UNFOLDING STORY OF THE GLORIOUS CHURCH

FOREWORD

This book, titled The Unfolding Story Of The Glorious Church, has been written on the instruction of God the Father, who also gave its title. It contains basic facts about the Glorious Church, such as the reason for the Church, its objectives and principles, its organisation and operation, its standard of behaviour, as well as reward for excellence and punishment for shortcomings. This revised edition has been necessitated by the need to incorporate new facts which have come to light since the maiden edition.

The Glorious Church is not a local church or church organisation but a dispensation of the Gentiles during which God will restore man to what He initially intended for him in the Garden of Eden. God’s intention for man was, among other things, a life of truthfulness, holiness and righteousness, good health, longevity and financial abundance. In such a life, there will also be great demonstration of the power of God. Unfortunately, Adam and Eve lost all these through disobedience in the Garden of Eden. The Glorious Church is a worldwide phenomenon which will start with a complete removal of everything that is not of God in individuals and nations. Subsequently, there will be a restitution of all things, as was said by Peter in Acts 3:21.

God has revealed to Berachah Church of God that the Glorious Church is God the Father’s greatest project in the universe. God promised to build for His Son, Jesus Christ a Glorious Church as reward for His role in the salvation of mankind. The propagation of the Glorious Church would have been an assignment for the Jews but they lost the privilege because they rejected the Son of God. Consequently, God turned to the Gentile nations, not because of their righteousness but because He had so ordained it (Isaiah 65:1-7).

Virtually everything in the Glorious Church will be new and without precedents. There will be new teachings, wisdom, knowledge and understanding – all coming under the unction of the Holy Spirit.

The contents of this book are divine revelations received so far concerning the Glorious Church. More facts are expected to be revealed with time. This is why the book is titled, “The Unfolding Story Of The Glorious Church.”

If there are doubts in the minds of any readers, they should, please, enquire from God in prayer, or approach the publishers for clarification.

May God bless and guide you as you read.

PASTOR ASHAMMAH GODWIN IMMANUEL

Head Pastor, Berachah Church of God.

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

What Is Gloriousness?

Gloriousness is a state in which mankind would have become sinless and in which his behaviour would approximate that of God in the observance of holiness, righteousness and truthfulness. Because sin has been removed from his being, the devil will no longer be effective in keeping him under bondage and afflicting his life. He will be in good health, enjoy long life, prosper and dominate the world, as God had originally intended for him. The curse of hard labour, poverty, affliction and pre-mature death would have been removed and man will enjoy a very close relationship with God. In such a situation, mankind will become united, with the Holy Spirit leading and guiding in all matters. Christians will worship God in spirit and in truth, with holiness, righteousness and truthfulness as guiding principles.

The First State Of Gloriousness

Adam and Eve were the first to enjoy gloriousness in the Garden of Eden. Unfortunately, they lost this glory through disobedience and mankind became estranged from God who cursed both the land and man. Thereafter, the devil took over dominion of the earth, afflicting and oppressing both man and land to an extent that God did not intend.

Redemption Of Mankind By God

Because of His love for mankind, a time came, when God, felt it was necessary to reconcile man to Himself. He achieved this reconciliation by the sacrifice of His only begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus came to the world in human form, suffered enormous deprivation and degradation, and eventually died a shameful death on the Cross of Calvary. To fulfil His role as the redeemer of mankind, Jesus lived in absolute obedience to the will of His Father suffering and enduring all things. God was so pleased with His performance that He glorified Him, crowned Him in the order of Melchizedek (God’s High Priest in heaven) and promised Him a glorious world as reward.

The Jews Fail To Embrace Gloriousness

Despite the fact that Jesus Christ was a Jew and that His earthly ministry was among the Jews and on Jewish land, the Jews failed to acknowledge and recognise Him as the Messiah. They even conspired against Him and plotted His death. After His death and resurrection and the subsequent display of God’s power by His disciples, a majority of the Jews still failed to accept Him. The early christian movement which was championed by His disciples did not receive the support of the Jews, especially among the ruling class and nobility – the Sanhedrin, the Pharisees and the Sadducees. That early church was full of the Spirit and power of God. Its members lived in love and fear of God and in total obedience to the teachings of Christ, observing the principles of holiness, righteousness and truthfulness. Indeed, it was because of the high spiritual level of this church that Ananias and Saphira died for daring to tell lies to Apostle Peter (Acts 5:1-10). The rejection of this movement by the Jews cost them the opportunity to embrace gloriousness. The subsequent inability of the Jews to embrace this budding christian movement towards gloriousness was because they had, in their bid to get Jesus put to death, placed a curse upon themselves and their children (Matthew 27:25).

In the foregoing circumstances, and in fulfilment of His statement in Isaiah 65:1, God had to turn to the Gentiles as an alternative. He says:

“…I am found of them that sought Me not; I said, behold Me, behold Me, unto a nation that was not called by My name.”

The book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 32:21, also speaks as follows of this shift from the Jews to the Gentiles:

“They have moved Me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked Me to anger with their vanities; and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.”

This is why the building of the Glorious Church now going on at this end-time is regarded as a dispensation of the Gentiles.

CHAPTER 2

THE BUILDING OF THE GLORIOUS CHURCH

What Is The Glorious Church?

The Glorious Church may be described as a universal dispensation that is led by the Gentiles and which will usher in a new world order in which men and women, all over the world, will attain the gloriousness of God through holiness, righteousness and truthfulness. In physical and material terms, the Glorious Church will, at its full blossom, be characterized by such pleasant features as good health, long life, fruitfulness, financial prosperity and great demonstration of the power of God in every sphere of human endeavour.

At this stage, the children of God will control world politics, finance, education, commerce and industry, and so on. Eli (God the Father), is the Sole Administrator of the Glorious Church, the building of which is His greatest project in heaven and on earth. This is in fufilment of His promise to build for His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, a Glorious Church that will have no spots, wrinkles or blemishes, as reward for the role He played in the salvation of mankind after the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and the consequent loss of their gloriousness (Ephesians 5:27).

In empirical practices and observances, the Glorious Church follows the footsteps of King David of Israel – a ruler whom God described as “a man after My own heart” (1^st Samuel 2:35). This is why the ideology of the Glorious Church is known as David Ideology and is characterised by absolute trust in, and reliance on, God in everything, and by the constant expression of appreciation and gratitude to God through songs, music and dancing, as King David did. The code of conduct of the Glorious Church is based on Psalm 15.

The Church aims at the removal of all that the devil has introduced into the world, the cancellation of the curse placed on mankind by God the Father, following the fall of Adam and Eve, and the retrieval of the wealth of the world from the children of the devil.

Other features of the Glorious Church include non-collection of offerings at ministrations, new dating system, new medicine and new science, new writing and new language, new laws, abundant wealth, instant judgement and punishment, new marriage pattern, shorter gestation periods for babies, leadership by women and the absence of death. The explanation of these features will be found in Chapter 3 of this book. Ultimately, there will be a full restoration of all things, in preparation for rapture, as stated by Apostle Peter in Acts 3:20 & 21.

Why The Story Of The Glorious Church Is Regarded As Unfolding

God, who is mysterious and all-knowing, does not usually disclose His programmes in full at once. Rather, He dispenses the knowledge of His programmes to His trusted servants step by step and stage by stage. With regard to the programme of the Glorious Church, it is only He who has the full blue-print or master plan of the project. The contents of this book are revelations which have so far been received from God. More facts are expected to be revealed with time. This accounts for the unfolding nature of the story.

The Process Of Achieving The Goal

Deliverance

To make the world or mankind glorious, there is a need to completely remove everything that is not of God in individuals and nations. The process of doing this will logically involve the cancellation of the curse placed on mankind in the Garden of Eden by God the Father.

The sequence in this cancellation would be to first cancel the curse placed on the land and thereafter proceed to cancel those placed on individuals. Since every curse emanates from a covenant or agreement with the kingdom of darkness, all covenants binding both the land and individuals to the devil and his agents will first need to be broken. Thereafter, the curses will be cancelled. The covenants and their associated curses which currently affect both land and individuals arose from agreements entered into by our forefathers with the devil. In this way, generations yet unborn are made legal captives of the devil in their ancestral environment as the covenants and curses become binding on all offsprings from that ancestral setting. Even when they travel out of their ancestral homes to reside elsewhere, they are still subject to the operation of the covenants and curses. These covenants and curses differ from place to place and from individual to individual.

The need to first break the covenants and cancel the curses on the land is to remove the root of what fuels the covenant and curses in individuals. The covenant and curses on the land have the effect of polluting virtually everything in the land – foods, culture, tradition et cetera. Without first breaking the covenant and canceling the curse on the land, any covenant broken or curse cancelled on the individual has the possibility of being renewed as the individual eats the food of the land or engages in other activities of the land.

Following the breaking of covenants and cancellation of curses, the individual can now be taken on deliverance which, among other things, often entails vigorous warfare prayer over a period, as may be stipulated by the Holy Spirit. The process of warfare uproots and pulls down all that the devil has installed, to enable the planting of the will of God (Jeremiah 1:10).

After deliverance has been effected on an individual, the person will strive to maintain it by living a holy, truthful and righteous life so that the demons will not return. The word of God says that upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance and holiness and the children of God will possess their possession (Obadiah verse 17).

Deliverance And Africans

Deliverance is the core activity of the Glorious Church. With regard to Africa, it is even more needful because of what the devil has done to pollute its land and people. The devil did this in order to thwart God’s purpose for the black race. The devil knew that it was God’s intention to largely use the black race for the spiritual liberation of mankind from satanic bondage. For instance, the devil made Africa to be known as the Dark Continent, entered into spiritual covenants with its people and made it his headquarters. He introduced the phenomena of demonic husband and demonic wife into the lives of Africans, ensured that only African women have fibroid and that only Africans suffer from sickle cell disease. The devil did all the foregoing to make Africans lose favour with God and cause Him not to use them. This situation of Africans was compounded by the fact that their forefathers had covenant to worship the devil through idolatry.

Through the process of deliverance it will be ensured that mankind is purged of all demonic attributes and that he remains cleansed and sanitised for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. The consequence will be that human beings will begin to be Christ-like in their thoughts, words and deeds. When this happens, the world will become glorious.

