A British Newspaper recently published a
remarkable story of an interview with a terrorist
who was complaining about the failure of Hamas of
Gaza to do huge damage inside Israel, despite firing
hundreds and hundreds of rockets and missiles at
the Jewish people. He had a unique explanation:
“Their God changes the path of our rockets in mid-
air”. Nigerian Christian believers must know that
our PRAYERS to God of Israel matter a lot! Israel is
not just defended by the courageous men and
women of the Israel Defence Force (IDF) and the
Iron Dome Missile Defence System. Israel is
defended by the unseen hands of the God of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. That same God is the
God of Nigeria. He is our Judge, our Lawgiver, our
King and He is the one keeping Nigeria (Isa. 33:22).
We should therefore never hold our peace day or
night, nor keep silent. We will give Him no rest till
He establishes and till He makes Nigeria a praise in
the earth (Isa. 62:6-7). What I am about to share is
an accumulated spiritual burden of almost two
years now. And this has several confirmations from
leading ministers and intercessors across Nigeria
and beyond. This passage from the book of 2 kings
3:16-17 aptly captures and explains this burden.
And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley
full of ditches (altars of prayers). For thus saith the
LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see
rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye
may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your
beasts. (2 kings 3:16-17) God is saying – if you
can raise me fervent and sustained Prayer Altars all
over this troubled nation, then get ready for an
uncommon, sudden and supernatural intervention
from My presence. This to me is very encouraging
and promising. THE PRESENT DISTRESS On
October 1, 1960, the day Nigeria formally came into
existence, the late premier of the Northern Region,
Sir Ahmadu Bello, made a statement whose import
did not seem to sink in for a long time. On that day,
as most Nigerians were busy celebrating their
independence, the premier made a declaration that
has continued to haunt the nation. He had said:
“The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate
of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We
must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We
must use the minorities of the North as willing tools
and the South as a conquered territory and never
allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to
have control over their future”. (Parrot Newspaper,
12th Oct. 1960; republished on November 13, 2002,
by the Tribune Newspaper, Ibadan.)
Take this statement as the tap root of the religious
war going on in Nigeria today (It is a religious and
political war, make no mistake about it!). The fruit
and the flower of this declaration can be deciphered
in the stated declaration of Boko Haram, the
terrorist group ravaging Nigeria. The mandate of
Boko Haram, as declared by Abubakar Shekau, its
leader, in a 2012 video recording now available on
the Internet is clear and points inexorably to its
inspirational source:
“… this [Boko Haram] war is not political. It is
religious. It is between Muslims and unbelievers
(arna). It will stop when Islamic religion is the
determinant in governance in Nigeria or, in the
alternative, when all fighters are annihilated and no
one is left to continue the fight. I warn all Muslims at
this juncture that any Muslim who assists an
unbeliever in this war should consider himself
dead.”
The first statement is an unprovoked declaration of
war without end on Nigeria from the very day of its
birth and naming, as well as on the hopes of other
religious groups, especially Christians. The second
is the physical fulfillment of the evil tree planted on
Nigeria’s day of independence. The statements,
fully digested and interpreted, explain why Nigeria
has continued to move from one small crisis to
greater one, never getting it right. It is the reason
why Nigeria is a case study in arrested destiny.
More than anything else that anyone can say, these
two statements define the very moment that Nigeria
is currently in, and that definition has been
conveyed to us through the mass murder of
Christians across Nigerian history and in particular
through the well-oiled and systematic genocide that
has been ongoing in Nigeria since 2009.
Nigeria has fought one war or the other across
time, but no war is as deadly as the one that has
been declared against Nigerian Christians and,
sadly, many whose destiny are affected by the war
are blissfully ignorant. Hosea 4:6a says, “My people
are destroyed for lack of knowledge…”.
Since the violent eruption of the most deadly war on
Christians in 2009, the Boko Haram war, several
thousands of Christians have been murdered,
hundreds of thousands have fled their home –
many of them to Cameroun. The Internal Displaced
Monitoring Centre (IDMC) says Nigeria has the third
largest population of internally displaced persons in
Africa (about 3.3 million) and the third highest in the
world.
In all the countries of the world where beatings,
abductions, rapes, arrests, and forced marriages
are recorded, Nigeria takes the lead – even over
countries like Syria that are officially at war. A Jihad
has been declared against the Nigerian Church and
what we do now or fail to do will determine if the
Church of God will still be standing when Christ
returns. It is worth repeating that there is an
Islamic agenda against Nigeria which the Islamist
groups are carrying out.
Over 27 communities have been sacked, its
residents killed or driven into exile in Borno State. In
one Damboa LGA alone, another 20 communities
have suffered the same fate. When the leaders of a
community report to the army for protection, men
dressed in army colours would visit them promptly,
gather them together and fell them in their hundreds
with bullets. Nigeria is unprotected by its paid police
and army. Every day, Christians are dying in their
numbers and nothing is being done about it.
In December 1856, the Fulani Jihadists besieged
Osogbo town. Twenty years earlier, they had over-
run Ilorin and put the town firmly under their grip,
but never had they ventured beyond Ilorin up till that
time. An army led by Balogun Oderinlo was
dispatched from Ibadan to rescue Osogbo from the
Jihadists. After initial reconnaissance, Balogun
Oderinlo discovered that he was up to no match with
the rampaging Jihadists as they were mainly
cavalrymen with very strong horses while the
Ibadan army were on foot and the avenue for the
war was plain savannah, which would have made
them easy prey for the invaders.
During one night, he infiltrated the camp of the
Jihadists and poisoned their horses. The rest was
finished during the day, the Jihadists were roundly
trounced, and their advance was forcefully stopped
at Ikirun. Both Osogbo and Ikirun are in present day
Osun State. Osun State was created in 1991 and
twenty years after the creation, it is firmly in the
grips of a man who not only is suspected of having
sentiments for the fundamentalist brand of Islam
but one who with Jeroboamic passion actually
resurrected all the pantheon of idols that Christianity
had succeeded in reducing their impact with the
declaration of a public holiday for Isese Day, a
festival for celebration of idolatry. At the same time,
schools with a background of Christianity were
forcefully merged with others under a policy called
‘reclassification’. Now, the same Osun State where
the advancement of the Jihadists was halted over
150 years ago is now the fulcrum of not only a
brand of radical Islam but also a resurrection of
idolatry as they seek to penetrate the South West.
Ritual killing has now assumed an alarming
dimension, especially in the South West.
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