4.0 THE MYSTERIOUS MAN OF BIAKPAN
In the Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ
In the Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ
Now and forever more. Amen
4.1 WHO IS LEADER OLUMBA OLUMBA OBU?
When you are discussing spiritual matters you must mandatorily exercise the greatest caution. And when such discussions involve a disciplined but fast growing spiritual Christian Organisation like the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star with Leader Olumba Olumba Obu as the Sole Spiritual Head, you have to pray hard for the Holy Spirit to be your guide and in fact to do the writing and discussion. The need for caution is because you can not successfully evaluate, discuss or write about spiritual matters with the wisdom of the world.
The purpose of this testimony is not to write the biography of Leader Olumba Olumba Obu. It is not to write the history and origin of Leader Olumba Olumba Obu and the source of his power. To seek to know the origin of Leader Olumba Olumba Obu and the source of his power can be likened to spending time seeking the origin of God and the source of God's power. In deciding to write this testimony there is one objective in mind, it is to let the world know the manifestations of the power, honour and glory of God in Leader Olumba Olumba Obu and in the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. After reading the testimonies of people who have passed from death to life in the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, you will form your own impression about who or what Leader Olumba Olumba Obu is. Since the death of our Lord Jesus Christ, no other religious leader is known to have attracted the kind of attention, love, hatred, envy, jealousy, controversy, respect, abuse, insult, admiration and influence as the Sole Spiritual Head of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, Leader Olumba Olumba Obu
4.2 HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
The controversy surrounding the identity of Leader Olumba Olumba Obu and the source of his power is a repeat of what actually happened in the days of our Lord Jesus Christ while He was on ministry work on earth. People violently disputed that Jesus Christ was the Son of God. After all, they knew his earthly fatherJoseph was the carpenter. They knew his mother, Mary. They knew his brothers James and John. How come that out of the children of Joseph one of them emerged as the Son of God? All the miracles our Lord Jesus Christ did never influenced them into conceding that He was a man of God let alone acknowledge him as the Son of God. Instead, the source of power of Jesus Christ was attributed to demon, Beelzebub. About Christ's identity, the controversy reached a stage that He himself had to pose some questions to his disciples on His identity. Yet those who today claim to be christians and who condemn people who lived with Christ but did not believe in Him, His teachings and his works, are themselves making the same mistake as people at that time did in their attitude now to the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star and Leader Olumba Olumba Obu, In the days of our Lord Jesus Christ, people at that time said He was blaspheming for proclaiming Himself and allowing Himself to be proclaimed as the Son of God. Our Lord Jesus Christ was born as a human being and through a woman. Yet he was and still is the Son of God and is God. Some people who claim to believe in Christ are often very violently opposed to any assertion that God can dwell in our midst in human form. It is curious that such people believe that Christ, who was born of a woman and lived physically with men like any other human being was and is the Son of God and therefore God and yet they refuse violently and blindly to accept the truth that if God sent His Son (in the form of man) to dwell in the midst of men physically, God can himself come down and dwell in the midst of men also physically. It is also surprising to observe that many people who claim to be Christians or claim to be the children of God would be the first to deny the manifestation of the power of God through miracles. It is frustrating to see them attribute the power of God to demons and beelzebub. It is sad that such people believe that the devil can perform miracles and supernatural feats and deny God the power which rightly belongs to Him. If people believe that Satan can come from Africa, why should they not believe that God can also come into the world and dwell with men physically in the form of an African and Nigerian for that matter? Leader Olumba Olumba Obu uses no candle to pray. He uses no incense or any of these materials used in the religions of the world. He uses only spoken words and all His words come to manifestation without fail. It is not only that he uses His spoken word to achieve all His objectives, He also empowers all His believers world wide. He tells them to ask for anything they want God to do for them in His Holy name Leader Olumba Olumba Obu. With this name His believers heal all manner of illnesses, raise the dead and perform all types of miracles world wide. Some of the believers have never met Him physically but believe in Him and have been baptised by another believer into the kingdom Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. He gives them His holy symbols O O O as the holy symbol of the Almighty God. Testimonies abound in great numbers world wide that all spirits on all planes of manifest recognize and submit to His holy name and to His holy symbols. The identity of Leader Olumba Olumba Obu can be found in the testimonies given by people who have been privileged to benefit from his-abundant love and blessings. "Go and I have solved all your problems. All is well." And with such proclamation, complex problems have been solved as if they never happened. Leader Olumba Olumba Obu has not travelled out of Calabar, capital of Cross River State for more than 40 years. Even in Calabar, he does not go beyond 26 Mbukpa Road and 34 Ambo Street few meters away from each other. Stationed in one place, Leader Olumba Olumba Obu has directed the spiritual activities of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star throughout its many branches, in Nigeria and the world.
