"Africans do not celebrate great men. They rather take delight in
celebrating mediocre men. Africans happily destroy great men and if possible
look for their mistakes to nail them. So sad that they destroyed Prophet T.B.
Joshua on a daily basis. Finally he has left them and what he was doing, they
can't do! Evil continent!"- Prophet (Dr.) Emmanuel Badu Kobi, Glorious
Wave Church International, Accra, Ghana, 10th June, 2021.
Prophet
Emmanuel Kobi has spoken the truth and he has spoken for millions. I commend
his courage.
Sadly Pastor
Kris Okotie of Household of God Church International has taken another course
and confirmed Kobi's concerns about the nature of the African.
Whilst the
rest of the world is busy mourning Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua of the Synagogue
of All Nations (SCOAN) and celebrating his outstanding ministry and legacy, he
has chosen to slander him in the most grievous manner even whilst his body
still remains in the mortuary!
He has said
the most uncharitable and unprintable things about the Prophet which I refuse
to repeat here.
I am always
reluctant to join issues publicly with men and women of God but Okotie's
insults on my friend and brother, who is no longer here to defend himself, are
so grave and damaging that they cannot go unanswered.
My response
to him is as follows.
I have always
had so much respect and affection for you right from the days that we were at
the Nigerian Law School in 1985.
Your life and
ministry, including the beautiful songs you used to sing, fascinated and
inspired me.
However with
your foul-mouthed and vicious assault and utterly inexplicable, irresponsible
and unprovoked attack on the person of TB Joshua, all that has gone with the
wind. Today I have nothing but contempt, scorn and disdain for you and, simply
put, I loathe and despise you.
To borrow our
President's words, I will now talk to you in the language that you can
understand.
You mock my
brother in death yet you appear to have forgotten that death comes to us all.
It is only a matter of time. Evidently you have no respect for yourself and no
fear of the Living God whom you claim to serve.
Even if you
never liked TB Joshua or you had reason to suspect that his source of power was
questionable, couldn't you have just keep your mouth shut and let those of us
that believed in him, loved him and respected him mourn him in peace?
You seek to vilify
and shame the memory of a humble, gentle, decent and kind soul who was a
million times the man and servant of God that you are or could ever be and who has
just gone to meet his maker.
You insult
the memory of a man who was a great inspiration and source of strength to
millions of God-fearing and decent people from all over the world and you have
sought to dishonour and discredit his ministry, his memory, his family, his
friends and his legacy. God will surely punish you for this.
Worse of all
is the fact that you are a coward who, as is characteristic of all cowards,
waited until he died and was no longer around to defend himself, before you
opened your dirty little mouth to insult him.
You call him
the wizard of Endor but if anybody is a wizard it is you. If anyone is a
magician it is you. If anyone is a dark force and wicked soul that indulges in
necromancy and devil worship, it is you. If anyone is a follower of satan, it
is you. If anyone is a fake Pastor and false Prophet, it is you.
The more you
attempt to dishonour a man like TB Joshua and bring sorrow to his wife,
children, admirers, followers and Church
members all over the world the more God will cause you to suffer failure and
sorrow and to shed tears.
There are
millions of us that love this great son of the South West and indeed Nigeria
even though we are not even members of his Church. We admire him and stand by
him even in death. You are not fit to lick his shoes or to clean his posterior.
I advise you
to respect yourself and respect the office and calling which you claim to have.
I counsel you to set aside your hate-filled and envy-fuelled obsession with
this great man and leave him alone.
You are meant
to be a man of God who prays for and helps to heal the wounds of those who have
suffered the loss of loved ones.
You are not
meant to pour salt on those wounds and inflict even more pain by damning the
memory and destroying the legacy of those they have lost.
You are also
meant to pray for the forgiveness of the sins of the departed and call on the
Lord to grant them eternal peace.
You are not
meant to ask God to punish them and ask for them to burn in hell.
What you have
done and the words you have used against TB Joshua is a great embarrassment to
the Church, to every Christian and Muslim cleric and leader in this county and
to every true believer.
It is a
disgrace. It is an outrage. It is madness. It is evidence of a diseased mind,
deep psychosis and chronic delusions of grandeur and I urge you to have your
head examined.
