Has Benny Hinn Repented? An Answer and a Plea

Hello ladies and gentlemen, my name is Justin Peters, I hope that this finds you and your family doing well, and I want to thank you very much for joining me. I'm putting this video together because in the last week or so, the buzz in the evangelical world has been that Benny Hinn has repented.

I am recording this on the afternoon of Sunday, September the 8th, 2019, and at the start of the week, on Monday, September the 3rd, Benny Hinn put out a video that really shocked the evangelical world, in which he says that he has repented of his prosperity gospel theology and prosperity gospel preaching.

This short video, it's about four and a half minutes long or so, went viral, and it just went all over the place, and people were talking about it on Twitter and Facebook and all this. So I saw it, and I watched the video, and I very quickly put out a statement on Twitter saying, do not be fooled, this is not repentance.

And I was beginning to get emails from people saying, oh Mr. Peters, have you seen this? This is so exciting, it's such wonderful news. And some people, a lot of people on social media were expressing what I would describe as cautious optimism, not totally buying it yet, they want to see how it plays out, but many people were willing to give Benny Hinn the benefit of the doubt.

And so when I put out my statement saying that this is not real repentance, very quickly, I got a fair amount of blowback for that, and it really troubled me because some of the blowback was actually coming from people in our theologically conservative circles, even soteriologically reformed circles, and that surprised me a little bit I suppose.

So I watched this play out over the next several days over the course of last week. I stuck to my guns and said no, this is not repentance, and so I want to put this video together to more fully flesh out than what I'm able to do on Twitter, why this isn't real repentance.

And so if you will join me for the next, I don't really know how long this video is going to be, hour, hour and a half, thereabouts, if you may have just seen my dog walk in, but if you will join me for this video, I think you'll see why this is not real repentance.

And this is going to, I think this is going to provide a good lesson for us in what real repentance actually is, and what it looks like, and we'll see that this is not it, and I say that for a number of reasons.

Now some of the most important things that I will say in this video will come towards the end of it, so I would ask that before you comment in any kind of an extensive way on this video that you would at least watch the whole thing so you can get the full context and see my real concerns that I will more fully flesh out towards the end of this.

But we're going to look at a number of video clips of Benny Hinn, some from many, many years ago, some from just a few days ago. I'm going to play some clips from the interview that he did with Stephen Strang in Charisma magazine in which he more fully fleshed out the comments that he made in that video.

I think this interview, this audio interview that he did with Stephen Strang, the editor of Charisma magazine, I believe that that came out on Thursday or Friday this past week. And so I'm going to play some clips of that, and I'm going to show you that this is not repentance, and this is not a change of heart on the part of Benny Hinn.

Let me say that I wish that it were. I know many of you are probably thinking, in fact I even received an email to this effect, well, Justin's being too hard on Benny Hinn. Some are thinking, oh, well, Justin actually hopes this isn't real from Benny Hinn because so much of my ministry, at least that for which I'm most well known, is my work engaging the Word of Faith movement, New Apostolic Reformation, prosperity gospel, and the charismatic movement in general.

And this is kind of what I'm known for. And I think some cynics out there probably think, oh, well, Justin just hopes this isn't real because then he won't be able to talk about Benny Hinn anymore. Your friends, let me tell you that nothing could be further from the truth.

I think I can honestly tell you with a crystal clear conscience before God that I would love nothing more than for Benny Hinn to genuinely repent. I would love nothing more for that to happen. I do not hate Benny Hinn.

I do hate his ministry because of the incalculable damage that it has done, both physical and spiritual damage that it has done to untold millions of people all around the world for the last 40 years.

I do hate his ministry because of the harm that it has caused, because of the reproach that it has brought on the gospel. I hate it because we are supposed to hate anything that opposes the true gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

But I do not hate Benny Hinn. I wish no ill on him. In fact, I would love nothing more than for him to repent. I want Benny Hinn to be in heaven. I do not want him to go to hell. I want him to be in heaven.

Benny, if you are watching this by chance, I would ask that you please, please watch this video. I want you to come to true saving faith and repentance in the Lord Jesus Christ. But that has not happened yet.

Real repentance has not happened yet as we are about to see. So we are going to talk about this. We are going to talk about repentance. I want to show video clips and audio clips. Let me also say while I'm thinking about it, that as this video progresses, let me give you fair warning.

I am not a video editor. I'm kind of in over my head and doing even this video. So the audio level in some of these clips is going to vary widely. So just be careful. Some of them you're going to have to bump the volume way up.

