The rate at which the Christian faith is been bastardised in the world, Ghana inclusive, is getting out of hand. And I blame those quack pastors and prophets who claim they are men and women of God.
Attending three months of Bible school does not qualify one to be scholar of the Sacred Scriptures. Coming out to yell loudly to the congregation does not qualify one to be a messenger of God. This is a vocation, and it is God who calls people to come and do His Holy Will.
A video clip from social media dropped into my page, and I watched with disbelief and anger at two women who claimed their association with Jesus Christ would not make the Coronavirus (Covid-19) infect them. And they courageously defied the putting on of face masks in public.
Apostle Sampson Agakpe of the Church of Pure Christ in Tongor-Abui in South Dayi, Volta Region, and two others were recently arraigned before court and jailed for four years for defying the law and holding a church service for more than fifty people. Earlier, the Head Pastor of Open Arms Ministries in the Ashanti Region, Apostle Kofi Nkansah Sarkodie, was arrested twice for holding church services, despite the ban on religious activities because of the Covid-19.
It is very clear that a lot of the people parading themselves as men and women of God know next to nothing about Jesus Christ and the Sacred Scriptures, because, if they do, they would have been the first to admonish others to obey the government’s directives on ways to deal with the pandemic.
What at all is in Romans 13: 1-7; 1 Timothy 2: 1-3; Titus 3:1; 1 Peter 2: 13-14 and Hebrews 13: 17 that these so called Christians do not understand? What about Christ instructing us to give unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God (St Matthew 22:21; St Mark 12:17 and St Luke 20:25)?
In the Book of Leviticus, God instructed that people should wash with running water to prevent diseases (Lev. 15:13), and infected people should be quarantined to prevent the spread of disease (Lev.13:46). These are precautionary measures and some harebrained persons, may God forgive me, think they are more than God.
The way the women were very defiant against putting on masks, and one even daring the officer who asked her to do so to show respect to her because she was older than him, clearly indicates that they do not understand anything about Christ and Christianity. Who knows, they got this uninformed ideas from their pastors who themselves do not understand the Word of God.
Seriously, it is like the passage about the tenth plague in the Book of Exodus is torn out from their Bibles. Here was God, who brought this plague down on the Egyptians, whereby their first born sons were going to be killed. Even though He brought this plague upon the Egyptians, He still asked the Israelites to take precautionary measures against it (Exodus 12:13).
Hello, is somebody awake? God brought down a plague targeted at a certain people, why could He not allow the plague to work on those people, but insisted His special Chosen people must take precautionary measures? He is God, and He could do as He wants to show His glory, but rather insisted that those who were not targeted were to take adequate steps to prevent any attack from the plague.
Today we have the Coronavirus (Covid-19), which no one can tell whether it came from God or from Satan or from humans. What we all know is that it has descended unannounced upon the world and is ravaging it. Experts have advised that we take precautionary measures to prevent its spread while we keep looking for a cure, even as Africans have found one. We are to obey these orders, just as the Israelites obeyed the instructions that ushered in the First Passover.
These pastors and their followers, who I believe insist on reading the Holy Bible sideways, must go and seek help from churches that understand the Sacred Scriptures and learn how to read and understand this Holy Book.
When they do, they will come across many occasions which indicate that believing in oneself is disapproved by God. Let just take St Peter for example, when he expressed that he would die for Jesus, he was told that he was rather going to deny his Master. St Peter, upon hearing this and knowing who his Master was, instead of humbling himself and asking for guidelines to do the right thing, rather became defiant and vehemently swore, saying, “Even though I should have to die with you, I will not deny you.” (St Mark 14:31). Before he knew it, he had denied his Master three times, including once to a small servant girl.
This should be a lesson to those who think they know Christ and are going about disobeying laws and endangering lives.
While I am here, did I read right about a certain Prophet Kingsley Asante of Fire House Chapel International coming out to say that he saw the death of Bishop Bernard Nyarko of Kumawood fame way back in 2017? And he went to claim that the next on the list will be Nana Ama McBrown and Emelia Brobbey. And he claimed he did not get the platform to proclaim this to those in the prophecy and to the general public. May be this is what is now in vogue, as one senior prophet said he could not pronounce the word God put in his mouth, so he allowed things to be.
When will these so-called prophets come out to do the right thing? There are ways which prophets of God prophesied to people who God sent them to. Kingsley Asante claimed God told him about these celebrities in 2017, and yet all this while he could not know how to get the messages across to them. And must it always be about death? Mind you, when God says someone will die, He is not referring to physical death; He is referring to eternal death in damnation.
It is a great pity how some Christians are ridiculing Christianity. After Covid-19, we should flush out of this nation these quacks parading themselves in the Holy Sanctuary of the Most High, desecrating the place and misleading souls.
Hon Daniel Dugan
The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect The Chronicle’s Editorial stance
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