OF THE PROPHETS, FEAR AND LOSS OF FEAR

 OF THE PROPHETS, FEAR AND LOSS OF FEAR

Mammito's skit that seemingly imitates Prophet Owuor was not only courageous and fearless but seemed very defamatory on the leader and faithfuls of his Holiness and repentance ministry. Doning similar to the Prophet's white outfit and with similar long beards, the comedian uses words in congruence to utterances of the prophet in past events. The daring comedian's skit has raised heated debate in social circles and invited the wrath of Owuor's congregants, some of whom have gone ahead to issues ultimatums to her to pull down the skit from her social media pages. She has also been threatened with court proceedings and I stand to see what happens to her hereafter or whether she will yield to the threats to apologize or pull down the videos. The story forces me to reflect or notice how preachers over the years have been imitated by comedians endlessly. Preachers seem to only come second to politicians as source of content for imitation by comedians and you ask yourself why? A politician can say all sort of outrageous things especially promises and insults to competitors in an attempt to woo voters to support them. On the other hand, a small bunch of preachers seem to also say outrageous things without being questioned or doubted especially by their followers. I stay on the side of not doubting anything that any preacher says because if one says they spoke to God directly or shared whatapp chat with God, who am I to doubt? If I have no way of proving it, then I let it be like the sayer said. The bottomline is that anyone can talk to God directly without going through the prophets or preaches and the holy bible has clear instructions from God and is where we can learn God's ways or prove it true or false, what the preachers say. Many strange things have been said by preachers on pulpits and it seems like those who proclaim strangest of things receive the greater number of followers. That is how the 310 preacher still enjoys great following and media coverage until today. Whatever the case, we need to be wary of false prophets as warned by Jesus in Matthew 24:11,24. One reason I choose to stay on the fear side away from mocking or pointing fingers at men of God regardless of what they do is the story of Elisha in 2 Kings 2:23-24. It tells of Elisha being mocked by youths who yelled, "Go up, you baldhead!" Elisha cursed them in the name of the Lord, after which two bears emerged from the woods and mauled 42 of them. Whether a similar thing happens to Mammito or not, I stay on a wait and see. Whether if nothing happens proves someone as a false prophet is also not for me to judge.

@Stephen Mungai