Wicked Blood Suckers of the Poor: Predatory Prosperity Preachers (10%ers)
By Mike Rashid King
They stand in $3,000 suits under mega-church lights, voices smooth as butter and words sharp as swords. They promise salvation and abundance, for a price. These are the self-anointed prosperity prophets, the ones Supreme Wisdom calls the 10%: the rich “slave-makers of the poor” who teach the poor lies and live fat off their labor . Otherwise known as the blood-suckers of the poor, they know the truth but use it to manipulate for profit. This divine cipher is written to expose their hustle and awaken the 85% (the masses, deaf, dumb and blind to the Truth) from the triple stages of darkness, mental, spiritual, and economic ignorance. It’s time to shine light on these wicked deceivers and lift up the 5%: the poor righteous teachers who build among the people, not bankroll on them.
The 10% Exposed: Wolves in the Pulpit
In the Supreme Mathematics of life, Knowledge (1) leads to Wisdom (2) which yields Understanding (3), but the 10% exploit those without knowledge of self. They cloak themselves in holy titles, Pastor, Prophet, Apostle , yet pervert their followers’ understanding, keeping them spiritually dependent and financially drained. Meet some of these so-called shepherds who are feasting on the flock: Kenneth Copeland, Creflo Dollar, Joel Osteen, Benny Hinn, Paula White, Jesse Duplantis, the all-star lineup of prosperity preaching. These names shine in lights on Christian TV, but their gospel has more to do with gold than with God. They claim to bring Good News, but travel like rock stars and live like kings, funded by widows’ mites and the last dollars of the desperate.
Consider Creflo Dollar, a bizarre name, who with no shame, teaches his megachurch that “the more you give, the more you shall receive.” He urged his 30,000-member congregation to sow “$300 each” so he could buy a $65 million Gulfstream G650 private jet, yes, a man of God asking everyday bus-riders to buy him a luxury airplane. “He doesn’t need a cheap plane. He needs the best,” said one devoted member, utterly convinced . That’s the depth of psychological control at work: the 85% believe in the 10% on face value , even to their own detriment. Dollar’s mentor in greed, Kenneth Copeland, has gone even further, his ministry at one point owned nine aircraft and even its own airport . When confronted about his lavish fleet, Copeland leaned on his Cadillac Escalade and coolly explained that he needs multiple private jets to “preach the gospel effectively,” insisting that a billionaire’s lifestyle is part of God’s prosperous plan for those who believe . Twisted doctrine dripping with dollar signs! This is tricknowledgy at its finest, using God as a cover for greed. Copeland even once infamously implied he can’t fly commercial because he doesn’t want to be in “a long tube with a bunch of demons.” Meanwhile he’s pocketing millions and laughing his way to the bank, who’s the real demon in that equation?
Joel Osteen, smiling from ear to ear, may not shout about sowing a “$eed” as brazenly, but he quietly amassed a $50+ million net worth preaching a sugary sweet prosperity message . His Lakewood Church, a former sports arena, packs out with nearly 50,000 each week, hearing that God “wants to prosper you” and that positive thinking and tithing will unlock blessings. Osteen sells hope like candy; he famously hesitated to open his mega-church doors to hurricane refugees, yet he expects his followers to open their wallets every Sunday. Hypocrisy runs rife . His gospel focuses on personal success and happiness now, a far cry from Jesus’ teachings of sacrifice. By keeping the message light and void of accountability, he keeps people comfortable and unaware of the deeper truths, effectively rendering them mentally dead in a haze of self-centered faith.
And we can’t forget the flashy faith healer Benny Hinn, who perfected the art of turning desperation into dollars. For decades Hinn staged miracle crusades where the sick and disabled lined up for a touch, and were instructed to “plant a seed” (give money) to claim their healing. His own nephew, Costi Hinn, left that life and later revealed how their family raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars in days, living in mansions, driving Bentleys and Ferraris, while the followers were sold false hope . In Costi’s words, “It’s easy to believe something that puts money in the bank, even if you’re… deceiving the poor and the sick.” The 10% preachers may act holy, but behind closed doors they brag about the hustle. The prosperity gospel made them rich, powerful, and prominent, and they are hooked on that high, unwilling to give it up. They mingle with politicians and celebs, riding high on ego and private jets, while the poor remain in the pews praying for crumbs of “favor.”
