Think about your life: Think about Eternity
Jeremiah 23:29. Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Friend, read this:
Romans 10: 8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 12 ¶ For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Now, do this:
Level 1 is Belief i.e. accept what God says as Absolute Truth.
Level 2 is Knowledge which helps people know God and what they can receive from him.
Level 3 is Wisdom operating at a ‘mystical’ realm to sum but mere Christian realm to us.
Level 4 is Faith. The ability to see the invisible and to hear the impossible.
These levels are in a continuum. They just flow into each other.
See this.
2Co 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Do you even begin to fathom the ecstasy 2 Co 5:17in the above verse?
Joh 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.
Something happens to the you that is IN YOU when you accept Jesus in your life.
You are now a new creation.
You are regenerated.
You are a Christian.
The Holy Spirit returns to dwell in you and to show you that you are a son of God. Romans 8: 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
That we are now BORN AGAIN.
1Pe 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.
Why?
Because the Word of God says so and you believe it and you know it to be true. It starts with BELIEF.
1Jo 5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
And then knowing this to be true by FAITH.
Eph 5:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
1Jo 5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
For Salvation is not only the assurance that your NAME is in the BOOK of Life. Confessing Jesus comes with the unction to function..the Christ in You as You with you and for You.
Galatians 2: 20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
The Christ is what made the Lord Jesus a Supernatural Man. You can do more because the Seven Spirits Of God is now upon all who have so prayed. The Spirit of Wisdom+Knowledge+Understanding+Counsel or Prophecy+Good Health or Stamina+Moral rectitude or Righteousness+the Love of God. Relocation of POWER+DOMINION+DIVINITY. Thou art now overshadowed by the very power of God himself for living life abundantly on earth and in heaven as well. All in Jesus Name. The Holy Spirit-River.
Something of me to You today, my friends: Bishop David Oyedepo named my class@BCC..the UNSTOPPABLE..SWEATLESS..OVERTAKERS..USO. And this is the Head boy of that class and Prophet. As I am so are you all, my friends,..Unstoppable...Sweatless..Overtakers. Keep Walking!
Your God and My God is not confusing. He is only God. Read all of Isaiah 55...Again
Then come back and read Job 1-5. Then start from Job 36 and read to the finish.
May the Uplifter Uplift thy Spirit in the Name of the Messiah..even Yeshua Ha-Mashiach...Jesus is Lord...He is thy Raah...GUIDE for thy Rohi...SHEPHERD and as he liveth he will always be thy Ropheka...HEALER.
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 12:31 AM, Emmanuel Kongnyu <emmakongnyu@yahoo.com> wrote:
Lord Mayor, Mr Yembe,Your advice is heard. Remember that i am not you nor any other person. If you have no contribution to give to the discussion in form of a teaching or a testimony, you may as well remain quiet. Some people have valuable lessons to bring.You did not read to find out why this topic is coming up else you will understand that it is achieving its aim. If you want to know more about prophecy, please follow the link and read from people.What do you understand judgement to mean? Don't you realize that your conclusion that TB Joshua is a True prophet is already a judgement? Or do you shallowly see "judgement" from negative eye? Don't you understand that as much as you judge him to be true others have tangible reasons and personal testimonies also to judge him as false?If you chose to defend him, please state here why. This will give people clearer lessons to learn. And if anyone was going to advice me to shun critical minds, i would not believe that it will be you who should encourage freedom of expression, both in and out of Church. Don't you also learn that people believe what they don't really know? And is that healthy?However, you will always see me speak out and offer people opportunities to speak even when they are not given that privilege elsewhere, perhaps they would learn something about their foolishness.Hahahhaha and again according to my prophecy that people would judge me in the preamble of that article, you also judge me as sinner standing in need of forgiveness for it? Waoooo! so you really understand judgement? hmmmmhNformi EmmanuelOn Monday, April 21, 2014 6:14 AM, Martin Yembe <mfyembe@gmail.com> wrote:
Emmanuel. Like Dr. Ngwanyam, I will advise that you do not engge in
judgment wars, even when you want to please the world. See what you
are opening up against Prophet TB Joshua...giving room to the Ishmails
to make judgment about the Isaacs. ( The Bible says we should not
judge)I pray u stop it or go pray to God for forgiveness for opening
up a court of a Man of God..;fake or real!
