By Ihechukwu Njoku
Pastor Gabriel Ikpenwa was an avid advocate against controversial Nigerian Pastor T.B. Joshua, vehemently testifying that he was the antichrist, offering public prayers against him in crusade grounds and fervently discouraging anyone who planned to visit his church. However, in an ironic twist of fate, the man he had campaigned against and slandered religiously ended up being the one used by God to set his family free.
“I have actually preached a lot of messages against Prophet T.B. Joshua, as the antichrist of our generation,” Pastor Gabriel remorsefully told the congregation at The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) in Lagos, Nigeria during a Sunday service broadcast on the church’s television station, Emmanuel TV.
Ikpenwa, who was the President of Deeper Life Campus Fellowship in his university days as well as the President of Nigerian Corpers Christian Fellowship (NCCF), said that when the major Christian bodies within Nigeria, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) had publicly denounced The SCOAN and its leader, he adopted the same stance without questioning. “I took it upon myself as a leader of the youth to make sure that none of them would have anything to do with Prophet T.B. Joshua,” he stated.
He recounted organizing huge crusades for young people as well as being a regular guest speaker at mammoth Christian Union events. “You can imagine when a crowd has gathered and you handle such a message, psyching up the youths against T.B. Joshua as the antichrist. You can imagine the type of prayer that would happen in the crowd. We started casting and binding him.”
After leaving Deeper Life, Ikpenwa joined Redeemed Christian Church Of God (RCCG) as an Assistant Pastor while pursuing his medical career and managing his increasingly influential microfinance bank. Soon joining the ranks of young Nigerian millionaires, Ikpenwa decided to look for a wife to stand at his side in ministry. Meeting a beautiful young lady who was working as a model, the fiery pastor preached repentance to her. Moving closer to her, he did not know the deep spiritual entanglements he was about to engulf himself in.
As the pair courted, Ikpenwa had a strange encounter with two snakes who attempted to attack him in his house. As a date for marriage was set, he one day awoke to find a strange man in his house, who warned him to ‘leave that girl alone’. Shocked at the man’s entrance to his locked house, Pastor Gabriel attempted to hit him. His hand passed through the man as if he was boxing thin air and he mysteriously disappeared before his eyes.
The day of his marriage seemed to spell the beginning of his downfall. “I saw myself going down to a zero level after we married,” Ikpenwa stated, explaining that employees in his bank stole millions which led to its premature end. Ministry-wise, Ikpenwa admitted that he became ‘an administrative pastor’, confessing that he backslid in his faith and became someone merely “practicing religion, teaching people the Bible without the power.”
In the search for the deliverance of his wife who was regularly plagued with spiritual attacks, Ikpenwa remembered the man he had fought so hard against in the past. Despite banning Emmanuel TV in his house, an instruction that had been passed onto him by his superiors at CAN and PFN, Ikpenwa secretly began watching it. “I started matching the activities I saw with the Scriptures,” he revealed, deciding to go on an investigative mission to The SCOAN incognito to assess for himself.
“I wore jeans and put a face cap on backwards just to disguise myself because many people know me as a minister. I went to sit right at the extreme back to spy what was going on, not to participate in anything.” After the service, Ikpenwa returned to his home and told his wife that he had deceived multitudes about Joshua, acknowledging that he was truly a man of God. Upon this admission, the couple resolved to go to The SCOAN together.
As one of Joshua’s ministers, known as the ‘Wise Men’ passed by Mrs Ikpenwa, she started to react violently under the influence of a strange force. “That was how the drama started,” the preacher recalled. A demon within her began manifesting and subsequently confessed the atrocities it had caused in her life, including the downfall of her husband’s business, stating that it was her spiritual husband and Pastor Gabriel had ‘snatched’ her from him. At long last, she was ‘delivered’.
Pastor Ikpenwa pleaded with the multitudes he had deceived to forgive him, stating that he had turned many who would have come to The SCOAN for solution against it. “The place I said nobody should go to is the place where I finally received my deliverance,” he concluded.
Advising pastors, Ikpenwa stated, “Many of us men of God act by what the news tells us because the power and spiritual insight is not there. I told people to excommunicate Prophet T.B. Joshua because I believed that my leaders had done some findings about him and they told us not to have anything to do with him. I plead with other men of God to find out the truth before going ahead to form judgments”.
Ikpenwa’s wife testified that the strange dreams of being pursued by snakes and seeing a man sleeping with her had ended following the prayer and she enjoyed sleep for the first time in her life thereafter. She advised congregants to identify their problems, stating that such would pave the way for solution to come.
