The wife of televangelist Benny Hinn has filed for divorce from the high-profile pastor, whose reputation as an advocate of prosperity gospel has attracted millions of followers and criticism from lawmakers and watchdog groups over his lavish lifestyle.

Suzanne Hinn filed the papers in Orange County Superior Court on Feb. 1, citing irreconcilable differences, after more than 30 years of marriage. The papers note the two separated on Jan. 26 and that Hinn has been living in Dana Point, a wealthy coastal community in southern Orange County.

“Pastor Benny Hinn and his immediate family were shocked and saddened to learn of this news without any previous notice,” Benny Hinn Ministries said Thursday in a statement. “Although Pastor Hinn has faithfully endeavored to bring healing to their relationship, those efforts failed and were met with the petition for divorce that was filed without notice.”

Hinn is one of the best known advocates of the prosperity gospel, which teaches that Christians who are right with God will be rewarded with wealth and health in this lifetime.

His TV broadcasts on the Trinity Broadcast Network, a Pentecostal broadcasting juggernaut, and other TV networks are seen by millions of people around the world nearly every day. He travels the globe in his ministry’s plane, named Dove One, holding events he calls “Miracle Crusades” that include spiritual healings.

Hinn has never fully publicly disclosed how he spends the money he raises, but his vast ministry is believed to be a multimillion-dollar operation. There was no mention of finances in the court filing, which listed three recent Southern California addresses for the family.

Over the years, Hinn has been the target of intense criticism from fellow Christians and watchdog groups who call his teachings false and accuse him of raising money only to enrich himself.

He is one of six televangelists under investigation by Sen. Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, over whether he complied with IRS rules for nonprofits. Hinn has said on his Web site that external auditors ensure his compliance with IRS regulations and that in 2008, 88 percent of the money he collected was spent on ministry.

Benny Hinn Ministries is based in Grapevine, Texas, and operates a church and television studio in Aliso Viejo in California’s Orange County, according to its Web site.

Sorrell Trope, the attorney with the law firm representing Suzanne Hinn, did not return a call for comment. A woman at his office said the firm does not comment on divorce filings without the client’s approval.

J. Lee Grady, contributing editor of Charisma, a news magazine on the Pentecostal community, said Hinn’s divorce is the latest in a string of high-profile ministry divorces and moral failures among the Pentecostal leaders, beginning with Ted Haggard’s fall from grace in 2006.

Haggard, who is married and has five children, admitted to receiving a massage from a male prostitute and buying drugs from him, but denied allegations he paid the man for sex.

Grady said in an e-mail Thursday that Hinn’s followers will want an explanation for the divorce because of the high profile the couple had.

“It will be devastating to the people who have supported Benny Hinn’s evangelistic work around the world,” Grady said.

“Obviously because their ministry has been very public, they will need to issue a statement to their supporters to explain how this happened,” he said.

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“Then the LORD did exactly what he had promised. Sarah became pregnant, and she gave a son to Abraham in his old age.  It all happened at the time God had said it would.  And Abraham named his son Isaac.  And Sarah declared, “God has brought me laughter!  All who hear about this will laugh with me.” – Genesis 21:1-3; 6 (NLT)

gods-humorFor years, I’ve subscribed to the belief that God has a sense of humor.  How else would you explain things like the multi-cultural church that now meets in a place that used to house KKK meetings.  Or what about the lady that prayed to find a new jaguar in her driveway?  She found it alright . . . it just drove off after the person in it realized he was at the wrong house! (By the way, these are both true stories.)

Even in the Bible, God shows us His sense of humor.  Abraham was 100 and Sarah was 90 years old when God honored a promise He had made 25 years earlier.  Notice that the scriptures did not say that Sarah conceived from the Holy Spirit, like Mary did with Baby Jesus.  So you know what that means!  Abraham took care of his “husbandly duties”!  The thought of a 100-year old man and his 90-year old wife going through the motions of procreating is quite laughable!   Even Sarah laughed at the thought of having a child well beyond the normal child-bearing years (see Genesis 18:12).  This promise from God was a manifested in the form of a son named Isaac.
Many people refuse to see God as having a sense of humor because they view Him as one who keeps a checklist of rights & wrongs committed.  But the notion of God being a compassionate Father who loves on His children is one we need to wholeheartedly embrace.  If you have a God that you cannot have a relationship with, eventually frustration sets in.  Consider this: a believer in the Muslim faith cannot even call his God “Father” because it’s considered blasphemy!  That’s no laughing matter.

