South African Snake Pastor Arrested

 South African Preacher Arrested After Feeding Congregation Snakes

By Sarah Berger 

A preacher in South Africa is to appear in court Monday on animal cruelty charges after feeding is congregation live snakes. Pictured, a member of the Talba family holds snakes in Giza, 20 km (13 miles) south of Cairo, Jan. 10, 2007. Reuters

A preacher in South Africa who allegedly ordered his congregation to consume live snakes has been arrested on animal cruelty charges, RDM News Wire reported. Controversy ensued after pictures of the congregation eating snakes were posted on the church's Facebook page last week.

The controversial preacher, referred to as a prophet, is Penuel Mnguni of End Times Disciples Ministries in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria. Mnguni told his congregation the snakes would taste like chocolate. He is to appear in the Ga-Rankuwa Magistrate’s Court Monday to face animal cruelty charges brought by the Society for Prevention of Cruelty Against Animals.

“We are conducting a preliminary inquiry with an intention of opening a criminal case against him (Mnguni),” said Mishack Matlou‚ a society inspector, Nehanda Radio reported. “What we saw in the pictures is cruel. Imagine being eaten alive! This has to stop.”

Mnguni was the subject of controversy in the past when he made his followers eat hair and rags, claiming God has the power to make a person eat anything and that his teachings were based on scripture. He said he learned his extreme teachings from the Rev. Lesego Daniel of Rabboni Ministries, who forced his congregation to eat grass and drink petrol.

“So far I have faced a lot of persecution from people and pastors around me," Mnguni said, South Africa Latest News reported. "They say what I do is not from God but when they come to the service and listen to me preach they think otherwise."

The End of Time Disciples Ministries has about 100 to 150 followers and is inside a small tent in a poor area. South Africa Latest News said followers come from as far as Limpopo and Botswana for Mgnuni’s “impartations.”

The Forbidden fruit

THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT
Few years back, I remember my sweet sister telling me not to eat the forbidden fruit. I was still single then so you can understand what she was trying to say. While I was still single, i eventually ate the forbidden fruit. Not that i actually wanted to disobey her but the lust for the foridden fruit was simply irresistible. I found the forbidden fruit to be sweet, spicy and satisfactory. I ended up eating the forbidden fruit quite a number of time.
We recall the story of Adam and Eve in the early days. God warned them against eating a certain fruit in the garden. They were forbidden from eating such fruit but what happened? They ate the fruit and they lost their place in the beautiful garden where they didnt have to toil or struggle to survive. 
What exactly is the fruit and what is its consequence? The fruit is the fruit from the tree of the knowledge. Eating the fruit makes man to think like the gods. We need at this juncture to note that this tree wasnt the only forbidden tree in the garden. There was also the tree of life that if man had eaten, man would have had total victory over death. Giving man equality with God. If man cannot die, then what is the difference between man and God?
The consequence of man eating the forbidden fruit is both negative and positive. While some Christian scholars may want to argue that eating the forbidden fruit can never have a positive consequence. I put it to you that the fruit man ate is responsible solely for how we think today. It is responsible for our creativity and all our reactions on earth. Man has been able to do a lot of exploit because of the forbidden fruit. Talk about the inventions, the innovations, the desire to always create something new, the desire to create solutions to certain problem, that is exactly how they think in heaven but of course God knows the best. He knew that despite the positive things that might come from eating from the tree of knowledge, man would use the same knowledge to commit a lot of atrocities. Man would think unbelievably, wild and certainly inhuman.
Some times we imagine why man would do certain things but what else do you expect from him after eating the forbidden fruit? I will highlight few of the aftermath of the consequences of the forbidden fruit.
1. Sometimes we ask why on earth should a man(women) think of sleeping with animals. Don't blame him, he has eaten the forbidden fruit.
2. Where did the thought of man sleeping with man (gay) and woman sleeping with fellow woman(lesbianism) come from. Don't think too far, he has eaten the forbidden fruit.
3. The American just passed a bill to legalize gay and lesbian marriages, and Christians around the world are frowning, don't blame them, it is as a result of the forbidden fruit.
4. Today, some young guys spend millions of dollar to purchase doll as marriage partner, we ask why on earth should someone be thinking about getting married to a doll? You cant blame him, man has eaten the forbidden fruit.

