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UNMASKED...
BENNYHINN
UNMASKED...
Benny
Hinn
Mystic, Magician
or Miracle Maker?
PHILIP L. POWELL
NEIL RICHARDSON1
SANDY SIMPSON
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UNMASKED...BENNYHINN
Unmasked...
Benny Hinn
by
Philip L. Powell
Neil Richardson
Sandy Simpson
Published by Christian Witness Ministries
Benny Hinn Unmasked
FACT:
Benny Hinn believes and teaches that there
are nine persons in the Godhead
FACT:
Hinn claimed Jesus would appear physically
on stage during his crusades
FACT:
Benny Hinn delves in necromancy
FACT:
Benny Hinn is one of the most influential leaders of today’s church!
The gospel is being perverted
The truth is being trodden in the street
BENNY HINN presents a false gospel... he offers people a false hope and a
false faith. Christians who have a love for the truth must begin to make a
stand against his teachings and his ministry. We encourage you to check out
his doctrines against what the Word of God teaches for yourself.
In an effort to make Christians and leaders aware of the falsities perpetuated

by Benny Hinn, we have done extensive research on Mr Hinn and his
doctrines and practices and have published this book “Unmasked: Benny
Hinn”. We earnestly encourage you to read for yourself the doctrines and
practices of this man... and to judge for yourself whether what he teaches and
practices is really of God.
Most of us will know somebody that is a follower of Benny Hinn; probably

someone in our own church. When it comes down to it, you can’t follow
Benny Hinn AND follow the Lord... it is one or the other.
If you would like to know more
Preface
THERE are two major purposes behind the publishing of this book. One is to
try to prevent you and other good people being deceived by the false
teaching, claims and prophecies of Benny Hinn, who is documented as a
person who tells lies1. The other reason is to ensure that those high profile
church leaders from countries such as Australia, New Zealand, UK
and USA be called to account. They were warned against men like Benny
Hinn yet have promoted his ministry.
With this in mind, in the main section of this booklet we have republished
verbatim articles and snippets that appeared in Christian Witness Ministries’
(CWM) publications2, with references to the editions and dates when they
were first published3. They should be read with this stated reason in view.
“Nevertheless when the Son of man comes, shall he find faith on the earth?”
—LUKE 18:8
KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
“Now we beseech you, my brothers, with regard to the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, that you should not be soon
shaken in mind or troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word or letter, as
through us, as if the Day of Christ is at hand. Let not anyone deceive you by
any means. For that Day shall not come unless there first comes a falling
away, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes
and exalts himself above all that is called 5
God, or that is worshipped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God,

setting himself forth, that he is God.”
—2 THESSALONIANS 2:1-4
THE MODERN KING JAMES VERSION (MKJV)
The Greek word “apostasia” (Strongs 646) translated “a falling away”
in II Thessalonians 2:3 is rendered “forsake” in Acts 21:21, which is the only

other place where apostasia (transliterated in English as
“apostasy” ) appears in the New Testament.
“And they are informed concerning you, that you teach all the Jews who are
among the nations to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise
their children, nor to walk after the customs” (Acts 21:21
MKJV)
The one refers to a forsaking of the law of Moses, while the other refers to a
forsaking of the faith of Christ and is presented as the one great sign that we
should look for prior to the return of our Lord.
This is in total agreement with Luke 18:8 — “...when the Son of man comes,
shall he find faith on the earth?”
Like the passage in II Thessalonians chapter two, which we have quoted

above, we reveal the three sources of deception in the teaching of Benny
Hinn — spirit, word and letter.
Mr Hinn has written a number of books, the most well known being Good
Morning Holy Spirit, which, as we have documented on page 49, has been
subject to revision due to proven lies and admitted false teaching contained in
earlier editions. We implore you don’t be deceived by his writings nor by his
preaching.
In our regular journal entitled Contending EARNESTLY for THE
Faith (CETF) as well as in our magazine called VANGUARD, we have

consistently pointed out the heresy and error that Benny Hinn has preached in
his crusades and on Trinity Broadcasting Television.
1 Refer The Confusing World of Benny Hinn — by Personal Freedom

Outreach (PFO).
2 Contending EARNESTLY for THE Faith (CETF) and VANGUARD. Join

our subscription list at the CWM home page.
3 May be viewed also at CWM homepage www.christian-witness.org 6

His “word” is laced with deception.
Undoubtedly the most pervasive deception is that associated with spirit

communication. Benny Hinn has been variously called a “spirit”
freak and a mystic. He has claimed special anointing from the graves of two
women whose ministry he admired — Amy Semple Macpherson and
Kathryn Khulman, who he claims has appeared to him in vision form and
with whom he has communicated since her death. In addition he claims angel
visitation and the latest, as we have documented in the first section of this
book, that Jesus Christ Himself is about to appear on the platform in one or
more of Benny Hinn’s crusades. These fables are in part designed to attract
followers.
It is a matter of major concern that leaders of churches, in their apparent

pursuit of recognition and standing in their local, national or international
community and to gain a large following, should vacillate from fad to fad
with little consideration for the Word of God or the consequences of their
fickleness upon the gospel and the Christian public. I recognise the dilemma
associated with leaders admitting major mistakes, but fail to see that ignoring
them and moving on to something else is any solution. In my view, that sort
of attitude and action, only adds to the problem.
Some six years ago Andrew Evans, who was one of the first church leaders to
invite Benny Hinn to Australia, sent me a note indicating that the Paradise
AoG had withdrawn all of Benny Hinn’s videos and audios. I wrote to him
and said that the action was too late. The horse had already bolted, through
the promotion of Benny Hinn all over Australasia. He never replied to my
letter. Following Mr Hinn’s alleged “repentance” it would appear that Mr
Evans and the church in Adelaide reversed their decision as they have most
certainly supported and promoted Benny Hinn since then.
Philip L. Powell
16 May 2000
Contents
Chapter One
A summary of the latest
infornmation on Benny Hinn ............................. 11
by Sandy Simpson
Chapter Two
Fire of divine Judgement .................................... 22
by Philip L. Powell
Chapter Three
Benny Hinn Unmasked ....................................... 23
by Philip L. Powell
Chapter Four
Benny Hinn Unmasked ...................................... 26
by Neil Richardson
Chapter Five
The Confusing World

of Benny Hinn ..................................................... 50
by Philip L. Powell
Chapter Six
Italian Pentecostals Boycott Hinn ....................... 52
by Philip L. Powell
Chapter Seven
More on Benny Hinn .......................................... 55
by Neil Richardson
Chapter Eight
Benny Hinn and Necromancy.............................. 57
by Philip L. Powell
Chapter Nine
Benny Hinn... going lower....................................... 58
by Philip L. Powell
Chapter Ten
When Will the Hypocrisy End? ........................... 69
by Philip L. Powell
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CHAPTER ONE:
A summary of the latest
information on Benny Hinn
BY SANDY SIMPSON
About the Author...
Sandy Simpson is the son of a pastor of a church belonging to the Conference

of Congregational
Christian Churches (CCCC) of America, who became a missionary with the

interdenominational evangelical Liebenzell Mission International of the USA
in Micronesia. For more information on this faith mission visit:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/
Liebenzell_USA/homepage.htm
Sandy Simpson’s home page is at: http://pages.
hotbot.com/family/ssimpson2846/index.html
Sandy is Webmaster for Deception In The Church, which is an apologetics

web site exposing the false prophecy and teaching in the New Apostolic
Reformation or Third Wave (also called The River Revival) counterfeit

revival movement out of Toronto, Brownsville A/G, Rodney Howard-
Browne, Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, Rod Parsley, Joyce Meyer, Bishop
Earl Paulk, Richard Roberts, Pat Robertson, Paul Crouch and many others.
If you want to recommend Deception In The Church apologetics web site to

your friends just use the following link: http://www.recommend-it.com/
l.z.e?s=468540
MY family taught and administered a Christian girls’ school in Palau for 18
years, as well as doing church planting and evangelism. My father died in
Palau in a boating accident while on his own during a storm. His body was
never recovered.
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Many were saved as a result of his ministry and many after his death.
My mother continued to serve in the school. I attended high school at Faith

Academy in the Philippines and then I went on to do Christian music for
fifteen years with Sparrow Records, Meadowlark Records, Capitol Records
all under the Ark Records label with Jeff Johnson.
We recorded and produced many albums. I also wrote and produced

hundreds of commercial advertisement jingles and industrial and feature film
scores during that time. I joined Liebenzell Mission USA with my wife Rose
in 1989 and have been serving in Micronesia out of Guam as a guest-house
manager, purchasing agent for 40 missionaries and four schools, doing
evangelism and music, bringing conferences and speakers out to the islands,
and many other things. I am now in Hawaii with my family and my mother.
We live together and are doing bible studies for Micronesian islanders here.
We also produce a newsletter that goes out to key pastors and Christian
leaders in Micronesia on a quarterly basis called “Pacific Waves”. I continue
to do the discernment ministry web site here in Hawaii that I started in Guam
in 1997 in response to the first group from Brownsville that came to the
islands. The web site was started to give pastors in the islands a resource to
help them with the issues facing them from the Third Wave onslaught of the
islands.
My mother wrote a book about her early mission experience called
“Walking The Waves” which is available from major booksellers. It details

more about my family. We have been in mission work for 38
years. The Lord has given us many people to disciple and that is what we are
doing ... especially following up on the graduates of the mission schools and
their children. We have many contacts all over the Pacific Islands and we are
doing whatever we can to teach them sound doctrine and preach the gospel.
I have attended and/or been a member of many churches in my life such as

Conservative Baptist, American Baptist, Calvary Chapel, AoG,
Congregational Christian Church (CCCC, not UCC), Southern Baptist,
Independent Baptist, nondenominational churches, etc. We have churches
from a wide variety of evangelical backgrounds that support our ministry,
including the above denominations and more.
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So I have a pretty wide view of what is going on in the church today.
Our primary focus is the bible study groups we have with islanders from
Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae, the Marshalls, Palau, Yap, Guam and Saipan. We
do a lot of visitation of the sick as many come here for medical help. We also
travel in Micronesia and I am putting together a discernment conference with
Mike Oppenheimer of “Let Us Reason”
Radio Ministry for Hawaii, Guam and Palau in March 2001 with Dave Hunt,
Bill Randles and Jewel van der Merwe.
The following articles are taken from Deception in the Church website:
Volume 5, Issue 2
DECEPTION IN THE CHURCH Newsletter 5/00
Dear All,
The feature article in this newsletter is an update on the “Benny
Hinn claims Jesus will appear physically in his crusades” story we sent out
a month ago. It contains transcripts and many audio clips as well as links to
TBN Real Player clips of the “This Is Your Day” on TBN. Since I put the
original story out Hinn has been making more and more outrageous claims.
That there has been almost no hue and cry from the ranks of orthodox
Christianity on the subject of Hinn’s latest claims below shows the sorry state
of the “Church”
today. How much more evidence do Christians need to stand up for the truth?
How many more millions of lives will Benny Hinn drag down to spiritual
ruination before some Christian leaders make their voices heard loud and
clear. From my vantage point, I only see a few discernment ministries laying
their necks on the chopping block for the truth, and they do it ALL THE
TIME! It’s time for other Christian leaders to be counted on this issue. What
Benny Hinn is doing is EXACTLY what Jesus Christ warned us about in
Matthew 24: At that time if anyone says to you, “Look, here is the Christ!”
or, “There he is!” do not believe it. For false Christs and false prophets will
appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect—if
that were possible. See, I have told you ahead of time. So if anyone tells you,
“There he is, out in the desert,” do not go out; or, “Here he is, in the inner
rooms,” do not believe it. For as lightning that comes from the east is 13
visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man” ( Matthew
24:23-27).
This is a call for the body of Christ to rise up and cast this wolf in sheep’s
clothing firmly away from its ranks and call him what he is
— a heretic leading a cult! We have a duty to warn people against the likes of
Benny Hinn before those who do not know the Lord NEVER want to know
Him ... and those that do shipwreck their faith.
If we do not stand against the likes of Benny Hinn and instead continue to
call him “a brother in Christ”, I am convinced that we will be judged for
being “ashamed of Jesus Christ”. I’ll take the word of the Lord Jesus Christ
any day over the word of Benny Hinn.
“To seek unity with false prophets without challenging their errors leaves
one’s own beliefs open to question.
Those who defend heretics, even if they do not believe in their teachings, are
guilty of lending credibility to their heresies, and will be held accountable to
God for the souls that are destroyed as a result. It’s up to those that know the
truth to defend the church against false teachers whatever the cost to unity or
to personal benefit.”
Al Dagar, Media Spotlight Special Report
“Latter-Day Prophets: The Restoration of Apostles and Prophets and the

