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The Credibility Crisis
By Marketing Africa
Cry the beloved country for surely the Almighty has forsaken us. Where are all those prophets of 2021 who talked to God on a weekly basis and foretold of the coming of the promised ones who would take Kenya to the promised land.
Where are those seers, who had a direct line to God who revealed to them the outcome of the elections and called on the dynamic duo to attend church to receive his sacred anointment as the chosen for the chosen people of Kenya.
They told us that Baba was not going to take us to Canaan and was destined to keep Kenyans wandering in the desert for forty years but the god’ s own chosen had been given a raft that would see Kenyans cross river Jordan and tear down the walls of Jericho.
The elections took place and they were right, Kenyans rejoiced and flocked into church to give thanks for god’ s deliverance and the first sign of trouble in paradise was when the anointed one promised that as soon as he puts down the bible, he would pick up the sword.
When the anointed one started assembling his helpers and especially his kitchen cabinet, the cacophony of the religious
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clairvoyants went silent, or should we understand that God had suddenly and inexplicably stopped speaking to them.
The army of hustler warriors led by the indomitable Mama Mbogas and the valiant Boda Boda riders soon realized that they were not in the ranks of the chosen as it was reserved for those who had a birth right to greatness and grandeur and they certainly did not fit the bill.
They were soon to discover that it was not their turn to eat as they had been led to believe and that actually it was their misfortune to not only carry their heavy burden but that more bricks were about to be heaped on them. The bottom would carry the top.
Kenyans began hearing the murmurs and lamentations of the prophets and it became clear that the anointed duo were not reading from the same scripture text. While some were reading the abridged Rift Valley version others were facing Mount Kenya for inspiration.
The church congregation was in total confusion, they had followed with total devotion the recommendation of their respective churches and God had granted them victory, so why was there now gnashing and grinding of teeth.
It is said that a prophet has no honor in his country, but Kenyan’ s had proved the saying totally false, we had honored and heeded our prophets and Kenyans had turned out in their thousands to receive god’ s command through his servants.
Then the prophesies halted and Kenyans were not sure if they had angered god since they were no longer receiving celestial guidance that was evident during the preelection period. The silence was deafening and the congregants apprehensive.
Then the first seeds of doubt started creeping into the hearts of Kenyans. Could they have been listening to false prophets that had been prophesied for the end times and were Kenyans facing their judgement ahead of the rest of the world.
There was a credibility mismatch between what had been foretold by the churches and what was happening on the ground. Was it really God speaking to Kenyans through the prophets or was it actually Satan, after all he is a deceiver.
To add to the confusion, some churches took up a new clarion call and started to castigate the government, it is instructive