Martin> Newspaper UK,in reference to Nigeria Daily, reported that The SCOAN attracts
On 4/20/14, Emmanuel Kongnyu <emmakongnyu@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Mr Bessong,
> Thank you for this observation. I do not have the obligation to respond to
> all things people say. In being happy, i meant that one of the aims of
> letting people speak whatever they want had been achieved even if they spoke
> profanities. Besides, Mr Tabe was not targeting me, neither was he to be
> responded to by me alone. Many had already responded to his profanities and
> i hope he understood.
> Now, there are many levels of learning and i am conscious enough to responds
> according to levels. I do not kill flies with an ax. I am also literally
> economical, and do not misused resources.
> Nformi Emmanuel
>
> On Sunday, April 20, 2014 8:31 AM, austin bessong <etanyi@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Emmanuel
>
> Are you happy that Mr. Tabe used profanities in public space to express his
> frustrations towards those you don't believe the preaching and healing
> powers of our modern day "prophets" like TB and Chi... What is it that you
> are happy sir?
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID
>
> Emmanuel Kongnyu <emmakongnyu@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> Mr Tabe,
> I thank you for this opinions that you have expressed. I am also happy that
> i gave you that opportunity to air your views, and that is the aim for a
> discussion such as this.
> Nformi Emmanuel
> On Saturday, April 19, 2014 4:36 AM, Martin Eyong Tabe
> <martine102@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> it simply upsets me when people go online and write all the rubbish without
> any basis.afterall the internet is almost for free and anyone can be heard
> at little cost. this brings to play the legitimacy of censorship as is the
> case with turkey and china and
> cuba and north korea. who are you to judge the spirit? when stephen said he
> say christ sittx at the right hand of the father what happened? he was
> stoned to death for blasphemy. when the christ came in flesh and blood and
> wined and dined with us and performed
> all the miracles telling people he was the son of God he was beaten and
> cricifed. till date the revelations of john are contested by so called
> scientists. when noah was building his arc and warning people of the
> imminent destruction of the world by the great
> deluge, the masses mocked at him and they were winning and dinning and
> having sex....a faithless generation that did not want to deceast from its
> satanic ways......and behold, the floods came and swept away the world.when
> mary appeared at nsimalen in the mid
> 1980s she was taken for a mami water spirit.she spoke to the lady who fell
> into a trance that the devil was taking hold of this country and if
> camerooniand dis not repent we were oing to suffer. 30 years later all she
> said has come to pass, the economic crises.
> the collapse of many banks and state institutions. the collapse of the
> marketing board, double salary slashes, retrieval and auctioning of service
> cars, soaring inflation of imported goodsm devaluation, heightening of
> prices of petroleum products, wallowing
> unemployment, the nonpayment of september and october 1993 salaries, the
> collapse of the popst office, widespread corruption and the list goes
> on....effects of which are felt till date. how many families were shattered
> because of these illshow many people
> had heart attacks, how many people have died without being reimbursed of
> their monies till date? the answer is bloin the wind. Christ himself called
> this a faithless generation, a generation that is looking for evidence in
> order to believe. my bible tells
> me that the standards of God are the opposite of world standards. with God
> we believe before we see while with the world we see before we
> believe.....on that day the queen of the east will rise and testify against
> this satanic generabecause she only heard
> the news about solomons wisdom and she believed....in the same way the
> people of niniveh will rise and testify against this satanic generation
> because jonah preached to them and they turned against their sinful ways.
> this generation has everything inculding
> the mass media in all its formsm satellite tvm internetm dvds,smart phones
> and the rest yet it fails to believe. sure it is one of the devils devices
> to set confusion among the faithful. if christ himself could not be believed
> how much more his servants, prophets,
> pastors, evangelists, teachers and the rest......a faithless generation
> that worships the creature and the created over the creator. who are you to
> judge a prophet of God? a prophet is subjet only unto the most high....touch
> not the prophet of God or his annointed
> because the day is coming when judgement will begin in the house of the
> lord.....
