2025 Christmas, a simple yet stupefying Jesus story (1)

Silent Night, Holy Night!. Like drunken or blindfolded persons, we stand again before indelible memories of a great Mission of Divinity to the earth in the birth of Jesus, the Son of God, in a Bethlehem manger. I shudder, however, at the thought that THE DARKNESS, until it is finally vanquished, will never permit mankind to find THE LIGHT through memories. That was why I said that like drunkards or blind persons, we may never understand the Mission or profit from it. Evidence of this assumption are the gloom, sorrow, confusion in social, political, economic and cultural systems, debauchery, conceit, cunning, hatred, wars, pestilence and wide spread disease, ignorance and poverty more than 2000 years after the Jesus Mission brought spiritual education to mankind about how, through Love, they may make the earth a paradise after their home in the Spirit World.

Also, I say mankind appear drunken or blindfolded today, 25 December 2025, another Christmas day, because many persons either believe that the Jesus salvation story is a fairy tale or are mere believers out of habit. You only need to live in Lagos and be a regular radio listener from about 4 am to 8 am and sometimes after midnight to appreciate the gold mine that the Jesus salvation story has become in the hands of several self-annointed prophets. Today’s Christmas is a special one in the history of Christmas in Nigeria, or anywhere on earth. Many new generation churches are falling upon themselves to outdo one another in competition to make money out of the biblical story of THE FEEDING OF THE FIVE THOUSAND. Every competing prophet has stocked no fewer than 5,000 rice handbags. A rice handbag is enough rice to fill a bag which can be hand held. I have not cited one. However, from the image they paint of it, it should be something to fill a 10kg sack. The prophets say the first 5000 worshippers to arrive on the praying ground they have chosen for a CONVENANT CHRISTMAS event would each be given a SANCTIFIED bag strictly on the basis of “ first come first serve”. The “lucky” worshippers will take their gift home and share them with no one. For as long as these packs of rice are in their homes, they would not be in want of food throughout 2026. There would be a convenant with Christmas 2025, though. That convenant is that each person will pay to the church N5,000 in expression of gratitude for the forthcoming blessing of their creator, the memory of Whose Son’s Mission of Salvation to the earth they had gathered to observe.

Can this be true Christianity?, . There are too many blemishes than can be mentioned here in the Jesus story taught by these churches. I will cite only a few. When a prophet says he spoke to the Creator and the Creator gave him power to loosen all bonds which debar congregants from material prosperity, I wonder which creator he talks about. Can any man hear the voice of the Creator and not dissolve into nothingness? Do men not flee from lightening and thunder? Did the Three Wise Men not fall on their faces when they beheld even the Heavenly Host who cannot behold God without evaporating? Did Peter, James and John, the three Disciples closest to the Lord Jesus, not fall on their faces at the transfiguration of the Son of God in earthly cloak? What did the appearance of Moses and Elijah with Jesus teach those disciples and the prophets of today? Does the church not teach that departed persons and their earthly remains stay in their graves until JUDGEMENT DAY when bone and flesh and blood and nerves, all rotten, would reassemble for a rapture or destruction? Did Jesus teach us so? Did he not say He would resurrect on the third day of his demise, and that whatever He could do, we, too, were capable of, if we had faith? Did he not teach us that Abraham and Lazarus were already in heaven to show us we, too, could go there after stepping out of the flesh body? Moses and Elijah were long departed before the transfiguration. Did their appearance not suggest that they came from their new abode as members of the Jesus Mission to the Earth? I do not wish to address, fullscore, the question of REINCARNATION which Jesus mentioned tangentially when he informed his disciples that Elijah had returned, but men had done with him what they did. Out of a sense of responsibility, I would say here that the reincarnated Elijah was not John the Baptist. Anyone who carefully reads the Biblical reference should easily recognise from the text that this was the personal opinion of the reporter, one of the Disciples. It was his own understanding of the statement of Jesus which the Lord did not expantiate.

The second reference I would like to make in respect of today’s Nigerian Christian approaching the Jesus story like a drunken or blindfolded person has to do with the notion that God is the servant of man. First, many Yoruba Christian songs and statements refer to him in the first person singular, whereas we address our parents, elders, bosses and anyone senior to us in the second person plural (eyin d:r), (iwo d:r). We also tend to assume that he is an ARBITRARY GOD. The prophets promised us blessings from him that we may not deserve, making us to easily forget that the Lord Jesus taught us about infallible and adamantine mechanisms of THE LAW OF SOWING AND REAPING, one of The Laws of Nature which uphold His Holy Will. To worsen matters, the prophets make us believe God is our errand boy. That is why we ask Him to follow us everywhere, to destroy our enemies as if they are not, like us, His creatures and that there was nothing we did to make them become our enemies. Where is the law that whatever a man sows, he shall abundantly reap?

