Rev. Owusu Bempah, Doom Prophecy, and the Problem of Superstition

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COSMOS 11 years ago

WHAT SURPRISES ME IS THE WAY GHANAIANS CAN SINK SO LOW REGARDLESS OF THEIR EDUCATION FOR SUCH A SCHOOL DROP OUT TO BAMBOZLE MOST OF THEM AT THIS 21 CENTURY,PSYCHOLOGICALLY THIS TRICK IS EVEN VERY CHILDISH BECAUSE MY 10YRS SON ...
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WHAT SURPRISES ME IS THE WAY GHANAIANS CAN SINK SO LOW REGARDLESS OF THEIR EDUCATION FOR SUCH A SCHOOL DROP OUT TO BAMBOZLE MOST OF THEM AT THIS 21 CENTURY,PSYCHOLOGICALLY THIS TRICK IS EVEN VERY CHILDISH BECAUSE MY 10YRS SON UNDERSTAND 4 IS EITHER 2PLUS 2 OR 3PLUS1 IN ANY WAY THIS GUY STILL WIN THE FOOLISH MASSES WHO WILL COME NEXT YEAR TROOP TO HIS CHURCH EITHER BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT DIED IN WHICH CASE BEMPAH WINS AND IF HE DOES NOT DIE HE STILL WINS BECAUSE HIS PRAYERS TO SAVE THE PRESIDENT WAS ANSWERED,WAKE UP PEOPLE .
NYAME BA 11 years ago

KWAME, THIS IS A FANTASTIC PIECE,I LOVE IT.

KWAME, THIS IS A FANTASTIC PIECE,I LOVE IT.
Good citizen 11 years ago

Kwame fantastic,far better than these tribalistic articles on this platform, I wish I had your contact

Kwame fantastic,far better than these tribalistic articles on this platform, I wish I had your contact
Yaw-USA 11 years ago

I must confess, this wonderful article made me shed tears. it is not tears of joy but of sorrow because this is a rude awakening, a reality check. I also watched a video on ghanacelebrities.com in fact, i couldn't control my ...
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I must confess, this wonderful article made me shed tears. it is not tears of joy but of sorrow because this is a rude awakening, a reality check. I also watched a video on ghanacelebrities.com in fact, i couldn't control my tears. my heart bleeds for Africa. Kwame Bidi may God richly bless you with more wisdom.
Ken 11 years ago

A wonderful article.

A wonderful article.
The Patriot 11 years ago

Pieces of fine thinking like yours, Kwame, is what is intelligence. I also entreat you to not vanish, melt or disappear from the face of the Ghanaian political arena. You are indeed one of the men posterity needs for leadersh ...
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Pieces of fine thinking like yours, Kwame, is what is intelligence. I also entreat you to not vanish, melt or disappear from the face of the Ghanaian political arena. You are indeed one of the men posterity needs for leadership. Well done, Kwame for such fine writing.
KOFI NUA 11 years ago

RECENTLY THERE WERE TWINS THAT WE JOINED AT BIRTH. THE DOCTORS HAD THE DIFFICULT JOB OF SEPERATING THEM. I DID NOT SEE ANY PROPHET OR MAN OF GOD COME FORWARD TO PERFORM A MIRACLE. ALL OF THEM WERE HIDING. EVEN THE SO-CALLED F ...
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RECENTLY THERE WERE TWINS THAT WE JOINED AT BIRTH. THE DOCTORS HAD THE DIFFICULT JOB OF SEPERATING THEM. I DID NOT SEE ANY PROPHET OR MAN OF GOD COME FORWARD TO PERFORM A MIRACLE. ALL OF THEM WERE HIDING. EVEN THE SO-CALLED FATHER OF MIRACLES TB JOSHUA WAS MISSING IN ACTION. HE COULD NOT PERFORM ANY MIRACLE. THEY COULD NOT MIRACULOUSLY SEPERATE THE TWINS.

THE TRUTH IS THAT ALL THESE PROPHETS AND MIRACLE WORKERS ARE LIARS. THEY ARE CHARLATANS. WHEN THE REAL MEDICAL PROBLEM ARISES, THEY RUN AWAY. THEY CANNOT PERFORM ALL THESE MIRACLES WE SEE ON TV. IT IS KNOWN THAT SOME OF THESE MEN OF GOD PAY PEOPLE TO PRETENT TO BE SICK PEOPLE. THAT IS THE MIRACLE WE SES THEM PERFORM ON TV.

