Well, the Evangelicals have really outdone themselves this week. They're so upset about the economy that they have resorted to praying over bronze bull statues on Wall Street. Leading the charge is self-appointed prophet, Cindy Jacobs. On the CBN web site, there is a call to prayer for God to intervene.
“We are going to intercede at the site of the statue of the bull on Wall Street to ask God to begin a shift from the bull and bear markets to what we feel will be the 'Lion’s Market,' or God’s control over the economic systems,” she said. “While we do not have the full revelation of all this will entail, we do know that without intercession, economies will crumble.”
Their thing went down with their usual wackyness and someone (sorry don't know who) snapped this priceless photo:
I could be wrong, but I think these folks appear to be breaking the second commandment. Also, I think Cindy Jacobs is full of bull.* She was there for the CBC conference that resulted in praying over rocks. However, I wish to give her partial kudos for some inadvertent wisdom:
"Don’t think you’re going to be in sin and that God will take care of you in these hard economic times. Holiness is key,” Cindy said. "Each of us has a part to play and should not think that God will indiscriminately bless us without us dealing with personal areas that are wrong. We must repent of any misuse of money, think before we spend, get out of debt, etc., and allow God to do a course correction for us."
I think she got it half right. The first part about equating holiness with financial blessing is just, um, bull puckey. The part about being fiscally responsible is sound advice no matter what your religious bent. (And she's really bent.)
*Sorry, that was the best pun I could come up with. Give me a better one and I'll give you credit.
How awesome would it have been to show up in a robe and beard and start throwing styrofoam tablets everywhere. If this had been on theonion.com I would have laughed. In real life? No so much.
This is so scary!
This shows how Christians desperately cling to their money until they will pray over anything that is whacky.
May God help us all.
It’s a bit hard to share Christ with my friends at work with this kind of BS going on
I was hoping this would fnd it’s way here. I bouncing between this and Palins anti-witch prayer.
Self-parody is so much fun.
That is a load of bull needing to pray at a bull.. It is SICK
Sadly
Idolatory
Criminally
Kick A$$ Sad
SICK
Wow! Where will Cindy turn up next? A couple of months ago she was down in Texas along hiway 35, saying it was the hiway the prophet Isaiah was talking about in chapter 35:8. She made CNN headlines with that one.
She is as crazy as an outhouse mouse! It is sad to see someone in the depths of religioius addiction carrying on and on like that.
Cindy: if you read this, I’m praying for you to have 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 revealed to you!
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Just remind them that there are 2 kinds of Christians, Jaiam. Kind of like there are 2 kinds of Christmases, Jesus and Santa Claus.
Or, you could phrase it as, there are many kinds of Christians. . .
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Preach it GT!!
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But there is a huge body of enablers that keep this kind of addiction going. If no one sent Cindy any money or showed up to her gigs would she have the confidence to boldly march down to Wall Street and lay hands on the bull? It’s all those ‘Money Cometh’ ppl fanning the flames.
We have a story over here that’s downright sad. There was a little gal with a fatal disease in our (former) church who was declared healed by Cindy when she visited. Along with that were prophesies of all she woud do on this earth when she got well. Nothing wrong with praying over the sick for healing and all that. Of course there’s no doubt that God can do anything and make people well even though it’s mystifying when he doesn’t choose to do so with some and then heals others.
Well, she did die, even though there was an ongoing vigil for her, even with daily visits from the youth staff etc. To add sadness to sadness, Cindy or the pastor’s wife (I can’t remember which one) decided that those prophetic words were really for the girl’s little brother.
Maybe all those declarations made the teenage girl’s last days better, I don’t know. Or did she know in her own heart that she was going to go be with Jesus so it only brought confusion? Either way, it was devestating to the whole church who rallied around this word that Cindy preached (it wasn’t just one sentence if you can imagine that). Of course, the parents and family were the ones left grieving when God didn’t choose to heal her (even if she WAS ultimately healed and is happier now in the presence of Jesus).
Did Cindy just get caught up in the moment? Why not just pray for and contend for healing and leave it at that? I can’t help but wonder if there’s now undue pressure on the parents as the brother is raised to stay at that church to assure that the Lord will carry out all that was said. Maybe they are comforted by that so I’m not mocking it. But I think it’s ok to ask questions. And I think it’s imperative that they ask questions especially when it comes to their own children and direction for life. Questions are not rebellion. Questions become prayers.
This event was one of the things that actually helped us begin to take a deeper look into the Prophetic movement to try to figure out what’s really driving all of this. Fortunately there are those who have been studying it all along in prayerful consideration and with intelligent initiative who have some thought provoking answers we may need to at least look at. Coming from our roots, though, many would consider that a lack of faith and won’t even peek! Shouldn’t our faith be strong enough to be able to delve into what is being given to us as a word from God himself? Aren’t we supposed to study to show ourselves approved to God and all that?
