2. Bishops' Action Morally Justified?
After the Bishops published their statement, many people who saw it as a witch-hunt criticized the Bishops. However, I read an article of one Denis Podorojni: "Bishops' Decision is Reasonable and Correct" (analytical study). Denis used the usual tactics to convince his audience: "The Lord spoke to me in a dream". Here is an excerpt:
These Bishops have been in Ukraine when the Embassy of God Church was being persecuted by all kinds of groups, including the Orthodox Church. Immigrants were being murdered and the blacks were being insulted. In July, 2008, there was a documentary on Pastor Sunday Adelaja that was aired on a public television station. In that documentary, there was a frequent flash of Tarzan jumping from tree to tree. The documentary portrayed blacks in general as monkeys and Pastor Sunday was asked to go back to his jungle. In some occasions during press conference, the audience would throw banana on Pastor Sunday (since to them he is a monkey). Some Orthodox people have claimed that Africans do not know anything about Christianity and that Pastor Sunday cannot come to Ukraine to teach them their "religion". Of course, they do not know that God is no respecter of anyone (1 Pet 1:17). If He can talk through an ass (Numb 22:21-34), He can use anybody to establish His purpose. He usually doesn't use people with such proud heart.
Anyway, this gang of Bishops witnessed all these persecutions and racial violence against Pastor Sunday and they kept mute. All of a sudden now, they found love and become sympathetic to the Embassy of God Church members. They do NOT have the moral justification to sit on the throne of judgement. They are serving their purpose and not God's.
The seriousness of what has been going on in Ukraine has motivated me to take time to carefully research the essence of the matter in accordance with the Holy Scripture (Pr. 18:14; 29:7) by using the opportunity of getting information from the internet and, of course, from the Bible. Had not God clearly talked to me in a dream a few days ago, I would have kept my opinion to myself. I received the conception of this study article point by point in my dream. I experienced something like that in the past only once, when God gave me an important sermon in a dream.Denis did not narrate his dream but he seems to be saying (mostly by his own analysis) that from moral point of view, the Bishops acted rightly. So, before I deal with the Bishop's point by point accusations, I want to quickly dismiss this moral justification.
These Bishops have been in Ukraine when the Embassy of God Church was being persecuted by all kinds of groups, including the Orthodox Church. Immigrants were being murdered and the blacks were being insulted. In July, 2008, there was a documentary on Pastor Sunday Adelaja that was aired on a public television station. In that documentary, there was a frequent flash of Tarzan jumping from tree to tree. The documentary portrayed blacks in general as monkeys and Pastor Sunday was asked to go back to his jungle. In some occasions during press conference, the audience would throw banana on Pastor Sunday (since to them he is a monkey). Some Orthodox people have claimed that Africans do not know anything about Christianity and that Pastor Sunday cannot come to Ukraine to teach them their "religion". Of course, they do not know that God is no respecter of anyone (1 Pet 1:17). If He can talk through an ass (Numb 22:21-34), He can use anybody to establish His purpose. He usually doesn't use people with such proud heart.Anyway, this gang of Bishops witnessed all these persecutions and racial violence against Pastor Sunday and they kept mute. All of a sudden now, they found love and become sympathetic to the Embassy of God Church members. They do NOT have the moral justification to sit on the throne of judgement. They are serving their purpose and not God's.
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