Some of it you might need to tap it down a notch or two, which shouldn't be too bad. So anyway, I ask your forbearance with me and your patience as we go through on that particular aspect. So dear friends, without any further ado, I suppose we'll get into this.

The first reason that I do not believe that this is real from Benny Hinn. The first reason I'm skeptical is all things considered a relatively minor one, but this is not the first time he has said this.

Benny Hinn has repented of quote unquote, repented of prosperity theology on a number of different occasions. The first one I'm about to show you or let you listen or watch a video clip, very short clip of what Benny Hinn said after the very first major expose was done on his ministry.

This was going back to the early 1990s, 92 or 93. This was done by Inside Edition. And this, this expose showed a lot of unsavory things within the Benny Hinn ministry. So watch this, watch what he had to say once this documentary was put on national television.

Preachers who live in big homes and drive big cars are to re-examine their calling.

So that short clip was recorded back in the early 90s. I believe 92 or 93. Benny Hinn said this right after the first major expose was done on his ministry by Inside.

Edition.

They went into his ministry. Benny Hinn, he really burst onto the scene, scenes in the late 80s, 1990, very early 90s. He just, just shot up like a meteor and became very, very popular. So they did an expose and in this expose, they uncovered all kinds of financial misgivings, extravagant spending, and this was before Benny Hinn even became as popular as he would later become.

I would say Benny Hinn reached his zenith in popularity, at least in the United States around the year 2000, 1999 to 2000, 2001. So this was, you know, almost a decade before he reached the pinnacle of his popularity.

But it was a, and I'm not using profanity here, it was a damning expose. It truly was. All kinds of extravagant spending, as I said, financial impropriety and falsified miracles and unsubstantiated claims of healing.

And of course this went nationwide and made a lot of news. And Benny Hinn's ministry immediately went into damage control mode and Benny Hinn had to address it. And he, as you just heard him say, he said this, and I have the full video, but for times like, I'm not going to play it all, but anyway, Benny Hinn said that preachers who live in big homes and drive big cars ought to re-examine their calling.

And he went on to say, he said, he said, let me tell you, God has taken me by the neck. It really, direct quote, this really got a hold of him. And then he said, he said a little bit later, quote, I think I'm going to stop preaching healing and start preaching Jesus.

Well, obviously that didn't happen because Benny Hinn is known for his preaching on healing. So, but this expose really got him to begin to re-evaluate at least what he said, his teaching on prosperity.

Preachers who live in big homes, drive big cars, need to re-examine their calling. That was in the early nineties. This is a video that Benny Hinn recorded in February of 2018. So about a year and a half before today.

So watch this from Benny Hinn.

And you know, we got attacked for teaching prosperity. Well, it's in the Bible. But I think some have gone to the extreme with it, sadly. And it's not God's word, what is taught. And I think I'm as guilty as, as others.

Sometimes you go a little farther than you really need to go and then God brings you back to normality and reality.

No, no, no.

Because you read the, the more you know the Bible, the more you become, you know, biblically based and more balanced in your opinions and your thoughts. Because we, we are, we're influenced. When I was younger, I was influenced by the preachers who taught whatever they taught.

But as I've lived longer, I'm thinking, wait a minute, you know, this is, this doesn't really fit totally with the Bible and it doesn't fit with the reality.

One two three. So you just saw, so you see in that recording from February of 2018, that Benny Hinn said that he began to realize that this really doesn't square with the Bible, it's not totally.

Biblical.

And he said that prosperity theology may have been taken a little too far. That's the understatement of the day. But this was February of 2018. So why is it if he came to this understanding, let's say two years ago or thereabouts, that he is still putting blatant prosperity theology teaching on his program?

For example, let's watch this. This was posted on August 23rd of 2019, just a couple of weeks ago, as of this recording.

Today.

Welcome to this is your day. Hello, I'm Steve Muncy and this is the Benny Hinn ministry set. And today with his permission, he has said, Steve, I want you to give this word to my partners and to my audience.

I said to Pastor Benny Hinn, I said, you want me to give this word? You know how Pastor Hinn is. Yes, Steve. Glory to God. Hallelujah. I want you to give the word of God. So I said, OK, Pastor Hinn. So I'm here today telling you that the spirit of the Lord is upon me mightily.

This is something that all of these false teachers do. As you just saw, Steve Muncy walks in, makes it very clear that he's there by invitation from Benny Hinn. And he says, I want you to know that the spirit of the Lord is on me mightily.

