Prophet Bongani Maseko of the Breath of Christ Ministries, in South Africa, has come under fire recently for asking the congregation to drink motor oil if they want to be “saved, healed and delivered”. Many of them actually took him up on the bizarre offer.
Photos posted on the church’s Facebook page and seen by Crazy Monday show the pastor serving mouthfuls of Havoline motor oil to parishioners who seem more than happy to drink the toxic concoction.
People were obviously outraged by the bizarre practice, but some argued that it was probably anointed water or wine, only that it had been stored in an oil container. “After all, who in their right mind would ask people to drink engine oil to be cured?” some argued.
Well, apparently Prophet Maseko would, and actually did. Contacted by various South African news outlets, he confirmed that the bottle in the photos did actually contain motor oil, but said that it was perfectly safe for consumption because he had prayed over it.
“Yes it is true (contents are engine oil),” the South African prophet told local press, adding that he didn’t do any research on the dangers of drinking motor lubricants, because all he needed to do is have faith in God that the oil would do what he wanted it to do.
“When we pray over anything, its poison dies. So it can’t harm people. Nothing happened, no one has been to hospital,” the controversial man of faith said. To prove his point, he even cited Bible verses.
“Jesus spat on the ground and made mud. He took that mud and smeared it on the eyes of a blind man and, instantly, that blindness was healed,” Maseko said.
“Mark 16 v 17-18 says ‘in My name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues. They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”
This news comes just weeks after another ‘prophet’ in South Africa sprayed insecticide in the faces of his congregation as a way to cure them of their diseases, and people are starting to take these incidents seriously.
Meanwhile, just the other day, Pastor Lethebo Rabalango of Mount Zion General Assembly Church placed a heavy speaker on top of a young woman lying on the ground and climbed on it, expecting her to be delivered of demons. The woman passed out and later died due to internal bleeding. The prophet was never arrested.
Other bizarre rituals conducted by South African pastors in the past include making their congregation to eat grass straight off the ground or making them eat their own hair. One wonders, when will pastors stop this kind of nonsense?
