesus was nie, sou Hy gesondig het. Dis reg, die Heilige Gees was die krag wat Hom rein gehou het. Hy was nie net uit die hemel gestuur nie maar Hy was die Seun van die Mens genoem en as sodanig was Hy in staat om te sondig . . . Sonder die Heilige Gees, sou Jesus dit nooit kon maak nie . . .  Kan julle Christus op pad na die graf vir julleself voorstel, wetende dat Hy vir ewig daar sou wees, as die Heilige Gees sy siening oor sy opstanding uit die dood verander het?⁴

My, julle weet, whoosh! Die Heilige Gees het nou net vir my dinge gewys. Ek word duiselig! Ek vertel julle die waarheid — dit rus hierdie oomblik swaar op my  . . . Hy’s nou in die onderwêreld. God is nie daar nie, die Heilige Gees in nie daar nie, en die Bybel sê Hy was “begotten.” Weet julle wat die woord “begotten” beteken? Dit beteken wedergebore. Wil julle nog ‘n skok hê? Is jy wedergebore? So was HY. Moenie laat enigeen julle mislei nie. Jesus was wedergebore. Jy sê, “Waarvan praat jy?”  . . . Hy was wedergebore. Hy moes wedergebore word . . . As Hy nie wedergebore was nie, kon ek nie wedergebore wees nie. Jesus was wedergebore  . . . As Hy nie wedergebore was nie, sou ek nie wedergebore wees nie. Hoe kan ek Jesus in die gesig kyk en sê: “Jesus, U het alles derugemaak wat ek deurgemaak het, behalwe die wedergeboorte?”⁵ (Klem bygevoeg).

Jesus het geweet die enigste manier om Satan te stuit, was om een te word met hom in sy wese . . . Hy het een geword met die Satan in sy natuur sodat almal wat die natuur van Satan gehad het God se natuur deelagtig kon word.⁶

Is Benny Hin ‘n Vrymesselaar? Ek wonder maar net . . . omdat die Vrymesselaars dieselfde soort godslasterilike nonsens glo. Oom Angus, is jy bereid om hierdie soort godslasterlikhede in die openbaar te repudieer. As jy Jesus van Nasaret regtig liefhet soos jy by verskeie geelenthede in die verlede al gesê het, sal jy nie nog ‘n sekonde wag om ‘n man soos Benny Hinn in die openbaar te weerlê nie OF is sy godslasterlikhede maar net nog ‘n onbeduidende leerstelling wat jy bereid is om opsy te skuif ter wille van vrede en liefde en voorspoed? Sit vir jou ‘n nuwe hoed op en wys vir ons dat jy ‘n ware MIGHTY MAN is, een wat nie bang is om die ketters op GOD TV wat miljoene niksvermoedende mense mislei, aan te speek nie.

Vrymessalary verklaar:

Jesus van Nasaret het ‘n vlak van bewussyn bereik, van volmaaktheid, wat onder verskillende name bekend is: kosmiese bewussyn, siel-regenerasie [wedergeboorte], filsofiese inisiasie, geestelike verligting, Brahmaanse glansrykheid, Christus-bewussyn.⁷ (Klem bygevoeg).

Benny Hinn se “whoosh-shy” buite-aardse openbaringe is nie net blatante godslastering nie maar ‘n regstreekse verwerping van die hele Levitiese offferande sisteem in die Ou Testament wat onomwonde bewys dat in die sondoffer en in al die ander offers die diere vlekkeloos moes wees, wat aandui dat die EEN wie se “eens-vir-altyd-offer” uiteindelik aan die kruis bekragtig is, sondeloos moes wees en inderdaad sondeloos was.

as die gesalfde priester sondig, sodat die volk daardeur skuldig word, moet hy vir die sonde wat hy gedoen het, ‘n jong bul sonder gebrek aan die HERE as sondoffer bring; (Levitikus 4:3)

Want ons het nie ‘n hoëpriester wat nie met ons swakhede medelye kan hê nie, maar een wat in alle opsigte versoek is net soos ons, maar sonder sonde. (Hebreërs 4:15) (Klem bygevoeg).

As jy sondesloos is, beteken dit dat jy ook nie kan sondig nie.

