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Prophet sets ‘resurrection day’

News24.com, South Africa
July 21, 2004
Tom de Wet
www.news24.com

ReligionNewsBlog.com • Item 8130 • Posted: Wednesday July 21, 2004  

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Hertzogville – It’s still to be decided whether July 29 is the day Paul Meintjies will rise from the dead – but that’s the day his family and friends are pinning their hopes on.

Meanwhile, the family they have been paying R250 a day for his “boarding” in the mortuary.

Exactly why July 29 has been chosen for the “resurrection” is unclear.

Neither Meintjies’ family, nor self-proclaimed prophet David Francis, who delivered the message about the “resurrection“, want to tie themselves down to an exact date.

The family says, however, that this is the date they were given – the day when Mrs Meintjies is to visit her husband in the mortuary and rub his hand so that he can rise from the dead.

Meintjies’ son, Pieter, said God worked in his own time and they were just waiting.

‘God’s message is to repent’

Francis, of Action for Christ Ministries, said it wouldn’t take long before people twisted the story and starting saying that Meintjies had not been dead at all.

Francis said the prophesised rising from the dead would be God’s message to the church, as well as to the Afrikaners and the blacks to repent.

“I am simply a messenger of God – a servant. It is not about me or Action for Christ. Myself and members of Action for Christ Ministries are insignificant.”

Francis said that after giving his heart to God 30 years ago, and after starting the church in Johannesburg about 18 years ago, he had lived through scores of miracles.

Between 500 and 600 people were healed every time he visited a black township, he claimed.

“I don’t lay hands on them. They just come in faith to a church where God is present and they are healed.

“This is the last message that God will give to the people and churches. The Afrikaners broke a vow made at Blood River. Black people must choose between God and their culture.”

Francis said he was in the house of Petro Josephs, Meintjies’ daughter, in October 2001 when God said to him he must take his message to small towns in the Free State.

Got a message about a big event

Francis said Meintjies later asked him if God could heal one of his legs, which was shorter than the other.

“I said yes, and when he came and sat on a chair I told him there was nothing wrong with his leg. He sat down on the chair in faith and was healed.”

“Five weeks ago, I was alone in my kitchen when I got a message from God about a big event on a specific day.

“Little did I know it was the day on which Meintjies had died.

“I also got a message from God that Meintjies must not be buried if he died. It was not news to me when his daughter phoned to tell me of his death.”

“I told the family that God’s message was that he shouldn’t be buried, that he would rise. They decided to stick by their beliefs.”

Francis said he realised this message and the family’s decision would cause a reaction, but he said it was God’s plan.

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