Sellira – The Shaking Of The Nations

There is no doubt that as of now, many people will tend to regard the idea of world gloriousness as utopian and impossible. They cannot conceive how it is that man can become sinless. However, nothing is impossible for God to do. As already mentioned, the building of the Glorious Church is His personal and special project. He has made a promise to His Son and He will surely fulfil it because He is not a man that He should lie, and He has also lifted up His word above His name. In addition to what deliverance can accomplish, how He will make the entire world fully glorious for His Son remains His prerogative. But from what He has disclosed so far, He will carry out a great judgement and shaking of the world, during which everything that is not based on Jesus Christ including human beings and physical structures will be destroyed. This implies that everything satanic and devilish will perish while those things based on Jesus Christ will survive. This phenomenon referred to in the scriptures as the shaking of the nations is called Sellira by God and the occasion of its happening is referred to as The Night of Nights. God has, in fact, revealed that this great shaking will start from Nigeria. Following this event, all who survive will be gripped by the fear of God and all who never knew him will seek and worship Him. God has revealed that 50% of the world population will be consumed by this impending event. There are biblical precedents of, and references to, Sellira, such as:

1. The destruction of the world at the time of Noah (Genesis 7:10-14).

2. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:24 & 25)

3. The warning about Sellira by Apostle Paul (Hebrews 12:25-29)

4. The warning by Prophet Malachi (Malachi 4:1)

In this way, the prophecy of Haggai that the desire of all nations will turn to God would have been fulfilled (Haggai 2:7). In other words, Sellira will ensure the ultimate unity of the body of Christ which is the entire world.

New Scheme In Procreation

Another programme of God towards making the world glorious is what may be regarded as a new scheme in procreation. First, as part of the general restoration of womanhood, God has cancelled the curse He placed on woman in the Garden of Eden with regard to labour pain at child birth.

Second, He has begun a scheme in the Glorious Church whereby pregnancies for single birth of girls will last for a period of 6 months, for single birth of boys 7 months, and for twins and triplets (of whatever combination) 9 months. The purpose of this is to quickly replenish the earth, after Sellira, with human beings who will be amenable to obedience to the will of God. The above gestation periods do not apply to special babies referred to as Miracle and Minento babies. The special significance of these babies is that their gestation periods, judging from experience gained so far, range from 18 to 52 months. At Berachah Church of God, many women have already been blessed in this scheme. Another attribute of these special babies is that they are considerably free from what may be referred to as Adamic nature – a carry over of the stain of sin which originated from Adam and Eve. Indeed, God has said that the Minento baby, is completely free of Adamic nature. A further attribute of these special babies is that they have such accelerated physical, mental and spiritual development that they can become mature for marriage at the age of 12 years.

Fourth, there will be no menopause in the Glorious Church and women will still give birth even at the age of 65.

Fifth, in addition to the foregoing, there will be no more barreness in women in the Glorious Church.

Laws, Rules And Regulations

Since no project can be implemented without rules and regulations to guide its operations, God the Father who is organising and building the Glorious church, has so far given a number of rules and regulations to guide the conduct of its affairs. Such rules and regulations have been treated in subsequent chapters in this book.

CHAPTER 3

SOME FEATURES OF THE GLORIOUS CHURCH

Some of the features of the Glorious Church may be explained as follows:

(i) Non-Collection Of Offerings

God has directed that no offerings should be collected in the Glorious Church. Accordingly, no offerings are collected during ministrations or at any other forum. However, members may make voluntary donations to the work of God as the Holy Spirit may lay in their hearts. In giving this directive, God made reference to what He said to Moses in Exodus 25:2:

“Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring Me an offering; of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take My offering.”

(ii) New Dating System

The current dating system of the world is highly polluted by the devil in order to enhance his mission of killing, stealing and destroying. He introduced his own dating system to change lives and destinies to suit his own purposes. For instance, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday and Christmas Day are traditionally celebrated on days that are very significant to Satan and which the Holy Spirit has revealed are not the authentic dates of the events. Consequently, God has directed that the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ should now be celebrated and renamed as follows:

- Birth: “9^th day of the 9^th month” and now celebrated on the 9^th of September as Welcome Day.

- Death: 2^nd June now celebrated as Atonement Day

- Resurrection: 6^th June now celebrated as Liberty Day

- Ascension: 16^th July now celebrated as Glorification Day

(See the book “The Grace Of the World” for details on the authentic dates of the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ).

At the full blossom of the Glorious Church, a complete calendar will be in place in which months will be twenty one days, a year will be nine months and months and days will bear new names.

(iii) New Marriage Pattern

In the Glorious Church, God has given a new marriage pattern which must commence from the starting point that both the man and the woman must expressly be pronounced to be the will of God for each other. The following are the differences between the new pattern and what we know as the traditional christian marriage:

- there is no period of courtship, in the sense that is traditionally known. The period between the time they are pronounced as God’s will for each other and the actual date of the wedding, is controlled and monitored to ensure that any contact between them does not go beyond “good morning.”

- there is no pre-marital sex

- the dates of engagement and wedding are exclusively fixed by God without interference from any party.

- the engagement process is as determined by God who appoints those to visit the family of the bride with such gift items as He has approved and what amount of bride price to present. The period between the engagement and the actual wedding is usually a week.

- the authority of parents and relations in deciding if the marriage will hold or not, is not recognised because the will of God overrides.

- God stands for both the bride and groom as their Father during the wedding proceedings.

- there is no room for Court marriage because there can be no better guarantor of security in marriage than God who crafted and sealed the marriage.

- the marriage vows in the Glorious church speak of enduring “till the day of rapture” instead of “till death do us part” which implies as already mentioned, that there will be no death in the Glorious Church.

- there is a “marriage meal” made only from flour, honey and olive oil instead of a “wedding cake.”

(iv) New Writing And New Language

God has said that the present languages of the world are polluted by the devil for his own purpose and that, at the fullness of the Glorious church, He will introduce new languages and a new writing. As of now, bits of the new language come forth when some servants of God are under the unction of the Holy Spirit, while some have started writing in the new language.

(v) New Laws

God intends to introduce new laws in the Glorious Church. In fact, He has started giving statutes based on Psalm 15 which is the code of conduct of the Glorious Church. In this connection, several of God’s laws will be found in subsequent chapters.

(vi) Abundant Wealth and Prosperity

One of the covenant names which God gave to Berachah Church of God is Eli Hellina which means God of all goodness, abundance and progressive prosperity. God has promised that the Glorious Church will be abundantly wealthy to the extent that He will make a generous budget for everyone. The value of such a budget will be very much enhanced by the fact that there will be no afflictions to deplete the budget in any negative directions. The wealth of the church will come from such sources as:

- Hidden Manna: The manna is referred to as hidden (Rev. 2:17) because it is at this time that God will fulfil His promise made as follows in Isaiah 45:3:

“And I will give thee treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am God in Israel.”

- Forces Of The Gentiles: This is the wealth that God will cause the Gentile nations referred to in Isaiah 60:5 to bring to the Glorious Church in exchange for minerals which will not be available in their territories but for which they will be prepared to pay dearly:

“Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.”

(vii) Unprecedented Miracles

The era of the Glorious Church will be one of great miracles some of which the world had not seen before. Sicknesses hitherto thought to be incurable will be cured; human body spare parts will be miraculously available to replace such organs as lost eyes, wombs, legs, breasts, teeth and so on; and the dead will be raised.

(viii) Instant Judgement And Punishment

At the full blossom of the Glorious Church, there will be no compromise with failure to conform to the principles of holiness, truthfulness and righteousness as no dent, spot, wrinkle or blemish will be tolerated. Stealing, fighting, immorality, gossiping and backbiting, murmuring, grumbling, lying, and gaffing of roles are all instantly punishable. Various rules and regulations which appear later in this book contain details of such punishments.

(ix) Leadership By Women

God has said that women will lead the world to gloriousness at this end-time. It took a woman (Eve) to put the world in bondage. The devil has since continued to use women in the kingdom of darkness to oppress and afflict the world. God has decided to use the same women to liberate the world and lead it to gloriousness.

(x) No Death

God has promised that there will be no death for anyone in the Glorious Church who worships Him in spirit and in truth, who observes the rule of God and who obeys the principles of holiness, truthfulness and righteousness.

There is no doubt that as the story of the Glorious Church continues to unfold; many distinguishing features of the church will emerge.

Restoration Under The Glorious Church

Although Jesus came to reconcile mankind to God and retrieve all that Satan took from the world, mankind has not yet fully enjoyed all that Jesus died for on the cross of Calvary. For instance, it is often said that by His stripes we are healed; He became poor that we may be rich and so on. These conditions have not been so enjoyed by the body of Christ. Therefore, liberation from satanic bondage will be in the vanguard of the restoration of mankind. When this happens sicknesses, poverty, and other afflictions of the devil will be eliminated.

Womanhood has suffered great bondage and affliction under the devil. This extended to slavery, oppression, maltreatment, deprivation and molestation under man. The liberation of womanhood, in order to restore her to the position which God had ordained for her, is one of the cardinal points of restoration under the Glorious Church. Indeed, God intends to use woman who played so much role in placing mankind under satanic bondage to liberate the world from that bondage. This is why God has said that women must lead at this end-time.

The liberation and restoration of womanhood, followed by her liberation of the world will bring in its wake the restoration of various other things in the world. Things will no longer be as the devil, who has so far dominated the world has made them to be. There will be new knowledge in science and medicine, architecture, agriculture and technology. The current dating system and calendar which have been designed by the devil for his own purposes will change and trees, crops and foods that have been polluted by satan will be eliminated and replaced by new ones. The world will experience restoration in spiritual, human and material terms as well as in all spheres of human endeavour.

CHAPTER 4

BERACHAH CHURCH OF GOD

(THE BEGINNING OF THE GLORIOUS CHURCH)

The church started in 1993 with ten persons (seven men and three women) who came together to pray to God concerning their various problems. Quite unexpectedly, the spirit of God began to manifest in their midst to an extent they had not experienced before. They started receiving strange revelations during which God directed them to organise themselves as a church, with the name Berachah. This name which means valley of treasure, is found in 2^nd Chronicles Chapter 20 verse 26.

It may be necessary to point out that when the church started, it was not immediately known to the pioneers that it was the beginning of the Glorious Church. It was not until 1995 that God revealed the church as the God-head church. Thereafter, He gradually revealed that it was the beginning of His building of a Glorious Church for His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.

As the beginning of the Glorious Church, Berachah is privileged to be at the forefront of the propagation of the Glorious Church. As the God-head church, God the Father, is its sole administrator. Berachah is the first physical expression by God at this end-time towards the fulfilment of His promise to build a glorious church for His Son. It is a centre where the normative laws, rules and regulations of the Glorious Church are put to practice, especially in the training of its pastors.

From the group of ten who started the fellowship that developed into the church, God chose a leader as Head Pastor, (Man of God), who also is the main covenant holder of the church. Through the church and its leadership, God is constantly revealing doctrines, rules and regulations to guide the Glorious Church towards the achievement of its objectives. Since the Glorious Church is a universal phenomenon, Berachah Church Of God stands as the major channel for, and depository of divine messages concerning the building of the Glorious Church.