4.3 LEADER OLUMBA OLUMBA MANIFESTS IN DIVERSE REALMS, TOWNS AND CITIES
Leader Olumba Olumba Obu appears to his members in various places, in various cities and states at the same time and delivers messages through visions, dreams and sometimes in another human form. Dr. Aggarwal, otherwise known as Dr. Bazie, an Indian mystic, first heard of Leader Olumba Olumba Obu through his (Dr. Aggarwal's) spiritual associate Professor Assasu Inyang Ibom. Dr Aggarwal later heard much more about Leader Olumba Olumba Obu during his period of meditation in the spiritual world. The more he advanced in the spiritual world the stronger the influence of the religious leader in Nigeria in the spiritual world. He sent Leader Olumba Olumba Obu presents to acknowledge the spiritual supremacy of the Leader over all creation.
4.4 PASTOR ASUQUO EKANEM SENT TO INDIA
In 1976 the Leader sent me Pastor Asuquo Ekanem, the Leader's Representative to all overseas Territories, to Dr. Aggarwal to baptize him and bless him because Dr. Aggarwal requested for blessing from Him, Leader Olumba Olumba Obu. I arrived India, blessed Dr. Aggarwal, as the Holy Father directed but did not baptize him because he (Dr. Aggarval) asked for baptism to be postponed for awhile. He promised to come physically to Nigeria and pay homage to Leader Olumba Obu physically also as he does in spirit. After one year of postponements, the Indian made up his mind to undertake the journey to Nigeria in 1977. Some things prompted the Indian to undertake the journey. First, at the age of 115 years, the Indian is one of the most powerful spiritualists in India and is widely known throughout the world. He is said to have about one million followers throughout the world. Secondly, he is reported to have advanced far deep into the spiritual world. The Indian, could not therefore have imagined that spiritual power with the kind of influence and significance he noticed in the spiritual world and the name he heard there associated with the power, could have come from Africa and Nigeria in particular. Lastly, whenever he tried to meditate to perceive this power, the Indian was always overwhelmed with balls of very bright lights. He therefore decided to trace this power. Because of his old age, he (Dr. Aggarwal) requested me to come back to India and escort him to Leader Olumba Obu at Calabar. I was very busy on other things, so asked Dr. Aggarwal to try and travel using one of his own aides in India and I will wait at Lagos airport to receive him. Getting to the Murtala Mohammed airport, Lagos, the African who boarded the plane with Dr. Aggarwal in India disembarked and went his way as stated by Dr. Aggarwal himself in his testimony. He was met at the airport by me and members of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, in Lagos. He spent that night at Lagos and travelled to Calabar with me the following morning. Dr Aggarwal gives the following testimony:
4.5 DR. AGGARWAL'S TESTIMONY
In May 1976, Pastor Asuquo Ekanem came to see me in India. He brought a book with him. He said that Leader Olumba Olumba Obu had sent to me. We had some discussion and I showed interest in the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. The same year, after some months, Dr. P.N. Bassey came to me with one Lieutenant Nsa of the Nigerian High Commission, New Delhi. He also had talks with me and gave me an invitation to visit the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star at Calabar, Nigeria. I then started writing to the Father and received His replies. I had made up my mind to visit the Headquarters. I wondered what sort of a man I was going to meet. To have an idea of His personality. I tried to visualize the Father's vision during my meditation. All that I could see was a ball of bright light radiating rays of even brighter, peace and love which increased my curiosity. I then resolved to visit Calabar at the earliest possible moment. As luck would have it, my programme was postponed and it was only in the last week of September that I finally decided to make a trip. Dr. P.N. Bassey had kindly sent me an air ticket for travelling by Air India. When I emplaned at Bombay, I was feeling very lonely and homesick. Suddenly, I found a man sitting by my side talking and speaking words of comfort. When I finally met the Father on the morning