As Jesus se reinheid (sondeloosheid) toegeskryf was aan die Heilige Gees en nie sy eie rein en sondelose natuur nie, volg dit dat elke gelowige wat die inwonende Heilige Gees in sy/haar binneste het ook sondeloos is. (1 Johannes 1:8). Die titel Seun van die Mens beteken nie dat Jesus in staat was om te sondig nie. Was HY in die geringste in staat om te sondig, sou Hy nooit die straf vir ons sondes op Hom kon neem nie. Die Seun van die Mens  beteken eenvoudig dat Hy hom tot die uiterste met die mens vereenselwig het, selfs tot die mate dat sy Vader “Hom wat geen sonde geken het nie, sonde vir ons gemaak [het], sodat ons kan word geregtigheid van God in Hom.” (2 Korinthiërs 5:21). Sommiges vertolk dit as dat Hy letterlik ‘n sondaar vir ons gemaak is, maar weer eens is dit nie die betekenis nie. Dit beteken gewoon dat God sy Seun ‘n sondoffer, waarin die Vader Hom soos ‘n sondaar behandel het, vir ons gemaak het.

Dis nie net mighty men soos Angus Buchan wat in ‘n noue verwantskap met Benny Hinn en sy godslasterike leerstellings is nie. Wat van Chuck Missler? Het ook ook die boot “ge-miss-ler?” Sy offersaad aan God TV was so belangrik dat Rory en Wendy Alec ‘n spesiale aankondiging gemaak het toe hulle sy offer vir die verspreiding van die Evengelie volgens Benny Hinn, Crefo Dollar, Kenneth en Gloria Copeland, Joyse Meyer, Billy Graham, Peter Wagner, John Hagee, Joel Osteen en ‘n menigte ander geestelike VIP’s ontvang het. (Oeps! wat het geword van Jesus se waarswkuwing in Mattheus 6:1-4). God TV se kykers is skynbaar so begogel deur die valse beloftes dat daar deurbrake sal kom op die terrein van hulle finansies, besighede en families wanneer hulle hul geld offervaardiglik gee, dat hulle nie ‘n snars omgee oor gesonde Bybelse leerstellings nie. Net solank hulle vleeslike behoeftes versadig word, is hulle hoogs tevrede.

In God TV se hoofkantoor in Jerusalem het Rory en Wendy Alec ‘n sg. bo-kamer en ‘n allerheiligste kamer met ‘n klipaltaar ingerig waarop hulle elke saadofffer wat hulle van hulle kykers ontvang in die vorm van ‘n rooierig gekleurde stuk papier plaas. Die “altaar” is die fokuspunt van hulle “gebede” wat dikwels in ‘n vreemde taal gebesig word. Niemand lê ooit hierdie sg. tale uit nie wat natuurlik net nog ‘n ander daad van ongehoorsaamheid aan die kant van God TV is. (1 Korinthiërs 14:27). Wat is die regte betekenis van die sg. “altaar” in God TV se hoofkantoor in Jerusalem? Dit kan onmoontlik nie ‘n replika wees van ‘n Ou Testamentiese altaar nie omdat God die Israelitete verbied het om ‘n altaar te maak waarvan die klippe uitgekap was.

Maar as jy vir My ‘n klipaltaar maak, mag jy dit nie bou van gekapte klip nie; want as jy jou ystergereedskap daaroor swaai, dan ontheilig jy dit. (Exodus 20:25)

Die sg. altaar in God TV se hoofkantoor is nie ‘n gebede-altaar nie maar ‘n okkultiese “kontakpunt.” Die “kontakpunt” se toebehoorsels (gebededoekies, sakdoeke, kiekies, gebede papier, some van klere, heilige olie, shofars) word aangewend om die krag wat rykdom en deurbrake bewerkstellig, vry te stel. Oral Roberts het daarop aanspraak gemaak dat die “kontakpunt” sy “grootste uitvindsel” was.⁸ Met die instuur van hulle gebede papiere (in hierdie geval n gedrukte rooierig gekleurde A4 vel papier), vestig die kykers ‘n kontakpunt wanneer elke vel papier op die “altaar” geplaas word en wanneer Rory en Wendy Alec en andere hulle hande op die hoop papiervelle lê om die krag van weelde vry te stel. Dave Hunt skryf:

Rituals are of no value. Rituals work in magic and magic [is] demonic; witch doctors have certain rituals they go through, sacramentalism is related to the rituals. The idea that a ritual has some spiritual value and power just is contrary both to common sense and to the Word of God.  For example, it’s closely related to scapulars and medals. I have a scapular that I keep in the Bible to show people, on one end of it, it says, whosoever dies wearing this scapular shall not suffer eternal fire.  Well, two problems, 1) if you believe Christ paid the penalty for your sins, you don’t need a scapular. What kind of a God delivers you from eternal fire because you wear a scapular.  It’s like the fetishes and so forth in the pagan world.  So, a ritual to exorcise demons is the same.  What is this, impress demons?  Are they impressed that you go through some ritual, or does God’s power depend upon you going through some ritual?  Where in the Bible does it say that God’s power can be released by some ritual?  Now you have the same idea with many of the so-called faith teachers, you know, touch my hand, this is a point of contact and even Oral Roberts had people light candles, you know, he lit the red candle while they lit the green candle, and this starts miracles flowing.  What kind of a God releases his power because you go through some ritual?  So we know, first of all, that the ritual isn’t right. (Emphasis added).

Miljoene mense word deur God TV mislei. Is jy een van die misleides?

Maar Petrus sê vir hom: Mag jou geld saam met jou vergaan, omdat jy gedink het om die gawe van God deur geld te verkry. (Handelinge 8:20)

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¹Patti Roberts, Ashes to Gold (Word Books, 1985), p. 122

²Benny Hinn, “Praise-a-Thon” program on TBN, 6 November 1990.

³Benny Hinn, “Our Position in Christ # 2 — The Word Made Flesh (Orlando: Orlando Christian Center 1991) videotape # 2555, emphasis added. See also Hinn’s claim that believers are “little messiahs” or “little gods” on the “Praise-a-Thon” program on TBN (6 November 1990).

⁴Benny Hinn, Good Morning, Holy Spirit (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1990), 135-36, emphasis added. In the seventh printing, certain unannounced changes were made in the text in response to criticism from CRI so that the passage now reads (changes emphasized): “And let me add this: Had the Holy Spirit not been with Jesus, He may have likely sinned. That’s right. It was the Holy Spirit who was the power that kept Him pure. He was not only sent from heaven, but He was called the Son of Man—and as such He was capable of sinning. . . . Without the Holy Ghost, Jesus may have never made it.” The “Can you imagine.. .” sentence was deleted entirely. But even with the changes, Christ is still made out to depend on the Holy Spirit to keep Him from sinning, thus denying Christ the sinlessness that is an essential attribute of God.

⁵Benny Hinn, “Our Position ‘In Christ,’ Part 1” (Orlando, FL: Orlando Christian Center, 1991), videotape.

⁶Benny Hinn, TBN, 15th December 1990).

⁷Lynn F. Perkins, The Meaning of Masonry (CSA Press, 1971), p. 32

⁸Oral Roberts Best Sermons and Stories (Tulsa, OK: Oral Roberts, 1956), 46: 101

Angus Buchan, Benny Hinn and God TV

I recently read an article written by Prof. Johan Malan in which he expresses his concerns about Angus Buchan. He says, among other things:

Angus Buchan

“Spiritual Deception, Revival and Angus Buchan — Prof. Johan Malan, South Africa (May 2010)”

It is obvious that the South African revival preacher, Angus Buchan, does have a relationship with Jesus Christ as his Saviour and experiences Him as a living reality in his life. He also exhorts thousands of people to repent, and helps families to reconcile with each other, which is praiseworthy. On the other hand, worried voices are being heard that he reveals great ignorance on various aspects of biblical doctrines – to such an extent that he has embarked on the way of kingdom theology, the ecumenical movement, and even the promotion of dubious signs and wonders. On certain occasions he has made positive comments on false prophets such as Benny Hinn and Kathryn Kuhlman. His perceived ignorance on these matters is disturbing and even bewildering . . . . The other questions relate to the kingdom deception which Angus proclaims to the crowds. How can he, according to his own insight, promise people that South Africa and Zimbabwe will be completely restored? In this regard he acts contrary to Jesus Christ Himself, who said that in the end-time there will be great tribulation such as has never been on earth (Matt. 24:21). Someone who correctly understands the biblical message on the end-time would warn his followers against a time of great spiritual and moral falling away, while also mentioning the possibility of the persecution and rejection of evangelical Christians. These matters are not part of Angus’s message. Neither does he proclaim the blessed hope of the rapture to Christians to encourage them to remain steadfast until the Lord Jesus takes us away to our heavenly home (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18). The fact that so many people stream to the meetings of Angus is proof of the lack of leadership which the whites in South Africa experience in both the political and religious fields. They are looking for somebody to come and lead the Boers. Even some of the Israel groups (British Israelism, or White Theology supporters) allege that Prophet Van Rensburg has referred to a leader who would lead the Boers to a Boer state where they can be free from domination by the blacks. Could this perhaps be the reason for the popularity that Angus enjoys? . . . He cannot even remotely be mentioned in the same vein as a revival preacher such as Andrew Murray. It is in fact highly questionable whether the movement which he describes as a revival indeed qualifies to be defined as such.