Berachah Church of God is unique in the sense that it is a training ground for pastors who will propagate gloriousness all over the world. All, who currently belong to the church, are designated by God as pastors, irrespective of whether or not they have any previous knowledge of the word of God. This implies that pastors of the Glorious Church are not theological but Holy Spirit pastors. For the past nine years, a crop of men and women have been training at Berachah Church of God as pastors under the tutelage of the Head Pastor and the over-all guidance of God. More recently, the wife of the Head Pastor, (Woman of God), who is now the Spiritual Leader of the Glorious Church, also got seriously involved in the training of the pastors, especially the women.

Apart from sermons, counselling, guidance and deliverance by the Man and Woman of God, the training takes the form of direct teachings from the Holy Spirit (SIAT), as well as mouth-to-mouth dialogue sessions with God during which pastors can ask God any questions and receive answers. These pastors will be considered to have graduated when God is satisfied with their performance and grants them the anointing to operate. Their role is not to establish local churches but to serve as tools of God for the dissemination of gloriousness all over the world.

Leadership Of The Church

As already mentioned, Berachah Church of God is led by a Head Pastor, who is also the Leader of the Glorious Church. To assist him is a Deputy Head Pastor and a Spiritual Leader. Also to assist in the leadership of the church are Team 10, Council of Pastors and Supervisory Elders Council and a Church Administrator.

These organs enforce the policies of the church, as made by God the Father. God the Son is in-charge of miracles in the church while the Holy Spirit takes care of teachings and revelations. Thus, what happens in the church is not the work of any man but that of the Holy Trinity. The division of the church into groups, the grading of members (pastors), the appointment of committees, commissions and councils are divinely done.

Location Of The Church

Currently, the administrative headquarters of the church is at Marine road, Apapa, Lagos while the spiritual headquarters is at Opi, near Nsukka, in Enugu State of Nigeria. There is a branch of the church at Amukpe, near Sapele in Delta state of Nigeria. God has said that the Amukpe branch enjoys only His permissive will, thus implying that there is a possibility that it could be relocated. In this connection, Kokori, also in Delta State, has been mentioned as a prospective branch.

At the full blossom of the Glorious Church, the administrative headquarters will move to a place to be called Gilgal, which will be outside the Lagos metropolis, along the Lagos-Ibadan express road. At full development, Gilgal is expected to occupy about 25 kilometers square of land.

There are no permanent structures at the current administrative headquarters. Ministrations and other activities are carried out in tents. Since this is the way God wants it to be, it implies and confirms that the administrative headquarters is merely temporary, and stands only as training ground for pastors of the church.

Opi, which God pronounced the spiritual headquarters of the Glorious Church in the year 2001, has the first physical structure of the Glorious Church - a two-storey building to be used for residential and administrative purposes. Berachah Church of God is also at Opi with converts who are being ministered to by pastors from Lagos and by a standing contingent of pastors in training. The spiritual headquarters in Opi will be known as Mount Saaye. Like Mount Sinai of the Bible, new laws, and other pronouncements from God concerning the entire world will emanate from Opi. As the spiritual headquarters of the Glorious Church, Opi is indeed, the spiritual headquarters of the world.

The Covenant of Berachah Church Of God

Since God starts every dispensation with a covenant, so has He done with the dispensation of the Glorious Church. For example, to Abraham He was Jehovah El-Shaddai; to Moses, I AM THAT I AM; and to David, Jehovah Rohi. Because Berachah Church of God is the beginning of the Glorious Church, its covenant is the same as that of the Glorious Church. Reference to the covenant of the Glorious Church will be found in Revelations Chapter 2, verse 17, which reads as follows:

“To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.”

The covenant names that God has so far revealed to Berachah Church of God are as listed below:

The Covenant Names

Eli - Father

Eli Adasi - God of increase

Eli Adonai - God-head and master of all

Eli Celluti - God of celebration

Eli Gbongbodo - God of battle

Eli Hellina - God of all goodness and

progressive prosperity

Eli Inglomico - God of praise

Eli Jelili - God of authority

Eli Kadose - God who can do all things

Eli Ladidi - God of restoration

Eli Lamila - God of procreation

Eli Langrodi - God of purity

Eli Maletua - God of healing and spare parts

Eli Manoah - God of creation

Eli Maraba - God of fulfilment

Eli Marini - God of dominance

Eli Opopo - God of light that is brighter than the sun

Eli Palo - God of truth

Eli Petroni - God of unity

Eli Procolita - God of words and revelation

Eli Rabboni - My God, My Father (exclusive to Jesus and Seria)

Eli Renna - God of records

Eli Rhumani - God of holiness

Eli Saaye - God of abundant life and light

Eli Sabitona - God of honour

Eli Santoma - God that answers expressly

Eli Sanuma - God of righteousness

Eli Sasia - God who uproots evil from the root

Eli Sellina - God of unprecedented miracles

Eli Sellira - God of judgment and destruction of evil

Eli Sellusia - God of solution

Eli Seridai - God of organisation and orderliness

Eli Setua - God who creates spare parts

Eli Sherima - God of new scientific creations

Eli Ziddi - God of mercy

The covenant names collectively denote the extent to which God has committed Himself to stand by the church in matters both spiritual and physical ranging from express answer to prayers, miracles, prosperity, procreation, healing and the absence of death. In addition to the foregoing, most of the features of the Glorious Church relating to such issues as David Ideology, tithes and offerings, marriage pattern and warfare prayers also pertain to Berachah Church of God.

In view of the high standard of behaviour expected of pastors of the Glorious Church, the difficulty of observing the rules and regulations of the church is the main reason why many pastors-in-training drop out and leave the church. To cover up their inability to conform to the demands of holiness, righteousness and truthfulness, many begin to make excuses by calling the church names and organising campaigns of calumny against it. At a point, attendance at the church was over 12,000 but has dwindled to less than 1,000. Indeed, God is not looking for large numbers. He has said that He requires about 300 steadfast pastors to propagate the Glorious Church. The competition is tough, the price to pay, much, but the reward is high.

CHAPTER 5

THE OBJECTIVES OF THE GLORIOUS CHURCH

The specific objectives to be achieved in the course of making the world glorious were spelt out by God in a message to Berachah Church of God on 29^th August, 1999. These objectives are reproduced below:

The Objectives

i. I ordain you to uproot everything that the devil established in the world physically and spiritually.

I will expose them all to you. I will give you the anointing, not only to expose them, but also to destroy and eradicate them completely from the world.

ii. You are to set free all those who are bound.

Tell them that, “Jesus is Lord; there is no other Messiah or Saviour than Jesus. If you want to be raptured, come to Jesus.”

iii. You are ordained to tell the world why the whole Church is faulty and why the Church has not been able to achieve all that Jesus died for. Tell the world there is a solution, and give it to them. Restore them as well.

iv. Lands that are cursed and trees that are planted which the devil has used to destroy My own will disappear from the earth through you. New fruits and vegetables will come to the earth. You will introduce them from nation to nation. This is the tenet that you will preach.

There are trees I created whose uses the devil has perverted. He has used them in a very negative manner. I will not allow them to be in existence anymore. You will explain this to the world.

v. You will go and reveal secrets and hidden riches to the world as I have revealed them to you.

You will remember that I told you that when We (The Trinity) were in the Garden of Eden preparing Adam, when he fell there were lots of things We hid. If We had not hidden them, the devil would have taken them as well. We were determined to make sure that the devil would have no access to the finances and wealth of the world. You are the ones who will show to people where those riches are hidden in their lands. They are all over the world but I put a big veil upon them. If man had known about them, the devil would have taken them from him, because man has covenanted himself to the devil, and so the devil takes whatever he has. You will show to them where the hidden riches are kept and give them the technology to use them.

vi. You will take stolen goods or stolen riches from where the devil kept them in the hands of his children. You will tell the world where they are kept, seize them from the devil and give them back to man. You are treasurers. You will bless My own.

vii. You will tell the world no other religion of man, be it Buddha or Abdur-ul-shin, can save.

I am not the One who sent Mohammed. The god that called Mohammed is not God who called Jesus. You will tell the stories of Buddha, Abdur-ul-shin and of all other religions including that of Islam. You will tell them. The stories are not in the Bible; they are in My Renna. I will open their eyes. Miracles will take place. You will ask them: “You have been serving people but they are dead. You must have heard of several nations we have visited, which are glorious and wealthy today. They are doing so well. Now, call on Abdur-ul-shin, Buddha, Mohammed and others and see if they will hear you and deliver you. We are not serving the same God.”

viii. You are to make sure that the desire of all nations comes to My Son, Jesus.

There is no Saviour like Jesus Christ. He is the only One who died and shed His precious blood to cleanse the entire world. You will ask the world: “Who died for you?” You will say: “All those people you are following today were sinners. A sinner cannot save another sinner, neither can a blind lead the blind. Only Jesus is the light - the Day Spring from On High; the Sin Bearer; the Willing One; the One who came in the volume of the book that was written concerning Him to do His Father’s Will; the One who did all things well; the One who conquered death and has the keys of hell in His hand; the One to whom God has committed judgment on the last day; the One who is coming back to rapture His own! He will not allow them to perish.”

ix. The Glorious Church is to take away democracy from the world and establish My Rule.

My Rule is the glorious rule. It is David Ideology. It is theocracy.

x. You will take away the evil science and medicine of the world.

xi. You will take away the evil languages and writings of the world.

xii. You will take away things that the devil had used to bind mankind to take them from Me. You will give to them all things free of charge.

These are the objectives of the Glorious Church and they will be applicable all over the world. I promised to restore the world before Jesus comes back. Through Peter in the book of Acts 3:21 I told the world that Jesus Who was coming to Me would remain with Me until the entire world was restored. Everything has to be restituted. I will restore what was stolen right from the Garden of Eden. The entire world will be glorious. If not, My Son’s death would have been in vain. He died, yet sinners are still in their sins while those who come to Me cannot live above sin. Before you came this morning, you had sinned. As you are here, your thought is wandering. You do not have power to overcome sin - which should not be.

This is why I say the Church must be glorious. The Church is not yet glorious. When it is glorious you will overcome sin. The world will be enjoyable and be one. Christians will be united and will enjoy all benefits of the death and resurrection of My Son, Jesus. They will bless Him everyday and wait for His glorious advent during rapture to take them home. You are My own. These, in a nutshell, are the objectives of the Glorious Church. I call them the objectives (the focal points of the tenets) but in your own language they are the gospel of the Glorious Church. This is what the Glorious Church stands for. It is so simple.