> if you do not believe in TB JOSHUA, JOHN CHI or in the apparitions of JESUS
> and of MARY why dont you just go your way. you are not in any position to
> judge anyone..before christianity came our for fathers worshiped stones and
> sticks and pieces of wood over the being that created them....it worked for
> them but it is counted as foolishness today....yet today we worship OBAMA
> and NELSON MANDELA and all other agents of DARKNESS who spread the ANUS
> FUCKING HOMOSEXUAL gospel around the world. those are our role
> models....agents of the ANTICHRIST. MANDELA a serial divorcee who could only
> find solace between the legs of the wife of his late childhood friend and co
> fighter SAMORA MACHEL yet the bible is vehement in condeming
> divorce....Malachi 3.....God hates divorce.....or is it OBAMA the
> FREEMASON...and perhaps the first american GAY president and ABORTIONIST. a
> man has the constitutional right to get married to another man...says
> OBAMA....reason why in france
> and in the UK today a man can marry a man....how many of us are fighting
> these ills? we instead divert our attention to men of God and to things of
> God. in life we have one original and many fake....we cannot have only one
> fake around the world....two weeks ago it was the pastors conference in
> South korea that was witnessed live around the world....no one can fight the
> Spirit....not even the catholic church because gone are the days when the
> pope was infallible or when some satanists could say that salvation belongs
> to a particular church.....no one can fight or confine the spirit of
> God.....the spirit of God blows shere it wills and blesses how it wills and
> who it wills....
> there are more pertinent issues to write about online...God save this
> SATANIC COUNTRY.
> On Thursday, April 17, 2014 2:35 AM, Emmanuel Kongnyu
> <emmakongnyu@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> Joshua in a Prophet’s Lab: IS TB JOSHUA A FALSE PROPHET?
> By Nformi Emmanuel
>
> The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan
> displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders. (2Thes.2:
> 9)
>
> Taking a careful look at TB Joshua’s “prophecy” concerning the Malaysian
> airline’s Boeing 777 disappearance into thin air, in addition to the
> populace’s holding that he is a divinely inspired prophet, one cannot escape
> the question whether he is a real (true) or fake. In attempting to x-ray a
> “man of God” in the order of the acclaimed Joshua one would have to think
> like Moses; if not in the totality of his liberation experience, at least in
> pinpointing his encounter with his other-side - Pharaoh’s magicians. But
> even if we begin to think in that paradigm, we, again cannot exact prophecy
> with miracles, though Tb Joshua as well as many others, is accorded a
> prophets name particularly because of a vague and indistinguishable mix of
> both. Many a person have visited TB Joshua and returned with signs of relief
> yet some have come back regrets. The irony is that both results are thanks
> to the great prophet. Some, who dismiss his authenticity, do
> it at the touch-lines or within their religious spheres; hardly being just
> to what others call “firsthand experience” or “eyewitness”. On the other
> hand, Christian fanatics of the nature of “later-day” Pentecostal
> "volcanizers" sweepingly glorify the prophet even without a peep under his
> table. These are those who jump, shout and hit walls at the mention of a
> single word of prayer before they discover that their “brother” was not
> actually in the mode of prayer. If we consider Prophecy in its ambiguous
> form we can only feel unworthy and unqualified to take the likes of Joshua
> into a prophet’s Lab. This is because the process of deriving his
> authenticity is as difficult as choosing the right tools to do it. On the
> other hand, we can only compare something when we have in the other hand,
> another; imperfect or a perfect model.
> Having established that the laboratory check is not easy, I dare anyway, as
> a human being with a critical mind, to attempt such a mystical litmus test.
