The founder of the Household of God Church, Chris Okotie, has described the late founder of The Synagogue Church of all Nations, Temitope Joshua, as a ”magician” and a ”sorcerer”.
Mr Okotie has been a long-standing critic of his late colleague and
once described the late prophet as the “vicar of the devil on earth.”
In a 75-minute video titled ‘The truth about T.B. Joshua’ which was
posted on his official YouTube channel on Sunday, Okotie said the late
cleric who died in June equated himself with Jesus Christ by his name,
conduct, and spiritual pattern.
“Joshua claimed he is the one that the Lord has appointed in this
generation to bring reconciliation between God and man. And he is not
the first to propose such a ludicrous concept. Because even Jesu Oyingbo
did the same thing, he calls himself Emmanuel. And we have the same
thing with the entity in Calabar who used to call himself I Am.
“So Joshua believes he is aloof from Jesus, that’s why he took the
name Joshua because that’s the name that Jesus bore when he was right
here on earth. The full name is Jehoshua, which means Jehovah is
salvation. The name Joshua and the name Jesus are exactly the same.”
Criticism
Mr Okotie also likened him to the late Bar-Jesus, a false prophet in the scriptures who equated himself with Jesus.
“He is a magician, a sorcerer, and calls himself a prophet. Notice he
doesn’t call himself an apostle, he doesn’t call himself a teacher, he
doesn’t call himself a pastor because if he calls himself by any other
name outside of prophet, he does not fulfill the pattern. So, he must
stick with that appellation. He must call himself prophet so, so and so…
So, he is a magician who claims to be a prophet but he is a false
prophet,” Okotie said.
“Greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus. What is the truth about TB
Joshua? Who was he? Was he a product of Christianity? Or a practitioner
of shamanism? Was he a servant of the Lord Jesus? Or some itinerant
religious quack? Was he a true prophet, who was misunderstood? Or a
hypocrite masquerading under the habiliment of the Faith?”
Reading John 8:32: “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make
you free”, Mr Okotie said the late preacher took that name (Joshua)
because he believed he was another messiah.
“He believes that God sent him to our world to bring reconciliation
between God and mankind, exactly the same way the Lord Jesus was sent,
and that is why he took that name Joshua,” he said.
No doubt, Mr Okotie has also been outspoken about his thoughts on his
late colleague and has never minced words when it comes to matters that
pertain to his late colleague. Three days after Mr Joshua passed on in
June, Mr Okotie shared a cryptic post wherein he referenced a certain
”wizard of Endor” who assumed the title of ”Emmanuel.”
Although he did not mention any name or person in particular in his
message, it has been inferred on social media that the “wizard at Endor
who assumed the title Emmanuel” was a reference to the late TB Joshua
and his church’s slogan-Emmanuel.
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Chris Okotie has been a fierce critic of the late T. B Joshua for more than a decade.
The founder of the Household of God Church, Chris Okotie, on Tuesday ,
shared a cryptic post wherein he referenced a certain ”wizard of Endor”
who assumed the title of ”Emmanuel.”
Although Mr Okotie did not mention any name or person in particular
in his message, it has been inferred on social media that the “wizard at
Endor who assumed the title Emmanuel” was a reference to the late TB
Joshua and his church’s slogan-Emmanuel.
Mr Okotie’s statement comes three days after the founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophet Temitope Joshua, popularly called TB Joshua, passed on.
The founder of the Household of God Church, Chris Okotie, on Tuesday ,
shared a cryptic post wherein he referenced a certain ”wizard of Endor”
who assumed the title of ”Emmanuel.”
Although Mr Okotie did not mention any name or person in particular
in his message, it has been inferred on social media that the “wizard at
Endor who assumed the title Emmanuel” was a reference to the late TB
Joshua and his church’s slogan-Emmanuel.
Mr Okotie’s statement comes three days after the founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophet Temitope Joshua, popularly called TB Joshua, passed on.
His statement partly read, ”Hebrews 1:13 says Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool.
”No marvel, one-third of God’s angels followed the disgraced anointed cherub Lucifer!!
”Jesus our mighty gladiator has broken the head of the dragon with his mighty blows.
”He has descended from the mountain of spices with the fiery sword of
his indignation. Glorious in his apparel and traveling in the greatness
of his strength, he goes conquering and to conquer the adversaries of
his church.
”Let those who swear by the Lord and by Malcham and the descendants of Haman, now tremble in fear.
”The day of the vengeance of our God has fully come to Nigeria. And they shall not escape,” he wrote”.
”He has descended from the mountain of spices with the fiery sword of
his indignation. Glorious in his apparel and traveling in the greatness
of his strength, he goes conquering and to conquer the adversaries of
his church.
”Let those who swear by the Lord and by Malcham and the descendants of Haman, now tremble in fear.
”The day of the vengeance of our God has fully come to Nigeria. And they shall not escape,” he wrote”.
”No marvel, one-third of God’s angels followed the disgraced anointed cherub Lucifer!!
”Jesus our mighty gladiator has broken the head of the dragon with his mighty blows.
Cold War
For years, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the
Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) never accepted the late preacher
and philanthropist into their fold.
In 2009, Ayo Oritsejafor, the then PFN president and CAN chairman,
infamously said the body would not admit Mr Joshua into its fold because
they were not convinced that he was a child of God.
Mr Oritsejafor was quoted as saying, “Jesus did not say by their
words you will know them; he said by the fruit you shall know them. If
T.B. Joshua can show me his pastor who pastored him before he said he
was called into the ministry; if T.B. Joshua can tell me when he got
converted and how he got converted, then we would consider him. Anybody
who is a Christian is a Christian because he received Jesus Christ at a
point.
“I gather he said he was converted in his mother’s womb and I don’t see
anybody like that in the Bible. It is a conscious decision you make and
it doesn’t happen in your mother’s womb.”
He also said healing and miracles were not criteria for admitting anyone into the PFN fold or CAN.
It is, therefore, not surprising that both umbrella bodies of
Christians in Nigeria have refused to send their condolence messages to
the family of their late colleague.
This is because they never believed in his ministry.
Their actions have sparked outrage from observers on social media .
Reacting to the Christian community’s refusal to send condolence
messages to Mr Joshua’s family, Ovation magazine publisher , Dele
Momodu, expressed his disappointment in an Instagram post.
“Seriously no word from the Christian community in Nigeria regarding
the death of TB Joshua. Even in death he is still hated. “Does he really
need any validation… All souls will die.”
The popular televangelist passed on Saturday, June 5, 2021 at the age of 57.
The actual cause of death had yet to be made known.