5. Some people now eat the flesh of fellow human being today. They said it tastes better. Man has eaten the forbidden fruit.
6. A lady at 22 has five children for five men. Pathetic? Don't forget that man has eaten the forbidden fruit.
7. Some people now have baby factory where they manufacture babies and sell to their respective clients either in piece or in pieces. This is as a result of the forbidden fruit.
I can continue to mention all day. The evil of man is certainly numerous but i need to draw a line here that what follows the eating of the forbidden fruit is curse. Even as we continue to exploit the knowledge that came from the forbidden fruit, as we think about creating a new life different to what God has established, committing atrocities and wickedness, we are endangering the wrath of God and might suffer from His course. Let us examine our way, the forbidden fruit might be sweet but its curse is extremely bitter. Be warned

MY LORD, MY HUSBAND

MY LORD, MY HUSBAND

It is pathetic to note that most of our wives, even those who are self-acclaimed spiritual mothers hardly call their husbands, lords. They prefer to call their husbands pet names like Honey, My dear, Sweetie, My love, etc.

In this piece, I will be addressing why wives should see their husbands as their lords and the roles and responsibilities of both the wives and the husbands. I will also be supporting my points with a biblical text, a text quite known to most people but only few give importance to it.

The foundation of the earth is based on principles, rules and regulations. In all ramifications of life, there are laid down rules guiding our dispensations and the supreme rule is the rule that comes from above, the principle of God. No rule or person is above this rule. Doing things the ‘God’s way’ should therefore be the clarion call of every believer.

Our God is a jealous God. He is a God that will never share His glory with anyone. He will never compare Himself to anyone and an act of doing so by anyone shall be declared as a blasphemy.

Few months ago during the presidential election campaign, a certain man called Okupe compared former president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to Jesus Christ. It backfired. However, he never intended to blaspheme Christ, but to compare His burden on earth with that of the assumed burden of Goodluck, his boss. He got what he deserved. He was publicly criticized and condemned. I personally think he was lucky to have compared Jonathan to Jesus Christ and his life was never under threat because the church and the Christians are ‘peace makers’ and ‘gentle people’.  If he had compared Jonathan to the prophet of one of the other religion, it might have cost him his life!

Christ laid the foundation of marriage and accorded lordship to the husbands. He personally refers to the husbands as the Christ over their wives just as Jesus is Christ over the church. He gave the duties of both the wives and the husbands. He personally made the comparison; He shared His glory with the husbands therefore, let no one murmur!

Ephesians 5:22-25- “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the lord. For the husband is the HEAD of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and He is the savior of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the WIVES be unto their own husbands in EVERYTHING. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loves the church, and gave himself for it.”

GOLDEN RULES

1.       The wives are the ones to be submissive {respectful}.

2.       Wives must respect their husbands the same way they respect Jesus Christ.

3.       The husbands are the ones given the mandate to love.

4.       Husbands must be ready to give {sacrifice} their lives to for their wives if need be.

5.       Husbands are the head of the wives.

6.       The wives are to be submissive to their husbands in everything, not even in some things!

7.       The wives are the bodies that need to be decorated and taken care of.

WARNING:

A.      A man should not marry a woman he respects {he is submissive to}.

B.      A woman should not marry a man she loves.

WHY?...... TO BE CONTINUED.

Same Sex Marriage? America cannot be wrong!

