One fortress that protects all souls and attacks and defeats the powers of darkness is the Christian Church. Satan, knowing that he will always be a loser if Christians wake up to their responsibility, has decided to push his “people” through to take charge of the people of God, with the intention of luring them to damnation, so that he can destroy this fortress. Today, there are so many labourers in the Lord’s vineyard who are wolves in sheep clothing, devouring innocent souls and sending them to hell.
Unfortunately, as I have been always saying, many good Christians have decided not to interfere, in case they get labelled as anti-Christ, while many souls get lost.
We find Christian political leaders allowing Christ to be pushed into the background because they do not want to offend anybody, especially non-believers. But they do expect Jesus to pour favours on them. And no one wants to talk about these wayward humans who have made this sacred vocation their profession.
Christianity is a tough struggling process to Salvation until you fight that good fight and finish the race (2 Timothy 4: 7). Many Christians are made to believe that it is an easy walk to Heaven, and that God is mandated to give one anything he or she demands, as if it is His duty and responsibility to obey mere mortals.
Suffering is a curse to such people and they preach same to their followers, while they glorify themselves to look very important, as their members see them as the only source of blessings and goodies. Christ is seen as having died once and for all for our sins, and believers are free to do whatever they like, so long as they believe that the Blood of Jesus is covering them.
We have the case of Prophet Sylvester Ofori, who is the founder of Flood Gates of Heaven International Ministries in Orlando, Florida, USA. The mission statement of this church reads: “This ministry helps those who need encouraging to increase their prayer life. We believe that prayer changes things & the bible says that the prayer of a righteous man availeth much. We are praying that God’s will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.” It looks like the prayer life of Prophet Ofori was not towards God. He was said to be a womaniser and managed to get his wife, Barbara, out of a previous relationship, after which he married her. But this man of God, according to one of his close associates, Apostle Nana Adjei, revealed that Sylvester went to associate himself with Carlton Pearson, a Christian who now preaches heresies.
Sylvester Ofori and his wife Barbara’s marriage life hit rocky roads with stories of his involvement in occultism and daring acts of promiscuity, where he had indiscriminate sexual encounters with other women. One claimed she was charmed to lust after the pastor after he hugged her. She later had sex with him.
Meanwhile, Sylvester started being violent on Barbara, and in one instance, she was timely saved by her brother who beat up the prophet. And this was where Sylvester Ofori came out to give the reason why he hated his wife. Another pastor, he claimed had told him Barbara was a witch and he had decided to kill her to prove that he was a real prophet. Sylvester had been planning to kill his wife for a long time, and the time came when he pushed seven hot bullets into her, ending her life.
How many false prophets are there out there? Surely, Satan is gradually taking a bit of a chunk of the Church of God, and good Christians look on seemly, unworried. Apostle Nana Adjei stated that Carlton Pearson, who was known heretic who taught that there was nothing like hell, began visiting Flood Gates of Heaven Ministries International. In 2004, Carlton lost out with the Joint College of African American Pentecostal Bishops, which classified him as a heretic, and yet, Prophet Sylvester Ofori gladly received him and started associating with him. This was what displeased Apostle Adjei.
Sylvester, according to Apostle Adjei, then started falling out of line. Meanwhile, those who were close to him did not speak highly of him as a man of God. He became a wife beater, very promiscuous, and could have sex with women in his house any time while his wife will be in another room. Barbara must have suffered emotionally and physically, but hung on to the end, pleading to save her husband from trouble, even when her brother wanted to bring in the cops to protect her.
“A pastor says my wife is a witch….if I do not kill her, then I am fake.” Seriously speaking, such words should not come from a man of God who heals people off all manner of ailments and spiritual attacks. For a person held highly among the labourers in God’s vineyard, he could not diagnose that his wife was a witch; some other pastor had to do that. It is like a general practitioner who will be told by another doctor that his wife he stays and sleeps with is suffering from malaria.