In his comments, Joshua stated that the persecution he passed through was actually a catalyst for his ministerial success. “I know the value of my trials… It’s a free advert,” the pastor said, stating that The SCOAN has no signboard or advertisement yet attracted congregants from around the world, making it one of Nigeria’s foremost tourist attractions. Citing an example, he recounted how it was the ban on televising miracles by Nigeria’s National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) that actually led to the birth of Emmanuel TV, currently one of Africa’s most popular television stations.
Cycle Mata
April 10, 2013 at 11:55 am
Golry be to God!
Cycle Mata
April 10, 2013 at 11:56 am
Glory!
xilai
April 10, 2013 at 12:03 pm
Tb joshua and the ‘delivered’ pastor are all satanists. We know this trick also used by thieves.
c y
May 8, 2013 at 4:23 am
It takes SATAN to know SATAN. I feel sorry for you . You need deliverance.Seek help at the SCOAN. AMEN
c y
May 8, 2013 at 4:26 am
THIS MESSAGE IS FOR SATAN XILAI. Are you not a thief yourself and the right hand man of Satan?
daniel tembo
April 10, 2013 at 12:17 pm
praise the lord.pipo of god including xilai buy a free to air decoder and start witnesing the power of god on emmaueltv.miracels are still happening.emmanuel
mubanga
April 10, 2013 at 12:41 pm
Amen and Amen
kabiyeni
April 10, 2013 at 12:46 pm
Iwe Xilai, u are a cursed generation. Praise be to the Almight Living Jehovah God for bringing Snr Prophet TB Joshua in our midst. We are really blessed and lucky to encounter TB Joshua.
We exhault your name Lord Father for bring this servant of yours who is really performing on behalf of the the Lord Jesus Christ and Jehovah GOD.
May GOD bless and protect TB Joshua for he is trully performing perfectly well on behalf of the Living God & Jusus Christ.
Amen, Emmanuel….
Kungfu
April 10, 2013 at 1:00 pm
I saw this event on Sunday. It was remarkable!! A lot of people claim TB Joshua is a satanist because of the miracles taking place at SCOAN. It was the same evil spirit that claimed Jesus was healing by demons. The devil cannot cast himself out! It would be a house divided against itself!!
Half Petticoat
April 10, 2013 at 1:03 pm
Now, deliver Kasonkomona.
CK
April 10, 2013 at 1:41 pm
May God deliver you xilai.
joelove
April 10, 2013 at 4:18 pm
Praise be to the Almight God. I pray that my friend XILAI repents and accept Jesus Christ as his lord and saviour. AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bashi Thabo
April 10, 2013 at 4:39 pm
its the more reason why the bible says count it all joy when u pass through divers temptations.God has a plan on how to vindicate His own,praise be to the LOrd.
ama Zambians ubututu!!!
April 10, 2013 at 8:22 pm
Joshua is just a crook!
c y
May 8, 2013 at 4:29 am
so are you Ama.
ama Zambians ubututu!!!
April 10, 2013 at 8:24 pm
Its just another scam!!
El pocho
April 10, 2013 at 11:52 pm
I chose to believe the Bible not i see or hear. Matthew 24:24.
Ricoche
April 11, 2013 at 2:14 am
All praise and glory belong to God alone not to a human being.
ben 2020
April 11, 2013 at 4:38 am
Iwe kabiyeni you will be very disappointed when you hear what happens on the background.Check what happened to Benny Hinn.
Wils
April 11, 2013 at 10:41 am
I watched part of the testimony. God is indeed God.I and my family we believe in God and in his word. If u believe in the word of God signs and wonders wil follow. T B JOSHUA is a man of God. watch emmanuel tv and yo life wil never be the same
Stephen
April 11, 2013 at 11:24 am
God is God and he uses his prefered men to perform wonders. Lets not fall into temptations by condemning annointed Man of God. What is best for Jesus Christ is best for us too. A big Amen for that mirracle in the might name of Jesus Christ.
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kaluwe
April 18, 2013 at 7:47 pm
be a douting thomas til the end of time!
