The article by Rev Moses Aransiola, published at
http://kingdomnewsng.com/prophecies/105-time-to-declare-state-of-emergency-in-the-church is a prophetic Classic, not only clarifying the extremely perilous time the Church is facing in Nigeria, but also making a clear prescription of what we ought to do, as a way of escape. The trumpet sound is clear enough, hopefully the Church will get set for the battle. Amen.
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- Rev. Moses Aransiola
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Prophecies
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Aug 17 2014 | 10:45pm WAT
PREAMBLE
A British
Newspaper recently published a remarkable story of an interview with a
terrorist who was complaining about the failure of Hamas of Gaza to do huge
damage inside Israel, despite firing hundreds and hundreds of rockets and
missiles at the Jewish people. He had a unique explanation: “Their God changes
the path of our rockets in mid-air”. Nigerian Christian believers must know
that our PRAYERS to God of Israel matter a lot! Israel is not just defended by
the courageous men and women of the Israel Defence Force (IDF) and the Iron
Dome Missile Defence System. Israel is defended by the unseen hands of the God
of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. That same God is the God of Nigeria. He is our
Judge, our Lawgiver, our King and He is the one keeping Nigeria (Isa. 33:22).
We should therefore never hold our peace day or night, nor keep silent. We will
give Him no rest till He establishes and till He makes Nigeria a praise in the
earth (Isa. 62:6-7). What I am about to
share is an accumulated spiritual burden of almost two years now. And this has
several confirmations from leading ministers and intercessors across Nigeria
and beyond. This passage from the book of 2 kings 3:16-17 aptly captures
and explains this burden. And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley
full of ditches (altars of prayers). For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see
wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water,
that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts. (2 kings 3:16-17)
God is saying – if you can raise me
fervent and sustained Prayer Altars all over this troubled nation, then get
ready for an uncommon, sudden and supernatural intervention from My presence.
This to me is very encouraging and promising.
THE PRESENT
DISTRESS
On October
1, 1960, the day Nigeria formally came into existence, the late premier of the
Northern Region, Sir Ahmadu Bello, made a statement whose import did not seem
to sink in for a long time. On that day, as most Nigerians were busy
celebrating their independence, the premier made a declaration that has continued
to haunt the nation. He had said:
“The new
nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan
Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a
change of power. We must use the minorities of the North as willing tools and
the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and
never allow them to have control over their future”. (Parrot Newspaper, 12th
Oct. 1960; republished on November 13, 2002, by the Tribune Newspaper, Ibadan.)
Take this
statement as the tap root of the religious war going on in Nigeria today (It is a religious and political war, make
no mistake about it!). The fruit and the flower of this declaration can be
deciphered in the stated declaration of Boko Haram, the terrorist group
ravaging Nigeria. The mandate of Boko Haram, as declared by Abubakar Shekau,
its leader, in a 2012 video recording now available on the Internet is clear
and points inexorably to its inspirational source:
“… this
[Boko Haram] war is not political. It is religious. It is between Muslims and
unbelievers (arna). It will stop when Islamic religion is the determinant in
governance in Nigeria or, in the alternative, when all fighters are annihilated
and no one is left to continue the fight. I warn all Muslims at this juncture that
any Muslim who assists an unbeliever in this war should consider himself dead.”
The first
statement is an unprovoked declaration of war without end on Nigeria from the
very day of its birth and naming, as well as on the hopes of other religious
groups, especially Christians. The second is the physical fulfillment of the
evil tree planted on Nigeria’s day of independence. The statements, fully
digested and interpreted, explain why Nigeria has continued to move from one
small crisis to greater one, never getting it right. It is the reason why
Nigeria is a case study in arrested destiny. More than anything else that
anyone can say, these two statements define the very moment that Nigeria is
currently in, and that definition has been conveyed to us through the mass
murder of Christians across Nigerian history and in particular through the
well-oiled and systematic genocide that has been ongoing in Nigeria since 2009.
Nigeria has
fought one war or the other across time, but no war is as deadly as the one
that has been declared against Nigerian Christians and, sadly, many whose
destiny are affected by the war are blissfully ignorant. Hosea 4:6a says, “My
people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…”.
Since the
violent eruption of the most deadly war on Christians in 2009, the Boko Haram
war, several thousands of Christians have been murdered, hundreds of thousands
have fled their home – many of them to Cameroun. The Internal Displaced
Monitoring Centre (IDMC) says Nigeria has the third largest population of
internally displaced persons in Africa (about 3.3 million) and the third
highest in the world.
In all the
countries of the world where beatings, abductions, rapes, arrests, and forced
marriages are recorded, Nigeria takes the lead – even over countries like Syria
that are officially at war. A Jihad has
been declared against the Nigerian Church and what we do now or fail to do will
determine if the Church of God will still be standing when Christ returns. It
is worth repeating that there is an Islamic agenda against Nigeria which the
Islamist groups are carrying out.
Over 27
communities have been sacked, its residents killed or driven into exile in
Borno State. In one Damboa LGA alone, another 20 communities have suffered the
same fate. When the leaders of a community report to the army for protection,
men dressed in army colours would visit them promptly, gather them together and
fell them in their hundreds with bullets. Nigeria is unprotected by its paid
police and army. Every day, Christians are dying in their numbers and nothing
is being done about it.
In December 1856, the Fulani Jihadists besieged
Osogbo town. Twenty years earlier, they had over-run Ilorin and put the town
firmly under their grip, but never had they ventured beyond Ilorin up till that
time. An army led by Balogun Oderinlo was dispatched from Ibadan to rescue
Osogbo from the Jihadists. After initial reconnaissance, Balogun Oderinlo
discovered that he was up to no match with the rampaging Jihadists as they were
mainly cavalrymen with very strong horses while the Ibadan army were on foot
and the avenue for the war was plain savannah, which would have made them easy
prey for the invaders.
During one
night, he infiltrated the camp of the Jihadists and poisoned their horses. The rest
was finished during the day, the Jihadists were roundly trounced, and their
advance was forcefully stopped at Ikirun. Both Osogbo and Ikirun are in present
day Osun State. Osun State was created in 1991 and twenty years after the
creation, it is firmly in the grips of a man who not only is suspected of
having sentiments for the fundamentalist brand of Islam but one who with
Jeroboamic passion actually resurrected all the pantheon of idols that
Christianity had succeeded in reducing their impact with the declaration of a
public holiday for Isese Day, a festival for celebration of idolatry. At the
same time, schools with a background of Christianity were forcefully merged
with others under a policy called ‘reclassification’. Now, the same Osun State
where the advancement of the Jihadists was halted over 150 years ago is now the
fulcrum of not only a brand of radical Islam but also a resurrection of
idolatry as they seek to penetrate the South West. Ritual killing has now
assumed an alarming dimension, especially in the South West.
