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(Photo: Facebook/End Times Disciples
Ministries)Self-styled South African prophet Penuel Mnguni, 24 (l) feeds a
snake to one of his congregants.
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Controversial Pastor Penuel Mnguni
of the End Times Disciples Ministries in South Africa reportedly admitted to
Nigerian megachurch preacher T.B. Joshua that he misread the Bible in having
his congregants eat live snakes back in 2015.
Mnguni claimed at the time that
through the power of God true believers can eat anything. Photos emerged online
showing the pastor feeding live snakes, rats, underwear and other things to
congregants.
South Africa's Commission for the
Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic
Communities rose up against his practices, however, and he was arrested, before
being released in 2016.
"A normal person cannot eat
snakes — you must be spiritual. To show that God was with me, no one has
died," he said at the time.
The Citizen reported on Sunday that Mnguni
has asked T.B. Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations for deliverance,
however, and explained how he came to misread the Bible.
