New Terror War in Nigeria Deadlier Than Religious War – Ladi Thompson
Members of CPAN and Rev. Ladi Thompson after the event
*Enjoins Christians to apply divine Wisdom
The General Overseer of Living Waters Unlimited Church, Reverend Ladi Thompson, has said that the new war of terror in Nigeria is hydra-headed warning that it should not be mistaken as a religious war.
He said the hydra-headed war terrorists are highly intelligent and its agenda is designed to kill both Christians and Muslims.
Rev. Thompson who was a special guest at the monthly breakfast meeting of the Christian Press Association of Nigeria (CPAN) in Lagos today called on the Church to apply divine wisdom in responding to the terror war in Nigeria.
The cleric said it would be wrong to see the new terror of war as an extension of the Uthman Dan Fodio jihad, noting that the El-Kenami and Borno Empire had curtailed the advancement of the Uthman Dan Fodio Jihad.
He explained that the Borno Empire had been Muslims for 600 years before Dan Fodio appeared on the scene.
Rev. Ladi Thompson said the new terror of war in Nigeria is a satanic agenda to conquer the people of Nigeria.
He said what satanic intelligence has done is to mix theology with violent philosophies to create a hybrid that is deadlier and more intelligent than the Dan Folio or boko haram campaign.
The Cleric warned that if the new strategy is allowed to run its course, a lot of northerners will be shocked to discover that all the old emirates will be sacked and replaced with new ones.
Rev. Ladi Thompson and Deacon Bola Adewara
He said there was need for the Church to restrategise.
According to him, “The only thing that the Dan Fodio narrative and this new terror war have in common is the manipulation of the Islamic religion. They are not the same thing and they never were the same thing.”
He warned that the body of Christ cannot afford to invest in military responses as a response to the Boko Haram onslaught, noting that the weapons of the Church are not carnal even as he added that there is a wisdom that is better than the weapon of war.
This level of wisdom, he said, requires faith which he said has become a problem because of the encroachment of sense knowledge.
He enjoined the church not to get involved in retaliation killings and it must not cast aside its faith in God. “The Church must not embrace sensuous wisdom. It must not rejoice over the death of sinners, the Church must apply divine standard of love and must not permit a religious war.”
Rev. Ladi Thompson who stated that the hydra-headed war machinery of the terrorists kills Muslims as easily as it kills the brethren said, “Many Christians do strange things because they have a strong desire to make heaven and it would surprise the Nigerian Church that the root reason that motivates the suicide bomber is the same desire to make heaven. In reality this is one of the major differences between religion and the gospel of the kingdom. The gospel of the kingdom assures you the citizenship of the kingdom while religion demands insurance. There is a wide gap between insurance and the assurance,” he stated.
On the solution, he called on the Church to begin to invest on education in the north in order to eliminate the level of ignorance existing in that part of the country.
“One of the solutions to the monster is for the church to begin to invest in education. There is so much ignorance in the north. The north has been so much radicalized and indoctrinated. The church should go after the national policies on education and eradicate such illiteracy. Ignorance is one of the tools used by the terrorists,” he advised.
Earlier in his speech, CPAN President, Deacon Bola Adewara, said the security situation in Nigeria calls for a serious concern which he said prompted the topic of the discourse.
He called on the Church to rise up to the challenges of their responsibilities of being the light and the salt of the earth.