And to decide that the best way to resolve this witchcraft in his wife was to kill her baffles me, because he never kills anyone with such problems. He prays over them and delivers them, but why can’t he do same for his wife?
The truth was Barbara, who possibly had a clean spirit, had caught him at an occult meeting. Clean and dirty spirits cannot yoke together; one must go, and Sylvester decided it was his wife who must go.
The question is how many of such men and women of God are actually on the side of Satan but have fully established themselves among God’s people, just to lead them astray? Here in Ghana, it is now an open secret that some of these so-called men and women of God actually visit demonic shrines to acquire powers to draw many people into their churches.
We see the way they conduct their lives and we quickly know those were not the ways of Christ. We hear them preach and it is not the Gospel; we see them teach and it is not the teachings of Christ. We hear that they engage in full scale promiscuity, openly having affairs with church members, including spouses of their junior pastors, and find nothing wrong about this, boasting about their conquests.
We hear and see them say one thing and do the opposite without shame. They demand to be accorded the respect reserved for mortal kings, while the Christ they claim to serve was very meek and humble, and never wanted to be elevated from His poor status.
An interview with Barbara’s sister on Kofi TV revealed the occult practices of Prophet Sylvester Ofori. If such a man of God, who could be in the same status as the likes of Mensa Otabil and Duncan-Williams, with large congregations, could suddenly reject God and go worshiping Satan, then the question is are the souls clamouring for Christ safe? How many souls are being misled and directed straight into hell fire by people who portray themselves as true apostles of Christ? Clearly, the Church is under attack and the enemy has managed to infiltrate the highest ranks of leadership in God’s vineyard to lead as many souls as possible astray.
One thing about God is that, just as both the giver/seller and receiver/buyer of stolen goods are criminals, the one who leads souls astray and the lost souls are condemned in His sight.
One major and disturbing question, which I will ask and continue to ask, is how many demonic worshippers have paraded themselves as men and women of God deliberately leading people to hell? Satan has an agenda, and he is rolling it out. He seeks to destroy souls, and he is succeeding in certain quarters.
If Sylvester Ofori was an occultist before founding his church, it will mean that some people are using demonic powers to blindfold humans and pull them to Satan’s side. Therefore, hearing that some of these pastors actually go to fetish shrines for powers, is not surprising at all.
On the other hand, if demons entered into Sylvester after he established himself as a powerful man of God and swung him off from the path of salvation to damnation, here we have problems. Most of these so-called men and women of God are not sound in the faith and can be easily swung unto the path of damnation.
In both cases, the ordinary Christians seeking the Face of God through such people are not safe. They are sure candidates for hell fire.
What can be done? Firstly, all good Christians must rally up and stand up for Jesus and fight to protect what belongs to Jesus Christ. Christians in politics must do their bit by making sure everything is done according to the tenets of Christianity. They must act to protect Christians being killed for their faith by Islamic extremists.
Secondly, all Christians must read the Word of God, and not just read, but read to understand. Biblical historians must be on hand to fully explain the events that took place when that Biblical event was recorded. Thirdly, those who are to lead the flock must have the calling from God, and they must be genuine servants who will not think of their temporal welfare, but more of the spiritual well-being of the flock and of themselves. They must understand theology and embrace what the Word says, and not what they will misinterpret to suit their personal desires.
Today, the Church is under attack, and in some areas the anti-Christians have started condemning the Sacred Scriptures, saying it endorses slavery; a way to put Africans off Christianity. Today, the Church is under attack, and it is the responsibility of all Christians to stand up and fight for Christ, just as He did for the whole world when He died for us on Golgotha, so that you and I can have eternal life.
The whole world is outraged about the way White supremacists are killing Blacks, and what have we here, Black men of God killing Blacks. So does Black Life truly matter?
My heartfelt condolences to the family of beautiful Barbara “Famia” Tommey Ofori. May she be the martyr whose death will wake Christians from slumber to strive to do the Holy Will of Jesus Christ.
Hon Daniel Dugan
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect The Chronicle’s editorial stance
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