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2020 WATCHMAN MINSTERS CONFERENCE (Transcribed Message)

 

Suggested title: CHRISTMAS DEMYSTIFY

Ministering: Pastor Bede Ogu

HSCF: No 238, title: I NEED THEE EVERY HOUR

Text:  (KJV)

 

OPENING INTRODUCTION: 

 

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

 

1John 2:12-17 (KJV)

“I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake. I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father. I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever”

 

1John 4:1 (KJV)

“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”

 

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rom the time of creation God has demonstrated sufficiently that He is a God of order, a God of separation, He is a God that is interested in separating light from darkness, good from evil. He is a God that is not interested in confusion (i.e. bringing everything together; good and bad and ugly) but a God that is interested in orderliness and decency.

 

The problem that we have today is the inability of children of God to discern the things that are convenient, the things that are allowed, the things that are approved from the things that are not. The inability of the children of God to separate light from darkness. We see it operational in every aspect of our lives. We see in relationships that people keep they hardly, in this our generation, discern the difference between the holy and the unholy in their relationships, we see the poverty of our generation in discerning between what is acceptable to God and what is not acceptable. We see it clearly manifest in the fashion that they spot. The kind of dresses they put on. There is hardly any difference between the camp of God and the camp of the enemy. They are just jumbling everything, mixing everything together to the point that when you see a child of God you will not readily know him with his uniform; like you will know a military man with his uniform. It is difficult to discern readily among the so-called children of God or Christians who they are by how they carry themselves, by their comportment, the things they say, the slangs they use, the kind of life they live, everything is mixed up. Everybody is a Christian now and every Christian is a worldly person generally speaking (ironic expression). 

 

God of heaven brought hope to us during the LEAP declarations, because many of us have been really afraid whether there be any hope for this generation looking at the way things are going. But the Lord rekindled hope by saying (during the LEAP declarations) we have entered into the DAY OF THE LORD PROPER. A day in which he is set to recover the church from the world and its princes. A day to separate the world from the church and the church from the world, to bear once again that distinction between light and darkness. That is the reason if any person portrays any mixture of light and darkness in his life, that person is taking the risk of losing heaven, missing out irrespective of all the things he has undertaken because in 2 Corinthians  6:14 -18 it is clearly stated the condition that God gave that would make him receive us, he said because there is no relationship between light and darkness, good and evil, Christ and Belial. 

 

“Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.” 2 Corinthians 6:14 -18 (kjv). This is a clear statement, a condition that is very plain that you must separate yourself from the system of the world and be joined unto the Lord before the Lord will receive you. You must come out from the midst of the confusion before the Lord will receive you as a son. It is important for us to understand that the present-day situation calls for great concern and caution. 

 

When the church started in the first century, it started with a lot of persecution and troubles. Belonging to Christ meant sticking out your neck for every manner of trauma until something happened in the course of time and the head of the last world empire that would rule the world before Jesus comes embraced Christianity, made everything comfortable, the once rejected were now not only accepted but hallowed, elevated and honoured. He began to give them positions in his government; positions of responsibility, sensitive positions, and they began to prosper and they became highly respected in the society. At that time, persecution was practically over. Instead of rejection they gained total acceptance, everybody wanted to identify with them, but little did they know that it was a classical strategy of Satan, if you cannot beat them by all the persecutions, trial and bloodshed, if you cannot beat them join them. 

 

When that happened, the Christian church became battered, the Christian church became sold to the world and its princes by that unholy mixture, by that un-equal yoke they became accepted, honoured, hallowed, respected and regarded, after which they (the Christian church) died. By the time they accepted the world in their midst, compromises set in and everything that the Lord demanded of the church was compromised. That was the beginning of the fall. However, we bless God today, he has risen to take back His church. 

 

Now I want you to consider, in this movement when we started, just like it was in the early church we were rejected, we were cajoled, we were buffeted, we were troubled on every side. Among the Pentecostal believers, we were not accepted as believers, among the orthodox people, we were cast out as vile. We were as people that were cast down, rejected, but we went on. 

 

AS THE FIRE OF PERSECUTION AND TROUBLE INCREASED, SO OUR ZEAL AND LOVE FOR THE LORD INCREASED, so the work of God prospered in our hands and so on. Instead of diminishing us, the fire of persecution rather improved us. 