Kansas City-Vineyard Connection”, September, 1990, (p. 11).
I believe God, in His grace and longsuffering, is allowing people like Benny
Hinn to test true believers. While Hinn struts, postulates, makes up stories to
grow his following, and collects obscene amounts of money to do “ministry”,
he has lately “kicked it up a notch” and is doing exactly what Jesus warned us
about, thereby proving beyond any doubt that he is a last days’ false prophet.
I believe that God is allowing this last days’ test for Christians to see if they
will love the truth or go running after myths. When He comes, will He find
faith on the earth?
Benny Hinn claims: Jesus will appear “physically” in Nairobi, Kenya! benny-
hinn.wav (1.85 MB — © April 2nd, 2000 by TBN).
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Here is a transcript of this clip:
“The hour is urgent. Many of you have known me for many years. But I am
telling you right now, things I haven’t said years ‘n years ‘n years ago. I
believe —
hear this, hear this! I believe, that Jesus, God’s Son, is about to appear
physically, in meetings and to believers around the world, to wake us up! He
appeared after His resurrection and He is about to appear before His second
coming! You know a prophetess sent me a word through my wife, right here,
and she said ‘Tell your husband that Jesus is go’n to physically appear in his
meetings.’ I am expecting to see, I am telling you that – I feel it’s going to
happen. I, I, I’m, I’m careful in how I am saying it now, because I know the
people in Kenya are listening. I know deep in my soul, something
supernatural is going to happen in Nai – in Nairobi Kenya. I feel that. I may
very well come back, and you and Jan are coming, to – Paul and Jan are
coming to Nairobi with me, but Paul, we may very well come back with
footage of Jesus on the platform! You know that the Lord appeared in
Romania recently, and there’s a video of it! Where the Lord appeared in the
back of a church and you see him on video walking down the isle? Yeah!
Paul do you remember when I came on TBN years ago and showed you a clip
of the Lord appearing in our church in Orlando, on the balcony on the wall?
Yeah. You, you remember that? [Paul Crouch] Very well, I saw it! [Benny
Hinn] That was ’80, 80 something, ’86, what – whatever. You know I always
wondered why the Lord, why did He do that? Do you know why, now I look
back? That was the beginning of the greatest move of God in our church.
Because
’83, ’84, and ’85 were horrible years for me, horrible years. Eighty-six the
blessings of God began, but they began with a – with this manifestation of the
Lord’s face on, on the balcony, that stayed for eight weeks.
Eight solid weeks! The Lord has done this in the past, but He is about to do it
again, now hear this, I am 15
prophesying this! Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is about to appear physically
in some churches, and some meetings, and to many of His people, for one
reason –
to tell you He is about to show up! To Wake Up! Jesus is coming saints!”
— Benny Hinn, April 2nd, 2000
Benny Hinn claims: Jesus will appear “physically” on the platform with him.
Benny repeated his claim that Jesus will be appearing physically at his
crusade(s) about 10 minutes into his
“This is your day” program dated April 20th, 2000 (Real Video).
Thousands of people will allegedly see Jesus physically on the stage!

Here is a transcript of the relevant portion:
“...the Lord spoke to her recently, and she called my wife and told her to tell
me, that Jesus said to her, that He will appear physically on the platform in
one of our crusades. She said, ‘Tell Benny, that the Lord told me, that He is
going to appear physically, on the platform, and the crowds will see Him, on
the platform’. Dear God my hair is standing up! It may very well happen in
Nashville! ... Think, think about what’s going to happen when the people,
thousands, she said thousands will see the Lord on the, on the, on the
platform! Lord may it happen in every crusade this year in Jesus’ mighty
name.”
— Benny Hinn, April 20th, 2000
Benny Hinn claims: Jesus will “visibly” appear in one of his crusades! At the
beginning of the program, Benny again repeated his belief that Jesus would
appear physically at the Nairobi crusade, and that He is now appearing to
Muslims in his “This is your day”
program dated April 21st, 2000 (Real Video). Here is a transcript of a portion
of that program:
“You know, yesterday on the program I was telling you and the audience
here that ... the prophetess, had sent me a word from the Lord, where she said
that the Lord had spoken to her clearly, that, a, for me to prepare 16
myself, for the Lord is going to visibly appear, on the platform, in one of our
crusades. I pray it’ll happen in every crusade. But I have a feeling, I am just
telling you honestly, I have even told some of our staff, when I go to Kenya, I
am going to Kenya in just a few days from now, a million people will be in
Kenya, Nairobi. I feel in my being it is going to happen there. So pray for us
as we go to Kenya. I pray it will happen tonight, at the good Friday service in
Nashville. I pray it will happen in every crusade.
—Benny Hinn, April 21st, 2000

Benny Hinn claims: Jesus appeared to a whole crowd in Africa! Again Benny
repeats that Jesus will physically appear at his crusades on the “This is your
day” program dated May 2nd, 2000
(Real Video, see six minutes into the program. Programs are recorded three
weeks in advance, so this program was recorded before the Nairobi crusade.)
Here is a transcript of the relevant portion:
“And I know, that I know, that I know, we are about to see the greatest
manifestations of God’s presence ever!
A prophetess named ... sent me a word recently and told me to get ready, to
see, physical manifestations of Christ on the platforms in our crusades, that
people will have visions of the Lord in the meetings. Those things have
happened in the past, I know. In a Thialagua meeting one time in Africa, the
Lord appeared to a —
to the whole crowd! It is about to begin happening, I know it too! Expect it,
to happen also, in your own home!”
— Benny Hinn, May 2nd, 2000
Benny Hinn claims: Ruth Heflin got an “audible” from the Lord. Here is an
audio clip 29MARCH-CLIP1.WAV (637KB — ©
March 2000 by Benny Hinn Ministries) from the “This Is Your Day”
program of March 29th, 2000, when Benny apparently first announced that
Jesus would appear at his meetings. This occurred about 10 minutes into the
program. The RealVideo of this program 17
is still available from Benny Hinn’s web site, but may be removed at any
time, since his site no longer lists it: “This is your day” program dated March
29th, 2000. Here is a transcript of the clip:
“Let me tell you something. The Holy Spirit has already told me He is about
to show up. And you know, oh, I gotta tell you this quickly, just before we
go. I had a word of prophecy from ... Ruth Heflin, you know who Ruth
Heflin is? Ruth prophesied over me back in the seventies and everything she
said has happened. She just sent me a word through my wife and said the
Lord spoke to her audibly and said that He is going to appear physically in
one of our crusades in the next few months. Yeah, she—I’m telling ya—she
said, the Lord spoke to her audibly and said, ‘Tell Benny I’m going to appear
physically on the platform in his meetings’. Lord, do it in Phoenix Arizona in
the name of Jesus! And in Kenya too, Lord, please, Lord, in fact, do it in
every crusade. In Jesus’ name.”
— Benny Hinn, March 29th, 2000
Volume 5, Issue 3
DECEPTION IN THE CHURCH Newsletter 9 May 2000
Dear All,
I know many of you are downright tired of hearing about Benny Hinn, but
when I reviewed the recent “This Is Your Day” shows I caught something I
thought I had heard before. The short article called “Benny Hinn The Puppet
Master—Jesus Christ allegedly serves as marionette to Benny Hinn, the
puppeteer” by Sandy Simpson, May 8, 2000 is attached. It speaks for itself.
If you have been watching Hinn the last month or so you have noticed that
his storytelling has reached new flights of fancy, and his blasphemy seems to
mount up higher each day. I continue to call for Christian leaders to speak out
clearly in denunciation of his “ministry”. The time is now.
Why do I say that? Because with the advent of events like “Celebrate Jesus
2000” cementing the relationship between the Third Wave and the Roman
Catholic Church, and other organizations who have 18
signed on with Rome such as Chuck Colson of Prison Fellowship, Bill Bright
of Campus Crusade, Pat Robertson of 700 Club, and 65
percent of the Lutheran church, the numbers of the apostate world church are
growing everyday. Soon they will have too much power to be brought to task
for their heretical teachings and ecumenical/
interfaith alliances. People like Benny Hinn will soon not only not have to
listen to rebuke, but will be able to put real muscle behind his curses on those
who disagree with them. Lest you doubt this please make yourself aware of
all the militant talk and prophesies in the counterfeit revival lately.
Wolves in sheep’s clothing like Benny Hinn should have been dealt with
many years ago. But now, because of the cowardice of most Christian
leaders, true believers are finding themselves in the minority, and persecution
is sure to follow. This is the last warning bell to “come out of her” and
separate ourselves as a holy people unto our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
In His hands, Sandy Simpson, missionary
P.S. Don’t forget to visit the Deception In The Church web site for the latest
in articles and news on the Third Wave and related movements at:
http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/
Benny Hinn the Puppet Master
Jesus Christ allegedly serves as marionette
to Benny Hinn, the puppeteer
by Sandy Simpson May 8, 2000
I always ask myself, while watching Benny Hinn lead thousands of pagans to
believe in vain and millions of Christians to shipwreck their faith ... “How
much further can he go?” Wasn’t it bad enough for him to state that Jesus
Christ is going to appear bodily on stage with Benny Hinn in direct
opposition to what Jesus Christ said about His next appearance on earth?
“At that time if anyone says to you, “Look, here is the Christ!” or, “There he
is!” do not believe it. For false Christs and false prophets will appear and
perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect—if that were
possible. See, I have told you ahead of time. So if anyone tells you, 19
“There he is, out in the desert,” do not go out; or, “Here he is, in the inner
rooms,” do not believe it. For as lightning that comes from the east is visible
even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man” (Matthew 24:23-
27).
Well, hold on to your seats for more blasphemy! Laced with the usual myths
and false claims of miracles came this new revelation on April 21, 2000 on
Hinn’s “This Is Your Day” program. You may still be able to view the video
of this program at: http://www.bhmm
.org/media/2000-4-21-56.ram
Although Hinn’s site only archives the shows there for a month or so. Go to
about 5 minutes into the program and watch from there.
You can also listen to the audio of this tale of puppeteering here:
www9.50megs.com/ditc/hinn42100.WAV
Follow along with the transcript:
“You know one of these days we may show you what happened in our church
in Orlando when I had the church in Florida. I was preaching, I was actually
ministering on a Sunday night to the sick when suddenly the people began
screaming as the Lord’s face appeared on the balcony. We have it on video.
The Lord’s face appeared on the balcony and what was so remarkable is right
before that the same face appeared in the children’s church on a blackboard.
And a little child sitting there with crippled legs was healed instantly. The
teacher comes running down from the balcony screaming and shouting, the
kids are all behind her, telling us how the Lord had appeared up there.
And when she came running down that’s when the face of the Lord appeared
in the main sanctuary. She was screaming, we all began screaming, and for
eight weeks the Lord’s face was on that balcony, on the wall.
And what was even more remarkable is that night, that Sunday night service
when I was having a healing service, as I was speaking the mouth was
moving. The mouth ... the Lord’s face was on the wall and you could see the
mouth moving as I was speaking. And we thought, it was maybe, you know,
it had to do with the 20
lights, you know just how we are all human beings, we’re like Thomas
sometimes who say “Is this for real?”
And, and, and the next day, Monday, the lights were all out ... it was still
there! Eight weeks later it was still there.”
—Benny Hinn, This Is Your Day, April 21, 2000
Appalled as you may be, you may not realise that Benny Hinn has had prior
experience with “manipulation” of Jesus Christ. Read this episode from
Benny Hinn’s 1987, yet ever changing, personal testimony:
“Benny Hinn speaks of many other experiences given over the TBN network.
For example, he said that the Lord was in front of him and when he moved
his arm so did Jesus. When he moved his foot so did Jesus.
This continued until they walked together and they merged becoming one.
Incredible! This “Christianity”
is more at home with New Age Occultic experience than with the Christ of
the bible!”
(Benny Hinn, Personal testimony, July 1987 audio #A071987, Orlando

