I’ve got something to say, is anybody listening? It’s hopeless! Their ears are stuffed with wax-deaf as a post, blind as a bat. It’s hopeless! They’ve tuned out God. They don’t want to hear from me. But I’m bursting with the wrath of God. I can’t hold it in much longer.
Everyone is after the dishonest dollar, little people and big people alike. Prophets and priests and everyone in between twist words and doctor truth. My people are broken – shattered! –and they put on Band-Aids, saying “It’s not so bad. You’ll be just fine”
But things are not ‘just fine’!
And listen to this verdict from God, “Look out! An invasion from the north! A mighty power on the move from a faraway place! Armed to the teeth, vicious and pitiless, booming like sea storm and thunder – tramp, tramp, tramp – riding hard on warhorses, in battle formation against Daughter Zion.
Dear Daughter Zion, dress in black, blacken your face with ashes. Weep most bitterly as for an only child. (Excerpts from the Message Bible in the book of Jeremiah 6:10-26)
Let me ask you a question. Is this scripture not being fulfilled right before your eyes? Take a look at the current menace meted out against the church by the messengers of death:
There have been serial cases of forceful abduction of underage, forceful marriage and without the parental consent of the Christian girls and their forceful conversion to Islam.
The carnage caused by the Fulani herdsmen sounds like the tramp, tramp, tramp of the warhorses. A woman watched her home with her husband and six children inside go up in flames due to the terrorist attacks by these herdsmen.
Now a grazing reserve bill is about to be passed to make their terrorism and intimidation legal.
A religious bill is about being passed in Kaduna to stop you from preaching the gospel for which your savior died on the cross to deliver to you. You might not even be able to play gospel songs in your car. Why the ban on gospel? Why not on hip hop or R ’n B?
Oh child of God, will you not arise? How long will you sit at home calling politics a dirty game while the people in government use it to pour dirty injustice on you. Oh man of God, how long will you watch your church members who are in government compromise their faith while you bless their fat offerings? Oh woman of God, arise? It is time to pray and ACT. Go back to school, take up political positions, get into leadership and counter the effects of wickedness on the church. Stop using the church as an escape route from the world. You go to church to be empowered to take your world, not to hide from it. Enough of the denominationalism! It is time to come together as one people and say no to the rampage of hell unleashed against the church. The die is cast and the verdict is before us. There is no place to hide. We can only die once and death is inevitable. Just like the lepers, if we stay silent, the danger will meet us. If we speak out, the danger will meet us. What then do we do? SPEAK OUT FOR YOU KNOW NOT WHEN YOUR TIME TO STAND FOR THE TRUTH WILL COME. DECIDE NOT TO BE THE LAST CHRISTIAN IN YOUR FAMILY.
LET ALL CHRISTIANS MARCH DOWN THE STREETS AND PEACEFULLY PROTEST AGAINST THE INJUSTICE SHE IS FACING. IF YOU DO NOT ARISE, YOUR FAMILY AND GENERATION MAY PAY DEARLY FOR IT. RISE UP NOW BECAUSE TO WIN A WAR, THERE IS NO RETREAT, NOR SURRENDER.