 

But today, the same thing that happened to the early church has set in. we are now accepted in our various communities, before they say anything, they would want to hear from us. In our various kindred and larger families, the once rejected and despised are now the center of attractions. People now want to identify with us. Many people are now coming to our church, not because they have encountered our God as we encountered in those days and began to come, but because they want to identify with our success. That is why many people are no more born again. They don’t have the experience that we had that made us like strong stones that made us firm and nobody could deter us. 

 

Today, we have reached a point of acceptability, a point of honour, we have reached a point of everyone wanting to identify with us, and the Lord is saying, “Beware, that is a point of compromise, beware, what happened to the early church, if you don’t learn from history, history will repeat itself”. 

 

THAT IS WHY WE WANT TO CONSIDER A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING TODAY:

• Very many people, women among us, people that have responsible position (in the watchman) are now becoming part of the August meeting, becoming part of those associations for which, they persecuted us at the beginning. 
• Some of us may even be involved in the cultural renaissance that is sweeping through the places reviving the masquerade and everything that is happening. Some of us may be contributing money. Some of us may be doing so many things. 
• In the new yam festival, the villages and the people contribute money and some of us may be involved right now. Because we have reached a point where they now respect us. In fact, on that new yam festival day, they may give us prime seat in the high table. And we will become among the people. They will call us, “you see as you are running away, nobody will preach to us, come that day, be there and preach to us”, and you carry your Bible and go to do the new yam festival and to preach to them. In your mind that is progress and many more people are coming to your church, many more people are identifying with you. But, the age long strategy and wile of Satan is at it again. Church beware!

 

In Revelation 17:1 we see a case the Lord spoke so vehemently about. 

1. “And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: 2. With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
2. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of harlots and abominations of the earth. 6. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.” Revelation 17:1-6 (kjv)

 

The point I want to make from here is that there is a woman, the mother of harlots who is in charge of all the mixture of Satanism and Christianity. The woman is responsible for the worship of demons, the worship of Satan all over the world. Spiritual fornication is the worship of other gods. When this woman is accused of spreading fornication throughout the earth, the kings of the earth, and the inhabitants of the earth are learning fornication from her, what God is simply saying is, that it is this woman and her system that has spread idolatry in all the world and the kings in spite of themselves are flowing with that idolatry and the inhabitants of the earth in spite of their persuasion and knowledge of the scriptures are flowing with that fornication. 

 

The bible says she has made the earth drunk with the filthiness of her fornication and it made it clear who that woman is. The city that is surrounded by seven mountains, the city called Babylon and in history it is known. Check through the encyclopedias (Britannica, Americana, Catholic encyclopedia) there is a common understanding and knowing that religious Babylon is Rome. So, the system that we find in the world today, is a system of idolatry, very beautifully packaged and sold by this harlot the mother of harlots and every nation of the earth has bought this abomination. And the people that ought to know better have been hoodwinked, they have been terribly mesmerized and they have bought into the fornication of the whore. 

 

IGBO LAND IDOLATRY 

Today, those of us that are in Igbo land know that the life of an average Igbo man is regulated by the four principalities that rule the Igbo land. Igbo land is ruled by four principalities and they have equal share in their claim over the lives of the people. The four principalities are AFOR, NKWO, EKE and ORIE. 

These are principalities that are given charge, like the scriptures talk about the prince of Persia. These are the princes of the Igbo land, they rule over the life of the average Igbo man. You find their activity when you are talking about marriage ceremonies, you will discover that if people don’t take time, they will ignorantly be paying homage to these four principalities without knowing. When you go to marry for instance, and you yield yourself to the dictates of the people that are called “Ama ala” the traditional people. They will demand from you, if it is kola nut or yam it must be in multiples of four so that the four principalities will have equal share in that marriage. If you don’t know it, you will dance to their tune and you will be ignorantly paying homage to the four principalities. 

 

Every Igbo community has a market, that market is not determined by the inhabitants of the land. The market is determined by the deity. There is no community that will begin a market and they will say, “our market is eke or orie etc” No. It is simply eke if the eke principality has laid claim over the community. The market in Igbo land is a development around the worship of the deity in the land. In the days when traditional worship was going on, on that eke day, if it is eke principality that has taken charge over the land, people will come and they will come before the eke shrine and they will be performing their rituals and in the process of the worship of that eke principality, people can bring some things they have in the house and others will buy so that when they go home they will have food to cook and things like that. And as they are bringing things to sell on that day of worship, the market develops on that day. This is the development of the market places in the Igbo land. There is a big eke day that is for all comers, there is also the small eke day for the initiated, this comes up in four days’ time after the big eke day. These things are real and true. 

