TB Joshua, did he or did he not?

Recently, a ‘rumour’ has been circulating in Cameroon concerning a supposed prophecy made by Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua concerning Cameroon. Fans of his TV channel; Emmanuel TV say that he prophesied that in 2011, there will be a civil war in one of the neighbouring countries of Nigeria as a result of presidential elections. That about 2.4 million people will loose their lives and there will be a lot of destruction (these are not his exact words).

You might be asking yourself, who is TB Joshua? TB Joshua is one of the founders of The Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN), a supposed man of God, prophet and healer. Supposedly because there is an increasing number of people who are rejecting the fact that he is a man of God and that the source of his powers is not clear. True? False? One cannot say, other people believe in him because he healed them from their illnesses. Everyone remembers how Petit Pays went there and said he had been healed from an illness that haunted him for many years. Was that just publicity for TB Joshua and Emmanuel TV? Or was Petit Pays actually healed by TB Joshua?

What he was referring exactly to by one of the neighbouring countries of Nigeria? Did he mean Cameroon or other neighbouring countries of Nigeria; Chad, Benin, Niger? Niger will have its presidential elections in November this year; that leaves Niger out. Chad had its last presidential elections in 2006 and with a five year presidential mandate, the next presidential elections will be held in 2011. Benin’s presidential elections come up in 2011, followed by legislative elections in 2012. That leaves Cameroon, Benin and Chad; which of the above is the country in the prophecy? We shall see.

This is just one of his many prophecies, apparently, he had prophesied about the Heathrow Boeing 777 Plane Crash, the rescue of Ingrid Betancourt from the Colombian jungle, the death of Zambian President Levy Mwanawasaa, the recent New York Plane Crash. Joshua also regularly predicts events in the lives of individuals who attend his church services. More recently, he prophesied about the capturing and death of the Sri Lankan rebel leader, about a week before he was captured. Which of these is true? All this comes up when Cameroonians are in a situation of doubt as far as the future is concerned. The future seems bleak; many Cameroonians are sure that there will be a civil war in 2011 in Cameroon if Paul Biya head of the ruling party, (the CPDM) wins the elections once more after 27 years of being the unshakable and unchallengeable president of Cameroon. After making a short public opinion poll, it was realised that 73.25% of the people who participated in the poll believed that there will be a civil war in Cameroon if Paul Biya wins the elections once more.

Did TB Joshua, called a man of God by many actually make such a prophecy? If he did make such a prophecy will it happen? And WHERE will it happen if it does? Since his other supposed prophecies actually took place, what about this one? Does it give the prophecy a 99.9% chance of being realised? No one can tell. What do you think?

What Happened? The Catholic Church

When the first Catholics began evangelization, I do not think they had meant for things to turn out this way. The catholic church of today has become something else. Am sure that if they could know what is happening here on earth now, they would turn in their graves (that is, if at all that has not yet happened). The situation is terrible, ranging from corruption to immorality right before our own eyes, in the Catholic Church. We have been hearing it over the news and seeing it on television. The church has been invaded by all sorts of vices. Do not say that these are things that had been happening before, because it does not justify anything. It is true that all these had been happening right from the beginning of the church, but only that now it is becoming worse. What happened to the chastity and purity that the clergy had to uphold? God alone knows. And it is eating us up and causing fellow christians to divert to other religions, because they are so unhappy with all that is happening. Most of the people end up in sects unknowingly because the church failed to give them the right message and as such, they fell for the first person who came along claiming to know the word of God and how to help them find inner peace as far as spirituality is concerned. It is also the reason why so many people are forming mushroom churches and distracting people everyday. My focus is on the Catholic Church in Cameroon.
The Catholic church in Cameroon has also been eaten up by this canker worm and has cost her(the catholic church) so many christians. When people see all these bad practices around them, does one really expect that people will sit and fold their arms and just le things go on? NO. People react by converting to other religions. I am taking the example of the Yaoundé diocese Cameroon is a country in which francopones(French speaking Cameroonians) marginalize Anglophones(English speaking Cameroonians) this practice is even in the church. Bribery and corruption to say the least, things which are done in open. Then we can only guess what they do in hiding.
In the Yaoundé diocese called the St Joseph's Anglophone parish, where most of the Catholic Anglophones in Yaoundé worship, that is, until lately). The parish lost most of its parishioners. Why? For the simple reason that it was discovered that the parish priest and his secretary had spent parish funds on things which their vows of chastity and humility did not call for. They could not account for money that was missing from the church accounts. All explanations failed to convince anyone, because they were unreasonable. That was the origin of the exodus from that parish. Added to that, corrupt and unorthodox practices were being carried out in the church; a parish priest who was trying to investigate the matter was rather transferred by the bishop, WHY? It means therefore that the bishop had a hand in the matter. Since Anglophones are a minority in Cameroon, it is difficult for their plight to be heard and understood. They are always trampled by francophones. Up till now, the unaccounted for money has not yet been accounted for. If it will be done in the nearest future, no one knows. But the one thing I know is that GOD will judge us all on the last day.

(I have not disclosed any names because I did not see any need for that, but I would if any need for it arises later on.)