CHAPTER 6

THE STATUTES OF THE GLORIOUS CHURCH

Statutes are the umbrella laws of an organisation under which subsidiary laws, such as rules and regulations, are made. In giving the statutes of the Glorious Church to Berachah Church of God on 28^th August, 1999, the Holy Spirit spoke as follows in a preamble:

I have given to you the gift and power to do My work. I will now give you new statutes. I have counselled you according to the power I have given to you. I have told you what will make you excel and the areas where you will fail if you plunge into them.

The implied reference to old and new statutes relates to the New Testament statute under which christian churches have so far been operating (the old), and the current statutes now being given at this end-time to the Glorious Church (the new).

The Statutes

i. Your Calling Is Not To Establish Local Churches

I have explained your calling to you. You now know the calling and vision of the Glorious Church. I did not call you to establish a local church. As you get the anointing, know you are not going to establish a local church. When you do it, you establish your doom. I gave you details of your calling - how you will work for Me. I warn and plead with you, avoid rat race and envy. Do not cross from your grade to another grade. I am coming to grade you before the graduation day. Remain in the grade you belong to. You will excel wherever I put you and I will give you the anointing to excel.

ii. Adhere To All Laws

Every law I gave to you must be strictly adhered to. I gave you rules concerning the conduct of the workers. Anyone who violates the rules invites instant judgment by the Disciplinary Committee.

The sins that easily beset you include rudeness, insolence of diverse sorts, cursing, venom through the mouth and lack of respect for leaders and elders.

iii. Punishment For Offenders

If you oppress new members and speak rudely to them, if you fight physically, quarrel or steal, you will be given six months suspension instantly. The offender will abandon everything he is doing in the church. Bring the person in front of the congregation on a Lordsday. Tell the congregation. “This is what he or she did, and according to the injunction of the Holy Spirit he is hereby going on six months suspension from all duties. Only bid him farewell. Do not have communion with him; do not eat, chat or fellowship with him. Isolate him, so that he will repent and know the gravity of his offence.” There must be no spot or wrinkle. My people are coming. I have told them that I have a place of gloriousness. Do not let them come and find that you are rude and insolent; that you are not courteous, that you are quarrelsome; you are a fighter or a thief. Ex-communicate whoever is a thief. Never accept a thief back until after one year. If someone is excommunicated and comes back, do not accept him back until after one year.

iv. No Lending Of Money

I give you today a new statute. Avoid lending of money to one another. If you are in problem, do not borrow money. I know this is one of the areas where the devil will make you uncomfortable. If a brother comes to you and ask you to loan him N1,000, tell him, “I am sorry, you know what Eli says about lending of money; I am following Eli’s instruction. If you need money for food, clothing, transport or you want to do something urgently I have this N200, N300, N400 or N500, et cetera, I give it to you; or, I cannot loan you N1,000 but I have N1,000 to spare. I give it to you. God bless you. I know God will reward me.” Avoid lending and borrowing of money, especially among the women.

v. Do Not Buy Stolen Goods

When I give manna, (financial and material blessings) you will find different people coming to sell things in Berachah. They will stay outside the compound. They will not come in. Some who come in will have their wares in their cars. They will tell you, “Let me show you something.” I warn you ahead, beware of such people. You know the ones I send to sell things in Berachah. You know them. If you want to buy things, go to the shops. The devil will bring stolen goods to sell to you so that people can insult and disgrace the Glorious Church. I am God; I warn you. Do not allow the devil to use you to bring spot, blemish and wrinkle to the Glorious Church. Do not buy wares that are hidden in their cars. Go to the open shops and buy things. I am God of legality. Do things in the acceptable ways.

vi. No Credit Sale In My Vineyard

Those whom I ask to sell things in My vineyard will never sell on credit to you. I have already given guidelines for buying on credit. If you want to buy on credit, they will not give you the goods until you finish paying.

vii. Ask Eli Before Pregnant Women Are Admitted

I am your God. If strange pregnant women are rushed down seeking for the mercy of God, you must ask The One I Send. I saw a great multitude of pregnant women rushing in. It is not all of them that I send; the devil will send some to you to bring spot and wrinkle to this place. I warn the Maternity Team; when they come in tears and you see them as upper class women, you may be thinking of what they will give to you and therefore allow yourself to be used as a spot. When such women come, make sure that you hear from My servant. As My servants are about to leave the vineyard, I have the ones upon whom I will pass My Spirit. Only that will be their job. There are two women with clean hearts, who have nocriss-cross and ogodi in their hearts; the ones that marine cannot pollute. They will hear from Me clearly. You must go to them to ask from Me. Once I say ‘No’, you will pray for the woman and say, “Our Father said we should not admit you in this place. Wherever you are going to, I anoint you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Jesus will be with you. You will deliver safely, in Jesus name.” If you do not hear from Me, do not admit them. Send them away. Maternity team, take note. I repeat this. If you do not hear from Me that you should accept her, do not admit her for delivery. I am your God. I will guide you.

viii. Caution As You Receive The New Crowd

I am your God. Workers and others are coming. It is only the group that I ask you to receive that you should communicate with. Groups are coming to say they have heard what God is doing; that God has asked them to come. Do not embrace them without hearing from Me. When they come, they have the form of God; they will come as angels of light. The devil will send such batch of people to you. They will come with laughter and all kinds of things. You will hear them saying that they were once in this type of church but have packed up there. They will say God sent them here. Tell them, “Hold on, we are going to ask the same God. We will ask God whom we serve whether He is the one who asked you to come. Even if He asks you to come, He will give us details about what we will do with you.” I am God. Do not be carried away and jump into their midst. I am your God.

ix. Relationship With Returnee Berachaites

Ex-Berachaites are coming in full. I am the one who is bringing them, but I forbid you to have close fellowship with them. This does not mean that you should not answer their greetings but that you should not start visiting or being friendly with them. They must be sorry for what they did against you. I brought them here to see that you are disciplined. Tell them; “Sorry, this is the instruction that our Father gave to us; I have gone through several cleansing while you left in search of gold. God has finished cleansing me and given me power along with gold. I will not allow you to pollute it for me.” I do not forbid you from blessing them but avoid friendship. I guide you. I am your God.

x. Beware Of Looted Or Stolen Property

I tell you in order to prepare you before that time comes. A time is coming when something will happen in this country, and property will be looted. I am God. I am about to bless you. I did not give you the money to buy looted and stolen property. If you do it, you are mortgaging your life. Security forces will arrest, shoot and kill you. Do not buy such property or accept that they be kept in your house. Do not go yourself and loot either. I am your God. I guide you. I have spoken to you in detail before. It will happen so suddenly. You would want to forget that I told you that those who stole and nuqwuet this country must be punished. The time is coming for their punishment. They will be running helter-skelter. Do not go and buy their houses. They will put out their things for sale. I warn you, do not buy. Whatever they took will beconfiscated. If you buy it from them, by the time they are probed they will confiscate the properties and your money will not be returned to you. You will loose your money and the house. I warn and guide you. You are My own.

xi. There Should Be No Blemish In Your Character

You pray everyday that: “You will add to my years everyday as long as I am fruitful and serviceable in Your work.” I am God. I am watching you. If you live a life that will make Me elongate your life and increase your anointing everyday, I will increase you. If you are not living a righteous, holy and truthful life, I will cut you off. It means death will take you. I will not allow any spot, wrinkle or blemish at all in the Glorious Church. The devil will be watching you to expose you. I want you to also know that in the Glorious Church the soul that sinneth will not survive at all. I will take you out of the Glorious Church through death. Death is the punishment so that the whole world will know that the Glorious Church does not accept spot, wrinkle or blemish. I will give you My grace to live a holy life. This is why I will give you manna.

xii. Obey My Rules As I Give Hellina

In time to come I will give you Hellina. I will give to you all that is called goodness. Not only will I give you power but from year to year I will make a budget for everyone of you. No matter what you are doing and how wealthy you are, I will make a budget for you. I do not have anything to do with the money. It is all for you. You will use and use it till the day of rapture. Obey My rules and live a holy, righteous and truthful life so that you will live till the day of rapture. You are My own. I guide you.

xiii. Say The Truth All The Time

In everything that you do in this place and outside, stand on and say the truth. We will not have cause to sentence you to death here. We will not allow you to be humiliated. I am God. You should say the truth. A lot of you do not say the truth. Even in the penance you do, you lie. When you stand before My servant, you lie. At times, My servants want to believe you. If I was not speaking to them, you would have misdirected them. You come to them in tears and lie. You want to cover up. You should know that My servant is not the one to forgive and bless you. When he himself sins, do you not see Me chastise him openly? I am God. Do not go before My servants to lie. It is better you do not go before them at all than to go to them and lie. When you do so, you are adding more to your problem for I will tell them the lies that are in your words. Therefore, I will punish you the more. Stand on the truth. Whatever happens, say the truth always and I will help you. The truth will always set you free. When you say the truth, I will tell those involved that you are saying the truth. I will tell them, “Because he said the truth, let us forgive him; for My word says, you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” Do not lie to one another. In everything, tell each other the truth. I am God. I will arbitrate. You are My own.

Abide by whatever I say to you and by the rules I gave to you as well. If you want to prosper and increase, abide in the rule. I am your God.

CHAPTER 7

RULES GUIDING THE ROLE

(Received From The Holy Spirit On 13th & 20^th August, 1999)

Just as every organisation requires a set of rules and regulations for guidance in the conduct of its affairs, so has the Glorious Church. In giving a number of rules and regulations to the church, Eli said as follows:

“You will agree with Me that in every organisation, there are rules and regulations. In the churches you were before you came to Berachah, do they not have rules and regulations? Do they not have rules and regulations in the clubs and town unions you belonged to? When you go against the rules and regulations, are there no stipulated penalties? The time to make My rules known to you has come. I see ahead. This is why I have come to you today.

“You have paid the price. A lot of you labour, but you labour outside My rules. Your labour is misguided. You labour in your own way. I have come to help you. I want to make you realise that no matter the level of your labour, if you do not labour according to My rules, you labour in vain. If you do not follow My rules, you cannot achieve anything. If you con Me, I will con you as well; you will know that I am God. I called you into My vineyard because I have a role for you. I also know the rules that will guide this role and give you the expected goal. Do you want the goal? You must obey the rules in order to achieve the goal. These are My rules. I have given them to you one by one. I will reward those who keep My rules in My vineyard. Apart from the general reward for those who labour, I will come and say, “This woman or man never does anything outside My rules; therefore, I reward him or her with such and such”. The anointing in the life of that person will be different. Before he calls Me I will answer because he never violates My rules; he labours according to My laws, rules and regulations. I am your God; listen to My rules.”

