This is Why God Flooded the World

As I said yesterday, a preacher caught up in the Kenneth Copeland false-prosperity lie tried to tempt my wife to turn against me and persuade me to get back into the toxic doctrine of Christian tithing. I felt I should write more about it today.

Lots of people have told me I am too hard on prosperity preachers. With fear in their voices, they have cautioned me about going too far, as though they were concerned that giant hailstones might materialize and kill us just for discussing it. Meanwhile, God has blessed me more than anyone I know, including the people who warned me and reviled me.

After listening to my wife yesterday, I feel these people have it backward. I told God I regret going too easy on the thieves and liars. It’s easy to sit back and murmur, “Judge not.” It is often a coward’s excuse. It takes integrity to call a popular preacher a whited sepulchre or son of Satan.

She told me a disturbing story. A friend of hers is against the prosperity gospel, but he is still a dedicated charismatic. He prays in tongues every day, and he believes in all the activity of the Spirit of Holiness. Some years back, however, he was trapped in the harness of Mammon, following and repeating the garbage money preachers propagate. Things went badly for him even though he gave money, and he got so frustrated he got angry at God and questioned his faith.

What does this prove? It proves what I’ve been saying about Mammon’s gospel is true: it turns people against God.

I’ve been in his shoes. I remember feeling angry at God because I was supporting slimy ministers who flew around in private jets. I was doing my part, wasn’t I? Surely God was just testing my faith by making me wait. But how long did he expect me to take it?

Here’s a little tip: God is always right. He always does everything right. He does things as well as they can possibly be done. He doesn’t need our advice. He doesn’t need our suggestions. We haven’t thought of anything he hasn’t considered. If things aren’t going well for you, it’s not because God is dragging his feet or unaware of a better way. You’re the problem.

All over the world, there are people who have gone from financial security to penury by giving money to Kenneth Copeland and his buddies. How do you think these people feel about God, now that they live in homeless shelters or with their children? Do you think their misery has brought them closer to God? How about the people who have to pay their bills now? Are they more or less inclined to give their lives to Jesus and be baptized with the Spirit of Holiness?

I’ve been involved in bringing friends back to God’s side after money preachers pulled them away. I’ve seen Mammon at work in their lives. It’s not theoretical. It happens every day. It’s a major part of the purpose of the prosperity gospel. Satan designed it to keep Christians poor, and he also uses it to convince them Christianity is useless.

Remember what Jesus said? If you cause one of his children to take offense, it’s better for you to have a millstone hung around your neck and to be thrown into the sea.

Kenneth Copeland and Benny Hinn are going to hell. So is Joyce Meyer. So is Steve Munsey. So are all the others. If they don’t repent while they’re alive, they will all burn. Real evangelists lead people to their own future home, and so do the evangelists of hell. There is always symmetry in the supernatural.

In the time of Jesus, millstones were turned by animals such as donkeys. Beasts of burden represent the flesh. Preachers who give people unscriptural burdens take them out of the realm of the spirit, in which God does most of the work for them, and puts them in the realm of the flesh, in which they do the work themselves and it doesn’t profit them. People who rely on the flesh are no better off than donkeys.

A sower plants seed so it sprouts and brings a return. A miller grinds and kills it so it can go into someone’s belly and be destroyed. The Mammon preachers are eating their flocks instead of growing them.

Samson was an ordinary man. The only time he had unusual strength was when the Spirit of Holiness filled him. When he chose heathens over God, the Spirit left him, he was blinded without difficulty, and he was forced to turn a millstone, like a donkey. Unfortunately, he was no longer strong, so he was worse off than a donkey.

The blindness symbolized the spiritual blindness of carnal believers. They don’t hear from God. The millstone symbolized the life of a carnal believer. They serve Satan’s children, doing work that is beneath the dignity of a son of God. They go in circles. Samson walked many miles while he was a slave, but at the end, he was right where he started.

I fully expect Paula White to go to hell. I think Rod Parsley will be right there with her, along with T.D. Jakes, Joel Osteen, Fred Price, Jesse Duplantis, and Creflo Dollar. Lots of lower-tier money preachers like my old pastors will be dragged down with the tails of the celebrities. Maybe God will get through to some of them before they die, and he will give them opportunities to be saved, but I expect most of them to be lost. They’re denying the truth now, so why would they change their minds later? They love money and admiration more than God or people. Their kind is like a plague of disease-bearing fleas, dragging Christians with good intentions down to the pit.

I think Oral Roberts is in hell already. He jumped into the money gospel headfirst, and I never heard that he repented. I think Eddie Long is down there with him.

Yesterday, I looked at Kenneth Copeland’s Youtube channel. He blocks comments, and he also conceals his likes and dislikes. Why? Because he hates the truth. He’s afraid of it. Cockroaches are afraid of sunlight. If he didn’t ban the truth, his videos would draw thousands of critical, helpful comments, warning people not to listen to him. Obviously, he conceals the public’s opinion of him because he has been outed many times in his comments. If people were patting him on the back, he would want everyone to see it.

I hope I’m doing a little better by publishing these things. The last thing I want is to share in the curses of people like Kenneth Copeland.