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THE credibility of Rev. lsaac Owusu Bempah, General Overseer of the Glorious Way Chapel as a man of God has once again been questioned by Pastor Alan Kwesi Nazantra, a senior pastor of the Redemption Gospel Ministry, a Navrongo based church. Rev. Owusu Bempah�s call on Christians to be wary of the head pastor of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) after the collapse of the latter�s church in Nigeria, seems to have surprised and angered the Navrongo pastor. �I was completely shocked and sad when I read in the dailies that Isaac Owusu Bempah had cautioned Christians to be wary of Prophet T. B. Joshua, founder and leader of SCOAN. I just could not believe that Bempah would go to that extent. Is he a true man of God�? Pastor Nazantra quizzed. According to Pastor Nazantra, a true man of God at this time would have prayed and sympathized with the deceased persons� family. He continued that it was wrong for Bempah to have attacked the person of Prophet T. B. Joshua at a time when the church was faced with the death of persons from different parts of the world, who had gone there to seek the face of God. He wondered why Rev Owusu Bempah is always quick to attack T. B. Joshua without any provocation from their Nigerian counterpart. �Is he Owusu Bempah telling us that he is the only man of God in this country? Why does he continue to attack T. B. Joshua when the man has not offended him in anyway? Pastor Nazantra quizzed. Continuing, he condemned Rev. Owusu Bempah and others who attacked T. B. Joshua for not being able to prophesy about the collapse of his church hostel. He said true men of God understood that it was not always that God revealed everything to his prophets. �Prophet Elisha as mentioned in the Bible in the book of 2Kings Chapter 4: 8-37, at one time prayed for a barren woman who went ahead to deliver a son. The said son later fell sick and died, which God did not reveal to Elisha. The mother, upon the child�s death, went back to Elisha to seek God�s face and actually declined to tell the Prophet what had befell her as she approached him. It was when she got to him that she announced the death of the son to him. What would have been said about Elisha�s prophecy today, if he were with today�s generation? Pastor Nazantra asked. He termed as a disgrace the claim by the Ghanaian reverend that the unfortunate incident, and the subsequent deaths of people at SCOAN Church Headquarters in Ikotun, Lagos State, was an act of human sacrifice. Attention seekers such as Rev. Bempah, Pastor Nazantra mentioned, should be ignored. He challenged Rev. Bempah to tell Ghanaians which prophecies he had been able to deliver which had actually come to pass. �Why should we continue to listen to him when all he had said had never come to pass before� the Navorongo based-pastor remarked. Concluding he said he strongly believes that Rev. Bempah persistent attack on T. B. Joshua are out of sheer jealousy for their Nigerian counterpart and added that such attacks, he believed, were some of the reasons why God continued to use the SCOAN leader. Rev. Isaac Owusu Bempah, after the collapse of the SCOAN hostel in Lagos a couple of weeks ago, alleged that T. B. Joshua of fervently working to attract as many people as he can to Satan. According to Rev. Bempah there was more to the collapse of the hostel than meets the eye. Bempah went ahead to say that some Ghanaians died when word went round T. B. Joshua had visited his branch in Ghana on the Spintext road in Accra. He further alleged that what happened there was evil and added that he had the permission of God to expose the SCOAN leader as a fake man of God. The six-storey building, which was located inside the church premises, wasalleged to have served as a guest house for foreigners, who had visited the church before it collapsed.