SACRILEGE! Worshipper gives used condom as offering in church

chorus from members of the congregation
whenever it's time to give offering in most
churches.
To most Christians, the offering time is,
indeed, a time of immense financial
blessing. But recently, the offering time
turned into a moment of hot curses in a
Lagos church when an already used
condom, dripping with semen, was
discovered inside the offering box after the
Sunday service.
It was like a weird dream, according to the
former Chairman, Pentecostal Fellowship of
Nigeria (PFN), Ogba Zone, Prophet Tobi
Okonkwo, who witnessed the incident. The
cleric said he couldn't believe his eyes when
a discarded condom, with stains, was
discovered in an envelope in the offertory
box of his former church.
When Pope Paul VI warned on June 29,
1972 that the smoke of Satan had entered
the church, not many Christians took the
warning seriously.
With this recent incident, Okonkwo admitted
that the agents of darkness had infiltrated
the churches in large numbers and now
occupy high-ranking positions in the
gathering of God's children, where they
wreak untold havoc on the unwary flock.
Okonkwo, who is also the General Overseer
of Living Word Prayer Assembly, Agege,
Lagos, wept over man's ingratitude to God
during a recent monthly thanksgiving
programme of the church, tagged Manna
from Heaven.
Although the service was a joyful moment
where the shepherd distributes food items
and other gifts to his flock, his startling
revelation brought a hush of silence on the
congregation.
His words pierced the hearts of the
worshippers, as he explained how man had
become ungrateful to divine benevolence.
His several instances of the atrocities
committed in hallowed places pointed to the
fact that messengers from hell now walked
about freely in hallowed places. "It is really
bad.
It has got to a point where some people
come to the church to mock God. They are
anti-Christ but they still go to church. You
could imagine how somebody came to the
church and decided to give a used condom
in an envelope to God.
You can see how wicked man has become,"
he said. Okonkwo said the giver of the
abominable gift refused to confess his
crime, even when the entire church rained
curses profusely on whosoever was
responsible.
He said, "A curse was laid on the person.
Even before the people laid the curse, God
had already seen the abomination
committed in his house by someone, who
pretended he came to the church to
worship God."
The former PFN leader warned other
members of the church of the reality of the
anti-Christ, whose reign would usher
ungodliness in the world. He lamented that
prosperity message has taken over the
pulpit at the neglect of the gospel of
repentance, which had enslaved many
hearts in pleasure and love of the world.
According to him, most Christians hunger
for sermons that promise easy wealth,
while rejecting teachings that encourage
chastity, discipline, endurance and
faithfulness.
"The style of the anti-Christ is to mock Jesus.
Many Christians today are crucifying Christ
a second time. It's really sad and
unfortunate," he said. The cleric decried the
approval of same sex marriage by different
countries, describing the constitutional
recognition accorded to such couples as an
indication of the reign of anti-Christ in the
world.
Rather than milk his members dry,
Okonkwo said he introduced a programme,
Manna from Heaven, to feed the flock of
Christ with the little he could afford. He said
the programme involved sharing of bags of
rice, noodles and other foodstuff on equal
measures to all the members to inculcate in
them the love for sharing and concern for
their suffering neighbour.
Okonkwo also berated some pastors who,
according to him, start Christian ministries
and involve themselves in dubious things all
in a bid to acquire wealth and fame. He said
such ones worship money as their god. "For
them to get money, they end up preaching
prosperity.
Salvation messages are not often on their
lips. The church is not supposed to be a
business but most people have turned it
into a business.
It is quite unfortunate," he said. Aside the
sacrileges committed in churches, Okonkwo,
who had earlier predicted the emergence of
Jonathan as President during the ailing days
of late President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, also
frowned at the various scandals rocking
political offices and other sectors of the
economy.
He said most Nigerians have lost the sense
of sanity, citing the many cases of
corruption in the country. According to him,
no day passes without the disclosure of one
fresh set of financial scandal or the other.
He lamented that the financial blood of the
country was being drained by some
thieving elite with no interest of the masses
at heart. Although Okonkwo foreclosed the
chances of possible disintegration of the
country, he warned corrupt leaders to
repent or face the wrath of heaven.
According to him, only selfless leaders
would bring the nation back from the brink
of monumental crisis and repair the ruins
caused by corruption and bad leadership in
the country.