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Megachurch Pastor Says Jesus Was Offered as ‘Burnt Offering’ and ‘Tithe’ on the Cross

Word of Faith and famed antinomian “hyper-grace” heretic Joseph Prince is claiming that all your money is cursed and unholy until you give a tithe to the, Lord and that Jesus himself was a tithe and burnt offering given on the cross, which then resulted in the salvation of the whole world.

Prince is the senior pastor of the 34,000-member New Creation Church based out of Singapore. Famously, the church spent $500,000,000 to purchase and renovate its church and another $300,000,000 to buy the mall the church was attached to. We last wrote about him after he rejected nomenclature like “poor as a church mouse,” arguing that poverty should not be associated with the church because Mickey Mouse is rich and prosperous.

Prince, who regularly tours the conference circuit with other big names in the prosperity preaching game, is the ringer money-grubbing pastors bring in to get their congregations to give more. A regular guest speaker at Hillsong church, Prince teaches that regular tithing will result in a prosperous life for you and your descendants, while encouraging his hearers to “confess you are rich because you’re already rich.” He frequestly says things like:

“You are destined to reign in life. You are called by the Lord to be a success, to enjoy wealth, to enjoy health, and to enjoy a life of victory. It is not the Lord’s desire that you live a life of defeat, poverty, and failure”

In an undated sermon while preaching on the tithe, he offers this bizzare interpretation:

We have been redeemed from the curse.  Now, YOU have been redeemed from the curse, the money that comes into your hand is not. Do you understand that? How do you make the money clean? The Bible says in New Testament,  New Testament,  Romans,  the apostle Paul by the Spirit says ‘If the first fruit is holy,  say holy.  If the first fruit is holy,  holy,  the rest is holy.  And what is holy,  the devil cannot touch.  Hey!  What is holy,  the devil cannot touch. Now,  your money is no more unrighteous.  It’s no more filthy lucre, it is now holy money.

...10% is a part of the whole.  For God,  the 10% is everything.  It’s part of the whole.  When the 10% is holy,  the rest is holy.  You understand?  Like it says in 1 Corinthians 15 that Christ is risen from the dead and become the first fruit…that’s the tithe of those who have fallen asleep.  

So Jesus is a tithe and money is cursed. Got it. He continues:

Each one in his own order, Christ the first fruits.  Afterwards,  those who are Christ’s at His coming.  So Christ is the tithe that first came up, right?  Once Christ came up first,  all of us are guaranteed to come out of the grave.  Guaranteed. Because why? The tithe has done it.  Whatever happens to the tithe, if the tithe is holy,  the rest is holy. If the tithe rose from the dead,  we all rise from the dead.  |

Last night, the Lord spoke to me and the Lord said,  ‘Son,  I set up the whole world like this. My son is the first fruit. I gave Jesus. He is the tithe.  And the world with, of course,  evil intentions took the tithe.  But unbeknown to them,  they did something that I wanted them to do.  They offered the tithe as a burnt offering on the cross.  And salvation came upon the whole world.’

I told you,  He is still talking to me.

For a longer commentary on this video breaking down why it’s so bad, see iThink Biblicaly’s video, who was also the h/t.

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Joseph Prince Teaches that Mickey Mouse was Rich, Believes in Prosperity Gospel

Word of Faith and famed antinomian “Hyper Grace” heretic, Joseph Prince, has come out swinging against nomenclature like “poor as a church mouse,” arguing that poverty should not be associated with the church because Mickey Mouse is rich and full of prosperity.

Prince is the senior pastor of the 34,000-member New Creation Church based out of Singapore. Famously, the church spent $500,000,000 to purchase and renovate its church and then another $300,000,000 to purchase the mall the church was attached to.

Prince, who regularly tours the conference circuit with other big names in the prosperity preaching game, raised his profile in evangelicalism for his message of “total grace” that rejects God’s law.

In this contemporary times and all that, you find that God is now restoring the truth about healing and prosperity. Now, what is happening is that every time God restores the truth in the past, the people attack, Martin Luther, for example, on justification by faith. They assassinated his character.

And then when the truth about the baptism of the Holy Spirit was restored back, the truth was attacked, was attacked by the enemy, because the enemy is afraid every time God restores truth that means what? The church becomes richer spiritually, becomes richer in their health, richer, even financially, even be able to provide.

So the devil put in all kinds of sayings like, for example, ‘as poor as a church mouse.’

Why must (it) be a church mouse? Right? Whereas Mickey Mouse is so wealthy. All right, you’re talking about health wealth, well Mickey Mouse is still alive. Looks quite healthy and forever young, right? So someone should come up against Mickey Mouse, saying that he believed in the health wealth doctrine.



h/t Revealing Truth on YouTube.

Bonus material on Prince

His prominence began after supposedly hearing God’s audible voice in 1997, which told him…

 “I distinctly heard the voice of the Lord on the inside.  It wasn’t a witness of the Spirit.  It was a voice, and I heard God say this clearly to me:  ‘Son, you are not preaching grace.’  I said, ‘What do you mean, Lord?…’Every time you preach grace, you preach it with a mixture of law.  You attempt to balance grace with the law like many other preachers, and the moment you balance grace, you neutralize it.  You cannot put new wine into old wineskins.  You cannot put grace and law together.  He went on to say, ‘Son, a lot of preachers are not preaching grace the way Apostle Paul preached grace” (Destined to Reign, Forward)

According to Prince, God wrote the Ten Commandments on two tablets of stone and the Devil “armed himself with the law to accuse and condemn man” (emphasis in original), but “when God nailed the law to the cross, He made a public spectacle of the devil and all the powers of darkness.” After the cross “the law no longer had the power to condemn man as long as he believed on Jesus. If you insist on being under the law,” warns Prince, “you are actually arming the devil again” and “the devil is the one using the law to bring about death and condemnation and to put believers under oppression!” (source link)

Prince says things like, “The law is not for you the believer, who has been made righteous in Christ! The law is not applicable to someone who is under the new covenant of grace” (same source). Needless to say, Prince isn’t mincing words like a New Covenant theologian who might stumble on the term “Moral Law” versus “Law of Christ” or “Law of Love.”

No, what Prince espouses is textbook Antinomianism.

Prince denies that Christians need to ask forgiveness for their sins (and apparently overlooks the way Jesus taught us to pray, “Forgive us of our debts, as we forgive those…”), saying “Under the new covenant, we don’t have to keep on asking the Lord…for forgiveness because He has already forgiven us” (Destined to Reign, Chapter 1, Page 7). Again, this is textbook antinomianism. Prince says insanely antinomian things like:

“I have also heard some believers pronouncing, ‘If God does not judge America for all its sins, God has to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.’ Well, let me say this with honor and respect: If God judges America today, He has to apologize to Jesus and what He has accomplished on the cross! My friend, God is not judging America (or any country in the world today)” (Destined to Reign, Chapter 5, page 49).

Prince denies that the Holy Spirit can use the Law to convict or quicken one spiritually, writing:

“You see, faith does not come by simply hearing the word of God because the word of God would encompass everything in the Bible, including the law of Moses.  There is no impartation of faith when you hear the Ten Commandments preached” (Destined to Reign, Chapter 7, page 75).