Satirical e-zine Lark News has the gift of pushing where it hurts. From this month's edition a report that somehow sounds very familiar...
After incorrectly predicting that the West Coast would be rocked by a major earthquake and tsunami on Valentine's Day, Irv Fielding, who runs an independent prophetic ministry, downgraded his prediction to "some slight tremors which may be felt by a handful of people in rural eastern Oregon. By God's grace, the terrible catastrophe I prophesied has been averted because people repented and prayed," he said in an online statement to his 120,000 ministry supporters. The massive tsunami God was going to send will instead be a "spiritual tsunami, a wave of God's blessing that will cover Oregon," he said. Participants in Fielding's online chatroom were ecstatic. "Irv continues to demonstrate his powerful anointing," said a longtime Fielding fan in a post last Tuesday. "Every disaster he has prophesied in the past 20 years has been averted through prayer. Praise God, people!"
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