Joseph Prince is so vain that he wants his skin of a little child to be known to the whole world – By Rev George Ong (Dated 16 Nov 2022)
(This article was also sent to Rev Dr Ngoei Foong Nghian, General Secretary, National Council of Churches of Singapore (NCCS) office, and for the attention of the Executive Committee Members.)
In a weekly Sunday sermon aired on YouTube on 13 Nov 2022, 3 days ago, Joseph Prince said;
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“The Bible says when he (Naaman) came out, his skin was like a little child (2 Kgs 5:14 NKJV). And I’m telling you, it’s truth okay. When I take communion, almost every day, right, I claim this. Now, don’t look at me. The manifestation is still happening. Okay. But I tell you I claim it. Why not? If God can do it for Naaman, Amen, God can do it for me, Amen. All the promises of God is yes and amen.
Imagine, how old is he? To be a commander, usually he’s probably in his 50s. He command other people to do the leg work. He’s probably in his 50s and all that, and yet his skin became like a little child. So, I can believe God for that, Amen, Amen.”
I’ve heard from the grapevine that Joseph Prince and his pastors go for facials very regularly.
Perhaps, Joseph Prince would like to confirm whether this is true?
If true, how often does he go for a facial and how much does he spend weekly or monthly going for a facial?
If it is true that Joseph Prince is a habitual goer for facial treatment, then why didn’t he declare it first.
(I have never gone for a facial a single time in my life. Of course, there is nothing wrong with going for a facial.)
If it is true that Joseph Prince regularly goes for facial,
then at least we know that it is not only by taking the Holy Communion
that results in his skin appearing like that of a little child (not that his critics believe this),
but it is also because of his frequent facial treatment.
Joseph Prince must give the whole truth and not part of the truth, so people would not be misled.
To present a half-truth is tantamount to telling a lie.
If it is true that Joseph Prince goes for facials, he should not selfishly keep it to himself, but he should also recommend this particular facial company that he regularly goes to, to others, so that his church members too can benefit from it.
And does Joseph Prince also regularly take special supplements like expensive pills that promise smooth and good skin?
If he does, he must also declare so people are given the whole truth – that is it not only through partaking the Holy Communion, but it is also these expensive pills that are partly responsible for his smooth skin.
Oh yes, another thing – plastic surgery!
In the last few years, I have so many people who have asked me whether Joseph Prince has gone for plastic surgery.
I have to tell them frankly and honestly, I don’t know.
I don’t think he has, but since this is a perennial question that many are asking, which is of public interest, and also because Joseph Prince himself has brought this matter up about his skin that appears like that of a little child, perhaps Joseph Prince could clarify on pulpit whether he did go for plastic surgery, or he did not.
Next, it is easier for people to be convinced that Joseph Prince’s skin is like that of a little child because of his regular partaking of the Holy Communion,
if he could, one day, preach without all the thick makeup that he puts on every Sunday.
Joseph Prince said;
“The Bible says when he came out, his skin was like a little child. And I’m telling you, it’s truth okay. When I take communion, almost every day, right, I claim this. Now, don’t look at me.”
When Joseph Prince said, “Now, don’t look at me,” what do you think he is asking you?
To look at him!
It is so typical of Joseph Prince who pretends to be humble, “Now don’t look at me,” when he is such a proud guy who actually says in his heart,
“Now, what I really meant is look at me.”
Why?
Because the vain and proud Joseph Prince wants the whole world to know that he has the skin of a little child.
And as I have always said, pride is Joseph Prince’s number one problem that is keeping him from repenting from his heresies.
In one of his recent sermons, Prince said he was planning to preach on humility.
When I heard that, I almost fell off my chair.
To me, Joseph Prince’s preaching on humility is like asking a duck to teach an eagle how to fly!
This shows how proud and deluded Prince is as his plan to preach on humility is obviously a defence mechanism and plain denial to deal with his number one problem – pride.
Joseph Prince said;
“Imagine, how old is he? To be a commander, usually he’s probably in his 50s. He command other people to do the leg work. He’s probably in his 50s and all that, and yet his skin became like a little child. So, I can believe God for that, Amen, Amen.”
Why the need for Joseph Prince to mention that Naaman was probably in his 50s, not once but twice?