Perhaps God does give people like the Cindy Jacobs, who are celebrity prophets in a portion of our Christian Culture, ‘words’ at times, but you’ve got to wonder why there’s a need to take it beyond and use it as a grandstand. It just doesn’t seem right.
We are finding there’s an entire foundation of belief underneath it all that is rarely mentioned that has to do in part with a skewed sense of dominionism — in short they may be trying to rewrite the Book of Revelation. What are the last words in the Bible? A warning to not add or take away and a reminder that Jesus is coming back.
Personally, I think modern day prophets need to be more accountable to their prophetic words. If someone was actually keeping score on these things, they might not be so popular. It’s too bad we can’t bring back the OT rule of stoning false prophets.
The problem is that no one seems to remember when they make mistakes. They drum up the hype and get people in a frenzy and then they are off to the next conference. Who are they accountable to?
You can tell a false prophet if something does not come to pass.. Whatever they say has to have zero error! no mistakes.. No excuses! The church in general is becoming scary.. I came out of a church that believed in dominionism, generational curses, soul ties, health wealth gospel, todd bently fans, the works.. I started praying for truth and thankfully came out of it.The church needs prayer big time! It was said that many will gather teachers up for themselves to tickle their ears and listen to false doctrine, fables and doctrines of demons.. scary and sad at the same time!
On recommendation I read the book “The Full Facts Book on Cold Reading” by Ian Rowland. If you can find a used copy somewhere pick it up.
Although I have to say, once you read it, you can’t un-read it. Although the author speaks from trying impersonate/debunk psychics etc. however, it’s not much of a leap to change “séance” to “church” and “dead relative” to “god”.
I can no longer listen to Kim Clement, Cindy Jacobs, Benny Hinn, any of them without seeing the mechanism behind what they do.
Also of note is that the author does not necessarily condemn the psychics saying that with most of them he couldn’t tell if they really believed what they were telling people, hypothesizing that they were naturally gifted with the ability to “cold read” and thus honestly thought they had magic powers.
Although there where were a few that practiced outright fraud.
Speaking of: There’s a guy on tv (Peter Popoff http://www.peterpopoff.org) selling magic jesus handkerchiefs and miracle spring water to heal your pain. I’m always fascinated by what makes people give him money, but every time my wife catches me watching she makes me change the channel as he’s too creepy for her.
Since I was only 4 years old when this aired I was really surprised that this guy had once been outed on the Johnny Carson show:
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUkCmkcuU4U
DeTox said:
This same guy (Popoff), an obvious fraud, made 23 MILLION DOLLARS FROM “CHRISTIANS” LAST YEAR.
LOL! Unbelieveable. The economy is so bad that conservative Christians have turned to worshipping at a giant bull statue.
Wonkette has more photos and even a YouTube clip. There was even a lady with a goat horn I assume trying to summon the great bull’s blessings.
OMG! Sorry for the double post, but I just found another update from Wonkette: “ZOMBIES KILL FUNDIES, TAKE OVER WALL STREET BULL” (with gory, bloody video).
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I just keep my mouth shut & pray for them. My close friends know I’m a Christian but they also know the BS I’ve been thru in Church. The guilt complex I grew up with from CBC about evangelizing everyone is gone. These people arent stupid – they see & hear all the lies & hypocrisy.
I just remind myself that God has chosen us from the foundations of the world to serve Him. And the sin we all commit daily -is covered. No need to fear sin or fear commiting new sins. Therefore if sin is covered – those prebelievers are covered. God will take care of them & I do pray He will use me but I dont need a leadership title to do any of it.
NEWS ALERT – Check out an article in today, Saturday, Oregonian.
A woman found $15,000 in a Mcdonnald’s bag. After police said she didn’t have to turn it in, she went to her pastor to give it all to her church, her PASTOR INSISTED that she KEEP some! It turned out to be counterfiet, but they didn’t know at the time.
Ha! Love it.
Can you short Cindy Jacobs?
In San Diego today, they had a huge rally at Qualcomm Stadium called “The Call” where 25,000 uber-Christians came together to pray, fast and repent so that Prop 8 (California gay marriage ban) will pass.
Who hosted this amazing event, you ask? Well Lou Engle, of course.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20081101-9999-bn1call.html
http://www.thecall.com/
What the hell??? This makes me want to use the lord’s name in vain.
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That’s Hysterical Cat. We’ll all place put options on Cindy Jacobs. She’ll be listed on the NYSE as CJBS.
“CJBS”
I see what you did there. Clever.
Now, if those nice folks were to tear down that idol, would it be enought to show God we’re serious about repenting? Alas, I profitize (pun intended) that within days, bull pieces (real and counterfit) would be selling briskly in the tourist shops and on eBay.
BTW what did we learn from the previous economic downturn, or have we forgotten it? Shoot, has anyone learned from Hurricane Katrina (or many others) to prepare and share?
Great, great photo and comments everyone!