Guillermo Maldonado is the co-founder and senior pastor of El Rey Jesús, a 20,000-member megachurch in Miami, Florida, that is the largest Hispanic church in the United States. The author and self-styled “apostle” also oversees over 500 churches in 70 countries through his Supernatural Global Network, representing more than 750,000 people.
We’ve written about him a few times, such as Divorcing Megachurch Pastors Fight over $120M Estate, and featured him several times in our wealthy pastor’s roundup, given that he regularly wears watches in excess of $150k. A noted prosperity preacher who teaches the ‘law of increase,’ he claims to have raised the dead and healed all sorts of people in miraculous ways, including regrowing women’s breasts. Speaking to NAR Queen Cindy Jacobs, who takes it all in uncritically:
And then (God told me) ‘Tell the people I want to create new organs.’ And I call out all the person that needed a gallbladder, new knee. And you know, a lot of people came to the altar. And among those people came a lady that her breast- two breast had been removed 17 years ago, because of cancer.
And I asked her, What do you need from God? She goes ‘I need my two breasts’…. She fell on the floor. When she got up. She was screaming. I mean, she (was) laughing, rejoicing, crying and I say ‘what happened?’ She goes, I got my two breasts’
The Lord showed me that he already assigned angels to bring those new organs for the people to receive it. And I always tell the people; ‘make sure you receive it because otherwise that angel’s gonna take that organ back to heaven.’
Oh I’ve seen it before, one breast but not two breasts…. There was somebody that had an accident and they cut off one of his legs. And, you know, he said he was watching and then suddenly he felt the presence coming out of the TV. And then he said, ‘I believe my leg is gonna grow back’. And then he says ‘suddenly the presence fell’. And then he said he felt his leg grow back.
(Jacobs: “Oh, wow. And I think I remember video where fingers grew, didn’t it?”
Yeah fingers. I’ve seen hair grow back, fingers grow back. I’ve seen internal organs, like bladders, like, you know, all kinds of hearts, new hearts. So we’ve been seeing all kinds of that kind of miracles.”
We have no reason to believe that despite his wild claims, Guillermo Maldonado has ever healed a single person in his life.
h/t to the Friendly Atheist for the story. One day we’ll be friends.