of October, 10 1977, at Calabar, I was astonished to see that the man talking to me in the plane was very much Leader Olumba Olumba Obu." After recognising that incident as one of the mysteries and manifestations of the power of Leader Olumba Olumba Obu, the Indian settled down to his one month's visit to Nigeria. One day, he was in the hall at evening worship conducted by Leader Olumba Olumba Obu. He suddenly started shouting, got up and moved swiftly to me who was sitting near him. He wanted to be taken to his room at the guest house and looked in very great distress. I got some brethren to help take him back to his room and prayer was offered him because he was in a state of shock. When he recovered from the state he was in after the prayers, Dr. Bazie confided in me that he wanted to know what was inside the altar where the Holy Father Leader Olumba Obu preaches from. He therefore projected spiritually out of his body to inspect the altar spiritually. He found himself in a furnace of fire as soon as he left his body. This is why he screamed for help. The altar, he said is a complete furnace of the type of fire he has never witnessed or heard of, and surrounded by very intense light that nearly blinded him. In the early morning, after the Father had finished the devotional service and worship session, I took Dr Bazie to Him. He blessed Dr. Bazie and taught him more about who he Dr. Bazie was with. He told him that he should believe the Father and His identity without the need for the investigation. Dr. Bazie confided in me that he could not withstand the bright lights which nearly blinded him when Leader Olumba Olumba Obu was preaching. He expressed surprise that Brotherhood of the Cross and Star members are able to look at the Father without any fear or panic and said if they had recognised His powers they would have appreciated what the Father was doing for them.
4.6 WHO IS OLUMBA OLUMBA OBU?
Who is Olumba Olumba Obu? This is the question currently being asked by a cross section of people who have heard about this mysterious man of Biakpan. It is the question being asked by leaders and members of other religious organisations and scholars doing research about Christian religion. It is a question being asked by students of the Holy Bible who have witnessed the era of Leader Olumba Olumba Obu being a repeat performance of the era of our Lord Jesus Christ. As the questions are asked by people of different orientations so also are varied answers provided. To members of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, Leader Olumba Olumba Obu is God in human form. He is Jesus Christ incarnate again. To critics of the Brotherhood, the miracles of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star are too extraordinary to be identified with Christianity or even with God. To others, no answer is attempted. Rather, they keep on asking who is Olumba Olumba Obu? Where does he derive his powers? One thing is certain. All admit that the, power and miracles of Leader Olumba Olumba Obu are extraordinary. For this reason, opinions differ as to the source of this power. In the same way as those who had acclaimed Jesus Christ as the Son of God were hated and persecuted in the olden days, those who acclaim Olumba Olumba Obu as God in human form are denounced by other religious organisations as blasphemers. They have been hated and persecuted too. In the same way as Jesus Christ was accused of using the power of Beelzebub to perform his miracles, critics of Leader Olumba Olumba Obu claim that He is also using powers of Beelzebulb to perform His miracles. Infact they say, he is Beelzebub itself To the extent that scores of journalists who have undertaken fact finding missions to 34 Ambo Street and 26 Mbukpa Road, Calabar had to be conducted into all nooks and corners of all his rooms to enable them to see that there are no shrines. Some even after such thorough conducting tour still come out to be confused about the source of power of Leader Olumba Olumba Obu. The Brotherhood of the Cross and Star which came into physical existence only a little more than four decades ago with few members has today grown into a powerful organisation with over one million members with branches in the United Kingdom, United States of America, Cameroon, Ghana, Liberia and many other countries.
