R.I.P. is not a Christian prayer.

(…continues from part nine…)

10)          I, honestly, did not know whether I should laugh or pity Dr. Damina watching the video as he taught that the elder, seated on one of the twenty-four celestial thrones, forming an ark round the throne of God the Father, did not know the word of God because he described Jesus as the Lion of Judah. Damina just opens his mouth and allows anything that feels like dropping out of his mouth have its way through. Dr. Damina would not agree with the epithetical Lion of the Tribe of Judah. He teaches that the lion is a beast, therefore, it cannot be applied to Jesus Christ, the Saviour. Is Damina the Apostle John who wrote The Book of Revelation? Do you know what is funny? He said, “Jesus is the Lamb of God, not a lion.” Hear his argument, “How can Jesus be a lamb and a lion at the same time? It doesn’t make sense.” So, you see, Damina does not teach the Bible according to the revealed Word; he prefers to teach God’s word according to what he feels based on logical reasoning of Adamic fashioning. This is what eisegesis or isogesis is all about.

Maybe Jacob, the father of Israel, was struggling with caducity when he prophesied concerning Judah in Genesis 49:9-10 9) “Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? 10) The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.” Damina, who punctuates his sermocination with, “I am teaching good!” lacks scriptural understanding. He fails to see the metaphorical Lionism of the Christ in light of His Majesty: for the lion is the king of the jungle. As Lion of Judah Jesus is the King of kings. But as the Lamb of God, He offered Himself in substitutionary death of the soteriology. Did God not create Adam – a lowly clay based being – in His image and likeness? Is one of the four awesome angels around the celestial throne not created with the face of a lion? Is it possible for the elder who sits on the throne where God the Father is seated, an elder who also had been in heaven for a long time, to open his mouth and utter scriptural anomaly?

It is wise to keep far away from Dr. Abel Damina.

Jay Z, is a huge rap musician.

Damina’s system of sermocination is likened, in all wise, to the way of rap music. You see, when they began to punctuate the music industry with rap, I said to myself, “Man, a fallen creature, has begun to talk.” The rhythmic captivity and the pulsating strength that run underground the rap genre give beauty to it. But when you pay attention to the lyrical rendition, it is nothing short of the vagrant stray, both to the left and right of Divine warning. Rap publishes prevailing ills of society; good. Are their lyrics not laced with vulgarism of Satanism? Most of today’s supposedly teachers of the Bible are mere motivational speakers, devoid of the kennel of the kerygma. The rap music is a societal pollution; so are the biblical teachings of Dr. Abel Damina.

Apostle Michael Orokpo gave a teaching on Zion and said this in conclusion, “This is why some of you will go to heaven and yet will not see Jesus for eternity.” This teaching does not string any connection to the revealed Scripture. I do not know what arcane version of the Bible Oropko studies for his apostolic didacticism. What is the meaning of Zion? It is defined as ‘parched land, sunny mountain and by extension – probably from its height – a fortress, hence, divinely fortified people of the Most High.’ Zion of heaven is the assemblage of the redeemed saints of Jesus, or the Born Again Christians. Michael Oropko maintains that the celestial Zion is a place for only those who practised Christianity well enough to receive rewards in heaven. There is no doubt in my mind that what triggers this anomalous teaching is sourced from Revelation 14:1“And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.”

Read the fourteenth chapter of Revelation and you will find out that it is about the one hundred and forty-four thousand saints gathered from each tribe of Israel which by extension is a revelation of the redeemed Church who followed Jesus. Oropko said those who will not receive any reward for their Christian faith will never go to Zion, ergo, will not see Jesus – and to make the matter of Oropko’s teaching worse: it is for all eternity! 1Corinthians 3:14-15 14) “If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15) If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.” Who will oversee what each Christian brings for divine examination, is it an angel or Jesus Christ? I know it cannot be an angel, because nowhere in Scripture does it give any angelic being to judge the outcome of the Great Commission.

John 14:3, “that where I am, there ye may be also.”

If it is Jesus Christ Who will give us rewards, will He cover His face to adorn us with our eternal rewards? Oropko calls himself an Apostle yet he does not know that spiritual Zion is about the entire body of Christ. Read the eleventh chapter of Romans to understand this truth. “And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob” (Romans 11:26): when the amalgamation of the Jews and the Gentiles form the mystical body of Christ. Where, prithee, does Jesus promise to be our place in heaven? It is found in John 14:3 “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” Does this refer only to His disciples to whom He gave the promise? We – all born again Christians – will be having our estate right there beside Jesus as He sits on the right side of the Majesty. How can we be by His Divine side of proximity and will remain blindfolded not to behold Him for eternity? Selah! 2Corinthians 5:10 “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.”  You can type “Why Many Christians Will Not See Jesus In Heaven” to download this Oropko’s teaching.

Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. You were born in sin. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord, and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”

(…to be continued…)

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