Category: Worship

I lost everything when I went into practice; I became so poor to come out. But I was not ashamed of the gospel for the purpose must be fulfilled.”

Those were the words of the new president of The Christian Science Church, Bosede Bakarey, at a reception in her honour in Lagos.

Bakarey was appointed president by the Board of Directors of the church at its headquarters in Boston, United States.

The board oversees the church business. Bakarey is the first African to hold the post.

The reception was convivial with much joy and excitement.

There were soul-lifting songs and speeches from selected members.

Most of the speeches were an outpouring of encomiums on the good works and legacies of the new president.

Many attested to her articulate mind, humility and commitment to the work of faith.

Her membership of the church began when she borrowed a copy of the denomination’s textbooks, Science and Health with key to the scriptures written by Mary Baker Eddy from her boss.

Strict adherence to its teachings healed her of a ‘terrible migraine’, which encouraged her to dig deeper.

According to her: “I could not look back. I was willing to give (the book) to anyone who would take it.”

She took instructions in Christian Science in London and soon became a practitioner.

Bakarey gives talks on Christian Science throughout Africa and the United States, describing it as an understanding of the activities and practice of Christianity.

On her advice to members and Christians at large, she said: “If you feel you are called, please answer. You have decided to travel on the road less travelled”.

Such people, she assured, are never put to shame.

The Senior Pastor of Living Waters Unlimited Church Lagos, Rev. Ladi Thompson spoke with Sunday Oguntola on how age-long devious social engineering has kept African nations from developing. 

You were in Rwanda recently. What did you come away with?

My first time in the country was in 2006 for a series of meetings that gave me little time for meditations and prayers. But this time around, I was taken to Rwanda by God to confirm something that is of paramount interest to Nigeria.

I got in Rwanda the total confirmation of the revelation God has been showing me, which I like to call the devil’s arithmetic. In Rwanda, you will see the whole of Africa. And you will see Nigeria in Rwanda and vice versa. It’s a common experience that we have all had. It is very sublime because of its spiritual roots.

Rwanda is a beautiful country with several mountains and hills. As I begin to show you Rwanda, you will see Nigeria. In 1923, Rwanda was taken over by Belgian forces with the indirect rule in place. It became a colonial occupation till independence in 1962. You will observe all African countries were colonised, except Ethiopia.

There were 18 different clans, not even tribes when the oppressors arrived. They were all speaking the same language. There was nothing like Tutsi, Twa or Hutu. I realised a Tutsi was just a rich man. If he loses his money, he becomes a Hutu. This was just a socio-economic classification.

So, what is this devil’s arithmetic all about?

I will show you several devious social engineering gimmicks the devil instituted to keep Africa down. There is always a process that anybody already subjected to it cannot achieve a stable society or become creative, imaginative or productive.

What we call the devil’s arithmetic was first played out in Egypt.. God told Abraham his people shall be in slavery in a foreign country. This was 1,600 years before it happened. It was a whole process with elements that were used in Nazi Germany. In the slave trade era, the same processes were used. It was the same in apartheid South Africa.

That process is a self-replicating system of crushing the human spirit, breaking the soul and yoking bodies of human beings. It is so sublime, crafty and devilish. It is targeted at dehumanising people and turning them to sub-humans with a slave mentality.

Taubman Goldie was the father of Nigeria. He sold more than three-quarters of what is Nigeria today to the British authorities. He was an adventurer. You will never get to hear about him because all the papers, notes and documents he used to build the foundation of Nigeria were gathered and burnt before he died.

The details of the devil’s arithmetic were in those documents. He gathered his children and placed them on a curse that they must never reproduce any of those documents. If there is any nation that should have succeeded, it should have been Nigeria. Despite all we have, Nigeria is still a monumental failure. The root of that failure is what we call the devil’s arithmetic.

How does it play out here?

You will never find details of how this system works anywhere but I will use one of the very few documents in existence to prove that. Only a document written in 1712 will give you a little idea. It was written by Willie Lynch. He was a slave owner in the West Indies. He was invited to Virginia because Africans there kept resisting slavery, insisting they were no less human being.

They were killing them but Lynch said that was an economic waste. He said ‘I’m going to show up a methodology now. If you apply it to the letter, I guarantee you for the next 300 years, they will remain in slavery’.

He said the first thing is to calm down and study the African slaves. According to him: “Since you want to use them to build your economy, you must study every detail about them: their skin colour, nose shape, texture, complexion and everything.”

He continued: “Note all their differences and use fear to subjugate them because it is a better weapon than love. You don’t need them to love but fear you.” He taught that they must look for the most troublesome among them. Pack them together and make a horse tear them apart in the presence of their slaves.