Christian Center as cited in “Touch, Topple, Tilt” by Mike Oppenheimer, Let
Us Reason, P.O. 683, Wahiawa HI 96786) I continue to marvel that Christian
leaders do not call Benny Hinn, who has been rebuked countless times by
discernment ministries for his false teachings, what he is ... a heretic! He is a
false prophet, a false teacher, a false Christ, and a liar all rolled into one, and
this has been documented for years. Are we all to continue to act like he is
our brother in the Lord?
This type of stuff is blasphemy of the highest order and, frankly, I am really
fed up with it. But worse than the apostate condition of Benny Hinn and those
who follow him is a lukewarm church that is apparently too scared to warn
people away from Hinn. With each new Benny Hinn blasphemy many church
leaders today, who are not standing up for the truth, are bringing themselves
closer to judgment. Are they so ashamed of the Lord Jesus Christ that they
will not even defend His Almighty Name?
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CHAPTER TWO:
Fire of Divine Judgement
BY PHILIP L. POWELL
The following article appeared first in CETF Volume 2.3, June/August 1996.
ONE of the worst things we heard during our time in Australia is that Benny
Hinn, who is undoubtedly one of the most influential false teachers about the
Holy Spirit in our day, is to be guest speaker at the national AOG Conference
next year. Last year it was Rodney Howard-Browne with his mesmerism.
Next year it will be Benny Hinn with his “magic coat”—the amazing “spirit”
dispenser who taught that Eve was made to have children out of her side
(apparently the birth canal fell with the fall!); that Adam could fly from
planet to planet, swim like a fish and fly like a bird; that there were nine
persons in the Godhead. Sadly AOG in USA “rolled out the red carpet” to
Benny Hinn in spite of his admitted heresies.
Incidentally, since his repentance about teaching those things, his latest extra-
biblical gaffe is that the Egyptians were not drowned in the Red Sea. They
were crushed by giant ice cubes. It really is amazing stuff and makes you
wonder how men like Benny Hinn can stay in Christian ministry, let alone be
invited as guest speakers at official conferences!
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CHAPTER THREE:
Benny Hinn Unmasked
BY PHILIP L. POWELL
The following was first published in the Australian edition of VANGUARD
Issue 3, May 1998 as a lead-in to Neil Richardson’s first article in the

UNMASKED series.
Editorial Comment by Philip Powell:
Frequently when presenting the following and similar facts about Benny
Hinn we encounter the statement: “Yes but Benny Hinn has repented and so
it’s wrong to dig up the past.” However the bible position regarding serious
sin (heresy is a serious sin) is that it carries consequences.
Furthermore the bible clearly teaches that true repentance results in a change
of behaviour. We publish this article with a deep sense of compassion and
concern, especially for the large numbers of Christians who are confused or
deceived but also for Mr Hinn himself and for those who endorse, sponsor or
promote his meetings. Those who deceive are frequently deceived
themselves. We must look at the facts.
At no time, in our view, has Benny Hinn seriously been made to face up to
the enormous damage that his false teaching has caused to individuals and to
the body of Christ and so the problem is ongoing. We understand that his
advisors, including charismatic church leader Jack Hayford persuaded him to
make a public acknowledgment of some of his earlier false teaching, which
he did.
At that point, to all intents and purposes and in many people’s minds, the
matter ends. But is that the case from a biblical perspective? We don’t think
so.
Paul the apostle teaches that “a little leaven leavens the whole lump”
(1 Corinthians 5:6 and Galatians 5:9). The first reference relates to

immorality in the church and the second to false teaching 23
in the church. There is only one remedy “purge out the old leaven that you
may be a new lump” (1 Corinthians 5:7); “that you will have no other mind”
(Galatians 5:10). If proper, biblical discipline is not instituted the matter will
spread—in both cases viz in respect of immorality and of false teaching. And
sadly that is precisely what has happened very widely in the church in both
regards.
Church leaders who are guilty of immorality are all too frequently dealt with
privately or “transferred” to another situation. The matter is “hushed-up”. The
biblical requirements of public rebuke (1
Timothy 5:20) and evidence of repentance (Luke 3:7-8) are seldom invoked.
Cronyism and nepotism rule the day. Sometimes congregations are left with
the impression that their pastor has suffered a nervous breakdown or “burn-
out” when in fact he has been guilty of serious sin that should be dealt with
openly, both for his own sake and for that of the people of God. Corruption at
the top will ultimately corrupt the whole.
A similar situation pertains to false doctrine. It spreads— “their word will eat
as doth a canker (gangrene): of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; who
concerning the truth have erred” 2 Timothy 2. Interestingly Paul named the
false teachers of his day, to protect the church. He would do the same now, if
he were with us.
Benny Hinn has acknowledged that his hugely popular “Good Morning Holy
Spirit” contained heresy. So what does he do about it?
On the occasion of his acceptance into the AOG credentialed ministry in

USA he said he would write another book to reflect his changed position. The
end result is total, utter and absolute confusion. So now not only do you have
heresy but you also have widespread confusion and it’s all because the
proper, biblical remedy is not instituted.
By his own confession Mr Hinn is a heretic and therefore not worthy to
occupy the position of a teacher in the christian church (c/f James 3:1-2). He
should stop writing and preaching and put himself under discipline until he
knows and understands what are the basic truths of scripture. Maybe he
should enrol in a good bible school. Because 24
the book (and other material) containing the heresy cannot be withdrawn and
because the heretic is not properly disciplined it is inevitable that further
heretical teachings will proceed from Mr Hinn and that is exactly what has
happened and will continue to happen—
“a little leaven leavens the whole lump”. In this corrupting of the charismatic
and pentecostal church the leaders who endorse or sponsor Benny Hinn must
share the responsibility for what is happening.
It is now clearly established and well documented that Mr Benny Hinn

practises necromancy, which is absolutely forbidden in the bible (see the
CWM web site at http://www.christian-witness.org or order the book The
Confusing World of Benny Hinn from CWM). Bad as this is, the matter is
even worse. The above book alleges and provides undeniable evidence for
the conclusion that a much younger Benny Hinn, in an attempt to establish a
mystique and aura, has published downright lies and gross exaggerations
about himself and his ministry. (The publishers of the above listed book were
contacted by Hinn’s lawyer requesting that they withdraw it. They refused.)
Developing, in people’s minds, a mystique about oneself by telling stories
about supposed spiritual encounters or imaginary healings is a ruse employed
by a number of so called ministers. Benny Hinn has used the device to great
effect. Some of those who endorse him have been presented with the facts
and the evidence, but they continue their support. In so doing they are
themselves guilty of the huge deception that is taking place among God’s
people. We call on them to repent.
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CHAPTER FOUR:
Benny Hinn Unmasked
BY NEIL RICHARDSON
This is the article that launched Neil Richardson’s UNMASKED series, first
published in the UK edition (Issue 1, October 1997) and then in Australasian
edition of VANGUARD (Issue 3, May 1998): {REFER
bennyhinn.html}
TWO of the scriptures to consider when dealing with this man, and others
like him, are Galatians 1:7-8 “There are some who trouble you and want to
pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should
preach any gospel to you other than the one we have preached to you, let him
be accursed;” and 1 Timothy 2:1 “Therefore I exhort first of all that
supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all
men”...
The main objective of this article, then, is to warn the body of Christ of false
teachers and false teachings and to show from the bible how to “cast down
arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of
God” (2 Corinthians 10:5). The secondary aim is to move the reader to pray
for people like Benny Hinn and those whom he influences, that the Lord
“who desires all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth” (1
Timothy 2:4), may reveal Himself to them, and deliver them from the devil’s
deception.
BENNY HINN: the man
Pastor of the Orlando Christian Center in Florida. Congregation: 12,000.

Regular televangelist on Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) with programs
like This is your day; Benny Hinn, Praise-a-Thon and Praise the Lord (PTL).
Potential viewing figures: 16 million.
Author of blockbusting bestsellers Good Morning Holy Spirit, This is Your

Day, This is Your Day for a Miracle, Lord I need a Miracle, The Blood, Rise
and Be Healed, Welcome Holy Spirit and The Anointing. Sales: 26
upwards of one million (exceeding those of Charles Swindoll and James

Dobson combined).
Born and raised in Israel, which leads many to believe that he has command
of authoritative biblical Hebrew (he doesn’t). He claimed his father was
mayor of Jaffa (he wasn’t).
“Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for so did their fathers to the
false prophets” (Luke 6:26).
What is he up to and with whom does he associate?
He appeared at Earls’ Court, London in August 1996 with international

evangelist Morris Cerullo and Kensington Temple (London) pastor Colin
Dye among others, where he made claims of bringing a greater revival to
England than it has ever seen (one that the apostles Peter and James wish
they could be at), in which the houses of parliament and Buckingham palace
would be shaken. He also relieved the very willing audience of a vast amount
of cash (in buckets), assuring the people that they would receive a great
(financial) reward, physical healing, the anointing of the Holy Spirit,
deliverance from the devil, and so on. The author of this piece was present
and can testify in truth that what characterises Benny’s crusades is not the
gospel but GREED— “Men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who
suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself” (1
Timothy 6:5).
The Lord Jesus Christ, His cross, sin, repentance and faith were not
mentioned. There was no prayer. The bible was not read, except random
verses to back up monetary extortion. Most of the talk was at the devil and
not to God.
In a crusade conducted in Rome in late 1996 he so incensed his Pentecostal

promoters by his public support of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church
that the interpreter refused to interpret his preaching, the musical group
refused to perform and later the sponsors signed a declaration of non-
association with Benny Hinn, indicating that they would never invite him to
Italy again. The Italian Assemblies of God had previously refused to be
involved in the crusade.
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At the 1997 National Assemblies of God Conference in Adelaide Benny Hinn

again eulogised the Pope and told of his meeting with Cardinal Sin of the
Philippines and their private agreement that Sin would promote Hinn and that
Hinn would encourage Roman Catholics to return to and remain in their
Catholic faith and church.
Notwithstanding these facts prominent AOG leaders in Australia and New

Zealand continue to support, endorse and sponsor Benny Hinn’s visits to
Australasia.
In 1991, Benny Hinn commissioned Rodney Howard-Browne to be the

“laughter dispenser” in the so-called new wave of the Holy Spirit:
“Rodney, God has given you a great anointing for this.
Let the holy laughter hit them in Jesus’ mighty name...it’s coming [zaps
him].... Pick him up. Now release it on the people, Rodney!”
[Rodney replies] “Be filled right now. In the name of Jesus, I command you
to laugh right now. I loose the joy of the Lord right now. In the name of
Jesus, let it bubble out of your belly right now in Jesus’ name. Let the joy of
the Lord bubble out of your belly. Lord make everybody drunk in the Holy
Ghost. Make everybody drunk in the Holy Ghost. In the name of Jesus
[repeated 10 times]....Double dose!” [Pushes people over, weird tongues with
no interpretation, etc.] (See clip from A Plague in the Land video by Alan
Morrison; available from CWM).
Mr Hinn is ordained by the International Convention of Faith Churches and

Ministers, the chief proponents of which are Kenneth Hagin and Kenneth
Copeland. He is also fully endorsed by Oral Roberts of the same stable. He
has said, “I no longer believe the faith message” ( Christianity Today,
October 1991), but he continues to staunchly defend the tenets of this group,
which stresses “positive confession” and health-and-wealth prosperity
teachings: “Those who attack confession are on the devil’s side.” (Benny
Hinn, TBN, 8th June 1992.) Here is a quote that shows his advocacy of their
peculiar
“you are gods” heresy:
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“Now are you ready for some real revelation
knowledge? Okay. Now watch this: He laid aside His divine form...so one
day I would be clothed on earth with the divine form. Kenneth Hagin has a
teaching. A lot of people have problems with it. Yet it is an absolute truth.
Kenneth Copeland has a teaching. Many
Christians have put holes in it, but it’s divine truth. Hagin and Copeland say:
You are god. Ye are gods. “Oh! I can’t be god.” Hold it. Let’s bring balance
to this teaching. The balance is being taught by Hagin. It’s those that repeat
him that mess it up. The balance is being taught by Copeland, who is my dear
friend, but it’s those that repeat what he says that are messing it up. You see
there brother? When Jesus was on earth, the bible says that first He disrobed
Himself of the divine form. He, the limitless God, became a man, that we
men, may become as He is.”
(Our Position in Christ, Orlando Christian Center, 1990.) For approximately

two years Benny Hinn was a certificated minister of Assemblies of God in
USA. The writer of this piece viewed the video tape of the service where he
was interviewed and accepted by the relevant presbytery. Hinn indicated that
he wanted to accept discipline and supervision. General Superintendent Trask
seemed to bend over backwards and to bend all the rules to accommodate
him as a special case person. Within two years, for reasons that have not been
disclosed, the association was severed. If Hinn was expelled the matter
should be made public. If he withdrew then the reasons should be given.
What is there to hide?
Benny Hinn is a kingpin of the Toronto movement, particularly considering

his influence on John Arnott, pastor of the then Toronto Airport Vineyard
(TAV): “John is very close friends with Benny Hinn which gives an
indication of what his priorities are in terms of the Holy SPIRIT” ( Alpha
magazine, September 1994). Arnott confesses his own inexplicable non-
susceptibility to Benny’s anointing: 29
“I’d probably had Benny pray for me 50 times, trying to give me what he had
(John hadn’t received the anointing until November 1993). I was never sure if
I fell down (everything happened so fast) or that the catchers behind me just
grabbed me and pulled me back or if he [Benny] hit me so hard on the
forehead that he knocked me down, or whether I just wanted it so bad that I
just sort of fell over because that was what was expected of me and I’d been
kind of lying there on the floor thinking to myself—“I don’t know if I fell or
anything, you know. I don’t want to make this up, or you know, hype it or
anything in any sense of the word. I might as well just get up from here, not
in touch with the fact that I was really receiving things of God whether I
believed it or not.”
(Audio clip in A Plague in the Land video by Alan Morrison.) When it comes
to style, however, Hinn gravitates towards such faith healers as Aimee
Semple Macpherson and Kathryn Kuhlman.
The influence of these women on Hinn’s life and ministry is so great that he
still visits their gravesites and experiences “the anointing”
which he claims emanates from their bones. In addition, Hinn has given his
endorsement to notorious revivalist A.A. Allen, a huckster if there ever was
one” (Christianity in Crisis, Hank Hanegraaff, 1993, p30; ref. Double Portion
Anointing#3 audio & Praise the Lord, TBN, 16th April 1992).
“Just before Christmas in 1973, I attended one of Kathryn Kuhlman’s healing

services. That night the Holy Spirit came into my room, and for the first time
I entered into a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit that transformed
my life. Afterwards, when I ministered, the power of God descended and
miracles began to happen,” says Hinn on his internet homepage. (Note that he
does not say that he repented of his sin and put his faith in the Lord Jesus
Christ. Benny Hinn’s “Holy SPIRIT” is an interesting entity which seems to
operate quite independently from God the Father or God the Son.) Kuhlman
is clearly then the formative stylistic influence on Benny’s behaviour.
Unfortunately “one eighty-five year old woman 30
who had come forward for a healing touch from Benny Hinn died after
someone slain in the Spirit fell on her, fracturing her hip. The woman’s
family filed a five-million dollar lawsuit against Hinn in the incident” (
Charismatic Chaos, John MacArthur, Jr., 1992; ref.
Elderly Woman Killed by a Person “slain in the SPIRIT” falling on her,