THAT IS WHY WHEN IT COMES TO REALITY, WHEN PRESIDENT MILLS HAVE CANCER, WHEN THE BABIES ARE JOINED AT BIRTH, THE SO-CALLED ROPHETS PERFORM NOTHING, THEY FAIL.
THIER MIRACLES ARE ONLY STAGED ON TV TO FOOL PEOPLE. TAKE THEM TO THE KORLE-BU CHILDRENS WARD AND THEY WOULD GIVE YOU EXCUSES.

GOD'S MIRACLES ARE WONDROUS- MOSES DIVIDED THE RED SEA, JESUS HEALED A LEPER, JESUS CALMED A STORM AT SEA, DANIEL SURVIVED A LIONS' DEN. HOW MANY OF THESE PROPHETS AND MEN OF GOD TODAY CAN DO ANY OF THESE? NONE! WHY? IF GOD DOES NOT CHANGE AND HE IS THE SAME WHY CANT THESE PROPHETS PERFORM ANY MIRACLES OF THESE ?

BECAUSE ALL OF THEM ARE LIARS AND FAKES. THEY ARE FULL OF RIDICULOUS EXCUSES. THEY ARE LIARS..THEY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF SICK AND DESPERATE PEOPLE. FROM AGYIN-ASARE, DUNCAN-MILLIAMS TO OTABIL, THERE ARE NO MIRACLE PERFORMERS. YES, THEY CAN PRAY VERY WELL. BUT TO TELL THE STORM TO CALM DOWN, TO HEAL A CHILD WITH MANGLED LEGS, TO HEAL LEPROSY OR TO FEED 500 WITH 5 LOAVES OF BREAD, FORGET IT, THEY CANNOT DO IT.

THEY CANNOT PERORM ANY MIRACLES.
Pumpuni 11 years ago

"Once we collectively believe it, we succumb our will to it, endowing it with the power to shape our reality."
Where does that power come from?
Is there another power that can nullify this first power?

"Once we collectively believe it, we succumb our will to it, endowing it with the power to shape our reality."
Where does that power come from?
Is there another power that can nullify this first power?
KOFI NUA 11 years ago

THERE ARE MORE PROPHETS IN GHANA AND NIGERIA THAN IN THE ENTIRE BIBLE. WHY? THERE ARE MORE PROPHETS IN GHANA THAN ALL OF CANADA, ISRAEL, GERMANY, ITALY AND BRITAIN.
USA HAS A POPULATION OF 350 MILLION PEOPLE, BUT THERE ARE F ...
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THERE ARE MORE PROPHETS IN GHANA AND NIGERIA THAN IN THE ENTIRE BIBLE. WHY? THERE ARE MORE PROPHETS IN GHANA THAN ALL OF CANADA, ISRAEL, GERMANY, ITALY AND BRITAIN.
USA HAS A POPULATION OF 350 MILLION PEOPLE, BUT THERE ARE FAR MORE PROPHETS IN GHANA THAN IN THE USA.

WE HAVE ALL THESE PROPHETS BUT WE ARE STILL A BEGGAR NATION. WE GO TO THE CHINESE AND JAPANESE ON OUR KNEES BEGGING FOR AID. THESE NATIONS DONT HAVE PROPHETS AND DONT PRAY AND FAST LIKE WE DO.

IT SEEMS EVERY JSS DROP-OUT BECOMES A PASTOR IN GHANA. IS IT BECAUSE IT IS THE EASIEST WAY TO MAKE MONEY? ARE THESE SO-CALLED PROPHETS IN THE MINISTRY FOR SALVATION OR FOR THE NICE CAR, NICE HOUSE AND PRETTY WIFE?

WHAT HAS ALL THESE PROPHESY AND PROPHETS DONE FOR GHANA? WE ARE STILL POOR AND SUFFERING. DO WE NEED THESE PROPHETS? NO WE DONT. ALL THE ADVANCED COUNTRIES DONT HAVE PROPHETS. YET THEY ARE DOING VERY WELL. THEIR STANDARD OF LIVING IS HIGHER, THEY ARE RICHER AND THEY LIVE LONGER.

