The spiritual head and shepherd in charge of celestial
church of Christ Genesis Global, Prophet Israel Oladele Ogundipe has reacted to
the purported news roaming the social media on his withdrawal from main body of
Celestial Church. According to the release made available for news men
indicated that there is no iota of truth in the story, it is a complete fake
news, in his words’ I just spoke with Rev. Pastor Mobiyina Oshoffa, the leader
of our church, there is nothing like legal battle or court action between me
and headquarter, it’s fake news merchant at work, nobody can dare the massive
mercy of Christ in our ministry, there’s cordial relation with me and the
general body of the God ordained ministry, how can I quit Celestial church of
Christ, it’s too late for that’. It was in the report that the National Headquarters
of the Celestial Church in Imeko, a suburb of Ogun State, after the incident of
K1’s performance considered as desecration of the altar, attempted to invite
Genesis to come and face disciplinary actions on 2 offences. One being the K1
issue, and the other being an offence of bigger magnitude which concerned some
actions of Cardinal James Omolaja Odumbaku popularly known as baba Eto in both
Celestial Church and Lagos political circles, who also attended the Genesis program
in contention tagged: Harvest of Massive Mercy.
But how exactly did Baba Eto get involve in an infraction
worthy of counting against Genesis? This is how: when K1 was about to drop microphone on the day of the
harvest to bring his electrifying performance to a close, Baba Eto made a grand
entry into the church which K1 was not initially aware of. But one of his band
men rushed to him on the altar on the stroke of the time he was handing over
the microphone, and the message that Baba Eto had just stepped in was
apparently whispered into his ear. Hence, instead of going ahead to hand over
the microphone,K1 stepped back with it to begin a special rendition in honor of
Baba Eto who just came in. but that was not really the second offence.
The real offence was two pronged. One was that as against
the doctrine in Celestial church, Baba Eto wore cap into the church. It was
said that he should have ordinarily taken the cap off before entering the
church as a norm. And as if that was not enough, Baba Eto allegedly went on to
commit more grievous offence in the church. There are reportedly, 2 special
chairs above the altar in all Celestial churches which are reserved for
exclusive beings. One is said to be reserved spiritually for Jesus Crist, so no
one sits on it no matter who they are. And the other is said to be reserved for
late Samuel Bilewu Joseph Oshoffa, the founder of Celestial church, and only
one of his descendants who has taken over the leadership of Celestial church
who currently is Rev. Pastor Mobiyina Oshoffa, is allowed to sit on it whenever
he visits any Celestial church.
But lo and behold, after K1 had made obeisance to him while
still singing his praise, and Genesis had come to prostrate for him before
hugging him on the altar, Baba Eto went straight to sit on the chair reserved
only for the person leading the Celestial church worldwide. Abomination! In the
doctrine of the church, that is what it was said to be; abomination. The
Headquarters wondered why Genesis did not ask Baba Eto immediately to vacate
the seat immediately the anomaly was committed. And Genesis reportedly sent
words back to the Headquarters that Baba Eto was too big in the celestial
church for him to have challenged like that. For, one, he was quoted to have
said that Baba Eto too heads a celestial church of his and well aware of the
sacredness of the chair. So, he must have some reasons best known to him to
have sat on it. And again, Genesis was said to have argued that late Oshoffa’s
wife was in the church as a guest that day too.
So, why did she keep quite
instead of raising issues on Baba Eto sitting on the sacred chair. But the
Headquarters was said not to be ready to hear any of his excuses sent in words
of mouth but for him to show up personally at the Headquarters to answer to the
crime he allegedly engineered against the celestial church. But Genesis was
said to have responded to them that he would not come because he had not
committed any crime whatsoever. So, it was a ding dong affair between Genesis
and the Headquarters for days. Meanwhile, the church service after the
incidents which was held on Sunday, 22nd of December, Genesis reportedly
told his congregation that he was withdrawing his church from the main body of
the celestial church to stand alone. And he asked those of his members who want
to stay with him to stay and those who were willing to go away with the main
body to do so by their own volition. And as a result of that said secession,
the main body of celestial church was said to have instituted a court action
against Genesis on the matter. And how that would pan out in the coming days remained
to be seen. But in demonstration of his resolve to secede, members of Genesis
were said not to have taken part in general worship by all the celestial church
in the country every year which starts few days before Christmas and ends Christmas
day usually referred to as “Imeko”. The battle line has obviously been drawn and
the last has apparently not been heard of the matter.
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