National & International Religion Report, September 21, 1987).
BENNY HINN: his teachings vis-a-vis the Word of God
■ The deity of Christ, and the perfection of His nature vs His demotion to a
Spirit-filled man capable of sin.
BENNY’S IDEAS:
“Had the Holy Spirit not been with Jesus, He would have sinned”
( Good Morning Holy Spirit, first edition, 1990, p135);
“Jesus knew the only way He would stop Satan is by becoming one in nature
with him” (Benny Hinn, TBN, 15th December 1990).
“Before He died, I should say, on that cross, something happened to Him

which began the wheels of the new creation moving that was this: He died
spiritually! Jesus Christ understood that spiritual death is union with the
satanic nature. What is spiritual death?
Separation from God” ( New Creation in Christ sermon, late 1988).
WORD OF GOD:
Philippians 2:6 “Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be
equal with God”
Colossians 1:15 “Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of
every creature”
Isaiah 9:6 “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the
government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called
Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince
of Peace.”
Matthew 1:23 “Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a
son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God
with us.”
Mark 2:5-7 “When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy,
Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. But there was certain of the scribes sitting
there, and reasoning in their hearts. Why doth this 31
man thus speak blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God only?”
Luke 4:12 “And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not
tempt the Lord thy God.”
John 10:30 “I and my Father are one.”
John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God.”
1 Timothy 3:16 “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness:

God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached
unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.”
■ The Trinity: Three or Nine?
BENNY’S IDEAS:
“Each one of them is a triune being by Himself...there’s nine of them”

(Benny Hinn, TBN, 3rd October 1990).
“God the Father is a person separate from the Holy Ghost. Totally separate.
...Do you know that the Holy Spirit has a soul and a body separate from that
of Jesus and the Father? ...God the Father then is a triune being within
Himself. He’s a person, He has His own Spirit, He has a soul. A soul is my
intellect. God thinks separate from the Son and separate from the Holy Ghost.
God the Father is a separate individual from the Son and the Holy Ghost, who
is a triune being who walks in a spirit body and He has hair, has eyes, has a
mouth, has hands” (Orlando Christian Center, October 13th 1990).
WORD OF GOD:
Matthew 28:19 “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost”
1 Corinthians 8:6 “But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are
all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things,
and we by him.”
1 John 5:7 “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the
Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.”
Deuteronomy 6:4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD”
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■ Man’s dominion over creation:
BENNY’S IDEAS:
“Adam was a super-being when God created him. ...The scriptures declare
clearly that he had dominion over the fowls of the air...which means he used
to fly. ...Adam not only flew, he flew to space. He was—with one thought he
would be on the moon” ( Praise the Lord, TBN, 26th December 1991).
WORD OF GOD:
Job 10:9 “Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and
wilt thou bring me into dust again?”
Job 39:26-27 “Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings
toward the south? Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her
nest on high?”
1 Corinthians 15:39 “All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of
flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.”
■ Sinful nature of man: versus the supposed deity of man (“ye are gods”
heresy)
BENNY’S IDEAS:
“You say, ‘Benny, am I a little God?’ You’re a son of God, aren’t

you?...What else are you? Quit your nonsense!...If you say, ‘I am’, you’re
saying you’re 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!” ( Our Position in
Christ #2, 1990, audiotape, sd2)
“When you were born again the Word was made flesh in you. And you
became flesh of His flesh and bone of His bone. Don’t tell me you have
Jesus. You are everything He was and everything He is and ever shall be...
Don’t say, ‘I have’, say, ‘I am, I am, I am, I am, I am’.”
(ibid.)
“When you say, ‘I am a Christian,’ you are saying, ‘I am mashiach,’
in the Hebrew. I am a little messiah walking on earth, in other words.
That is a shocking revelation. ...May I say it like this? You are a little god on
earth running around” ( Praise-a-Thon, TBN, 6th November 90)
“In my case, I know I have lost complete desire for anything to do 33
with the world. My worldly desires are gone....I no longer have any rebellion
in me.” ( The Anointing, p177-8.)
“SO, I’M BENNY JEHOVAH!” (Spiritual warfare seminar, May 2

1990).
“Say after me: ‘Within me is a God-Man.’ Say it again. ‘Within me is a God-

Man.’ [Congregation repeats.] Now, let’s say even better than that. Let’s say,
‘I AM A GOD-MAN.’ ‘This spirit man within me is a God-Man’. ‘Say ‘I’m
born-of-heaven-God-Man. I’m a God-Man.
I’m a sample of Jesus. I’m a super being’.” ( Praise the Lord, TBN,
December 6 1990).
‘God came to earth and touched a piece of dust and turned it into a God. Are
you a child of God? Then you’re divine! Are you a child of God? Then
you’re not human!” (TBN, December 1, 1990).
“When I stand in Christ—I am one with Him; united to Him; one spirit with
Him. I am not, hear me, I AM NOT PART OF HIM, I AM
HIM! THE WORD HAS BECOME FLESH IN ME! When my hand touches
someone, it’s the hand of Jesus touching somebody” (Our Position in Christ).
“I [Jesus] loved you enough to become one of ya! And I love you enough to
make you one of me.” (TBN, December 1 ’90).
WORD OF GOD:
Psalms 25:11 “For thy name’s sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is
great.”
Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately
wicked: who can know it?”
Romans 5:12 “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and
death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned”
Romans 7:18-21 “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no

good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is
good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would
not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin
that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is
present with me.”
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Hebrews 12:1 “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great
a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so
easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us”
James 2:10 “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one
point, he is guilty of all.”
1 John 1:8 “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the
truth is not in us.”
Mark 12:32 “And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the
truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he.”
■ The effect of words
BENNY’S IDEAS:
“The Devil can kill with words, then you with your words can bring life” (
Praise the Lord, 1 June 1989); “Words create reality” (Benny Hinn, TBN,
29th June 1992).
“ If you say it, I’ll do it .”
“That’s what God says. So when you confess it you are activating the
supernatural force of God. Do you know that confession activates heaven?
Confession releases the spirit world. Words activate heaven”
( Praise the Lord, Dec 6th, 1994).
“Violent faith. I think the time has come to take what is ours aggressively”
(TBN, Sept 26, 1994).
WORD OF GOD:
Job 13:5 “O that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it should be your
wisdom.”
Job 16:3 “Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou
answerest?”
Job 38:2 “Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?”
Psalms 12:3-4 “The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that
speaketh proud things. Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our
lips are our own: who is lord over us?”
Proverbs 10:19 “In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that
refraineth his lips is wise.”
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Ecclesiastes 5:7 “For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are
also divers vanities: but fear thou God.”
■ Health...
BENNY’S IDEAS:
There will be no sickness for the saint of God” ( Rise and Be Healed!, 1991,
p14); “He promises to heal all—everyone, any, any whatsoever, everything—
all our diseases! That means not even a headache, sinus problem, not even a
toothache—nothing! No sickness should come your way” (ibid., p32);
“God’s greatest desire for the church of Jesus Christ...is that we be in total
and perfect health” (ibid., p65); “If your body belongs to God, it does not and
cannot belong to sickness”
(ibid., p62); “Hundreds of verified healings and thousands of conversions

have occurred including people rising from wheelchairs and leaving crutches.
Several blind eyes and deaf ears have been opened and verified’ ( The
Anointing, 1992, pp94-95).
WORD OF GOD:
2 Corinthians 12:7-10 “And lest I should be exalted above measure through
the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh,
the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And
he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made
perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my
infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take
pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in
distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.”
Matthew 25:36 “Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I
was in prison, and ye came unto me.”
2 Timothy 4:20 “Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at

Miletum sick.”
Philippians 2:26-27 “For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness,
because that ye had heard that he had been sick. For indeed he was sick nigh
unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also,
lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.”
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■ ...and Wealth
BENNY’S IDEAS:
“The Lord giveth and never taketh away. And just because [Job]
said, ‘Blessed be the name of the Lord,’ don’t mean that he’s right.
When he said, ‘Blessed be the name,’ he was just being religious”
(Benny Hinn, TBN, November 1990); “Years ago they used to preach,
‘we are going to walk on streets of gold’ I would say, ‘I don’t need the gold
up there. I’ve got to have it down here’” ( Praise-a-Thon, TBN, 2nd April
1991).
“The wicked are piling up the funds and I love the way John
[Avazini] teaches on this. He’s the best there is on how to get the wealth of
the wicked. Man, I like it!” ( Praise-a-Thon, TBN, 6th November 1990.)
“Poverty is a demon. God had to show me a vision of a demon literally to

prove this to me. All at the same time when Oral Roberts came to tell me
what he told me about believing God for my harvest.
All at the same time, I had a vision in my bedroom. I was asleep and woke up
and right in front of my face I saw a devil. You say, “You saw it?” Yes, sir, I
did. If you have troubles with it, that’s your problem.
And that thing was mocking me in my bedroom. And the Lord spoke and said
to me, “That is the demon of poverty.” I didn’t think there was such a thing.
And the Lord said, “Now, rebuke it.” I sat up in bed and said, “I rebuke you.”
The Lord stopped me and said, “That’s not the way you rebuke. You rebuke
with My Word.” And suddenly out of my mouth, scriptures began flying out
about the blessings of God. That demon vanished out of my sight and from
that day till now, there’s been blessings on my life.” (TBN, 1990).
“We are going to believe that in one year you’ll be out of debt.
Now, that’s in the bible! Genesis 26 states that Isaac sowed in famine and
reaped in that same year. It says that he got a harvest that same year! If you
want a harvest this year, it’s gonna happen. I was out of debt in one year” (
Praise-a-Thon, TBN, April 1990).
“Say after me, all of you, everybody say it, ‘The wealth of the wicked is
mine.’ [The audience repeats.] One more time. [The audience repeats.] One
more time.” [The audience repeats.] (ibid.).
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WORD OF GOD:
Job 1:21 “And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked
shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away;
blessed be the name of the LORD.”
1 Samuel 2:7 “The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low,
and lifteth up.”
Job 21:13 “They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the
grave. Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the
knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and
what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?”
Job 31:24 “If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou
art my confidence; If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because
mine hand had gotten much; If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon
walking in brightness; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth
hath kissed my hand: This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge:
for I should have denied the God that is above.”
Psalms 37:16 “A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of
many wicked.”
Psalms 52:7 “Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted
in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”
Psalms 73:12 “Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they
increase in riches.”
Proverbs 10:2 “Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness

delivereth from death.”
Proverbs 11:4 “Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness
delivereth from death.”
Proverbs 11:28 “He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous
shall flourish as a branch.”
Proverbs 13:7 “There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is
that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.”
Proverbs 21:6 “The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed
to and fro of them that seek death.”
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Proverbs 23:4 “Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.”
Proverbs 23:5 “Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not?
For riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward
heaven.”
Proverbs 28:20 “A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that
maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.”
Proverbs 28:22 “He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth
not that poverty shall come upon him.”
Proverbs 30:8 “Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty
nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me.”
Ecclesiastes 5:10 “He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor
he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.”
Jeremiah 5:28 “They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds
of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they
prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.”
Jeremiah 17:11 “As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so
he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his
days, and at his end shall be a fool.”
Micah 6:12 “For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants
thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.”
Zephaniah 1:18 “Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver
them in the day of the LORD’S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured
by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all
them that dwell in the land.”
Matthew 6:19 “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth
and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal”
Matthew 13:22 “He also that received seed among the thorns is he that
heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches,
choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.”
Matthew 19:21 “Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that
thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and
come and follow me.”
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Matt 19:23 “Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a
rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.”
Luke 6:24 “But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your
consolation.”
Luke 12:15 “And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness:
for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he
possesseth.”
1 Timothy 6:5-10 “Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and

destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw
thyself. But godliness with contentment is great gain.
For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing
out.
“And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. But they that will
be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful
lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after,
they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many
sorrows.”
James 1:11 “For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it
withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the
fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.”
James 5:1 “Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that
shall come upon you.”
■ Treatment of enemies
BENNY’S IDEAS:
“Those that put us down are a bunch of morons” ( Praise-a-Thon, TBN,