The Rules

1. Do Not Gossip

“Ask questions from your leaders about what you do not understand. Do not go about chewchewing (gossiping). If you gossip and carry tales, you are evil. When you gossip, you have a lying spirit and you will be hearing from the devil. The same spirit that makes you gossip will start to guide you and you will think you are hearing from Me. Do you not see those who are gossiping, who say God is speaking to them? After they have gossiped, they always say, ‘God said, do not worry, I will fight for you’. When you gossip, the devil will deceive you. You will think I am the One speaking to you until you enter into your doom. Do not chewchew. What you are not clear about, ask questions. Someone who asks questions will never miss his or her way; he will never lose bearing; he will always be directed. Instead of gossiping and destroying, come and ask questions, ‘What I saw and heard today is not clear to me. Can you please explain it to me?’ When you chewchew in My house, you are a destroyer, you are locking My work. This is the time of instant justice. It is against My rules to gossip.

“There must be no profanity, tale-bearing or chewchew. No! It is not allowed amongst My own in My vineyard - not even outside My vineyard or in your homes. I tell you - if you chewchew in your homes, demons will remain in your homes. I will never do anything good in that home. A place where you chewchew is defiled. A store where you chewchew will never prosper. A car where you chewchew will always have a devourer. The car in which you gossip always will be an avenue of the devil. I will not be there. I will speak to My own, “Stop entering that car; there is danger in that car.” So you will chewchew until it will lead you into accident and end your life. Your career will end as well. Be guided.”

2. Do Not Charge Money For The Anointing

“I am your God. Did you pay money for the anointing? No money should be given to you when you use the anointing. The anointing is not for sale. I have given you this rule before. Do not take food from those whom you bless. When you do deliverance or after healing prayers for them and they bring you money, say, “No! No!! No!!! This is not the time to take money. When the time to take money comes, I will take it.” This is not the time to take food. It is not the time to visit people you prayed for because you want them to bless you financially. No! No!! No!!! I am about to give you manna. I will give you the anointing with financial blessing so that you will be able to keep the rules and regulations.”

3. If You Lust After Your Candidate, Go For Deliverance

“When you suddenly realise that you are lusting after the person to whom you are ministering deliverance or whom you are praying for, go for deliverance. If you do not resist it, it will destroy you. It will destroy the anointing in your life. If you lay hands on a woman and you discover that you are lusting after her, desist from doing deliverance and go for deliverance yourself immediately. If you ask what that means, it means you have sinned against Me. Cheweth demon has entered into your life. Once it enters into your life, you will be lusting, and the anointing will begin to decrease and grow dim. Leave that person alone, go to your leader and tell him your experience. Assign somebody else to do the work. Do not work until you go for counselling and deliverance, and you are sure that the demon is cast out of your life.

“I am your God. If you want to prosper and you notice this, whether you are a man or woman, you must go for counselling and deliverance immediately. If it is sin that brought it into your life, you will be given penance. Deliverance will be administered to you so that you can be free.”

4. Do Not Lie To One Another

5. You Must Not Do The Work Of Another.

“If you are not a counsellor, do not say to a candidate, “Oh, are you just coming? I will lead you to the best counsellor”. I have a group to welcome and counsel visitors. After counselling, they will pass the candidates to your section for deliverance. Do not pick out people for deliverance or tell them to come to you for special counselling. If you are a deliverance minister, do not do the work of a counsellor; and a counsellor should not do the work of a deliverance minister.”

6. Pray Immediately You Arrive In The Premises

I am your God. When you come to work in the morning, say the prayer I gave to you. Deliverance ministers, do you remember that prayer? You must pray as follows:

“Eli, lead me. I will work according to Your rules and regulations. I will not lock Your work. I command the fire of the Holy Spirit upon all demons that come with me, as well as demons and human agents that have been assigned today to make me fail God,”

Runt and sunt them. Go to a corner and say this prayer individually. Is that not what I told you? Do it as you come to work on daily basis so that I can guide you. As you say this prayer, I know you are willing to follow My rules, and that you are afraid to fail and offend Me. I will guide you. You will hear Me. As you are saying that prayer, I will come to you and counsel you. I will tell you what the devil planned for you during the day. I will say, “A woman is coming; she is of this complexion and so on; this is her name; this is the dress she is wearing; she will do so and so to you.” Also I may tell you, “A man is coming; this is his name; he will come in this form; this is what he will do to you.” Be guided. I will lead you. But when you come and rush in to join others, you will not hear from Me; I will not guide you. These are My rules. Follow My rules.

7. Depend On Prayers For Your Healing

If you are sick, come for prayers and be healed. I ordained you as a healer. When you fall sick and you know that you have sinned against Me, you know that the sin is the avenue through which the devil entered into you, come and do penance. Ask others to pray for you. I will heal you. If you are a deliverance minister, a counsellor, a miracle worker or a healer in My house, do not use drugs. I, God, will heal you. I am using you as a tool. When the tool you are using is not sharp, is it the tool that sharpens itself? Is it not you who is using the tool to work who sharpens it? When the tool is mal-functioning, who fixes the tool? Is it not the user? I will fix and sharpen you from time to time. I am your God. I will help you. No drugs.

8. Avoid Clannishness, Tribalism, Cliques And Gangs

I warn again and again, I do not want cliques and gangs. I do not want groups of friends that are doing evil. I do not want cliques that are subversive. No, no. You are all in My vineyard. You are all working for one person. You all have a common goal - a common purpose. There must be no such things as, “This is our gang; do not come to us; we are having a secret meeting”; or, “that group is doing better than ours; what should we do to excel and do better than they are doing?”. I called you on individual basis. I only tell you as a tribe the role I have for you in the Glorious Church. The only time I want to see you as a group is when I call the group you belong to and give you an assignment. I am your God. This is what may destroy you in the Glorious Church. Avoid clannishness and tribalism. Refrain from cliques, groups or ganging up against one another. I am not saying that you should not have friends but I will destroy groups of friends who come together to gossip, subvert, do evil or criticise. Be guided. Do not join them. When you see them, expose them. If you expose them, you are helping Me. I will reward you. You are My own.

9. Do Not Be In A Hurry

There are a lot of you who jet here. You are in a hurry. As you are going to receive power, I know that very soon everybody will be having night vigils in his or her home. You will start to invite people to come for prayers in your homes. Many of you will run ahead and say, “I now have anointing and money. With the few million naira God has given to me, I can now buy a land and start my church. I do not like the way our leaders are administering the church”. If you are going away, do not be surprised that I will con you. I can even tell Immanuel to call you out and pray for you and ask you to go and start a church. If you con Me, I will con you. I have time for everything. Avoid rat- race. Do not say, “I am going to start my own church,” or, “I am going to minister in that church” or “They invited me in that country or in that town and because I now have anointing, I will go.” You should go only when I send you. When I send you, I will prepare you. In everything, I, God, will prepare and lead you.

Can you see the one I gave a wife? Up till now, he is confused. Before he knew, I had commissioned some people to go and speak to his father in-law on his behalf. They will not ask him for a kobo. I will do everything for him. That is how I work. You are serving Me; you are not going there to promote your name. You are going there to continue the building of the Glorious Church for My Son, Jesus. I, God, will equip you and give you everything you want. But when I say, “Come for prayers, so that you can go to where you want,” know that I am about to con you because in your heart you have decided to con Me already. As you are planning it in your heart I will help you to bring it to pass quickly so that others will learn from you.

Cut the jet, otherwise it will put you in trouble. Do not go ahead of Me. Wait for Me. I trained you and called you a pastor. I did not call you to be a pastor just in this place. You all have countries, states, towns, and so on to where I am sending you. The entire world is your constituency. Do not go ahead of Me. Wait for Me.

10. Do Not Slander Your Fellow Pastor

I am your God. I have come to speak with you again on this matter. Do not be the thorn in the flesh of a fellow pastor. Do not slander or destroy the work he (or she) is doing. Do not envy one another. If you go through the “Culture of Deliverance Ministers” I gave to you, you will see that I promised everybody a unique anointing. The anointing will distinguish you. Therefore, do not try to be a stumbling block in the life or ministry of a fellow pastor.

Also, as it applies here in My vineyard, when you go out the same rule will follow you. If you are in England and another is in Italy, and you hear the one in Italy is doing better than you, do not start to criticise. Ask Me, “Why is my own ministry so dull? Why am I not doing like my fellow pastor in Italy? Things that are happening there are not happening here. Why?” I will speak to you. Do this instead of criticising and destroying another due to envy and jealousy. You are a snot. If someone comes to ask for Pastor John, and you (Pastor James) tell the person, “Why do you want Pastor John? He is a failure. He does not know anything. Come to Me. I will do it for you”. You are a snot. I, God, will snot you. Do not be a thorn or con to another. I am your God.

11. Do Not Harbour Grudges, Malice And Bitterness In Your Heart

Your heart is My workshop. I will judge three things. They are the thoughts of your heart, your utterances and your deeds. I am God. I see the heart. If you bottle up evil in your heart, the Holy Spirit cannot do any good in your heart. Word of knowledge will not flow because your heart is saturated with evil thoughts, bitterness and envy; clouds are covering your heart; your heart is not clean. We cannot work in such a heart. Leave your heart open - free from all bickering, contention, grief, envy and bitterness - so that I can speak to you and prepare miracles in your heart. Your heart is My own. It is My workshop.

12. Expose Those Who Grumble And Murmur

I want you to watch over one another. If you hear a minister snotting with his or her mouth - cursing, boasting, hissing, grumbling - and saying: “This suffering is too much; when I was in the world I was this and that, if not because of God, am I his age? What would I be doing here? We are suffering in this place,” and you do not report, you are in trouble. Once you hear such a thing, tell the person concerned that he or she had just made you the messenger of God. Tell him: “You were there when God warned us. I heard you bragging, grumbling and talking nonsense about the work God called you to do. You are not happy that God has called you. I have no choice than to report you to our leader.” Go to your group leader. The group leader should immediately take that report to Pastor Sarah who should immediately ask Me what to do.

In most cases, that person will be suspended for 3 months or be removed from being a worker completely. You will go back to where you came from. I will not ostracise you but you will stop to be My worker. I will not tolerate an empty boaster, a lunatic, a quack or an empty vessel who blows a trumpet of arrogance among the workers. I do not want to see you grumbling while doing My work. Your pastor has taught you over and over (more than a hundred times) how grumbling offends Me. I am about to implement it now. This is the time of iron rule. If you hear a fellow worker grumbling - whether he is quarrelling or just shouting; whether he said it as a joke or not - and you fail to expose him, wait for Me! Even if the head pastor and Pastor Sarah are not there, I am there. I am your God. Your punishment will be worse than that of the person who made the empty boasting.

Police one another. I am your God. I will build My Church. There will be no dent. I do not want grumbling workers, disgruntled elements, those who are not happy that they work for Me, or those who think they can do better outside. They can go. Eli is ready. If I have few persons remaining in My vineyard as workers of the Glorious Church who are following the rules and their lives are worth emulating, the anointing will increase. Angels are jobless in heaven. I will send angels to support and stand by them when they are working until I see substitutes who are coming in hundreds of thousands.