If God, in His infinite wisdom, would allow us to benefit from laughter, do you think He’d prevent us from having access to it?  Think about this:

On average, children laugh 300 times a day, but adults laugh only 17 times a day.  Laughter decreases blood pressure.  Laughter calms the nervous system.  Laughter strengthens your midsection muscles.  Laughter burns calories.  Laughter is one of the greatest builders of your immune system.  Laughter increases your capacity to fight disease.  Laughter relaxes the body.  Laughter reduces stress.  Laughter elevates your mood.  Laughter improves brain functioning.  Laughter gives you energy.  And last, but definitely not least, laughter makes you feel good!

And if, by chance, you still have doubts about God having a sense of humor, please consider the meaning of Isaac’s name (“He laughs”).  Take a wild guess as to who the “He” is.

“If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.” – Martin Luther

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“For You have been a refuge for me, A tower of strength against the enemy.” – Psalm 61:3 (NASB)

Living a life of faith often requires us to leave certain things alone.  When we choose not to, we inevitably self-destruct.  One great biblical example of such can be found in Samson (see Judges 13:1-25 & Judges 16:1-31).

Samson was a Nazirite with great physical strength who had been set apart for God’s service.  His accomplishments included tearing a lion apart with his bare hands (see Judges 14:5-6) and single-handedly destroying a thousand Philistine soldiers with the fresh jawbone of a donkey (see Judges 15:14-16).  But like a man trying to grasp oil with his hands, Samson failed to see that lasting contentment ultimately escapes all who seek it outside of the Lord.  The inner loneliness that so often follows great victory pushed him into the clutches of a Philistine woman named Delilah.  She enticed Samson to reveal the secret of his strength, thus causing him to lose all of his vigor.  Often in the Bible, a person’s name was indicative of an aspect of his/her character.  Delilah literally means “languishing” or “to be or become weak or feeble; lose strength or vigor”.  Samson tasted the sweetness of bitter fruit by languishing with Delilah.

The Psalmist cried, “For You have been a refuge for me, A tower of strength against the enemy.” David found his answer in God’s presence; Samson never did and it killed him.  The seduction of Delilah appealed so greatly to Samson that he stayed too long, shared too much and lost everything.  The end result of many of our choices may not be obvious enough at first for us to recognize how damaging they’ll be in the long run.   Are you in danger of that happening to you?

Your Delilah can be anything that attempts to derail you and deplete you spiritually.  It can be a career you work at around the clock, a bad relationship or a destructive habit.  It’s what you turn to when you need escape.  Don’t be fooled.  Delilah may delight you tonight, but she’ll destroy you tomorrow because there is no right way to do a wrong thing.  Get up while you can and run!  Don’t walk – run to the arms of Jesus before you lose everything!  If you think it can’t happen to you, consider this your warning sign on the road to destruction.

“The more a man was in the Devil’s power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he’s drunk.” – C.S. Lewis

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“The LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.” – Psalm 121:8 (NIV)

A mother wakes up during a thunderstorm and hurries to her son’s room after a particularly bright flash of lightning.  She’s convinced he’s going to be terrified.  To her surprise, he’s standing at the window. “I was looking outside” he said, “and you’ll never guess what happened. God took my picture.” This little boy was convinced (and so should we) that God was at work; therefore his world is a perfectly safe place to be.

Ask yourself this question: “What would my life look like if I lived with a heart-deep conviction that because of God’s unchanging character and care, this world is a totally secure place for me to be?”  Your anxiety level would go down.  You’d have the assurance that your life is in the hands of Almighty God, so you wouldn’t be tormented by your own inadequacy.  You’d be an unhurried person.  You might be busy, but you’d possess inner calmness and outer poise.  You wouldn’t say many of the foolish things you now say because you speak without thinking.  You’d trust God enough to risk obeying Him.  That means you wouldn’t have to hoard.  Worry makes us depend on ourselves.  It robs us of joy and energy.  A person in whom the peace of Christ reigns would be an oasis of sanity in a world of pandemonium.  Can you be that person? Better yet, do you want to be that person?

Such a person does exist.  “The LORD will keep you from all harm.  He will watch over your life; the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.” (Psalm 121:7-8).  What else do you need?