Another misnomer in today’s Christianity is that some of us believe we have the potential to BLESS God Who is Blessing! We own nothing, not even our existence which is owned by God, LIFE, Who does not need anything, any creature, Angel, man or beast to be God. Out of spiritual poverty, we always say in church or at prayer gatherings that “I bless you”, “I bless you”, waving the right hand, eyes closed or opened.

Another misnomer is PRAYER. We do not realise that prayer is what we do with our thoughts, the spoken word and our deeds. Thus, we are what we think, say or do, nothing more.The Lord Jesus taught a simple prayer…OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN. It is all about acknowledging the supremacy of the Creator and submission of self to him. We were also taught that our prayers should be thanksgiving, short on words, humble and not petitions. Nowadays, christians carry on as if their Creator is deaf or is hard of hearing. Hours or a whole night are devoted to praying, in the belief that the longer the prayer and the noisier the shouting, the more easily will the prayer be heard. It is little known that words are only channels through which a prayer is packaged and that those words are not the content. The content, which is the power of the prayer, is the deep inner feeling in joy or sorrow which gains connection with the POWER OF GOD in Creation. Bereft of deep inner feelings, that is serious movement or stirring of the spirit, the word channels are empty. Understandably, this is why prayers appear not to be heard because they hardly gain connection with the Power of God and cannot rise to the footstool of His throne. Our prayers are nothing but pure begging and begging and begging. Yet, we do not need to beg for anything if we stand aright. The Lord taught us to seek first the spiritual kingdom and that, if we do, everything we need will automatically come to us. To seek the spiritual kingdom, we must know about THE WILL of our Creator and unconditionally fufil It. He makes HIS WILL abundantly known to us everyday, every moment, through our encounters with THE LAWS OF NATURE because they uphold this Will. The Lord taught us about the Law of sowing and reaping. We know about The Law of Motion. Anything, anyone, that is not in perpetual motion will perish. That is why the solar systems and the universe are in motion. Any person, any people who is not will retrogress, wither and perish. Compare our society with other societies where, through inventiveness, the spirit is in motion. Haven’t we even in our understanding of what we are, where we came from and what we are here for not retrogressed and perishing? Wasn’t that why THE JESUS DIVINE MISSION TO THE EARTH was undertaken? It takes REVEALED KNOWLEDGE which is on the face of the Earth today, to remind us of how far we have fallen as the archangels Who guided” the seven churches of Asia” were informed in the book of revealations. Asia is the spiritual name for the worlds which lie below the spiritual realms. Spiritually speaking, according to revealed knowledge, THE SEVEN CHURCHES correspond to the seven universes over each of which an archangel presided. The judgement that was to come to our universe, Ephesus, was revealed to John The Baptist.

At the risk of being considered a fantast, I would continue. Before I come to the JESUS STORY, I will like to make one more comment. The prophet speaks in tongues to bamboozie the congregation. He does not understand what happened to the Disciples on the day of Pentecost or that the event was not a one- time occurrence but what has happened on a particular day throughout the Universe before the Lord came to the earth and has continued to happen till this day. For Pentecost is the outpouring of power by the Holy Spirit into Creation. The outpouring takes place in the highest Temple in the primordial spiritual world, which is far above the spiritual realms, the last Outpost of which is our home, paradise. This is telling us that the Holy Spirit created the Universes, maintains them and will judge them all, each one at his own time. John the Baptist, on the way to his own home in the fifth primordial spiritual realm was privileged in the seventh primordial spiritual realm in a location called PATMOS to behold events which were soon to happen in our own universe, the spiritual name of which is EPHESUS. It was this vision that he passed on to a person on Earth who was competent to receive it that we now call THE BOOK OF THE REVEALATIONS OF JOHN.

On the day of Pentecost, power streams down from the Holy Spirit into the worlds to maintain them. Every creature who is spiritually open for it can receive of this power in the measure of the receptivity. The outpouring is like the power of the heart beat which drives blood circulation round the body to maintain it. Only humans drunken in spiritual ignorance and blindfolded as such neglectfully lay their spirits before tongue- speaking prophets who are no better than spiritual highway men.

