Be mindful of false prophets

 The Country Director of Changing Ways Bible College and Seminary in Accra, Bishop Dr Frederick Adjei, has advised Christians and Ghanaians to be mindful of activities of false proph­ets, who God would expose in His own time.

Bishop Dr Adjei said these false proph­ets have adopted strategies that played on the intelligence of their victims and made money, and sexually exploited women.

The Country Director gave the advice at a special graduation ceremony of two church leaders, who successfully com­pleted a Doctorate degree programme in Bible Studies and Divinity from the Changing Ways Bible College and Semi­nary in Accra.

The ceremony was held at Asikuma in the Asuogyaman District of the Eastern region last Sunday.

The graduates were the Leader and Founder of Alleluia Mission International Church at Asikuma in the Asougyaman District of the Eastern region, Prophet Dr Mawuli Akorli and Prophet Dr Joshua Abass Osumanu, a Muslim who convert­ed from Islamic religion to Christianity and established the Christ Way Gospel Church at Dzemeni in the South-Dayi District of the Volta Region.

Delivering a sermon at the graduation, Bishop Dr Adjei indicated that prophe­cies come from God through His proph­ets, “but the current situation where some self-acclaimed prophets speak as if the power of God is in their hands should be of concern to citizens, and should regard such prophets as occult­ists.”

According to him, people who mostly fell victim to these category of prophets were women who asked for their help to give them children, husbands and to become successful in their business activities, saying “these victims should rather study the word of God and seek help through prayers.”

He said the false prophets as part of their strategy, would frighten their victims, forcing them to believe in what they do and purchase the anointing wa­ter, oil, and other exploitation materials on sale by the church.

Bishop Dr Adjei noted that he knew respectable pastors who God could have used to inform Ghana about the deadly COVID- 19 disease that killed thousands of people across the world but God in His wisdom, did not use them because God did not speak through them.

Moreover, he stated that it was becoming worrying that anytime the country was about to organise nation­al elections and change government, ‘election prophets’ would emerge and challenge one another as to which of the candidates would win.

The Country Director of Changing Ways Bible College and Seminary, stressed that God cannot contradict himself by prophesying differently to prophets about one election, adding that Christians, traditional, religious worshipers and Islamic religion all wor­ship God, and the way these prophets threaten and curse, society needed to take solace in the word of God rather than to believe and follow them.

 From Samuel Agbewode, Asikuma