President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan seems always dogged by controversy. No thanks to Sahara Reporters and Nigeria's many other online "media houses", Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Youtube, BlackBerry Messenger, LinkedIn and other social media. The previous tenants of Aso Rock Villa must be grateful that they only had to contend with the likes of Daily Times, Tribune, TELL, The News, Newswatch, Tempo, Daily Trust, Punch, Guardian, Vanguard and Thisday in their time!
The latest issue now causing a storm in Cyber9ja is the Presidential Pilgrimage to Israel. It has become the butt of all kinds of unsavoury jokes. Dr. Reuben Abati, Dr. Doyin Okupe and Reno Omokri have their work cut out....till the next controversy!
Pilgrimage to Israel is a personal choice for a Christian not a Biblical ordinance. I have never been to Israel. My friends who have been there say it is a glorious experience. They say their visit to the places mentioned in the Bible was uplifting for them spiritually as it brought home to them in a powerful way the reality of the Holy Scriptures and the certainty that their faith in Jesus Christ as Lord, Saviour, King and God is not misplaced. I look forward to visiting Israel some day by God's Grace. I will be going as a TOURIST not as a "pilgrim". I am already on pilgrimage: I seek a City, a Heavenly City, which is to come; one whose Builder and Maker is God!
President Goodluck Jonathan's trip to Israel is essentially a State Visit. He is there with several Ministers, Governors and other public officers because it is an official trip. His visit to the "Holy Sites" (the pilgrimage) is a consequence of the State Visit not the true essence of the trip. Even President Barrack Obama, like many other world leaders who have been to Jerusalem, prayed at the Wailing Wall on his last trip to Israel just a few months ago. But nobody said President Obama went to Israel on "pilgrimage".
I am pleased that Nigeria's ambivalence in its relationship with Israel is finally over. Our past Presidents and Heads of State (including even those who professed Christianity) treated Israel almost as a pariah state so as not to offend the Arab countries even though most of them they had Israelis as their body-guards!
Whether you believe the Bible, God's Word, or not, the reality is that God has promised to bless the nations which bless Israel because of His Covenant with His Friend, Abraham. And there is no greater testimony of the truth of God's Word than the fact that Israel still exists as a nation on earth today despite the conspiracies of its enemies over the last two millenia to annihilate it. Hit Israel; GOD hits you! Bless Israel; God blesses you!!
There is much Nigeria will gain from being close friends with Israel. Israel should be seen as a strategic economic and technological partner for Nigeria.
God bless Israel!
Shalom Jerusalem!!
God bless Nigeria!
Nigeria di fure!!
The latest issue now causing a storm in Cyber9ja is the Presidential Pilgrimage to Israel. It has become the butt of all kinds of unsavoury jokes. Dr. Reuben Abati, Dr. Doyin Okupe and Reno Omokri have their work cut out....till the next controversy!
Pilgrimage to Israel is a personal choice for a Christian not a Biblical ordinance. I have never been to Israel. My friends who have been there say it is a glorious experience. They say their visit to the places mentioned in the Bible was uplifting for them spiritually as it brought home to them in a powerful way the reality of the Holy Scriptures and the certainty that their faith in Jesus Christ as Lord, Saviour, King and God is not misplaced. I look forward to visiting Israel some day by God's Grace. I will be going as a TOURIST not as a "pilgrim". I am already on pilgrimage: I seek a City, a Heavenly City, which is to come; one whose Builder and Maker is God!
President Goodluck Jonathan's trip to Israel is essentially a State Visit. He is there with several Ministers, Governors and other public officers because it is an official trip. His visit to the "Holy Sites" (the pilgrimage) is a consequence of the State Visit not the true essence of the trip. Even President Barrack Obama, like many other world leaders who have been to Jerusalem, prayed at the Wailing Wall on his last trip to Israel just a few months ago. But nobody said President Obama went to Israel on "pilgrimage".
I am pleased that Nigeria's ambivalence in its relationship with Israel is finally over. Our past Presidents and Heads of State (including even those who professed Christianity) treated Israel almost as a pariah state so as not to offend the Arab countries even though most of them they had Israelis as their body-guards!
Whether you believe the Bible, God's Word, or not, the reality is that God has promised to bless the nations which bless Israel because of His Covenant with His Friend, Abraham. And there is no greater testimony of the truth of God's Word than the fact that Israel still exists as a nation on earth today despite the conspiracies of its enemies over the last two millenia to annihilate it. Hit Israel; GOD hits you! Bless Israel; God blesses you!!
There is much Nigeria will gain from being close friends with Israel. Israel should be seen as a strategic economic and technological partner for Nigeria.
God bless Israel!
Shalom Jerusalem!!
God bless Nigeria!
Nigeria di fure!!
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