If multitudes of men stream to the revival meetings of Angus Buchan because they hanker for a leader who can lead them to their “promised land” then I must add that their meetings, in the spiritual sense of the word, was a dismal failure from the very beginning, despite the fact that hundreds of thousands of men have attended them in the past few years. Motive plays an extremely important role in God’s economy of revivals. A wrong motive will never move God’s hand to send a revival. I doubt very strongly whether He would send a revival when the motive is to find a leader who’s able to take the South African Boers to their “promised land” of hope and glory and peace and prosperity. In many cases in the past revivals blossomed when circumstances were very hazardous and life threatening. The motive of the Christians who prayed for these revivals was not for God to alleviate their suffering or even restore them to a place of safety. Their only motive was for God to convict men, women and children of their sins and their lost status, and to call them to a biblically grounded repentance and a firm faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ (Mark 1:15). But isn’t this Angus Buchan’s main objective, to call a spade a spade (name the sins of his Mighty Men and those of our fellow countrymen)? That may be true but what is his motive? To dangle a carrot of hope, love, joy, peace and a prosperous future (God’s Kingdom in this life here and now) in front of his Mighty Men’s noses and tell them that this is what God promises when you stop sleeping with your secretary, stop cheating the receiver of revenue, kneel before your wife to plead for her forgiveness, is not revival. Neither is it when he teaches them that they are the manifest sons (and daughters) of God in Romans 8:19. It is NOT the Gospel according to Jesus Christ. Repentance with the intent to improve your material and even physical welfare in this world tends to focus the eyes on self and its selfish needs.

Cindy Jacobs

Rory and Wendy Alec

Rory and Wendy Alec of God TV who have aired many of Angus Buchan’s Mighty Men Conferences are also constantly dangling a carrot of prosperity in front of their viewers’ noses. At the moment they are in alert mode and desperately in need of a “BREAKTHROUGH” in their finances to “break the chains” of their huge budget deficit and are pleading with their viewers to donate “sacrificially.” To get them to put their hands even deeper into their pockets they have been using world-renown preachers such as Benny Hinn, Steve Munsey and Cindy Jacobs to tell the viewers that their own breakthrough will only come when they give their money sacrificially. The same old message is on their lips every time you tune into God TV: “God will honour and prosper you ONLY when you sow a seed sacrificially.” Benny Hinn bravely asserted that God’s promises for you will only come to fruition when you sow your seed in faith. That’s an infamous lie from the pit of hell because God says: “For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.” (2 Corinthians 1:20 ). These promises do not pertain to temporary things such as health, wealth, prosperity and a country free from crime, corruption, and poverty.  The promises of God which are made through Christ, relate to thepardon of sin to the penitent; the sanctification of his people: support in temptation and trial; guidance in perplexity; peace in death, and eternal glory beyond the grave. All of these are made through a Redeemer, and none of these shall fail.

One of their major drawing cards to get you to donate £1,000 (±R10,000), €1,000 (±1 R11,000), or $1,500 (±R11,000) is to recognize your generosity by putting your name on a foundation stone in their broadcast center. When you donate £30,000 (±R330,000) €30,000 (±R280,000), $50,000 (±R380,000) or more they will place a  Mezuzah with your name on it in one of the seven doorways in their Broadcast Centre. Woe to you South Africans; your European, American and English God TV families have a much better chance than you to have their names placed on a Mezuzah in one of the seven doorways in God TV’s Broadcast Centre. Their currencies are much stronger than your rand. Rest assured, if your name is written in the Book of Life because you have sincerely and truly repented of your sins and believe in Jesus Christ and His Gospel (as the Scriptures say and not as God TV says) your eternal life is secure. You don’t need your name to be engraved on a plaque or foundation stone in Rory and Wendy Allen’s Broadcast Centre because you have given them R300,000 or more to allegedly help them spread the Gospel throughout the world. Moreover, you needn’t pay a single cent for your name to be written in the Book of Life because God’s salvation is free. It is a gift to those who receive it by faith through Jesus Christ who has paid the full price for all of your sins and transgressions on a cursed cross. If anyone teaches you otherwise and says that you must pay something in order to receive God’s blessings, they are perpetuating the abominable lie of the Roman Catholic heretic, Johann Tetzel, who said: 