THE PRAYING AND FASTING NATIONS ARE THE ONES BEGGING THE NON-PRAYERS FOR FOOD. THE REASON IS THAT WE DONT THINK, WE DONT FIND SOLUTIONS TO SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS. WE PRAY AND FAST. WE ARE LAZY.

STOP THE FOOLISHNESS, AFRICANS. STOP IT NOW!
NYARKO U.S. 11 years ago

WELL PUT TOGETHER ARTICLE .WELL SAID
MR. KWAME BIDI. I HOPE GHANAIANS WILL TAKE LITTLE TIME TO READ THIS BEAUTIFUL ARTICLE.

WELL PUT TOGETHER ARTICLE .WELL SAID
MR. KWAME BIDI. I HOPE GHANAIANS WILL TAKE LITTLE TIME TO READ THIS BEAUTIFUL ARTICLE.
ALPHONSO 11 years ago

IT'S PEOPLE LIKE YOU,BIDI WHO WOULD BELIEVE OWUSU BEMPAH SIMPLY BECAUSE IS AGAINST A PERSONALITY WHO IS A NDC MEMBER. IF HE HAD GIVEN THE SAME SO-CALLED PROPHECY AGAINST KUFFOUR WHILE IN POWER OR AKUFFO ADDO, THE SAME PEOPLE ...
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IT'S PEOPLE LIKE YOU,BIDI WHO WOULD BELIEVE OWUSU BEMPAH SIMPLY BECAUSE IS AGAINST A PERSONALITY WHO IS A NDC MEMBER. IF HE HAD GIVEN THE SAME SO-CALLED PROPHECY AGAINST KUFFOUR WHILE IN POWER OR AKUFFO ADDO, THE SAME PEOPLE IN THE NPP WHO ARE BELIEVING HIM NOW WOULD HAVE BRUSHED HIM ASIDE. AGAIN HIS SO-CALLED PROPHECY ABOUT MILLS & ALIU WAS PURELY BASED ON INTUITION & INFORMATION AROUND WHICH IS CALLED " PREDICTIVE PROPHECY " IN BIBLICAL THEOLOGY. THIS IS THE TECHNIQUE HE IS USING TO GAIN POPULARITY. HE IS FAKE. WHETHER HE IS A STUDENT OF DUNCAN WILLIAMS OR NOT IS NOT THE ISSUE. IT'S ALSO BECAUSE OF THE KIND OF BIAS YOU ARE SUBMITTING IN YOUR ARTICLE. IN THE SIGHT OF GOD, BEMPAH HAS NO VINDICATION & TRUST ME GOD WILL EXPOSE HIM NOT BEFORE LONG JUST AS HE HAS DONE TO OTABIL MENSA. ALL SUCH PEOPLE WILL RECEIVE THEIR DISGRACE & HUMILIATIATION.
olowa 11 years ago

Lovely piece of article. Hitting the hammer right on the nail. Ghanaians have 'onyame b3 y3' attitude'even when the solution to a problem is right before their very eyes.

Lovely piece of article. Hitting the hammer right on the nail. Ghanaians have 'onyame b3 y3' attitude'even when the solution to a problem is right before their very eyes.
Diprof 11 years ago

Kwame E. Bidi, let me first of all congratulate you for such a well-written article. The contents of your article depicts someone with a fine brain and it gives me hope that all is not yet lost with our nation and that there' ...
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Kwame E. Bidi, let me first of all congratulate you for such a well-written article. The contents of your article depicts someone with a fine brain and it gives me hope that all is not yet lost with our nation and that there're still some progressive thinkers among us.
Kakraba Cromwell 11 years ago

Well done Kwame Bidi
I just do not know what to add to this piece but just to say a simple "thank you"

Well done Kwame Bidi
I just do not know what to add to this piece but just to say a simple "thank you"
osei yaw 11 years ago

Owusu Bempah must be arrested for the the bible said God is not a God of confuseing

Owusu Bempah must be arrested for the the bible said God is not a God of confuseing
Simon D. Simon 11 years ago

In the US noboday can talk about the President's death and walk a free man. I urge the security officials of Ghana to arrest this doomsday lunatic immediately.