Mind Games and Manipulation: Psychological Tactics of the 10%
These prosperity pastors are masters of mental manipulation. They mix truth with lies like a cocktail, sweet enough to swallow, strong enough to intoxicate. How do they convince a single mother to hand over her rent money or a man on fixed income to “sow a seed” he can’t afford? Fear and false hope. They play on the deep fears of the 85% fear of poverty, fear of illness, fear of being cursed or missing God’s blessing. Then they offer the cure: Give to God (i.e., to me) and you’ll be rewarded. It’s a spiritual Ponzi scheme, promising heavenly returns on earthly investments.
Paula White, spiritual adviser to a former U.S. president, is notorious for this. She once urged followers to send a $229 “resurrection seed” and even warned of “consequences” from God if they didn’t tithe. Most recently, she promised “seven supernatural blessings” in exchange for a $1,000 Passover offering . She cited scripture (Exodus 23) as if God Almighty set a price on miracles, twisting the Word to guilt-trip believers. “Honor God with $1000… you’re not doing this to get something,” she insists, right after dangling the very prosperity, health, and long life people yearn for . This reverse psychology “it’s not a transaction, but hey, look what you get!” messes with minds. It implants the notion that faith is proven by giving money, and doubting that formula is doubting God. With rhythmic chants of “Don’t miss your moment!” they create urgency, a now-or-never anxiety that overrides judgment. The flock, caught up in emotion and crowd fervor, gives impulsively. It’s mind control, plain and simple, dressed in Sunday best.
These preachers also elevate themselves as God’s “anointed” beyond question or criticism. Followers are taught that to doubt the man (or woman) of God is to invite curse. Phrases like “Touch not mine anointed” are wielded to shut down critical thought. By creating a cult of personality, they psychologically condition their followers to absolute loyalty. Notice how Creflo Dollar’s congregant defended his need for a fancy plane: “That’s what we’re here for. We support our pastor… he needs the best.” This is Stockholm syndrome of the soul, the abused defending the abuser, thinking their exploitation is piety. The 10% exploit the blind faith of the 85%, knowing people desperately want to believe in something, and they hook that desperation to their own enrichment.
The Holy Hustle: Financial Exploitation in God’s Name
Let’s do the math on this pulpit pimp game. Every week, the offering plates overflow as these pastors equate giving money to planting seeds of faith. They’ve turned worship into a transaction. This is the financial tactic: promise extravagant divine payoffs for monetary offerings. They cherry-pick verses like “Give, and it shall be given unto you” and Malachi’s “bring the tithes and God will open the windows of heaven” interpreting them as cosmic get-rich-quick schemes. The more you give them, the more God will give you. It’s a spiritual extortion: believers are told if they don’t give, they block God’s blessing or even invite curses. Out of fear or hope, the people give, sometimes beyond their means, while the only ones getting rich are these preachers.
Seed faith is the centerpiece of this doctrine, a dollar given in “faith” is a seed that will grow into a hundredfold return. But in reality, the only harvest is the preacher’s bank account. Benny Hinn would wave his diamond-ringed hand and claim God spoke to him that 100 people should give $1000 each, and hallelujah, $100k would roll in by the end of the night. Mike Murdock sells $58 “miracle seeds.” Kenneth Copeland urges people to sow incessantly into his ministry, and in return he boasts of being a “very wealthy man”. When pressed by a reporter about impoverished donors, Copeland snarled, “Those that don’t sow, they don’t reap.” To him, poverty is a lack of faith, a convenient cop-out for his conscience.
