Temitope Balogun, with Joshua as his prophetic name, we believe was called by God and filled with God’s Spirit. Generally, a prophet is called to speak God’s word to people who had in one way or another distanced selves from God. TB Joshua was one of them, a prophet and a preacher, a healer and generous giver, and a philanthropist amongst many other gifts. That he has been reported dead in the early hours of June 5, 2021, remains very hard for many of his followers to believe. In fact, for many days SCOAN premises may witness crowds of people longing to see their father in the Lord, Prophet TB Joshua. In the popular media, he is unfairly and wrongly treated as a prophet not more than a whistle-blower and a controversial individual. Those of us who were fortunate to have first-class knowledge of the prophet are hurt more when falsehood becomes the order of the day.
Some of the old prophets
in the Bible include Moses, Samuel, Elijah, and Elisha amongst others. Prophet
T B Joshua belongs to this class of God's topmost prophets under unbiased
assessment based on a spiritual level, ability to train other prophets, performance
and appropriateness of prophecies, miracles and teaching, adherence to the
scripture, etc. In addition, he belongs to the class of the earlier apostles
such as Peter, John, Paul and others. If prophet T B Joshua had a message for
you he would make all efforts to get it to you including phone calls and
transportation at his cost. Therefore T B Joshua should be seen as someone who
came forward to speak God’s world to this rebellious generation and at a time
when religion had become commercialized and major means of livelihood and when
the developed world had turned away from God to self and science. T B Joshua
pushed his case to the last minutes of his life, telling people that God is
Nature and hence God is Science. The media have been trying to convince people
that freedom is found in doing what they want, whereas T B Joshua said that
true freedom is obtained only by submission to Christ’s Lordship and making the
Bible a standard for life. In no distant future, just as the disciples of Jesus
were called Christians first in Antioch, (Acts 11:12), TB Joshua followers will
be known also as Christians in the order of the first Apostles.
The public may also need
to know that this pastor TB Joshua also faced many persecutions and trials.
When his messages were put down from airing on government TV he created his
own. When his prophecies were criticized he stayed calm. When he was given a
national award by the government of Ya’Adua, which would have lured him to
attend a public occasion, he sent his wife. He was a very careful man who
depended on the leading of God’s spirit to direct his steps. The prophet never
stopped praying for people using every method at his disposal. He introduced
Emmanuel.TV, Anointing Water, Distance Not a Barrier to the Move of God, and
turned a slum in Ikotun Egbe a local area in Lagos into a beautiful praying
ground for an international audience that could become a major pilgrim place.
He was a different man of God in every area because he remained original,
focused and obedient to the Word of God. Whereas he was gentle and humble he
was also equally equipped to be a consuming fire as any other prophet of God.
God, Himself is a consuming fire. The Jesus that came at first was gentle but
at His second coming He will be a Judge and a Consuming Fire. If the spirit of
God that was in T B Joshua is hovering around it must be to consume because at
that level evil can no longer be overlooked.
The public didn’t take
advantage of the prophet’s free offer of healing. Many of those who did are still
amongst us speaking out their testimonies. The classical healing and
deliverance cases that came before T B Joshua at a single meeting are more than
what a National University Teaching Hospital of any country could have handled
a whole year. Cases that defiled healing from any other quarters came to T B
Joshua and got positive results which cannot be denied the prophet. The World is going to miss this genius called
prophet T B, Joshua, even as we expect that many of his disciples will spring
up with their mentor’s type of evangelism very soon.
Prophet T B JOSHUA lives
on.
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