As soon as the gold in the casket rings; the rescued soul to heaven springs [So wie das Geld im Kasten klingt; die Seele aus dem Fegfeuer springt]

How many people who watch God TV are getting the wrong impression about the Gospel of Jesus Christ? Patti Roberts, ex-wife of Richard Roberts, became very disillusioned with her father in law, Oral Roberts’ “seed of faith” gospel. She called Al Bush, the President of the Oral Roberts Evangelical Association to express her grave concern.

Al, in the forty shows that we taped last year, how many times did we give people the plan of salvation? The plan of salvation? Gosh Patti, I don’t know. Im, sure we must have given it to them at least once. And how many times did we give them the principles of Seed-Faith? He laughed. Patti, you know the answer to that. We give the principles of Seed-Faith on every show. What’s this all about? Al, in the letters that you received from viewers, how many of them thought that maybe if they gave money to Oral, they had bought a little place in the Kingdom? How many may have thought that swayed God’s opinion about their eternal destiny? He didn’t answer for a long time. When he finally replied he lowered his voice and said soberly and a bit hesitantly, A whole lot of them did Patti.¹  (Emphasis added)

Having heard again and again and again that the giving of money sacrificially or sowing a seed in abundance opens the door to God’s blessings, many of God TV’s viewers have already been led to believe that your giving opens the door to God’s salvation and his eternal heaven. Many donors may already have their names engraved on a foundation stone or a Mezuzah in God TV’s Broadcast Centre, but how many of them have their names written in the Book of Life? Nevertheless, I was surprised to see that when Jesus (a counterfeit Jesus) sent his disciples out to preach the Gospel He told them exactly the same things I heard on God TV. Jesus said:

When you enter a city the first thing you must do, is to tell people they need a miraculous breakthrough in their lives. Some need a breakthrough in their family lives; they need their marriages to be healed, their wayward and rebellious children who have run away from their homes to return to mom and dad. Others need breakthroughs in their dwindling businesses and finances and to take back from Satan what he had robbed them of. Still others need a desperate breakthrough in their health. Don’t forget to blow the shofar like Steve Munsey on God TV because the shofar, as you know, opens heavens windows wide open when it is blown. Don’t feel bad about not knowing how to blow the shofar. Here is a recording of someone who is a professional shofar blower. All you need to do is to put your lips to the shofar and do some clever mimicking while you play the recording. But here’s the punch line. Tell them I will ONLY, I repeat, ONLY grant them their breakthrough in the areas of their health, family lives and businesses when they donate huge amounts of money to you so that you may preach the Gospel. Make sure to tell them that everyone who does not donate sacrificially will receive zilch, nada, no breakthroughs form Me whatsoever. Also tell them that their names will be engraved on a foundation stone when they donate 30 000 denarii / shekels or more.

I cannot recall precisely where I read the above in the Bible but what I did find is the following:

He was telling them, “The harvest is vast, but the workers are few. So ask the Lord of the harvest to send workers out into his harvest. Get going! See, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. Don’t carry a wallet, a traveling bag, or sandals, and don’t greet anyone on the way. “Whatever house you go into, first say, ‘May there be peace in this house.’ If a peaceful person lives there, your greeting of peace will remain with him. But if that’s not the case, your greeting will come back to you. Stay with the same family, eating and drinking whatever they provide, for the worker deserves his pay. Don’t move from house to house. “Whenever you go into a town and the people welcome you, eat whatever they serve you, (Luke 10:2-8) Then he said to them, “When I sent you out without a wallet, traveling bag, or sandals, you didn’t lack anything, did you?” They replied, “Nothing at all.” (Luke 22:35)

In the very next verse Jesus actually commanded them to take a purse and a sword with them so that they may defend themselves on their long evangelical journeys and also fend for themselves when they needed to buy provisions. But He never taught them to ask for money in exchange for prayers or the blowing of the shofar so that the donor may receive a so-called breakthrough in their lives. Consider the widow who cast two mites into the temple treasury and whom Jesus honoured as the biggest giver.

