The Christian Association of
Nigeria, CAN, has reacted to the declaration made by the founder of General
Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, that God has told
him to run for the 2019 presidential election.
While addressing his congregation
during the New Year’s Eve service at the Latter Rain Assembly in the Ogba area
of Lagos State, the pastor cum politician had revealed that God wants him to
run despite his plan to quit politics for good.
In 2011, Pastor Bakare, was
picked as the running mate of the current President Muhammadu Buhari, on the
platform of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change, CPC.
Buhari and Bakare lost the
presidential election to former President, Goodluck Jonathan.
Speaking through its Secretary
General, Rev. Musa Asake, CAN said some people were out to play with the name
of God with their declaration, wondering why Bakare failed the first time he
made same declaration in 2011.
Rev. Asake said God does not lie,
adding that people should be stoned when such declarations made in the name of
God fail to materialize.
He told Vanguard, “Let’s wait to
see. If God has ordained him to be the president, fine, it’s next year, so
let’s wait and see. I don’t know how they read their bible.
“The Bible is very clear. Anybody
who says he’s a prophet and prophesies and it doesn’t come to pass, the Bible
stated that you take him out of the city and stone him.
“These people that are just
making a name and playing with God’s name, they don’t know that when their end
begins to crumble, they will have no place to stay.
“It was the same God that asked
him to run with Muhammadu Buhari in 2011 and they didn’t win, so, why then will
he declare that God sent him? Don’t let me think his God is different from the
God we worship. That’s not my God.
“There’s nowhere my God has said
anything and it failed. These people must be serving a small letter god. God
asked him to run with Buhari and that they were going to make it, finally he
did not. Buhari later picked another pastor, Yemi Osinbajo.
“Maybe he was wishing they would
have picked him but it was the same God that was misdirecting him. And now God
is bringing him back again so we will wait to see that God again next year God
willing.”
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I agree with you no more less. All these people that claimed to be called by God should equally be stoned because they are seriously dragging the name of God to the mud. Any of those that made prophecy this year, let us take note of all they have said and watch out for their fulfillment or failure. We have Imams and others in Nigeria and I don't know how many times they have made any pronouncements of prophecies. We should be very careful how we play with NAME. Thou shall not use the name of thy God in vain. But our modern day pastors have turned it mockery. No wonder the bible says that JUDGEMENT shall start from the church and I pray it starts with these so called pastors.
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ReplyDeleteBakare is a truthful LIAR.
ReplyDeleteAnd you'll be surprised he still has members in his business center
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