"And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite for I have provided me a king among his sons.

"... And he sanctified Jesse and his sons and called them to the sacrifice.

" And it came to pass when they were come that he looked on Eliab and said, Surely the Lord's anointed is before him.

"But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature because I have refused him, for the Lord seeth not as man seeth, for man looketh on the outward appearance but God looketh on the heart.

" Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. Neither has the Lord chosen this.

"Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by, And he said, Neither hath the Lord chosen this.

" Again Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the Lord chosen these.

"And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest and behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him for we will not sit down till he come hither.

" And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the Lord SAID, ARISE ANOINT HIM: FOR THIS IS HE."

      ( I. Samuel 16:1,5b-12)

"Thus saith the Lord God, Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.

" I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is;and I will give it him"

      (Ezekiel 21:26,27)

"Behold I carry in my hand a bottle of oil and I look through the length and breadth of Nigeria seeking for a man to be the leader of this nation. Lo, I have found a man and I have anointed him as the leader of this nation saith the Lord".

        - (Prophesy, 1984)

Give ear O heavens and I will speak; and hear O earth the words of mouth.

  I will speak in parables and I will speak in knowledge to those who have knowledge to reveal things hidden and darken to the sons of men, to those who have eyes to see and ears to hear.

  Sons and daughters of Nigeria, lend me your ears and eyes. What I say today you may not yet understand but you will see the full consequence at the fullness of time because the survival and destiny of Nigeria hang on this.

   You stand this day, yes this week, to make a choice where there are no choices. I wish you well in your undertakings. May the will of the Lord be done in Nigeria.

  My message this morning is simple and brief. It will be a witness to this nation at the fullness of time. But before then there is need for an understanding.

ISRAEL AS A TYPOLOGY

I want to use biblical Israel as an example or model. The institution of kingship in Israel was not God's perfect will, it was allowed in His permissive will. He was the King of Israel, but when the people demanded for a king to be like other nations God obliged them.

Israel's problems began that day.

  Saul was the first anointed king and within years of coming to the throne, he floundered the authority given to him and lost the kingdom. Then the analogy above and David were enthroned. Then Solomon...

 Soon the kings of Israel became so ungodly and wayward that they led Israel astray and ultimately to captivity in Assyria and Babylon.

  It was so bad. Israel asking for a king - a type of democracy, then or people government - was not a plus but a minus to the nation. Viewed now in retrospect Israel's asking for a king was a monumental error, a fatal mistake.

  But whatever was written is for our learning. Man's original error at the Garden was to be independent of God or to think he could do anything outside of God.

Today, nations of the world believe they do not need God, that they can choose their leaders their own way, and also remove him when they no longer needed him. Soon, however, the nations of the world will discover the folly of trying to do anything without the consent or approval of the Almighty. Soon the world will discover the folly of trying to run the world without the One Who created it.

  Back to Nigeria.

What I will say today cannot be seen by all and can be deciphered only by the few. The words of prophets differ from ordinary words.

  I will speak plainly where I can speak but in parables where I must because there is something I have been commanded not to say.

NIGERIA IN CRISIS

 If there is one thing Nigerians now all agreed about - it is that we are now in a crisis. Except for those who do not know due to lack of basic education or those who have been destroyed beyond repair by mediocre education and also those who are benefitting from this lying and fraudulent government, this is the conclusion from my discussion with several people across ethnic and religious divides.

  A crisis is a medical term. Most people often forget this. It means the point in the life of a patient "at which a decision could be taken whether he lives or dies".

   That is where Nigeria now is. That is why we need prayers, intercessions, and deep cryings to Heaven to intervene. What happens on Saturday may not change anything, it may worsen the problems. The two leading contestants are no solutions, they are part of the problems. What the Spirit said is that there is no difference between them, in essential terms. I for see a stalemate. I foresee a crisis around this election. Either during or after. Let us pray fervently that the will of the Lord will be done.

  Soon I will show you His will.

DEMOCRACY: 20 YEARS AFTER: SO FAR, SO BAD

In Strategic Management there is a study called Zero-based thinking that is based on an introspective examination of cost-benefits after a period of time. It goes like this:

* Knowing what you now know about this person or that person would you still have engaged him?

* Knowing what you now know about your wife/ husband after 20 years of marriage would you still have married him or her, or would you still say that he is the will of God for your life?

* Knowing what Nigerians now know of APC would they still have voted it in 2015?

Now it is time for Nigerians to take that study and subject democracy to it. I ask all Nigerians today to answer these questions sincerely and honestly with the facts available today not sentiments:

* Knowing what we now know today about democracy, especially the Nigerian brand, would we still have gladly welcomed it in 1999?