> Since it is a religious issue, I would use as primary tools, the Abrahamic
> religions from where we may be able to find out what constitutes authentic
> prophecy against which we may be able to compare TB Joshua. Before we go on,
> the most important statement I venture here is that the accuracy or the
> resultant of any prophecy is usually altered by the desires and attachments
> of the seers (prophets) and those who hear the prophecy. So what TB
> prophecies is not detached from his feelings and motives buried in his heart
> at the depth at which only God himself can reach. On the other hand, those
> of us who listen to him, hear only what we want to hear; those things which
> appeal to our emotional, physical, economic and spiritual hunger. These very
> drives are so strong that they blind us from reality even when wrong
> things are going on right under our noses. It was in this wise that Paul
> advised Timothy: For the time will come when men will not put up with sound
> doctrine. Instead, to suit their desires, they will gather around them a
> great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear (2Tim.
> 4:3-4). So we tend to be very careful in this Lab from what angle we peep
> into a Joshuan test tube – we may be regarded as unspiritual, and in extreme
> case, unbelieving and unsaved.
>
> 1. The Prophet’s Identity: One of the areas of conflict Jesus faced
> against the Jews and Jewish religious leaders was in the area of his
> authority. The Nazarenes had only known him as the son of Joseph – a common
> carpenter, assigning to him a human identity rather than the divine that
> they perceived. In answering to this rejection in his hometown, Jesus
> states: “no prohet is accepted in his hometown” (Lk 4:24), yet in asserting
> his authority he also states: “All authority in heaven and on earth has been
> given to me” (Matt. 28:18), in fulfillment of prophet Daniel (Dan. 7:13,14).
> Before and after Jesus Christ, prophesies and attempts thereof were a
> desirable concept yet the prophet’s established credential was the bedrock
> of entrenched trust on its efficacy. In many cases it was rather dangerous
> and treacherous to attempt any form of prophecy without an appealing and
> readily acceptable identity.
> So we should be asking who is TB Joshua? Temitope Balogun Joshua was born
> on June 12th 1963, raised in an Anglican Christian conservative tradition,
> nicknamed “small Pastor” because of his love for the bible while in the
> primary school at St. Stephen Anglican School Arigidi; his home town in
> Nigeria(Critique on TB Joshua By Bill Subritsky). His official biography
> also tells that he spent 15months in his mother’s womb instead of the normal
> 9months. In 1989, before he had his vision to begin his ministry, he had
> fasted for forty days and forty nights. Though these assertions have been
> disowned by many critics as his attempts to assuage to a mystical and
> fascinating identity, he on the other hand defends it with acclaimed and
> testified miraculous deeds. Therefore, “humanly” speaking, any verification
> on his identity does not in any way directly dethrone the prophet: he was
> raised in a Christian family, went to Christian schools, involved in
> Christian services, born mysteriously after a 15 month’s gestation, fasted
> 40/40 in the likeness of Christ and then began a booming ministry.
> But wait a minute, he is not yet qualified just by presenting to us this
> identity because we are not divine to distinguish him from those who do the
> same things but who are not truly called by God as they claim. For….. false
> prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even
> the elect (Matt.24:24). Here, when I was examining his identity, some things
> caught my attention: why is he concerned in emphasizing the nature of his
> birth, and how is it so important in his calling? Is he trying to compare it
> to the Virgin Birth of Jesus? Did he really fast for forty days and forty
> nights, and why specifically significantly 40/40? Could it not work with
> more or with less? Is he trying to reflect how Christ began His life and
> ministry to his? I am afraid that by insisting on a phenomenal change to
> establish a fascinating and mystical identity, he exhibits another diabolic
> characteristic of falsehood. No true Prophet of God derives a
> resemblance as if it were a burden to do so because God chooses or
> represents himself according to his unique purposes, and in times of his
> liking. When you see prophets trying to resemble others before them, they
> attract question marks against their profiles. Islam easily concludes that
> any prophet after Mohammed is false since the Koran teaches that he is the
> last of prophets ( Sura 9:128-129), yet Christianity and other biblical
> religions hold to prophecy as a spiritual gift with which the universal
> church is unendingly blessed. More likely, contemporary truism as well as
> enormous falsehood finds itself enshrined in humanly unverifiable prophetic
> acts – acts appealing to the human condition in physical, emotional,
> psychological, social, economic, political etc, yet very forcefully magnetic
> in its delight.
