It is written:

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die; because you did not give him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand. Nevertheless, if you warn the righteous man that the righteous should not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning; also, you will have delivered your soul.” Ezekiel 3:20-21

By which we know that some Church leaders, in their presumptuousness, discountenanced the word of the Lord concerning the Nigerian Post-Colonial State, this Word, the negation of their positioning for power and authority within the State.

Opening the window to the wind of pestilence; already circling the Nations, waiting for whom to devour, the Nations and Peoples, now reaping the whirlwind.

Despite which those who trust and know the Lord their God remain unshaken, being confident in this very thing, that the Lord God of Peace, who “commanded light to shine out of darkness, has shone in their hearts”, the necessity for the negation and not the preservation of the Post-Colonial State.

As when the Apostle Paul described himself as being “all things to all men”; not opportunistically, by not making himself the center of the mission entrusted to him by our Lord Jesus Christ, but recognizing the unity in the diversities, by which we know these as the acknowledgement of the Nations, of classes, and making himself available such that the justice and liberty in Jesus Christ might the achieved by all.

Against which the church leaders of today must compare themselves, not representing their persons as the alternative to acknowledging the Nations.

Substituting their own form of unity for a Unity in Christ, which was and is founded on the recognition and manifestation of the diversity; hiding behind the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, as the excuse for not challenging the reality of the current world, content with tagging along, uninterested in changing the context of their reality.

By which the Scripture is disregarded; Jesus Christ having stated that no one knows the time, except the Father in Heaven.
For, indeed no one can know the time.

It is written:
For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater, So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. Isaiah 55:10-11

By which we know that the end time is not nigh, if there is one soul expecting the Promise of God to manifest, either individually or communally. For no one knows all the promises of God to any or all the Peoples of the earth, except the maker of the promise: The Lord God.

Daniel, with his exploits for God, even knowing the content of the king’s dream, told to no one; and who, at the end, while inquiring from God about the meaning of a vision, was told to go “his way till the end; for you shall rest and will arise to your inheritance at the end of the days.”

As it is with us today; church leaders trying to envision what and how the end will be or is, preparing for a post-pandemic period, ready to follow the trajectory of the “world” outside the context of their own world to wit: the particularity of the African world within the global order demanding the essential task of regenerating the Nations in Africa, already overburdened with the heavy weight of the Post-Colonial State.

It is written:
And Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”
Philip said to him, “Come and see.” John 1 :46

The invitation to experience the manifestation of the divine in the human, the expression of the Divinity of Christ in His humanity.

By which we know that the Nations, the Peoples, as creation of God must manifest this character; the deviation from which creates a crisis of identity, a state of alienation from God and therefore continuous underdevelopment which any number of worship centers or numbers of congregation or motivational speeches cannot redeem.

Redemption, the return to the existentialism as created by God; establishing their sovereign will in their governance, where, the Yoruba Nation has a tradition and Global reputation of religious tolerance, a globally-recognized part of Yoruba National culture, an example of societal harmony.

Now under threat of neutralization through the instrumentality of the Nigerian Post-Colonial State and reinforced by the denial of Nationhood and the Nationality being currently experienced and preached by the church.

Such that a similar question should now be posed: “can anything good come out of the Nigerian post-colonial State?”

With a similar response: “Come and see.”

We are here in the Post-Colonial State.

But what do we see?

A sustained withering away of our National Existentialism; the continuous corruption of our social values through the direct intervention of the Nigerian Post-Colonial State and the brazenness of enforcing a homogeneity on all the Peoples of Nigeria under Fulani-Kanuri Hegemony.

A direct opposite of the Yoruba People as a creation of God; by which their preference for governance and social order must take precedence over any form of contrived “unity”.

By which the Church leaders rely on a partial rendering of the Scripture, admitting that all authority derives from God, but omitting the crucial part as to the use of such an authority for the good of those under authority.

By which we know that a negation of our God-given existentialism; the homogenization of the Peoples of Nigeria, is not for our good.

Thereby rendering obedience to such an authority null.

This obedience, couched as “fairness”, to manifest in a demand for a “Christian” as the President of the Nigerian Post-Colonial State, and which, in its warped reasoning, sought to play the West (Yoruba) against the East(Igbo and the Eastern minorities), both clamoring for a “Christian” candidate, creating room for Hegemonic maneuvers.

And this battle is not of God.

For the Nigerian Post-Colonial State is not a creation of God but of man.

Not even an African initiative, but the result of a global economic and political competition designed and operated as a means of entrenching our humanity in continuous subservience.

Turning us into a caricature, deviating from God’s nature, and aspiring to the expectation of another being, partially succeeding in suppressing our Languages and Nations, losing our God-given capacity and capability for self-expression in global affairs, onlookers in the evolving history of humanity.

Anchored by the apparatus of the Post-Colonial State, found in its bureaucracy, its security agencies, the judiciary, and the legislature, all combined to ensure the continuity of the Post-Colonial State, under the authority and power vested in its executive, the Presidency.

Which is what a “Christian” President is to uphold, and despite having had “Christians” in such positions, twice, with no discernible transformation of our existential reality.

A “Christian” Presidency of the Nigerian Post-Colonial State without the Redemption of the Nations substitutes the “self” for God, the sole reason for the previous occupiers serving as puppets for the Hegemons; having deliberately or ignorantly disallowed the Redemption of the Nations from being fulfilled; manipulated at will and plastering the wall of the Nigerian Post-Colonial State with untempered mortar.

History is about to repeat itself; the tragedy of previous “Christians” as president becoming the farce of the expectations of the present; the pursuit of which will be tempting God.

That is, when all is said and done; the question of underdevelopment reinforced by the re-energized Nation States of the western hemisphere; the Nigerian National Question flowing from the current reality of Hegemonic power plays, disregarding the existentialism of other Peoples and Nations making up the Nigerian geo-political space, overwhelming Yoruba Existentialism.

Will the “Christian” President then recoil and cry “Fulanization” or “Islamization” just as the predecessors are now doing?

Or

will these “Christian” leaders obey God and join hands with the Yoruba Nation to pursue the Referendum towards Yoruba Self-Determination?

It is written:
Surely, when the wall has fallen, will it not be said to you, ‘Where is the mortar with which you plastered it?’” Ezekiel 13:12


He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Wale Odeku

Hmmm

Amen..

Mixing politics with Religion.

SMH!

Mods move this to religious section.