And so this this is their way of getting you to believe that what they're about to say, what they're about to command you to do is directly from the Lord. OK, so let's see what, quote unquote, the Lord told Steve Muncy to tell you to do.

Listen to me closely. I've come on the Benny Hinn. This is your day to give you almost, if I can say this, an emergency word. And only you. I'm only talk to you because you and I have connected by watching television, streaming computers, smart forever, how I'm communicating with you.

This is the moment in which God has put us together. And in my spirit, in your crisis that you're going through and what the devil has stolen from you, he has got you in a place that you cannot give. Let me tell you what's going to happen in the next few moments.

I'm going to ask you to go to the phone. I'm going to ask you. I'm going to say to you, by faith, as you pick up that phone, I'm going to give seventy seven dollars. I'm going to put it up on the altar.

I want Pastor Benny Hinn to lay his hands upon it, but I'm going to give seventy seven dollars. Listen to me closely. Listen to me. If you have ever listened to me, you say, I don't have it. I want to tell you before you send it.

I mean, if you make the declaration, God will stand up and make sure everything that the enemy has stolen. Let me tell you, there's not enough money. You and I both know that that can pay for help, pay for our children to come back into our lives, to restore our marriage or to give our job or or what we have lost.

God, God will say to the enemy what you have stolen. You must get back to them.

What you just heard is a very common theme from these false teachers. They will say, oh, we're not telling you that you can buy a miracle. There's no amount of money, as you just heard him say. There's no amount of money that you can give, no, no amount of seed that you can sow to buy a miracle.

We're not telling you that you can buy a miracle. We're just telling you that if you give us money, that God will give you a miracle. If you if you give us money, God will restore your marriage. He'll give you your job back, give you a better job, and he will heal your body.

So we're not telling you can buy a miracle. We're just saying if you give us money, God will give you a miracle. Makes sense. Okay, let's go back to Steve.

But I'm here to declare to you that you step to the phone and say, I'm giving $77. There's somebody watching me saying, I've got three children. You get three 77s. I'm talking to somebody that's got two businesses.

You get two 77s. I'm talking about somebody that may say, I'm going to get $770. I just feel compelled. I want to make the devil so mad, and I'm going to put it upon the altar and the ministry so the gospel of Jesus Christ can be preached around the world by Benny Hinn.

I want you to go to the phone, $77. I'm getting ready to pray. When you pick up that phone, something's going to happen. Number seven, which means complete and wholeness. So you go to the phone and say, God, I put this $77 upon the altar.

I'm sensing somebody's going to give $707. You just said, I just, I sense I can do this. I'm a businessman. I could give $7 ,770, but let me declare unto you now that the moment you pick up the phone, but let me tell you, I'm going to go to the phone.

I'm going to put it upon the altar. Let me just say this, that when you go to the phone, it is all, it is an expression. When you pick up the phone and dial the number, it is an expression in which you are saying, Lord, this is my offering upon the altar.

I declare that God is going to stand up, look into the face of the enemy and say, give them back that business. Give them back that job. Give them back their children. Give them back that health that you have stolen.

Oh, I sense this. You must go to the phone. You must be the individual in which I have come to tell you that what Joe did, he will do for you. My God is the same yesterday, today and forever. Oh, I sense somebody is going to get their health back and cancer is going to leave.

I'm sensing somebody at this moment, your children have strayed, got on drugs. They're coming back. I sense you. I sense you, ma 'am. You've lost a relationship with your husband or friend, but God is getting ready to restore it.

I'm sensing something right now.

Yeah, I'm sensing something too, Steve Muncy. I'm sensing that you're a false teacher. I'm sensing that you're a charlatan. I'm sensing that you're a wolf. You just heard Steve Muncy tell people that if they will sow a seed of $70 or $77 or $770, or maybe if they're a businessman, $7 ,700.

If they will just send in money to Benny Hinn's ministry, that God will restore their marriage. If their children have strayed, he'll bring their children back. If they have lost their job, they'll get their job back.

Or if they're sick, they will be healed. You literally just heard him specifically mention cancer. If you give money, your cancer will go away. Well, you know, there's a lot of people out there watching who do have cancer.

There are spouses out there, husbands and wife, and the spouse sees his or her spouse with cancer, or parents who have children with cancer, and they're desperate. And they're sitting there, and they're watching Benny Hinn.

They're watching This Is Your Day. They're watching Steve Muncy. And in desperation, they go to their wallet, they pull out their checkbook, they pull out their credit card, and they send in money that many of these people can't afford.

