Well, I am no @Purple to sit in judgment over who is a true man of God and who isn’t. I can not even judge prophet Owuor coz God is the judge. After all the Bible says by the same measure you judge you will be judged and the merciful shall obtain mercy. Since I am no angel let me stay in my corner and hope God will have mercy on me on the day of judgment. Mimi mambo mingi ya who has how many wives and how Satan was half serpent, half homo sapien siezani nayo. My own docket is enough. Mambo iko huu ulimwengu ni mengi, you will get tired trying to understand them. For me, siezani na mambo mingi. Of criticizing pastors and nitty gritty arguments over petty things in the Bible which can not add any value to my relationship with God. If I know how Satan slept with Eve to sire Cain, how does that help my relationship with God? Or analyzing how Lot’s wife turned into a pillar of salt? I don’t have that energy. God has simplified things for us and the whole duty of man is to love justice, have mercy and walk humbly with your God. That’s in the Bible. Solomon said it is to worship God. Simple. Jesus said, it is wining souls. Simple. If God wanted to complicate issues He can really do it bcz He has the capacity but He keeps it very simple for us.
As you all know pastors have become some of the wealthiest people especially in Nigeria including Adebayo of Redeemed, Winners, mountain of fire and many others. So obviously they’re hated and seen as exploiters of the poor. Let me tell you, I am one of those people who give pastors money, some are even on YouTube I’ve never seen them physically. Ukitaka kuomoka open a YouTube channel and preach. People are thirsty for the word of God. There is a guy who was invited in a certain kiyuks channel to give his testimony. After that Kenyans from all over the world asked him to go into full time ministry and leave his hardware business. They’re paying tithe to support him and others send him money whenever they want to. He counsels and prays with people all day, it’s now his job.
Personally I have no problem with a man of God being wealthy, nobody is holding a gun to their head to give. If gamblers, pimps, bar and lodging owners, witch doctors are wealthy why should a person preaching be poor? Jesus Himself said, the poor you will always have when Pharisees complained about the woman who poured expensive perfume on Jesus dusty feet.
Number 2 tragedy is not a sign of punishment from God, as we saw in Job. Most pastor’s go through difficult things. It’s normal. Paul himself was praying for people they get healed and him himself he is sick. So mambo ya Mungu it’s not very easy to understand how God does His things. Job friends were sure that there’s no way a righteous man could go through all the problems Job was going through. Please restrain yourself from judging especially pastor’s when they go through hard times. In proverbs the Bible says, if God is bringing judgment upon your enemy or punishing your enemy then He sees you gloating He will stop doing it immediately, so hii roho ya kufarahia when bad things are happening to someone doesn’t please God. Even if it’s happening to a truly evil person or your enemy. Tukue na Tofauti kama wakristo, we cannot be rejoicing over evil like worldly people do. Kutakia we zetu maovu. It is not of God.