ENTERS TRUMP 2.0

 

“And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do;….. (1 Chronicles 12:32a)

With joy and excitement, we welcome this day, one of the most outstanding come-backs in human history, the return of Donald J. Trump to the Whitehouse in the United States.

Historic efforts had been made to ensure this event does not happen.  Beginning with historic legal, social, and spiritual efforts made by adversaries to keep Donald Trump off the ballot, culminating in the infamous shooting on July 13 whence his right ear got nipped as he unwittingly moved his head mere milliseconds ahead of the arrival of the sniper’s high impact bullet. Clearly one of the most dramatic Divine deliverances ever, enacted live before a global audience!  Even with the commencement of the Inauguration events, and with the actual swearing-in only a few hours away, prophecies and intelligence reports affirm the reality of desperadoes who are sworn “neither to eat nor sleep” till they truncated the inauguration.

But we are confident that the LORD God Almighty, the Alpha and Omega, is well able to bring His charge right into the land of promise, not abandoned at the edge.  We are confident that absolutely no one is able to pluck His kept, out of His omnipotent hand. Amen.

As documented by several social media posts at the time, even within few hours of Trump’s winning his historic mandate, considerable incredible changes had started to happen, not only within the United States, but globally.  So, now that the actualization of the mandate is set to commence, what are the key changes to expect? And quite importantly, in the spirit of 1 Chronicles 12:32, what ought the Israel of God, the Church, be gearing up for to do?

At the global stage, we saw the incredible response to Trump’s terse “they’d better released the hostages or all hell will break out in the Middle East” warning.  Both Hamas and her backers in Iran, Quatar, and elsewhere suddenly sat up, and indeed the hostages have started arriving Israel.  Simply incredible!  We can expect a similar shift in the Ukraine-Russia situation; and hopefully the aroma will drift to other less-acknowledged conflict regions, such as Sudan, where globalists have continued to stoke deadly skirmishes, toying with the lives of millions, in scenarios drawn from their satanic playbook.

In the Ukraine-Russia conflict for example, it would be recalled that Zelensky and Putin already had a draft agreement ready to be signed, that would have put off the war, before Boris Johnson, on behalf of NATO and at the express instructions of Biden, went to scuttle it all.

The forthcoming closure of the so-called Obama third term, directed by the global masterminds, will have even more direct impact on billions of people in all nations, as a liberated and more reasonable United Nations system is expected to emerge.  For instance, terrorists would now think twice before going to invade their peaceful neighbours, burning babies to death in their cots, and committing horrendous sexual violence against women, in the assurance that the UN and her court system would be able to find justification for such pure evil acts.  As Trump said in reference to the hostages, if he were in office, the October 7 atrocities by Hamas would never have happened in the first instance. 

Perhaps one of the areas to expect the most significant changes at the global level would be with respect to the World Health Organization.  It wouldn’t be a surprise if among the scores of Executive Orders expected to be signed by Donald Trump a few hours from now, is one withdrawing the United States from the WHO.  That would not mean that global cooperation and collaboration on health would cease, but rather things would revert to the status quo, where the WHO played advisory roles, rather than the assertive coercive roles being clamoured for her by the Bill Gates and Communist China-fronted global schemers.  A new body might as well rise from the ashes of the current WHO. 

In the same vein, the current amorphous “climate change” cliches will need to be properly and firmly defined, and more reasonable responses discussed.  For instance, how many centuries would it take to match the ongoing release of carbon-dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases from the California wildfires by farting and burping cows, or even the use of cooking stoves, which Bill Gates and associates insist are key issues pushing the world towards the environmental doomsday?  Clearly, it makes more sense to focus on measures to prevent and curtail outbreaks of wildfires than insisting on culling off the world’s cattle population and shifting to lab-grown meat!

