Why I Won’t Seek Vengeance
Against Killers Of Abuja Preacher –
Pastor E.A Adeboye
General Overseer of the Redeemed
Christian Church of God (RCCG),
Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has revealed
why he will not seek vengeance
against killers of Abuja preacher,
Deaconess Eunice Olawale Elisha.
Forty-two-year old Mrs Elisha was
hacked to death by hoodlums on June
9 at Gbazango-West area of Kubwa, a
satellite town in the Federal Capital
Territory while preaching early in the
morning.
She was an assistant pastor at the
RCCG, Divine Touch parish, Old NEPA
road, Phase 4, Kubwa, before she was
slashed in the neck and stabbed in the
stomach by suspected religious
fanatics.
Adeboye, fondly called Daddy G.O by
his admirers, said contrary to calls by
eminent Nigerians that he should seek
vengeance against killers of the
evangelist, he would not do so.
He said such move would be
counterproductive just as it would be
contrary to what the deceased wanted
and stood for when she was martyred.
According to the revered man of God,
if Dcns Elisha was actually preaching
to win souls for Jesus Christ, it would
be unscriptural and anti-Christ to
seek to kill the same souls she sought
to save.
Adeboye made the declaration on the
occasion of the second day of the
ongoing Ministers Conference at the
Redemption Camp, Kilometer 46,
Lagos – Ibadan Expressway on Friday
morning ahead the 64 annual
convention starting August 1.
“I’m not looking for vengeance. I won’t
listen to people asking me to seek
vengeance.
“I won’t pursue the case. That’ll be
contrary to what she wanted.
“She wanted them saved, not killed.
“What will their killing do for me?,”
the 74-year-old cleric queried.
Teaching on the topic, “Importance of
Mercy,” Adeboye said since every
Christian did not know when they
would die, the time to truly seek God
was now.
Making an example out of the slain
Mrs Elisha whom he said was not
aware she won’t return home alive on
that fateful day, the Ifewara-born
cleric warned that the end of the age
was imminent, hence the prevalence
of vices all over the world.
He said the murdered evangelist
finished well and was, no doubt,
sitting at the right hand of her
Saviour for whom she paid the
supreme price.
“Recently, some hoodlums went to
murder my daughter in Abuja.
“She was doing her morning cry that
morning as she usually did, armed
with a megaphone and her Bible.
“An Imam was said to have sent some
hoodlums to drive her away, but they
did something else.
“She didn’t know she won’t return
home that day.
“She finished well. She finished
strong
“What a beautiful way to go. She’s
gone to be with the Lord,” he stated
glowingly.
The man of God said that his joy was
predicated on the fact that another
soul was waiting for him in Heaven.
“My joy is that she finished well and I
have additional soul waiting to
welcome me in Heaven when it is my
time,” Adeboye noted.
It will be recalled that husband of the
slain evangelist, Pastor Elisha had,
earlier, expressed misgivings in killing
whoever was caught in connection
with the murder, saying he would
rather they gave their lives to Jesus
Christ.
Describing his wife as a martyr, he
said: “I see her as a martyr, and she
died for Christ. And whether the
people are caught or not, they should
forgive them; my prayer is that if they
can accept Christ, that will be a gain
to Christ.”
The slain lady evangelist, who left
behind his husband, aged father,
mother and seven children, was
buried last Saturday in Abuja.
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