CBS Atlanta 46Bishop Eddie Long made king?

It's the next viral video and it involves Bishop Eddie Long and New Birth Missionary Baptist Church.

In the widely circulated video of the service on Sunday, Jan. 29, you can see what appears to be Long being made a king by guest speaker Rabbi Ralph Messer.

"He is a king, God's blessed him. He is a humble man. But in him is kingship. In him is royalty," said Messer during the "ceremony."

Messer wraps Long in what he said was a 312 year old Jewish Torah scroll.

Then Messer has four men lift Long up in a chair and says, "He is now raised up from a commoner to a kingship."

The video leads many to believe that Messer made Long a king, but in a statement from New Birth and Messer, they denied any such thing occurred.

"My message was about restoring a man and to encourage his walk in the Lord. The presentation of the Scroll of Torah was simply a way of bringing honor to a man who had given his life to the Lord and had given so much to his church, the Atlanta metro area and throughout the world. It was not to make Bishop Eddie L. Long a King," said Messer. "Lifting him on the chair was to acknowledge and honor him. It is done all the time at Jewish weddings and Bar mitzvahs. The whole theme was to describe and teach how the Kingdom operates."

The church said the Rabbi's message was about the restoration of the Kingdom, biblically based on the scripture of AMOS 9:11, where it is written in the King James version, "In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up its breaches; and I will raise up its ruins, and I will rebuild it as in the days of old."

Long returned to the pulpit in January after steeping down to "focus on his family." His wife Vanessa recently filed for a divorce.

In September 2010, four young men filed civil suits claiming that the megachurch pastor used his authority as a religious leader to persuade them into sexual relations. But those suits were settled out of court in May, and no one involved publicly discussed the terms of the settlement.

In the suits, Spencer LeGrande, Jamal Parris, Maurice Robinson and Anthony Flagg said that Eddie Long lavished them with gifts and took them on trips around the world when they were teenagers.

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