Photo of the day: March 26, 2009
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
“Repent! Repent!” Shouting these words Prophet Love seemingly rose from the
dead this afternoon at Last Chance Church on Love Street in southwest Atlanta. Staging what he called a “casket demonstration,” Prophet Love presented his own funeral in hopes of saving people from the depths of hell.
“If we continue with our wrongdoing, heaven will not be our home,” he preached while sitting up in a coffin in which he had laid still for over an hour. The idea came to him to do the half funeral, half performance art after his wife and son refused his request to be cremated upon his death. “So I said I will just do my funeral myself,” Love explained.
“Its strange,” said Missionary Forte, one of five other people sitting in the church during the mock open-casket viewing.
“Its unique,” added Barbara Phillips, who says Prophet Love saved her years ago. “It demonstrates that we are all going to go through this and we better get our lives right.”
Prophet Love described lying in the coffin as “not feeling much different then laying in bed.”
“Death is inevitable,” Love said. “Be ready to meet God, repent for your wrongdoing, you know when you are doing right and wrong. There is no water in hell — hell is real. The majority of people will end up in hell.”
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(Photo by Joeff Davis)
