Sharia, Kidnapping, and Ransom: How Nigeria’s Crisis Funds Global Terror (an excerpt from an upcoming book by Alfred 👣 Follow Alfred On Amazon Books To Stay Updated)
The killing of Christians in Nigeria at this point has gotten ridiculous. We as Christians cannot keep only getting down on our knees and keep praying that God changes things, that God saves Christians from these murdering jihadist terrorists. God is waiting for us as Christians to rise up and do something about it. He has given us brains. He has given us wisdom. The Bible says God is our wisdom. Therefore, we should be able to solve the problem ourselves.
When we are praying to God to intervene and stop the killing of Christians in Nigeria, God is waiting for us to use the wisdom, the power, and the ability He has given us to stop it ourselves.
I know the Bible says there will be persecution. And I know that in the past, Christians have been persecuted. Throughout the first century, Peter was killed for his faith. So was Paul and a lot of the other apostles. However, the revelation they had, plus the opportunity and the political scenario that existed then, is different from what exists now.
For example, then you were either a king or a peasant. You were either a part of the nobility or you were a part of the masses. And it was a matter of birth. If you were not born into nobility, you would never be a noble. Of course, there were exceptions where, via feats of courage, a door could open for someone to cross over from the masses to the nobility. For example, if there was a feat that no one else could do, and it was given as a reward for bravery—like we saw with what Saul did with David: if anyone was to face Goliath, that gave them access to nobility because they would marry the king’s daughter. So things of that sort happened, as well as women who, even though poor, were very beautiful and found favor with a royal; they could marry a royal. That was the only way someone could cross over from the masses to the nobility.
And the nobility made all the rules. The masses were just the masses. However, that is not the way it is today. Now we have democracy. Thanks to America, thanks to the white man, we have democracy. And because of democracy, even though you are not born of royal blood, you can still become a leader and a ruler. It is not as simple as a promise that is being made. You still have to know how to navigate the political world, get funders, supporters, and all that. But at least now it is possible, unlike before.
So the world that the Christians lived in then is different from now. And the revelation, the understanding, and the power of the Spirit that the apostles lived in then is different from now. The glory of the latter house should be greater than that of the former. We as Christians should be able to come up with a plan to end all the killing of Christians in Nigeria.
First of all, let’s examine this problem. There are billions of Christians all around the world. I am sure you will agree with me that there are more Christians in number than there are terrorists in Northern Nigeria. So why haven’t Christians stood up to mobilize?
Problem number one: when Christians are being persecuted in one part of the world, Christians in other parts of the world don’t care. However, look at how the world operates. If it comes time to kill Jews or blame Jews for something, those who hate Jews—specifically the radical Muslims—always stand up, no matter where they are in the world. There are Muslims in Nigeria who are protesting against Netanyahu & Israel.
Or let’s look at the gay community. The homosexuals, if they hear that a homosexual is being discriminated against in one part of the world and the mainstream media deems it as, “Let us shine our light on this,” that is all that should be on the news cycle. That is what everybody will mobilize around, and they will stop that persecution of the gays. However, when it comes to Christians, Christians never stand up to fight for other Christians. Rather, if you go online now, you will see Christian pastors who are dissing other Christian pastors. The majority of Christian media on social media that moves the needle, that moves the algorithm, is Christians dissing Christians. There is no unity.
Jesus Himself said, speaking of Satan’s kingdom—when they told Him that He was casting out demons by Beelzebub—Jesus said a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. And that is the problem with Christianity. Christianity on earth today is a kingdom divided against itself. So many denominations. The denominations don’t even want to work together on “we agree on this”—at least we agree on Jesus being Lord, or we agree on this, this, this. You will see a denomination fighting with another denomination where the only thing they disagree on is the day of worship. One says worship on Sunday, another one says worship on Saturday. And because of that, they have beef. You can still work together on so many things.
In any case, until Christians act as one, there is nothing stopping this. Why haven’t Christians gone into politics as Christians? When Muslims go into politics, they go in to dominate for Islam. And they do their—um—they enrich themselves personally and all of that. We see that. But the Christian makes money, and everybody starts complaining: “Ah, this pastor has a private jet. Oh, this Christian is doing this. Oh, this Christian is doing that.” And the majority of people criticizing are Christians. We need to organize ourselves.
