Prophet Jay Israel Biography, Wife, Children, Family, Ministry, Contact Details, Age, Net Worth, Houses, Cars, And Private Jets
Prophet Jay Israel is popularly known as Jay Israel Senior. He is one of Pastor Alph Lukau’s Spiritual Son. This is why people many call him “Son Of Pastor Alph Lukau.” Although he does not answer this name as a biological son, he does so as a spiritual son in the Christian faith.
Jay Israel is a Zimbabwean-born pastor and founder of Spirit Life Mega Church based in South Africa.
Who is Jay Israel?
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Jay Israel is the founder of Spirit Life Church in South Africa. His real name is Jacob Dube. He confessed to joining a cult. He was born Jacob Dube in Zimbabwe.
Love Life
- In 2017, Israel engaged Benene Bee but the two parted ways barely three months after the announcement of their engagement. Jay Israel parted ways with his lover over infidelity claims. He had even paid lobola.
- After his split with Benene, Israel started dating Khanya Mankayi whom H-Metro reported he was set to marry.
Career as a Pastor
- He said he started a church in Harare at the age of 18
- Israel burst onto the scene in 2016 following the launch of his church at the garage of his former personal assistant in East London, South Africa.
- He soon got tongues wagging for making bold claims of healing people with miracle powers. In 2020 he posted a video on YouTube confessing that all the miracles he had performed were staged and that he had paid actors.
Controversies
Joining A Cult
- Jay Israel revealed details of how he used dead pigeons, red towels, and a horn to gain power, wealth and popularity while running a cult at his church.
- Appearing before the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL Rights Commission) in November 2020, Jay Israel gave an account of how, when he joined a cult in Benin, he believed he was able to prophesy and make people do what he wanted them to do.
- He also revealed how he joined a cult after he met a man from Ghana through Facebook who promised to help him grow his church.
- Jay Israel said he left with the man for Benin where he was introduced to an elderly man. When asked what he wanted, Jay Israel said he wanted his church to grow.
- After a ritual for protection process which included sleeping in a room with sculptures smeared with blood, getting cut by a razor blade and having a black substance rubbed onto the cuts, being washed with water mixed with leaves and having dead pigeon blood smeared all over his body, Jay Israel was introduced to the god that he would be worshipping.
- He was told the name of the god was Atiovi.
- The following day they went into another room where this god was. He said there was a lot of blood in the room. Jay Israel was told to kneel and bow down before the god. He was also told what to say to the god.
- After the initiation was done he said he was given a bighorn which he kept in his bag. He said the horn was covered with a red cloth and had a head which contained a substance. He was told to use the horn before his church services.
He said
They said when you go back to your country, you must make a sacrifice to the god [the horn] before you go into a church service. They said you kill a pigeon or chicken and take its blood and smear it on the horn. I was told to take gin and spit it on the head of the horn and say the words and lick it [blood] with your tongue.
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He said after his return from Benin he would conduct “Do as I say services” when he started a church in East London.
Jay Israel said he would use a red towel to get people to give him whatever he wanted. He said:
I brought towels and I gave them to people. Before I could get them to people, I would demonstrate what the towel could do. Whatever I tell the towel to do is what the towel will make you do. I would put the towel over a person’s head and they would fall down.
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He used certain words to control crowds at church which his followers thought was him speaking in tongues. He would use bible scriptures to make people give money to the church. He would deceive his followers into believing that if they did not pay tithes, they were robbing God.
Intimidation Case
- In July 2020, South African police said they were looking for Jay Israel. He was accused of making death threats to his former public relations officer and labor lawyer Tabisa Ralawe.
- Ralawe had a fallout with Israel after exposing his fake prophecies. She said she was offered a job by Israel in 2017 after she helped him counter a social media attack his church found itself under over a controversial event it planned to host.
- She said Jay Israel never paid her for the work that she did for him. Ralawe left because of non-payment and said when Jay Israel was attacked on social media she also commented and this angered the controversial pastor.
- Ralawe said she received death threats and would find the tires of her car slashed or hammered with nails in East London. Her son’s photos were splashed over social media on fake accounts she believed were opened by Jay Israel.
- Jay Israel fled his home in East London.
Fight With Emmanuel Makandiwa
- Jay Israel claimed that United Family International Church leader and founder Emmanuel Makandiwa had a second wife and was extorting his church members.
- A video of him and Blessing Mashangwa who had taken Makandiwa to court with her (then) husband Upenyu Mashangwa over alleged false prophecies, surfaced online.
- He also claimed that Makandiwa had joined a cult in Ghana and said that was the reason why he no longer did altar calls or baptisms at his church. Jay Israel also said Makandiwa has been performing fake miracles such as the Miracle Baby.
- Evidence Chari said Makandiwa had opened a case against Blessing Mashangwa.
CCTV Video
Jay Israel was caught on camera together with Mashangwe, plotting to tarnish the image of Makandiwa and extort money.
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Prophet Jay Israel House
Prophet Israel resides in South Africa where he has a pretty nice house. The type of house that many dreams of.
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It is without a doubt that Prophet Jay Israel has good taste when it comes to choosing and buying luxurious cars. He regularly shows off his cars and luxurious holidays.
Prophet Jay Israel Private Jets
Although the clergyman regularly flies across the globe, he is not yet in possession of private jet. Of course, this is as of the presentation time. Perhaps, he’ll purchase one or more in the years to come. Note that his spiritual father, Pastor Alph Lukau possesses one.
Prophet Jay Israel Age
As of the time of presentation, the clergyman is in his thirties (30s). Behold, at 30 years, he is living a dream lifestyle.
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You can reach his ministry through the following lines:
+27313504430
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