This all depends on how we define a false teacher. As I've said before the biblical standard is quite high. Malicious, willful deceit. Perhaps that's the case, but if so this is a strange move because it backs him in a corner.
"Strange" is Benny's stock-in-trade; it's his schtick. And being inconsistent about doctrine is certainly nothing new to Benny. Doctrinal "corners" don't seem to phase him at all. I don't, then, see his "change of view" particularly remarkable or effectively undoing all of the decades-long false teaching he has purveyed (and merchandised). Certainly, his swearing off of financial manipulation in his preaching doesn't clear him of the well-earned charge of being a false teacher.
Would you say the people who follow him are false or deceived? Hopefully deceived.
Some of both, I think. Some of those I know who hold to Benny's Prosperity Gospel views are just as mercenary about their faith (and just as ready to manipulate others for power and profit) as he is. "Birds of a feather" and all that. Others who follow him are merely ignorant, and foolish, and deceived.
Then whose to say Benny wasn't also deceived himself?
Well, whose to say he wasn't completely clear on the deceptive and destructive nature of the false teachings he promoted? He doesn't strike me as the unwitting sort, innocently taking up, promoting and profiting from the false teachings he's so long espoused.
This is where time will tell... AND why this is a really good thing. Once you go down this path you throw away the "I was deceived card" so if you continue to do what is right, great. If you go back or do a different version of the same, you have no excuses, you aren't deceived.
I have no good basis upon which to think Benny was merely deceived for all of these years. I doubt very much that Benny has had a genuine - or significant - change of heart. He has spent a very long time hardening himself into the corrupt life he has led.
It will take more than the clip you've offered to convince me he isn't still a total fraud, making merchandise of the people of God.
As to the show he put on. The guy is a preacher so cut him some slack. When you're a preacher you can't NOT do that, lol, it just comes naturally.
I disagree. I know many preachers - very good ones - who never "put on a show," but act such that the Person of Christ, not themselves, may be seen while they preach. They are confident, highly biblical in their sermon content, and passionate, but also humble, rarely self-referential, and constantly pointing to and lifting up Jesus. Benny Hinn is nothing like these godly preachers I know. I've never seen a more oily, self-serving, sensually-focused "preacher" in all my life. And as far as I can tell, he remains unchanged in these respects.