"The reason I accepted the interviews was on the last day I was going to do a show on hyper grace, and I thought even if I catch some flak for being on his show, I want to reach his audience and talk about the dangers of hyper grace. We did the interview, and it went well but then for a couple of strategic reasons he decided not to air that show. I had told everyone make sure you tune in the last day and what is it? A fund raiser with Steve Muncy. Another corrupt fundraising thing and I could not believe it. The amount of flack I got from the Charismatic body indicated to me how wild and crazy things were. Subsequent to that he had a guy on, a so-called prophet, Brian Cairns, and he does this fund-raising thing where if you send in $500 your family will be spared from a natural disaster coming later that year. Of course, it never happened but what a corrupt, manipulative ungodly, sick thing to do. Now I am guilty by association. So, I wrote to him with honor and respect and urged him - please repudiate this. Let me work with you to bring reformation to the Charismatic movement in terms of fundraising and finances. This is corrupt. This is terrible and I've gotten severe attacks for even being on the air with you." - Dr. Michael Brown
Even though we are many years removed, Dr. Brown cannot bring himself to be honest about this. He has to provide cover for Hinn. Strategic decision? Are you serious? Look at how Hinn played Dr. Brown. How he used him. Brown wanted to do a show on hyper grace and Hinn turned the week with Brown into yet another bogus fundraiser that included a $500 protection racket. Guilty by association? You're darn right Dr. Brown. That is the point. That is why you do not share the stage with wolves. Did Benny write you back? Did he right the wrong? Or did he use you to fleece the flock once again and pocket the money on the back of your crumbling reputation? Yet still, after all of this, you insist on providing him cover and defending him. Strategic indeed. Brown would continue to go off the rails:
"So now, Benny Hinn has said he shouldn't have worked with some people. Ok, let's name them. I shouldn't have worked with Mike Murdock. I shouldn't have worked with Todd Coontz. I shouldn't have worked with Steve Muncy. I shouldn't have worked with Brian Cairn. The fundraising was corrupt and sinful and wrong and I repent of it. I want you to know, all the money is accounted for. How it was used, for the gospel but I regret the way it was raised. Or if it was raised for personal enrichment that has to be fixed." - Dr. Michael Brown
This is just absurdly disgusting. Benny Hinn is not a child. He is not a victim here. It was HIS TV show! He chose to book these people! He chose to partner with these people! What gospel is Brown talking about! Benny Hinn's entire ministry has been false prophecies, fake healings, and robbing the people of God! Benny Hinn is not different than Murdock, Coontz and Muncy. In fact, they were not even in Hinn's league. Murdock was only worth about six million. Todd Koontz is in federal prison for tax evasion and Cairns is but a blip compared to the 50 million dollar man. Beloved, just look at how many camels Brown and Strang have to swallow to strain out the gnat that is Benny Hinn! False prophet for forty years? Check! False teacher? Well, he says he stopped teaching some of those pesky doctrines like little gods and the holy ghost machine gun. Unscrupulous fundraising? Nah, that was just "strategic." Any mention of his victims? Any consideration for the devoured sheep? Not a peep. Brown actually suggests here that Hinn spend a day with Mike Winger, who did the four-hour documentary and share his heart. I can't tell if this is genuine delusion or just gas lighting. Hinn exhausted nearly every legal avenue he could to try and get the documentary removed for fair rights violations. He never would have even called Strang to interview if he was successful. Brown now reveals even more problems with is stance on false teachers:
"I've gotten attacks because I have said to my knowledge, Benny Hinn is a believer. People furious with me, flipping out - how can I possibly say that? Well, to my knowledge what he believes and with my time with him, he is a believer but I have issues with XYZ. You know I met with Joseph Prince in Singapore because he was as the main focus of my book on hyper grace and we outlined these are the things we do agree about holiness. These are the things we do agree about grace. These are the things we recognize as counterfeit grace. And the other things are issues that we have. To me that was constructive to sit and have the conversation." - Dr. Michael Brown
Dear Lord, can Dr. Brown truly be this obtuse? This 25-minute interview revealed the depths of depravity for Benny Hinn, while trying to cover them up. Brown even shared how Hinn lied to him, used him, and bilked people out of money by using him, yet to your knowledge he is a believer? By what metric? What fruit have you revealed that is not rotten to the core? This is what is so maddeningly frustrating about dealing with Dr. Michael Brown. The first time I was on his radio show he called Joseph prince a "good brother in the Lord who has some holes in is theology." Yet in his book on hyper grace Prince was the chief antagonist. So, which is it? Both, in the tortured mind of Dr. Brown. After writing truthfully about the massive error Prince preaches, Brown hopped on a plane to Singapore to sit down with the wolf and find common ground. In his mind, the dead guy, the guy in federal prison and the guy who demanded $500 or the hurricane would kill your family are the real bad guys but the guy who invited them all on his television show and directly benefitted from them was just being "strategic" and has "repented." Well, repented again. And again. And again. When asked the final question by Strang of what we can learn from the Benny Hinn kerfuffle, Brown again talked about everything but Benny Hinn:
"The same spotlight before God is on all of us. Benny Hinn might have a bigger platform but in God's eyes we are all under a holy spotlight. Where we have blown it, get things right with God and if we have to get things right with people, do it. All of us have blown it on some level. A word, a thought, somewhere. I've had to repent many times. I have had to ask people's forgiveness. Don't be afraid to get low. Get washed. Get cleansed. Move on and then it is done. I don't listen to the accuser of the brethren - "well 30 years ago you said something you shouldn't have said or you did something stupid." No no, everything is cleaned and dealt with before the Lord. Although I wish I never made mistakes through my 50 years walking with the Lord I wouldn't be who I am without walking through those mistakes and humbling myself." - Benny Hinn
Of course, we all should be low before the Lord, but this answer is non-responsive. I did not fleece God's flock for fifty million dollars. I did not wave my suit coat pretending it healed people. I did not pretend to hear from God and wreck the faith of many. That was Benny Hinn. And please, please, if you do not understand the verses about the accuser of the brethren, stop wielding them like a cudgel. My pointing out the scope and depth of the falseness of Benny Hinn does not make me Satan, who is the accuser of the brethren. Benny Hinn is not my brethren. He cannot repent because he has never borne any fruit of any initial repentance. He is a low hanging fruit huckster that the bible specifically warns us about. He has brought into the body of Christ destructive heresies that lead to Christ being blasphemed. In his greed he has exploited untold numbers of people and Dr. Michael Brown and Steven Strang do not appear to care about any of them. Rejoice beloved. For the destruction of such wolves are not asleep. Their own condemnation is never idle. Despite the attempts by people like Brown and Strang to strategically launder the wolves' reputations through the tattered remains of their own credibility.
