Poetic-Verses
THE DAILY SACRIFICE
If all were to be by sacrifice, then countries like Nigeria and the entire African continent would have emerged the greatest by now, because both are a complete embodiment of sufficient sacrifices. The dirts on Nigerian roads are sacrifices, their poor infrastructures and buildings are a sacrifice of quality, which according to them should make more demons abound, so they the wicked keep being at the top. You may get to a borehole in a neighborhood in the country to buy water only to find one or two of the original pumps or taps are not working - it is a sacrifice. Some start businesses (which is more common with borehole owners) only to fold them up in what you may think is due to bankruptcy or lack of sales, when in essence, it is a sacrifice. In Benin, Edo state, Nigeria, their gods like nylons. In Lagos, they love sub-standard things and laud dirtiness, which is a sacrifice of quality or simply a desecration. There are all kinds of sacrifices: human sacrifice, animal sacrifice, food sacrifice, economic or business sacrifice, academic sacrifice (some deliberately sacrifice their opportunity to be educated, so as to become shortcut devil's millionaires quickly), destiny sacrifices, religious sacrifices (like being shabby in the name of religion, with the intention of deceiving and hurting other people, when in essence they are hiding their true identity as witches and wizards in order to operate more effectively), comfort or suffering sacrifice (suffering deliberately in order to be stronger witches), marital sacrifices (a witch, say, deliberately refusing to marry while gaining years, in order just to get one silly religious church goer to marry, then kill them, also called THE OWL WIDOW/ WIDOWER OR FAITHFUL WIDOW/WIDOWER PRACTICE), family sacrifices (killing a member of a family such as spouse or child physically or spiritually in order to make wealth), etc. But it is rather shocking that they are the most religious people in the world, which is pure hypocrisy. One day, I was walking on a street of Lagos while something shocking happened. A lady who was carried by a motorbike was carrying this large basin which content I wouldn't know. It turned out that they were good quality, ripe finely chopped pawpaw fruit which should have been used for fruit salad or serve herself and family. Then she poured them off on the road while the bike sped off. I couldn't help but shout, "oh, that's s sacrifice!" You might be surprised that headlamps of cars and essential parts are removed to make them substandard as a sacrifice after importing them from Europe or other parts of the world. I know a woman who gave birth to four children and killed all of them in order to get rich, with the result that she is presently old and can't take in again, and yet doesn't care! When you go to Ammorites camps for war, first attack their idols and see their reaction. They would not mind doing everything possible to secure those stones and carved woods because those things are what carry their spirits, while they walk about as walking corpses. In Calabar and other southern parts of the country, you would find this bizarrely practice of dropping plates with foods overnight at junctions, implying that others will not have food while they do. Money, at times is dropped on the roads to buy up the destinies of careless, coverteous children. All the while deceiving themselves not knowing that "there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins" (Hebrews 10: 26), "the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice them to devil's" (1 Corinthians 10: 20), "For by one offering He [Christ] hath perfected forever, them that are sanctified"(Hebrews 10: 14) , and that "to obey is better than sacrifice" (1 Samuel 15: 22). And you may be surprised at the extent they may be willing to go to make these sacrifice, showing how they trust in these "lying vanities" (Jonah 2:8). It can be baffling to know the number of lives lost in securing one rickety jeep or phone driven or used by most jeep owners and phone users in Nigeria. Yet, shamefully as that may sound, they don't make Jeeps and phones but kill people to secure them. There are sacrifices that go on every second in Nigeria, others every minute, others every hour, some every day, certain others, every week, others, every month, others every year, decade and century, all in a bid to strength iniquity. The following are characteristics of idol worshippers:
1. Poverty.
2. Dirtiness.
3. Wickedness.
4. Confusion.
5. Sicknesses band diseases.
6. Lost/ unfulfilled destinies.
7. Low life expectancy.
8. Death.
9. Wayward children.
10. Shame/ humiliation.
11. Bondage.
12. Fear.
13. Ignorance.
14. Captivity. Etc.
You would find all these and many more expressed in the embodiment of the Nigerian nation and African continent. These are what their gods can pay them for serving them.
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THE DAILY SACRIFICE
THE DAILY SACRIFICE
