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What springs to mind here is, "Just because people eat the burger it doesn't mean that they want to meet the cow."
My advice, "If you insist on eating the burger then may I suggest it only makes sense that you meet the cow."

I mean meat can be dodgy, there's TB, steroids and all kinds of nasty things contained in beef but your biggest threats are probably Mad Cow Disease and Foot & Mouth Disease. And if you think that that Benny Hinn burgers are free of Mad Cow Disease, and Foot & (in) Mouth Disease, then may I suggest that you read the following before you chow down on that juicy burger (that's probably still screaming for its' mother).

"For there shall arise false christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect."

Benny Hinn is an Arab by birth and yet claims that his father Costandi Hinn was Mayor of a Jewish province in Israel (called Jaffa?)...first clue that this is a lie should be fairly obvious...NO WAY would they allow a Jaffa born Arab to become Mayor of an Israeli Province. "...a Jaffa-born Arab, could not have been mayor of an almost totally Jewish city. Jaffa technically did not exist after 1948 because it was merged with all-Jewish Tel Aviv forming one municipality called Tel Aviv-Jaffa. There was no city of Jaffa when Benny Hinn was born."
(Arabic newspapers readily shows that the Arab citizens of Israel are regarded as second-class and are tolerated as a despised minority, a fifth column and outsiders. They cannot, even in the wildest scenario, be part of the mainstream. They are viewed as a serious internal threat never to be trusted. ) (c) PFO ... Okay so that is the first sign that Benny Hinn's burger has foot &(in) mouth disease...but wait...there's more.... "I'm not a puppet, I'm a REAL boy." Pinochio

Benny Hinn attributes his spiritual anointing in connection with Katherine Kuhlman and Aimee McPherson. In 1991 BH confessed to having visited the grave of Katherine Kuhlman and he says that he is one of thefew that have access to it. Like you know she's dead so who cares?

The dead know nothing of the world or even of God because they sleep. Then he said that he visits the grave of Aimee McPherson and while there he felt a terriffic anointing...hmm...in a GRAVEYARD...of a DEAD PERSON? The Bible states clearly that necromancy, talking to the dead (actually evil spirits), is an abomination to God:

Duet 18:10-12"There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD ..."

Further to that Benny stated that he started shaking all over and trembling under the power of God. NOW I suppose that two things happened here, 1. A demonic spirit influence was invited in by Benny Hinn at the graveside of Aimee McPherson...and...
2. I suggest that the shaking all over, the trembling under the power of God was either not God at all, OR God warning Benny Hinn that he was encroaching on seriously dangerous spiritual ground.........

........but as it happens Benny Hinn, self-confessed necromancer did not heed any warning that may have been sent his way...no to the contrary, he has ploughed on forward in his lies, blasphemy and daylight robbery full steam ahead.

Winded catchers try to keep up with the toppling bodies in his crusades. He rears back and with a pitching motion slays the entire choir with one toss. "That's power," yells Benny." "POWER!" ... Hinn takes off his custom tailored jacket and rubs it briskly on his body. He is rubbing the Power into the jacket. Then he starts swinging it wildly, like the biblical David swinging his sling. He decks his followers left and right. "Bam! Bam! Bam!" The stage vibrates with their landings. Then he throws it [the "anointed" jacket]. Another bam. As a catcher moves to pick up a woman, Hinn slays him ... then he slays the catcher who caught the catcher.

When Benny Hinn is moved, nobody is safe from the Power ... [H]e blows loudly into the microphone ... Hundreds fall backward ... a woman collapses in the aisle and begins to babble. And then, suddenly, Benny is gone. The power vanishes from the room, and the people stare in stunned silence.

This aspect alone of Hinn's meetings is enough to condemn him. He capriciously throws the "Holy Spirit" around in most irreverent fashion, using the third Person of the Trinity as his servant to attract attention to himself Hinn acts as though the "anointing" is some metaphysical power at his disposal, to be rubbed off onto objects. It looks impressive, works largely by the power of suggestion, but has no purpose except to make people stand in awe of Hinn.

"It's scary," says Bill James, a former church member. "The people are mesmerized. ...When he comes out, he's like God." Dave Hunt's CIB Bulletin for February 1992:

Although the above reference is old, this is still the staple diet of any Benny Hinn carni-sideshow event.

From my own personal experience, I saw Benny Hinn in a video a friend was watching back in 1996 and I had never really heard of Benny Hinn until then that I recall, however, the second I saw him and heard his voice I had a sinking feeling in my gut. I didn't know what it was because everyone around me at the time just thought he was great and to say that I had my reservations about the guy was to take my own churchlife in my own hands, however I could not reconcile with anything that Benny Hinn said or did. Anyway I was promptly given another strike beside my name (voted most likely to be the anti-christ {I kid you not}) because I continued to say, "There's something wrong here, there is something amiss, Benny Hinn does not add up nor ring true, therefore I want nothing to do with him."

Oddly enough, my discernment, (despite my extreme fear of being wrong) has always been reliable when it comes to things of this ilk...burgers laced with disease....I like the burger analogy....so I am going to stay with it.

"People of God," shouts Benny, "we must never speak such faith-destroying words as these: 'If it be thy will, Lord.'... I am Him [Jesus]! The Word has become flesh in Meee! ... You are a little god on earth!"