You know that the family is the unit of socialisation and development. You destroy it by humiliating and killing the head before his wife and children. The women will know there is no hope of liberation by looking up to men. They will discourage their children from following such stubborn route.

He added that they must never be allowed to live together. Women must live apart from the men, except for the purpose of mating. That turns them more or less to animals. When the women are broken, they become docile and loyal. They are also to go through breeding like animals and left to bring up their children alone.

Women then become the most-prized assets in the development of zombies and morons. By 14, the sons are ready for labour and will serve till they die. Also, they are to control their population to a manageable size. The next step is to create confusion among them. You breed white with blacks to have many colour banks that never existed before. That will enable the owners to create divisions among them based on colour.

The fourth step is to eliminate their languages and create new languages like Swahili and others. They must never know the language of their masters and be made to consider all that has to do with their past as bad. The fifth is to set up psychological and physical barriers. That is where apartheid came from. The blacks live apart from the whites. It was the same in Egypt and Nazi Germany.

How are we suffering from this now?

The manifestation is that there is no creativity among Africans. Those created in God’s image must be creators, but how many things have we created? In Africa, we do things the way we have met them. The same way we have been planting yams is the same way we still do. It is a programming of the devil’s arithmetic. The thought that we can produce cars is not among Africans. It has been engineered out of us.

The system is so entrenched that even when God took the Israelites out of Egypt, they wanted to go back. Only two of them escaped the mentality. In Rwanda, they created tribes when there was none. They started favouring the Tutsi engineered to be like them above the Hutu. They set them against one another. By 1994, the result of the seed that was sown since 1875 became manifest. There was genocide. It was basically an organised crime, not spontaneous or based on tribalism.

What about Nigeria?

Rwanda is a full-blown case of the devil’s arithmetic. In Nigeria, it is still playing out at 75 percent. How many of us are into poetry or elevated thinking? We don’t appreciate the fine things of life. Some years ago, a whale was discovered at the Lagos Bar Beach. If it had happened elsewhere, they would have been thrilled and started an inquiry. But what did our people do? They descended upon it with machete for eating. It is always about eating with us.

The ability not to be able to govern yourselves is another offshoot. Once you have suffered from the devil’s arithmetic, it is so difficult to get away. There are many Nigerians today who wish the British had not left. All these are symptoms of the devil’s arithmetic. It is a permanent damage to our psyche. If you see animalistic behaviour all over the country, it is the devil’s arithmetic at work.

How do we break away from this arithmetic then?

One, you will realise that when God wanted to deliver Israel, He allowed Moses to be bought up in Pharaoh’s palace. He would have been smitten by the system. Therein lies our hope. We have many Nigerians in the Diaspora brought up under different systems. They have seen what it is to be creative and operate at full human strengths.

We need them to return here and replicate all that they have learnt. We need a policy to bring them back to show us how we should operate. The church has to encourage it. Many of us claim to be saved but still operate in Egypt. You still see your parents or relations as being the cause of your backwardness. We dress like Europeans and discourage local artifacts. We must pull down strongholds using the instrument of truth.

 

No fewer than 300 members of the Indian Communities in Lagos last week witnessed the formal inauguration of the St. Stephens Orthodox Church of the Indian Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church (IMSOC) in Nigeria.

The inauguration also featured the maiden Holy Eucharist of the church at its Ilupeju headquarters.

The new Vicar and President of the church, Rev. Fr. Abraham Pangattu, conducted the service.

He was assisted by Mr. Jacob Poovathoor, Mr. Pratheesh Philip, Mr. Sam Chacko, Mr. Maju Mathew and Mr. Jijo John Jonny, who served as altar boys.

Pangattu explained the church was founded by St. Thomas, one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus Christ, who went to India in A.D. 52.

He pointed out the church is in good ecumenical relationship with the Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches.

According to him, the church boasts of over 27 million faithful with 30 dioceses all over the world.

“A unique and noble feature of this church even now is its broad vision of humanity, non-Christian religions and other ideologies.

“From time immemorial, this church is at peace, oneness and tranquility with the surrounding Hindu, Muslim, and communities without prejudice, rivalry and fanaticism,” he stressed.

Pangattu acknowledged the support and blessings received from the Head, Metropolitan of the Diocese of Africa, Dr. Mathews Mar Thimothios.

He praised him for showing confidence and ordaining him as the pilot vicar of the church in Nigeria.

The vicar also applauded Mr. Jacob Poovathoor for showing tireless commitment towards establishing the church after years of efforts.

The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Ilupeju Station, CSP Gbolahan Olugbemi, who was a guest at the inaugural service, pledged his full support for the community.

He solicited prayers to be able to police residents in his jurisdiction.