The following 8 minute video by vlogger, Polite Leader, critiques the false NAR apostle, Cindy Jacobs and the ministry that she and her husband Mike started together, Generals International.
The vlogger also talks about how to test prophets to determine if they are true or false.
He used a video clip of the Jacobs in an appearance on the Jim and Lori Bakker show: Bakker spent several years in prison for extorting millions of dollars from his followers during the 1980s, I pasted in a Wikipedia excerpt below the video for those who would like to know about his ministry, especially as it indicates the type of ministry associates with which Cindy Jacobs keeps company.
Fraud conviction and imprisonment[edit]
The PTL Club‘s fundraising activities between 1984 and 1987 were reported by The Charlotte Observer, eventually leading to criminal charges against Bakker.[43] Bakker and his PTL associates sold $1,000 “lifetime memberships”, entitling buyers to an annual three-night stay at a luxury hotel at Heritage USA, during that period.[44] According to the prosecution at Bakker’s fraud trial, tens of thousands of memberships were sold but only one 500-room hotel was ever finished.[45] Bakker sold “exclusive partnerships” which exceeded capacity, raising more than twice the money needed to build the hotel. Much of the money paid Heritage USA’s operating expenses, and Bakker kept $3.4 million.[46]
After a 16-month federal grand-jury probe, Bakker was indicted in 1988 on eight counts of mail fraud, 15 counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy.[25] In 1989, after a five-week trial which began on August 28 in Charlotte, North Carolina, a jury found him guilty on all 24 counts. Judge Robert Daniel Potter sentenced Bakker to 45 years in federal prison and imposed a $500,000 fine.[47][48][49] At the Federal Medical Center, Rochester in Rochester, Minnesota, he shared a cell with activist Lyndon LaRouche and skydiver Roger Nelson.[50]
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld Bakker’s conviction on the fraud and conspiracy charges, voided Bakker’s 45-year sentence and $500,000 fine, and ordered a new sentencing hearing in February 1991.[51] The court ruled that Potter’s sentencing statement about Bakker, that “those of us who do have a religion are sick of being saps for money-grubbing preachers and priests”,[52] was evidence that the judge had injected his religious beliefs into Bakker’s sentence.[51]
A sentence-reduction hearing was held on November 16, 1992, and Bakker’s sentence was reduced to eight years. In August 1993, he was transferred to a minimum-security federal prison in Jesup, Georgia. Bakker was paroled in July 1994, after serving almost five years of his sentence.[53] His son, Jay, spearheaded a letter-writing campaign to the parole board advocating leniency.[54] Celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz acted as his parole attorney, having said that he “would guarantee that Mr. Bakker would never again engage in the blend of religion and commerce that led to his conviction.”[55] Bakker was released from Federal Bureau of Prisons custody on December 1, 1994,[56] owing $6 million to the Internal Revenue Service.[57]
Return to televangelism[edit]
In 2003, Bakker began broadcasting The Jim Bakker Show daily at Studio City Café in Branson, Missouri, with his second wife Lori;[58] it has been carried on CTN, Daystar, Folk TV, Grace Network (Canada), GEB America, Hope TV (Canada) Impact Network, WGN, WHT, TCT Network, The Word Network, UpliftTV, and ZLiving networks.[59][60][61] Most of Bakker’s audience receives his program on DirecTV and Dish Network.[62] Bakker condemned the prosperity theology that he took part in earlier in his career and has embraced apocalypticism.[15] His show has a millennial, survivalist focus and sells buckets of freeze-dried food to his audience in preparation for the end of days.[63] Elspeth Reeve wrote in The Atlantic that Bakker’s doomsday food is overpriced.[64] A man named Jerry Crawford, who credits Bakker with saving his marriage, invested $25 million in a new ministry for Bakker in Blue Eye, Missouri, named Morningside. Production for The Jim Bakker Show moved to Morningside in 2008.[15]