Is this Michael Orokpo’s ZION?

(…continues from part three…)

4)            I remember when I told one RCCG pastor that the G.O. of The RCCG, E.A. Adeboye, was completely wrong when he told members of his church that God showed him his house in heaven and that it is as big as a stadium. The said pastor quoted John 14:2-3 to give Scriptural acceptance to his point. All I asked him was, “Which is bigger, a house or a mansion?” and his swift answer was, ‘mansion’. My next question threw God’s servant off balance when I asked, “How come the comforting words put mansions – so many of a supposedly much bigger thing – inside a house – supposedly smaller one? His acquiescing response was, “Haa”!

                Let me continue with this exegesis by asking you to note that the definitions of ‘house’ and ‘mansions’ do not, in any way, hint on mental magnitude of the two things. While oikia (house) is in reference to ‘home or family’ – very subjective –, monē (mansions) is ‘space, room or given place’ – shows distance. Hetoimazō (het-oy-mad’-zo) is the Greek for ‘prepare’, meaning: ‘provide, make readily available.’ The word ‘place’ is topos (top’-os): ‘any portion or space marked off, a spot (generally in space, but limited by occupancy.’ What Jesus promises to do is that, “In My Father’s Home or Family, where there are many Rooms or Spaces, I Am going to Make Available a Spot for you, members of Christianity, My Bride; that where I Am, there you Christians, children of God, shall be seen.”

Is it true what Orokpo says, that prophets grow to become celestial elders?

                The next salient question should be, “Where is the traditional place of occupancy by Christ in heaven?” The Bible has the answer. Psalm 110:1“The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.” Mark 16:19 “So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.” When Jesus was asked if He was the Christ, “And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven” (Mark 14:62). Christ is duly seated, majestically, by the side of the First Member of the Godhead, where all eyes of heaven dwellers see Him. So, Orokpo, where is the location of the Zion of your eisegetical concoction – in heaven?

                So many of internet preachers love to raise phantasmagoric dusts of unscriptural catechism, delving into things alien to the Word of God. Michael Orokpo, in teaching the Prophetic Office, said, “The power of the prophet is not today. A prophet is supposed to grow until he becomes one of the elders of heaven. The Elders are the custodians of the secrets of God. A prophet is an elder in Zion. Moses actually travelled beyond the age of man because when he said ‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth,’ there was no man. How can a man tell you how man was created?” Orokpo’s supposedly growth of the prophet into the maturity of celestial elder is found nowhere in the Bible. Are they, according to Orokpo’s teaching, the custodians of God’s secrets? If that is what they are, can we say or agree that God has two receptacles of repositories: the elders keep His secrets while Jesus banks all treasures of the Father’s wisdom and knowledge?

Elders seated in an arc before the throne of God

                From Orokpo’s inference, the elders should know the day of rapture! Now speaking of Zion, does an elder gallivant between or among the compartmentalized zones of heaven? Michael Orokpo should know that it is very easy to know how Moses knew that God created the heavens and the earth: God told Moses. Simple! Exodus 24:4 “And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.” Moses did not “actually travelled beyond the age of man,” as Orokpo maintained. The LORD God told Moses, and Moses wrote down the story of creationism. Moses needed not embark on an astral or terrestrial projections to know the mind of God. Exodus 25:8-9 8) “And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. 9) According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.” The celestial pattern was projected to Moses’s vision. He understood what was shown to him and he began to make the documentation of God’s intent. Exodus 34:27 “And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.” God spoke to Moses. He heard, understood and proceeded towards the Pentateuch documentation we read in the Bible. Very soon these Prophets will be teaching patients of itching ears on “The 3, 7 or 10 steps to make it possible to travel beyond age of man for spiritual gladiatorial power.”

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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