AMERICA CANNOT BE WRONG BY OLADEJO OLORI FUNMI

The influence of America and her culture on the church in Nigeria is monumental. Although Christianity did not come from America, America was as gentile as Nigeria as far as the salvation program of God is concerned, people here have come to see America as the standard of Christianity. Any minister of God who travels to America to preach, even though to less than two dozen people, leaving the hundreds of brethren in his congregation behind is considered a big and successful minister of God.
Here we have adopted the American style of worship. Our musical instruments are American; our lyrics are American. Our ministers dress American; some even mimic popular American preachers sounding miserable in the process.
When our brothers, (Americana pastors) came back from America, they began to tell us that it no longer matter for our sisters to cover their heads in prayer meetings. Everybody (except some few "conservatives") said yes; America cannot be wrong. Later they told us that since women wear trousers to church in America, it no longer matter for sisters here to do same. Everybody complied; America cannot be wrong! Recently, men come to church with braided hair while women come with "skin" haircut, many are in church with tattoo and men wear ear rings. We all sing, jump and shout together in church in the American way; these things do not matter because that is what they do in America and America cannot be wrong!
Now American men are marrying themselves in church and their women are doing the same. Soon American churches will be full of couples who are Mr Wood and Mr Wood married legally in the church and Mrs and Mrs Stones married together. America is always right! That is the position here!
Soon in Nigeria, shall also see Olu and Ade, two brothers in the church as couple, one in the choir and the other an usher?
I hope America will be wrong for once and something will really matter to the church in Nigeria!
Soon it will no longer matter in America for Mr Coal to marry his dog and for Miss Bush to marry her horse. Then, I hope it will matter to the church in Nigeria!
Brethren, for how long will the culture of America be the culture of the church? The "name it and claim it" faith movement came from America; also, the capitalistic Christianity where wealth is used to measure God's approval. Where is America leading the churches in our land?
Our bishops and reverends, I hope that after your next trip to America, homosexuality will still be a sin; I hope it will still matter?
We do not need any prophet again to know that the trumpet of the home call will sound any moment from now. How ready are you?
I hope the matter of eternity still matter to you?
Shalom!

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Militants Abduct more Christians in Syria

Militants Abduct more Christians in Syria
Source:CbnBEIRUT - Islamic State militants have seized more Christians from their homes in northeastern Syria.
     Fears are mounting over the fate of the abducted Christians, with hundreds taken captive, according to human rights activists.
     The abductions began Monday, when militants attacked a cluster of villages, sending thousands of people fleeing to safer areas.
     About 200 Assyrians and other Christians gathered in a church near Beirut Thursday in solidarity with the victims in Syria and Iraq. One man said, "We are praying for them and we are fasting." Others cried openly.
     Assyrian refugee Thaera Jamil asked, "What was their sin?" She lamented that "there is no one listening to the voice of the Christians."

ISIS Has Begun Executing Captured Christians, According to Report

Unconfirmed report warns of mass execution of "infidels" tomorrow.

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Assyrian Church in Beirut

Islamic State militants have reportedly executed 15 Christians who have been captured in villages in northeastern Syria since Monday.

A priest who has been feeding reports to Christian aid agencies around the world, including Aleteia partner Aid to the Church in Need, said today that a Christian Assyrian lawyer in the city of Hassakah told him that about 15 young Assyrians "are martyred. Many of them were fighting to defend and protect the villages and families."

Archimandrite Emanuel Youkhana of CAPNI, the Christian Aid Program in Iraq, said that in the Christian village of Tel Hormizd: 14 fighters, two of whom were women, were killed. One of the women may have been beheaded, he said. Another 13 fighters from different villages were captured.

Altogether, including civilians, as many as 350 Christians from the area have been captured, he reported—many more than the 70 originally reported. Their fate is unknown, and there is much speculation. He said that an unconfirmed report said that a mosque in the Arab Sunni village of Bab Alfaraj was calling people to attend a "mass killing of infidels in the mountain of Abdul Aziz on Friday."

Archimandrite Youkhana reported that none of the residents of one Christian village that the Islamic State attacked,  Tel Shamiram, were able to escape. This village had 51 families, with an average of five persons per family, he said.