 

Therefore, in our lives we should watch out for these things that have to do with traditional religion. So that, in the things we claim we know; we now know God, we speak in tongues and all that, let us not be carrying the chains of Satan on our legs.

 

This same system of this whore has made the god of harvest known as the “Ahiajoku” in Igbo land  to now be a church thing. The “Iri Ji” the new yam festival is now a church affair, courtesy of the mother of harlots. It is now part and passel of the church, many people and possibly watchmen are now following them to observe. They have also made it a government affair and right now, it is a very intellectual day. The “Ahiajoku” day with “Ahiajoku” lecture with the celebrated and acclaimed academic gurus from the US, from Europe, from anywhere in the world coming to have some intellectual display. It is an exciting day for who is who in the land. We must understand that the “Ahiajoku” is the god of harvest; the god of yam which is the king of crops in Igbo land and all those things are done in obeisance to him. What we have is rituals to the gods behind the scenes and academic display on stage. And in the process, we entangle our souls and ignorantly worship what we know not what.

 

IDOLATRY OF CHRISTMAS

Among the idolatrous that has been introduced into the world by the mother of harlots, the one that has hoodwinked the whole world more than any other is the idolatry of CHRISTMAS. Only a few nations don’t recognize the Christmas celebration; Israel, China, Russia and a few others. The rest of the world recognize the celebration and they are happy about it. They see it as a symbol of Christianity, they see it as something that will identify us with Christ and things like that. The mother of harlots has made all the kings and inhabitant of the earth drunken with the wine of her fornication and that is the reason December 25th is called the Christmas day and is celebrated all over the world as the birthday of Jesus Christ the Son of God. The celebration is so popular among Christians of today that many don’t ask any question concerning this age long ceremony. But because of who we are, the Lord has raised up this movement (The Watchman Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement) to Bring Back Jacob (the church) that has strayed far from God back to God. And if we must bring Jacob back to God we must ourselves first come back to God, because you cannot give what you don’t have. 

 

TODAY WE WANT TO ASK QUESTIONS THAT HARDLY CROSS THE MIND OF MULTITUDES IN CHRISTENDOM. WE WANT TO ASK THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

• Does Christmas Day and the celebration of Christmas have anything to do with Christ the Lord?

• Was Jesus Christ born on December 25?

• Is December 25th Christmas celebration a Christian or Pagan festival?

• How did the Celebration of Christmas originate?

• What should be the attitude of a child of God towards Christmas and Christmas celebration and observances?

This last December of 2019, my inbox was full, many people were sending seasonal greeting. Many were saying merry Christmas. Some who are in doubts, they would say, “compliments of the seasons” and unfortunately, I received such text messages from some pastors of the Watchman, and some well place individuals who ought to be the people that will teach others the principles of the oracle of God. If they be ignorant, is that not then the light that has turned to darkness? And Jesus Christ said, “if the light is now turned to darkness, how great will that darkness be?” so we want to ask the first question.

 

ADDRESSING THE QUESTIONS

• Does Christmas day and the celebration of Christmas have anything to do with Christ the Lord?

The answer is this, Christmas day and the celebration that take place all over the world as Christmas has nothing to do with Jesus Christ the Son of God and savior of the world. Instead, the celebration is a pagan feast, a feast christened Saturnalia, in honor of the sun god, the god of the sun. This ancient pagan festival practiced long ago before Jesus Christ came into the world (in human form) was always done during the winter in the month of December and it climaxes on December 25, a day in ancient times observed as the birthday of Sol the sun God. Before Jesus was born for 100s and 1000s of years this Christmas celebration had started but the name it was called, was not Christmas, because there was no Christ then. It was called Saturnalia. This celebration goes with a holiday, that day is declared a public holiday from ancient times and that public holiday is transferred to it in our present day. Most nations of the world except very few have public holiday on December 25th and it goes with giving of gifts and presents just like when the Jews celebrate the mowing down of Haman in the feast of Purim, they give gifts, they give presents to people. That is how the celebration of Saturnalia is characterized by giving of presents and that is why today if somebody does not remember you during Christmas, that would be a forgotten memory that is too bad. 

