Pastor Explains Why 2023 Presidential Election Prophecies Failed

According to Effa Emmanuel, Senior Pastor of World Royal City Church Asokoro, Abuja, many predictions for the 2023 general elections failed because they were not inspired by God.

This was revealed by the cleric while he was chatting with journalists at a religious gathering in Abuja.

According to PUNCH, as the 2023 general election gained momentum, numerous clerics issued a number of prophecy predictions about its likely outcome, many of which turned out to be false.

Because they were conceived by humans, not by God, most of these prophecies were found to be erroneous, Pastor Emmanuel said

He said: “We have CAN and Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN). I think the leaders of these bodies should have the responsibility of calling erring pastors to order so that we don’t have confusion in the house.

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“When Paul was speaking, I think to the Corinthians, he said if anyone has a prophecy, one should prophesize at a time, while others should judge. Prophecy is not a recipe for confusion. God is not an author of confusion.”

The pastor advised the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN to establish a regulation on such predictions in order to distinguish false from genuine prophesies while noting that any preacher who predicted from his own spirit is only talking from imagination.

He said: “If you are inspired by the devil of course you’re a prophet but not a prophet of God. But there are also prophets of God, who speak from God. And if you speak from God, one sign that you are speaking from God is that it comes to pass. If it doesn’t come to pass, then you are not speaking from God.

“My take is that CAN and PFN should be able to regulate the house because the church is a house. We should be able to speak with one voice. And then the leaders of the organisations should be able to decipher who is really speaking and representing the voice of God so that we won’t have this rancour and disorder that we’ve had so far,” he noted.