Televangelist and the pastor of the Household of God Church International Ministries, Rev. Chris Okotie has again lashed out at the late Prophet T.B. Joshua, the founder of The Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN).
The cleric in a video on social media on Sunday, August 8 titled ”The Truth about T.B Joshua’’; Okotie said that Prophet T.B. Joshua was a magician who carried the Bible around.
In the video which lasted for more than thirteen minutes, Rev. Chris Okotie stated that Prophet T.B. Joshua was a fake prophet who projected himself as another ”Jesus Christ”.
“Greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus. What is the truth about TB Joshua? Who was he? Was he a product of Christianity? Or a practitioner of shamanism? Was he a servant of the Lord Jesus? Or some itinerant religious quack? Was he a true prophet, who was misunderstood? Or a hypocrite masquerading under the habiliment of the Faith?” Okotie began
Anchoring his message in the Bible book of John 8 v 32: “…Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”, Okotie began to examine the life of T.B Joshua whose name is Joshua.
“Joshua took that name because he believes he is another Jesus. He believes that God sent him to our world to bring reconciliation between God and mankind, exactly the same way the Lord Jesus was sent, and that is why he took that name Joshua.”he said
Speaking on the identity of T.B Joshua, Okotie said the clergyman fulfilled the pattern of Bar-Jesus, a false prophet, and a sorcerer according to the Book of Acts, Chapter 13 v 6:
“He is a magician, a sorcerer and calls himself a prophet. Notice he doesn’t call himself an apostle, he doesn’t call himself a teacher, he doesn’t call himself a pastor because if he calls himself by any other name outside of prophet, he does not fulfill the pattern. So, he must stick with that appellation. He must call himself prophet so, so and so… So, he is a magician who claims to be a prophet but he is a false prophet…,” Okotie said.