It is not for us to keep praying and waiting for God to move to stop the killing of Christians in Nigeria. God is looking at us. He has given us brains. He has given us wisdom. Let us stop it ourselves. We should be wise enough to know how to take over the political scene. Tinubu is not God. If you want to talk about godfathers, how many other godfathers are there? How many billionaires are there? And why can’t we win all these people to Christ? And among the billionaires that are Christians, why can’t we organize ourselves and form our own political cartel? And the primary objective is to protect Christianity as well as make Nigeria a better country.
There are a lot of people who convert from Islam to Christianity who get killed. I am tired of seeing in my Twitter feed—and they don’t put it anywhere else; you don’t see this on Instagram, you don’t see this on mainstream news—always killing of Christians, killing of… they have kidnapped this pastor, they have killed this pastor, oh, this Catholic priest. And you know, Catholics are just easy targets for the Muslims. They have killed a lot of Catholic priests, and the Pope is kissing the feet of Muslims. The Pope is not fighting for Christianity. This is what I am talking about.
Now, I don’t see doctrinally Catholics as true Christians. However, the world and those who look from outside see all of us as Christians. And when they are coming to persecute Christians, they are not going to distinguish. They don’t even know which one is a real Christian and a fake Christian, or which doctrine is correct or not correct. All they know is that it is under the umbrella of Christianity. So they are attacking everything. So it is better, even though we have our differences denominationally, that we all as one stand together, have a plan, and end this.
A simple—even in the case of the military—look at what a terrible thing is happening. And keep in mind, in as much as I may not be a fan of Martin Luther King today because of certain revelations about his life, he said certain things that are profound and stand the test of time and are very important. He said one time that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. And that is truth. The injustice in Nigeria is a threat to the justice in America.
There are those, especially those who are Republicans and conservatives, those in America and the UK, who are saying, “Why does America have to involve themselves with stuff going on in Nigeria or problems that Muslims are doing in other countries?” You have to understand something. For example, if someone is kidnapped in Nigeria and they are holding that person for ransom, most of these people are people whose relatives are in America, are in Canada. So someone can travel; they are living their best life in America. They are safe themselves from the nonsense happening in Nigeria. However, what happens when a woman that is working in Canada gets a phone call that her mother in the village has been kidnapped? Now she is sending funds to these kidnappers to release her mother. And where do these funds go? These funds are used to buy weapons for the Muslim terrorist group, which is ISWAP, the West African branch of ISIS, which is linked to the Taliban. So you are actually funding the purchase of weapons for the Taliban and for ISIS. That is what it is. All these kidnappings.
And you know, to Donald Trump and the rest of them, this concerns you because all of these kidnappings and all this going on in Nigeria—and holding the government hostage in the sense that they will go to a school, kidnap 300 children, and then ask the government for so-and-so billion, and the government gives them—that is funding terrorism. So it keeps going on and on because they will use it. That is now you putting billions and billions in the hands of ISIS. So how does that not concern you in America? That is funding terrorism that will spread to other parts of Africa, that will also give that money to their big bosses and all of that, who will also invest it in, you know, Qatar, places like that that are known for funding terrorism—nations, Islamic nations that want to establish an Islamic caliphate.
They are going to use all that wealth that has come from kidnapping the so-called infidel, because they don’t look at us as human beings. If you are not a Muslim, they look at you as someone who deserves to die. So they don’t care. So that is how this affects you, whether you are in America or wherever. So is it you, much more the Christian? You look at all the killings in Nigeria and you keep quiet. Even the killings of Christians in India, the killing of Christians in Sudan—not just Nigeria.
This is something—everything that happens and that will happen in the tribulation period—let me explain something to you. When you read what the Bible says in the book of Revelation, God is not telling you what is His will. When you read about all those bad things happening, it is not God making them happen. It is not that it is God’s will that all this tribulation period will happen. But it is a matter of fact that God is the beginning and the end. He is the Alpha and the Omega. So He knows how human beings… He has already seen how human beings will act. He has already lived through it. He is in the past, He is in the present, He is in the future. So He has already seen. So He is telling you: the book of Revelation is not God telling you His will. He is telling you what He saw that human beings already did, as He is the Alpha and the Omega. And everybody is just falling in line. People are just, you know, it’s all playing out as He saw.