November 1990); “Somebody’s attacking me because of something I’m
teaching. Let me tell you something, brother: You watch it! ...You know, I’ve
looked for one verse in the bible; I just can’t seem to find it. One verse that
said, “If you don’t like them, kill them.” I really wish I could find it! ...You
stink frankly—that’s the way I think about it! ...Sometimes I wish God will
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Ghost machine gun; I’ll blow your head off” ( Praise-a-Thon, TBN, 8th
November 1990); “The Holy Ghost is upon me....The day is coming when
those that attack us will drop down dead.... Don’t touch God’s servants; it’s
deadly... Woe to you that touch God’s servants. You’re going to pay”
(Miracle Invasion Rally, 22 Nov 91).
“Now I’m pointing my finger with the mighty power of God on me. You hear
this: There are men and women in Southern California attacking me. I will
tell you under the anointing now, you’ll reap it in your children unless you
stop. And your children will suffer. You’re attacking me on the radio every
night—you’ll pay and your children will. Hear this from the lips of God’s
servant. You are in danger.
Repent! Or God Almighty will move His hand. Touch not my Anointed.”
(World Charismatic Conference, 7th August 1992.); “You have attacked me,
your children will pay for it.” (TBN, Oct 23, 1992.)
“That got me so angry—if I could have killed him, I would have”
(Orlando Christian Center, Aug 12th 1992).
“Now I’m going to tell you that God prophetically is showing us in the
Psalms, that the body of Jesus Christ in America will sooner or later become
militant, and say: “We’ve had it! You touch us one more time and, DROP
DEAD BROTHER” (ibid.).
“If you pray, ‘get ’em,’ nothing can prevent that from happening, but God
has allowed enough grace that you can say, “Lord forgive them,” and God
will not allow anything to happen to them; it’s really up to you. God has
given you the choice whether He should judge them or not; it’s in your
hands” (ibid.).
“You don’t know the scriptures! You forgive them only when they know not
what they do. I pray that in my own prayer time; I said,
“Lord, don’t forgive them, let ’em have it” (ibid.).
WORD OF GOD:
Titus 3:2 “To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all
meekness unto all men.”
1 Peter 3:9 “Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but
contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should
inherit a blessing.”
Luke 6:35 “But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, 41
hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the
children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.”
Matthew 5:44 “But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse
you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use
you, and persecute you;”
Romans 12:19-20 “Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give
place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the
Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink:
for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.”
Proverbs 10:11 “The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence
covereth the mouth of the wicked.”
Psalms 50:6 “And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is
judge himself. Selah.”
Matt 5:39 “But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall
smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.”
Mark 11:25 “And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against
any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your
trespasses.”
■ The Sovereignty of God
BENNY’S IDEAS:
“God told Abram He couldn’t touch this earth till a man gave it back to Him”
(World Charismatic Conference, 7th August 1992);
“Never, ever, ever go to the Lord and say, “If it be thy will....” Don’t allow
such faith-destroying words to be spoken from your mouth”
( Rise and Be Healed!, 1991, p47-48).
WORD OF GOD:
Numbers 11:23 “And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD’s hand
waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto
thee or not.”
Deuteronomy 32:39 “See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with
me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can
deliver out of my hand.”
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1 Chronicles 29:11 “Thine, O LORD is the greatness, and the power, and the
glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the
earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O
LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.”
2 Chronicles 20:6 “And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God
in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in
thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand
thee?”
Job 9:12 “Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto
him, What doest thou?”
Job 42:2 “I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be
withholden from thee.”
1 Cor 10:26 “For the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.”
Matthew 26:39 “And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed,
saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless
not as I will, but as thou wilt.”
James 4:15-16 “For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and
do this, or that. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is
evil.”
■ The Resurrection
BENNY’S IDEAS:
“Jesus was born again [in hell]” ( Our Position in Christ #1, ‘91, audio).
WORD OF GOD:
John 11:25 “Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that
believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live”
■ The Work of the Holy Spirit
BENNY’S IDEAS:
“Let me explain that many times I wasn’t aware of His presence. I knew He
was with me, but I became so accustomed to Him that I did not feel the
electricity of those special times. But other people felt it. Many times when
my friends came to see me, they began weeping because of the presence of
the Holy Spirit. I was lost once again in the anointing of God’s spirit. Then I
heard Jim honking the horn. As I ran down the stairs and to the car, I actually
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presence running with me. The moment I jumped into the front seat and shut
the door, Jim began to weep. He began to sing that chorus, Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! He turned to me and said, “Benny, I can feel the Holy Spirit in
this car?” “Of course His presence is in this car,” I said. “Where else would it
be?” To me it had become the norm. But Jim could hardly drive. He
continued to weep before the Lord. Once, my mother was cleaning the
hallway while I was in my room talking with the Holy Spirit. When I came
out, she was thrown right back. Something had knocked her against the wall.
I said,
“What’s wrong with you, Mama?” She answered, “I don’t know?”
Well, the presence of the Lord almost knocked her down. My brothers will
tell you of the times they came near me and didn’t know what was happening
—but they felt something unusual.” ( Good Morning, Holy Spirit, Word
Publishing, 1990, pp.41-42.)
“Once, in England, I was staying in the home of a Christian family.
My room was at the very top of the house. One evening I was lost in the
Spirit, having the greatest time in the world talking to Him. The woman of
the house called up, “Benny, supper is ready.” But I was bubbling over and
didn’t want to leave. She called again, “Supper is ready.” And as I was about
to leave, I felt someone take my hand and say, “Five more minutes. Just five
more minutes.” The Holy Spirit longed for my fellowship.” (ibid., p56.)
“Instantly, the power of God hit the place. People began to cry and many fell
to the floor. I tried to turn the service over to the fellow who was leading the
meeting, hoping he would come and take the service out of my hands. But as
I turned and pointed toward him, he fell backward several feet. I was trying
to get him to come close and suddenly he was farther away.” ( The Anointing,
p.26.)
“If this [Baptism of the Holy Spirit] is all there is, I’m not sure there’s much
to it.” ( The Anointing, p.31.)
“I am not overstating the case. The anointing is mandatory if you are called to
serve the Lord. Without it there will be no growth, no blessing, no victory in
your ministry.” ( The Anointing, p.79.)
“How often have we closed our eyes and seen a figure in white.
You say, “Who is that?” The Holy Ghost. “Oh, I didn’t know that.”
Oh you should” (Great Miracle Service, Texas, June 21 1990).
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WORD OF GOD:
John 14:26 “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father
will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to
your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”
John 15:26 “But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you
from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father,
he shall testify of me.”
John 16:8 “And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of
righteousness, and of judgment.”
John 16:13 “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you
into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear,
that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.”
Galatians 5:22-26 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against
such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with
the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one
another.”
1 Timothy 4:1 “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times
some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and
doctrines of devils”
2 Timothy 1:14 “That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by
the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.”
1 John 3:24 “And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and
he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he
hath given us.”
Jude 1:18-19 “How that they told you there should be mockers in the last
time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. These be they who
separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.”
Ephesians 1:3 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ”
2 Peter 1:3 “According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that
pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called
us to glory and virtue.”
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2 Corinthians 11:14 “And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into

an angel of light.”
■ The reproduction of man
BENNY’S IDEAS:
“The Holy Spirit says, ‘God’s original plan is that the woman was to bring
forth children out of her side’” ( Our Position in Christ #5, 1990, audiotape,
side 2).
WORD OF GOD:
Psalms 127:3 “Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the
womb is his reward.”
■ The nature of faith
BENNY’S IDEAS:
“Faith is released when I speak the word of faith.” (Benny Hinn, TBN, 6th
July 1992.)
WORD OF GOD:
Romans 10:17 “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of
God.”
Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence
of things not seen.”
■ The sufficiency of scriptural revelation:
BENNY’S IDEAS:
“Please, please, please, don’t think [we’re] here to repeat something you’ve
heard for the last 50 years. ...If we quit giving you new revelations, we’re
dead.” (TBN, December 9th 1990).
WORD OF GOD:
Deut 4:2 “Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither
shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the
LORD your God which I command you.”
Deuteronomy 12:32 “What thing soever I command you, observe to do it:

thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.”
Proverbs 30:5-6 “Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that
put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest 46
he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.”
Rev 22:18 “For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the
prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add
unto him the plagues that are written in this book.”
Galatians 1:8 “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other
gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be
accursed.”
2 Timothy 3:15-17 “And that from a child thou hast known the holy
scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith
which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is
profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished
unto all good works.”
■ Discernment
BENNY’S IDEAS:
“So don’t question this teaching. Only the immature question it.”
(Our position in Christ).
WORD OF GOD:
1 John 4:1 “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they
are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”
1 Thess 5:21 “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.”
■ The Lord’s Supper
BENNY’S IDEAS:
In the course of describing a Catholic communion he took part in:
“[I reached out and touched a robe which had] a silky feeling, a beautiful
softness to the robe. The next thing I was feeling was actually the form of a
body, the shape of a body. And my body went totally numb. And God really
gave me a revelation that night, that when we partake communion, it’s not
just communion. We are partaking Christ Jesus himself. He did not say,
“Take, eat, this represents my body.” He said, “This is my body, broken for
you.” When you partake communion, you’re partaking Christ, and that heals
your body. When 47
you partake Jesus, how can you stay weak? Sick? And so tonight, as we
partake communion, we’re not partaking bread. We’re partaking what He
said we would be partaking of: “This is my body”( Praise the Lord, TBN,
Dec 27 ’94)
BENNY HINN: the miracles
“The very presence of God” is exactly what thousands of people clamour for
when they attend one of Benny Hinn’s “Miracle Crusades”. They hope to see
God move in a mighty way through an outpouring of miraculous healing
power.
After personally attending one of Hinn’s crusades, however, I can say from
experience that the likelihood of being hurt during such an occasion is vastly
greater than that of being helped or healed. I observed with great anguish
scores of men, women, and children who could not even get near to the stage
to be healed by Hinn. The scenario can best be described as a vulgar display
of “survival of the fittest,” with people stampeding madly to get on stage so
they can experience falling at Hinn’s feet.
Tragically, those who attended the meeting in wheelchairs ended up leaving
in the same physical condition. Some departed in tears.
Others told me they left feeling that God neither cared for them nor had the
time to consider their needs.
“Not only does Hinn claim to have raised people out of wheelchairs, given
blind eyes sight, and opened the ears of the deaf, but he also claims he has
healed at least four people of AIDS [ Orlando Sentinel, 11 October 1987].
However, when pressed for verification, Susan Smith, who apparently helps
document such healings for Hinn, becomes strangely elusive.
When it comes to the AIDS case, her response was that the final tests are not
yet in. When queried about an Orlando woman who was allegedly cured of
blindness due to diabetes, Susan would not divulge the name of the woman.
She subsequently stated that the woman’s vision may still be cloudy and that
she still has diabetes, which ironically enough precipitated the problem in the
first place.
“I wish she would get off insulin,” says Susan. “That’s what makes them
blind.”
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Make no mistake: I personally believe in God’s healing power. But if God is

in fact healing through Hinn, the evidence is conspicuous by its absence.
Where, for example, are those whose missing eyes or legs have been
restored? If God has indeed used Hinn to heal multiple hundreds as Hinn
boasts, then why hasn’t even one quadriplegic stepped forward to show the
world that Hinn represents the real power of the Holy Spirit?
Benny Hinn has provided the Christian Research Institute with three healing
testimonies that have doctors’ records and documentation [letter to CRI, Sept
1992] out of many hundreds he claims. Presumably, this is the best evidence
Hinn can supply, his strongest case. But according to CRI’s medical
consultant, Dr Preston Simpson, MD, all three case are poorly documented
and confused.
Case 1: Colon Cancer. A careful examination of the medical records supplied

by Hinn reveals that the malignant tumour had been surgically removed
(along with the appendix and eight lymph nodes), rather than miraculously
healed.
Case 2: Lupus and related disorders. This is a particularly interesting case in

that lupus is well known to go in remission spontaneously for years at a time.
This naturally makes miraculous healing difficult to verify. What can be
verified are the effects of lupus—in this case damage to the sacroiliac joint—
which was definitely not healed.
Case 3: Spinal tumour and various cancers. This case really has problems. To
begin with, the tapes of the CAT scan of the spine were “erased before the
bones could be evaluated”. Next, the records reveal that the spinal tumour
began shrinking some three months prior to Hinn’s Miracle Invasion Rally.
And finally, the tumour was still present—not healed—months after the
alleged “healing”.
Hinn claims that there are “hundreds” of authenticated healings—
but it is clear that if evidence like this is the best Hinn can muster after years
of “miracle rallies”—with a staff working at each rally to document cases of
healing—then there is no credible evidence that he has ever been involved in
a bona fide healing” ( Christianity in Crisis, Hank Hanegraaff, p339-41).
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CHAPTER FIVE
The Confusing World
of Benny Hinn
BY PHILIP L. POWELL
The following appeared in “Contending EARNESTLY for THE Faith”