4.7 THE REASON OF RAPID GROWTH IN BROTHERHOOD OF THE CROSS AND STAR
One of the causes of the rapid growth is the fact that when people run to the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star with all kinds of problems including some problems which defied other solutions, these problems are solved in a way and manner which look too simple to be true. People are simply baptised into the fold. When they meet Leader Olumba Olumba Obu at 34 Ambo Street, He prays for them. Thereafter Leader Olumba Olumba Obu will proclaim, "Go, I have solved all your problems. All is well." Some people simply find it difficult to believe that hard problems can be solved by simply being told "go your problems are solved." Most of them would leave 34 Ambo Street with a sad countenance because they had expected to go back with some thing they can use at home regularly, to solve one problem or prevent another problem. However, when they return home and these problems are solved whether sickness or office problem or any other kind of problem, the jubilation of such people would often induce them to go about telling testimonies about what God has done for them in the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. New people hearing such testimonies will in turn take their problems to the Brotherhood and when these problems are also solved by Leader Olumba Olumba Obu in such a simplistic manner of words of mouth "go your problems are solved," such people will also go and spread their stories and the fame of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star grows. The second point is the phenomenum of visions and prophecies. Branches of the Brotherhood are full of visioners who receive spiritual messages from the Holy Father and inform members of events about to happen to them or members of their family or about the country or the interpretation of events which had passed and which caused this or that problem. Nothing more would gladden the heart of any human being if he could accurately be told of what is about to happen to him or his family. These are the factors which have made members of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star fanatics. Leader Olumba Olumba Obu has repeatedly told the Press that he is not God but Olumbab Olumba Obu yet members of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star because of the continued manifestations of miracles and power of God in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star have not relented in their faith in Leader Olumba Olumba Obu. They affectionately call Him Father, Sole Spiritual Head, King of kings, Lord of lords and adamantly proclaim Him God incarnate.

4.8 THE MYSTERIOUS STREAM
There is a slow moving stream in Biakpan, the birth place of Leader Olumba Olumba Obu. This stream is reputed to solve all kinds of problems for those who bathe in it at a certain time after the Father must have blessed the stream spiritually. People who have taken bath in this stream have confessed to its curative powers. People wishing to receive spiritual benefits from this stream usually arrive Biakpan a night before. They have to spend the night in Biakpan. At about 5 a.m., they have to kneel down, confess their sins to God, pray for forgiveness and then place their problems before God. They then move quietly down to the stream, strip and dip themself fully in the water three times, g et out of the stream, walk with reverence until they get back to the guest house of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star a few metres from the stream. Bathing in the stream for spiritual benefits and curative powers are usually undertaken before dawn. Members believe that is when the water is blessed by the Holy Father spiritually. People have travelled from various parts of the world to bathe in this water and to take it away for drinking whenever one is sick or has problems. Leader Olumba Olumba Obu who hails from Biakpan left the town many years ago and has not visited it again. He is based in Calabar and moves between 26 Mbukpa and 34 Ambo street where he conducts prayers. The mystery of the Biakpan water is an enigma to all. The villagers drink from the same stream and it has no miraculous effect on them, but when the believers in Leader Olumba Olumba Obu bathe in it, or drink it, they are healed of one infirmity or the other.
4.9 HIS ATTRIBUTES
Leader Olumba Olumba Obu is an enigma to all. His powers, His teachings, and His life of love and righteousness are greater than has ever been witnessed on this earth before His incarnation on earth. He does everything through the power of the spoken word. He uses no candle, no incense. He only uses the spoken word. The Holy Father says that God is now manifest in human form in our midst. He is God the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, the perfect Trinity manifest in one unity. God has no real name known to man. God's name at anytime He manifests to man is associated with His mission. Every name has its mission or every mission of God on earth has a name attached to the mission and with that name, mankind shall invoke on themselves all the virtues and power of God associated with that mission. God has a new name in this present incarnation. The Name , Jesus Christ, borne by God in the last incarnation, was associated with His mission of Salvation and Redemption for mankind. All who accept and believe in Jesus Christ and His redeeming blood and practise His word receive Salvation. God comes now to teach mankind the spiritual virtues of God. He comes to empower mankind to practise love and obey God's injunctions, so He comes to transform man. He comes to judge man and finally set up the kingdom of God on earth for such transformed mankind. We have seen Leader Olumba Olumba Obu and He fits this new mission of God on earth.
