Apostle Johnson Suleman, the Senior Pastor of Omega Fire Ministries International, has disclosed that a branch of the church in South Africa was destroyed by fire under mysterious circumstances.
It was reported that he explained that the incident came to his notice after the resident pastor contacted him to report that the church building had been totally burnt overnight.
He said the property was acquired after years of operating in the country and was said to be largely funded by his personal resources.
Suleman said the ministry had been operating in South Africa for nearly a decade before deciding to buy a permanent place of worship. Following the acquisition of the building, the church utilized it for its endeavours until the unexpected fire event that reduced the edifice to rubbles.
Everything inside the building was lost in the fire, including chairs, sound equipment and important documents, he said. The destruction didn’t miss the children’s section of the church, leaving nothing at all.
“Our pastor in South Africa called me and said ‘they burned down our church,’ ” he said at a recent church service. We own the building. About 90 percent of that church was my own personal money. I saw the building and became interested. I told myself, we have been in South Africa for 8 to 9 years, let’s have our own building. We bought a building, they burnt it down, not one chair taken out, not one sound taken out. They even burnt down the children building, all documents were burnt down.
They did it overnight. The CCTV camera couldn’t pick the person. It took someone on the inside who knew where the cameras were. I was a broken human being. And the Lord said unto me. Thanks be to me. I fell to my knees, and thanked God for everything. It was hard to get a building to rent. That Saturday morning they went looking for a building to rent, they called me to say they have seen, and I said pay for three months and move in there.
“The members were angry, some of the young South Africans were ready to fight. I told them to drop it. So, they are in an elite spot now. God knew what he was about. He said what the enemy intended for evil, I will turn it.”