You have been bluffing and I kept quiet. I will not take bluffing and grumbling anymore from anybody. When you hear, you should report. If you fail to do that, I will remove you as a worker yourself.

13. Do Not Criss-cross

If you criss-cross, you jaunt and lock My work, I hate it. I cannot stand it. I will give you 6 months’ suspension. I do not need anyone to report you to Me because criss-cross is done in the private. I see you. I will come like this (the way I am talking to you now) and tell you the time and place you criss-crossed. I will expose you to Pastor Sarah; she will give you graphic details. After giving you the graphic details, I will give you a suspension for six months. I am God. Even though a lot of you will not operate your personal anointing (you will operate the corporate anointing of the Glorious Church) if you are involved in criss-cross, you are smelling, you are a jaunt, you lock My work; the anointing cannot manifest in your life. You are therefore a hindrance to My work; you are a lock, a knot and a snot. I am God, I am ready. The iron rule has started. If you do not understand criss-cross, let Me explain it to you in your language.

Criss-cross is an immoral act that brings shame to Christ and defames the Cross of Christ. When you commit sexual immorality, you have crossed from the realm of Christ to the realm of the devil. What you have done is spiritual crossing. Criss-cross also means that you are filled with the spirit of lust and you do not confess openly and find solution to it but you are enjoying the lusting.

Christ died to give you life and make you inaccessible to demonic attacks. When you criss-cross, you defile your body; you make that body vulnerable to attacks; you make it easy for the devil to kill you instantly; you are telling Jesus to remove His hedge from your body because as you criss-cross and twineth, you shame and reject Jesus. Also, you are telling Him not to put His hedge over you. You are smelling and nauseating to Him, you make the devil to mock Him. He leaves you immediately. Your body becomes defiled. The devil takes over. He can kill you immediately. When you criss-cross, anointing cannot work in your body anymore; you are smelling. You are a snot. You lock and jack the work. You nuguet the work.

I will remove you. I will give you six months’ suspension and find a solution to it for you since you do not know how to come and ask for help. Normally, when you are sick, will you not go for treatment? You do not allow the ailment to remain in your body. Lusting is an ailment. It destroys like sexual immorality. You now know criss-cross. Don’t you?

14. Do Not Steal

Anyone who steals in the vineyard will be suspended for 6 months.

15. Do Not Quarrel Or Fight

If I find you fighting from today, you will be suspended for 6 months. If you go outside to fight, you knot Me; wait for Me! You may say in your heart, “Is it not when You see me fight in the compound that You will suspend me? I will go and wait for him or her at Liverpool junction.” As you are fighting there, I will open Sarah’s eyes. I will not use Immanuel for he cries and cries for you. I will tell Sarah: “Look at your son, look at your daughter; he or she is fighting. Write the letter before he comes. Pass it through the relevant committee. When he comes, suspend him for 6 months.”

I am ready. The crowd is coming. They will identify you anywhere you go. They will begin to shout your name; “Pastor.” They will say, “This is the man who laid hands upon me when my eyes were blind and now I can see.” He reverences you. How will he now feel when he sees you fighting or when you park your car and you are swearing and cursing? No dent! I will not allow the dent.

My own, take it today. My rules will guide and lead you. Take them in Jesus name. Amen.

CHAPTER 8

OTHER RULES

A. General Rules And Regulations

(Received From The Holy Spirit On 29^th January 1999.)

I am your God. I have come today to speak to you concerning My house. This vineyard is My house. You are a root. I refer to you all (officers of this church) as roots. I appeal to you once again. If you want to go away, change your mind.

1. Absence From General Ministrations

If you do not come to service for a period of 30 days, when you come back you must go and sit with the visitors. You have lost your former position in the church - it is no longer yours.

2. Absence of Altar Pastors

All Altar Pastors who have not come for the past one month are no longer Altar Pastors even if they come on the next Lordsday. (The rules are to be printed boldly and shown to them).

3. Absence From Meetings Of Elders’ Ruling Council

Members of the Elders’ Ruling Council who are absent from three consecutive meetings have automatically lost their seats in the Ruling Council, except they are absent due to the exigencies of official duties or they travelled out of Lagos. We want to rule. We want to teach you how to administer the world.

4. Absence From Committee Meetings

If you are absent for three consecutive times from a committee to which you belong, you are no longer a member of that committee. You will be removed immediately.

5. Fiddling With A Woman

Any man caught in this compound fiddling with a woman must be ex-communicated.

6. Staying Outside During Lordsday Ministration

If you come to fellowship on the Lordsday and stay outside for more than fifteen minutes (except on an emergency message that somebody is at the point of death), you will not be allowed to come inside until after service. I will appoint officers to make sure that this is enforced from the next Lordsday (31^st January 1999)). If you come to My vineyard to worship and you are thirsty, you will be allowed to go out and quench your thirst. You will also be allowed to go out if you want to ease yourself. Do you know that when you disobey My rules you are a thief and are stealing out My time? When you do it in your place of work what would be your punishment? You are either issued with a query or a termination letter, or a deduction of the day’s salary is made. You have come to worship Me. You call Me your God, your King and Your Master. The day is called “The Lordsday.” Is it your own day? Is it a working day? You dedicated this day to Me, yet it is the day you find time to go outside when you are supposed to be worshipping Me. You are not afraid of My presence here! You are outside gossiping or analysing the sermon that has just been preached, over a bottle of coke! No, I must put a stop to it from today.

7. Immoral Acts Generally

Anyone caught in the act of immorality from now must be punished. He should not be allowed to mix with the groups anymore until you hear further from Me. Send him or her to sit with the visitors.

8. Misconduct By Officers

Officers who are found quarrelling, fighting or exchanging words in the vineyard should be sent to sit with the visitors for three months with fasting three times a week during that period. They must not be called back until you hear from Me. Bring them to Me and I will tell you whether they have repented or not.

9. Stealing

Ex-communicate anyone caught stealing in the vineyard, for six months.

10. Groups’ Attendance Register

Every group must sign its attendance register.

11. Absence From Ministration On Lordsday

If anyone is absent for four weeks, strike out his or her name. All group leaders should make a copy of the register of the Lordsday for the Manna Sharing Committee. It should not be left overnight. That is, it should not wait till the next day (Monday). On that same Lordsday, after service, write out the names on a sheet of paper, append your signature and give it to the Manna Sharing Committee.

12. Fund Raising

I want to reiterate once again that people should not be called out to make pledges. I see that the Sellina groups are still doing it in their ministration; They still pass round plates to collect money. No!, No!, I say ‘No’!. They should announce that: “We need this type of money to hold our ministration. Whoever God lays in his or her heart to assist us, come and see the leader, and give to him whatever God lays in your heart.” Do not pass offering plates round for people tocontribute anymore. No group should levy themselves. I will lay in your heart what I want you to give and you will do so according to the measure I have given to you. A time is coming that I will reward. I am about to provide for My work. I will not provide for My work without saying “Thank you” to all those who gave to Me out of their heart.

This is why I said, “Whenever you have anything to assist My Church, go to My Servant or the Administrator who will open a register and put down your names.” It is a secret between the Administrator and the Head Pastor. Whatever you give will be written down with the date. It is not to be announced. I am coming to the time when I will not require the money of Pillars, Avenues and Roots of the Glorious Church to administer My Church. The time is coming very soon. I want to reward and even if I do not have your record in the past, I know you. If you are giving now, I will have your record too. I know you.

13. Giving Birth In Church Premises

No woman must come to deliver her baby in this Vineyard without clearance from Me. When a woman comes under labour, you must ask Me. Through whom will you ask Me? Through the one I send; the one I asked to lead women - Sarah. Go to her. If she is sleeping, wake her up and tell her “A woman has come; this is her name; should we admit her or not?” If Sarah asks Me and I say ‘no’, tell her “My Father says we cannot admit you for delivery here.” Pray for her that God should have mercy upon her and that wherever she goes to deliver she will do so safely.

14. Sale Of Goods In Church Premises

No one should bring things to sell in My house. You will not bring things such as clothes and shoes inside My vineyard to sell. No! However, there are two women whom I have ordained and I am ready to give them the capital to start what I have asked them to do. I have these two women only and as I bless My own, I will give them the capital. When they have their goods, they will not sell anything outside their goods. I will warn them. It is only what I have asked them to sell that they will sell.

15. Authorisation To Sell In Church Premises

Pastors Rose Belonwu and Folake Ogbara are the two women. They will sell silver and gold. They will not add any other thing because there are other women I will give other things to sell.

16. Prohibition Of Credit Sales

No one should purchase things on credit from these ones. If you want to pay twice or thrice, they will not give you their merchandise until you finish payment. It will be in their possession. When I bless, I will allocate businesses to a few people. For those I will allow to do some business (slight business along with their calling in My vineyard) I will create a permanent space. I am your God. Apart from those ones, no one should bring anything to sell in My compound. If you do that, you sin against Me and I will punish you. I will call out your name and punish you.

17. Conduct Of Confirmed Couples

Confirmed couples who are found in immorality will be separated. Confirmed couples caught fighting one another will be separated after the third time. I will not give you a partner for a very long time; and if I do not give you a partner, I will not use you, as I will not want to put you to temptation. I will not send you out because I do not want you to be tempted. I am your God.

Confirmed couples must live in righteousness, holiness and truthfulness. There must be no quarrelling, fighting or abusive words to one another.

Exhortation

These instructions are to be printed out very clearly and openly displayed. Eli gave these new guidelines and regulations. People should read them. Those who were not in the church should read them. The head of the glorious women will read them out in the next three Lordsdays.

On the next Lordsday (31^st January 1999), I will visit those who left the church and have come back but are yet to be restored to their former positions. After visiting them, the rest will remain where they are until further notice.

My own, we are ready now. I am God. The era of petting is over. We are in the era of the iron rule. We will rule with the iron rod. I, Eli, am coming down to administer the Church in full. I have appointed the Ruling Council and will teach them how they will rule the world. I will start with you all.

The days when I pet you (the days when you sinned and I turned the other side) are gone. This is the time of the iron rod rule. I will rule My Church with iron rod so that you can in turn rule the whole world with iron rod. Can you rule with iron rod if you have not been ruled with iron rod? You cannot. It is what you are used to that you can give to people. I am ready. This is the hour!

B. Rules Guiding Those Operating Anointing

(Received From The Holy Spirit On 4^th August, 1999.)

I have a day. My day is today. I am God. I come today with My rule. Take My rule. I am a holy God! If you want to work with Me, take My rule. Eli is holy. You need My rule. I need you. I say, “Take My rule; inside My rule, you will find holiness; I am a holy God; you must be holy as you work with Me.”

