JACK COE
AOG minister and faith healer. (deceased)
Coe on occasion would actually "pick people up out of the wheelchairs. If they fell, he'd say you didn't have faith." (Hank Hanegraaff, Counterfeit Revival, 1997, pg. 137 citing Harrell, All Things Are Possible, 59)
Like modern faith healers, (Coe) suggested that those who opposed him were in danger of being "struck dead by God." (Hank Hanegraaff, Counterfeit Revival, 1997, pg. 137 citing Harrell, All Things Are Possible, 59)
The Assemblies of God were so embarrassed by Coe's exaggerated (healing) claims that they finally expelled him in 1953 on the grounds the he was "misleading the public". (Hank Hanegraaff, Counterfeit Revival, 1997, pg. 137 citing Harrell, All Things Are Possible, 111)
(Coe) warned followers "that the day would come when those who consulted physicians would have to take the mark of the beast." Coe (subsequently) became critically ill with bulbar polio ... (and) took the "mark of the beast" and was admitted to the hospital. (Hank Hanegraaff, Counterfeit Revival, 1997, pg. 137 citing Harrell, All Things Are Possible, 101)
While Counterfeit Revival leader Oral Roberts considered Jack Coe "a man of great faith", many other well known religious leaders considered Coe a master of gimmicks and fabrications. (Hank Hanegraaff, Counterfeit Revival, 1997, pg. 137)