>
> 2. The Prophet’s Prophecy: As a strategy for effective propagation,
> the postmodern religious evangels have tasked themselves to redesign
> religious messages into appealing and readily acceptable codes of
> actions-matching-words. This is because ears have also changed in their
> cognitive designs; to hear and apply. Yes, in this growing liberalism, ears
> can now choose what to hear according to individual human condition and
> need. My children are now questioning the relevance of Christianity and the
> Christian beliefs far more than I did to my parents.
> With this atmosphere, as God always addresses the needs of His people, the
> prophet’s prophecy must also contain in full or in part, the problems facing
> society. There is therefore the question of Purpose: why is God revealing
> this prophecy to us at this time? Is it relevant or it just to adds to a
> false prophets embellishing list of deeds? Every prophet in the Abrahamic
> religions, prophesied in time. By this I mean that there was an immediate
> need to be addressed and it was directly relevant to those to whom it was
> being prophesied. Ecstasy and fantasy has overshadowed the postmodern
> prophetic shrines to the glory of the prophets. Because the world of humans
> craves for entertainment at the doorsteps of happiness, artists have arisen
> even from the ranks of the noble professions as Pastors and Prophets. Their
> garments are designed with the most captivating gabardines for public
> spectacle yet their under-wears have been smeared by bloods of hatred,
> corruption, gossip, selfishness, and all forms of gold-digging hunger.
> So now, what is the content of TB Joshua’s Prophecies? How are they relevant
> to his immediate community in Nigeria, Africa, and then the world? Do they
> really come from God, and who really gets the Glory? The last time I
> checked, he was in the news about the Malaysian Flight 370. The other time
> was the death of an African President. I am not familiar with his local
> prophecies, but at least those local incidents that have had global hearings
> such as the Boko Haram incidents should have, at least onetime, mentioned
> any attachment to TB Joshua. The question is whether he is a ghost prophet
> to the realities of his birth land or it is God who is absent? Do not get me
> wrong; I clearly understand that his ministry is not only tied to prophecy
> and his prophecy as well not tied to Nigeria, but there are many Nigerian
> problems we are eager to hear how God is addressing them or how He is going
> to address. Such information can only come from a world-renown prophet
> like Joshua who from Nigeria sees as far as Malaysia, as high as thousands
> of miles into the sky, and deep as into presidencies and graves.
> Some Nigerians, and critics of TB Joshua lament that the prophet may be
> false or might have gradually been falsifying prophecy. In the likeness of
> those seeking glory to themselves rather than to God they argue; that he
> might have put on worldly, prosperity lenses which enable him to see far
> from Nigeria, self-gratifying incidents, yet which have at the same time
> blinded him to the real and compelling plights of the Nigerian people. How
> relevant was the prophecy of the President’s death when in few weeks,
> Christian churches would be raided and hundreds of innocent souls snuffed by
> Boko Haram right from under the Prophet’s nose? How relevant was the
> Prophecy of the Malaysian Airline when in about a month’s time, more than 70
> people will be killed by bombing in a Bus station in Abuja right at the
> front steps of the prophet’s church? So they exclaim in desperation: “shut
> up your prophecies because they do not benefit us, rather they fan your
> popularity and inflate your pockets”!!! If such desperation is true, then
> they do not belong to God because in saying this to the prophet, they
> indirectly address God –and how dare you?
> In this Lab, we must also be able to do justice by pointing to powerful
> testimonies that we have received from those who have visited his shrine. We
> hear about those who have been cured of the dreaded HIV/AIDS, we hear of
> demons viciously cast, we hear of bareness reversed, we hear of blind
> seeing, we hear of lame walking, and even in an atmosphere where
> authenticity finds needle holes, we still credit him with such popularity.