(NB...how does the Lord's prayer finish? The instructed prayer..."...thy kingdom come, THY WILL BE DONE on EARTH as it is in HEAVEN." )

His other heresies include the teaching that God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit each has a body, soul spirit. "There's nine of them!" he told his congregation 'by revelation knowledge,' but probably got the idea from Dake's Annotated Reference Bible, where this ancient heresy was revived on page 55.
Hinn has the same heresy as Hagin and Copeland, that when Jesus died on the cross He sank into hell and took upon him the nature of Satan and was tortured by Satan for our redemption. Then early in 1991 he repudiated this teaching along with other "Word- Faith" peculiar doctrines. Yet he had taught it as "revelation knowledge." God's revelations don't change.

Seduction into such heresy as what Hinn offers is not hard to understand when you try the following.....ask someone to say silk, silk, silk, silk x10 and then ask them what cows drink? Nine times out ten they will say 'milk'....basic psychology shows just how easily the human mind can be put offguard and led to making seemingly small mistakes..... if subjected to the same thing over and over again. Problem is that a whole bunch of small mistakes, accepted erroneous points lead up to one very HUGE deception.

Stanley Milgram was very clever at showing just how manipulable people are when someone exerts authority over them and I am sure (even though they'd never admit it) that some of these charlatins are WELL versed in the teachings of Milgram. When a man represents himself as a man of God, and many are fooled, even the elect, then the younger Christians are easier to reel in...if a man, who calls himself a man of God, says that something is so because God speaks to him and God said so, few will argue with him...especially if he manages to get away with showcasing a few shonky miracles, diddles the numbers on conversions and has the ability to back it up with twisted scripture, etc.

This deception spreads like a disease, like Mad Cow or Foot &(in) Mouth (you can't see it until it is too late in most cases and the only thing left is to either watch the animal die of a hideously cruel disease or put them out of their misery) many people are dying spiritual deaths because they are eating bad burgers that screw with their sense of smell and taste so that eventually their senses (i.e discernment)are so messed up that all they desire is MORE. They start staggering around with these bleeding gaping wounds (spiritual) and they don't even know that they are sick and in peril...and even when it is pointed out they immediately jump to anger in their denial because that is often what seriously ill people do when disease like this is involved. They don't stop to ask, "Where did the meat come from?"

Benny Hinn is a classic case of Mad Cow Disease and Foot &(in) Mouth Disease when he says to his critics (Christian brothers and sisters), and I quote..."You know, I've looked for one verse in the Bible -- I just can't seem to find it -- one verse that says, 'If you don't like'em, kill'em." I really wish I could find it! ... Sometimes I wish God would give me a Holy Ghost machine gun. I'd blow your head off."

So, not only is he a mad cow, but he's a mad cow looking for a gun, looking for a reason, looking for an excuse to perpetrate mayhem upon those who lovingly or vehemently oppose him. And his followers lap this up???? Defies logic!

BUT WAIT...there's so much more....want fries with that burger?...

...the following is another threat made by Benny Hinn to those who oppose him...

"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. You'll never win. ...And your children will suffer. You're attacking me on the radio every night; you'll pay, and yor children will. Hear this from the lips of God's servant. You are in danger. Repent, or God Almighty will move his hand. ..."

Deut 18:22“If the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing that the Lord has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him."

"A Godly man has no fear of his critics...if he's on the Lord's side..." Sarah Connor

Now what you have read is what I call Benny Hinn 101, it hardly scratches the surface but it is a start. If you are hearing alarm bells and would like more info may I suggest that visiting the following link will help you greatly.

"Just because they eat the burger it doesn't mean that they want to meet the cow."

SORRY if you want me to eat THAT burger then I insist on meeting the cow...

"The man of iniquity is about to be revealed. False teachers like Benny Hinn are merely setting the stage for the final apostasy that is coming. All the world's religions will join together in the "anointing" that is not of the Holy Spirit, and have one big millennium party. The sad thing is that, over the shoulder of the Third Wave, even while they are fiddling their lives away, the rest of the world will be crashing and burning in sin and doomed to ultimate damnation." http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/hinnites.htm

To date, Mr. Hinn is continuing with the same horrible faith teaching, false prophecy, and gross theological error. Noted charismatic theologian J. Rodman Williams repeats his warning that "Hinn is prone to exaggeration and extremism...[his[ exegesis is frequently unsound and unbiblical", and after attending some of Hinn's services writes that in those meetings "psychological techniques are mixed in with the spiritual." Watchman Fellowship

Benny Hinn has been admonished by his peers, and on several occasions he has publically recanted erroneous teachings and renounced the things he was doing....only to turn around and repeat the same things all over again.

“Time is the enemy of a false prophet.” Bill Cetnar (late PFO director)

More often than not the prophecies of modern day false prophets do not come to pass, but they have an astonishing way of making their followers excuse their espoused 'knowledge from God" even when it is obvious that because they didn't come to pass that they cannot possibly have come from God. God DOESN'T LIE, TRICK or DECEIVE...therefore, their failed prophecies could NOT have come from God.

Often they plough ahead as though something they predictied that didn't come to pass never happened and they come up with new schemes and dreams to fit the times or to carry on from the previous failed prophecy..."False prophets who find themselves cornered and unable to ignore, redefine or spiritualize their predictions, sometimes will resort to the “Touch not the Lord’s anointed” line, calling their detractors quenchers of the Holy Spirit." G. Richard Fisher & M. Kurt Goedelman

Jer 29:8-9 "For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams that you cause to be dreamed. For they prophesy falsely to you in My name: I have not sent them, says the Lord."

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