"There was fire exchange between the fighters protecting the village and IS terrorist group," the priest wrote. "It is believed there are casualties and many are Assyrians are been killed in the village. No news on the destiny of the families. Most probably they are been captured and transported to Mount Abdul Aziz, a nearby mount/region controlled by IS."

Other villages attacked included Tel Jazira, Tel Gouran, Tel Feytha, and Qabir Shamiya.

He said that 800 families displaced from their villages have taken refuge in Hassakah and 175 in Qamishli. Those numbers are expected to eventually total 1200 families. The only ones left are fighters in Tel Tamar who are protecting the town together with Kurdish fighters. "They hope the region to be liberated and families return," he said.

According to a report by Catholic News Agency, civilians fleeing to the Turkish border have been stranded as they are not allowed to cross.

“There are 200 families who were running away and trying to escape to Turkey, but the border is closed for Syrians. No Syrian can cross into Turkey,” Archbishop Jacques Behnan Hindo told CNA Feb. 26.

Archbishop Hindo oversees the Syrian Archdiocese of Hassake, which is located in the Al-Hasakah region of Syria. The region sits between the country’s borders with both Turkey and Iraq.

The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday evening “strongly condemned” this week's abductions and demanded the immediate release of others taken by the Islamic State and similar groups. The United States on Wednesday condemned the attacks on Assyrian Christian villages, which it said included the burning of homes and churches and abduction of women, children and the elderly.

Reuters news agency has this background on the situation:
 

The region is strategically important to Islamic State as one of the bridges between land it controls in Syria and Iraq. In recent weeks it has lost ground in northeast Syria after being pushed out of the Kurdish town of Kobani in January by Kurdish forces backed by U.S.-led airstrikes.

These same strikes, however, have been unable to stop its advance into smaller villages.

Heavy fighting continued through Wednesday night between Syrian Kurdish militants and Islamic State, Kurdish officials and [Syrian Observatory for Human Rights] said.

"ISIS now controls 10 Christian villages," observatory head Rami Abdulrahman said by phone, using an acronym for Islamic State. "They have taken the people they kidnapped away from the villages and into their territory," he said.

'I expect Christians in Iraq will be gone'- CNN REPORTER

'I expect Christians in Iraq will be gone'

Still, such migrant workers are in the shadows and under threat of deportation, and more, if caught praying openly or communally. They haven't been in the Middle East long, and there's no guarantee any one of them will stay long, either.

That's in contrast to other Christian communities that have been in the Middle East for centuries.

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They're people like Assyrians, whose ancestors were part a cradle of modern civilization. They began converting to Christianity within years of Jesus' death and have kept the faith despite the growth of Islam in their homeland and, most shockingly, the Assyrian genocide of the 1910s and early 1920s.

Now those Assyrians in Iraq and Syria are under fire again.

Last August, ISIS militants overran Qaraqosh, a historic Assyrian community of about 50,000 people and Iraq's largest Christian city. And in recent days, the terrorist group stormed Assyrian villages in northeastern Syria, taking some 262 people hostage, said Assyrian Human Rights Network founder Osama Edward. Others fled for their lives, including about 600 taking refuge in St. Mary's Cathedral in al-Hasakah, Syria.

"We pray, we pray all the time," Romel David, who has 12 relatives thought to be among those kidnapped, told CNN affiliate KCRA. "What we've heard is it was like a sea of black uniforms marching through all the villages, burning down the churches, desecrating the crosses and wreaking havoc."

ISIS has targeted other Christians in the region as well, like those in Mosul, Iraq, who were told last July to convert to Islam, pay a fine or face "death by sword." Curry calls ISIS' actions against Christians "genocide." Yet it shouldn't obscure the fact that, even before this group's emergence, the number of Iraqi Christians was on the decline.

