I believe it was a message from the Holy Spirit regarding, not just Benny Hinn, but regarding all mega churches and mega ministries in America and around the world. While many of those churches and ministries began in sincerity, wanting to share the gospel with the world and serve the Lord; most of them if not all strayed from their original missions and became like large worldly corporations.
Their pastors began building huge church buildings and live in lavish luxury homes, buy luxury cars, and private jets for themselves from large salaries taken out of donations given by their church members and people from around the world.
They began offering prayers for healing and financial prosperity in exchange for financial gifts from people, some of whom did not have enough to eat properly ( I knew some of such people). Some even went so far as to sell "healing water" from a Jordan River in Israel.
Unbelievers began to mock Christian faith and the name of Jesus Himself because of their behavior that even they know is totally against Christian principles and values as taught in the Holy Bible.
I believe that God is going to use the COVID-19 crisis to change the way Church is done and to restore it to the way it was supposed to operate in the first place. Already many believers are realizing that Church does not really need physical church buildings to be effective and to continue reach people around the world as well as in their local communities.
The financial strain the pandemic has placed on individual people and families will cause many of these mega churches to shut down, while the churches and individual believers who kept their priorities right and paid off their debts when they still could, are going to thrive.
We will draw closer to one another within our families and we are going to value our friendships a lot more. There will be a greater sense of community, which will be once again attracting many unbelievers who will be looking for hope and stability during the time of chaos.
These are precisely the qualities of the early first century followers of Yeshua ( Jesus) that caused the early church community to grow by leaps and bounds. People will want to know why we are at peace when the entire world is in a state of fear and panic. We will once again be a living testimony of Jesus' work in our lives, but we must be authentic and we need to learn to be content instead of running after money.
God does want our needs to be met, but He does not want us to be greedy and to live in luxury while so many around us are suffering.
Our church leaders need to live humbly and serve the Church, being focused on the spiritual growth of people God entrusted under their leadership, instead of trying to get rich off of their poverty, using the gospel as the means of worldly financial gain.
As individual believers we must disassociate ourselves from false teachers and false shepherds, and find those who are faithful to the Lord and support them. Don't allow yourself to manipulated into giving based on false promises of prosperity. Instead give out of your free will do those who faithfully serve God and those around you in need without expecting anything in return.
If you do that, you will obtain a true and greatest blessing of having God's own presence in your life. Instead of following some "christian Superstars", ask God about what he wants you to do for His kingdom and how you may serve Him. return to regular prayer, worship, and study of the Bible in your own homes and from house to house, and see how you may reach those who are seeking for God.
if we all do that, despite of all the chaos, we will not only see, but experience the great spiritual awaking that many of us have been waiting for for decades.
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