The Jesus story

We learned: “In the beginning was THE WORD, THE WORD was with GOD and THE WORD was GOD”. I believe THE WORD is THE LAW and THE JUSTICE OF GOD. I believe, also, that THE BEGINNING is that of CREATION and not of the existence of Almighty God. Creation is the World of spirits. Our Universe and the earth developed after the image of creation. It is a place where we, the lowest of spirits are to develop and mature before we can return to our home, paradise, the lowest of the 14 realms of the Spirit world. THE WORD brought Creation into being when GOD decreed “ let there be light”. THE LAW is the HOLY SPIRIT, the Creative Will of God, Whose Spirit hovered over the land in the spiritual realms. Through Revealed Knowledge on the face of the Earth today, it is apparent that Christianity has failed to distinguish between THE HOLY SPIRIT Who, like JESUS is personal. We hold on to the personal Jesus and ascribe everything to Him because He is the only member of the Trinity humanity has seen and experienced in blood and flesh. However, the Yorubas of South Western Nigeria are more insightful when they say ESAN KO GBO O o GUN; ESAN L’ AKOBI OLODUMARE”. This means…JUSTICE has no remedy; JUSTICE is the first born of The Almighty God. They recognised the HOLY SPIRIT, but did not as yet recognise JESUS because he did not live and work among them. Colonisation was to bring to them, in the Evangelical mission, knowledge of this other Personality of the TRINITY OF GOD.

In my view, the Lord Jesus taught that the justice of God was THE COMFORTER Who was coming to reprove the world of sin and to proclaim the judgement. He also called this personality THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH. To clarify for us that The Spirit of Truth or the Comforter was not “ the rushing of wind” which was experienced by the disciples, The Lord described him IN THE SECOND PERSON PRONOUN…” WHEN HE THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH IS COME, HE WOULD REPROVE THE WORLD OF SIN AND PROCLAIM THE JUDGEMENT”.

Unmistakeably, the spirit of Truth is the HOLY SPIRIT, THE LAW, The Justice of God. Revealation 1:4-6 describes Him as “ which was, which is and which is to come” and speaks as well of The Lord Jesus, “ the first begotten of the dead”. I take that to mean the first son to live among spiritually dead humanity.

To not waste time, the Trinity of God is purity, justice and love. Purity is Holiness. God alone is Holy. The Holy Spirit, still not well understood in Christianity, is THE WORD, THE JUSTICE and THE LAW. By him and through him God created everything, including humanity and our world. He maintains us and our world and will judge us according to The Word, the Law when the time is ripe.

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When it was seen from above our world that the time was ripening, that we were not maturing well, and that we were going to be lost in the harvest, the pleas of a few ones rose to the Throne of Mercy and, because the struggling ones would not be abandoned, even if it be a single soul, a mission of love was assembled for the redemption and salvation of anyone of us who longs for it. This is the Mission of Jesus to the earth.

The Lord did not come from paradise or higher spheres in the spiritual realms, nor did he come from the substantiate Divine Realms, Abode of the Angels and Archangels. He came from unsubstantiate Divinity, the Abode of the Almighty God and the Holy Spirit, The Word, the Law, his Justice and creative spirit. ‘ From revealed knowledge’ which describes event from Above downwards whereas mankind investigates from below with limited vision and understanding, groping all the time, we now have a few glimpses through Grace of what lies beyond our origin, paradise. One of such glimpses is that surging flames, like oceans of fire spanning immeasurable distances by human estimation, seperate the abode of Angels from unsubstantiate Divinity.

It was from here that the Lord Jesus as an integral part of the Love of God was sent to the earth by the Almighty Father. The judgement was coming, and it could not be annuled. For THE LAW, DIVINE JUSTICE never changes, Being of God and perfect like Him from eternity into eternity.

Archangel Lucifer who led human spirits to the earth had cut them off from their home, paradise, and the Creative Will of God, The Holy Spirit, THE LAW and THE JUSTICE OF GOD. Darkness engulfed the ethereal prototype of the earth. Thus, the earth became denser and was sinking down towards the depths under THE LAW OF GRAVITY. Light on Earth would make it ascend again towards the Light, God. Darkened, it became denser, so more impervious that it now takes much longer time for volition or plans to become deed. Sinking further, the earth would be sucked down by gravitational forces of a FUNNEL OF DISINTEGRATION, which would swallow it. In the belly of this funnel, the earth would be pulverised into its primeval or primordial constituents of dust, fire, water and air. The human inhabitants would lose their ego consciousness and revert to their pre-conscious status of unconscious spirit seed grains which is equivalent to effacement from THE BOOK OF LIFE. That was what the Lord Jesus came to the earth to help us avert. After the judgement, the Elemental beings would reconfigure the primeval components of the earth into a new planet.

• Note: This column is written in two parts, but only the first part is published in The Nation newspaper. The second part will appear beneath the first part on Facebook at John Olufemi Kusa.