> But more dangerous is that good deeds are not the finite mark of those who
> are God’s : Not everyone who says to me Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom
> of heaven. Many will say to me on that day, Lord, lord, did we not prophesy
> in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform miracles? Then I
> will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me you evildoers’
> (Matt.7:21-23).The rest is left to individual scrutiny and individual
> perception. Those who have a higher spirit of discernment will know for a
> fact that a
> prophet is false but the difficulty is that they would find it difficult to
> prove even if it was compelling and essential to do so.
>
> 3. The Prophet’s Prophecy of Truth: How do we believe in a prophet if
> what he prophesies does not occur, and exactly as he did? One very confusing
> aspect of prophecy is that it is expressed in simple speech, sometime
> written in prose but begs to be interpreted as poetry. Its ambiguous nature,
> wrapped in mystery, offers interpreters a style-less dance of
> interpretation; opened after the event has happened, placing secondary
> interpreters in the category of critics. The prophet as the primary
> interpreter reserves the authority to dictate style; at such times at the
> advantage of his prognostics. If your Laboratory’s aim was to find out
> whether his prophecy was an acid or a base, you won’t come out with a
> Litmus’ distinct color, yet the prophet will be the only one to say what he
> thinks he prophesied. This warps truth and frustrates clarity. Yet in a
> prophecy there are key aspects which must be exacted! What those key aspects
> are depends
> on the structure and content of the prophecy. Those prophecies encoded in
> meticulous details of emphatic numbers, locations, specific people and
> dates, face serious scrutiny risking falsehood. Those that are presented in
> general rhetoric stand better chances of being accepted; though on a plate
> of assumptions and pessimism.
> In the past, false prophecy was punishable by banishment and up to death
> (Deut.18:22). False prophets ventured unwisely with details and ended into
> death, but today false prophets have become so wise in their speculation
> work that they use multifaceted proverbs and idioms to express their
> predictions in order to dance around meaning in a ballroom of
> interpretation. This leaves critics with dissatisfactory meanings.
> Considering TB Joshua’s latest Prophecy of the Malaysian Airline; he said it
> was going to be an Asian Country; the plane would be lost, in the sea, with
> people over 200 and because of impatience. These are key parts of his
> prophecy. Either anyone could have said something similar knowing that in a
> year’s time something of that nature can happen, or he could have been more
> specific to name the country, the sea, the exact number of people, or the
> exact cause of the crash. By not doing this, he leaves for himself an escape
> valve if parts of
> the prophecy did not come true, and in addition, he can certainly twist
> parts to make a closer interpretation.
> Hence we are helpless because we cannot say the entire prophecy was untrue
> neither can we say that his prophecy was entirely exacting, but to his
> benefit as the prophet and the primary interpreter, he claims his is clear.
> Was he true? Yes. Was he false? Yes. Is he therefore a False prophet? Look
> at him from your own angle. Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but
> test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false
> prophets have gone out into the world. They are from the world and they
> speak from the view point of the world and the world listens to them. (1John
> 4:1,5). Jesus also warns in Luke: "Woe to you when all men speak well of
> you, for that is how their fathers treated the false prophets” (Luke 6:26).
>
> 4. The Prophet’s Shrine: If you want to know what kind of prophet is
> before you, take a good look at his shrine. There are artifacts that
> represent the type of deity the prophet professes. But besides the nature of
> the shrine, there are servants and services; these are the hidden realities
> of the prophetic enterprise. Some churches are built like “church” but
> within their walls, activity very much is satanic. Some practice worship and
> praise, and a host of healing and exorcisms, but their motives and direction
> are diabolic. Some are “white garments”, some are “Red Garments”, but not
> all that glitters is gold!!!!! Some emphasize specific movements, signs,
> songs, sacred places. So if you don’t derive some reason from artifacts, you
> can find something in the services.
> After TB Joshua’s 40/40 fasting of 1989, he claimed that he had received a
> vision from God to commence his ministry. So he founded the Synagogue Church
> of All Nations (SCOAN). Watch this name carefully because it was
> purposefully derived. Synagogue: a term derived from the Jewish tradition,
> denotes a “house of assembly” or a “House of Prayer” in both Greek and
> Hebrew languages; possibly emphasizing his Jewish lineage with Jesus Christ
> of Nazareth. Church; a term generated from Christo-centric religions denotes
> a place set apart for worship or a group of people who have the same
> beliefs; he wishes to stress that he is a branch of Christ. All Nations
> means that it is geographically, socially, economically and
> anthropologically unlimited; in the likeness of The Great Commission of
> Christ (Matt.28 19-20). The two words, Synagogue and Church have similar
> meaning, so why would he use such duplication in naming his ministry? Does
> it not sound like
> ”Church Church of All Nations”?
