Pastor Lukau admits lying on ‘resurrection’ miracle:  Faces probe over stunt

February 26, 2019 Nyasa Times Reporter 66 Comments

In a dramatic twist to South Africa’s ‘resurrection’ miracle, doggy Pastor Alph Lukau of Alleluia Ministries church has admitted he lied to the public, saying the alleged dead person arrived at church when he was already alive.

Source of controversy: The ‘deceased’ man in the crowd after the resurrection stunt which has led to a firm rebuttal from the funeral providers

Amid mounting pressure, Lukau sent his church leaders to admit he lied, coating with a saying that the man identified as Elliot in the video had arrived alive and kicking inside a coffin at the church gate.

This has promoted government’s religious watchdog institution, CRL Rights Commission, to accuse Lukau of misleading the public.

The Commission—which is renowned for its strictness with religious compliance—has since launched an investigation into the matter.

During Sunday service at his church in Sandton, South Africa, Congolese born Lukau claimed he had brought a dead man back to life in front of a crowd of people near Johannesburg.

Footage of the event showed the man lying still in the coffin before sitting up again when the pastor puts his hands on him.

However, things turned haywire on Monday for him when three funeral parlours—Kings & Queens, Black Phoenix and Kingdom Blue—said they had opened criminal charges against Lukau for allegedly being tricked by his church’s representatives to utilize the parlours’ assets to carry out the “plot or scheme”.

“They approached Kingdom Blue for the purposes of acquiring a coffin, used stickers of Black Phoenix to brand their private car, and used such car to misrepresent it to Kings & Queens for the purposes of acquiring transport to ferry the body to the rural areas.

“It is with regret that the outcome of such a plot/scheme has adversely affected our reputation as service providers, our valued clients and the general public,” the parlours said in a statement.

Kings & Queens wrote on their Facebook page: “As a Funeral Services Provider we do not offer services without documentation, neither do we repatriate bodies without any paperwork. We are in the process of taking legal action for this malicious damage to our image.”

Meanwhile, after viewing the video footage, which has gone viral, experts have dismissed the “miracle” as an attempt to commercialise religion.

They said a corpse needed to be embalmed and the blood squeezed out to avoid the spreading of germs during transportation out of the country, with the paperwork necessary for this taking about three or four days.

This was the view of Johan Rousseau, chairperson of the 30-year-old Funeral Industry Reformed Association (Fira), which rebuked AMI in what has been dubbed a hoax resurrection.

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66 replies on “Pastor Lukau admits lying on ‘resurrection’ miracle:  Faces probe over stunt”

  1. Fake pastor!
    I saw another video about a gay man being charged from gay.
    All these are fake!!!

    1. The whole lot of them fashionedable so called “men of God” preaching prosperity gospel are all fake prophets, apostles and pastors.

  2. People can call it temptation but this is not temptation.how can people think that this is a temptation when God sure us his power by reviling to us what is happening in the darkness. People must know that god create a way in any situation. In what they did God saw a God opportunity to open your eyes by force. So this is not a temptation this is God speaking to you,telling everyone that need the kingdom of God first and practice the word of God after he will bless you with what you want.

  3. Pastors like this one are used by the devil to call the power and salvation a bluff so that people wont belief and take Christian faith as a joke whereas it is real but they are not real ministers of the Lord.

  5. Pastor Alph lukau…bafanele bamthathe bamuyise ayovusa loaneveke alele sibone ukuthi uzarhona nah ngoba uthoma amala , if akavuki ufanele agwejwe jail tuuu…..

  7. These two people , the false prophet, Elliot and his accomplices must all be put into Jail
    To rot for defaming the name 9f Christ, in the name of religion.
    He is a false prophet and must be deported or better still sent to prison for life…

  8. All the pastor whose are not south Africans must leave our country because they are always the ones that come up with stupidity in south Africa, they even make a lot of money by fooling south Africans

  9. So sad. Repent of your sin. Why did you lie? Is money behind all this? Why commercialise the word of God? Repent before the God given time expirez

  10. It’s not easy to admit this kind of error…you prove yourself more especially to me that you know the dangerous of sin…am celebrating you ….no one is 100 percent in this world…powerful men of God also get tempted…May Good God continue bless you my pastor.

    1. Come on if these guys didnt come up he wudnt hav apologised these guys r fake and making it hard 4 us to differentiate the real ones from fake ones….wat was he trying to do fake pastor

    4. Well, I still think it is a makeup against Pastor Alph Lukau. However, whatever is being put out there has, and will never change my mindset about the prophet and the AMI Ministries. God is using and I know your critics are jealous when God keeps working miracles through you. Please do no be deterred as we are always with you, but God loves you the best.

      2. Its not made up dear even from the video of the resurrection the dead mans tongue was moving but m not judging we all make mistakes n are not petfect even these men of God are not perfect.but admitting that the man was not dead speaks highy of him repentance is the right thing he did.let him redeem his faith in God.He is blessde to habe admitted this not many can

    1. True, these things only happen in fantasy and fiction, and if they only took place in the Bible or Koran or any other book, then it logically follows that these books are the stuff of fiction too.

  12. The fake prophets are always looking for money and fame. As such, the South African Government has to deal with such hypocrites.

  13. The fake prophets are always after money and fame. So, the South African Government has to deal with such hypocrites.

    1. In the last days, many will come in the name of Christ performing false miracles to distract people from the true gospel of Christ. Test all spirit, let ur spirit bear witness, Know God for yourself

    1. He admitted after being caught otherwise he would have carried on enriching himself at the expense of the Church that Jesus dird for.

