Benny Hinn’s graveside anointing

Benny Hinn at the graves of Aimee Semple McPherson and Kathryn Kuhlman

” You–you–you gonna feel the anointing at Aimee’s tomb. It’s incredible. And Kathryn’s. It’s amazing.” — Benny Hinn, about his visits to the tombs of Aimee Semple McPherson and Kathryn Kuhlman.

That most followers of Benny Hinn prefer experience over doctrine is no surprise, considering the fact that Hinn himself does the same thing.

Take, for example, his experiences at the graves at Aimee Semple McPherson and Kathryn Kuhlman:

“One of the strangest experiences I had a few years ago [was] visiting Aimee’s tomb in California. This Thursday I’m on TBN. Friday I am gonna go and visit Kathryn Kuhlman’s tomb. It’s close by Aimee’s in Forest Lawn Cemetery. I’ve been there once already and every so often I like to go and pay my respects “cause this great woman of God has touched my life. And that grave, uh, where she’s buried is closed, they built walls around it. You can’t get in without a key and I’m one of the very few people who can get in. But I’ll never forget when I saw Aimee’s tomb. It’s incredibly dramatic. She was such a lady that her tomb has seven-foot angels bowing on each side of her tomb with a gold chain around it. As–as incredible as it is that someone would die with angels bowing on each side of her grave, I felt a terrific anointing when I was there. I actually, I–I, hear this, I trembled when I visited Aimee’s tomb. I was shaking all over. God’s power came all over me. … I believe the anointing has lingered over Aimee’s body. I know this may be shocking to you. … And I’m going to take David [Palmquist] and Kent [Mattox] and Sheryl [Palmquist] this week. They’re gonna come with me. You–you–you gonna feel the anointing at Aimee’s tomb. It’s incredible. And Kathryn’s. It’s amazing. I’ve heard of people healed when they visited that tomb. They were totally healed by God’s power. You say, “What a crazy thing.’ Brother, there’s things we’ll never understand. Are you all hearing me?”
– Source: Benny Hinn’s move into necromancy by G. Richard Fisher with M. Kurt Goedelman, Personal Freedom Outreach

Benny Hinn’s graveside ‘vision’

Hinn has long been infatuated with the late faith healer, Kathryn Kuhlman. His books and sermons are replete with the impact she supposedly made on his life and ministry. Now, Hinn has her as a female spirit guide. And with this claim, he is introducing a deadly spiritist virus to his followers.

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Hinn recently claimed that he was shown the future of his ministry from Kuhlman and Jesus in what he described as a “vision of the night.” This revelation undoubtedly will electrify the bulk of his following. But perhaps, for some, they may now view Hinn as having crossed the line into dark and dangerous territory. This may be a ride that sounds the alarm and wakes them up to Hinn’s pragmatic unorthodoxy and false teaching.

His account of this alleged vision was delivered to those attending a recent “Partner Conference” in Atlanta and to those viewing the June 11, 1997 installment of his daily This Is Your Day program.

On the broadcast, he stated:

“Ladies and gentlemen, I’m going to tell you something right now. The Lord showed me a vision about–goodness it’s almost been a year now. And I–I–I–I can tell you I sense now the time has come when this vision is gonna be fulfilled. I had a vision of the night. What I saw, myself walk into a room. I’ve shared this before but just in case you–you’ve not heard it I want you to hear it. I saw myself walk into a room and there stood Kathryn Kuhlman. And I’ve not seen Kathryn in a dream or a vision [in] years. Uh, when she died, the day she died, the morning she died, I had a dream what I–what I saw in a–in a–in a–in a casket with a white dress. And when I woke up in–in the morning I knew she had died, and it was on the news that same morning. And so it’s been many years. And there she was standing in this room and she said to me–of course this was a dream, but really more of a vision. A lot of times dreams are really visions of the night, and the Bible calls them that. When–when God gives to you in the fashion it really came with me. When I was a little boy, I saw the Lord in this dream. It was really so real, it was really a vision because when–when he appeared to me my body became electric just like electricity went through me and when I awoke that electricity was still on my body.”

Hinn goes on recounting his “vision”:

“Well, anyway, in this one, in this vision that–that I saw–saw Miss Kuhlman. And she said, “Follow me.’ That’s all she said. And I followed her to a second room. In that second room stood the Lord. When the Lord, uh–when–when I saw the Lord, Kathryn disappeared. She was just gone [Hinn snaps fingers]. And now the Lord looked at me and said, “Follow me.’ And I followed him to a third room. In the third room sat a gentleman–I still remember his face. I can tell you, I still remember the man’s face. And the man sat in this wheelchair in that third room. There was a big hole in his neck. A tube down his throat. He was crippled on that wheelchair. And he had tubes down his body. Totally crippled, totally para–totally, of course, paralyzed. The Lord laid his hands on this man and as he did the tubes disappeared, the hole closed, he was completely healed and got up off the wheelchair. It was a creative miracle. Now I’m standing watching the Lord in this vision heal this man. And now as the man was healed, the Lord looked at me with piercing eyes–I’ll not forget that one I’ll tell you. Looked at me with piercing eyes and said, “Do it!’ And the [Hinn snaps fingers] — and the dream and the vision came to an end.”

Hinn next interprets the “vision” for his faithful:

“When I woke, when I got up, when I came out of the vision, I was trembling and perspiring from head to toes. I know exactly what that vision means. It was Kathryn Kuhlman who took me, who introduced me to the Holy Spirit. That is the meaning of that first room when she said, “Follow me.’ But when Kathryn was gone, Jesus was there. Kathryn did her job and was gone and the Lord said, “Follow me’ into a third room. And there was this man. I believe I’m about to enter that third room. [Audience applause.] I’m telling you I feel it. I sense it. I believe that room speaks of a dimension, a new dimension in the Spirit. I believe I’ve been in that second room now for the last seven years. What is amazing to me, what’s amazing to me is God works or has worked in my life in seven year cycles. I’m now in the seventh year–beginning the eighth of the ministry of these crusades. 1990 we started–March. This is what? “97. And just now I feel another platform, another dimension, another level is really coming. Well, saints, you’re going to be a part of it. God–God has sent you as partners to be a part of it. So how many are ready to see greater things for the glory of God?”

Hinn’s description is somewhat confusing and at one point he says the apparition “was a dream.” And, if left at that, would be less of a concern. However, he qualifies the nature of the “dream” by claiming it was “really more of a vision.” In fact he uses the word “vision” ten times to describe the experience. Moreover, he is using this event as a mystical prescription from the other side. This apparition, Hinn says, declares and describes what is to become the new by-product of his ministry. It moves him to a claimed oracle from Jesus of new “creative miracles”–a higher level of signs and wonders. He is using it to solicit support from his followers. And as such, must be considered and examined in a serious and biblical manner.
– Source: Benny Hinn’s move into necromancy by G. Richard Fisher with M. Kurt Goedelman, Personal Freedom Outreach