Then we have the big-ticket hustles: private jets, mansions, and mega-projects. Jesse Duplantis, with a grin, told his viewers that God wanted him to have a $54 million jet, his fourth one, because “Jesus wouldn’t be riding a donkey” if He were here today . He straight-up asked folks to “pray about becoming a partner” to fund his new Falcon 7X luxury plane . In his twisted logic, faster travel equals more souls saved, as if the Gospel can’t be preached in coach. Duplantis even bragged that with a new long-range jet, he wouldn’t have to pay for fuel stops since he has his own fuel farm (yes, the ministry built its own gas station for private planes) . Absurd? Absolutely. But he and Copeland sat on TV laughing about it, defending their right to luxury. Copeland’s ministry celebrated their purchase of a Gulfstream V jet with the proclamation, “Glory to God! It’s ours!” as if Jesus died on the cross so preachers could fly in plush comfort. Meanwhile, communities around them struggle with real needs.
Financial exploitation also thrives through tax-free loopholes and lack of oversight. These ministries rake in tens of millions, but as “non-profits” they operate with minimal transparency. A U.S. Senate investigation in 2007 probed Copeland, Dollar, White, and others for possible tax abuses . What did it find? Hard to say, some ministries stonewalled (Creflo Dollar was tagged “least cooperative,” no surprise ) and ultimately the inquiry closed with no charges. Money buys silence. The 10% have powerful friends and lawyers. They justify their mansions and Bentleys as “ministry assets”, while their followers’ donations, meant for God’s work, fund opulence. It’s Robin Hood in reverse: robbing the poor to spoil the rich.
All this focus on money perverts the very message of Jesus. Scripture warns about leaders who “through covetousness… with feigned words make merchandise of you” . In other words, in their greed they will exploit you with false arguments and twisted doctrine . Could any description better fit these prosperity peddlers? They have made merchandise of the faithful, turning devotion into dollars. The Qur’an too warns of corrupt religious leaders, saying: “O believers, indeed many rabbis and monks consume people’s wealth wrongfully and hinder [others] from the Way of Allah.” . Selling salvation, hawking miracles, pimping out prayers, these tactics profane the faith. They reduce divine grace to an ATM: “insert donation, receive blessing.” It is spiritual abuse for financial gain.
Twisting Scripture and Doctrine: The Big Lie
The prosperity 10% preach a doctrine of materialism that stands in stark contrast to true holy teachings. They cherry-pick and misinterpret scripture to lend God’s authority to their scam. The Bible becomes a prop in their sales pitch. They thunder about God wanting you rich, pointing to Abraham or Solomon’s wealth, but conveniently ignore Jesus’ clear words: “You cannot serve God and money” (Matthew 6:24), “Beware of false prophets in sheep’s clothing” (Matthew 7:15), or the story of Jesus driving out the money-changers who defiled the Temple.
In prosperity theology, God is a celestial vending machine and faith is the currency. This is essentially the same mystery God concept that the 10% have pushed on the masses for ages, a vague Mystery-God who will magically drop money in your lap if you appease Him (and His representatives) just right. Supreme Wisdom teaches that the 10% “teach the poor lies to believe the Almighty True and Living God is a spook”, an unseen mystery, while they themselves “live and make themselves rich from the poor’s labor.” Doesn’t that sound exactly like these preachers? They distract people with promises of heaven and miracles tomorrow, so they can live like kings today. The faithful are told to just pray, pay, and stay in their spiritual lane, while the preacher acts as gatekeeper to God. This is a perversion of doctrine: in truth, no preacher should stand between you and the Creator, and certainly salvation cannot be bought or bribed.
They twist verses like 3 John 1:2 “I wish above all things that you prosper and be in health” to say God promises every believer a mansion and sports car. They ignore the context of spiritual prosperity. They distort the biblical principle of sowing and reaping, turning it into a get-rich formula, when it was meant as a metaphor for doing good and trusting God’s provision. They misuse the concept of tithing (an Old Testament practice to support the Levites and the poor) to claim you owe them 10% of your income or you’re robbing God. This is doctrinal deceit of the highest order, using holy writ as fine print to a fraudulent contract.