More critically for us in Nigeria, the end of the Obama third term would mean a liberated Nigerian presidency.  It is open secret (as well articulated by President Goodluck Jonathan himself) the undiplomatic nefarious roles played by Obama in uploading Mohammed Buhari to the Nigeria’s presidency in 2015.  Also widely circulated was the recent open acknowledgement by the CIA of PBAT as an active Asset (see here, here, and here for instance).

As we have also written severally, (e.g here,  here, and here) we consider PBAT a very intelligent, reasonable, and resourceful person who could do much good for the Nigeria nation – if given the liberty to act independently without crushing instructions-cum-directives from the Obamas and Macrons of this world.  Trump 2.0 therefore presents a unique opportunity for forces of Light to come together and counter the forces of darkness by exerting positive pressure on the Nigerian Presidency at this critical opportune kairos time.

As related by President Buhari himself, Trump in his first term during a private one-on-one meeting, had looked him straight in the face and asked, “Why are you killing Christians?”.  Now that we have a new Sherrif in town, it is up to the Church to highlight (even above current economic and sundry corruption issues) the ongoing wanton killing and displacement of largely Christian folks by foreign-sponsored mercenaries masquerading as disgruntled nationals.

In closing this piece, we warn that with the loss of coercive state authorities and powers, we can expect the globalists to fall back to Mammon as major resource to implement their dastardly agenda.  And also a shifting of the Command Centre from the US to Europe. With Nigeria already arm-twisted to sign the EU-ACP (Samoa) Pact, putting some $150 billion on the table, we can surely expect the advent of all manners of NGOs, fronted by locals, to lure both the young and the old, both the highly literate and the stark illiterates, including professional associations, key institutions, and the Church not excluded, in their bid to foist their evil agenda on human society.  Sadly, there is a lot of evil that can be done with a billion US dollars, especially in a society where poverty has been weaponized. We had a glimpse of what is possible, during the COVID saga.

It is in this respect that we affirm again our conviction that it is only the Church that can provide effective resistance to the ongoing/upcoming onslaught by the forces of the antichrist. (cf the statement by Governor Charles Soludo on this note).  The incoming Trump presidency, providentially provides a somewhat level playground (or more accurately, battleground) for the very last conflicts before the closure of time. The refreshing influence of people like Elon Musk, finally tearing down the empire of stifling censorship institutionalized in the audacious “Fact checkers,” will facilitate both forces of good and evil on the social media and AI spaces - depending on who makes better use of the opportunities.  It is instructive to see, for instance, how the decadent health and Big Pharma establishments in the US are already working hard to neutralize or at least curtail the coming influence of Bobby Kennedy in that space. This is time for the Church, particularly in Nigeria, to arise, and “rejoicing with trembling” set to hard work. 

We pray and wish Donald J. Trump a glorious fulfilling and very successful tenure in Jesus name.

 

Church Arise!

Ile-Ife, 20-01-2025

Impending Closure of Hamas-Israel War – preparing for the next War?

 

The Israeli Security Cabinet has commenced its meeting (today Friday 17^th January) at which it would decide to either ratify or reject the Ceasefire agreement with Hamas. PM Benjamin Netanyahu had earlier announced that the planned release of hostages from the Gaza Strip could commence on Sunday, even if the Security Cabinet had not concluded its meeting.  Meaning that the approval is already assumed to be a foregone conclusion.

In the meantime, the Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Vcir, of the Otzma Yehudit Party has released a statement, indicating he and colleagues will be resigning from government if the “deal” is approved.  It’s pretty clear that were it not for the incoming Trump presidency, a deal would still be a long-way off.  The question is whether Israel is throwing away all the gains of 15 months of gruesome war to save a hundred or so hostages only to prepare the ground for the future killing and abduction of thousands others?