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Some of that's due to a weak Iraqi central government and general instability. Christians might also be hurt by their historic affiliation with the Baath Party, once led by deposed Saddam Hussein (with the Syrian branch led by embattled President Bashar al-Assad). Another factor is the rise of militias and politicians who make Islam more central to their missions, to the exclusion of others.

Curry, from Open Doors USA, said Iraq had about 1.5 million Christians just over a decade ago. That number is now under 150,000, something that he attributes to family influences, government actions, communal pressure and targeted violence from militant groups.

"In 10 years from now," Jenkins added, "I expect Christians in Iraq will be gone."

Amid killings and kidnappings, can Christianity survive in the Middle East?

By Greg Botelho, CNN

Updated 1951 GMT (0351 HKT) February 27, 2015

Christians light candles last month in the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus.

Story highlights

• Christianity has long roots in the Middle East, starting with the birth of Jesus
• Expert: Their numbers have fallen in recent decades and should continue to fall
• There are exceptions, like migrant workers flooding Gulf states like Saudi Arabia

(CNN)Christianity was born in Bethlehem, in what's now the West Bank. It took root among people like the Assyrians, who flourished in ancient Mesopotamia. It soon found a home in places like modern-day Turkey.

In other words, Christianity traces its past squarely to the Middle East.

But do Christians have a future there?

Recent headlines provide ample evidence for skepticism. It's hard to ignore the depravity of ISIS beheading 21 Egyptian Christians on a beach in Libya. Nor can one shake off stories of women and children among the 262 Christians captured by ISIS in Syria, one of several horrors faced by Christians in that nation and neighboring Iraq.

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They're not just feeling the heat from Islamic extremists: Just this week, police in Jerusalem said they suspected radical right-wing Israelis were to blame for defacing a Greek Orthodox seminary in Jerusalem with slurs maligning Jesus.

All this strain, all this chaos has shrunk the percentage of the Middle East's once-sizable population of openly practicing Christians.

While no one is saying what's happening -- especially given the savagery of ISIS -- isn't alarming, that doesn't make it surprising. The Middle East has changed a lot since the first millennium A.D. for Christians. It has also changed a lot over the past century: The percentage of Christians relative to the Mideast's overall population has gone from 13.6% in 1910 to 4.2% in 2010, and it's expected to drop even further, according to religious demographers Todd Johnson and Gina Zurlo.

"What we're seeing right now," said Baylor University historical theologian Philip Jenkins, "is the latest phase of something that has been going for 100 years, pretty much."

Pastor Insists Jonathan Bribed CAN With 7 Billion Naira

Despite a denial by the national leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) that it did not receive a seven billion Naira bribe from President Goodluck Jonathan, the pastor who broke the story last week insists the association was bribed.

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by SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORK 

Despite a denial by the national leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) that it did not receive a seven billion Naira bribe from President Goodluck Jonathan, the pastor who broke the story last week insists the association was bribed.

