A freelance Journalist, Ihechukwu Njoku
recently wrote an article on controversial Nigerian Pastor T.B. Joshua’s
dramatic encounter with ‘Lucifer’.
The video was recorded in December has
gone viral, amassing over 500,000 views in just one month since its release
online. The video titled ‘Face To Face With Lucifer’ shows a peculiar scenario
that unfolded in Joshua’s church when a self-professed ‘occult wizard’ came to
seek prayers at The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) in Lagos, Nigeria.
In the clip, an eerily looking man
with a menacing black beard introduces himself as Professor Chukwudi Okakpu, an
alleged ‘Grand Llama of Science Beyond Material’. Amidst his extraordinary
claims, the Satanist professed to have had face to face encounters with
‘Lucifer’ and to have endorsed ‘anti-Christs’ globally. “I can stay here and
appear in any part of Europe,” Okakpu, dressed in a flowing white suit, calmly
stated, adding that he ‘operates like a spirit’. “If you are such a person that
patronises shrines or herbalists, I am the ultimate,” he sensationally claimed.
The video shows Joshua praying for
Okakpu who sways uneasily several times before eventually falling to the floor.
Several of his ‘followers’ proceed to come out from the crowd and are also
prayed for, after which the ‘professor’ renounces his devilish past. Okakpu
proceeds to return the following week with some of his ‘occultic’ garments to
testify to the changes in his life after ‘accepting Jesus Christ’.
“This is a video satan does not want
you to watch,” Emmanuel TV states in its introduction of the clip on YouTube.
“A satanic ‘general’ renounces his covenants with devilry and witchcraft in a
church service that made hell and its minions quiver!” As with most of Joshua’s
videos, the contents have elicited controversy with opposing views as to its
authenticity.
Several online commentators insisted
Joshua’s deliverance services are nothing more than a scam involving arranged
actors while others argue they are genuine and godly. Joshua’s YouTube channel
Emmanuel TV, where the clip was uploaded, is the third most subscribed channel
in Nigeria with nearly 300,000 subscribers and 110,000,000 views.
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