Creflo Dollar Falsely Prophesies People Will Be Saved Because Of How Rich God Makes Them
Creflo Dollar is one of the most infamous and successful prosperity preachers ever, joining such men as Benny Hinn and Kenneth Copeland as the trio of arch-heretics most responsible for exporting the false prosperity gospel throughout the world.
A televangelist and pastor of the 30,000-member World Changers Church International (WCCI) in Atlanta, he’s known for his wealth and extravagant lifestyle, owning several multi-million dollar homes, expensive luxury cars, being a proponent of “little gods’ theology, and making headlines back in 2015 when he asked followers and supporters to fund his purchase of a $65,000,000 private jet. We wrote about him a few weeks ago after he urged his whole church to vote for Stacey Abrams as governor after she visited his church.
At the end of 2021, he preached a sermon where he claimed to have a word from God, prophesying that 2022 would be a bountiful year where the greatest move of God the world has ever seen will take place, and that enemies of God would repent and get saved because of how much God will bless them financially. (How did that turn out?)
Here’s what the Lord said to me, he says “I am about to release the beginnings of the manifestations of a move of God on the earth like has never been seen. I’m gonna cause the wicked to turn to me. Imma cause the devil worshipper to turn to me. I’m gonna break the yoke of those who have been deceived by the devil to turn to me.
And I said, ‘Well Lord, how are you gonna do that?’ He says ‘I’m about to show people who don’t deserve my goodness my goodness. But for you who know me and for you who fellowship with me and claim me…if you believe for the goodness you are going to show that there is profit in serving God and these last days, amen?
Dollar asks “how is God going to change the mind of that atheists? How is God going to save that family member in your family?” and then quotes Romans 2:4 “Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?” Based on this, he offers this theory;
And God says, ‘I’m going to change their mind. How? I’m going to be so good to them, that they’re going to fall on their face one day and say, ‘God, I don’t deserve it but I want to receive you into my life,’ amen? And that goodness has already begun in the name of Jesus. I’m believing tonight, that a tsunami of God’s goodness is about to go over this planet, amen?
I need you to start believing that you’re going to see the goodness of the Lord in 2022. I believe in this coming year, when everybody’s gonna be prophesied about economic collapse, I believe those of you who are gonna begin to declare the goodness of the Lord in the face of badness, there’s gonna be a wealth transference that is gonna hit your house.
They’re gonna be opportunities that are gonna hit your house, you’re gonna spend a number of days gathering up because it’s so much. Because when you declare the goodness of the Lord, His goodness, is gonna show up in all kinds of areas in your life…honey, when God releases his goodness, it’s gonna start spreading on everything that concerns you.
And 2022 is going to be a breakthrough year in your life like you’ve never seen before. I’m so excited about you. I’m excited about your family and the things that are going to happen. Something good is going to happen to you.
Yet there is nothing in the bible that says God uses money to convince people to come to him in repentance, or that Jesus used the blessings of extreme wealth as a means to save the wicked and have them come to him. The kindness and goodness of God in Romans 2 has nothing to do with getting rich and material blessing, but rather his forbearance, patience, and withholding of our just and deserving judgement.
This is all just a ploy to accrue more of that mammon, which he made his god long ago.
h/t iThink Biblically. For his video with better commentary click here.
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I’m convinced there isn’t a single verse in the Bible that these prosperity preachers couldn’t twist and contort into being all about increasing mammon. SMH
Romans 2:4 cannot be read out of context with Romans 1. The beginning of Romans 2 is a continuance of the message being conveyed in previous chapter, beginning around verse 1:16, in particular continuing from verse 1:32. The point being made is that to continue in sin, or to give approval of its continuance, as conveyed in verse 1:32, is to despise the goodness of God. That is, continuing in sin or giving approval thereto, is to despise the grace, forbearance, and patience that God has shown to us. Similar is found in other scriptures such as Rom. 6:1-2, 1 John 3:4-10, 2 Thess. 2, Jude, and many other scriptures, foremost of which are the words of Jesus, and there are many on the subject, such as that we know them by their fruits, a tree that bears bad fruit will be cut down and thrown in the fire, those who cry Lord Lord but do not keep His commandments will hear “depart from me”, His words to the adulteress “go and sin no more,” and many others.
This is redundant to Staff Writer’s comments at the end of the article. But yes, it is clear Rom. 2:4 has nothing whatsoever to do with money or earthly riches.
For millennia worldly men have been twisting Scripture to justify their sins – some have just done it better than others.
Worthy reminder, and very true.
They’ve strayed so far from scripture it’s kind of hard to even resemble Christianity.
“Wells without water-twice dead”.
Goodness is not defined as nor limited to money. I always urge people to listen to entire messages without pre-judgment before expounding upon them. Also, we were not urged to vote for stacey abrams. this is my home church. we’ve never been urged to vote for anyone. any campaigner who comes is introduced from the audience. they stand and wave and we are encouraged to go to the polls and exercise our vote PERIOD, not for a specific candidate because this is done for all candidates that visit.