In fact, you even heard him a couple of moments ago saying that if you don't have the money to sow, if you don't have the money to send in, send it in anyway. Trust God. One day, these false teachers will have to give an account before a thrice holy God of what they are doing to sick and hurting and desperate people.

Go to your phone, because this is a historic moment. This is a day in which something incredible is about to happen in your life. Move to the phone now. Father, I'm just standing here. I got 20 seconds with this special person, and I know, God, that your word is true.

And what you did for Job, you're going to do for them. $77. Go quickly now to the phone. And in the name of Jesus, I declare, I declare, you are going to give back double what the enemy has stolen from you.

Amen.

And I declare, Steve Muncy, that you're going to receive something from the Lord, too. But what you're going to receive from the Lord, you don't want. May God grant you repentance. And some will say, well, Justin, these programs were recorded before Benny Hinn had his change.

Of heart.

And, in fact, that's what Benny has said of some of these programs, that they were recorded long ago, before he came to this new understanding of this biblical teaching. Well, I find that somewhat difficult to believe.

Now, these programs very well may have been recorded some months ago or maybe even a year.

Ago.

But let's just say that all of these programs, and by the way, his Twitter timeline is absolutely full of these programs. I mean, absolutely full of it to this very moment, full of this teaching. If he felt so strongly about this, and this grieved him so much, then may I ask why he still has these programs up?

Why are they still on his Twitter timeline? Why is he still putting them up? He has a whole media team. He's got more money than he knows what to do with. It wouldn't be hard to pull these down. I mean, a couple of clicks of the mouse and they're gone, but they're still up there.

And so, yeah, it makes you wonder just how grieved about this he really is. Of course, the financial aspects of Benny Hinn's ministry is just one small part of the problem. Benny Hinn has not changed in other aspects of his ministry at all.

I've heard people say, well, he's not as flamboyant as he used to be. He's well, he may not be waving his coat anymore, but as you're about to see, he is still very much into the slaying in the spirit and even Holy Ghost laughter.

So let's look and see how Benny Hinn has not really changed very much at all.

Lady, I'm glad you came. Somebody better help her up. She's a little drunk in the spirit. I'm happy you came. Wait, wait, wait. Bring her back a second. What church you go to? What church do you go to?

What church? You go to any church?

I came from Texas.

Oh, you came. What are you feeling on you?

I can't talk.

You can't talk. She came from Texas. I didn't come from Texas. Dear God, that lady is having, Lord, knock them all out. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. You know, this has been happening here now for the last few weeks.

I come out, lead worship, miracles happen. I pray the Lord will just keep doing it. Let me hear a bigger amen. And in two weeks, I'll be back here in two weeks, the Lord spoke to me very clearly to have every two weeks a healing service here.

No, no, the man behind you. You came with the pastor, right? The Lord's going to use you. That was fast. She's getting it now. She's getting it too. What's going on here? You better lift your hands, pray in the spirit.

Hold your laughter, just hit these people. What do you feel on you now? What do you feel on you?

I don't feel anything.

Why are you stumbling like this?

The pain is gone. The pain is gone.

I know you said that earlier. Lord, here I'm all with holy laughter in Jesus name. They all need it. Everybody needs it here tonight.

Wow.

Look at her looking at me like that. Are you okay? She's talking in tongues.

Wow.

That's marvelous, isn't it? Come here, brother. Come here. I don't think he can get up. Come here. That anointing is all over him. It's all over you, brother. Come on, lift your hands and receive it if you want it.

Come on, guys.

Okay, ladies and gentlemen, you just saw that Benny Hinn has not really toned down his tactics. I would say the only thing that's really been toned down is the size of his following. Benny Hinn has nowhere near the following that he did back in his heyday in the late 90s, very early 2000s.

Benny Hinn used to rent out 10, 20 ,000 seat auditoriums, coliseums. Now he's down to hotel ballrooms and even his own television studio. So he doesn't have nearly the following that he did many years ago, which of course may be one of the reasons that he's changing his tactics some.

That's the cynical part of me, I suppose, but I think there's good reason to think that. But also, more to the point of what we just saw, being slain in the spirit and Holy Ghost.

Laughter.

He has been doing this for decades, literally decades. I've been to 17 of his miracle crusades and I've seen all of this in person. He's known for blowing on people. He used to wave his coat at people, he doesn't really do that anymore, but he still blows on them or touches them, knocks them over, or yells fire or something like that and they fall over, as you just saw.

