Stolen destinies, money ritual and the devil Pt 2
By Reverend Father Oluoma
To make my final submission on these issues, I’ll separate them
ON STOLEN DESTINIES.
My humble submission is that destinies cannot be stolen. Those who disagreed with me only cited circumstantial evidences in the bible and nothing substantial. Some used the story of Jacob and Esau, which i think is a wrong illustrations.
Birthright is not destiny, it’s right to certain inheritance which are mostly material. Esau sold his birth right( a shameful thing to do) but not his destiny. He still became the founding father of a nation, the Edomites descended from him, read Gen 36. In Gen 33 Esau rejected Jacob’s gifts because he too had more than enough.
Some quoted scriptures of where God promised to restore the years eaten by locusts. I still don’t know how that equates with destiny.
Some people confuse destiny with profession, careers and vocation. There are two major definitions of destiny: 1. “Events that will necessarily happen to a particular person”. Jesus necessarily had to die for our sins. Death was his destiny, salvation was his mission, carpentry was his occupation. Was Peter destined to deny Jesus? Was Judas destined to betray Jesus? Why did Peter repent and Judas committed suicide? Was one destined to repent and remain a disciple and the other destined to commit suicide and lose the position?
Destiny is what happens to someone necessarily or unavoidably, but not the totality of one’s life. Destiny is not the engineer or doctor or business man or governor or wealthy man or woman you could have become but couldn’t make it for any number of reasons. One person can become 4 of those things in lifetime. We have people who are lawyers, musicians, successful business men all at once, while we have people who didn’t become any of that. Choice, opportunities and preparations are parts of the variables that affect those things.
2. The second meaning of destiny is “the hidden power believed to control future events”. Yes, there are spiritual powers at play in this world. The devil is the chief on the side of evil. He can do and undo. The story of Job is a demonstration. Demonic manipulations are real. Yet, only God has the absolute control of yesterday, today and tomorrow. The devil can know what will happen tomorrow, he can even decide and plan what will happen tomorrow, but only God CAN change it.
God doesn’t need the devil’s permission to alter tomorrow, the devil needs God’s permission to change certain things as we see in job’s case again. Las las, only God is the sole power in control of everything. Col 3:3 says “our life is hidden in Christ Jesus, and Christ in God.” Having established that destiny is not a commodity that can be stolen, even if it were, how could the thief access what’s hidden in Christ?
Acts 17:28 says: “In him we live and move and have our being”. How is the thief going to break into what is inside God?
When people end up failing to achieve a particular status in life they say their destiny is stolen, or when people suffer some set backs or misfortunes and call them stolen destinies I don’t agree.
Once more I want to boldly state that the devil cares nothing of what you become( pastor, priest, business man, wealthy woman, poor person, married, single, jobless, working etc), his care is to access your soul as anything you are and get you to do his bidding.
We have people in ministry, politics, corporate world, sports, entertainment and every walk of life that the devil uses. He’s the thief that comes to steal, kill and destroy your soul, relationship with God and eternity. He’s not interested in what you become in life. In any case I have argued that destinies aren’t commodities that can be stolen.
Tomorrow I will discuss what I think the devil does with money rituals, his real interest in it and how those who make money from it possibly does.
I want to thank all those who aired their views, those who disagreed with me and those who agreed in Part 1. I have responded to some and couldn’t do most because of time.
To those who out rightly insulted me, I dey wait for una for gate of heaven on the last day😂😂
In a discussion like this the goal is to broaden our knowledge and perspectives. So make your contributions and support your conclusions with verifiable evidences or facts, at least with rational basis.