* Can anyone in honesty say today that Nigeria is better in 2019 than it was in 1999 before the advent of democracy?

I put Nigerians in remembrance of the following facts for their consideration and to ponder on:

1. More money has come to Nigeria in the last 20 years than in the previous 38 years. But we are in worse debt today, our currency is weaker today, the purchasing power of the average Nigerian is lower today...

2. Even though more money has come in form of windfall, Nigerians are poorer today than in any period in living memory. The windfall came but it was the children of disobedience who squandered it and Nigerians still pay more for fuel even today.

3. Are Nigerians more secure today than in 1999? Some Muslim fanatics beheaded an Ibo man in Kano during the Abacha era. When Abacha got to know, he sent his hit squads after those fanatics, and one after the other, they were mowed down. No fanatic dared him henceforth. Even when he removed the Sultan, the head of all Muslims in Nigeria no one dared to confront him. Today, however, farms are not safe, highways are not safe as herdsmen and kidnappers are on rampage and the government that should confront them is the one defending them through euphemism and other silly logic. ( Not that I am saying Abacha is the best way to go, no but he was alive to his security responsibilities)

3. Vices are rampant today. Occultism, ritualistic orgies, murders, deviants, and gangs going about snatching ladies' pants at gun points. And politicians, who are largely cult men themselves don't bat an eyelid.

Suicides are now becoming common among Nigerians many have lost hope in the nation. Those who cannot take drastic actions spend time in joints drinking to forget their sorrows...

Now, it is time to consider the journey that we have taken in the last 20 years. Is God on this journey with us? Have we left Him somewhere? Why is it that every government installed since 1999 has always been worse than the previous ones? Is this not a sign of walking in the permissive will of God? Remember Israel. Every government or king installed was always inferior to the previous one, minus some exceptions til finally they ended in Babylon the house of bondage. Nigeria is headed for Babylon, economic Babylon, and political Babylon unless God intervenes and stir us away from the course we have chosen.

ABACHA WAS THE LAST

Let me now say this as a go into the heart of this message.

Abacha was the last Head of State that God actually approved. All the others after him have been by His permissive will. He just tolerated them, He did not choose them. Nigerians chose them or they were imposed on Nigerians and God allowed it.

  I will explain.

After the annulment of the June 12 election, the International Conspiracy with local forces was to create wars in Nigeria or use Cameroon against Nigeria. God needed someone strong enough to wade off these manipulations. Abacha was that man. Sure he did some evil things but worse things would have happened if there had been wars in Nigeria. More people would have died and the damage done would be worse than the evils Abacha must have singularly done.

  Now the irony is this.

The fact that God chose you does not mean you will do well or do everything He chose you for. There are callings, there are core callings. Jeroboam was called and ordained by God and yet he mislead Israel. Solomon did the same. King Saul did the same. The fact that you are chosen by God is no proof that you will do well.

This is what I want you to see. Abacha began well but along the line, he was overwhelmed and faced with enormous opposition from within, and without above his intellectual abilities, he turned to the only thing he knew well: force and violence. It was Napoleon who said: "Force made me what I am and force will sustain me."

  However, Abacha was supposed to lead Nigeria to the perfect will of God.

JOSEPH IS COMING

Abacha was supposed to be the last of the era of leadership Nigerians have been having since Balewa. After Abacha, 'a Joseph' was supposed to emerge to lead Nigeria. The circuitous, wilderness journey, unprecedented corruption, and Antichrist leadership of the last 20 years would not have happened.

   Instead of Joseph, it was an Antichrist that was imposed on Nigeria by the evil trinity made up of Occult Nigeria ( the occultic formations of Nigeria especially in Yorubaland and  Iboland), the Harlot Church, and the military hierarchy both retired and in service.

The Harlot Church? The Highway Church that has committed fornication with all the kings of Nigeria! The wise will understand.

  All the occultic permutations that were done to ensure that Obasanjo emerged in 1999 have been exposed and are now in public domains. The live cows that were buried in each state and the occultic rituals to see that he got there by all means. This is the reason why democracy has not benefitted Nigerians but a few. The very foundations of democracy have been polluted with occultic rituals. The effect is what we are witnessing today. More bloodshed has occurred in the last 20 years than in the previous 38 years outside of the Civil War. And this is the beginning. Nigeria will see worse bloodshed in the years to come if she does not make efforts to reconcile with Heaven and make way for this Joseph, this David that has been waiting outside for years tending sheep while usurpers and antichrists are on the Throne.

