Demonic Preachers And Their Criminal Tendencies

By Rev. Br Ken Chigozie Alamezie, BSS
kcgalamezie@gmail.com

Judging by goings-on, deceitful, pathetic and tear-jerking, going on in many churches and places of worship around the world today, somewhat it appears to be true the saying that religion is the opium of the people. But the Nigeria’s case here appears to be the most devastating, in the sense that gullible and vulnerable sheep of the fold easily swallow hook, line, and sinker anything sold them in the gospel market; thus they have become food for barefaced, conscienceless, unconverted, and daredevil shepherds, indeed tricksters plying their nefarious trade with Bible and microphone, two very powerful weapons, and in the most inconspicuous but highly treacherous manner. The ongoing trend of deliberate slothfulness to Scripture reading and studying among Christian faithful, given to gratuitous cleave to hedonism, mad pursuit of ephemeral acquisition overriding people’s hearts now, we can tell is the sole reason why worshippers easily fall prey to miscreants in clerical attires dotting the Nigerian scope.

To many Nigerian Christians, the feeling is that once someone is handling the microphone in church and places of worship, dressed in well-tailored suit or other religious attires and is using Scriptures to backup his overtly overreaching actions, though sinister and reprehensible, and claims, whatever garbage he or she is selling to the people, such a one is called of God and infallible; hence the continued empowerment—via sundry means--cum proliferation of jackals and kangaroos parading as ”men or women of God” in today’s Body of Christ. I am not in the least surprised at the sudden and continued multiplication of these terrible characters presenting the Christian faith in a bad light. Jesus predicted thousands of years ago of their advent, even their scandalous modus operandi now visible to all.

Nigeria, as we have noted severally in this column in our previous writings, is a country where anything goes; where impunity reigns as king, and mediocrity celebrated with fanfare; where capriciousness has replaced responsibility and as such is held, both in the public and religious space, as the mark of a reasoning man, and stupidity reckoned as humility; where demons reign and control power at the Nation’s seat of power while being worshiped as God in many places of worship, not minding the names these ministries, prayer grounds or churches bear. Sadly nothing, I mean absolutely nothing is impossible to do with impunity in this country, the reason all forms of criminality thrives, and injustice festers like cancer. The most despicable persons receive accolades from members of the public, who are ready to defend their shady heroes even with the last breath in their lungs. Seeing the respect and warmth reception given to blatant criminals, amorphous minds, decadent characters, ritualists, and certificate forgers in the society, is it any wonder that virtually everyone you meet on the streets today doesn’t give a damn about morality and accountability? Is this not the reason why thieves, I mean bloody thieves and unrepentant witches and wizards preaching today in many quarters the gospels according to themselves, receive acceptance and wild endorsement from the masses?

Bible preachers—I purposely choose not to call them ‘gospel’ preachers here since they scarcely bring anything goodnews with them---are usually considered to be without sin and largely infallible human beings who only carry God's message, even when it’s obvious very many of these shady characters carry their own messages/Lucifer’s sermons, doctrine of demons often spiced with all three forms of concupiscence advised against in Scripture , which emphasis is on giving of one’s money, whether by seed sowing or tithe payment, in order to qualify to receive the so-called blessings. I wonder who is fooling who!

Wicked and conscienceless are many Nigerian pastors, and that’s no matter their religious attire and church denomination. Like Vulture, they do not spare even the carcasses of the impoverished ones among their followers, as they would collect tithes and offerings even from ailing, impecunious widows, pensioners, financially struggling students, poverty-ridden workers on minimum wage and even the unemployed. Shame to these unmerciful servants, a breed of demoniacs they are! It’s only demons that steal, as they do, without mercy, kill and eventually destroy. What in the world has Christianity turned into Presently, virtually no one cares anymore about anything. People now don’t see evil, deception as what they truly are, the reason these preachers with satanic tendencies grow from strength to strength.
With their large bowels, hell-like in nature, as they serve their Babylonian Mistress, Mammon, they do not care that many of the people they collect tithes and offerings from could not afford ‘three square meals in a day, let alone hospital bills or tuition fees for their wards. Just recently, I got a call from a lady whose child was dying in her presence due to accumulated sickness left untreated because she has no money to take the little lad to hospital, as she has not been paid since December 2016 in her place of work. Narrating her story, she said the most troubling part was that her pastor has been on her neck, calling and asking her why she was yet to pay her tithes for those three months. And when the lady told the ‘thief’ her ordeal, instead of lending her a helping hand, he suggested she should go and borrow and pay up her tithes, claiming it was because she has not paid up that calamities are befalling her household. What a wolf this kind is! What a wickedness from a supposed ‘man of God?! If you are reading this and you know, your pastor or whoever is shepherding the flock where you fellowship behaves in like manner, I urge you to leave the damned place and the fellow and find yourself somewhere healthy for spiritual growth and nourishment.

It is his kind, as are abundant today, that uses the same tithes and offerings collected from their wretched and ‘buhari’-affected members to buy expensive clothes, jewelries, automobiles or even private jets for themselves and family, travelling around the world establishing private businesses, buying costly properties, with their kids studying and visiting the best hospitals for medicare abroad. Just their Gucci suits and shoes, Armani watches, you may try taking note of this, cost more than the annual salary of a decent grade twelve-government worker, university don or the annual profit an honest executive. I know some warped minds reading this piece may think this writer is simply being jealous of prospering pastors. But I’d rather be jealous of a dying Rabbit than being jealous of impenitent thieves marked for destruction.

Don’t get it twisted; but it is people with this kind of nauseating mindset that do not see anything wrong in their so-called pastor(s) gifting their mistresses posh cars, expensive mansions, huge amount of the scarce dollar, which could be payment for unholy sex and recruitment for such. And even when their so-called Pastor/Reverend(s) are caught red-handed, like the one caught recently and was tied hands at the back and beaten to a pulp by sane folks, they would come out shamelessly to defend him or her with excuses that he/she is still human and as such is subject to fall, or that he/she is being set up by ‘non existing’ foes in the political circle. Hogwash!

I feel it is time to tell our Bible preachers, and I don’t mind the garment they put on or the office and title attached to their name, to preach first to themselves and repent accordingly, as the Kingdom of God, as was preached by Jesus Christ and his apostles, is devoid of practices of injustice of any kind, impurity and criminality. I feel it’s time for the righteous among Bible preachers to rise to the challenge of telling people that tithe payment in this dispensation of grace is not mandatory and given the dispensation in which we operate God is not and will not curse anyone who doesn’t pay his or her tithes. Nowhere in the NT are we told that the Apostles themselves who handed this faith to us ever preached, practiced or forced tithe payment on believers. Rather in Acts 15:23-29 at the first council meeting in Jerusalem, we see what discussions and resolutions were made as to what is expected of every true believer in Christ Jesus, And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia:
Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment: It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth. For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well.
Enough of this nonsense in the Body of Christ!. God Bless You!