Another Mahama will succeed President Mahama in 2028 – Prophecy

I have returned to old time religion. That is to say, I am Anglican–along with my neurosurgeon friend in Oregon who pastored a fast-growing church in the charismatic stream. We got quite exasperated with the wild antics of sharp-suited preachers and their prophetic near-misses.
The gospel had become transactionary, and it felt like you had bargained for a place in Heaven only when you dolled out good money or deployed superfluous vocabulary to pray down God. You were not on God’s radar if your business was not doing well or your kids failed in maths.
Charismatic lotto numbers
Last year, my friend and I resolved that this kind of transaction was not good for our souls at 50, so we changed churches, to keep our sanity.
The Anglican priests do not prophesy about elections, and do not give out lotto numbers.
They don’t cast out demons from grandmothers who have tied their children’s fortunes to an iroko tree.
The Anglicans follow strict liturgical protocols that do not make room for priests to laud the hairstyles and culinary skills of their wives before delivering the sermon.
The rule book restricts business to one hour, plus coffee time. By Jove, sometimes I miss my charismatic side.
I miss the sight of beautiful ladies extending flirtatious overtures to confound freethinking men in choir robes.
I also miss prophecies billowing from loudspeakers about how witches have eaten away the intestines of congregants for refusing to pay their tithes.
Particularly, I miss the personality clashes that feed the prophecies on who will win elections in Ghana.
The prophets have mostly gotten it wrong but we have tolerated them for misrepresenting strange voices as the voice of God.
At their capricious worst, they have called us stupid for not having spiritual ears big enough to hear from God.
The prophets are at it again. Before President Mahama will swear the oath of state to begin his second term, they have already predicted another Mahama lacing up his presidential boots to succeed President Mahama in 2028.
The oracle of God, on this occasion, chose Prophet Bernard El-Bernard Nelson Eshun of Spiritlife Revival Ministries in Accra, to deliver the message.
The prophet is popular for his 30 days of strange prophecies and has been known to be quite accurate.
The new Mahama
He has refused to tell us what the second Mahama looks like and what he does for a living.
He will not say whether the new Mahama will come from the NDC or the NPP, and has been mute on the possibility of the few Mahamas we have in parliament graduating to the high office. Our democratic practice has not produced a potent third force yet, unless Nana Kwame Bediako adds Mahama to his fleet of aliases.
Freedom Cheddar Mahama may be the new name behind the mask in the future.
Otherwise, the NDC may take Mahama Ayarigah seriously while the NPP begins to look the way of Aliu Mahama’s son, to fulfil his late father’s ambitions.
Prophet Bernard-El-Benard has been generous enough to reveal some spiritual timings to his prophecy: The second Mahama will not win in 2028; he will be president of Ghana shortly thereafter, he has decreed.
He has also given some prophetic indications of happenings that will herald the second Mahama presidency.
The prophetic leading sometimes comes with instructions on post-prophecy actions required to bring it alive.
In this second Mahama prophecy, however, Prophet El-Bernard does not wish to say anything to prophecy merchants. He has only committed us to watch and wait to experience the power of prophecy.
The prophetic has been a contentious area in the charismatic spiritual experience.
In recent times, their operations have caused some consternation and attracted the collective flak of some critical Ghanaians, especially the IGP, who has issued warnings about the predictable yearly prophecies, most of which only proclaim deaths, accidents and misfortunes that would befall Ghanaians.
Suddenly, the gods stopped talking to the prophets when the warnings were first issued, but in the last year or two, the gods have started their divine whisperings again. Jesus the parabolist Does God only speak in December? Ghanaians have queried the apostolic mantle of prophets behind election predictions in Ghana.
We have also wondered why the prophets flip-flop on their choice of winners when they fall out with some political parties, as Rev. Owusu Bempah is reported to have renounced his support for the NPP in favour of John Mahama following his arrest and time in cell.
Other prophets have shamefully proceeded to prophesy, even after earlier prophecies have flatly failed.
This is where the prophetic mandate begs for prophetic sanity. These aberrations portend danger for the charismatic community, ICGC founder Dr. Mensah Otabil, recently warned at a pastor’s conference in Nigeria.
If Jesus Christ, the parabolist (he used parables), is the example the prophets are following, they should be telling us parables to explain metaphysical conundrums, instead of launching into unfamiliar realms to report ‘that saith the Lord’ when a voice speaks to them privately.
If a piece of miracle is proof that God has spoken, then my seven year old son believed he worked a miracle when the ATM machine produced money while I asked him to pray. His eyes closed, I punched in my pin numbers.
The next day, he volunteered to pray at the ATM for money to buy him a bicycle.
Meanwhile, we await the messianic presidency of Prophet El-Bernard’s second Mahama from 2028.
Hopefully, John Mahama will be working on his maize farm as a distinguished statesman, after what he has termed his legacy years.
Kwesi Tawiah-Benjamin,

Tissues of the Issues
bigfrontiers@gmail.com