Dozens of users have slammed Kenneth Copeland. The prominent evangelist revealed he was recently hospitalized for a surgical procedure. He says he’s doing well and expects to live until 120 because of his deal with God. Speaking to the congregation of Eagle Mountain International Church “I had what some people would call a bad year. No, I’d never had an extended hospital stay. My appendix ruptured. I was in there five days the first time and five more days,” Copeland said.
Copeland said, “I have made an inner covenant with God, and on December 6th, 2056, I will see you all later. I am out of here, a 120-year-old.” Social media users reacted with a firestorm of criticism. Many users motioned that this was blasphemous. One user said, “If I walked around saying that, what do you think would happen to me?”
Other users drew attention to Copeland’s significant wealth. “Hey @NinjaJedi1 & @DaronKnol, if this is true, he will probably buy a few more million dollar jets!” one post reacted. “He’s an evil guy man. You can see it in his eyes,” another user mentioned. Another online commentator said that “Kenneth needs to be exposed.” However, some users were more positive.
“The guy has solid teaching. I have read numerous books of his and listened to him extensively. Just about everything people bad mouthing him say is either not true or it is based upon their own preferences, not because he is wrong,” another X user explained. “Only time will tell, hopefully God will continue to speak to him and he will obey,” this user pointed out. lastly, one user argued that “What is blasphemous about this? God speaks to people, in the bible times and also now and many people have got personal promises from the Lord.”
The 88-year-old minister, who is controversial for his private jets and lavish lifestyle, said “They were just about to roll me in [to surgery] they had me all prepped on the gurney. I said, ‘Hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. That doctor said, ‘What?’ I said, ‘What do you call this [procedure]? He said, ‘an appendectomy.’
He added “A merry heart does good like a medicine,” he said before explaining how he used humor to keep himself from getting down throughout his health scare. “I said, ‘What do you call it when you take someone’s tonsils out?’ … ‘a tonsillectomy.’ ‘What do you call it when you take a growth off of your head?’ ‘A haircut.’ And that surgeon said he got me on that one,” Copeland joked.
“I had to keep doing that to keep from getting depressed and down and off my faith in that hospital, but I’ve come out to the end of it in good health,” he explained. “I know as well as I know my name, the Master carried me, watched over me, took care of me, and didn’t let somebody slip up,” Copeland said. “I know a young man […] the neurosurgeon slipped and now he’s in a wheelchair.”
See this users response:
he is a false prophet
but let’s watch
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Deuteronomy 18:22
“when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD,
if the thing does not happen or come to pass,
that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken;
the prophet has spoken it presumptuously;
you shall not be afraid of him.”— Debate A Christian (@IslamsProblems) December 26, 2024
He also noted that another reason he was confident in his recovery was that he made an agreement with God that he would live until 2056. “I have made and entered [into a] covenant with God and on December 6, 2056, I’ll see you all later. I’m out of here, 120 years old,” Copeland claimed, predicting the date of his death. “You take an old worn-out car and you put it in the shop, and you restore it good as new or better. Well, this old 88-year-old worn-out body has been made better. The different parts have been overhauled and now it’s finished,” he claimed. “I am here to give thanks like never before.”