Prosperity preachers are a lot like scammers who run pyramid schemes. They draw people in with flattery, and promises of wealth while the only ones getting rich are the scandalous disreputable charlatans at the top.
Worse than grifters these false church leaders use God's name to manipulate and demoralize those who are looking for quick fixes to life and who are greedy for the gain they did not earn.
James 1:5-6 ". 5 Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. 6 But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.…"
Just like the widow in the Bible who gave her last two coins, many people bring hardship on themselves by allowing these grifters to fool them into giving the money to them as though they are buying their way into heaven.
Imagine someone feeling guilty merely because someone else told them they should give, I can't help but think this is a form of co-dependency, in which the giver feels compelled to please those leaders that don't even know their name, nor anything else about them.
If the people who attended the gatherings of the grifters would begin to read their Bibles and ask God for truth they would be delivered from the clutches of these swindlers.
The problem is that grifters say what the people want to hear, the people are doing it to themselves by desiring what the charlatans are peddling. The hearts of the grifters are evil and so are the hearts of those who fall into their trap.
2 Timothy 4:3 "
"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but having itching ears, they shall heap to themselves teachers in accordance with their own lusts."
My prayer is that in these last days before Christ comes, many will become born-again and fall away from the grifters and their foolishness to begin to enjoy the peace of the Lord that comes from trusting in Him.
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