(CETF) Volume 2.5 November/December 1996:
“The Confusing World of Benny Hinn” —this is the title of a 205 page book1
published by Personal Freedom Outreach, PO Box 26062, ST
LOUIS MO 63136, USA in March, 1996. Basically CWofBH is a well

researched and documented series of investigative articles by five authors,
including W.E. Nunnally, Associate Professor of Early Judaism & Christian
Origins at Central Bible College and Adjunct Professor of Hebrew Language
at the AOG Theological Seminary in Springfield, Mo, USA.
When Benny Hinn was admitted to AG in September 1994, it was only after
considerable controversy and objection. Judging by the chapter headings for
the articles written by AG Professor W.E.
Nunnally, “Chapter 10: Benny Hinn and the Bible—Are His Interpretations
God’s Intentions?” and “Chapter 11: Hermeneutics That Harm—Misuse of
Scripture to Support False Doctrine” —one would think that the objection
and controversy still rage.
If Hinn supporters are informed of his heresy, to which he himself admitted,

the usual excuse is that he repented of his false teaching and we must accept
his repentance! But surely heresy is a serious matter. Is it any less serious a
sin than sexual moral failure, for example?
Are the self-admitted sins of Benny Hinn less than the sin of Jimmy
Swaggart? Jimmy was made to face the consequence of his act. Benny 1
Obtainable from CWM.
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Hinn has faced no public discipline for the incredible heresies that he taught,
which have had a profound influence on so many Christians.
I have seen the video of Benny Hinn being admitted to AG. The officials
rolled out the red carpet. There was no sense of remorse, regret or repentance
and no censure or probation. Maybe that is why Benny Hinn continues with
his aberrant teaching and his false claims, “since his series of renunciations
and promises of reform”2
For me the most disturbing thing about Benny Hinn is the proven false stories
he told about his speech impediment3, his father being Mayor of Jaffa,4 a
miracle associated with his plane crash5 and other claims documented in the
book. According to CWofBH the mayor story is a fantasy predicated upon
the fact that the father of Hinn’s idol, Kathryn Kuhlman, was a mayor.
The book published by PFO claims that Benny Hinn has never repented of
his proven lies. Instead, when challenged, in the case of the mayor story, he
fabricated at least two false explanations and did similar things with his other
false claims.
Benny Hinn is a “spirit fanatic” who frequently claims to be speaking by

“revelation knowledge” i.e. the Holy Spirit has shown him. If Martin Luther
were living today he would undoubtedly describe him as he once quipped of
preachers of his time who confused their own spirits with the Holy Spirit:
“They think they have swallowed the Holy Ghost, feathers and all”.
John Calvin’s words should be a warning: “The fanaticism which discards the
scripture, under the pretence of resorting to immediate revelations is
subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast
extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God
so they make room for their own falsehoods”.6
On such a basis BH once claimed there were nine persons in the 2 Confusing
World of Benny Hinn p134 c/f p 144.
3 Confusing World of Benny Hinn, pgs 46-49, 97-99
4 Ibid p 29-38, 55-56. 96, 161 etc
5 Ibid 57-61, 161
6 Coming Evangelical Crisis, p 260.

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Godhead, women were created to give birth from their sides; Adam could fly
from planet to planet, swim like a fish, fly like a bird (and presumably lay
eggs like a hen) simply because God gave him
“dominion”. Hinn’s knowledge of Hebrew from his Israeli background (truth

is he’s neither Israeli nor does he understand Hebrew) allows him to make the
incredible claim that the word “dominion” in the Hebrew means that you can
do everything that the thing you have dominion over can do. This is vintage
Hinn!!
Interestingly “New Horizons” is the theme of the Australian AOG
Conference next May1, when Benny Hinn is the announced guest speaker.
The advertising brochure repeats the claim about Hinn’s severe stuttering
disorder. We simply ask, “What New Horizons?”
God’s Kingdom is built upon and surrounded by God’s righteousness.
If you fabricate a foundation you will end up with false horizons.
1 This occurred in Adelaide in May 1997.

CHAPTER SIX
Italian Pentecostals
Boycott Hinn
BY PHILIP L. POWELL
First published in CETF Volume 3.1 January/February 1997: {REFER
bhinn2.html}
“It is better to do what is right in God’s eyes and risk the consequences from
man, than to do what is right in man’s eyes and risk the consequences from
God.”1
1 Quote from Let Us Reason broadcast.
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On November 28, 1996 I received a fax from PFO, publishers of the above
named book informing me that Benny Hinn resigned from AOG the previous
month; that the AG headquarters in Springfield were keeping “tight-lipped
about the resignation”; and that the AOG
in Italy had boycotted Hinn’s November crusade in their country.
Later I received a copy of a November 15 press release entitled
“Benny Hinn Disaster in Rome”. Written by Terry Peretti, brother of the well
known author, Frank Peretti. This was originally listed on
<100557.213@CompuServe.COM> and is summarised as follows:

“The November 9 & 10 crusade in Rome was the largest gathering of
evangelicals ever at one place and one time in Italy with estimated numbers
of 5,000. The Italian AOG boycotted the meetings and several of the
supporting independent pentecostal groups pulled out.”
“On the first night the preacher never once opened his bible and on the
second Mr Hinn shocked his audience by courting the Catholic Church and
talking about meeting the pope. The interpreter refused to continue and
another was called to the platform. The Italian music group refused to come
to the platform when called; the independent pentecostal pastors of Italy
agreed to sign a declaration of “disassociazione”
from Benny Hinn and his crusades.”
It appears that the evangelicals will never invite Benny Hinn to Italy again.
Our action in seeking to warn God’s people about the aberrant teachings of
Benny Hinn and the false claims, which have never been renounced, has
evoked serious accusations against us from AOG members in Australia, eg
one of my faxes was marked “Return to the Accuser of the Brethren”. CETF
Vol 2.5 addressed to a national executive member was returned with the
following writing on the envelope: “Return to the Accuser”.
The truth is that we have reported facts not made accusations. In the interest
of truth and openness we have decided to include a 53
section in CETF for letters. This may become a regular feature in future
issues and will probably include correspondence over disputes such as these2.
Our motivation is not self-justification but to openly state the truth and to
warn God’s people of heresy and of those who teach it and of leaders who are
conning God’s people and refusing to be open about their action.
For the record PFO informed us that Benny Hinn had his lawyer contact them
in an effort to pressure them to cease publishing the book entitled “The
Confusing World of Benny Hinn”, the October 1996 edition of which,
complete with details of Hinn’s false prophecies, is available from CWM.
We too have received veiled threats of legal action from those who were our
former colleagues. Their latest ploy is to accuse me of being contentious and
divisionary. In a letter dated 19 December 1996
Australian AOG General Secretary Keith Ainge writes: “We will not respond
to any correspondence which may be received from you, until you cease your
attacks. ... it has been decided to have nothing to do with you. A letter to this
effect is being sent to all our pastors”.
Subject to space constraints, background correspondence may be published in

a future CETF so readers can judge for themselves.3
2 This has been actioned as a regular column entitled “Letters to the Editor”
and elsewhere in various editions of CETF now published on one of our
archives web site – refer www.christian-witness.org
3 I wrote to Keith Ainge protesting the arrogance of this attitude and have
continuously indicated my availability to discuss the matter at any mutually
convenient time.
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CHAPTER SEVEN
More on Benny Hinn
BY NEIL RICHARDSON
The following was first published in October 1997 in VANGUARD issue No 4

(UK) issue No 2 (Australasia) {REFER bhinn97.html}: IN the first issue of
the United Kingdom edition of Vanguard (or the third issue in Australasia),
we ran a slightly controversial article entitled “Unmasked... Benny Hinn”. In
that article, written by Neil Richardson, many aspects of the teachings and
doctrines of Mr Hinn, who remains one of the most popular pseudo-
Pentecostal figures in the world, were shown to be erroneous. That article
attracted a certain degree of criticism from some quarters, partly due to the
fanciful notion that Mr Hinn had since repented of his erroneous ways.
We now present startling evidence to the contrary, enough to convince any

reasonable person that this man should not be received as a brother.
In the weekly journal West Africa, dated 2-8 September 1996, Christian
sociologist Michael Amoah wrote an article entitled Christianity and Politics,
in which he examined the impact of evangelistic crusades on African politics.
The first paragraph reads as follows:
“In August, during the week-long “Mission to London”
pentecostal gatherings at Earl’s Court Arena, one of the preachers, Benny

Hinn, is known to have mentioned the fact that during his most recent visit to
Ghana (perhaps in November 1995), he was invited by the President to the
Castle. During the meeting, the President communicated something to the
effect that Benny Hinn has power, so he should speak to his 55
people (Ghanaians), since they would rather listen to the preacher than to
himself [Rawlings]. Various arguments have arisen out of this comment.
Most prominent of these is that if Jerry Rawlings thinks that Christians have
that much power, then why is he not
“born again”? Perhaps, then, he could talk to
Ghanaians better?”
This article drew the following response from the Office of the President of
Ghana. Sent by V.A. Sackey, Public Affairs Secretariat, it appeared in the
letters page of West Africa dated 16-22 September 1996. In this response, he
accuses Mr Hinn of being “rather generous in embellishing the truth!”
These rather generous embellishments, otherwise known as lies, were used

by Mr Hinn to raise money from a largely African audience.
These embellishments included the claim that 500,000 people filled the Accra
Sports Stadium which, Mr Sackey points out, can only hold about 125,000.
Mr Hinn claims to have been invited to return to Ghana as the president’s
guest. This is also denied by Mr Sackey, who points out that there was
“merely a remark that he and other religious leaders are welcome to visit
Ghana”.
The claim that Mr Hinn was asked to get a message across because he had
more power than the president is true however, which sounds impressive
until one learns what this message was.
Again, from Mr Sackey’s response:
“The president attends many religious functions of all persuasions, and meets
with visiting religious leaders who so request, not merely as a duty but out of
recognition of the role of religious groups in strengthening the moral values
of the nation.” [NB -
this includes Christian, Muslim and traditional priests].
The “message” which the president asked Hinn to stress to his congregation
was a topic which the president himself often raises at religious and other
gatherings. This is that passive prayer of words and thoughts needs to be
supported by the prayer of action...we 56
must all be prepared to get up and do something about our problems, rather
than wait for intervention from above.
Not only has Mr Hinn been exposed as a fraud by a secular authority, thus
shaming himself, but he has also shamed the gospel and the efforts of those
who are sincere in their desire to reach Africa with the good news of Jesus.
As president Rawlings of Ghana said
[ Ghanaian Times, 31st August]:
“...because of the deep religiosity of our people, some so-called men of God
use the bible to exploit their credulity.”
We stand by our initial article about Mr Hinn, and will seek to oppose his
influence at every opportunity.
CHAPTER EIGHT
Benny Hinn and Necromancy
BY PHILIP L. POWELL
First appeared in CETF Vol 4.1 January 1998 {REFER necro.html}
THE scriptures are very clear that we must never pray to or consult with the
dead. Such practice is known as necromancy, which is one of the
abomin1ations strictly forbidden by God.
We must not associate in any way with witches, soothsayers, enchanters,

sorcerers, spell makers, mediums, spiritists or those who consult with the
dead—c/f Deut 18:9-14. Benny Hinn consults with the dead and should
therefore be avoided. He confesses that he visits the graves of Aimee Semple
Macpherson and Kathryn Kuhlman where he experiences “the anointing”1.
Apart from anything else that should alert us to the fact that Hinn’s anointing
is not from God.
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In a crusade conducted in Hawaii, Hinn spoke of hearing the voice of Elijah

as well as getting instruction from Kuhlman. Both people are dead, so how is
it that Hinn claims to hear their voices? Where does this spiritistic notion
come from?
The clear answer is that unclean spirits have invaded the

pentecostal/charismatic church scene and they are forcing upon christendom
the idea that all of this is a great revival from God. But the question remains
—how did it happen? When did the demons invade the church and by whose
authority?
1 Christianity in Crisis, pgs 30 & 31