President Goodluck Jonathan and Ayo Oritsejafor in Israel in 2013 State House Photo And he says some people within the leadership have called him to confess that his story was true and that what happened was wrong.
Addressing a well-attended press conference in Kaduna on Tuesday, Pastor Kallamu Musa Dikwa, who heads the Voice of Northern Christian Movement, declared that there were a lot of shenanigans in the present leadership of CAN, accusing it of betraying the vision of its founding fathers.
Dikwa reiterated that the CAN leadership received the funds on 21st of January, 2015, and gave N3 million to each of its state chapters.
In effect, the pastor is alleging that the CAN leadership distributed to its national membership a small fraction of what it received, keeping to itself well over N6 billion.
Of the response of the national leadership of CAN to his allegations, he told the journalists: “They even have denied me, and said I did not exist. That is why I came to you to confirm that what I said is true.”
He asserted that it was not the first time CAN was getting money like that, recalling 2013 when it got funds from the United States Nigerian group, CANAAN.
"They are our children, our Christians from Nigeria living in America,” Pastor Dikwa said.  “We call them CANAAN (Christian Association of Nigerian Americans). They gave $50,000 to the victims of Boko Haram. After that, the CAN leader invited three people from Maiduguri and two from Damaturu and gave them N100,000 each. The victims know how much they (CAN) collected. Many of the leaders (Yobe and Borno CAN) started calling me. They say what happened is wrong and we have to correct it. I have documents here to show you some of the things I have been saying.”
This also means that when the national leadership received the $50,000 from CANAAN, it kept most of it from the victims of Boko Haram for whom it was intended.
"It was the same way that it happened when Jonathan went to Kwara in January.  Someone there told me that CAN leadership was given money. I asked him if they called any newsmen. The man said they did not. I said, ok, let us wait. After some time, somebody called me. He said he has been giving his share. He said he has been given N3 million. He said each state was given N3 million. I called someone in the leadership of National CAN. He told me that it was a confirmed happening.”
Dikwa however vowed to protect that source with his life, as he will never disclose his name. 
"The states branches of CAN collected the money. But they don’t know how much it is, whether it is N6 or N7billion. I have sent text messages to the leadership of CAN telling them to repent or I will make it open. So that is why I have decided to let the world know. Some of the CAN leadership have called me and said what happened was wrong and that it must be corrected. I said yes, it can be done.”

DON'T SELL YOUR FUTURE

Our lives in danger for endorsing Buhari – Northern Christians forum

FROM NOAH EBIJE, KADUNA
A group of christians under the umbrella of Northern Chris­tian Leaders Eagle Eyes Forum (NCLEEF) has raised the alarm that the lives of its officials are under serious threat follow­ing their endorsement of the presidential candidate of All Progressives Con­gress (APC), General Mu­hammadu Buhari.
Addressing the press yes­terday, Chairman of the Fo­rum, Pastor Aminchi Habu said President Goodluck Jon­athan’s tenure in the past six years was a disappointment to Nigerians; particularly Christian community which he claimed gave the president the winning votes in the 2011 general elections.
Pastor Habu said it was based on this failing that the Christian Forum decided to dish President Jonathan and endorse General Buhari who they believe could rid the country of insecurity and un­derdevelopment.
However, speaking to Sat­urday Sun in a telephone chat over the allegation and claims of the Forum, the executive secretary, Christian Asso­ciation of Nigeria (CAN), Northern States and Abuja, Professor Daniel Babayi ad­vised members of the group, as men of God, to stay off politics.
“We are not expected to be partisan, CAN as an institu­tion is apolitical, CAN as an institution does not, as a poli­cy, identify with any political party or candidate. So CAN cannot endorse any person or party”, Babayi said.
But Pastor Habu insisted, “Our decision to endorse Bu­hari was informed by our pa­triotic commitment to build a free, fair and a secular society where the inheritance should be justice to all.
“After the endorsement, our members, especially the Chairman of this Forum have continued to receive threatening phone calls and text messages, labelling them a sell-out group who have abandoned a Christian candi­date in the person of President Goodluck Jonathan.
“We supported the present government in 2003, 2007 and 2011, however after critical analysis, the Forum decided to endorse General Muhammadu Buhari based on abysmal performance, the security challenges, outra­geous corruption in public places, coupled with econom­ic downturn.
“Our enemies accused us of collecting N500 million from General Buhari, this ac­cusation is not wrong, but a blatant lie from the pit of hell. We charge anybody with con­crete evidence of any money collected by anybody on be­half of the Forum to come forward with such evidence.
“The endorsement of Bu­hari was done publicly, and not secret like our accusers will do, yet segment of cor­rupt minds are employed to water down the good inten­tion of the Forum which is to build bridges and promote peaceful co-existence without our complex diversity.
“We shall not betray our trust as religious leaders for any monetary consideration. We shall do everything hu­manly possible within our calling to protect the interest of our image.
“We are therefore calling on the Christians not to be deceived by these religious bigots and shun sentiment by voting the right candidate in the forthcoming general elec­tion”.