In the US noboday can talk about the President's death and walk a free man. I urge the security officials of Ghana to arrest this doomsday lunatic immediately.
Harrison Ocansey 11 years ago

I entreat every Ghanaian to read this article by Mr Bidi.He is defnitely the sum total of all Ghanaian politician put together.Kwame, you are smarter and brilliant than the combined brains of all NDC, NPP politicians past and ...
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I entreat every Ghanaian to read this article by Mr Bidi.He is defnitely the sum total of all Ghanaian politician put together.Kwame, you are smarter and brilliant than the combined brains of all NDC, NPP politicians past and present.
I also would like to appeal to Ghanaweb to send a copy of this article to every sitting parliamentarian.
DR CARL VON ZINZINDORF 11 years ago

the prophet is a man of god period

the prophet is a man of god period
NYAME BA 11 years ago

FASTING AND PRAYING IS NOT THE ANSWER TO GHANA'S PROBLEMS. WE FAST AND PRAY AND SPEAK IN TONGUES ALL THE TIME BUT OUR PROBLEMS REMAIN.

AFTER ALL THE PRAYING WE GO TO THE CHINESE AND JAPANESE FOR ASSISTANCE. WE GO BEGGING ...
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FASTING AND PRAYING IS NOT THE ANSWER TO GHANA'S PROBLEMS. WE FAST AND PRAY AND SPEAK IN TONGUES ALL THE TIME BUT OUR PROBLEMS REMAIN.

AFTER ALL THE PRAYING WE GO TO THE CHINESE AND JAPANESE FOR ASSISTANCE. WE GO BEGGING THE NATIONS THAT DONT PRAY TO HELP US. THE LESSON IS SIMMPLE PRAYING AND FASTING AND PAYING TITHES IS NOT THE ANSWER.

IF THE CHINESE AND THE JAPANESE AND THE GERMANS ARE BLESSED TO BE PROSPEROUS ENOUGH TO HELP US, WE HAVE TO LEARN FROM THEM. WHAT MADE THEM PROSPEROUS. THEY HAVE MORE MONEY, THEY LIVE LONGER AND THEIR STANDARD OF LIVING IS HIGHER.

WHAT IS THE SECRET TO THEIR SUCCESS? THE SECRET IS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION , HARD WORK AND USING THE BRAINS GOD BLESSED US WITH.

PRAYERS HAS NOT SOLVED OUR WATER AND ELECTRICITY PROBLEMS. THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO HAVE BENEFITTED FROM THE PRAYERS, FASTING, TITHES AND PRAISES, ARE THE PASTORS AND THE SO-CALLED MEN OF GOD. THEY GET RICHER AND FATTER. THEY ENCOURAGE US TO PAY TITHES AND PRAY.

BEMPAH IS AN ILLITERATE MAN WHO IS JUST USING THE BIBLE TO CON PEOPLE AND MAKE MONEY. I WONDER WHY WE LISTEN TO SUCH FALSE PROPHETS.

LET'S LEARN FROM THE CHINESE, JAPANESE AND CANADIANS. THEY DO NOT PRAY TO JESUS. THEY DONT PAY TITHES AND SPEAK IN TONGUES. AFRICANS, WAKE UP! STOP THE LAZINESS! WE CANNOT SLEEP FOREVER! WAKE UP SLEEPING GIANT ! WAKE UP STUPID BLACK PEOPLE
DR CARL VON ZINZINDORF 11 years ago

PROPHET HAS BEEN CASTING OUT DEMONS,HEALING AND PROPHESYING FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS.THE MEN THAT ARE DERIDING HIM TODAY HAVE RECIEVED DITTO,DITTO PROPHECIES INCLUDING MY SELF.ALTHOUGH I DO NOT AGREE WI ...
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PROPHET HAS BEEN CASTING OUT DEMONS,HEALING AND PROPHESYING FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS.THE MEN THAT ARE DERIDING HIM TODAY HAVE RECIEVED DITTO,DITTO PROPHECIES INCLUDING MY SELF.ALTHOUGH I DO NOT AGREE WITH EVERYTHING THAT HE DOES...I WHOLLY ADMIT TO WITNESSING THE POWER OF GOD IN HIS MINISTRY AND SO HAS DUNCAN WILLIAMS.
jim 11 years ago

i enjoyed reading your article. Well done my brother.

i enjoyed reading your article. Well done my brother.
NYAME BA 11 years ago

LET YOUR PROPHET WALK ON WATER LIKE JESUS. LET HIM FEED 5000 WITH 5 LOAVES OF BREAD. LET HIM PART THE VOLTA IN TWO. LET HIM, LIKE ELIJAH, CONJURE FIRE FROM HEAVEN.