 

During Christmas, many people endeavor to buy things and share to kids and kin, this is part of the age long celebration of Saturnalia in honor of the sun god. Decoration of the fir tree is done which today is known as the Christmas tree but that was a tree that was known as the emblem of worship of Sol, the sun god. It was also characterized by the use of flowers and berries to decorate the fir tree. There were dances, general colourful and cheerful festivities during the Saturnalia. This festival was so popular in ancient times that almost everyone in the Roman Empire was involved in it. The popularity of this celebration was just transferred into the Christian world. And without any fear of contradiction the Christmas celebration is the most popular feast in the Christian world.

 

• Was Jesus Christ born on December 25th?

The Julian calendar which was modified by Gregory and is in use in all the world. Majority of the world make use of the Julian calendar that was modified by Gregory. In that calendar it generally designated that December 25 is the birthday of Jesus Christ. So, December 25 is usually stated to be the birthday of Jesus Christ. But this statement is not only false but Satanic. 

 

Jesus Christ was not born on December 25 and could not have been. The bible clearly states that by the time Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judah, that there were shepherds in Palestine abiding in the fields keeping watch over their sheep by night (Luke 2:8). Throughout history or now no shepherd in Europe abides in the field by the month of December in fact from October ending the winter begins and if you have ever experienced the winter in Europe, you will know that it is not friendly at all. And so it was not possible that the shepherds could be outside during the winter. But the news of the birth of Jesus was given to the shepherds in the field while they kept watch over their sheep. And so brethren it couldn’t have been in December. 

 

Moreover, during that time Joseph and Mary had gone to their native land Bethlehem to be registered, but because it was during the feast of tabernacles when all the men of Israel from twenty (20) years and above were required to be in Jerusalem, all of Jerusalem and the neighbouring towns were overflowing with guests. This was the reason there was no place in any inn for them to lounge even in Bethlehem and they had to lounge in a manger. The feast of tabernacles from the Jewish calendar usually takes place in the seventh month. The seventh month of the Jewish calendar is September-October. You remember that their own first month is designated by their leaving Egypt, the Passover. The month they left Egypt is the beginning of months for them. Counting from there, the seventh month is September-October. Therefore, it is evident that Jesus Christ was born not on the month of December but on the month of September-October, whenever any person can locate the feast of tabernacles for that year that was when Jesus was born, because it was during that feast that he was born in a manger, it couldn’t have been on December.

 

• Is December 25th Christmas celebration a Christian or Pagan festival?

Christmas celebration on December 25 is not a Christian festival. It is an ancient pagan festival in honor of sol the sun god commemorating his birthday in the old Roman Empire. It has been celebrated for several centuries before Jesus was born. The catholic encyclopedia confirms this and I quote, “the well-known solar feast of natalis invicti the nativity or birthday of the unconquerable sun god is celebrated on December 25th”, this is the record of the catholic encyclopedia, volume 3, page 727 under the article Christmas. So, it is not a Christian festival, it is a pagan festival, and we’ve talked about the ingredients, euphoria, and urgies that goes with it, even the sexual urgies that characterize the Christmas celebration in our generation was part of what was used to the celebration. 

 

• HOW DID IT ORIGINATE? 

In the ancient pagan Roman Empire, the worship of the sun god was central in the life of the Roman citizens because it is believed that the sun is the ultimate source of life. These ancient people believed the sun god became a human being through a virgin mother and died and went to heaven. Thus the mother and son religion developed around the sun god with different name in different tribes and different countries. In ancient Babylon, the sun god is known as Tammuz and the mother as Semiramis, in the present UK and France in ancient times they were known as the druids, is known as virgo partitura or mother of god, and in India the mother is Issi and the son is Iswara; in Egypt, the mother is Isis and the sun is Horus; in Ephesus, the mother is called Diana (Acts 19:24); in ancient Assyria, the mother is called the queen of heaven (Jere. 7:15-18; 44:17-19). 

All these pagan worships and their festivals began to be brought into the church from the time of the reign of Emperor Constantine the great, 300years after the death of Christ. Constantine had professed to become converted to Christianity and had brought the Bishop of Rome and other Christian officers into his government and had compromised them with money and power. A one-time president of America, Abraham Lincoln, once said that you don’t understand or know the nature of human beings when they are in adversity, but when you trust him with power. When Constantine did this, they became compromised and gradually the person that was paying the piper began to gradually call for the tune to play for him and with time a lot of compromises were sought and obtained because when the king professed conversion, almost every member of the Roman empire became Christian and they followed him but none of them had encountered Christ, none of them had been genuinely born again. So they filled the churches but they were still holding allegiance to their gods to the point that from inside the Christian church in early morning worship as they gathered, when the sun would appear from the east, they will turn their faces towards the window in the east and they would bow to the sun god from inside the church auditorium. 

