Counterfeit Revival by Hank Hanegraaff

Author:Hank Hanegraaff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2010-03-22T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

Suspect Slayings

When Benny Hinn first encountered the raw power coursing through Kathryn, he exclaimed, “I’ve got to have this. . . . I want what Kathryn Kuhlman’s got. I wanted it with every atom and fiber within me.”1 What Hinn wanted, Hinn got. In his book The Anointing, he tells the story of how Kathryn’s “closest confidante,”2 Maggie Hartner, personally told him, “You have a lot more than she had when she was your age.”3

The Power

The power young Hinn got was so enormous that his mere presence often caused people to be slain in the spirit. In Good Morning, Holy Spirit, Hinn describes the impact of his power on one of his parents: “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.”4

His power on pastors and parishioners was even more potent than his power on his parent. As Hinn described it, the first time he ever stood in a pulpit, he merely lifted his hands to summon the Holy Spirit when “instantly the power of God hit the place. People began to cry and many fell to the floor.”5

Hinn was so amazed at the power that he didn’t know what to do. Says Hinn, “I turned around 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.”6 The raw power emanating from Hinn was allegedly so potent that each time the leader would struggle to get near him, he would “hit the wall.”7

Today the power coursing through Hinn has been passed on to a host of other Counterfeit Revival leaders. As described in chapter 3, John Arnott said that when Hinn got through ministering to his wife backstage, she was so affected that, as he put it, “I’d have to undress her and put her to bed, she was so out of it.”8 Although he too has fallen before Benny, he is not always sure why. As quoted in an earlier chapter: “It’s like, I didn’t know if he slammed me on the head or if the ushers pulled me back, or if I actually fell down, or if I just cooperated, or if there was so much psychological pressure in front of that many people that I just simply went with it.”9

The ambivalence articulated by Arnott often arises from the flamboyance of Hinn’s performances. In fact, those familiar with Kuhlman’s practice of slaying subjects “are not ready to approve what they view as manipulative variations. Those variations include Benny Hinn’s blowing on some and throwing his wadded coat at others. ‘Kathryn would turn over in her grave,’ one Kuhlman admirer told me, ‘if she could see what passes today as being slain in the spirit.’”10 Probably

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