An antichrist's major aim is to supplant, to present himself as the real one. So they supplanted Joseph and instead of a Solomon, they gave Nigeria an Adonijah. Instead of Joseph they installed a Pharaoh or is it Potiphar?

  Now my brethren look back and see the journey in the last 20 years and consider how it has been.

  Nigeria has been derailed from the path of prophetic destiny. Our best bet is to get that man ordained by God, that Joseph, that David, that Moses, that Solomon.

  I will explain this later.

I WARN THIS NATION TODAY NOT TO FURTHER WASTE PRECIOUS MONEY AND TIME LOOKING FOR LION AMONG THE GOATS, LOOKING FOR THE LIVING AMONG THE DEAD.

  Democracy will not produce that Joseph or David. Democracy will only produce more antichrists. Those who have ears to hear let them hear the words of wisdom.

      The main reason, however, was that God's man, Joseph wasn't ready in 1999. Just like God took Israel to Egypt because the land was not yet ready and the iniquity of the Amorites was not yet full.

   Now the iniquity of the Amorites is full. The cup of judgment is full. God's time has come in Nigeria. You must now make way for Him to have His choice or Nigeria will enter into serious troubles.

DISTINGUISHING, DIVINE RECOGNITION: HOW YOU WILL KNOW THE JOSEPH

How shall we recognize that Chosen One, foreordained from the foundation of the world? That Joseph, that David, that Solomon full of wisdom, that Moses with God's Rod of authority.

   I cannot leak God's secrets. But I can say one or two things by which you will recognize him.

1. He will not promote himself or sell himself or draw attention to himself. All the 4 names mentioned have one thing in common - Joseph, Moses, David, and Solomon: they never sought the kingdom or power. In fact, they were forced into it. This is the first sign. Anyone who seeks power for himself is neither Joseph nor David or Solomon, he is a Pharaoh or Adonijah. I see even some pastors now claiming to be the ones to rule Nigeria. One of them once claimed God told him theJoseph is coming "from the side of the North " but now he wants to rule himself. When a Samuel is claiming to be a David or desires to be a David, then you know he is neither.

  By this sign, none of the 90 or so names is the one or others waiting in the wings.

2. The second sign you will know him is that he is coming from the spiritual seed of Joseph Babalola and of the Family of Faith planted by God through the 1930 Revival. He will come from those churches.

3. Watch out when he is installed, his first words, and emphasis will be RIGHTEOUSNESS.

4.  HE is a man of learning and he will emphasize learning and education.

WHAT IS TO BE DONE

Our task at this moment is to continue to wait and to intercede for the emergence of this Joseph, this Chosen of God. This is our best and honorable service for now, not by engaging in Vanity Fair.

COMING SATURDAY

What then should we do on Saturday? Someone will ask me. Of course, you should go out and vote as your spirit dictates. But be mindful of one fact: you are not electing a Joseph but to choose among the Sauls, the Adonijahs, and the Absaloms...

  Once that understanding is there it is okay.

Pray seriously that there will be no stalemate and that a crisis that may lead to greater Terror and bloodshed will not occur after this election. Nigerians should fervently pray that they will not be ruled by someone they did not vote for and will not witness Abacha II.

   These are very dangerous times for Nigeria. May the Lord see us through.

  But the ultimate is to pray for that Joseph to come. That is God's Perfect Will for Nigeria at this time. Every other thing is the permissive will of God. Now is the time for Nigerians to seek the Lord for His will over this nation. Enough of going in cycles.

    If this nation rejects this message a time of crisis is coming in future that nothing will be able to assuage it. In fact, I see this nation burying leaders in quick succession if care is not taken. From now on the seat of power in Nigeria will become dangerous for anyone who is not his portion to be there.

   Overturning is coming. Until Joseph comes.  Listen to the words of the epigraph:

" I will overturn it... Until he comes whose right it is and I will give it him".

In the days to come, there shall be overturning. Many are looking on Adonijah to rule but it will not happen because Solomon is coming to take it "for it was his from the Lord".

  At the appointed time Nigeria will realize and remember this.

  The turban will be removed. The Modern Language translation of verse 26:

" Remove the turban and take off the crown; change is in the process... "

Until Joseph comes Nigeria will fall from one crisis to another.

"I will overturn, overturn, overturn the kingdom so that even the new order that emerges will not succeed until the Man appears who has a right to it. And I will give it all to him". ( Living Bible )

Those who have ears to hear, let them hear.

APOSTOLIC MESSAGE #37

 A MESSAGE TO THE NATION OF NIGERIA

by

Moses Oludele Idowu

© Moses Oludele Idowu ( February 10, 2019)