Benny Hinn’s Prophetic Track Record

Benny Hinn cashes in on the superstitions that he has planted into peoples minds by using his place of power to compel people to donate to his ministry and that of TBN.  That has already been documented in the fundraising chapter.  Hinn shared his dream that the prophet Elijah handed off his rod of authority to him and then with that authority commanded the people to empty their pockets.

He warned TBN supporters that those who hold back from giving would not survive the year 2001 as was supposedly prophesied by 700 Club founder Pat Robertson.  Yet, when 2001 came and went there were no casualties to report and no apologies forthcoming.

On New Years Eve 1989, Hinn said that the homosexual community of America would be destroyed in the mid-1990s and attributed that bit of information to the Lord.   At that same service, Hinn prophesied that an earthquake would destroy much of the East Coast of America in the 1990s and that Fidel Castro would die at the same time.

More than ten years later in the year 2000, Hinn told the Crouches on Praise that he was trying to get his crusade into Cuba.  Jan Crouch asked him, “Are you going to Cuba? The thing with Cuba”is the doors opened for us, Hinn responded, but I will not go till I have in writing on paper that I’m allowed to preach freely” I want it in writing that I’m free to minister freely and when I get that thing in writing, I’ll go” And Cuba’s gonna open up no matter what, cause God said it would.

Did God say Cuba would open up to Hinn before or after God told him that Castro would die sometime in the 1990s?  

Hinn’s track record seems to get worse as time passes.  Just before America sent troops to Iraq in 2003, Hinn prophesied over the coming invasion.  He went on both Praise the Lord and TBN’s Behind the Scenes programs to get his important message out to all.  He also sounded the warning on his own television program. Again he heard another audible voice in the dark in the middle of the night.  I awakened hearing, rivers of blood, rivers of blood, almost shouting it in my ears.  And I awakened with the words, rivers of blood.  So you can tell this is not going to be an easy future for the world.

Later on in the week, Hinn addressed TBN’s studio audience on the Praise program.  The Lord revealed to me what’s coming in the next few days and weeks with this war with Iraq.  I will tell you this” Dangerous days are ahead for this world” Satan is ready to unleash horror and terror on this earth as never before” I saw things that frightened me” If Ill share what I saw with you right now, this studio audience would run out of this studio and get on their face before God” The Lord said that only those who pray will escape.

It is hard to believe that anyone could take Hinn seriously with this pitiful track record of prognosticating.  Even Sister Chloe has a better record than Benny Hinn, yet the crowds at his crusades have not diminished in the least.

i. Transcript from Benny Hinn at OCC on 12/31/89,
per Gods Superman, compilation of Hinn transcripts by Bud Press, Watchman Fellowship.
ii. Benny Hinn, Praise the Lord, TBN 1/9/2000, video on file.
iii. Benny Hinn, TBN Behind the Scenes, 12/23/02, video on file.
iv. Benny Hinn, Praise the Lord, 12/29/02, video on file.

"Excerpt from the yet unpublished manuscript, "TBN:The Fleecing of Christianity" by Jackie Alnor
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