The Presiding Bishop of Living Faith Church Worldwide, aka Winners’ Chapel International, David Oyedepo, has faulted the rationale behind the closure of churches while hospitals and markets are operating amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Oyedepo made this argument during a virtual programme of his church, Covenant Hour of Prayer Programme, on Wednesday.
The popular pastor said it made no sense that markets are allowed to operate for six hours while the government did no deem it fit to allot two of those hours to churches for service.
He said he was of the conviction that there is a gang up against church, adding that even hospitals which according to him are recording deaths left, right and centre are allowed to operate.
He said, “There is something wrong. For people to be allowed to be in the market for six hours and can’t be in church for two hours, it is an upside-down way of looking at things.
“Which one is more orderly? The market or the church?
“I can smell a rat. The Lord spoke to me on it so strong yesterday. I can smell a rat. Behind all this, how do we stop the church from exploding? The people involved don’t know it.
“The voice of darkness is influencing people at various levels, targeting the church because the growth and expansion of the church is the greatest headache of the devil. But the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. The devil and all his agents shall surely pay for this.
“I don’t know what hospital that records the kind of healings that the church of God records. And now hospitals, where people die every day, are open, but the church is closed because the oppression of the devil has no medical cure.”