4.10 WE ARE ALL PRIESTS, BUT CALLED DIFFERENTLY.
We are all priest of God. A new High Priest, God Himself, in Leader Olumba Olumba Obu is on the spiritual throne over mankind and all creation. We are his children and his priests. The Order of priesthood now bestowed on us is the highest Order ever bestowed on man by God. We are christs of God and minister under Him who has now anointed us with His Holy Spirit. Leader Olumba Olumba Obu says that Brotherhood of the Cross and Star is not a church, denomination or a cult. It is not a religion. All religions are in it. All governments are in it. All economies are in it. Brotherhood of the Cross and Star is God's kingdom now manifest on earth. It is Christ's universal spiritual school of practical Christianity. Almighty God is the Founder, the Teacher, the only Leader and Head of this kingdom eternally. Leader Olumba Olumba Obu is the only, total and complete embodiment of all the attributes and virtues of God Himself now incarnate on earth. It is in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star that all what God intended for all religions, government, economies, and all mankind shall manifest wholly in them to the glory of God. He says that we are all priests in this kingdom and are called and shall be called by God accordingly into His ministries in the three main spheres of human activities on earth. These are the spheres of religion, politics and economics. We can carry out other assignments but are mostly operational in the assigned sphere as God directs in our life. Religion involves the relationship between God and man. Man must love God with all his heart and soul and be totally devoted to and serve and worship Him alone. In this kingdom we believe in only one God Almighty, our Creator and Father. We give Him all our devoted love and serve Him only. We look up to Him in faith and hope for our eventual salvation and eternal life. Priests in this group generally minister full time in the temple throughout their life time on earth. They keep the word of God alive in the hearts of men. They are the highest ministry. Our religion is therefore devoted love with all our heart and soul to the Almighty God. Politics involves the relationship between man and man. It defines how man shall organise and administer their daily interactions and relationship to ensure that they love themselves as brethren and be one another's keeper living in love, peace and harmony always. Priests in this group largely minister in the governance, administrations and social order of this world. They shall ensure that the word of God is wholly and obediently applied in the governance and social order of the world. Economics involves the relationship between man and the materials things around him. He must organise these things and use them in the manner that they are developed for the benefit of all and that they are equitably distributed to all. "To everyman according to his need and from every man according to his ability" must be the guiding principle. (Acts. 4:35; Acts 11:29) Priests in this group minister mostly in the economies of the world. They shall ensure that the economy is managed and operated to produce goods and services which are then distributed equitably as stipulated by the word of God. In all the three spheres of human activities, (Religion, Politics, Economics) man is at the centre of them all on earth. The different forms in which they manifest and are practised on earth are the human concepts and understanding by those who practise them and they contain errors that are naturally present in imperfect knowledge of truth. The Supernatural Teacher, the Holy Spirit is here to teach and guide man into truth so that man shall understand and practise religion, politics and economics as revealed above. It is only in such wholesome and godly understanding and practice that the will of God shall be fulfilled in those activities to the glory of God. Each person in this kingdom is called into one or more of those spheres and we are priests of God ministering in those departments to the glory of God. We will give account to God for our assigned ministry. The administration and way of life in this kingdom is therefore based completely on Leader Olumba Olumba Obu's teaching. There is only one law that permeates all three spheres of activities. It is the law of love.