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“I am warning you ahead of time, dear friends, so that you can watch out and not be carried away by the errors of these wicked people. I don’t want you to lose your own secure footing.”  – II Peter 3:17 (NLT)

There’s nothing more dangerous than going forth in the name of the LORD, but in error. That’s why teaching and learning are so important. For the student, it involves discerning truth from error. For the teacher, it involves sound communication. What a student learns becomes ingrained in the heart and soul. Therefore, if information presented is incorrect, the student comes to accept untruth as something valid. Simply put, lies distort truth. And when that happens, it is hard to convince the student otherwise.

In the preceding text, Peter cautions believers to beware of falling victim to the seductive practice of straying from orthodoxy. He also illuminates a very subtle truth: most people that are being deceived are not even aware of it because they never go beyond face value. The “wicked” spoken of here are those unprincipled, double-minded people whose devotion to God is less than total. As a consequence, their attention is divided between God and other things. Those pulled into this web of fraudulence are subject to failing steadfastness & no spiritual balance.

So what’s the remedy against such deceit? How do you know if one’s teaching is on point and someone else’s has missed the mark?  Check out Acts 17:11 – “And the people of Berea were more open–minded than those in Thessalonica, and they listened eagerly to Paul’s message. They searched the Scriptures day after day to check up on Paul and Silas, to see if they were really teaching the truth.” (NLT)

The Bereans were open to Paul’s teaching, but not content with simply hearing the message and taking it at face value. They continually (“day after day”) examined the Word and personally sought to investigate and measure the accuracy of Paul’s message against Scripture. Their motive was not to find fault; they were eager to believe truth. In its proper context, the idea conveyed is that these men and women were unbiased and characterized by a willingness to learn and evaluate fairly. They listened to the words of Paul, not with an already made up mind, but with a readiness to let the passage change their thinking if that’s what needed to occur.

There are 2 key aspects we can learn from the Bereans:

1. We must not place absolute trust in the stability of that which can be seen or felt. A savvy communicator can use the Scriptures taken out of context to teach almost anything. Just because it sounds true and it feels right doesn’t mean it lines up with the Bible. The opinions of the Bereans were in no way influenced by Paul’s persuasiveness or their own emotions.

2. We must labor daily to increase in our knowledge of Christ. Until you know Christ authentically, you will always run the risk of being duped into accepting a counterfeit faith. The Bereans model the appropriate response we should have when the Word of God goes forth. They were familiar with God because they regularly spent time interacting with Him through His Word.

When was the last time you went beyond face value to make sure you weren’t being misled?

“The purpose of education is to reduce the seduction of eloquence.” – Dr. Michael Eric Dyson

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I once heard someone say for Christians living on this earth this is as close as we will ever get to being in Hell and for unbelievers living on earth this is as close as they will ever get to heaven. I just feel so bad for people who won’t accept Jesus Christ into their life as their personal Lord and Savior. I was thinking the other day about the people who are in hell now begging for another chance. Just one more chance. one more drop of water. one more oppurtunity to go to church and live righteously before God. They can never come back…everyone already went to the funeral and God already made his final judgement on their lives and soul. So I am alive and obviously you are too because you’re reading this right now. But, what can we do to help many more avoid facing that home of death, torment, and painful agony for eternity? The unbeleivers now dont listen because they say there are too many religions and they refuse to commit, others say Christians are dumb and we are hypocrites and Jesus was just a regular man and no one is in heaven but when I hear these opinions of people and see their rebelious attitude I start to worry about the ones who already died in their sins without the covering of Jesus Christ and are now wishing they had a second chance. Everytime I witness to rapper’s about Jesus they say “I already beleive in God…which is a lie because their lifestyle is not following God …the book of Titus 1:16 is goona be said to so many people in judgement day it should be the theme of judgement day…because people claim to know God but refuse to obey by the showing of their lifestyle. Its CRAZY. But overall, lets keep them all in prayer and hope they find Jesus Christ before their time is up on this earth.

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“Don’t get sidetracked; keep your feet from following evil.” – Proverbs 4:27 (NLT)

Nothing, absolutely nothing, is more important to your future than personal integrity.  Webster defines it in one word – honesty!  And you can only hide your lack of it for so long.  Eventually like a faulty foundation in a storm, the cracks widen, the roof caves in, and everything you’ve worked for is gone.