Even the
greatest sinner, once repented, deserves God's love, mercy and forgiveness in
death. That is what the glorious Gospel teaches us and that is why our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ, shed His blood on the cross.
None of us is
free of sin and we all fall short of the glory of God. You are not perfect and
neither am I. We must all carry our crosses and burdens through this oftentimes
difficult journey of life and more often than not we all face extraordinary
challenges and make inexcusable mistakes.
That is what
makes us human and ultimately only God has the right to judge us. Only He sees
our hearts. Only He knows our deepest secrets.
TB Joshua,
though a tried and tested man of God who shook the entire world with his
remarkable ministry and who was undoubtedly one of God's 'end-time' Generals,
never claimed that he was a Saint or that he was infallible and neither can
you, me or anyone else.
We must all
repent and make our peace with our God before our life's journey ends and we
must do so in the fear of our Lord and in all humility.
TB Joshua has
run his race and finished his course and I have no doubt that he has been
welcomed into paradise by the hosts of Heaven and our God.
I have no
doubt that he would have received a massive commendation for the great work
that he did for the Lord and the Church whilst on earth.
I have no
doubt that the Lord would have thanked him for the millions of souls that he
brought into the Kingdom and led to Christ in his 40 years of ministry.
I have no
doubt that he now resides in glory with our Resurrected Lord in the peace,
comfort, blessing and joy of Heaven.
The question
for people like you who seek to diminish, destroy and judge him even in death
is whether you will ever get to Heaven as well or whether, when your work on
earth is done, you will end up in hell where every son and daughter of
perdition, every unrepentant servant of satan and every hater and wicked soul
is destined to go.
Permit me to
end with an insightful contribution from Mr. Igho David which you would do well
to read over and over again. He said,
"Even
the demonic Jezebeel described the great Jehu, who God had anointed to be King
of Israel, as a murderer and all sorts of other names. Yet in reality she was
rather the murderer, thief, liar, evil and possessed one and she was the one
that was controlled by the demons that her father had dedicated her to and
served. Jezebeel was damn eloquent when she spoke about Jehu just like Pastor
Chris Okotie was when he spoke against Prophet TB Joshua even at his death. The
spirit of Jezebeel doesn't just mean a loose, lying, wicked, hate-filled,
manipulative and murderous woman with heavy make-up on her face and long
painted nails. The spirit of Jezebeel can possess and control even Pastors that
are called by God".
I concur.
Finally hear
this. Before you mount your accursed pulpit, unleash your venomous tongue, cry
your caustic cry and lift your poisonous pen to launch yet another vicious and
unprovoked attack against an innocent and kind soul who did nothing but make
all those around him happy and who has just passed away, I urge you to meditate
on the following scriptures.
The Bible
says, "Let he who is free of sin cast the first stone".
It says
"touch not my anointed and do my Prophets no harm".
It says
"who is he that lays a charge before God's elect? It is Christ that
justifies!"
For a
celebrated man of God like you to neglect these admonitions is a grave error
which may result in unimaginable consequences for you and what remains of your
tattered ministry.
Christianity
is about being humane, kind, charitable, gentle, long-suffering and humble.
It is about
having empathy for the weak, the suffering, the vulnerable and those that are
in pain.
It is about
loving the unlovable and forgiving those that have hurt and offended you.
It is about
kindness, peace, long-suffering and the ability and desire to bring joy to all
those around you.
It is about celebrating
and encouraging the success of others that are leaders and members of the Body
of Christ and it is about protecting the mother Church from ridicule, shame,
contempt and destruction from those who hate our Lord and who have contempt for
our faith.
These are
virtues and qualities that Prophet T.B. Joshua espoused and exhibited
throughout his life.
Any so-called
man or woman of God who fails to appreciate these virtues, who refuses to
acknowledge and practice them and who goes out of his or her way to destroy the
reputation, name and Ministry of his or her fellow clerics or, worse still,
that of one of God's 'end-time' Generals, is nothing is unworthy of being
called a servant of God and is nothing but scum.
Such a
creature is an enemy within, an accuser of the brethren, an agent of Beelzebub,
a lying snake, a self-absorbed nincompoop and a ravenous and savage beast.
May God
deliver you and may you find peace.