Even outside Christianity, in the broader spiritual sense, the 10% violate fundamental truths. The Qur’an condemns those who “hoard gold and silver and spend it not in Allah’s cause” (9:34) what are private jets and mansions if not hoarded wealth? The Hadith and Islamic teachings emphasize humility and charity, not flamboyance. In all faiths, true prophets lived modestly, served others, and pointed people to God, not to themselves. But prosperity preachers preach themselves: their “anointing,” their programs, their grand projects. It’s a cult of ego wrapped in religious language.
The result is a doctrine that keeps followers in spiritual infancy. They are not taught to seek God within or to practice justice and charity; they’re taught to claim material promises and to view wealth as the sure sign of God’s favor. This warps the mind: if you’re rich, you’re blessed (so the preachers must be holy given their wealth); if you’re poor or sick, you lack faith (blame the victim, never the pastor or the false theology). This upside-down gospel conveniently excuses the 10%’s obscene wealth as “proof” of their spiritual superiority, a self-serving lie. Meanwhile, those who stay poor despite giving and praying are told to blame themselves and give more. It’s a vicious cycle of spiritual abuse, and it turns many sincere seekers away from true faith when the promised riches don’t manifest.
Rise of the 5%: Awakening the Masses from Darkness
Enough is enough. It’s time to break the spell that the 10% prosperity pimps have cast on the people. Let’s talk about the 5%, the Poor Righteous Teachers. These are the fearless ones who know the Truth and refuse to live or teach a lie. The Five Percent Nation (born from the teachings of the Nation of Gods and Earths) tells us the 5% are “all-wise and know who the true and living God is”, and they teach Freedom, Justice, and Equality to all the human family . In plain terms, the 5% are those who aren’t fooled by the gold-plated lies. We recognize that God is not a loan officer handing out Bentleys for big tithes. God (Allah) is within us, the Supreme Being residing in the Asiatic Black man and woman and in all of us who live upright. No middleman necessary. The 5% carry the duty to share Knowledge (1) to spark Wisdom (2) in others and bring about Understanding (3) of the reality of God and the devilish tricks being played.
Our task, as the 5%, is to wake up the 85% from their slumber. They’ve been wandering in mental darkness, not knowing who they truly are, believing they’re powerless and must pay these false prophets for a ticket to heaven. We must show them that this is a lie, a high-level con game. We have a divine duty to resurrect dead souls, from the mental and spiritual grave. Each of us must become a light-bearer, guiding our brothers and sisters out of the caves of ignorance. We do this by teaching Knowledge of Self: that the true temple of God is the mind and body, not some arena with a jumbotron; that the power to change our condition lies in our own hands blessed by the Creator, not in the pocket of a charismatic preacher.
Awakening minds means exposing the devils tricks: teaching people how these preachers manipulate emotion, how they twist scripture. When the 85% see the man behind the curtain, the spell is broken. Like exposing a vampire to sunlight, suddenly the creature has no power. The 5% must speak on street corners, in barbershops, in churches, mosques, online, everywhere, dropping truth like seeds that will bear real fruit. We are the dirty angels, we must do angelic work in the filthiest parts of society, where people are abandoned. We build cyphers (circles of knowledge) where anyone can step in and get that real education: about finances (how to manage money and not be swindled), about spirituality (connecting with the Creator directly, living righteously), about history (knowing how others have used religion to control). This is how we arm the people with truth.
Make no mistake, the 10% won’t relinquish their power easily. They will demonize the 5% as heretics, haters, or agents of the devil, irony at its peak. But we fear no man, for we stand on Supreme Wisdom and we walk with the authority of Truth. As the lessons say, the duty of the civilized is to teach the uncivilized.
Supreme Mathematics tells us that Culture/Freedom (4) comes after Understanding, once people truly get it, they will live by a new culture of freedom, not mental slavery. Power (5) is then in the hands of the righteous, not the deceitful; Equality (6) becomes possible as wealth and knowledge are no longer monopolized by pulpit princes but shared among the community. We recognize God (7) is not a hustle but the indwelling truth in each person. We Build (8) with truth and Destroy (8) the wicked lies, yes, the number 8 signifies build/destroy, and we must do both to create a just society. Then new realities are Born (9), economic self-sufficiency, spiritual fulfillment, mental clarity for the masses. Finally, we complete the Cipher (0) a full circle, bringing the people back to our origin in truth, breaking the cycle of deception.
