The family of Paul Meintjes of Hertzogville, whose resurrection was predicted by a “prophet” after his death about five weeks ago, has not yet arranged to remove the body from the town’s mortuary, mortician Nico Foulds said on Thursday.
Foulds said he gave the family until the end of Thursday to remove the remains and pay the bill of R9Â 000.
Meintjes’s body has been kept frozen in the town’s mortuary since July 1 after David Francis, a “prophet” from Durban, predicted that he would rise from the death.
The family has been waiting ever since, but nothing has happened.
Beeld newspaper reported on Thursday that Francis has failed the test for prophecy, according to Pastor Andy de Vries of the Emmanuel Fellowship in Hertzogville.
Nothing happened when Francis prayed at the mortuary for more than an hour on Sunday, when Meintjes was supposed to be resurrected.
“His explanation then was that he was mistaken. How is it possible that a man who has received such an important message from God and waited 31 days for the resurrection can suddenly have heard wrong?” De Vries asked.
A second “prophet”, Duke Potgieter from Cape Town, claimed at the weekend that Meintjes was resurrected on Saturday, but then froze to death because the mortuary was closed.
And yet another “prophet” who visited Hertzogville at the weekend said that Meintjes had appeared to him, asking to be left in peace.
It is not clear what the Meintjes family is planning to do now.