typical nairobians have dismissed the harsh judgment and other than getting chilled when the footage of the prophecy was aired, they have gone back to their ’life as usual’ routines.

the professor of molecular biology turned prophet is however getting audience than any other ‘prophet’ before. the men of the cloth who are used to brushing off such messages are sending clear signals that nairobians need to heed to the professor’s message of repent and perish – apparently there is no ‘or’ in his message. sober evangelicals and pentecostal clergy like my nairobi pentecostal pastor david oginde have turned somber at the message.

apparently, his previous prophecies have come to pass. these include the katrina mess in the usa – texas is included in his current warning - the drought and famine in the east african region - the lord showed him mounds of carcasses all over the region - and the tsunami that hit the coast of many countries to the start of year 2005 among others. as expected no one can remember his prior warnings as they were not aired in the press.

he has had audience with the president in the past and with his instructions, last year’s day of national prayer, which was declared a national holiday was held. he has had meetings with top kenyan clergy and warned them of god’s anger in their wayward ways. the top bishops declared several days of communal prayer and fasting culminating in an interdenominational day of prayer at uhuru park. i can remember such invites in church, but no specifics about the exact day the prayers were announced. i did not participate either, i am a skeptical nairobian.

according to the nairobi university, makerere and israeli trained professor of medicine, those events of national repentance did not sway the lord’s anger as they were insincere. therefore the impending earthquake doom that will flatten several nairobi buildings, a calamity that will shock the world is inevitable. no matter what nairobians do, it will happen. that’s where the prophecy fails the test, according to various bible pastors and theologians. the lord of israel always gave options, ‘turn away from your sin and i will forgive’ a repent or perish attitude.

i have grown in the midst of overly charismatic christians and in my opinion he is one of the most sober prophets i have seen in church. he has done his best to communicate his message to all and sundry in a sober manner despite its oddness. what i have seen as prophets before other than the false ‘end-of-the-world’ ‘prophets, is the incoherent ramblings of ‘spirit-inebriated prophets’ under seizure during a ‘worship’ service in church.

coincidentally and unrelated, it was just the other day as the year started i flipped channels and landed on family tv where a certain college principal turned prophetess was delivering a four-hour judgment prophecy on kenya, a message from the lord. i was patient enough to listen to it for one hour, quite sober, documented though chilling. as a christian who has read the bible severally it was scaring and didn’t wait for it to end.

it is interesting to note that a week earlier, the metrological department had issued a warning to some sections in the rift valley to beware and prepared as they had detected signs of an impending earthquake in the region.

all the same, as a skeptic like many other nairobians, i doubt whether there is much i will input towards the prophecies than just a casual critique of the same. maybe a little bit soul cleanup exercise would help, just in case. the bad part of it is that there is no escape from the judgment, just like jonah told the ninevans ‘nairobians are doomed without recourse’. later jonah was to quarrel jehovah for heeding to the sack cloth repentance of nineveh.

nairobi may have the chance according to jonah if they repent. “i knew that you are a gracious and compassionate god, slow to anger and abounding in love, a god who relents from sending calamity”, says jonah.

the proof of a prophecy is time. though the prophet who abandoned his medicine and cancer research career in 2002 to ‘serve the lord’ has not given a timeline, his earlier predictions had come to pass in a span of months, he claims. his soon was a month in the case of katrina. we will know the fallacy or truthfulness of his prophecy in the course of the year in earth below or heaven above, wherever we will be. at least this one is documented.