The question that needs to be asked in evaluating this is, is it biblical? And it's not biblical at all. There's no evidence, there's no support for this to be found anywhere in Scripture. There's nothing in the Bible that even remotely looks like this, with the exception of John chapter 19, when the Roman soldiers came to arrest Jesus and he said, whom do you seek?

They said, Jesus of Nazareth, and he said, I am, and it says that they drew back and they fell to the ground. That's the closest thing in the Bible that actually looks kind of like being slain in the spirit.

The problem with that, though, is that the people who were being slain, who drew back and fell to the ground, were not Christians. These were the Roman soldiers coming to arrest Jesus. So you cannot take that as biblical support for something normative for Christians today at all.

In fact, nowhere in the Bible, Old or New Testament, do you see any person who belongs to the Lord falling over backwards. We do see a few examples of people who go before the Lord in worship, face forward, but they voluntarily lower themselves down, face forward.

Anytime in the Bible you see somebody falling backwards in the presence of God, it is always in judgment. So this is not an experience after which I would be seeking. As for Holy Ghost laughter, Rodney Howard Brown, who not so humbly refers to himself as the Holy Ghost bartender, is the one who began to popularize this phenomenon, laughing in the spirit, Holy Ghost laughter, and we saw it just there with Benny Hinn.

This is not biblical either. Nowhere in the Bible do you find anyone in the acute presence of God laughing. In fact, quite the opposite. When John found himself in the presence of Christ, he went down, prostrated himself.

When Isaiah got his vision of the Lord, he cried out, he said, Woe is me, for I am ruined, for I am a man of unclean lips. I live among a people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah was absolutely undone by his own sinfulness in the presence of Holy God. So we don't see anyone in the Scriptures getting their chuckles off of the King of Glory. So what Benny Hinn continues to do is profoundly unbiblical.

Now, in addition to financial prosperity, the thing for which Benny Hinn is most well known is his teaching on healing, physical healing, that physical healing is provided for and guaranteed in the atonement.

I don't have time to go into this fully. Physical healing, I do believe, is provided for in the atonement, but it is not guaranteed to be realized here and now. A glorified body is also provided for in the atonement, but I don't see anybody walking around today with their glorified bodies.

So not all the benefits of the atonement are promised to be fully realized this side of heaven, but Benny Hinn, in classic Word of Faith, New Apostolic Reformation, Prosperity Theology, remember prosperity is not just money, it's also healing, Benny Hinn has not shifted one iota in his teaching on physical healing, that it is always God's will for someone to be physically healed.

If you are healed, then it is God's will, excuse me, if you are sick, it is God's will for you to be healed, and you can be healed as long as you have enough faith, or as long as you say the right things, positive confessional, you sow a seed.

Now Benny Hinn says he's not teaching that anymore, but he does still teach that it is always God's will to be healed, provided that you have enough faith. So I'm going to show you some video clips of some more documentaries, exposés, that were done on Benny Hinn's ministry from quite a while ago, from the mid to late 90s, and I just want you to see just a few examples of how Benny Hinn's, what is really an over-realized eschatology that all of the benefits of the Atonement are promised to be realized here and now as long as you have enough faith.

Just a small sampling of some of the effects that this teaching has on real people. Watch this.

Look, look, look, it's not my job to call their doctor.

A lot of the healings sound incredible, and sometimes nobody in the place seems more stunned than Pastor Benny, but no matter how incredible the cure, he will use them on his TV show This Is Your Day, without even checking back with the individual for verification.

Anybody could make up anything. Someday somebody's going to do that, and what are you going to say then?

I don't know, I can't tell you now. It hasn't happened yet.

Oh yes, it has. Remember that woman supposedly cured of polio? Pastor Benny knows it made for a great episode of his TV show. He knows it probably helped squeeze even bigger donations from his flock, but there's something he doesn't know.

Steve, all I know is, Pastor, let me tell you, let me say something, go ahead. That woman works for us. Woman doesn't have polio, never did.

Then why did you say she had?

We put her up there to see if he could tell her story was not true. To see if it would matter. To see if he would ever check. And you sat right here and told me a few moments ago, we never put them on television unless we checked.

You never called that woman, you never called her doctor, you did no checking whatsoever.

Well, she was one we missed.

And speaking of missed, who missed the truth about this woman who claimed to be born profoundly deaf, unable to hear a word?

And now you can hear me? Yes!