And it is not just a matter of like God has a time machine, or God is a self time machine that He can jump from past to present and future. He is in all the timelines. So it is from there He is telling you what happened. So that is what you are reading in the book of Revelation. It is not like that is His will.
There are people who believe that everything that happens is God’s will. No. As a matter of fact, if you’re broke now, that is not God’s will. If you have no money in your bank account, that is not God’s will. If you are sick in your body, that is not God’s will. And the Bible says it: I wish above all things that you prosper and be in good health. A lot of things that happen are not God’s will. God being God doesn’t mean that He gets His way all the time, because that would mean that He is a God of injustice and unfairness. Adam falling in the garden was not God’s will, but it happened.
The day that God decided that no matter what, He will leave free will with man and never take free will from man—that is the day He decided, as a consequence, that He is not going to have His way all the time and His will is not going to be done all the time. Because man has the ability to choose for themselves. Even if you personally choose to follow God, what about the other person? There are billions of people on this earth. Even if you and all your family and all your friends choose that you will always obey God and you perfectly obey God in every single thing every single time, what about the other people in the world that also have free will? And that person falling out of line can now be somebody that can choose to rob you, to pick a gun and shoot you.
So we now see that the imperfection in the world is a result of free will. And if God were to take away free will from everybody to create that perfect world that people are always claiming—“If there is a God, why are things not perfect? Why does this happen? Why does that happen?”—that means you also lose consciousness. Your personality is gone. And that is, in many ways, God destroying everything that He has ever built. So God is not going to do that.
So it all goes back to this. We as Christians, it is on us to come up with a plan and a series of steps on what to do: to take politics, take power, to even, if it is to form our own local army, make laws possible for us to have our own security forces to protect villages, churches in the north, and all of that.
We already know the Muslims’ playbook. Their playbook is to institute Sharia on us. Pushing Sharia law is not something they want to push for because the game is that they will say they are pushing Sharia law just so that Muslims will obey. No. I am a Christian. I obey the Bible, but I don’t need the government to tell me to obey the Bible. If you want to obey the Bible, you can obey the Bible. If you want to disobey the Bible, do you need the government to give you the command or to authorize it and pass it into law? No. So why is it that for a Muslim to be a Muslim, they need the government to institute Sharia law?
If you want to live by Sharia law… then again, you know, if Sharia law was good, as long as it did not violate human rights—but of course it does. And that is why they want it to be legal. Because the legal rights of a human being go at cross purposes with Sharia law. For example, according to Sharia law, you should be able to kill any Muslim that converts to Christianity. But in a nation that does not have Sharia law as part of the law, you can’t do that. That violates human rights. That violates freedom of religion. So they want Sharia law to override everything.
So don’t be deceived and think that when Muslims want to put in Sharia law, it will affect only Muslims. So is it discrimination not to allow Sharia law? No. Sharia law is put in place to enslave the Christian, to enslave the non-Muslim, to make everybody, to enslave every law, everything that civilization has brought, to destroy it and replace it with an old, archaic ideology and way of living that will destroy everything.
So we know their game plan. Therefore, we can create our own plan to protect ourselves, and we have to do that. If we do not unite and move forward, we have ourselves to blame.
If it was a matter of starting a company, how many people started a company by getting on their knees and praying all day for the company to start and run and everything to be successful? So why is it that in the case of the killing of Christians, all you are doing is praying—no planning? What is our plan to take over politics? What is our plan to take over government? What is our plan to make Christians unite and stand together?
Anywhere a Christian is being persecuted for his faith, all Christians all over the world should rise up. If someone insults Muhammad in any part of the world, Muslims rise up and want to kill that person, no matter where that person is. And it’s worse if it’s in a Muslim country. That person will get burned. And nothing will happen to the Muslim who did the burning of the person who insulted their prophet. Why can’t we as Christians learn to start protecting ourselves the way Muslims fight and protect the name of their prophet?
So it is on us to stop the killing of Christians in Nigeria. It is on every Christian in this world.
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