 

In the process of time, Constantine left Rome and went to found another capital somewhere in the present-day Turkey, Constantinople. From there, he began to rule the empire, but he put the Bishop of Rome to take charge and represent him in Rome. Then, the citizens, pagans that they were, they kicked and insisted that because the emperor was not just a king but a god in the roman mythology. He was also their chief priest, i.e. the one adjudicating the affairs of all the gods, all the shrines. So, when he left and went to Constantinople and placed the bishop of Rome there, the people kicked, and said, “no this person is a Christian, who will represent us? Who will be our chief priest?” they gave him the options of either abdicating the throne or to also accept to be the chief priest of the gods of Rome. Because he had tasted power and needed to retain power, he accepted to become the chief priest of the gods of Rome and so he was officially given a pagan title which the kings, the emperors used to have that qualified them to be the chief priest of all the shrines and gods of Rome, the “Pontifes Maximus” the supreme pontiff of the land. 

 

When this title was conferred on him, he was no longer just the Bishop of the church in Rome but also the head of all the pagan shrines in Rome. He combined the two; and having combined the two, there was now need for a compromise from the left and from the right for all the pagans to be converted to Christianity, you have to accommodate their culture because pagan religion determines the culture of the people, their way of life, things they do and things they don’t do. So to carry on with such responsibility he needed to bring the people to become one: Christians and their doctrine, pagans and their gods came together and that is what is known as the Roman Catholic Church. The mixture of Christianity and paganism. That is how it began. So the ceremony that was most popular, now all the celebrants are now in church, so it became a church affair. And they began to reason on how to package this thing to fit the picture of the Christian church. These people are celebrating the sun god and his mother and his birthday is on December 25 and the thing is so popular and part of the fabrics of the people. 

 

Now since, Jesus Christ our savior has a mother and he was also reputed to have gone to heaven after he died like that sun god in mythology was said to have gone to heaven after he died. The thing fitted and so they now began the celebration of the birthday of Jesus which the bible did not specify because it was not necessary. 

 

The book of ecclesiastics has earlier told us that the day of a man’s birth is not as important as the day of his death and Jesus Christ while he prescribed for us the celebrations to observe in church, he told us to commemorate the day of his death often and again until the day he returns. But he never mentioned celebrating his birthday. He himself did not celebrate his birthday, what he celebrated was his death day. On that day when he took bread and he blessed it and he broke and he gave it to them, he said, “take, eat, this is my body which is broken for you” and he took the cup and he put the wine and drank it and gave them to drink, he said, “this is the blood of the new testament which is shed for you for the remission of your sins and for the rest of the world”. He said that they should continue in that celebration to commemorate his death until he returns. That was what he gave us, the legacy he left. He didn’t talk about his birthday. But now because they needed to accommodate the pagans, they now said Jesus was born on December 25th and all the other things that were associated with it then followed. The thing was already popular so transferring the popularity to this one the church and every other person was very easy. This happened from 300AD and has lasted for 1770 and so many people don’t know the origin nor concerned to find out how it started, they were just born into it and continue in its celebration as a Christian festival. Ignorance of what it actually represents does not exonerate anybody participating in it, ignorance is never an excuse in law. Therefore you are given to know and recognize that the Christmas celebration is not a Christian festival

 

•   What should be the attitude of a child of God towards Christmas and Christmas celebration and observances?

 

Exodus 13:5-6 (KJV)

Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

God has taken up the people that are covenanted with him by the new birth. They are peculiar and distinct from the rest of the people of the world, and any attempt to jeopardize this distinction, God does not tolerate. What was the trouble of Saul during the time of Samuel when Israel chose a king for themselves? The children of Samuel had failed to represent their father appropriately and the people requested a king that they may be like order nations. God saw their action as a move to reject him. In other words, any attempt of any child of God to go be like other people, other nations to go be like the world, tantamount to a rejection of God. God told Samuel, “don’t bother yourself, they didn’t reject you by desiring to become like other nations it is me they rejected, so give them a king after their desire”. 

