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Deaths were “unavoidable call to heavenly home”: TB Joshua

7. T.B. Joshua – Net worth: $15 Million (Nigeria) He is the leader and founder of the The Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN), which runs a Christian television station called Emmanuel TV. He became the centre of a controversial topic when his church collapsed in Nigeria and killed over 80 people. The Pastor has remained controversial for several years for his inexplicable powers to heal all sorts of incurable diseases, including HIV/AIDS, cancer and paralysis. in 2014 he was living in a $1.7 million mansion.
7. T.B. Joshua – Net worth: $15 Million (Nigeria) He is the leader and founder of the The Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN), which runs a Christian television station called Emmanuel TV. He became the centre of a controversial topic when his church collapsed in Nigeria and killed over 80 people. The Pastor has remained controversial for several years for his inexplicable powers to heal all sorts of incurable diseases, including HIV/AIDS, cancer and paralysis. in 2014 he was living in a $1.7 million mansion.

Saturday marked a year since the tragic Nigeria building collapse which claimed the lives of 116 people, of whom 85 were South African.

Survivors and families of those who died gathered in Midrand on Saturday, for the first commemoration of the tragedy.

Although the leader of the Synagogue Church pastor TB Joshua did not attend the event, he posted a message dedicated to the bereaved families on his Facebook page.

This is what the controversial church leader had to say:

“It is now one year since our beloved brothers and sisters slept in the Lord. For those of us who find it difficult to let go, we must realise that their death is an unavoidable call – a call to our Heavenly home that no one can disobey.

Of course we all know that this has nothing to do with age, status, rich or poor or even the nature of death itself – as this happened to our predecessors, including the Apostles who paid the supreme price to bring the Gospel to all of us. Some were even beheaded at their prime age. Others were stoned to death in the course of the Gospel. Some others were even crucified upside down, not to talk of the ones that were dropped inside boiling oil.

For those who of us who cannot trace or touch the body of those who are resting in the bosom of the Lord, we must realise that such examples abound among God’s Generals in the Bible.”

Visit his page for the full letter.

 

 

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