He said God has answered the faith of the family and raised their loved one from the dead. "Pastor Alph (Lukau), never claimed to have raised him from the dead. “This was a spiritual instruction from the prophet of God, not an indication of raising up someone from the dead,” he concluded. We only saw him once the coffin was opened," Gaca said. Whether his mouth and eyes were wide open while he was in the coffin or not, we don't know. His mouth wide open and tongue moving as he was gasping for some air. We could all see that his chest was moving up and down. "By the time Pastor Alph got to the hearse, and the coffin was opened, he saw and mentioned on camera that the man in the coffin was breathing. "Before Pastor Alph (Lukau) was informed, the family already confirmed that there was movement in the coffin, which the family said was noticed immediately when they drove onto the premises of the church,” he said, according to JacarandaFM. Unless we do that, South Africans are taken for a ride and their intelligence is insulted,” the commission's deputy chair David Mosoma said, according to EWN Eyewitness News.Īmid criticism, the church's spokesperson Busi Gaca claimed that Elliot’s family had noticed movement in the coffin after stopping at the church while on their way to Zimbabwe for the burial. "As a commission, we need to get to the root of this. We are in the process of taking legal action for this malicious damage to our image.”Īt the same time, the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities also said it would be investigating the incident. “As a funeral services provider we do not offer services without documentation neither do we repatriate bodies without any paperwork. “We did not supply the coffin neither did we store the deceased at our mortuary and no paperwork was processed by Kings and Queens Funerals,” the parlor said. “We would like to distance ourselves from the supposed resurrection of a deceased man by Alleluia Ministries who allegedly was at our mortuary,” the company said in a statement, Daily Mail reports. A dead man came back to life as the church of God prayed.”īut the stunt sparked backlash, with Kings and Queens Funerals, the funeral parlor which transported the man’s presumed dead body at the time, vowing to take legal action. According to the family, Elliot had died two days prior to the incident.Īt the time, the pastor insisted the resurrection was real, declaring: “An astounding miracle took place in the House of God this morning. After the pastor calls out Jesus’ name and waves his hands, the man, identified as Elliot, bolts upright, looking astounded by what had happened. In the video, a man dressed in a white suite can be seen lying still in a coffin, surrounded by dozens of people, as the pastor prays over him. | (Photo: Facebook/Alph Lukau)Ī controversial pastor in South Africa who claimed to have performed an “astounding miracle,” resurrecting a dead man in Jesus’ name, has retracted his story after undertakers threatened to sue him for “malicious damage to our image.”Ĭongolese televangelist Alph Lukau, pastor of Alleluia Ministries International church, made headlines over the weekend after footage of a funeral he officiated went viral. Pastor Alph Lukau performs a "miracle" at Alleluia Ministries International.
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