THEME: THE DIVINE SHIFT: FROM POLITICAL MESSIANISM TO THE KINGDOM ORDER OF CHRIST 

We developed a deep love and passion for the LORD Jesus Christ because of His own love, and passion, His dedicated exploits, and the sacrifice of His life for the reconciliation of the world, for the salvation, healing, and deliverance of peoples, for the redemption, and restoration of glory to the human race. We recognized that Jesus has further plans for the establishment of a heavenly ordered government and kingdom marked by peace, righteousness, judgement, justice, equity, and joy in the knowledge of God on earth. 

Indeed, Christ Jesus had worked —and is still working— towards a state of peace on earth and goodwill towards men for the world. Indeed, Jesus Christ went about doing good, lifting high the life of peace, happiness, joy, and hope of man and creation. He sealed all things with the sacrifice of His life on the CROSS. 

Christ’s vision, mission, and dedicated sacrificial life for the good of peoples and nations caught my child spirit and fancy at an early age in the forties (40s). When Kwame Nkrumah appeared on the scene during the Gold Coast’s march towards colonial emancipation, I likened him to Christ. He was young, zealous, and dedicated to the emancipation of Africa. I took to him quickly.  In 1950, we wrote a childlike poem about Nkrumah, on the line of Benjamin R. Hanby’s hymn on Jesus Christ – “Who is He in yonder stall….” We followed Nkrumah with admiration and adoration. As the Lord would have it, we had the privilege of serving in the then Development Secretariat of Prime Minister Nkrumah’s office in 1955. My office was only two doors or so away from Nkrumah’s office at the then Secretariat.  

However, Nkrumah’s Dawn Broadcast in 1961— which led to the side-stepping of K. A. Gbedemah and Kojo Botsio in Nkrumah’s CPP Government of the First Republic jolted my trust in the man. When later in 1962, the CPP Government first austere budget brought much debate in parliament and country, Nkrumah denounced the public debate on the budget and swore “hell and fire” for those he described as “budget politicians” engaged in the debate.  According to Nkrumah, the government would use the power of the state, government, and party to crush the budget politicians to their inevitable doom. It may be remembered that the Kulungugu episode came a few days after the 1962 CPP congress in Kumasi.  

We saw then the emergence of Nkrumah, the dictator and ruthless ruler and we withdrew our support for the CPP. Later in the sixties, our disenchantment with Nkrumah and the CPP became well-known on Legon Campus. As student leader, Legon Hall President, and SRC Secretary my disenchantment with Nkrumah was a subject of contention to the CPP and CPP elements on campus. Meanwhile, our passion for the liberation and reconstruction of Africa rose to new heights and we wrote a book on Africa. In the early 1965, the Lord God Jehovah began to reveal to me His disapproval and pending fall of Nkrumah and his government. 

At the time, though our love and passion for Jesus Christ was still strong, we were not any serious practitioner of the faith; to be precise, we had backslidden. It took the mighty hand of God to bring us back to the fold and ultimately into the ministry with a definite commission later as Apostle-Prophet to the church and nations. We were burdened and commissioned with the reconciliation, redemption, reconstruction, and establishment of Ghana as Christian Nation, a “Beulah Land,” a nation and people Holy unto God in His Kingdom Order on earth. 

The Lord God Jehovah’s vision and mission and commandment to the Ghana Evangelical Society (GES) of which we were the leader is to reconcile, deliver, set free, and redeem Ghana from the power of Satan, and the “Satan-man” kingdom order. The Society is charged with the establishment of Ghana as a nation and people married and made Holy unto God under the banner of Jesus Christ and His Kingdom Order on earth. Isaiah 62 is the key scripture for this special mission. Ghana, a model nation of Christ (Messianic) government and kingdom order for Africa is the Divine passion passed on to GES. 

It was during the battle for Ghana, that the Spirit of the Lord revealed to us the nature and extent of captivity of nations and peoples in the hands of Satan and men. This alliance is responsible for the ways of evil, the state of darkness and death, hopelessness, and futility, for the human race. Religion, tradition and culture in Africa have been dictated and dominated by the Satan-man wicked alliance.  

To be sure, we have had to fight against spirits, powers and systems of oppression and exploitation, corruption, and injustice, conflicts, violence, and wars in the country. Indeed, we have been standing in the gap since the 1970’s to prevent political tyranny, unrighteous, and wicked works, and foreign dominion and control of Ghana’s political economy.