CHAPTER NINE
Benny Hinn... going lower
BY PHILIP L. POWELL
First published in CETF Vol 5.2, September 1999.
{REFER bhinnlower.html}
“Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death, is the man who
deceives his neighbour, and says,
‘I was only joking!’”
PROVERBS 26:18-19 (NKJV)
WHEN Benny Hinn found himself in a bind over his gaffe about there being
nine persons in the Trinity he said that it was only a joke. He has made many
other irresponsible claims, eg that humans were created to swim like fish and
fly like birds and with a thought could move from planet to planet. When 58
challenged as to his authority for such ridiculous claims he appealed to his

Jewish origin (Hinn was born a Palestinian Arab, not a Jew1) and his
knowledge of Hebrew, which he clearly doesn’t have. He said that the word
translated to “have dominion” in the creation story means that Adam and Eve
could do everything that the creatures over which they had dominion could
do2. So presumably they could lay eggs like hens and swarm like bees.
The teachings of Benny Hinn from the beginning of his ministry are
obviously the rantings of a buffoon. His latest TV interviews however
indicate that the man has gone beyond the pale; that he has indeed moved to a
lower level. If you want more evidence we recommend that you contact Mike
Openheimer of Let’s Reason Ministries in Hawaii—
administrator@letusreason.org
“For those whom God to ruin has designed, He fits for fate, and first destroys
their mind”
—JOHN DRYDEN
THE HIND AND THE PANTHER (1687).
Paul Crouch (PC) is interviewing Benny Hinn (BH) on TBN with Paul and
Jan Crouch, September 13, 1999:
In the opening exchanges of the interview reference is made to Kathryn

Kuhlman, who BH appeals to as a precedent for his “cursing and blessing”
pronouncements at a recently held healing crusade in Denver, USA. He also
refers to Fred Roberts, whom he calls “an apostle”, as being another person
who encouraged him to “speak judgment” on his opponents.
BH: “He said you are entitled now because they blasphemed the Holy Spirit
to tell God what you want to see done.”
PC: “Because they were attributing your works to the devil; exactly what
they did to Jesus.” Hinn agrees.
1 The Confusing World of Benny Hinn, PFO Dec 1997, page 34.
2 Christianity in Crisis, Harvest House Publishers, page 119.
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BH: “See the second they attribute the work of God to Satan, we, as believers
step into, legally step into, a place we can ask God to stop them.”
PC: “Amen!”
BH: “William Branham was ministering one time—
and this happened more than one time but I only heard about it twice—this
happened; when a man came in and said—he was actually lying to William
Branham—
and said—he was trying to mock him—and came in and said he was sick and
wanted William Branham to pray for him; and William Branham said you’re
not sick; you’re just here to mock me; but you’re going to walk out with the
same sickness you said you had and he walked out sick!”
As the interview continues BH refers to an incident which he alleges took

place under the ministry of Tommy Reed in the Philippines when God
supposedly inflicted sickness upon someone who was opposing the meetings.
Whether such did or didn’t take place we have no means of checking. From
the way BH recounts it, it’s very doubtful. What is certain is that Benny Hinn
is employing illegitimate fear tactics. Even worse he appeals to a biblical
incident in the life of Christ in an unscriptural way. Read what Benny Hinn
said in the light of Proverbs 26:18 and the couplet from poet John Dryden
quoted above.
BH: “When they said this—“It’s of the devil,” He
<said>, “Ah this is one thing I won’t forgive!” He spoke there, judgement;
and the judgement He spoke was eternal damnation. He said I’ll forgive any
sin but not this one; and there he made the clear cut. So Tommy
<Reed> said to the Lord, “All right Lord, here’s what I want done”. The last
night of the meeting they brought this lady with arthritis on a wheelchair
down <the> front.
The man came back, in the back again, began to do the same thing. “This is
of the devil,” screaming all this stuff. And Tommy said, “Lord now!” When
he said
“now” the Lord healed the lady with, with the, with the 60
arthritis and struck the man with her sickness, he switched sickness.”
PC: “Jesus!”
BH: “He switched sicknesses and took it off the lady and hit the man with it.
And the man began screaming and ran out. With ARTHRITIS.”
Now pause for a moment. Ask yourself, “Are these the rantings of a man
whose mind has gone, who is no longer thinking rationally?
Or are they, as is being presented, the expressions of someone anointed by

the Holy Spirit?” According to Benny Hinn, God heals a woman in a
wheelchair. In so doing He (i.e. God Almighty) “switched sickness” and
brought judgment upon a poor Philippine man, who RAN out screaming with
the same ARTHRITIS that had confined the woman to a wheel chair? Sounds
like a double miracle with the second cancelling out the reality of the first.
Now that really does stretch credulity.
Apart from the utter stupidity of the ravings of Benny Hinn in this clearly
fabricated story the really sad thing is that he appeals to scripture as a
precedent. There is such a thing as blasphemy against the Holy Spirit of
which sin our Lord said there was no forgiveness.
Seeing so many in the “Revival Now” camp are all the time appealing to this
SIN as their get-out from legitimate examination and judgment, by those who
seek to follow the Berean example, it behoves us to know clearly what this
blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is in the scriptural context.
“Therefore I say to you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven
men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit shall not be forgiven. And
whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but
whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither
in this world, neither in the world to come.”
MATTHEW 12:31-32:
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Blaspheming the Holy Spirit is clearly a very serious matter.
According to verse 22 the teaching was predicated upon a genuine healing

performed by Christ, and related to exorcism. Not all sickness has its source
in demon possession but this one did:
“Then was brought him one possessed with a demon, blind, and dumb: and
he healed him, so that the blind and dumb man spoke and saw.”
Following this Matthew tells us (vs 23-24):
“And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?
But when the pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out
demons, but by Beelzebub the prince of the demons.”
Mark relates something similar and gives us a deeper insight into what this
sin of the pharisees and scribes and may be also of some of the “common”
people (see the Luke reference) really was: Mark 3:22 “And the scribes who
came down from Jerusalem said, He has Beelzebub, and by the prince of the
demons casts out demons. (v30) they said, He (Jesus) has an unclean spirit.”
Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is ascribing the act of exorcising demons
from people by the Lord Jesus Christ (Himself) to the works of the devil
(Satan), while maintaining that Christ Himself is demon possessed. We may
extrapolate principles from these New Testament passages and relate them to
the genuine work of true gospel preachers in our time but the application
made by Benny Hinn and others like him is not legitimate biblically.
Luke sheds further light on this in citing Christ’s ironic question and
unavoidable conclusion to those who wrongfully accused Him: Luke 11:19-
20: “And if I by Beelzebub cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them
out? Therefore shall they be your judges. But if I by the finger of God cast out
demons, then the kingdom of God is come upon you.”
The term “the finger of God” appears four times in scripture and in only three
connections. The first describes the true miracles of God as opposed to those
of the Egyptian magicians—Exodus 8:19
c/f 2 Timothy 3:8; the second relates to the giving of the ten commandments
—Exodus 31:18 and Deut 9:10; and the third to the works of Christ—Luke
11:20. The cross-reference of Luke’s citation is to Acts 19:13 and is most
illuminating. The Jews had 62
their own exorcists and they were as impotent to deliver people as are their
modern counterparts in the false Signs and Wonders Movement that is
headed up by such as Benny Hinn. Where are his GENUINE miracles? So far
they have all fallen short in this regard.
So blasphemy against the Holy Spirit relates to our Lord Jesus Christ and not
to Benny Hinn or any self acclaimed “anointed ONE”
i.e. “christ”. If you are doing what the bible requires of you—“testing the
spirits” (1 John 4); “judg[ing] righteous judgment” (John 7:24),
“proving all things” (1 Thess 5:21) and generally acting as a Berean Christian
should act (Acts 17:11), it is impossible for you to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.
It is far more likely that men like Benny Hinn and Paul Crouch et al are
themselves guilty of the blasphemy that they impute to others.
Back to the TV interview... It gets worse and brings to light the very thing
that we have anticipated and been warning about now for several years.
Gullible Christians are going to be caught up in a net of deception. No
wonder David Wilkerson has so strongly warned God’s people to keep away
from all of this nonsense.3
2 Timothy 3:13-17: “But evil men and impostors shall grow worse and
worse, deceiving, and being deceived. But continue in the things which you
have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have
learned them; And that from a child you have known the holy scriptures,
which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in
Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That
the man of God may be complete, fully fitted for every good work.”
BH: “Under the anointing not one word falls to the ground.”
PC: “Amen.”
BH: “I am not the same man under the anointing that I am now—My children
are afraid of me under the 3 Reproach of the Solemn Assembly, audio tape by
David Wilkerson available from CWM: http://www.christian-witness.org
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anointing. What they do not know is that I’m afraid of the anointing too.
(laughter) I‘m not afraid of myself, I’m afraid of what the anointing can do to
me if I mistreat it. Or if I abuse it or if I misuse it.”
Clearly Benny Hinn is not talking about the “anointing” as the whole of
scripture portrays it and John the apostle describes it in 1
John 2:19-29. What is this anointing that he and others keep talking about?
Nowhere in the New Testament is there any idea of ANYONE
being specially anointed other than our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the
ANOINTED, i.e. the CHRIST (the words “anointing, christ, messiah” all
derive from the same root). There is a sense in which all of God’s people
have a general anointing and John makes it clear that this gives us a
relationship with our blessed Lord, but it never makes one higher, better,
greater or more powerful than another.
This is utter heresy and is part of the necessary creation of a
“mystique” to silence criticism and critics. But it won’t work.
From here the TV interview goes to a level which can only be described as
horrific and occultic. TBN screens a video recorded at Denver when Benny
Hinn pronounced blessings on those who support him and curses on those
who oppose:
BH: “I’ve been preaching 25 years almost, I’ve never seen the anointing as
frightening as I saw in Denver Friday night; and so when you hear me in just
a little bit give blessings and cursings and basically all I say each, any who
attack this anointing, I speak a judgement on them.”
According to an eye witness account:

“In the recent Denver crusade Hinn became a
different person under the influence of the “anointing”
unlike anything seen before. So much so, that his voice changed to a “growl”.
He was telling the people to raise their hands and exalt the master Jesus. It
was obvious that he was not talking about the Jesus of the 64
bible. He also cursed all who would raise their hands against his ministry in
word or deed.”
Here are some extracts from the video recording of what happened at Denver.
BH: “My skin is about to explode. Your body will tingle from the top to the
bottom. Lift your voices. Lift your hands and ask him for it—people of God
be healed!
People of the Lord be delivered! Rise up out of your sickness and jump into
the river of healing and be healed, in Jesus’ name. Take your seats, this is just
the beginning of the service.” Hinn then brings up a man claiming two thirds
of his heart is dead. “He’s barely been able to walk.” Hinn growls, “The
glory! The glory, if I don’t release it I’ll blow up. If I don’t release the
anointing I’ll blow up. I got to release it on somebody. The demon must bow
to the name of the master Jesus ... Yes Lord I’ll do it! I place a curse on every
man and woman that will stretch his hand against this anointing I curse that
man who dares to speak a word against this ministry. But any man, any
woman that raises his or her hand in blessing towards this ministry, I bless
that man. I bless that home. I bless that family. Any man, any woman, any
person that raises his tongue in blessing toward this work, raises his tongue in
blessing toward this anointing, raises his tongue in blessing toward this
servant of the Lord, I bless them. I bless the work of your hands. I bless your
life with his mighty power. I bless your home with divine protection. I bless
your children with long life and I bless you <with> length of days. I bless you
with healing. I bless you with prosperity. I bless you with the very presence
of Almighty God. I, a servant, bless you in the name of the one I serve. I
bless <your> people tonight in Denver. Lift your hands and receive the
blessing.
“I rarely ever do what I’m doing now. This is the Holy Ghost on me telling
me to do this. I bless you; I bless 65
your homes, your life, your future, your children. May every attack of Satan
be destroyed. May every plan of hell be destroyed against you (change of
voice) and every plan of God be established in Jesus name. Amen, amen.”
Benny Hinn’s recent programs, seen on TV in Hawaii, reveal new

programming styles with interviews and crusade clips with Hinn consistently
changing his tune and a dangerous trend toward Catholic type worship and
ecumenical unity.
A number of third wave charismatics, key players in today’s revivalism were

guests on Hinn’s program over recent weeks—
Kenneth Copeland, Rod Parsley, Joyce Meyer and Rodney Howard-Browne.

