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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
Thank, watching the video. What did YOU get out of it?
We can take it from there.  |
I watched it the very night you posted it. What I got out of it is rather mixed:
Somethings I liked and received well. Other things I rolled my eyes at and thought were just another example of standard convention hoopla and ra-ra-ra-ing.
By the end, having heard him say he was taking personal responsibility as a prophet of God to say what he said/predicted, I admit my jaw dropped and I hoped for his sake that what he prophesied came true exactly (87% keeping rate of all that God would give them).
Overall, I thought it was a bit misguided. It took as the conclusion an assumption upon the word "greater" in
John 14:12. We have to make a BIG assumption that Jesus really meant in quantity, when there isn't anything in the passage, not even in the Greek, that automatically gives us that meaning.
So, to infer a meaning that isn't obvious, and then base a sermon on it, and a prediction of what God is going to do, is very tenuous, at best.
Was the man greatly used of God? Without question. And yet, who would have predicted/prophesied that all those hundreds of thousands in Ethiopia would be disfellowshipped by the UPCI, for a damnable heresy, that is, divine flesh?
So, to think, that God gave Billy Cole such foreknowledge as to predict specific revival numbers in a Louisiana meeting, but not that all those folks in Wara, Ethiopia and beyond, who received the Holy Spirit during his crusades were going to be left high and dry by Brother Cole's organization because their on the ground leader would fall, seems suspect to me.
In any event, as it pertains to the video, all that really matter is: did his prophecy come true or not? Does anyone know? Did God vindicate him as a true prophet, or did Brother Cole destroy his prophetic credibility that day?
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