Most likely, that wouldn’t happen in a Trump presidency.  But that presidency has a lifespan. Quite thought-provoking situation in Israel at the moment!  The Statement by Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, posted on X follows below:

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“If the ‘deal’ passes, we will leave the government with a heavy heart, and I will leave a ministry where I have invested all my energy over the past two years. I will step down with a heavy heart after establishing the growing National Guard, implementing a weapons reform, reforming the prison system, founding a special unit to combat incitement, restoring pride to police officers, prison and fire fighters, strengthening the Border Police, Special Patrol Unit (Yasam), and the Counter-Terrorism Unit (Yamas). I fought for fair salaries and gave them the support they deserve, and I was in the midst of strengthening and expanding municipal police stations to provide optimal service to citizens.

 I love Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and will ensure he continues to be Prime Minister, but I will resign because the deal that was signed is disastrous. It releases hundreds of terrorists with blood on their hands who, upon release, will seek to murder the next Jew. It allows thousands of terrorists to return to the northern Gaza Strip with weapons—with the sole intent of killing Jews. It harms Israel’s defensive capabilities along the Philadelphi Corridor and other critical points, and it reverses all the war’s successes that cost us so much blood.

 During my two years in the government, I also dealt with things I liked less and that didn’t align with my views. That’s the nature of coalition partnerships—sometimes you have to swallow quite a few frogs. But when such a terrible deal arises, one that abandons the security of Israel’s citizens and crosses every red line the government set for itself, even though the easiest path would be to stay in the government and continue the massive reforms in the ministry, it must not continue. This is a moment of truth for every politician: Does a person give up all their beliefs for the sake of their position, or give up their position for the sake of their beliefs? My beliefs have been shaped by attending far too many funerals. I will not lend my hand to a reckless deal.

 I am filled with pride for the ministers and Knesset members of the party who demonstrated strength and integrity, agreeing to give up everything because they refuse to be partners in this agreement. Minister Waserlauf and Minister Eliyahu are both giving up ministries where they have done remarkable work—I was always proud of the praise they received. MK Fogel is relinquishing a committee where he performed wonders, providing support to the security and rescue forces and turning it into the most productive committee in the Knesset—a real legislative powerhouse. Likewise, the talented MK Kroizer is giving up his influence in the Judicial Appointments Committee, and MK Limor Son Har-Melech, the soul of Otzma Yehudit, is also giving up an important role. They stood bravely, voiced their opinions, and voted one after another in favor of resignation.

 The hostages are close to my heart and to the hearts of all party members. We want to see them freed and reunited with their families, but not through surrender to Hamas. Instead, we must stop the transfer of fuel and humanitarian aid to Gaza until all the hostages are returned home.

 If the war resumes and we know that the Israeli government is acting to defend its citizens and not leaving a massive terror hub in Gaza, we will return to the government. We are not toppling this government and will support it from the outside, but we will not be partners to a defeatist agreement.

 We will vote against the deal in the government, and if it passes, we will submit our resignation.

 The ‘Otzma Yehudit’ party will continue to be here for you in everything you need.”

 

 

THE CHURCH IS THE ONLY INSTITUTION STANDING BETWEEN THEM AND TAKING OVER THE ENTIRE SOCIETY – Charles Soludo

THE CHURCH IS THE ONLY INSTITUTION STANDING BETWEEN THEM AND TAKING OVER THE ENTIRE SOCIETY – Charles Soludo

Remarks by Anambra State Governor, HE Prof Charles Soludo, at the opening of 2025 Bishops and their Wives’ Retreat, held at the All Saints Cathedral, Onitsha, Anambra State, Sunday 7^th January, 2025. Watch video here, from around the  1:51:00 mark.

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Finally, to your retreat.

I'm very excited that you are having this Retreat. I missed chunk of the sermon. But I want to believe…, for me, for my own government, we are starting our own retreat on Monday. Monday, Tuesday, we'll be at a retreat. And that's the way to begin a new year. Where you are reviewing, “Where are we coming from? “, Redefine, remind yourselves of your purpose, your mission, your vision, and your KPIs, your Key Performance Indicators. And how do you measure? Where are you and where do you want to go? We want to remind ourselves as we start off the new year. And I was quite excited to hear that all the Bishops of the Church of Nigeria will be meeting on a few days retreat at the beginning of the year.

