Pastor Tunde Bakare: Hits, Misses of His Prophecies

Pastor Tunde Bakare, Senior Pastor, Latter Rain Assembly, Lagos.

The Senior Pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare, seemed to have stirred the hornet’s nest last Sunday when he made reference to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo that the next in line does not always become King.
Bakare in Sunday sermon in his church on the topic: ‘The Birth Pangs of a New Nigeria,’ alleged those attempting to overthrow President Buhari are doing all they could to outperform him.

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He went on to say: “The king may be cold, the king may need warmth, but the final authority is still in his hands. All the actors in the corridor of power can keep acting, but the residual power is still in the man who is cold.”

Following the reaction that has greeted the “prophetic utterance,” The Whistler went into the archives to look at some of the outspoken pastor’s past PROPHETIC DECLARATION:

The vision is to be plainly publicised so that “… he may run who reads it,” he had said prior to his planned exile in 1993 during the heat of the annulment of the election believed to have been won by late Moshood Abiola.
1993.

“Is there no old man in MKO’s house to restrain him because once he begins, he will not come out alive?” Bakare declared.

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M.K.O. Abiola would go on to languish in prison for daring to declare himself elected President of Nigeria and died in questionable circumstances at the end of it.

Before then, in April 1993, Bakare had shockingly prophesied that neither the Social Democratic Party (SDP) nor the National Republican Convention (NRC) will attain political power.

He declared, “SDP will fail, be cut off and swallowed up. The military will fall. Verdict ’93: Our God reigns”.

Eleven days after the June 12 presidential election, General Ibrahim Babangida, then Military President, annulled the election.

In June that same year, Pastor Bakare shared a vision God showed him during a church service at the church. He saw, “two pieces of meat hanged by a tiny thread with labels on them. One piece was labeled SDP; the other was labeled NRC. Then a fat cat dressed in the camouflage uniform of the Nigerian Army came and swallowed up both of them. Then came an arrow from heaven and pierced the cat.”

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He explained that IBB would step down but the cat that was coming would annihilate the political structures. Nobody would be able to remove the cat but an arrow from heaven would pierce him through.

When General Sani Abacha took over the rein of governance in Nigeria, Dr. Bakare declared according to the revelation of God to him that the character of the new ruler is represented in Psalm 36.
Psalm 36:1-4 reads:

1 I have a message from God in my heart
    concerning the sinfulness of the wicked

[b] There is no fear of God
    before their eyes.

2 In their own eyes they flatter themselves
    too much to detect or hate their sin.

3 The words of their mouths are wicked and deceitful;
    they fail to act wisely or do good.

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4 Even on their beds they plot evil;
    they commit themselves to a sinful course
    and do not reject what is wrong.

1995
On the Sokoto Caliphate
In Pastor Bakare’s words: “1995 is the year of the unprecedented humiliation of the Sokoto caliphate. Its influence in the sociopolitical setup of Nigeria will not only wane, it will die. This (the then) Sultan will not be there by the end of the year”.
The following year, Abacha the Maximum Ruler will deposed Ibrahim Dasuki as the Sultan of Sokoto.

On The Destiny Of Abacha’s Transition Programme
Bakare had this to say: “In an open vision, I saw over thirty political heavyweights jostling for the presidency of the country. Even with their money, manipulators set in to tamper with election results, which brought in confusion into the whole process. Three ugly things will characterize the transition programme – betrayals, deception and intrigues while the gullible and the desperate will have their political career terribly shattered”. The most disastrous of the entire programme according to Dr. Tunde Bakare was that, “the gullible and the desperate will have their political past and future sidetracked, and many of them will be kept permanently in the tunnel.”

1997
On the alleged coup of December 1997, Dr. Bakare prophesied after death sentence had been passed on the alleged coupists by the trial tribunal and the nation was expecting their execution thus: “just before the killer will kill, he himself shall be killed – expect the night-before miracle”

So it came to pass that former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Gen. Oladipo Diya and those accused of the Phantom Coup of 1995 were the hangman’s noose as Abacha died in 1998.

Dr Bakare had shared with the congregation a vision early 1998 in which he saw General Abacha dying in the midst of two foreign women.

Afterwards, he declared ceaselessly that, “The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel, Abacha, your time is up”.
During the same period, at a Conference of Prophetic and Apostolic Churches (COPAC) in Kano, Pastor. Bakare prophesied that, “it was not the first time that the corpse of a head of state would be brought to Kano for burial and it would not be the last. And that the city of Kano should expect the corpse of another Head of State” Abacha died in the early hours of June 8, 1998.

According to the prophecy – the cat was pierced through by the arrow from above- The end of a tyrannical rule.

On Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar
Pastor Bakare declared to the nation. Thus saith the Lord; “Abubakar is Saul.

“If General Abubakar will yield to God and serve according to the will of God, he will become the midwife who will be instrument to the birth of David. Through him, a new nation will emerge. But if he has the fear of death and continues as he has said with programme of General Abacha, he will fall with his armour bearers”.

Abubakar will go on to carry out the transition that will usher in Obasanjo as president in 1999.

On Obasanjo as president
On March 7, 1999, the following the election of General Olusegun Obasanjo as president, Pastor. Bakare raised the “voice of the Spirit” saying, “in a vision, I eavesdropped on the conversation going on in the Heaven. I saw Jesus on the throne called the seat of the Governor and the subject they were discussing was Nigeria. This was what came out of the lips of the Lord:

“Rejoice not oh land, or your joy will be temporary. For I am bringing the nation – Nigeria, the rulers, the priests and the prophets there to my threshing floor. I will judge Saul and his comrades, and after I have finished my purging, then I will restore to you permanent joy.