4.11 THE WORD OF GOD INCARNATE
All the major religions of this earth are aware of the Word of God and call Him by different names. The great religions from God have all received the revelation that the Word of God, previously incarnate as our Lord Jesus Christ, will incarnate again on earth before the close of this age. The age has closed. We know He shall have a new name when He incarnates again. (Revelation 3:12) We know what the new name shall be. He shall be called : The Word of God, King of kings , Lord of lords (Revelation 19:11-16). We know what His attributes shall be. He shall exhibit Faithfulness and Truth (Revelation 19 11 -13) He shall be born of woman and born a Ruler. (Revelation 12:1-5) In this age and in this kingdom we have received revelation of His incarnation on earth and also received revelation of His identity. The people of Biakpan received the message of His impending incarnation in their midst. Prophetess Otom and Prophet Enun Mkpa received the revelation and informed the Biakpan people many years before this incarnation took place. They identified the family where the incarnation will occur. So we know His earth name in this incarnation. He shall be called Olumba Olumba Obu. (Leader Olumba Olumba Obu: I am that I am, subsection 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.10, 7.11). Apostle Dominic Agu also received revelation of the nativity and the meaning of His earth name, Olumba Olumba Obu. He informed the world and confirmed what the new name means. It means: The Word of God, King of kings, Lord of Lords, (Jehovah God in human form, He is Olumba Olumba Obu; subsections 6.2,6.3). He revealed the nativity of God in this incarnation. He is born in Biakpan, Biase in Nigeria.(Jehovah God in human form: Subsection 5.2, 5.3) All these revelations and prophecies have been fulfilled in Leader Olumba Olumba Obu and in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. We are witnesses of these events. In Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, the belief is that God has incarnated before in Adam as a house for God on earth. He later incarnated in our Lord Jesus Christ as the Son of God to save mankind and redeem man from sin and pave way for God the Holy Spirit, the Teacher and Comforter to incarnate. The complete Trinity of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is now incarnate on the earth to teach mankind, and lead man to the utter knowledge of truth (God), to sanctify and transform man from sinfulness to righteousness and to set up the kingdom of God on earth, judge mankind and rule eternally with the elects of God. This incarnation is Leader Olumba Olumba Obu.
4.12 WHO IS THIS MYSTERIOUS MAN OF BIAKPAN?
Leader Olumba Olumba Obu has preached a gospel and in that gospel had said that He is not God but Olumba Olumba Obu. The people who dispute His deity have used this and challenged Him why he has not rebuked and stopped His fellowers from further proclaiming His deity. He answered and said to them: "My children call me God and you want me to stop them. You call me demon, Satan, Beelzebub, have I stopped you? I am to that person what the person says and believes I am". Also in His another sermon (My Real self, My origin, My Mission) He says that Leader Olumba Olumba Obu is not God but is the clothing that God Almighty incarnate now on earth wears on earth. God cannot incarnate naked on earth. He must put on some clothing. That clothing or cover that God Almighty wears on earth now is Olumba Olumba Obu, but the Being inside that clothing is the Trinity God. He does all the work manifest in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star and in the whole universe. A similar situation occurred in the relationship between our Lord Jesus and the Word of God, the Son of God, when the Redeemer of man incarnated on earth. It is important we know where we are, and what is expected of us. The era of Abraham has passed with its absolute spiritual requirement for circumcision to be of God. The era of Prophet Moses has passed with its requirement for blood sacrifice. The era of John the Baptist required water baptism, the baptism of repentance for remittance of sins. It is still there, but is now superceded by the era of our Lord Jesus Christ which provided the final blood sacrifice for the redemption of man. It replaced baptism with water for repentance of sin with the baptism of the Holy Spirit. It still remains. The disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ came with the baptism for the forgiveness of sin in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit to pave way for the Holy Spirit. It still remains, for man must have salvation from the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ to enter the kingdom of God. We are now in the final era . It is the era of the rulership of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit over all activities on earth. It is the era when God the Father must be worshipped by all. It is the era of the practice of love and righteousness. God is now incarnate on earth to transform man to practice love and righteousness in his life so that he can be a christ of God and inherit the kingdom of God. Who is Leader Olumba Olumba Obu? You decide for yourself as your spirit guides you. I was baptised physically into Brotherhood of the Cross and Star in 1970. I have seen Him. I have heard Him on very many occasions physically and spiritually. I have heard testimonies of others. I have mine. I have received His calling, His love, His grace, His blessing and His salvation through His love and mercy. I believe in Him. He is the greatest spiritual Teacher this world has ever seen. He comes and manifests the greatest spiritual power ever witnessed on earth. He manifests the deepest love for mankind ever seen from a Being on this earth. He is love, righteousness and power incarnate. I am an eye witness to these things. He is God the Trinity incarnate among us. May His love and His peace abide with us and all mankind now and evermore. Amen.
THANK YOU FATHER
Bishop Asuquo Ekanem