For everybody to leave from all across Nigeria to gather in one venue. This is quite, this is serious business. Very serious business. And I know you've chosen your theme. You are clear on what you want to discuss. I even heard part of it at the sermon…Very revered Bishop [Ekpeh?], you know, hammering on it. I think I heard the issue of unity, and that, and, you know, bonding together, standing for one another, encouraging one another. Because they say if you want to go very far, you go alone. Ah, No, if you want to go fast, go alone. But if you want to go far, you go together. Thanks for that message.

But I also want to add, maybe as you reflect on that, this is a very trying moment for the Christendom, generally.

In Nigeria, and even more so in the southeast of Nigeria.

The Primate, he did mention about the pivotal role of this particular, especially the place where we are, the All Saints Cathedral, in the birth of the Anglican Communion, especially in the southeast of Nigeria.

But the Primate, you mentioned the very important statistics, which is 20 million registered Anglicans. Is the same way that you have 2.6, 2.7 billion people in the world who profess Christianity which is about 32, 33 percent of humanity; and here in Nigeria you have, well depending on the number, people dispute whether you are hundred and something or thereabout in terms of Christians.

But an important question that I will leave with you is that as you ponder, this 20 million, that’s those on the register, ….are they still there?

It may sound a rhetorical question, isn't it? 20 million on the register, how many are there?

And in the South East this question is even much much more pertinent because in the South East particularly, the fastest growing religion today is idolatry.

It’s on the upsurge, massive ascendancy…  And those populating it are the Christians -  the Emmanuel, Christian... even some of them answer “Christian” but is carrying his shrine, and so on. All over the bushes and forest, wherever these chaps are, the first thing they do is to have a massive shrine. Now in every community, in every community in Anambra, in Abia, in Imo, in Enugu, in Ebonyi, and so on, every community, now there is a massive resurgence and one of the questions that I ask always... I said to somebody, I wish I had the time.  I mean, I wish I was disposed and maybe somebody should supervise a PhD, study in theology and all of those on this topic.  And the title will be, “Why do they leave?”

I don't know if I'm communicating.

Why are they leaving?

In other words, since this is a moment of Retreat, that the leadership of the Church of Nigeria must pose that kind of question.

It's a time for introspection. A life unexamined is not worth living. At point, you must be able to re-examine your purpose. Are we still serving the purpose? Are our ways, have our ways become in conflict with the purpose?

Or do we have a defined purpose but our means of getting there now in conflict and in contradistinction that the people themselves see through it and they think this is all a joke, and they are leaving?

Very, very. Somebody says, if people are seeing the Church and so on, religion has become business.

The transactions have overwhelmed the transformations.

Does the Church still engage in evangelization?

And so now, my own government, we will be dealing with KPIs for each MDA, the ministries, departments and agencies.

What are the key performance indicators that the leadership of the Church provides for the ministers of the Church?  In each parish, what are the KPIs?  Is it the number of brick and mortar projects that are built?

Or is it in terms of how many members who actually are on the register are still with you?  How many persons who are non-Christians have been converted over the previous one year?  Can we have it in the register as part of the KPIs for each parish?  How many have left?

Because…, ah, your Grace, there is something dangerous that is upon us.

The greatest threat that we face, you know, I heard when the prayer was made about the release of our ArchBishop, retired ArchBishop, who was in captivity for a few weeks.

In 2009, my 78-year-old father was kidnapped, after dinner.  They went to his house in the village here. Before then, that same year, Tony Mars, the popular Tony Mars, was kidnapped.  I think the next year, Poco Bros and then the GUO was kidnapped, I think, from here, from a Church.

This trend has continued.., has continued.

And if you look at the characteristics of the people doing this, now it's become an organized, lucrative business empire.  With Central Command and Control, and at the heart of it all, is idolatry. 

