POLITICIANS WARNED AGAINST BELIEVING FOREIGN PROPHECIES OF WINNING AUGUST 13 GENERAL ELECTIONS.
By: Thomas Afroman Mwale
The Bishops Council of Zambia has cautioned politicians against relying on foreign prophecies to predict who will emerge as president in the forthcoming August 13th General Elections.
The Council noted that several recent prophecies allegedly made by foreign clergy did not materialize, raising questions about the credibility of such declarations.
Bishop Charles Phiri told Sun FM TV News in an Interview that the country must scrutinize the growing influence of self proclaimed PAPAs on social media many of whom are accused of brainwashing unsuspecting citizens.
He recommended a reformation of the Ministry of National Guidance and Religious Affairs to address these issues and suggested imposing bans on certain foreign men of God whose teachings are questionable.
Meanwhile,Bishop Phiri welcomed President Hakainde Hichilema’s pronouncements on the institutionalization of the National Day of Prayer, Fasting, Repentance, and Reconciliation, including the potential gazetting of the day Zambia was declared a Christian nation.
The Ministry of Religious Affairs was a very bad idea. It served no spiritual purpose other than provide the clergy an opportunity to rub shoulders with those in power and make false prophesies to tickle the itching ears of the political hierarchy.
During the existence of this Ministry, we saw insults gain currency and violence institutionalised as a political weapon. Christianity lost its saltiness and was plunged into darkness instead of being a light to the world.
The Lord Jesus said, “Render unto Ceasar what is Ceasar’s and to God what is God’s”. Once you have a Ministry of religion embedded in Ceasar’s cabinet, it is ichabod (the spirit of the Lord has departed).
All this talk of Christian nation, day of prayer, fasting, reconciliation, et al, house of prayer are but a mockery to God. The spiritual state of the nation has deteriorated since the declaration of Zambia as a christian nation. Before then Christianity was genuine. Now it is fashionable to be called a christian.
Just look at the fruit of the so called clergy and the corruption in our “christian nation”.