{"id":565,"date":"2009-12-16T04:24:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T11:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=565"},"modified":"2015-09-08T07:22:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T14:22:01","slug":"who-remembers-when-g-d-supposedly-said-hed-strike-oral-roberts-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=565","title":{"rendered":"Who Remembers When G-d Supposedly Said He&#8217;d Strike Oral Roberts Dead??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Who remembers when Oral Roberts said he needed to raise a certain amount of millions or G-d was going to strike him dead?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/oral_roberts_wrong_hands_3126_sm_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-569\" title=\"oral_roberts_wrong_hands_3126_sm_2\" src=\"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/oral_roberts_wrong_hands_3126_sm_2-185x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/oral_roberts_wrong_hands_3126_sm_2-185x300.jpg 185w, http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/oral_roberts_wrong_hands_3126_sm_2.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And Who remembers when he claimed he met G-d near a burning bush and was told he had a stay of execution and had until February instead to raise the last million or two that he was short.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I am not bringing this up just to run a dirty old rotten scoundrel through the mud even more immediately after he actually died.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mostly I&#8217;m bringing it up because you might have forgotten.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I will never judge him, and since I didn&#8217;t even send him 35 cents, it was easy to forgive him; but I will never forget.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And I aim to make sure you don&#8217;t either.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Surely the most famous of all the Lord&#8217;s speaking to Charismatics is the famous, &#8220;Oral Roberts Death Threat Prophecy&#8221; a preposterous and fabricated supposed &#8220;Word from the Lord.&#8221; Roberts told his nationwide audience in 1987 that God had threatened to call him home if he couldn&#8217;t raise 8 million dollars by his creditor&#8217;s deadline. Whether or how that threat might have been carried out the world will never know because Roberts received a last minute reprieve in the form of a large check from a Florida dog track owner, as you remember. Two years later when Roberts was forced to close his massive, multi-million dollar City of Faith Medical Center anyway, in spite of the 8 million dollars, he asked God, &#8220;Why?&#8221; And Oral Roberts said God spoke to him and God said,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I had you build the City of Faith large enough to capture the imagination of the entire world, about the merging of My healing streams of Prayer and Medicine. I did not want this revelation localized in Tulsa, however, and the time has come when I want this concept of merging My healing streams to be known to all people and to go into all future generations.&#8221; So said God. Roberts said, &#8220;It is clearly in my spirit, as I have ever heard Him, the Lord gave me an impression, &#8216;You and your partners have merged prayer and medicine for the entire world, for the Church World and for all generations.&#8217; And then He said, &#8216;It is done.&#8217; And then I asked, &#8216;Is that why after eight years you are having us close the hospital and after eleven years the medical school?&#8217; And God said, &#8216;Yes, the mission has been accomplished in the same way that after three years of public ministry, my Son said on the cross, Father, it is finished!'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[ref]=[ <a href=\"http:\/\/\">http:\/\/www.sermonindex.net\/modules\/articles\/index.php?view=article&amp;aid=2178<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who remembers when Oral Roberts said he needed to raise a certain amount of millions or G-d was going to strike him dead? And Who remembers when he claimed he met G-d near a burning bush and was told he had a stay of execution and had until February instead to raise the last million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,14,13,21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-food","category-humor","category-mundane-or-sublime","category-oped","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}