At the heart of it all, is idolatory.

The Church itself as an institution. When you now get to the place, we've now gotten to a position where these guys don't care about anybody, whether you are Primate, whether you are Pope, or whether you are Bishop, or whether you are…

Because there is a clash of religion.

They think you are the problem.

The Church is the only institution standing between them and taking over the entire society.

And I leave a message with you.

When they were coming, they started off with a narrative, in the South East. “We are here to liberate you, the Fulanis are in the forests and everywhere about to envelope you.”  They would go to the checkpoints, kill the police, kill the soldiers, take over their AK47, and people would tacitly, inside, be happy. Because they are the liberators.  They are supposed to be the liberators.

Now, after they carried the AK47, how do they feed the next day, in the bush?  Nobody asked that question. How do they continue to feed, month to month, year to year?  They have to feed! They have to survive. They have families.

Now, they come out to… grab people. Because... for ransom.

And at the heart of it all is that the first thing they have there is their big idols, big shrines.

Over the last two years or so, that we’ve declared war on this, before I came, eight local governments were under their total grip, we declared war on them.  The number of shrines that we have had to burn down or bring down….. and yesterday, we had about ten and half hours meeting, we are bringing out a new homeland security law.

I want to assure you the Primate and Bishops of Church of Nigeria, that, the way we want to fight this war is not just carrying gun, and so on, and going to…., For me, it's just 40% of the problem.

The 60% is that if we don't collectively challenge and tackle the source of the warp ideology, the ideas, that fuel this in the first instance, that continues to enable them to have continuous supply of young men.  Young men going into the bush and wanting to carry arms to go on a kidnap, kidnapping.  And so on and so forth. 

Because it is now the most lucrative business in town.

Nigeria-published data. There are about 2.4 trillion. Was paid as ransom.  Did you see that?  For every one naira published, we expect, estimate, that at least five naira was not reported.  So, if you multiply that by 5, you'll be getting more than about, at least, more than 10 trillion.  Even oil block is not as lucrative.

But there is something also fueling it. And this is where the Church also comes in. When I ask why do they leave?

The lucrative criminality?

But also, we now have a society where we celebrate something for nothing.  Where, even in Christianity, we now preach that you can have a crown without a cross. We tell people that you can have wealth without work. That God is a money doubler.  Only pay your tithe and then you go and close yourself with blanket. God will quadruple it in 10 times.

We are no longer telling people about responsible Christianity.  No, it is the hard one. If you tell them “no cross, no crown”, then you will not be the popular priest.

It's when you tell them, you know, young apprentice, you’ll become a billionaire by the end of [the year], he says, “Yes, I claim it”!

 How?...How!

So, the message, I'm just saying this because we are coming from various and in fact, part of where we are going to head to….All these roadside Pastors and Churches and so on preaching all of these things and trying to, you know, have people with this warped theology and Christianity and so on. Akwuokuokuwo kotiwalako, this one and the other one. I mean, it's just the youths. … 9.00 am, People are in the beer parlours, drinking beer.

But they expect to build a skyscraper tomorrow.

How?

When you hold people accountable! if you got wealth, people are displaying all manner of obscene wealth. And nobody asks again, “what do you do for a living?”

A society where you no longer ask people, “what do you do for a living?” is a society that has no future.

But again, what I say to you as the leaders of the Church,….. I wish I am not governor.  I would have taken this almost like, as a personal crusade. You know, because as you point one finger, you look back and you see the others pointing at you.

 

I say, in about 2012, I addressed the Catholic Bishop's conference. And I did make a suggestion, and everybody laughed. I said, you know, in the Catholic Church we have this prayer against bribery and corruption.

We pray it almost every…alternate Sunday.  The other one is prayer against…for Nigeria in distress. I said, okay, now you have got the third liturgy. And this applies to all our Christian denominations. We used to have four parts of mass is introductory rites, liturgy of the word, liturgy of the Eucharist and then concluding rites.