“Obasanjo is not your messiah. He is King Agag and the prophetic axe will fall upon his head before May 29.”
And I asked. “Lord. How are you going to judge Saul and what has he done?”

God said, “I sent him on an assignment to overtake, to recover, to demolish but he didn’t. He spared the fat calves, he spared the big sheep and he brought Agag back to Jerusalem. I will judge Saul and his comrades and after I have finished my purging, then your joy will be permanent.”

His prophecy came to nought as Obasanjo was not only sworn in but completed two terms of four years each.

2001
In a Sunday service on June 3 2001, Pastor Bakare thundered: “Son of man, announce to those who will hear, declare my word to those who will listen, proclaim to all what I am about to do: Vacancy! Vacancy!! Vacancy!!!” says the Spirit of the Lord

“The sound of rejoicing and the sound of wailing in your nation will manifest at the same time. I will suddenly remove and take away the princes I have not chosen and the prophets I did not send. There shall be a vacuum for a moment and there shall be order in a little while, and I will bring princes to power and my prophet shall hear my word. I will no longer hide myself from your people. And the sound of rejoicing shall envelope the nation” says the Spirit of the Lord.
Alas, again the “word from the altar came to nothing.

2007
1. God is purging His firmament of shooting stars.

The first thing that God will do in 2007 that would shock His Church is that He would purge the firmament of shooting stars. Those who love to have the pre-eminence in the Church; those who have become tin gods, those who have taken over the temple from Lord of the temple, who have become lords of the temple; God says their time is over!

2. God said to me, I am restoring the ministry of my saints. I am going to anoint ordinary people to do extraordinary exploits. The grace of God is coming upon saints to do extraordinary things. You don’t have to leave your profession because the anointing of God is coming upon you to do the extraordinary things right there. No more spectator Christianity! The Lord told me that there will be more and more Grace, more and more People, more and more Power, and more and more Glory. There will be more people on God?s side like never before and more grace and power will be given to them to do great exploits for God (2 Cor. 4: 15; The MSG, NLT).

3. The Lord said in 2007, many will perish by prosperity. I have a fearful message for those who preach and embrace the message of prosperity without purpose in the church, who think that godliness is a means of gain. I saw a whirlwind rolling through the church of the living God, not only in Nigeria, but also in the nations of the earth. And God told me that it is hurricane prosperity. Those who have manipulated and told a lie over the years will be destroyed by this hurricane prosperity. Although year 2007 is a year of increase, do not compare it with the counterfeit prosperity that is being preached over the years through another spirit, typifying another gospel. Run from any prosperity that is not rooted in righteousness but in deception and sharp practices! There is hurricane prosperity. (Dan 8:15-25, Jer 17:11).

4. The Lord said, I am releasing the anointing of Deborah upon the Police Force. Concerning the state of insecurity in Nigeria, I see the rise of a Super Cop. This Super Cop was a woman of great influence and authority. She began to change the Police Force as she was speaking to men with authority. She began to give instructions to men in the Police Force, and they were taking command. To some, she gave honey. To others, she stung them to death and the spate of insecurity began to wane. When I asked the Lord what this meant He told me that He allowed the state of insecurity for a while, but because of what He wants to do, He will stop it. (Judges 5:5-7). This vision prompted me to go into an in-depth study of the life of Deborah. Then I gained understanding just as Daniel did. This is the interpretation of the vision: It is a strange leadership that advances poverty and oppresses the people that releases violence in the city and nations. In other words, it is the multiplication of poverty that breeds armed robbers. When men sit on what belongs to others, others will also take gun in order to take part of what they thought is theirs. Any constitution that will not bend will have to break. The Super Cop will sting the corrupt to death, but release honey to those who will do the work, because enlightenment has come. The veil is removed from the eyes of our people. Expect the tide of insecurity to begin to wane in our nation, as you see the emergence of this Super Cop.

5. Mr. President, think not that you are going home with bitterness in May 2007, says the Spirit of the Lord! Congratulations to those president elects and vice-president elects. Congratulations to men of good will that are doing their best to steer the ship of our nation in the midst of confusion and horse trading that is going on. But the Lord sent me to you, and as many as could take this message and give it to our President, that the grave he is digging is about to cave in and he will fall into it, because bitterness is much more devastating than betrayal. Vengeance has no foresight. Whatever weapon you are using to hit somebody else, remember what is called boomerang! This is what I hear from the Spirit of God: Bitterness is more devastating than betrayal. Betrayal is something others do to you; bitterness is something you do to yourself. The hardest time to be gentle is when we know we are right but somebody else is wrong. It is when somebody else’s destiny lies in our hand that we know whether we are gentle, humble, or not. I don’t know whether the Vice-President betrayed the President in 2003, but what is going on is nothing but the manifestation of bitterness. But it will only destroy the one who harbours it. It does not matter how many good things we do, when we allow bitterness to come in, and we withhold forgiveness from those who hurt us; we are not free and they also are not free. This is what the Spirit of God said to me concerning those who are manipulation the power process in Nigeria: What the wicked fears will hit him. It is not your job to block another person’s chance. Let God be God and let man be man. What the wicked dreads will overtake him (Pro 10:24 NIV). MAY NIGERIA SURVIVE AND FULFILL HER GOD-GIVEN DESTINY. This is the word of God concerning Nigeria for the year 2007. Amen.

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