ALL THE FALSE PROPHETS PERFORM THE SAME FAKE MIRACLES-- CA ...
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LET YOUR PROPHET WALK ON WATER LIKE JESUS. LET HIM FEED 5000 WITH 5 LOAVES OF BREAD. LET HIM PART THE VOLTA IN TWO. LET HIM, LIKE ELIJAH, CONJURE FIRE FROM HEAVEN.

ALL THE FALSE PROPHETS PERFORM THE SAME FAKE MIRACLES-- CAST OUT DEMONS AND PROPHESY. THAT'S IT. THEY DONT CALM A STORM OR HEAL A PERSON WITH DEFORMED LIMBS. THEY ARE ALL LIARS.

YOUR PROPHET IS A CON AND A LIAR.
Kwaku 11 years ago

Fantastic thought Kwame. Yours is the best article I've read in ages in this column. Sheer belief without knowledge and thinking never built any nation or civilization. Ghanaians are being led astray by bible thumping preache ...
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Fantastic thought Kwame. Yours is the best article I've read in ages in this column. Sheer belief without knowledge and thinking never built any nation or civilization. Ghanaians are being led astray by bible thumping preachers.
BLOOD OF JESUS 11 years ago

WHAT GHANA NEEDS IS SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, MATH AND INNOVATION. GHANA DOES NOT NEED THESE FALSE PROPHETS.

WHAT GHANA NEEDS IS SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, MATH AND INNOVATION. GHANA DOES NOT NEED THESE FALSE PROPHETS.
KOFI NUA 11 years ago

WHO NEEDS FAKE PROPHETS LIKE BEMPAH? WHAT HAVE BEMPAH CONTRIBUTED TO GHANA BUT STEAL TITHES AND OFFERING FROM POOR PEOPLE. THE MAN IS A FAKE PROPHET. THERE ARE NO PROPHETS TODAY. GOD SPEAKS TO US DIRECTLY, THEROUGH THE HOLY S ...
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WHO NEEDS FAKE PROPHETS LIKE BEMPAH? WHAT HAVE BEMPAH CONTRIBUTED TO GHANA BUT STEAL TITHES AND OFFERING FROM POOR PEOPLE. THE MAN IS A FAKE PROPHET. THERE ARE NO PROPHETS TODAY. GOD SPEAKS TO US DIRECTLY, THEROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT.
Akua Shebang 11 years ago

I am not in total agreement with the author's article, but I do agree that Ghana has serious problems with prosperity gospel churches and thier preachers, who often call themselves apostles and prophets. The prosperity gospel ...
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I am not in total agreement with the author's article, but I do agree that Ghana has serious problems with prosperity gospel churches and thier preachers, who often call themselves apostles and prophets. The prosperity gospel churches are now almost ubiquitous on the globe. Are these churches the planting of the Lord? What they are doing speaks volumes of their mission, and who is shepherding them.
"The thief (rival of the Lord) cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly"(John 10:10).

Have you noticed that the many so-called prosperity prophets in Africa make most of their predictions in the beginning of the year? Here is one of T.B. Joshua's predictions for 2013:

"2013 is a year of surprises. I am seeing many great, famous, popular and rich men and politicians will become helpless and in need of help in matters of sickness, disease, finances, death, etc," he said in the service broadcast live on the popular Christian station Emmanuel TV.

Will you have faith in such a prophecy? Let's hear what Bible has to tell us about faith.

What is faith?
"Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see"(Hebrews 11:1,NIV).

The story of Adam and Eve illustrates how "unproductive beliief", presumption (the act of presuming or accepting as true), came into existence, and the "doom" it created.

In Genesis chapter 3, we learn of the temptation of Adam and Eve. The holy couple had learned of the history of creation and the injunction placed on the Tree of Good and Evil from God, a revealed knowledge from their Creator.

Sauntering from her husband and finding herself near the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil, Eve met Satan in the form of a snake.

"Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil"(Genesis 3:1-5).

