Hear Rev Owusu-Bempah again, always telling us how God will send down Death upon some people and the world. And when God speaks death into someone’s life, He does not speak of the natural death, but the eternal death. Never has he come from God with messages of hope. Is Owusu-Bempah truly God’s prophet?
On Tuesday March 3, this year, speaking on Anopa Kasapa on Kasapa FM, he claimed he prophesied the coming of the Coronavirus (Covid-19), but going back to his prophecy, he claimed on December 31, 2019 he never made any such prophecy. So if he prophesied after 2019, and the WHO first declared this disease to the world on December 31, 2019, then Owusu-Bempah cannot have made any such prophecy.
Then he claimed that God told him about the Coronavirus, but he found the name too hard a word to pronounce, so he left that prophesy. During his December 31, 2019 prophecies, he said that, as a prophet, God cannot tell a person to say something and he will say something else. That makes him a fool. Does this imply, with God telling Owusu-Bempah something and he refused to say it?
I am not here to analyse his December 31, 2019 prophecies, I am here to express my opinion on his April 22, 2020 prophecy that something more deadly than the Coronavirus (Covid-19) was coming.
His prophecy either hinged on what is being said about the second wave of Covid-19, which many experts are predicting would be more deadly than the first wave, or on some prophecies in the Book of Revelations about the end times.
If it is about what experts say of the coming second wave of Covid-19, then Owusu-Bempah had no prophecy.
It looks more like prophecies from the Book of Revelations, and here Rev. Owusu-Bempah contradicted himself, when he earlier said that this new disease will have no cure, and then came back to say that for a cure, nations will have to surrender their sovereignty to a new world system, led by the Anti-Christ.
When would the world end? No one knows, but one thing we know is that one day we shall individually die, and then this world will end for us. We must concentrate more on that hour and be prepared when the Lord calls us to account for our lives on earth. That is the most important, and not the global ending of the world.
Strangely, while science is looking at meteors and asteroids and the burning out of our sun as things that will cause this world to end, some Christians are seriously referring to the Book of Revelations as the Word from God that tells us when this world will end.
To the likes of Rev Owusu-Bempah, I wish to inform them that not everything in the Sacred Scriptures should be taken literally. Each book of the Bible is written under a certain condition and under a certain style. Also, and most important, is to go to the original text in Greek and Aramaic Hebrew to find out what exactly the writer stated before you can draw conclusions.
The translations from Greek and Aramaic Hebrew to Latin, then to English, has robbed off some important contents, if the Bible is read literally.
Take a typical word, “fool”, as an example. In St Matthew 5:22, Jesus warns of the dire consequences if one calls the brother “a fool.” However, in St Matthew 23:17, He calls the Pharisees, “fools,” and in St Luke 24:25, He called the two disciples on the Road to Emmaus, “foolish.” Literally, one can easily assume that Jesus was contradicting Himself, however, this is not the case. In the first case, Jesus was referring the word which describes another as a simpleton, stupid, senseless, or simply a fool as we know it. In the second and third, the writer was talking about someone who is ignorant, and an ignorant person is not “a fool.” For lack of finding the appropriate word, the translator settled on the word “fool.”
And again, one very contentious but important part of the Sacred Scriptures can be found in that part of the Lord’s Prayer, which we reverently pray, “And lead us not into temptation.” Scholars of Aramaic Hebrew say that was not what Jesus said in Aramaic. And there is proof in Jesus’ own words in St Luke 17:1 that “even though temptation is inevitable, woe to the one who tempts,” so clearly, God cannot tempt people to sin. The true translation from Aramaic Hebrew into Greek is: “And not make enter we in temptation.” This is how it can be found in the Modern Greek Bible which can be translated as“Do not make us enter into temptation.” In the modern Spanish Bible, this part of the Lord’s Prayer is prayed: “Do not allow us to fall into temptation.”
Now on the Book of Revelation, it was written and intended for the early Christians in Rome who were under severe persecution by the Roman emperors at that time. St John wrote it in apocalyptic literature using symbols, signs and numbers to communicate to the early Christians, who were the only ones who understood. The dragon, the four beasts, the Anti-Christ and the figure “666” referred to people and institutions which were attacking the Christians, and the prophecies on them have all come to pass.
Rev Owusu-Bempah’s “prophecy” has been “prophesied” over and over again, and even in recent times, when President Obama introduced the healthcare in the USA, it was said that people were going to be inserted with microchips, and this gave cause for some American Christians to “prophesy” the end times.
When the Covid-19 broke out, some Christians said the same things Rev Owusu-Bempah is saying here. In fact, we can conclude that this “prophecy” is very old, and one thing for sure, God will not destroy the world the way people think.
I will humbly appeal to such so-called men and women of God, that simple as the texts in the Bible are, it is not a simple book to just read and draw conclusions. There is the need to understand the conditions prevailing at that time, the mood of the writer, and the mind of the translator to understand the Word of God.
The first Anti-Christ has long gone, and the Anti-Christ around now is the one living in us. Whenever we do things against God’s Holy Will and lead people to do same, we are Anti-Christ, so Christians who support lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders (LGBTs), pastors who feed on their church members and live affluent lifestyles, while Jesus fed His followers and lived in abject poverty, are anti-Christ. In fact, anyone who professes to be a Christian but lives to do the very things Christ frowns upon and leads others into sin, is an Anti-Christ.“Rev Owusu-Bempah, please read and study the Sacred Scriptures very deeply, because there is a lot to learn and there are many things in the Bible you never knew, you never knew. This your prophecy, like many others, shall not come to pass.”
Author: Daniel Dugan
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect The Chronicle’s editorial stance.
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