NIGERIA IN CONTEMPORARY PROPHECIES

Elijah Ayodele...also prophesied..

“Early in September 2011, while fasting and praying for the national prayer retreat of The Preacher scheduled for later that month, the word of the Lord came to me, 'Pray against the Spirit of Sudan. South Sudan had become independent from the oppressive Islamic north only a few weeks earlier, on July 9. I understood the word to mean that the Satanic principality that had sponsored Sudan’s very oppressive anti-Christ Islamic regime, and sustained twenty cruel years of a most ravaging civil war between the Christian south and the Islamized north, having lost that territory, was seeking another abode, in Nigeria... (The Preacher)"

As I wrote in “Mr President, What If This Prophet Is Not Lying?” (August 22, 2010),  

“I am normally sceptical of seers, particularly when they make a habit of producing booklets and writing letters to persons they have prophesised negatively about asking for audience. That sums up my attitude to Primate Elijah Babatunde Ayodele of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Lagos, over the years. But when that seer consistently gets it right on several very public issues from year to year, even the most sceptical of us have to stand up and listen.”

Continuing, I did a random recall of some of his earlier prophecies citing “his prediction of a Bellview Airline crash of October 2005 and of Sosoliso Airline crash of December 2005, both of which he foresaw and foretold. He told Nigerians in December 2007 that Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, then Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) would be removed in the New Year. He was… he alerted this football loving nation that the senior National team, the Super Eagles, will perform woefully at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. They proved him right.”

It was this antecedent that led me to draw attention to “what he had to say about the political situation in Nigeria and in particular the place of President Goodluck Jonathan in it. This was what he said as I synthesised then from two Lagos-based newspapers.

“I have told you and I repeat it that this democracy will break this country. Apart from democracy breaking this country, the issue of zoning will bring no good to the country. The solution is that Jonathan must not contest the election if you want peace. He should honour the gentleman agreement in the PDP (Peoples Democratic Party) so that the country can move forward. If Jonathan contests, he will win by force but it will cause a lot of problems for the country, and this country may break up as a result of it. …People may see this as a bad prediction, but for those that have ears let them listen to the warning of God. People may criticize it but it is a warning from God. For those that God loves, He reveals himself. People are pushing Jonathan to run for presidency in 2011 but he should not listen to them. …. I know President Jonathan may not like what I’m saying, but he should not listen to sycophants… If Jonathan wants this country to be one indivisible entity, he should not contest next year’s presidential election. I am not against Jonathan, but that is what God says. We are saying it the way God revealed it to us. This is not a matter of calculation; it is what God said.”

Of course that piece did include my own admonition to the man who is now our president not to run, not because, I heard God say so, but because, in my perspective, it wasn’t the Christian thing to do. I shall not bore you with further details of that. But it should suffice that I lost no opportunity to drum in this viewpoint. No, I didn’t see the repercussions of running in these bloody terms; nor did I wish for this to be the turn of events, merely to be proved right. Indeed, I’ll joyfully be wrong in matters of this nature.

Unfortunately, the tally in bodies has continued to mount across Northern Nigeria. Boko Haram the current tormentor of our land is becoming bolder, more brazen and more blood-thirsty. Our nation is slowly but steadily headed for the abyss.

I muse to myself, again and again, what if Dr Goodluck Jonathan had allowed himself to be swayed away from the messianic syndrome? What if he had looked beyond the lure of power and the pomp and glory of high office! Yes, some would have described him as a coward; he would have gone down in history as the one who walked away from power. Even his brethren in the Niger Delta might have still be hounding him as the man who caused his race the opportunity to rule Nigeria. But see where that opportunistic move has gotten us.

As I wonder about it all, into the prophetic fray comes the Preacher, a Port Harcourt, Nigeria based prayer ministry .The Preacher. The ministry, which began in 1981 circulating mimeographs to a few hundred people today reaches out to thousands and “attracting several compelling testimonies from the leadership and laity of the Body of Christ…”, making the ministry “a voice in the wilderness of the present generation”.

Permit me to quote from a December 2011 release of the Preacher:

“Early in September 2011, while fasting and praying for the national prayer retreat of The Preacher scheduled for later that month, the word of the Lord came to me, “Pray against the Spirit of Sudan.” South Sudan had become independent from the oppressive Islamic north only a few weeks earlier, on July 9. I understood the word to mean that the Satanic principality that had sponsored Sudan’s very oppressive anti-Christ Islamic regime, and sustained twenty cruel years of a most ravaging civil war between the Christian south and the Islamized north, having lost that territory, was seeking another abode, in Nigeria. I took it as a personal prayer point even though, later, I had to send out sms’s to a few friends…  

“In September 9-11, 2011, there was the retreat of The Preacher in the Middle Belt city of Jos, Nigeria. In the process of the prayer vigil on the second night of that retreat, a sister with remarkable prophetic gifts raised a prayer concern about Nigeria. She used the same words to describe her burden as she called us all to pray against “the spirit of Sudan.” I was frightened. It was no mere coincidence. I realized at once that God had confirmed His word in the mouth of a second witness. Anyone who has gone through the horrors of one civil war will never wish to experience another. Ask them in Liberia, Sierra Leon, Libya, and ask the elders in eastern Nigeria who suffered the Biafran war…”

The Preacher went on to say many other things that space does not permit here. But let’s be clear about something, we certainly must move against the spirit of Sudan. Prayer is a very important part of the mix. A National Conference is another. The time is now.