Some of the miracles of Jesus in the Bible ought to come with a disclaimer – “Don’t try this at home.”
A 35-year-old pastor in Gabon, Franck Kabele, has died while trying
to take after Jesus in the Bible. Reports claim that Kabele told his
congregation that he was capable of reenacting the same miracles of
Jesus Christ in the Bible. He decided to make it clear through way of
demonstration on Gabon’s beach in the capital city of Libreville.
Using Matthew 14:22-33 as reference, Kabele said that he received a
revelation which told him that with enough faith he could achieve what
Jesus did also. Eyewitnesses say that Kabele took his congregation out
to the beach. He told them that he would cross the Kombo estuary by
foot, which is normally a 20-minute boat ride. Sadly by the second step
into the water, Kabele found himself completely submerged. He never
returned.
This is not the first incident of this nature in Africa. At Ibadan
zoo in south-west Nigeria, a self-proclaimed prophet claimed to be able
to do what the Daniel of the bible did by walking into a den full of
lions. Though he was warned numerous times by zoo keepers, the prophet
thought of them as nothing more than enemies of progress. The prophet,
with a crowd of people watching, put on a long red robe and proceeded to
enter the cage full of lions. HE was ripped apart from flesh to bone
within seconds of entrance into the lions’ den.
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