Now Jesus looked up and saw rich people dropping their gifts into the offering box. Then he saw a destitute widow drop in two small copper coins. He said, “Truly I tell you, this destitute widow has dropped in more than all of them. For all the others contributed to the offering out of their surplus, but she, in her poverty, dropped in everything she had to live on.” (Luke 21:1-4)

She didn’t cast in all that she had into the treasury to receive a blessing, a breakthrough, a ten-fold or hundred-fold in return or whatever Word of Faith nonsense and lies. She simply obeyed God because she loved Him. What about Jesus’ warning in Matthew 6:3-5?

But when you give to the poor, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be done in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.” “And whenever you pray, don’t be like the hypocrites who love to stand in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they will be seen by people. Truly I tell you, they have their full reward! (Matthew 6:3-5)

But let us now return to Angus Buchan, who frequently appears on God TV, and his revival messages. Of course God can restore our country to a blissfully peaceful land but then again this is not the motive for a revival. The only motive for a revival is to be reconciled to an infinitely holy God who will never retract or rescind his righteous judgments on those who refuse to repent and believe as the Scriptures say. As professor Malan indicated, Angus Buchan’s entire teaching is focused on the advancement of the Dominionist doctrine which promotes the idea that every single position of high ranking in politics, the economy, health, education, the media and art must be occupied by “Christians” before Jesus can return. This is definitely not what Jesus taught. Jesus has already given his hope, peace and joy to his followers but it is a joy and a peace that his Holy Spirit has entrenched in their innermost beings and nothing can take it away, not even the severest circumstances and persecution. On the other hand, the peace the world gives, of which Jesus said He does not give, is contingent upon peace treaties, compromises and flimsy promises and we know how easy these so-called peace treaties can be broken. Yes, it is also true that something that looks like a revival may occur but the question is: from whence does it come — from God or the deceiver who disguises him as an angel of light? God honours but a single motive when believers pray for a revival and that is “To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me. (Acts 26:18). The word “revival” implies that there once was spiritual life, growth and dynamism but has waned or teetered to a lifeless corpse which needs to be resurrected unto a dynamic life in Jesus Christ.

To the messenger of the church in Sardis, write: The one who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars says this:

“I know your works. You are known for being alive, but you are dead.” (Revelation 3:1)

Benny Hinn's Messiah look alike

Prof. Malan finds Angus Buchan’s positive comments on false prophets like Benny Hinn and Kathryn Kuhlman disturbing and even bewildering. Personally, I think that Angus Buchan fits the Word of Faith and prosperity cult like a glove. He may have indicated in the past that he has no aspirations to make money but is quite prepared to speak highly of Benny Hinn and Rory and Wendy Alec whose doctrine of salvation is steeped in the prosperity cult. Angus Buchan may have a relationship with Jesus Christ as his Saviour and experience Him as a living reality and exhort people to repent but then again Benny Hinn and Rory and Wendy Allen claim to have the same relationship with Jesus Christ and that they too are reaching billions with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If Angus Buchan was so concerned about lost souls, he would at least warn Benny Hinn of his false doctrines and Rory and Wendy Allen of promoting his false doctrines on their God TV. Angus Buchan would at least have been deeply concerned about the millions of viewers who are being misled by God TV. Let us now look at some of the heresies Benny Hinn has proclaimed in the passed.

“I am a ‘little messiah’ walking on earth,”²

If Angus Buchan has made positive comments on Benny Hinn, as Prof. Malan says, then he is praising and revering a false Messiah. In my opinion Angus Buchan should retract his positive testimonials of Benny Hinn in public because Hinn’s infamous claim is not only an affront to Jesus Christ but he (Buchan) is leading many people astray by encouraging them to follow a false Messiah. The Moreleta Park DRC favours the very same kind of policy which is to mollycoddle their Hinn-followers in stead of warning them against him so as not to rock the boat. Here are a few other Hinn-claims-to-fame.