Notice what the temptation is all about: the revealed will of God as a Creater as evidenced in the injunction he (God) placed on the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
versus the unrevealed will of God, a speculation of the unknown, a dabbling in uncertainities revealed to Eve at the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

It is this latter position that the enemy used his deceptive skills to cause a naive Eve to choose, thus placng her own interests above the revealed will of God. The superstition expected from the enemy came as a result of Eve believing the enemy's lies.

Defnition of superstition by Online Dictionary:
1. An irrational belief that an object, action, or circumstance not logically related to a course of events influences its outcome.
2.
a. A belief, practice, or rite irrationally maintained by ignorance of the laws of nature or by faith in magic or chance.
b. A fearful or abject state of mind resulting from such ignorance or irrationality.
c. Idolatry.

Question: how does the community of christian faith stop the doom prophets and their superstion?
"Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican"(Matthew 18:15-17).
DEACON NKANSAH 11 years ago

"2013 is a year of surprises. I am seeing many great, famous, popular and rich men and politicians will become helpless and in need of help in matters of sickness, disease, finances, death, etc," he said in the service broadc ...
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"2013 is a year of surprises. I am seeing many great, famous, popular and rich men and politicians will become helpless and in need of help in matters of sickness, disease, finances, death, etc," he said in the service broadcast live on the popular Christian station Emmanuel TV.

THIS IS ONE OF TB JOSHUA'S FAKE PROPHESIES. NOTE THAT HE DID NOT MENTION ANY NAMES, HE SAID BIG PEOPLE. THIS IS LIKE SAYING THIS YEAR MANY PEOPLE WOULD DIE OF MALARIA. MALARIA KILLS PEOPLE EVERY YEAR IN AFRICA, SO IT IS NOT A PROPHESY.

TB JOSHUA SAYS BIG PEOPLE ARE GOING TO GET IN TROUBLE. THAT HAPENS EVERY YEAR. EVERY YR BIG AND FAMOUS PEOPLE DIE, SOME GET SICK, SOME GET INTO TROUBLE. THIS IS A STUPID PROPHESY. HOW CAN YOU CALL WHAT IS OBVIOUS A PROPHESY?

PLEASE LET US USE OUR BRAINS WHEN THESE FALSE PROPHETS TRY TO DECEIVE US. LETS BE WISE AS SERPENTS, AS THE BIBLE SAYS.
Akua Shebang 11 years ago

Deacon Nkansah, I never said I believe the prophecy of T. B. Joshua. Read my comment again. My comment is against prosperity preachers and their false prophecies. If you will note, I used the Adam and Eve story to illustrate ...
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Deacon Nkansah, I never said I believe the prophecy of T. B. Joshua. Read my comment again. My comment is against prosperity preachers and their false prophecies. If you will note, I used the Adam and Eve story to illustrate the results of the fatal mistake of choosing presumptious lies of the enemy against the backdrop of the revealed will of God. And get this too: it is this posture of presumption, accepting the unknown and unprovable as true, that we have Evolutionary Science, false teachings and prophecies, Astrology, alternate worship of God, superstitions and alternate lifestyles. HOW DO I KNOW?
These belief sytems go against God's revealed word.

"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?" (Matthew 7:15-16).

"And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?" (Isaiah 8:19}.

Let's not forget that as we draw closer amd closer to the end of the world Satan will become extremely busy to "deceive the whole world" using every deceivable means-- prophecies, miracles etc.-- because "he knoweth that he has a short time."

"Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time" (Revelation 12:12).

"And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ" (Revelation 12:17).
King 11 years ago

Your article speaks volumes.
First I would like to state that President Mahama will neither die nor vanish in 2013, he will live beyond and continue to live as is normal.
Whilst I agree with you in greater part, I thought ...
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Your article speaks volumes.
First I would like to state that President Mahama will neither die nor vanish in 2013, he will live beyond and continue to live as is normal.
Whilst I agree with you in greater part, I thought it would have been nice to also praise those who are genuinely doing good work, even if they happen to be few.
It is the silence of the knowledgeable ones who should have educated those vulnerable that has led Ghanaians in particular, and Africans generally, to this unfortunate path of the precipice. Reversing this colossal stride would require careful planning, concerted efforts, and persistent education of the masses through various means including seminars, (free) tracts with historical facts like those you mentioned and many more. Resources?
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