Merari Chabinga
April 27, 2013 at 10:05 am
I thank the Loard for raising a prophet like TB Joshua in our generation.indeed the book of Act never ended with amen. Papa we are praying for you and maney are we by your side than those againest us.
mikky
May 1, 2013 at 1:34 pm
Thank God for a prophet like T.B Joshua. Preaching and teaching the word with power. Preaching the gospel of love. I hope Xilai will come back here to give his testimony as well one day.
survivor
May 6, 2013 at 7:00 pm
Pipo, why is it that these ‘men of God’ can never perform miracles that can be substantiated eg restoring a congenitally withered hand like the Lord Jesus Christ did? Y is it always headache, ear-ache, demons, etc? The Bible in 1 John 4 says test the spirits. I prefer a pastor who preaches salvation unlike using mass hypnotism to mislead vulnerable and gullible pipo. I may be wrong but like the Bereans in the book of Acts, I’d rather search the scriptures even after being taught.
Musonda
May 14, 2013 at 8:11 am
Cursed is the day Xilai was born!
Elga Ndashe
May 20, 2013 at 3:30 pm
TB Joshua is anointed of God. God chooses to do thing in His own style and according to to His pleasure.That man will stand and his Ministry will blossom because it is God in charge.He falter as man or human being but is truly a man of God.School or going to bible college does not qualify one to be a pastor!That is why we have so many thieves in church who are involved in numerous scandals seen and unseen. Those who speak against TB Joshua have fallen or they are struggling in their Ministries.Please use of anointed water is exactly what took place in acts when Peter and fellow disciples would pass through places and their shadows would bring healing to the sick.This is bible! God cannot be confined in within human dimensions.Do not blaspheme against the Holy Spirit!Do not bring the name of the chosen one into disrepute.If you cannot be used of God to heal because of your unfaithfulness or lack of anointing,ask God and desire to serve Him with a sincere heart.God will give you the desire of your heart.We have so many people in church behaving like Pharisees,Sadducees and High priest. They denied the deity of Jesus Christ and ended up sending Him to the cross.It was already too late for them to unwind their lies.Today they still claim Jesus`s body was stolen and He never resurrected!That lying spirit is still alive to day. We are not supposed to judge anybody!God has already established a day for judgement and not man. A fake man of God is the one who keeps on talking about other men God in the negative.This is very common among people who have not been called or have lost it.If you know TB Joshua is fake as a man of God,have you ever gone to him or communicated to him to rebuke him?Why have nt you summoned him as council of elders to ask him to explain things.You would rather stand in front of innocent people and start disparaging. It is very annoying to see the many so called mature and elderly clergy denouncing fellow pastors. You have to stop immediately and repent. This is what they call hatred and this comes from the father of lies.Let us pray together as a nation and be correctly be guided by God himself. It is not everybody to determine who is who. God uses the foolish things of this world to confound the wise. Be careful what you listen to.If any body castigates a man of God be it a father from Roman Catholic or Elder from Watch Tower be careful.You can only pray for ailing brothers or speak to them directly without malice. If you have sufficient evidence and the conviction of the Holy Spirit that this person is fake then you can speak to correct the situation or the area where things are not right.May God bless you all and may the power of God reveal who the devil is and his intentions.Refuse to be deceived and receive Christ as your personal Saviour for believing in the lies of men.TB Joshua you are truely a man of God and we are seeing the entire world getting delivered and the name of the Lord Jesus Christ reaching the four corners of the earth. Go he therefore and preach the gospel.In Jesus name.AMEN
george
May 23, 2013 at 2:03 pm
though a religiouse christian i believe God is working in the prophert.please please i need deliverance like this man.
Chanda Chimbwi
May 23, 2013 at 2:20 pm
Geepaz! this TB Joshua is indeed a big fish. Now this small time wanna-be crook pastor has also fallen under his spell.
samuel
July 8, 2013 at 10:12 pm
the ministry of tb joshua has revealed Jesus to me more than the bible.pls lets be led by the holy spirit not by self and intellectual.happy birth prophet tb joshs thanks for humblying urself under the leading of the holy spirit. listen brothers and sisters in christ when romans 12vs1 says we christians should present our bodies unto God.God is saying give me ur bodies i want to use it for my purpose so when u do so u will know christinty is not a religion but a relationship wit God the via Jesus christ the son and the communion of the holy spirit.pls christians we are called to preach good news not bad news why have some of us allow satan to give us the ministry of condemation towards the church of God. unbelivers are critising us and we christians are critisiting our selfs too bad satan is a bastard. use that energy and money preach good news not bad news.that ur energy is for soul winning not critisism. call me 08037521202
anko c
July 9, 2013 at 3:10 pm
All those doulting de man of god will b fogiven with all yo devil mind he z god gifted