It is to set up the correlation between the ages of Naaman and himself. This year, Prince is 58 or 59-years-old.
His congregation knows how old he is, as his birthday is always mentioned and celebrated yearly in the worship service.
By mentioning that Naaman was in his late 50s twice, Prince wants to make sure everybody knows that when he talks about Naaman, he is also referring to himself.
But how does he know Naaman is probably in his 50s?
By merely reading his age into the text.
Why does he pick the age of late 50s, and not late 40s or late 60s or late 70s?
It is because Joseph Prince is in his late 50s.
Can you see how vain Joseph Prince is – that he is prepared to read his age into a text (this is eisegesis not exegesis) just to make sure people are aware that when he talks about Naaman, he is also referring to himself.
To me, this is called exegesis, or more accurately, eisegesis by vanity!
For the sake of argument, let’s stretch it a little bit.
Naaman was stricken with leprosy and he had to dip into the river 7 times before he had the skin of a little child.
So – did Joseph Prince contract leprosy and did he dip into the river 7 times before he starts to claim the same promise?
I believe this is probably the only time that such an incident has happened (correct me if I am wrong).
So Joseph Prince has made this blessing that is specific to Naaman that he didn’t ask for because it was God who granted it to him, to become a universal blessing that all could enthusiastically claim.
The whole point in Naaman’s case, is to illustrate that God can heal and He healed Naaman’s leprosy so thoroughly that his skin became like that of a little child.
So the key lesson is for us to praise God for He is indeed a God who heals and heals thoroughly, and not for us to start focusing on the trivial, such as our external looks.
Let me give Joseph Prince a piece of advice from an older brother like me, who will be 65-years-old in January 2023 – stop being vain about your external looks, and start preaching about the inner qualities that Jesus talked about in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt 5:3-12).
Joseph Prince said;
“The Bible says when he came out, his skin was like a little child. And I’m telling you, it’s truth okay. When I take communion, almost every day, right, I claim this. Now, don’t look at me.”
Joseph Prince is teaching something outlandish – about a formula that he says is bound to work – that if you want to have the skin of a little child, you should follow him – take Holy Communion every day.
I can guarantee that many of his naive followers will take to his advice and start to take communion every day, not so much to remember what Christ has done for them on the cross, but to have the skin of a little child.
What an abuse of the Holy Communion!
Let me sound a word of caution by alluding to what Daniel Tay had written.
Daniel Tay, a former member of New Creation Church wrote;
“Another of his ridiculous teaching is that taking Holy Communion can make you healthy and young. The more you take the Holy Communion, the better. My wife has a weakness for beauty. She always wants to be beautiful. She spends a lot of her time beautifying herself. So once she heard that, she actually bought a big bag of biscuits, communion cups and ribena and kept eating them every day. I ‘caught her’ eating very often.
Then my son also followed suit. He also bought one big bag of biscuits and cups. He too kept eating the biscuits. So I (after I came to my senses and left New Creation Church) said to them, “Are you crazy? How can you take communion so lightly? How can you keep eating the bread and drinking the cup?”
Their reply was that it was Joseph Prince who told them to eat them as often as they can. The more they eat, the healthier and younger they would become.
Then I noticed after my wife and son had eaten the Holy Communion for a period of time, my son got into very serious throat bleeding. He was hospitalised and had to go for surgery.
I then told them they cannot go on eating so frivolously. They must respect God and do it biblically because if they have unconfessed and unrepentant sin and partake the Holy Communion disrespectfully over long periods, something ‘bad’ could happen to them.
After my wife had eaten so often, she suffered from bad joint pain. She visited doctors secretly as she wanted to keep this from me.
So I warned them because they have taken the Holy Communion disrespectfully, they have become sick. I reminded them that I don’t partake the Holy Communion in the way Joseph Prince teaches and I had not become sick and I am always in very good health.”
Finally, if one exercises common sense, one will never be bought over by Joseph Prince’s quick-fix formula, that the regular partaking of the Holy Communion, will result in one’s skin to be like that of a little child.
Obviously, those who fall for such trickery are people who lack common sense.
That’s the reason why Joseph Prince is able to deceive them because Prince’s congregation is filled with people without common sense.
Rev George Ong