God came from heaven, became a man, made man into little gods, went back to heaven as a man. He faces the Father as a man. I face devils as the son of God…. Quit your nonsense! What else are you? If you say,  I am, you’re saying I’m a part of Him, right? Is he God? Are you His offspring? Are you His children? You can’t be human! You can’t! You can’t!  God didn’t give birth to flesh…. You said, “Well, that’s heresy.” No, that’s your crazy brain saying that.³

Perhaps Angus Buchan and Rory and Wendy Alec would like to tell us whether they agree with Benny Hinn (whom they adore so much) when he blasphemously demoted Jesus Christ to a sinner (which implies that like any other sinner He was lost and needed to be born-again).

And let me add this: Had the Holy Spirit not been with Jesus,  He would have sinned. That’s right, it was the Holy Spirit that was the power that kept Him pure. He was not only sent from heaven, but He was called the Son of Man and as such He was capable of sinning…. Without the Holy Ghost, Jesus would have never have made it…. Can you imagine Christ headed for the grave, knowing He would remain there forever, if the Holy Ghost would change His mind about raising Him from the dead?⁴    My, you know, whoosh! The Holy Ghost is just showing me some stuff. I’m getting dizzy! I’m telling you the truth—it’s, it’s just heavy right now on me…. He’s [referring to Jesus] in the underworld now. God isn’t there, the Holy Ghost isn’t there, and the Bible says He was begotten. Do you know what the word begotten means? It means reborn. Do you want another shocker? Have you been begotten? So was He. Don’t let anyone deceive you. Jesus was reborn. You say, “What are you talking about?” . . . He was reborn. He had to be reborn…. If He was not reborn, I could not be reborn. Jesus was born again…. If He was not reborn, I would never be reborn. How can I face Jesus and say, “Jesus, you went through everything I’ve gone through, except the new birth?”⁵  (Emphasis added)

Masonry declares the same heresy

Jesus of Nazareth had attained a level of consciousness, of perfection, that has been called by various names: cosmic consciousness, soul regeneration, philosophic initiation, spiritual illumination, Brahmic splendor, Christ-consciousness.⁶ (Emphasis added). Benny Hinn’s “whooshy” extra terrestrial revelation is not only blatant blasphemy but an outright rejection of the entire Levitical  sacrificial system in the Old Testament which unequivocally proves that in the sin offering and all the other offerings the animals had to be without blemish, indicating that the One whose “once for all offering” was eventually ratified on the cross, had to be and actually was sinless.

If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering. (Leviticus 4:3)

For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. (Hebrews 4:15)

If Jesus’ purity (sinlessness) was attributable to the Holy Spirit and not his own pure and sinless nature, it follows that every believer who has the Spirit of God indwelling his/her innermost being is also sinless. (2 Corinthians 5:21). Some interpret this as Him being made a sinner for us in the real sense of the word, but again this is not what is meant here. It simply means that God made his Son to be a sin-offering for us in which His Father treated Him like a sinner. Not only mighty men like Angus Buchan are in close cahoots with Benny Hinn and his blasphemous doctrines. What about Chuck Missler? Has he “miss-ler-ed” the boat as well? His “seed of faith” was so important that Rory and Wendy Alec made a special announcement when they received his sacrificial offering toward the “spreading of the Gospel according to Benny Hinn, Creflo Dollar, Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, Joyce Meyer, Billy Graham, Peter Wagner, John Hagee, Joel Osteen and a host of other spiritual “VIP’s”.” GOD TV’s viewers seem to be so hooked on the lie that their own “breakthrough” in the area of their finances, businesses and families will come when they give sacrificially that they don’t care a hoot about sound biblical doctrines.(1 John 1:8). The title Son of Man does not mean that Jesus was capable of sinning. Had He in the very slightest been capable of sinning He would never have been able to pay the penalty for our sins. The Son of Man simply means that He identified Himself with man to the very uttermost, even to the extent that His Father “made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. (2 Corinthians 5:21).

Some interpret this as Him being made a sinner for us in the real sense of the word, but again this is not what is meant here. It simply means that God made his Son to be a sin-offering for us in which His Father treated Him like a sinner. Not only mighty men like Angus Buchan are in close cahoots with Benny Hinn and his blasphemous doctrines. What about Chuck Missler? Has he “miss-ler-ed” the boat as well? His “seed of faith” was so important that Rory and Wendy Alec made a special announcement when they received his sacrificial offering toward the “spreading of the Gospel according to Benny Hinn, Creflo Dollar, Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, Joyce Meyer, Billy Graham, Peter Wagner, John Hagee, Joel Osteen and a host of other spiritual “VIP’s”.” GOD TV’s viewers seem to be so hooked on the lie that their own “breakthrough” in the area of their finances, businesses and families will come when they give sacrificially that they don’t care a hoot about sound biblical doctrines.