> I want you to also watch at names of mushroom churches as you go through
> your streets in order to compare it with TB Joshua’s. You would find that as
> many as there are churches popping up everywhere, their Prophets or Pastors
> strive to create names that are appealing to membership. “God Alone Church
> of Christ”, “New Emmanuel Assembly”, “First Holy Church of God” etc. These
> names serve a personal business purpose, but they are disguised in garments
> of righteousness and evangelism, always depicting a seemingly Christly and
> Godly motive. Jesus Himself warned: “watch out for false prophets. They come
> to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves”
> (Matt.7:15) On the contrary, walk through your streets and check whether any
> Mosque carries such embellishments. Check in your typical African village
> for real traditional shrines whether you would find a sign post. Instead, I
> have witnessed a trend, fake traditional healers
> leave their villages, move into cities where no one knows them, make a sign
> post and declare that they are great healers and prophets. They prey on the
> innocent, and the desperate. Not all who place sign posts and cumbersome
> names to their churches or shrines are fake, but we are also able to watch
> that such businesses of fake shrines and churches have proliferated and
> infiltrated the economy. Attached to prosperity gospel people have now
> commercialized God to their glories. While some, through divine
> interventions have come out to testify of their misdeeds, some certainly
> await their doomsday; in this life or in the hereafter.
> It has been observed that TB Johua’s Church business is a multi-million
> dollar business, pulling visitors from all over the world (All Nations). He
> employs enough personnel to handle services. He constructed buildings to
> host both long term and short term visitors. In fact it is a system that is
> self-governing and self-sustaining to be self-propagating. In the sense of
> “synagogue” they have constructed centers in other places in the world, but
> they only channel proceeds or fame to the center and TB Joshua in Nigeria.
> So until he probably dies, you will not hear of another renowned prophet in
> his church apart from him. Can this behavior make us conclude that he may
> just be one of those prophets who want to glorify themselves by using God’s
> Name? The reality with TB Joshua’s business is that his has been recognized
> by Nigerian Ministry of Tourism to constitute a very vital element, and
> therefore deserves not only a tax-exempt status, but also
> some form of subventions. Hence in 2010, Weekly Trust, a Nigerian news
> paper noted that Tourism Has a Spiritual Face Too while mentioning the
> impact of TB Joshua’s ministry to Nigerian Tourism. By 2013, The Guardian
> more weekly attendees than the combined number of visitors to Buckingham
> Palace and the Tower of London.
> Such prosperity does not directly make a ministry false but it can shed
> light to how an evil system may be operating in the realm of the real. Go
> closer and find out where the money comes from and where it goes. Watch how
> the prophet is securing his position and fame. Discover how he consciously
> designs programs and services. Listen how he carefully chooses his verbs.
> Watch how he verbally directs worship to God but wishes in actions that all
> worship be directed to him.
> If you followed me into this laboratory with the expectation that specific
> result would be achieved, by now you must have been somehow disappointed. I
> may be more disappointed than you given that I was personally expectant. We
> all have the spirit to discern as individuals, though God gives discernment
> as a special gift to certain individuals. But spiritual matters cannot be
> tested or proven simply by physical means. It’s therefore unfortunate that
> we went into a wrong laboratory. But at least we achieved spiritual
> enlightenment and at the human level, the critic’s satisfaction.
> To conclude let me attempt to prophesy: If TB Joshua is a false prophet, he
> will be exposed soon, but if he is a true prophet, he will be exalted. It is
> just a matter of time! This is a world where almost every prognostic is
> believed to be a prophesy; if I am not mistaking.
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> Nformi Emmanuel
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