Those are the four parts. I said, you now have the third liturgy, liturgy of fund raising. Okay?

Now, and that becomes the main part of most services. The parts where we talk about … money.

And I said, can we be the judge that then says, okay, we pray against bribery and corruption, then an officer, a government official, whose total monthly salary is not more than 200,000, comes to the Church and makes a donation of two million.

Or he shows up in Church, whoever is presiding announces, ah, now that we have this one has come in, it means our problems are over.

That was the day they are going to do special fund raising. And he comes and pledges two million. And he said, kneel down for special prayers. How is he going to get the two million?

That's where it starts.

And I did make a proposal, I then said, can we then lead by saying, okay, let's make a rule. If you are in public office, we're not going to accept any donation from you until you leave office and five years after you left office?

Everybody laughed. More like, ah ah, how now?. It sounds like a joke, but go to think about it.

Today during this season, in the south east, Bazaar, all over the place. Who are the chairmen of the Bazaars? This one has come down. So, so IK Malaysia, ah, Peter, ah, of, ah, south, south. This one, ah, what do they do?

Even the ministers of God do not ask.

In my part of the world, we have a proverb that he who partakes of the proceeds of …em, em..theft is also a thief.

But we can no longer pretend and be saying, no, we don't know, we don't care. No, the society must care. Because this is at the foundation of the criminality that is ongoing. We celebrate wealth without work. And if the Church continues to celebrate this, a society gets what it celebrates.

And therefore, I'm only just throwing up something, ah, your Grace, that at your retreat. Because this thing, I feel so passionate about it. We're going out well, we're going out after all these okiite. And akuakukoo, and enze waanyin.

And all of those is per everywhere now.  Just come, we will give you this, you'll get money.  We're not teaching people to work.

How much do we do that? We launched asking people to farm to feed. there was a time Nigeria was, I mean, they said they were having a hunger, what? Hunger protest.  That we're hungry. And we said, no, we can't.  We must teach our people…. we met with our youth and launched farm to feed. Akaajaja, ne buta o no manu manu. That's how what we are, stand in this part of the world.

So please, where we go onto this Retreat since we are going on to Retreat. This is why I'm raising these issues.

That there are deeper existential threats. Deeper existential threats to the society itself. Because we have put our values on upside down.

And the Church as the last man standing must not be seen to flow in that direction. Otherwise there is no redemption. Otherwise there is no redemption for society.

The Church must be able to stand up. We say it in Igbo. "…………...."

Let the Church be that last man to say, “sorry, evil is evil”.

Let's continue to repeat it. Let's continue to repeat it. Because that's the only way we can rescue the future.

And I want to leave you with this.

I appreciate you very deeply.  Always a pleasure. I know when I see the Primate, and Mama Nigeria,  always.  The only thing they need to be telling us today …….we hosted Adazie Chief Emeka Anyaoku who went on a tour of some of the major projects with him. And I told him my only prayer. My fervent prayer is that when I grow up, I’d like to be like him. Because at 92, by 18th of this month, you won't believe it. He’s still jumping up and down, climbing the stairs, And running all over the place, and so on.

And whenever I see the Primate, he's one of the few persons I know who are aging backwards. They are aging backwards. Whenever you see him, he's looking like he just went on, I don't know how to call it. But whatever you do,  Primate, apart from preaching the gospel, you must also be preaching to us how to look like you. Always in this healthy manner.

So I want to say, big welcome to our Bishops, please.

The little accommodation, I think I learnt it, the earlier place we arranged wasn't comfortable, but we moved to another place. Whatever that is, I think we'll take care of you, while you are…I mean, we contribute the bit that we can to make you stay here as comfortable and as productive as it can possibly be.

I want to appreciate you. God bless you.

 

(Transcribed by Church Arise!, 10^th January, 2025)