I come today to give you this rule if you must work with Me. If you are there the day I give the unction you need this rule when you are manifesting the power. If you work with Me during every ministration, if you are in the batch I gave to minister with Sarah, if you are among the Immanuel Men, if you are a Deliverance Minister, or you work in various ways in My vineyard, I am God, I give you the rule in advance so that you can start to prepare in your heart whether you want it or not. If you want to minister with Me as you are pleading and for which you are fasting now; if I forgive you, and I say, “Join and take the anointing”, these are the conditions. Listen to Me today as I print them clearly to you.

Conditions For The Anointing

All ministers with the anointing; ministers with power who minister with Me must fast on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, from 6.00a.m to 6.00p.m. I am a holy God. The anointing in the Glorious Church will be different and unique because you will not be like a minister who takes his wife along with him to crusades and they sleep in the same room. They know themselves, tongue-in-tongue, they nude and nude, and afterwards say, “Holy Spirit, come and fill us; we are going to do miracles.” They quote the scripture: “I have the spirit of liberty.” Let the spirit of liberty come and work with him! I laugh at such people. I am a Holy God. My eyes are too pure to behold iniquity. I do not work like that. I start with Sarah Saturday. All those who minister with Sarah must observe holiness during the week of Sarah Saturday. Tell your spouse about this. I do not want anybody to say, “I am barren, I am looking for a baby.” If you could not make babies with the ones you have been doing, what makes you think you will make it on the week of Saturday with Sarah? I want you to take note of the fact that you are keeping holy for Me. I, God, know when to give you babies. I am God.

Again, I speak clearly to men who are married to Sarah 5 sisters. If you hinder My own from working for Me, I will ask them not to be stubborn to you and that they should do whatever you ask them to do against Me; but you will wait for Me - you will come and do it in heaven! If you are married to a Deborah woman, I give you the same rule. If you say Immanuel was not there the day you paid the bride price, that Immanuel has finished having children but you are just about to start and therefore she will not obey, I tell such women, “Obey your husbands,” but the husbands should wait for Me.

Programme For The Handicapped

If you are working with Sarah on the programme for the handicapped, you must observe holiness for a week before the ministration. During the same week, take theMinento dress I gave to you, be on your knees and pray in the morning, afternoon and evening. “Eli, You anointed me to work among the handicapped. This is the token of the covenant You have with me - the dress of the Minento baby; the Full Light. I am going to minister to children who are deformed. As I am holding thisMinento garment, let the anointing of Full Light enter into my body. As I pass through them, they will be healed. As I lay hands upon them, they will be healed. As I speak to their bodies, spare parts will enter into them. Eli, You sent me; come and abide with me.”

You will pray in tongues and groan. Then I will come and the anointing will enter into your body.

Keep that dress very well - keep it where you keep your valuable clothes. Do not throw it anyhow. It is a token of My covenant with you. Do not say, “My children or husband thought it was a rag and used it to clean shoes, etc.”

Lordsday Ministration

After you have received the anointing, if you have to minister on a Lordsday, do not know your spouse on Saturday night. On the Lordsday, you will not take breakfast before ministration. I am talking to those who would have received the power and have to minister with Me. After the ministration, you may eat your food. A holy God is a holy God.

Holiness Emphasised

Do not forget that you are not allowed to know your spouse on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays when you are fasting. Do not be like the old wine pastors who know their spouses when they are fasting because (according to them) they are legally married. I am a holy God. If you want Me to come down, you must be holy, for I am holy. I am a holy God; keep My rules and I will always be with you. Wherever you are, I will introduce you Myself with great signs and wonders. I will always do great things with you. You will not print handbills; neither will you need to introduce yourself. As you step into any place, I, God, will speak to you. You will hear Me, “Go to that man there and tell him, ‘Open your mouth now and begin to speak.’ You will call his name, date of birth, place of birth, infirmities in his life, and thereafter decree healing - and he will receive healing. You will say, “Somebody here has just received a sack letter, you are restored.” Whatever you say will happen. When you say, “All cripples here, begin to walk now;” they will begin to walk. I, God, will introduce you. Anywhere you go, I will be with you once you are holy.

Holiness Of The Mouth

I am not talking of holiness that does not include your mouth. The mouth that you use to make the pronouncements essentially must be holy. You should not use your mouth for evil jesting, chewchewing and lying. You must be truthful. Everything you say must be the truth. There must be no distortion of facts or use of diplomatic language. You must be truthful to your fellow human beings and to Me, your God. Your mouth is My instrument. The mouth must be holy. A miracle worker does not live a life of sin. He lives a secluded life - a life of righteousness, truthfulness and holiness - so that the Holy Spirit will always speak to him, direct him, instruct him and will not be far from him. When you pollute yourself, you are stinking and nauseating to the Holy Spirit. He will be far away from you until you do cleansing. Be holy; I am holy. When you are holy you will see Me everyday. Everyone around you will know God is in you.

Effect Of Observing Holiness

When Moses came back from My presence did everybody not know? When your pastor is in seclusion, can you not differentiate the anointing from when he is not? When he comes to My presence and then comes back to you, do you not see the difference? I am a holy God. This is why I say the old wine pastors are daft. When God sends you on an errand to heal people, you go there tonguing, twinething, and nuding, do not expect God to work. I am a holy God. Even angels do not bear to see such an ugly sight not to talk of Me, God Almighty.

I give you new rules. Obey these rules. Wherever you are I will be with you and great signs and wonders will take place. People will ask you, “How?” Old wine pastors will ask you, “How do you hear from God?” It will be so sweet. Wherever you are sitting (even where you are discussing) I will come and intervene in your discussions. I will discuss with you and if the one whom you are discussing with is not clear about what you are talking, I will intervene. I will make it clear to you. This will happen only if you are holy, and if you are having a good discussion - not gossiping or immoral talks. I will be with you everywhere. I will be with you to the uttermost part of the world. Wherever you go, I will go with you. You are My own. This is My rule. The rule continues. Listen.

Eli’s Role

I have made your role clear today. I have a role to play in this great calling. My role is as follows: To protect you in danger, speak to you, warn you, expose to you all the tactics and devices of the devil and lead you into success and victory everyday. My role is to stand by you and instantly avenge for you those who cheweth,chewchew and snot you so that they will fear and know of a truth that you are the anointed of God. No one can touch you. He that toucheth thee toucheth Me. You cannot touch Me and go free. My role is to provide for all your needs, build My hedge over you, your wife, husband and children as well. I will also guide them, give them prominence, make them succeed in everything they are doing and make sure they are healed from all diseases. I will raise them even your little ones!

I will protect your houses and all property that you own. I will lead you to acquire wealth. I will bless you and tell you what to do all the time. You will hear from Me everyday. I will speak to you everyday. Even if you do not want to speak to Me, I will speak to you all the time concerning events that are happening around you. I am God Who will lead and guide you. I will make sure everything about you is anointed. I will make sure you are indeed honourable and highly distinguished with My power. It is My role to teach, lead and prepare you for battle. It is My role to open your eyes and make you see things in the realm of the spirit. It is My role to shower on you all the gifts of the Glorious Church. As a pillar, a root, an avenue or a bell of the Glorious Church, you ought to manifest all the anointing of the Glorious Church.

It is My role to give you Sawawa anointing - No gun or other weapon fashioned against you shall ever prosper. In your own time, people will find guns and ammunition useless because they are not effective. If they throw grenade into your compound, it will not explode at all. It is My role to put Adamasi anointing in your house. If armed robbers face you with guns, it is My role to make them fall down like soldiers who came to arrest Jesus Christ in the garden of Gethsemane. What happened to them? They fell down on seeing Jesus. The anointing will be so much in your body. No man born of a woman can stand before you and hurt you.

I will make sure I give you the best. If you are a pregnant woman, it is My role to make sure you deliver safely, have the right sex of baby and the right genders of children that I ordained for you. I will give them to you. It is My role to make sure that all I predestined for you come to pass in your life. My role is to lead you in all things. I will lead you in all things.

The Role Of Pastors

What now is your role? My pastors, what is your role? Listen to your role. Your role is to make sure there is no spot, blemish, wrinkle or any form of defilement in the Glorious Church. Your role is to lead the flock by example - righteousness, truthfulness and holiness. When you contravene these, you snot My work; you are a spot, a blemish, and a wrinkle in the Glorious Church. Will I allow such a thing to remain in the Glorious Church? No, No. I will snot you immediately so that others will not follow your footsteps and pollute the Glorious Church. Your role: You will not lie, manifest anger, steal, take each other’s wife or be involved in any form of immorality, drunkenness or bribery; you will go and do My work without collecting offering; wherever you go to work for Me, as a treasurer, you will give; you will only receive from God the Father and not from the flock; there must be no criss-cross or ogodi in your life; I call you a shepherd - you must be a shepherd indeed.

New Breed Of Pastors

I promised to give the world new pastors who will teach new wisdom and new knowledge. You are the ones. You will be tolerant, accommodating and patient. You should not be rash to take decisions. You must always wait to hear from Me before you do anything. You will be meek, gentle and affectionate like the one I chose to lead you. You will be generous. You will not oppress My own. You will not ‘kill’ My own. You will not be clannish, tribalistic or partial. You will be fair to My flock. When you fail in all these things, you are a spot, a wrinkle and a blemish which I have vowed not to allow in the Glorious Church so that the devil will not have anything to accuse you of. This is your role. You already know My role. Am I fair to you? Will you be fair to Me? When you play your role, I must play My role. I am God; I cannot lie. The power day is very near. Make up your mind today. Sit down with your wife or husband and agree. Do you want this power? Ask your spouse, “Can we agree now to obey the rule that governs this power? Let us ask for the grace.”

You can do it. Tell your fellow pastor. “You can do it because the grace of God will be sufficient for you. You will play the role, Eli will be happy with you and you will be blessed. Amen.”

Existing Covenants And Curses

A lot of you have covenants that you were born into because of this great thing I want to do in your lives. Some of you who were going from one herbalist to the other, exposed yourselves. Covenants upon covenants were made with you. Some covenanted that they will start to commit immorality at the age of 50, some at 45. Some of you covenanted that when God calls you, you will steal in the house of God, then you will be disgraced and die. All these bonds I know in your lives. When you start to find yourself lusting, doing these things, come out openly to Me. Come to My own. From time to time, I will assist you. I will break this covenant in your life. Curses that are placed upon you that are supposed to manifest at a particular age, I, God will visit you at that time and cancel them for you. I have been doing it here. Many had dates to die and had been pronouncing the dates. They agreed with the devil that they would die. Did I not help them? I am your God.

