Is it possible that the God we think we know doesn’t exist?

Before Prophet T.B. Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, there was Bishop Michael Nwaobi Amakaeze, also known as Evangelist Musa of the Holy Sabbath of Christ the King Mission International Church, in Nnobi, Anambra State.

The day I heard that Musa died, I could not believe it. He could as well have been Jesus Christ, but I never cared. Neither did many people from Nnobi. After all, the good book noted that ‘a prophet has no honor in his hometown.’ But for thousands of his followers, who came from all over the globe on a yearly pilgrimage to Nnobi, Musa was a prophet. As a student of Nnobi High School, I watched them walk along the street of Afor Nnobi, barefooted and in white gowns. Musa’s Sabbath Mission was the greatest industry Nnobi had, so we never really minded. But passing the highly fenced walls of the tabernacle, I always wondered what was going on in there.

The shocking death in the year 2000 of about 400 souls, including 78 children in Kanungu, Uganda, made me reexamine the import of the cult Musa of Nnobi built and the potentials of such ventures. The members of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments could no longer wait for God to call them. They were in so much hurry they had to facilitate their journey to heaven. And they took with them children who were not old enough to…