 

Firstly, to be accepted of God as a son or daughter, the Lord says come out from among them and be separate, touching not the unclean thing and I will receive you.  Also, we have seen that if you want to identify with the mannerism, the slangs, and lifestyle of other nations you make yourself qualified for being expunged from the Lord. Listen brethren, there are two kingdoms in loggerheads over the control of your life. On the one hand there is kingdom of God and on the other hand is Satan the adversary. It is the kingdom of Satan that has the value system of Satan, his thought patterns, his ways of doing things because for him white is black and black is white. That is why in todays’ fashion good is evil, evil is good. Decent things are no more considered so. So, if one buys a dress, he will have to tear it and patch it. You will have to use bleach and make it dirty and nasty. Before, when one wears a dress and it wears out, he changes it. But today in the factories, means are used to make dresses worn out and nasty and thereafter the prices are increased. Good is evil, evil is good; that is the kingdom of Satan. Dress is given by God for three reasons viz. For covering our nakedness, the second is for glory, for gravity, for you to look grave and responsible. But the majority of the world are wearing dresses that make them look irresponsible even married women that are heavy with pregnancies. That is what is on and reigning and so everybody wants to get involved including watchmen. 

 

In the hairstyles, the people of the world is leading the trends, the devil gives them a hairstyle and the celebrities among them popularizes and models it, and then everybody will begin to look for it. Harlots, married women and Christians will be wearing that kind of hair do. And lastly watchmen are now wearing that kind of hair do. Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate and touch not the unclean thing and I God will receive you and be your father and you will be my sons and daughter, but if you will not, you shall bear the consequence. Someone may ask, but where is it written in the bible, “thou shalt not plait with wool” and all that. But Jesus has the answer in Luke 16:15, he says don’t mind them, they are the people that justify themselves but God knows the heart, everything that is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. So that hair do, I want to ask you, who originated it, who is popularizing it, is it popular among men. If it is popular it is abominable in the sight of God. This was the verdict of Jesus and not just a minister or an angel. 

 

Time has come because we are about to break into the greatest revival in the Christian era. We are about to get into a time when all that the Lord has promised us, which he hath declared now and again through his servant, will come to pass.

 

The time of the fulfilment is now. This is the day of the Lord and it is characterized with a lot of good and evil. For me, I cannot think nor visualize myself having run this race over these many years, reaching the point of just one step and the matter is over, I will now be found by the side of the road, God forbids. 

 

Brethren, we have come a long way and so we need to clean our eyes very well, removing every clogs lest that after we will have saved others we become cast away. We need to be sure that we are not allowing the devil an upper hand in our lives. You need to be careful, the time of acceptance, honor and affluence is also a window to crashing. Let him that he thinks he stands take heed lest he falls. It does not matter who wishes me merry Christmas, I neither accept it nor associate with it. In fact because rice is the common food on December 25, you hardly eat rice in my house on December 25, I may eat any other day. I want to disassociate myself completely from it. If I bought new dresses for any person, I won’t give it during that period. I want to disassociate myself. Do you know why? Our vines have tender grapes, little foxes can spoil the vine. Any participation in any idolatrous festival is a grave sin against God. Whether you know it or not. You need to disassociate yourself, run for your life. We are at the point of catching the headstone of this mountain, let no person be cheated out. The greatest revival on earth, Jesus said this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the nations and then shall the end come. The end is waiting for this time, for this period and we have entered into that period of preaching the gospel, the period of unprecedented encounters with the God of heaven. That is what you are going to experience and find out in the places where you are. God is risen, he has come down to show himself strong. Let nobody allow himself to be cheated out, the devil is at the old trick again. If you cannot beat them join them. Don’t let anybody trick you, don’t let that your relation from overseas trick you. The devil is treacherous, he is wicked and has lots of strategies, don’t allow him to trick you, we have come a long way, cannot afford to lay by the side of the road. Ephesians 5:11 says, have nothing to do with the unfruitful work of darkness, but rather reprove them, separate yourself. 

 

Separation! that is God’s watch word. Jesus said, for yourself I sanctified myself that you may be sanctified that you might be separated. Speak to yourself from this day and stay aware of the necessity of separation (Sanctification), if you don’t sanctify yourself you don’t belong to him. If you don’t separate yourself from the world, friendship with the world is enmity with God. There may be different festivals in the place you are operating, they are idolatrous festivals, and have nothing to do with them. Don’t be involved in their festivities. There is a festival called the Halloween it is becoming popular, it has left America, it is now in Europe it is now making entrance into many other countries, the festival of witches, its popularity keeps growing, have nothing to do with them.