Know where the devil ensnared, tied and entangled you. I will help you. But always be like Paul My servant who cried out, “Who will deliver me from this old man? The things I do not want to do are the things he makes me do. Help me oh God. This sin is too much for me.” When you expose the devil like that, he will flee from you even before I come to your aid. He will know that you do not want him at all. Even if you keep quiet, from time to time, I know the time. For your sake alone I will come in a full ministration and break covenant to help you. If in spite of all these efforts I make in your lives you go and criss-cross; if in spite of all the wealth I give you, you go and cheat, you falsify figures; there is ogodi in your life; you are a dent; death will follow.

Need For Self-Restraint

If you do not keep holy with your wife or husband, I will not kill you but - let Me make it clear to you - it will hinder the anointing in your lives. It takes you 36 hours exactly to cleanse yourself for Me to come back to you. You will hear from me faintly. I am not God that kills and kills. You are legally married. It is a price you must pay Me for the anointing or for Me to be close to you. This is why I will not allow polygamy in the Glorious Church. Can a man with three or four wives keep this rule? Will the women allow him? They will surely beat him to death. Even you with one wife and one husband, it would be difficult for you but for My grace. It is not possible in the Glorious Church to know your spouse over night and expect great miracles that same day.

I am a holy God. I am a fair God. No dent, spot, blemish, wrinkle or defilement will be allowed in the Glorious Church. Particularly you, who are the pillars, the root, the avenues and the bell of the Glorious Church, you will be satellites. Do you know satellites? Everywhere in the whole world, people will be dreaming about you; the whole world will be seeing you. I will purposely open their eyes in their dreams and visions to see the transparent and honest life you are living. They will say they want to be like you. So also when you have spot, they will see the spot. When I judge, they will say, “Oh! Yes, I saw it; I saw that man; he was nuding in my vision. No wonder God killed him or her.” I will install satellite in your body. Do you like it? I am a transparent God. You are the leader to set a new pace for the whole world. You are the sons of God for whom the whole world has been groaning and waiting in earnest expectation, for your manifestation. I spoke about this thing to Paul. Paul asked Me, “Will there not be any of them among us?” I said, “God does not lie. It will not happen in your era.” That is why he did not say He himself was a son of God. He said, “we are waiting” because he knew he was not part of them. You are the sons of God that the whole world is waiting for. I am ready now to give you the power, and announce you. My own, holiness, righteousness and truthfulness is My covenant with you.

C. Rules Guiding Pastors

Living In The Vineyard

(Received From The Holy Spirit On 20^th August, 1999)

1. Those Who Quarrel Must Be Ejected

If you live in this vineyard and you are quarrelling, you and the person you are quarreling with should pack your things and leave immediately. If someone insults or offends you and you cannot leave vengeance for Me and say, “God will fight my battle”, you are liable. Go and meet the person and reconcile with him or her. If you cannot do that, go to the leader with evidence on the issue. Let the leader come to My daughter who will ask Me what should be done to the person. I will tell her what to do. The leader will come to you and tell you the verdict of Eli and it should be carried out immediately. If none of these measures is taken and you engage in quarrelling, two of you must leave that same day. My people are coming. If people come with an emergency and they find you quarreling and shouting, will they not go back saying; “These people are evil and not of God. Do they shout in the vineyard of God?” People should hear only prayers, singing and praise worship. You are a dent. I will select now out of the priests and bring them to stay in My vineyard. I am coming to re-organise the vineyard. The priests will lead in all prayers. They will supervise and look after those who live in the vineyard. They will maintain orderliness in My vineyard. If you are a snot and a dent, the vineyard is not for you.

2. Those Who Are Dissatisfied Must Be Ejected

Those I have called say they are doing Me a favour for staying in My vineyard. They say they came from affluence and good homes; that in their homes they have air-conditioners, water beds and eat good food, that they have stewards, cooks and drivers, chamber maids and everything else. So they say they are paying Me a price by coming to sleep in My vineyard. They say they are assisting Me. I come today and call the bluff. No one can bluff Me. Go back to where you belong.

If you are in this vineyard and you are not happy, you say you are suffering, I am not forcing you to stay. You can leave. Take your things and go. I call the bluff. I will not allow spot and dent in My vineyard. If you are not happy and instead of you to go, you remain and you are caught complaining and murmuring, “I am staying here because God wants me to stay here; I have a better place to stay.” If there are witnesses, they should come to Pastor Sarah and report the matter and let her confirm it with Me. I will say there and then that you should pack your things and go to your parents’ house. Leave My vineyard alone. I call the bluff. No man can bluff Me. I am God. I know. I come to you today to speak to you in detail.

CHAPTER 9

THE PLACE OF NIGERIA IN THE SCHEME OF THE GLORIOUS CHURCH

Since Berachah Church of God (The Beginning Of The Glorious Church) is located in Nigeria, the country has assumed the position of a launch-pad for the propagation of the Church. She has thus become the base for the dissemination of all information about the Church, in conformity with God’s pronouncement that the country is the spiritual headquarters of the world. At this end-time when God’s glory and divine rule will engulf the earth, God will, through His prophets, make important pronouncements of global significance from Nigeria. Besides, God has chosen a Nigerian to lead the Glorious Church.

The Choice Of Nigeria

As already mentioned, by God’s original plan, the propagation of the Glorious Church was a role for the Jews who are the off-springs of His faithful servants, Abraham and Sarah. We are aware that they lost it for rejecting Jesus Christ as the Messiah, and that God had to look for an alternative.

On Lordsday, 8^th February 1997, God revealed that when Jesus was taken to Egypt as a child because of Herod’s plot to kill Him, He and His parents were hosted and well cared for by one Kazeem and his family. Kazeem had seven sons and one daughter, named Atini. Incidentally, Kazeem was one of Abraham’s children by Ketura, the woman he married after the death of Sarah (Genesis 25:1). Atini was very fond of Jesus and showed Him much love and affection.

In appreciation of that kind gesture, God decided to make Kazeem’s descendants the propagators of the Glorious Church. On His part, Jesus pleaded, and God the Father agreed, that leading roles in the Glorious Church be given to Atini’s children.

Just as God directed Abraham to leave his father’s land for an unknown land where he would be blessed, so He did to Kazeem. God led Kazeem and his entire family southward. Kazeem eventually got to a place now known as Oyo in south-western Nigeria, where God asked him to stay. On their way from Egypt to Oyo, some of Kazeem’s sons stopped at various places along what is now the west coast of Africa and founded new homes. Atini, who was accompanied from Egypt by her husband, moved from Oyo to a place in the present Enugu State of Nigeria, and had many children. God has revealed to Berachah Church of God that six countries in West Africa founded by Kazeem’s children will eventually unite with Nigeria in a confederation when the Glorious Church is fully established.

God has also revealed that some Jewish levites and priests accompanied the Kazeem family to Oyo, and later went with Atini to the eastern part of Nigeria where they settled. This explains why, in the Glorious Church, God has chosen His priests and levites from this area which He has named Sellusia.

The Foolish Gentile Nation

From the foregoing trend of events, it is possible to infer that Nigeria could be that foolish Gentile Nation referred to inDeuteronomy 32:21 and Isaiah 65:1, with whom God intends to provoke the Jews to jealousy.

Nigeria Goes To The Devil

God has revealed to Berachah Church of God that the descendants of Kazeem provoked Him to anger by entering into covenants with Satan to serve his principalities. Satan deceived them that they could only communicate with God Almighty through his own (devil’s) intermediaries – the various gods and symbols of gods. This act of idolatry caused God to allow two calamities to befall Kazeem’s children. These were the slave trade which took much toll of them, and their domination by other people. This situation, in which the descendants of Kazeem found themselves, must have caused a delay in God’s programme for the Glorious Church until this end-time.

New Names For The Tribes

God has re-aligned and renamed the tribes of the descendants of Kazeem. The new alignment and names are as follows:

Sellina (The Sellina Family)

(i) Sellina Tribe: All Yoruba-speaking people plus the Itsekiris.

(ii) Rhumani Tribe: All Edo-speaking people.

(iii) Sabitona Tribe: All the people in what is now Delta State of Nigeria excluding the Agbor and Itsekiri people.

The above three tribes are commonly referred to as The Sellina Family

Sellusia comprises three tribes. These are:

(i) Saaye Tribe: All Igbo-speaking people in the former Eastern Region, plus Agbor and the people of Benue State.

(ii) AdasI Tribe: People from what is now Cross-River and Akwa Ibom States.

(iii) Ashammah Tribe: People from what is now Rivers and Bayelsa States.

Roles Of The Tribes

Although all pastors of the Glorious Church will manifest anointing, carry out deliverance, perform miracles and lead prayers, there will, however, be some areas of specialisation.

Sellina Tribe will have as its main role the working of miracles. God has pronounced Sellina language as the language of miracles.

Rhumani Tribe will specialise in receiving from the Renna of God to enable them to give SIAT and raise the dead.

Sabitona Tribe will specialise in honouring those whom God wants to be honoured all over the world.

Sellusia Tribe (particularly Saaye) is ordained by God as His light, voice and signatory. They are to provide solutions to world problems.

Saaye Tribe are mainly levites and priests, with some participation by Adasi and Ashammah. As levites and priests, their major function is spiritual – prayers, dedications, consecrations and naming of children, to mention a few.

Adasi Tribe are kings, rulers and priests. In addition, they have a role of effecting increase of all good things in every aspect of life.

Ashammah Tribe has the role of treasurership. Their land will produce much wealth with which the world will be blessed.

Towards Achieving The Goal

It is hoped that following Sellira, Nigeria will draw closer to God, and rely very much on Him for direction. They will accept the tenets of the Glorious Church and the rule of God, with democracy giving way to theocracy. The latter is a system of governance by people who fear and serve God, and in which the laws of God become the laws of the state. When this happens, Nigeria will become a country where the fear of God and justice will reign.

A New Economic Order

He has also revealed that Nigeria will be very wealthy, and that the main sources of that enormous wealth will be the discovery of 21 new minerals, income from inventions, new technology and tourism.

He has also revealed that His Spirit will lead His servants to where the minerals are deposited and teach them how to tap and utilise them. The minerals which will not be found elsewhere will be in high demand all over the world. Consequently, both the minerals and their finished products will be very expensive, and other nations will be constrained to buy them at the price Nigeria will determine.

A New Nigeria

Following these trends, Nigeria will become a changed nation. Our Lord Jesus Christ confirmed this to Berachah Church of God as follows:

“The time of the fulfillment of God’s promise in Nigeria is now. His year has started. After He has given you new names of the days of the week, names of the months and years, after writing the new laws, He will start. When He starts, it will take a few days and Nigeria (as you now know her) will be no more. A new nation will emerge…”