BUHARI VS JONATHAN

Nigerians are afraid that Buhari might islamize the nation cos most Muslim leaders always practice their belief in every position they are just like the case of Sanusi. We should be more worried why Christian leaders don't practice Christianity when they attain that position. If Jonathan had practiced Christianity, he would have being the best president Nigeria ever had. In my own opinion, Christ virtues are the best available anywhere, anytime. It is the best for the growth and peace of any nation. Though, every thing in life has its own flaws, religion inclusive. But that is more reason why Christianity is not just a religion. One thing I will not accept is seeing one religious fanatics being fraudulent while the other is being violent. NIGERIA I CARE!

 

I WOULD HAVED SAVED GHANAIN PRESIDENT FROM DIEING-TB JOSHUA

Founder and General Overseer of the Synagogue Church, Prophet T.B. Joshua says in an unusual manner, God did not reveal the death of Ghana’s President, Professor John Evans Atta Mills, which occurred on Tuesday in Accra.
The renowned cleric in a mournful mood affirmed he would have intensified prayers to avert the sudden departure of the late President if he had received any revelation from God.
“The Ghanaian President was like a spiritual son to me so I could pray to God to avert the death, if I had received any revelation from him,” Prophet T.B. reportedly told reporters in Legos, Nigeria when ommenting on the death of President Mills.
On that score, he revealed President Mills and other senior government officials had visited his temple thrice this year to receive special prayers, but God never revealed his death to him in all the three instances.
“Of course, I knew he had been ill for some time now and he had come for special prayers concerning his health thrice this year, and I and my other ministers had prayed fervently for him. I was so hopeful he would recover his health completely, but it is sad and only God knows best why he should die now,” he asserted.
Against that backdrop, Prophet TB Joshua expressed profound shock over the death of Prof. Mills and urged Ghanaians to remain calm in this torrid period.
T.B. Joshua added: “Mills was a very committed person in the things of God and also very dedicated. Each time he was in church, you could see the fervor and hunger and thirst for God written all over his countenance. He was a very dear son to me and I was his spiritual godfather.
“I know many persons will be saying how come my fervent prayers did not save his life. All I can answer such persons is, why God allowed Stephen in the New Testament Bible to be stoned to death. Why did God not save the life of Stephen, an innocent man, as he was being stoned, dying?
The answer is simply this: sometimes God allows things to happen for unknown reasons, and indeed reasons no man can explain, that is why God is Almighty Sovereign God; who indeed can question Him, who can challenge God?
 “When we humanity eventually see God in the glorious city of Heaven, then, can we have answers to all our questions. For now, he can only get a 99 percent answer but never a 100 per cent answer”.

YES! TO GAY- CHURCH OF SCOTLAND

Church of Scotland vote for gay ministers revealed

A final decision on gay minsters will be taken at the General Assembly in May

Details of the vote in favour of the ordination of gay ministers by Church of Scotland presbyteries have been revealed by the Kirk.

It announced last month that a majority had now voted in favour of change.
The Kirk has now said 32 of the 45 presbyteries backed proposals to allow them to appoint a minister who is in a civil partnership.
A final decision on the issue will be taken at General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in Edinburgh in May.
A total of 1,391 presbytery members voted in favour and 1,153 against, resulting in a 54.6% to 45.4% split.
Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Stirling presbyteries all backed the proposals, while Falkirk, Kirkcaldy and Inverness were among those that voted against.
In West Lothian, 28 voted in favour of gay ministers and 29 against, while all 19 individual members of the Lewis Presbytery voted against the proposal.
The ordaining of ministers in same-sex relationships has divided the Church since traditionalist members attempted to block the appointment of Rev Scott Rennie, who is gay, in Aberdeen in 2009.
The General Assembly voted in support of Mr Rennie but introduced an interim ban on ordaining other gay ministers until a special commission had studied the matter.
The ban was lifted in 2011 when commissioners agreed to consider the subject again.
A number of church members have left over the issue.