Elijah the Tishbite's experience
January 3 2019 By Abiodun Karim Giwa
Senator Dino Melaye
Not many people know of Prophet Elijah as told in the Christian scripture, his revelation of the truth, King Ahab's anger against him, how he fled from Israel and rode a chariot-of-fire into heaven to escape Ahab and Jezebel.
Whether it is possible to ride a chariots-of-fire to heaven is not the subject of this discourse. Reason is about two people's current life'e experiences that are similar to Elijah's, to remind anyone who knows about Elijah the Tishbite's experience in
comparison with heir own.
The first person in this matter is Senator Dino Melaye of Nigeria currently running and hiding from the police seeking to arrest him, and Prophet Isaac Owusu Bempah whose properties have been reportedly destroyed in Ghana by youths angered by his revelations.
Melaye has been hiding from the police in Abuja, the seat of power in Nigeria, and he has been talking to the public about why he would not surrender to the Nigeria Police that has declared him wanted, severed electricity and water supply to his house, and have his house cordoned off for upward a week. Melaye has tweeted from his hideout liking himself to 'Elijah the Tishbite,' and that he is being hounded by police for his truth against power.
Nigerians at home and abroad are familiar with Melaye's run against power and how he is lucky to be alive, despite near brushes with death in the police handling matters concerning him. Before the latest development about police declaring him wanted, Melaye had alerted the public that the police inspector general had concluded a plan to assassinate him by injection.
Melaye, like Elijah, has decided to flee from the authorities, for the safety of his life in the 21st century President Muhammed Buhari's Nigeria. Fast forward to Owusu Bempah's experience in Ghana. Bempah may have considered his revelation as re[resenting the truth coming from 'a man of God' - as Christian ministers are called. But some youth dislike his revelations that show death announcement for some men in authority, including a chief imam.
According to a report by Nigeria's Punch newspaper, the leader and founder of Glorious Word Ministry claimed in his revelations that God revealed to him that former President John Mahama and current Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia may die this year unless they take firm spiritual actions, based on a report by Myjoyonline. He also prophesied that the Chief Imam Sheikh Usman Nuhu Sharubutu may die in 2019. Sharubutu was born in 1919. He then urged the Islamic community to pray for their spiritual leader.
It is difficult to say that Bempah's words are true or false, but it does show that whether true or not, some people find it difficult to accept negative revelations about themselves or their mentors trending in public. News reporters, journalists or prophets, being at the receiving end of undeserved punishment from kings or modern presidents and their cronies is not rare. Jesus Christ himself was crucified for the truth that the kings of the time could not accept. There had been stories of many prophets punished for their revelation.
Journalists are incarcerated and killed all the time for reporting the truth. The police in a country like Nigeria exercise so much authority in the name of law and order that equates them to God doing their masters' bidding, unlike the police in advanced countries.
Melaye, unlike Elijah, certainly has no chariots-of-fire to ride to anywhere, unless he chooses to seeks asylum and get out of Nigeria to save his own life.
Whether it is possible to ride a chariots-of-fire to heaven is not the subject of this discourse. Reason is about two people's current life'e experiences that are similar to Elijah's, to remind anyone who knows about Elijah the Tishbite's experience in
comparison with heir own.
The first person in this matter is Senator Dino Melaye of Nigeria currently running and hiding from the police seeking to arrest him, and Prophet Isaac Owusu Bempah whose properties have been reportedly destroyed in Ghana by youths angered by his revelations.
Melaye has been hiding from the police in Abuja, the seat of power in Nigeria, and he has been talking to the public about why he would not surrender to the Nigeria Police that has declared him wanted, severed electricity and water supply to his house, and have his house cordoned off for upward a week. Melaye has tweeted from his hideout liking himself to 'Elijah the Tishbite,' and that he is being hounded by police for his truth against power.
Nigerians at home and abroad are familiar with Melaye's run against power and how he is lucky to be alive, despite near brushes with death in the police handling matters concerning him. Before the latest development about police declaring him wanted, Melaye had alerted the public that the police inspector general had concluded a plan to assassinate him by injection.
Melaye, like Elijah, has decided to flee from the authorities, for the safety of his life in the 21st century President Muhammed Buhari's Nigeria. Fast forward to Owusu Bempah's experience in Ghana. Bempah may have considered his revelation as re[resenting the truth coming from 'a man of God' - as Christian ministers are called. But some youth dislike his revelations that show death announcement for some men in authority, including a chief imam.
According to a report by Nigeria's Punch newspaper, the leader and founder of Glorious Word Ministry claimed in his revelations that God revealed to him that former President John Mahama and current Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia may die this year unless they take firm spiritual actions, based on a report by Myjoyonline. He also prophesied that the Chief Imam Sheikh Usman Nuhu Sharubutu may die in 2019. Sharubutu was born in 1919. He then urged the Islamic community to pray for their spiritual leader.
It is difficult to say that Bempah's words are true or false, but it does show that whether true or not, some people find it difficult to accept negative revelations about themselves or their mentors trending in public. News reporters, journalists or prophets, being at the receiving end of undeserved punishment from kings or modern presidents and their cronies is not rare. Jesus Christ himself was crucified for the truth that the kings of the time could not accept. There had been stories of many prophets punished for their revelation.
Journalists are incarcerated and killed all the time for reporting the truth. The police in a country like Nigeria exercise so much authority in the name of law and order that equates them to God doing their masters' bidding, unlike the police in advanced countries.
Melaye, unlike Elijah, certainly has no chariots-of-fire to ride to anywhere, unless he chooses to seeks asylum and get out of Nigeria to save his own life.
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