There was plenty of time to thoroughly check her story before publishing his latest book, but apparently nobody bothered. In your book, the last chapter, it says Candace Brousseau was born profoundly deaf in both.

Ears. Correct.

But Candy's doctor, Howard House, he's treated her more than 35 years and he knows Benny's claim in the book is simply not true.

She was born with a very severe hearing loss. She was not born deaf.

So in addition to not being truthful about doing the follow-up, following up with the doctors, Benny Hinn has said this, claimed this on many occasions, that he never puts anyone up on his television program unless his ministry first follows up.

At one point, an old interview I saw of him, he says, we have five steps to our follow-up. Well, no, they don't. In fact, I've spoken with someone, not Kosti, but someone else who used to work for Benny Hinn's ministry.

I asked this young man, I said, Benny Hinn claims that there is a department in the ministry that follows up with these people who claim they've been healed to see if they really are healed. Does that, do you know of this department?

He said, not only do I not know about it, it doesn't exist. So Benny Hinn's just, he's lying and he's lied about this for decades, literally. So the integrity issue is one, but more to exactly what we just saw with that woman who says that she was born deaf.

We just saw from her doctor, she was not born totally deaf. She was born with profound hearing loss, mostly deaf. In fact, you can even tell by how she responded to Benny Hinn, by the quality of her voice, you could tell that she's still deaf.

This is what you see at Benny Hinn Crusades, is ladies like this, people like this, who suffer from an illness or a malady that cannot be readily seen, partial hearing loss, fibromyalgia, or people with cancer, of course, sometimes that manifests and you can tell a person has it, but sometimes you can't.

You know, bursitis in your shoulder or something like that. These are the kinds of people, people with these types of illnesses who claim to be healed up on this platform. All of the people that he says are healed are healed from something that cannot be readily seen and this is what we call a psychosomatic healing, psychosomatic, mind, body, mind over body, that's a psychosomatic healing.

And there's any number of conditions that you can get temporary relief from. And when you're in a closed environment with dim lights, rhythmic music, emotionally charged music, you kind of get sucked into this, like almost a first stage of hypnosis, if you will.

Your intellect is disengaged. You kind of turn yourself over to feelings, to emotions, to the energy in the room, you know, with being in a large group of people all kind of thinking the same thing, this group dynamic type thing.

And when you're expecting a miracle, when you're expecting something to happen, when you've been told that you will be healed, as long as you have enough faith, you will be healed as long as you have enough faith.

People begin to think they feel better and they do feel better for a little while. You know, someone comes up and, oh, well, I had pain in my right shoulder, but, you know, the pain is gone. Well, can you move your arm?

Can you move your shoulder? Yeah, yeah, I can. I can move my shoulder. And Benny Hinn proclaims them to be healed. That's a psychosomatic healing. This is well documented in the medical literature, well, well documented.

It's the sugar pill effect. It's a placebo effect. You do feel better for a little while until you leave the event. You go home, the euphoria subsides, a new day dawns, and the symptoms always reappear.

Psychosomatic healings happen all the time. What you do not see at Benny Hinn Crusades are organic healings. An organic healing is a genuine healing that cannot be explained by a temporary rush of adrenaline or emotion.

Uh, and so you see ladies like the one who says that she was born deaf. You see healings like that. What you do not see, you do not see people like Shandez healed. Watch this.

In this impact investigation, we take you behind the scenes into the prayer rooms and the money rooms of Benny Hinn's $50 million a year miracle business. A rainy day in Georgia. Hours before Benny Hinn arrives for his two day crusade, Atlanta's 15 ,000 seat Omni arena is filling up fast and miracles are already being proclaimed.

I'm healed.

I'm healed.

All the pain is gone. I don't have one speck of pain anymore.

Everyone's in need of a miracle. Many miracle seekers make long, difficult journeys to see Benny Hinn, like Linda Tyson and her 17 year old paralyzed son, Shandez. They drive six hours from their home in Alba, Alabama.

I'm hoping for a miracle, a big blessing. But from the specialist familiar with Shandez's injury, the prognosis is bleak.

It would be very unusual for someone having this severe an injury to have a miraculous recovery.

Shandez was a star football player recruited by several colleges and honor student until a routine tackle in his high school's homecoming game left him hopelessly paralyzed. People always say things happen for a reason.

To this day, I don't know. What reason? I try not to ask why. Arriving late in Atlanta, mother and son cannot get into the crusade. They find shelter from the rain in a concession area beneath the arena.