In God TV’s headquarters in Jerusalem Rory and Wendy Alec have set up a so-called uppermost room and a holy of holies chamber with a stone altar on which they place every “seed offering” they receive from their viewers in the form of a reddish colored sheet of paper. The “altar” is also the focal point of their “prayers” which are frequently uttered in another tongue. No one ever interprets these so-called tongues which is yet another act of disobedience on the part of God TV. (1 Corinthians 14:27). What is the real purpose of the so-called “altar” in God TV’s headquarters in Jerusalem? It cannot possibly be a replica of an Old Testament altar because God forbad the Israelites to build and altar from hewn stone.

And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. (Exodus 20:25) The so-called altar in GOD TV’s headquarters is not a prayer altar but an occult “point of contact.” The “point of contact” paraphernalia (prayer cloths, handkerchiefs, photographs, prayer sheets, hems from garments, holy oil, shofars) are used to release the power to create wealth and to receive your breakthrough. Oral Roberts claimed that the “point of contact” was the “greatest discovery”⁷ he had ever made.” By sending in their prayer sheets (in this case printed reddish colored A4 sheets) the viewers establish a point of contact when each sheet is placed on the “altar”  and when Rory and Wendy Alec and others lay their hands on the heap of paper sheets to release the power of affluence. Dave Hunt wrote:

Rituals are of no value. Rituals work in magic and magic [is] demonic; witch doctors have certain rituals they go through, sacramentalism is related to the rituals.  The idea that a ritual has some spiritual value and power just is contrary both to common sense and to the Word of God.  For example, it’s closely related to scapulars and medals. I have a scapular that I keep in the Bible to show people, on one end of it, it says, whosoever dies wearing this scapular shall not suffer eternal fire.  Well, two problems, 1) if you believe Christ paid the penalty for your sins, you don’t need a scapular. What kind of a God delivers you from eternal fire because you wear a scapular.  It’s like the fetishes and so forth in the pagan world.  So, a ritual to exorcise demons is the same.  What is this, impress demons?  Are they impressed that you go through some ritual, or does God’s power depend upon you going through some ritual?  Where in the Bible does it say that God’s power can be released by some ritual?  Now you have the same idea with many of the so-called faith teachers, you know, touch my hand, this is a point of contact and even Oral Roberts had people light candles, you know, he lit the red candle while they lit the green candle, and this starts miracles flowing.  What kind of a God releases his power because you go through some ritual?  So we know, first of all, that the ritual isn’t right. (Emphasis added)

Millions of people are being misled and deceived by God TV. Are you one of the deceived?

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.

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¹ Patti Roberts, Ashes to Gold (Word Books, 1985), p. 122

² Benny Hinn, “Praise-a-Thon” program on TBN, 6 November 1990.

³ Benny Hinn, “Our Position in Christ # 2 — The Word Made Flesh (Orlando: Orlando Christian Center 1991) videotape # 2555, emphasis added. See also Hinn’s claim that believers are “little messiahs” or “little gods” on the “Praise-a-Thon” program on TBN (6 November 1990).

⁴ Benny Hinn, Good Morning, Holy Spirit (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1990), 135-36, emphasis added. In the seventh printing, certain unannounced changes were made in the text in response to criticism from CRI so that the passage now reads (changes emphasized): “And let me add this: Had the Holy Spirit not been with Jesus, He may have likely sinned. That’s right. It was the Holy Spirit who was the power that kept Him pure. He was not only sent from heaven, but He was called the Son of Man—and as such He was capable of sinning. . . . Without the Holy Ghost, Jesus may have never made it.” The “Can you imagine.. .” sentence was deleted entirely. But even with the changes, Christ is still made out to depend on the Holy Spirit to keep Him from sinning, thus denying Christ the sinlessness that is an essential attribute of God.

⁵ Benny Hinn, “Our Position ‘In Christ,’ Part 1″ (Orlando, FL: Orlando Christian Center, 1991), videotape.

⁶ Lynn F. Perkins, The Meaning of Masonry (CSA Press, 1971), p. 32

⁷ Oral Roberts Best Sermons and Stories (Tulsa, OK: Oral Roberts, 1956), 46: 101