The Time is Now: Tearing Down the 10%’s Illusions
This is our final call in this cipher: The 5% must move now with urgency and purpose. Every day that the 10% continue their scam, more souls and pockets are drained. We can’t sit back and merely gripe; we have to organize and mobilize. Host community forums and study groups to dissect prosperity gospel lies. Use social media, music, poetry, whatever talents we have, to disseminate the message that God is not for sale. Some of us will confront these preachers publicly, armed with facts and scriptures they can’t refute. Others will work quietly to support those coming out of these exploitative churches, helping them heal spiritually and financially. All efforts matter. Each truth spoken is like a hammer blow cracking the 10%’s mirror of illusion.
In scripture, Jesus said “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 8:32). We, the 5%, are the bringers of that truth to the 85% so they can be free of the 10%’s chains. The intent of this blog and the movement behind it is crystal clear: to awaken the masses, expose deception, and elevate righteousness over riches. We draw on the wisdom of the Bible, the Qur’an, and the teachings of the Nation of Gods and Earths, all aligning on this point, exploiting the poor in God’s name is a damnable offense. The real God, the true and living God, cares about justice, love, and integrity, not private jets and designer suits. As it is written in 2 Peter 2:3, the false teachers who greedily exploit people have a judgment waiting, “their destruction does not slumber” . Time is running out for the wicked when the righteous unite.
So we say to the prosperity pimps: Your time is up. The 5% are here to manifest truth. We’re linking up, teaching up, and rising up. We come in the spirit of Supreme Wisdom and with the armor of God. No more will we let you hypnotize our families with lies. No more will we let you rob grandma’s social security check or tell some sick patient to “give and be healed” while you buy another Benz. We call you out by name, Copeland, Dollar, Osteen, Hinn, White, Duplantis, and any other 10% imposter wearing sheep’s clothing. Your doctrine is done; your private jet golden calves will rust; your temples of trickery will be emptied.
And to our beloved 85%, our people: Wake up and reclaim your faith and finance. God gave you brains to question and a soul too priceless to sell. No true prophet would charge you for a blessing. No sincere teacher of God lives in mansions while you struggle. Open your eyes and see the hustle for what it is. Then link arms with the 5% and become part of the solution. Each one of you can become a teacher in your own right once you break free, teaching your neighbor, your cousin, your congregation the truth of divine love and self-empowerment that doesn’t require writing checks to charlatans.
We end this cipher with a strong affirmation: Justice is coming for the 10%. The 5% will see to it with the help of Almighty God. We will keep dropping knowledge and raising consciousness until the 85% are no longer deaf, dumb, and blind but can see, hear, and speak the truth for themselves. This is the New Freedom Gospel: not a gospel of prosperity for a few, but prosperity of mind, body, and soul for all. It’s time to tear down the golden thrones of these false kings and lift up the people in their place.
In the end, Truth cuts through falsehood like a sword. As the Qur’an says, “Truth has come, and falsehood has vanished. Indeed, falsehood is ever bound to vanish.” Let the falsehood of the prosperity 10% vanish now. Let the people be free. All Power to the Truth. Peace to the righteous. The divine cipher is complete, now it’s on you to build on it. Knowledge was born here; take it and shine.
Sources:
- Supreme Wisdom Lessons (Nation of Islam/Five Percenters)
- CBS News – Creflo Dollar’s $65M Jet Request
- CBS News – Senate Investigation of Televangelists
- Religion News Service – Costi Hinn on Prosperity Gospel Exploits
- Christian Post – Paula White’s $1000 “Seven Blessings” Plea
- ABC News – Jesse Duplantis’ $54M Jet and Copeland’s Gulfstream
- Vox – Joel Osteen’s Wealth & Prosperity Gospel Critique
- Bible – 2 Peter 2:3 (False teachers exploit with feigned words) ; Matthew 6:24, 7:15; John 8:32
- Qur’an – Surah 9:34 (Religious leaders devouring people’s wealth)