  15. Mmene timazi ndi bodza ili, enawa amati tikuweluza mtumiki wa mulungu, pano si izi wavomeleza bodza lake yekha. Komano ena akukanabe ati ayi zinali zoona. Ngati mwini filimu akuti amanama inu mukuti ayi sumanama, munakhala bwanji kodi?

  16. God punish u.your friends are busy making miracle money yet u are busy fooling yourself. Only Jesus had that kind of powers.repent IDIOT and stop desiving people.

  18. I told you before now, religion is the confusion of the people; and not until we are schooled, we ‘ll continue to be fools to pastors and other religious leaders.

    2. There have great faith in christ. God can do miracle 2000 year ago same God can do miracle today ..hallelujah

  20. He is just the worst nincompoop. Many prophets of nowadays are taking religious scenes like they are on the stage in the theatre. Very sad. They are just fulfiling the last days acts

  21. I and the many upright thinking commented on the first posting, didn’t we? It’s a pity that we have these many FAKE prophets in Africa who steal from these thick povos. They all flock to South Africa due to it’s feltility in terms of majority dull and stupid Africans who are easily duped. Wake up Africans and go to work. Look at the Chinese, Koreans, etc. They work hard and prosper. Africans go and pay FAKE prophets and remain poor.

  23. Most of these pastors who claim they are capable of performing miracles are foreign national who have one thing in mind (money)…ìts a pity fellow south africans have been deceived and robbed by these evil foreigners…the government needs to act against these evil pastors and prophets

  25. I believe the man was really dead and he resurrected. South Africa is very hot at the moment and Sandton is worse. Yet the man was not sweating atall. Who can survive being in a coffin for just 20 min?
    Nothing is impossible with God. This man was dead and resurrected

    1. @ waine phiri ‘
      I think you are another STUPID and USELESS guy. Your so called prophet Lukau has accepted that he faked up everything and you want to be seen That you know everything.
      Anyway , it really proves to me that you were born a STUPID chap in your village

    2. My friend what do u believe here now? When the owner of the act has admitted that it was a commercialisation drive. Believe in God u will see miracles without these pastors.

    6. You must be VERY STUPID. How can you say this when this pastor has admited he lied? Stupid Waine Phiri. Inu ndinu amene mukulemeletsa ma prophet akubawa, shutup. Iwe opanda nzeru, osazalembanso apa

    7. wat if there was a small fan that uses batteries in the coffin? or he was removing the sweat inside since he was alive?

    8. Their is no resurrection for the dead it’s only resistation because we shall die again, resurrection is for Jesus Christ because Jesus will not die again for your information bro

    9. Inu ndi achitsiru inu, adzakuberani ndalamatu inu. Mwini wake akuti amanama nde iwe ukukana kuti sakunana. I think you are brainwashed.

  26. Demonic post…Alph Lukau never said he was lieying…u making fake news ,u posted these nonsense to make unending news so u can get paid end of month for writing these junk statements..u never investigated before u write all these lies ,if u seeked the church accounts of events u would hv known that the man was alive..those that where there and watching live stream know wat happened ..but bcos u ppl always post lies to public u always making up stories that never existed..u crop church videos and take the clip where it suits u and publish with misinterpretation to destroy ones reputaton..u wil nevr escape the fire of hell.one day when u are thrown in hell u wil remember these words.

    3. You stupid people. How do you believe this? Are u brainwashed? Iwe BenjamineBethuel ndiwe chitsiru. I can’t put PhD kudzina lako chifukwa munthu was PhD sangakhulupilire zopusazi. Usabzayambirenso. Empty head.

    4. I for one watchedr the live stream, i even went back to watch again. the person was breathing before being prayed for. are you sure you watched well? then i ask you go back and watch it on the pastor’s page on you tube, this time critically nxaa

  28. Religion is for idiots, even monkeys know this, that’s why monkeys don’t have pastors, sheiks, men of God, prophets etc.

    1. The controversial issue put aside, you would only know that monkeys don’t have pastors, sheiks, men of God if you have been a monkey yourself. Have you ever been one of them?

      1. I honestly doubt if there are a few greedy monkeys who tell other monkeys that if you give me your banana, there is a monkey God who was created in a monkey imagine and who will reward them for giving their banana away.

      2. I think there is a reason why church followers are called sheep and pastor is called abusa, sheeps are stupid animals, can’t think, will always obey. Monkey are very clever, they would never fall for such stupidity, only humans are this stupid.

  30. For what reason would anybody worth the title “pastor” do such a thing in the name of the church? I fail to understand this kind of tomfoolery. Is this diabolical blindness, theological naivete or what? Was there a time when this so-called pastor ever said anything worth listening to? I am flabbergasted, bamboozled and perplexed!

  33. South Africans should open their eyes about these fauls prophets. Lukau is not alone in this business, what drives the support for these false prophets is want of the reaches of this world, which the bible descourages.

  34. Akhilisitu abodza awa. Olo yes ananena kale. Dikirani kuzabwera aneneri onyenga. Azanena Nadine khristu. Azizaukisa anthu koma lili Bodza. Siizi.? Inu ndiye mumvekere prophet!!!!!!!??? Major 1. Kukhsla ngati number plate ya galimoto

  36. Dzina la Mulungu likuchitidwa chipongwe ndi anthu coz of such acts, if indeed Pastor Lukau confessed.You think God can be mocked?

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