Hinn clearly is assuming the apostolic father figure of the healing ministry
picking up the mantle where, not Kathryn Kuhlman, but William Branham
left off.
Here’s just one extract from one of the TV programs to let you see where
things are heading. Sounds a bit like a Jimmy Bakker re-run.
This is with Benny Hinn (BH) and Rod Parsley (RP) on This Is Your Day,
August 24, 1999:
RP: “The healing ministry is almost dead. When you look at who’s out there
praying for the sick today, there’s not many!” (This is false. There are more
healing ministries today then there ever were.) “And the Lord said to me to
build a healing centre, a healing and prayer centre that people can come to, 24
hours a day, any day of the week, and be prayed for and get healed.
And I did not really know what the Lord would show me, but as time went on
I began to get the picture much clearer. January 3rd the year 2000 we break
ground for that healing centre in Dallas, Texas. It’s going to have healing
gardens with healing statues of biblical healing saints from the Old
Testament. It’s going to have a healing fountain an eternal healing fire. It’s
going to have places where people can come to and be prayed for in a healing
cathedral and chapels in it. Think 66
about a place that will be staffed with partners, God anointed partners. They
will be there volunteering where people can come 24 hours a day and be
prayed for. So no one will have to wait for a crusade. Yes I will continue to
have crusades; yes I will continue to travel; but what a wonderful thing it
would be when God’s people can come to a place like that. It’s going to be
built with Jerusalem rock. It’s going to look like Jerusalem and the Lord gave
us property a mile and a half from the Dallas Stadium right on highway 114.
BH: “Saints we have to preserve that anointing; whether it’s the anointing ...
that’s on Rod ... and you’re building a place ... now expanding your own
ministry.”
Rod Parsley then prayed showing how little he understands about the true
biblical anointing.
RP: “Holy Spirit of God I thank you even now your servant has been willing
to conceive this child, this healing centre where multiplied thousands upon
thousands would be healed, but more than <that> where the healing ministry
will be preserved. Preserved so that we will not lose our roots; so that people
may know the ministry of Kathryn Kuhlman and Aimee Semple Macpherson,
A.A Allen and Jack Coe; of Oral Roberts and Lester Sumrall, God, where
those
anointings will be multiplied [I’m seeing this now Benny]
and brought to bear in that place; multiplied by one another—Smith

Wigglesworth’s anointing multiplied by Oral Robert’s anointing, multiplied
by Kathryn Kuhlman’s anointing, multiplied by Benny Hinn’s anointing. And
when the people come there, their faith will be at such a level that that
spiritual genealogy, which you are preserving will come to bear against their
need. A.A. Allen had a miracle valley. This is going to be a miracle
mountain.”
BH: “Whoa! This is going to be a miracle mountain.”
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Editorial Note: Those who are overawed by the names mentioned above may
care to read Neil Richardson’s Unmasked article ( Vanguard June 1999) and
consider where and how many of them ended. For the record, I met AA Allen
just before he died of extreme alcoholism or a drug over-dose, no-one seems
to be sure which. He was preaching in Stockport, Cheshire near where I was
pastoring in Manchester, UK. He was a bitter man who claimed to have
distributed
“miracle saw-dust” from the floor of his “miracle valley” tent. Was he just
someone who had missed his way or simply a man who had never discovered
the true way?
I and another young AoG pastor approached him to discuss some of the
outrageous things he had said during his sermon. I believe our approach was
with a sincere desire to help him. He refused to talk to us and barged past
using his brief case to push me aside. The following night he claimed he had
been attacked the previous night by “two demons”. Those two demons were
David Phillips and Philip Powell. I was saddened to learn only a few months
later that A.A.
Allen had died in circumstances which certainly raised questions about his
entire life and ministry.
That incident and A.A. Allen’s life and ministry, plus the record of a number
of the other “big” names mentioned above, beg a couple of questions which
are troubling many with regard to the 20th century pentecostal revival. Was
the whole thing a huge fraud? Is there ground for the claims that are coming
loud and clear from the camps of the cessationists that the pentecostal out-
pouring of 1906
and the charismatic renewal of the late 50’s and early 60’s and the current
“Toronto-Pensacola” river revival are all branches of a tree that is rooted in
deception, heresy and apostasy? These questions and others like them have
occupied our thinking and that of a number of our friends for quite some
time. We plan to address them in depth through our publications starting in
the next issue of Vanguard with an article by Siam Bhayro on
CESSATIONISM and my own article on THE GENUINE ON-GOING
PERSONAL REVIVAL4. We hope you stay tuned.
4 These two articles were published in Vanguard (February 2000).
68
CHAPTER TEN
When Will the
Hypocrisy End?
BY PHILIP L. POWELL
ABOUT a month before leaving New Zealand for Queensland (14/
06/00) I became aware of the following statement issued by Neil Hetrick,

National Secretary of AoG:
“The Executive Presbytery has written to Benny Hinn and his organisation
three times and asked for a copy of the prophecy allegedly given in
December 1998 concerning New Zealand and reported in a national Christian
newspaper.
Although an answer was promised, nothing has been forthcoming. The

Assemblies of God were reported as being involved in these meetings and in
some way endorsing this prophecy. This is not the case. We also objected to
their organisation soliciting tithes from people, our understanding is that
these should be “brought into the storehouse”. We have had no reply on these
matters and we wanted you all to know that we had endeavoured to get a
satisfactory answer! We have not, are not and do not intend to be associated
with this organisation in the future.”1 (Emphasis in original)
In the light of this claim, how does Neil Hetrick explain the fact that Wayne
Hughes, National General Superintendent of AoG in NZ is listed among
those who, allegedly endorsed Benny Hinn’s healing crusade in Auckland on
June 13, 1998, in a letter dated March 4, 1998 written by Averil E. Quartier
and issued by the New Zealand branch of the Benny Hinn Ministries (PO
Box 24377, Royal Oak, Auckland – phone 09 521
0133; fax 09 528 7185)? The letter contains a glowing endorsement of Benny
Hinn allegedly made by the principal officer of the NZ Assemblies of God
yet the General Secretary claims that the denomination has never been
associated with the Benny Hinn organisation. On May 17 I wrote to Neil
Hetrick requesting an explanation without response. This letter and 69
background information is published on the home page of the CWM web
site at www.christian-witness.org
Neil Hetrick’s statement refers to the involvement of a national Christian

newspaper. On May 23 New Zealand’s Challenge Weekly (Vol 58 Issue 18,
page 4 story) published an article entitled AOG distance themselves from
Benny Hinn, in which they republished part of their story about Benny Hinn’s
false prophecy. Openness and honesty are hallmarks of the Christian
message. Has TRUTH fallen in the streets of the Assemblies of God? Those
who associate with “deceivers” will inevitably end up being deceived and
sadly they will also deceive others.
Of course some prefer to simply treat this as a passing fad and to remain
detached believing that it will all pass and things will right themselves.
Naïve leaders present the idea to their followers that Benny Hinn achieves
good in spite of his “faults and foibles” and his proven lies, false prophecies
and heresies. But can this possibly be the case? History and the bible answer
with a resounding “NO”.
THE BIBLE SAYS: “Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little
leaven leavens the whole lump?” 1 Corinthians 5:6 c/f Galatians 5:9.
Interestingly, as we have consistently pointed out, the first reference relates to
immorality whereas the second deals with heresy. The two things go hand in
hand –
each leading inevitably to the other. Nicolaitanism (wrong doctrine) is always

linked to Balaamism (immorality).
CHURCH HISTORY SHOWS: that while TRUTH and HONESTY are their
own defence, ERROR and DISHONESTY will ultimately undermine or
destroy those who associate with them.
CWM is pleased that the AoG hierarchy in NZ has at last woken up to the
falsity of Benny Hinn, but we are concerned about any “cover-up”. We call
on those within Assemblies of God to seek an explanation from their church
leaders or from the national office per my letter to Neil Hetrick, published on
our web site. The official AoG facsimile number and email address are: +64
9 358 4725 – email agnzinc@voyager.co.nz We call on the AoG in Australia
to publicly acknowledge their initiation of the scam associated with the false
“Faith and Prosperity” and to disassociate from the false ministry of Benny
Hinn.
God bless you.
Philip L. POWELL (June 22, 2000)
1 Published in the official newsletter to “Assemblies of God Ministers and

Churches”.
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About the Authors...
PHILIP L. POWELL
PHILIP L. POWELL... is founder and co-director of Christian Witness

Ministries (CWM) and co-editor of Vanguard and Contending EARNESTLY
for THE Faith (CETF). He was formerly National General Secretary of
Assemblies of God in Australia but took a stand for traditional evangelical
and classical pentecostal truth against the aberrant teachings and practices
introduced by the hierarchy of AoG
in Australasia.
NEIL RICHARDSON
NEIL RICHARDSON... is co-founder of Vanguard (UK) and the feature

writer of the Unmasked series in the CWM publications. He is the main
contributor in the first in this series of books entitled “Alpha Unmasked”
available from all CWM offices as listed elsewhere in this book. For more
information on Neil Richardson, see “Alpha Unmasked” page 61.
SANDY SIMPSON
SANDY SIMPSON.... is webmaster for Deception In The Church <http:
// pages.hotbot.com/family/ssimpson2846/index.html> which is an
apologetics web site exposing the false prophecy and teaching in the New
Apostolic Reformation or Third Wave (also called The River Revival)
counterfeit revival movement out of Toronto, Brownsville A/G, Rodney
Howard-Browne, Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, Rod Parsley, Joyce
Meyer, Bishop Earl Paulk, Richard Roberts, Pat Robertson, Paul Crouch and
many others. He is a missionary of many years standing, with association
with the Evangelical Church at large.
For more details please see chapter one, pages 9-11.
71
THEUNMASKEDSERIES
Unmasked... Benny Hinn
The prophet speaks of a time when judgement is reversed and justice is

remote because “truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter”
(Isaiah 59:14). This is a disturbing feature of our time both in the world and
in Christendom at large. One pastor of a large AoG church in America tells
his students that if they want to build a big church they must create a
mystique about themselves.
The documented material of this booklet puts the spotlight on one of the most
effective exponents of this manipulative practice. The case against Benny
Hinn with his $US60 million per year rake-off is virtually undeniable. We
have provided some of the evidence and supplied additional leads for you the
reader.
In accordance with the requirements of scripture we ask that you be the judge
as to whether this man is what he claims to be and whether those who have
promoted him should be held accountable:
“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good” (1 Thessalonians 5:21)
“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God:
because many false prophets are gone out into the world” (1 John 4:1) This
is the second in a series of booklets published by Christian Witness
Ministries (CWM)
The first was written mainly by our research writer, Neil Richardson, who is
well known for his “Unmasked” series of articles published in Vanguard.
OTHERS IN THE SERIES INCLUDE:
Nicky Gumbel & The Alpha Course UNMASKED... with more to follow.
WEBSITE ADDRESSES
CWM (home): www.christian-witness.org
with VANGUARD (archives) and CETF (archives)
as direct links to aid research.
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Benny Hinn Unmasked

Benny Hinn believes and teaches that there

are nine persons in the Godhead

on stage during his crusades

Benny Hinn delves in necromancy

Benny Hinn is one of the most influential leaders of today’s church!

The gospel is being perverted

The truth is being trodden in the street

In an effort to make Christians and leaders aware of the falsities perpetuated

Most of us will know somebody that is a follower of Benny Hinn; probably

If you would like to know more

KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)

God, or that is worshipped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God,

THE MODERN KING JAMES VERSION (MKJV)

The Greek word “apostasia” (Strongs 646) translated “a falling away”

in II Thessalonians 2:3 is rendered “forsake” in Acts 21:21, which is the only

Like the passage in II Thessalonians chapter two, which we have quoted

In our regular journal entitled Contending EARNESTLY for THE

Faith (CETF) as well as in our magazine called VANGUARD, we have

1 Refer The Confusing World of Benny Hinn — by Personal Freedom

2 Contending EARNESTLY for THE Faith (CETF) and VANGUARD. Join

3 May be viewed also at CWM homepage www.christian-witness.org 6

His “word” is laced with deception.

Undoubtedly the most pervasive deception is that associated with spirit

It is a matter of major concern that leaders of churches, in their apparent

A summary of the latest

infornmation on Benny Hinn ............................. 11

Fire of divine Judgement .................................... 22

Benny Hinn Unmasked ....................................... 23

Benny Hinn Unmasked ...................................... 26

The Confusing World

Italian Pentecostals Boycott Hinn ....................... 52

More on Benny Hinn .......................................... 55

Benny Hinn and Necromancy.............................. 57

Benny Hinn... going lower....................................... 58

When Will the Hypocrisy End? ........................... 69

About the Author...

Sandy Simpson is the son of a pastor of a church belonging to the Conference

Christian Churches (CCCC) of America, who became a missionary with the

Sandy Simpson’s home page is at: http://pages.

Sandy is Webmaster for Deception In The Church, which is an apologetics