“Getting away with it” can actually be worse than getting caught because it encourages you to believe that you can continue operating in two different worlds: reality & fantasy.  Listen to the words of the prophet Jeremiah: “Like a bird that hatches eggs she has not laid, so are those who get their wealth by unjust means. Sooner or later they will lose their riches and, at the end of their lives, will become poor old fools.” (Jeremiah 17:11).

Please don’t be misled into thinking that you can do whatever you want in small things and be okay as long as you have no major lapses.  It’s your first lie that makes you a liar.  And whether you steal one dollar or one million dollars, you’re still a thief.  Phillips Brooks says, “Character is made in the small moments of our lives.” Integrity always puts character over personal gain, people over things, service over power, principle over convenience, and the long view over the immediate.

Every time you break a moral principle, it becomes more difficult to act with integrity.  Everything you’ve done in the past, including the things you’ve neglected to do, comes to a head when you’re under pressure.  That’s why developing and maintaining integrity requires constant vigilance and discipline. John Weston says, “Live by the following rule; don’t do anything you wouldn’t feel comfortable reading about in tomorrow’s newspaper.”

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Jay-Z’s clothing line “Rocawear” has incorporated obvious occult symbols in its designs. Some are so blatantly Masonic that he probably couldn’t get away with it if he wasn’t effectively implicated with them. In interviews, Jay-Z has said to be actively involved in the choices of designs of his clothing line. Here are some examples:

All-Seeing Eye in Triangle

“Masters of the Craft” is a 100% Masonic saying and the All-Seeing Eye of the Great Architect depicted here is directly taken from Masonic works. Notice also the secret handshake depicted in a circle.

The logo above is designed to look like the Eye of Horus below.

Kanye wearing a shirt with the head of Baphomet

Prodigy’s Crusade

Rapper Prodigy from the mythical group Mobb Deep has occasionally denounced Jay-Z’s affiliation with the Illuminati in the last years. Here’s an URB article on the subject.

Prodigy’s ain’t down with that crap

Like he does in his monthly blog on Vibe.com, the incarcerated Prodigy recently spewed more of his conspiracy theories via a handwritten letter to URB. This time, he reveals the moment his eyes were opened to the sham he calls “the government, religions, politics, the Federal Reserve, and I.R.S.” According to P, in 1996, after reading a book by Dr. Malichi Z. York titled Leviathan 666, he was moved so much, he cried, and that was his “moment of clarity.”

“I was crying for all of humanity, but mostly for my black people ’cause I then realized it was all a sham,” Prodigy writes in his letter to URB. “The government, religions, politics, the Federal Reserve, the I.R.S., and everything that we believe and live by is a joke.” Even worse, the rapper says that many popular rappers are aware of these society secrets, but choose not to speak on it for fear of not being accepted by corporate America. One, in particular, is Jay-Z.

Occult Secrets of Jay Z, Kanye & Nas

“J.Z. knows the truth, but he chose sides with evil in order to be accepted in the corporate world. J.Z. conceals the truth from the black community and the world, and promotes the lifestyle of the beast instead,” he wrote. Prodigy says that Jay grew up grew up in Dr. York’s “Nuwabian” community in Brooklyn as a kid, and is “aware” of these evils — rogue government, elitists running the country, etc.

Because of Jay’z refusal to speak on the topics Prodigy has been doing so since his incarceration, he will make it a point to wage war against him.
“J.Z is a God damn lie. I have so much fire in my heart that I will relentlessly attack J.Z, Illuminati, and any-every other evil that exists until my lights are put out,” P writes. “This negativity I speak of is an actual living entity that uses us as food. We must sever ties with it in order to see things for what they really are. This negative energy is created and harnessed by the Illuminati secret government and they will make you spread this energy without you even knowing it. But people like J.Z. are very well aware. He was schooled by Dr. York,” he continued.

Real talk.

To Conclude

So, the least we can say is that Jay-Z has “affinities” with occultism and secret societies. “Run This Town” only adds to the suspicions surrounding him due to the symbolism and philosophy displayed in the video. In light of those facts, some questions arise: has Jay-Z sided with the elite to succeed in the corporate world? Is he used to promote NWO agenda? Or is this an act to fuel rumors and to add a little “mystique” around his persona? Maybe it’s all of the above. Maybe he’s doing this to get people like me writing and to generate buzz around his latest album. If this article has promoted Jay-Z, so be it.  At least people will know what the the hell they’re saluting when they’re throwing up that Roc sign.

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