By Agboje Chuks
The Bishop of Delta State Sabbath Keepers and the presiding Minister of Church Of God 7th Day Salem, Bishop Timothy Eluaka, has said that Sabbath is a day and not a church
Bishop Eluaka who was enthroned the spiritual head of Delta State Sabbath Keepers made the clarification during an interactive session with journalists at YAHWEH Mission, Asaba, Delta State.
He noted that Sabbath Keepers was a body of Sabbath churches that came together to form Delta State Sabbath Keepers, disclosing that they were people with common faith, understanding and spiritual identification, foist with the mantle of propagating the ideology of Sabbath Day as instructed by the Holy Scripture.
Bishop Eluaka, while making further clarification about the Delta State Sabbath Keepers, noted that “the association is the CAN of the Sabbath Keepers,” stating that it was a child of necessity, just as he noted that it was important to have Sabbath churches come together and work in unison.
Speaking on what he would do differently as the newly enthroned Spiritual Head of Delta State Sabbath Keepers, Bishop Timothy said he was ready to bring unison, laced with common goals, among Sabbath churches and proper dissemination among members.
His words : “For example, it is a day and that Sabbath is not a church . This is a day inscribed by God in the scripture. Gen. 1&2 and Exodus, . It says that you should remember the Sabbath day. And because it is a day, we want to bring people to understand what that day means. That is why I said that it is not a church, and it is what the Delta State Sabbath Keepers are trying to propel.”
Speaking on his view about the happenings in the Christendom, Bishop Timothy reteriated that he was not surprised about the happenings, stating the development had been prophesied in the Bible.
” Many who are called in the name of the Lord, their call is their stomach. Even In CAN we have good people and we have the ones that say the truth and the ones that would say otherwise,” he said.
He made reference to the Primate of St. Lazarus Christ Church WorldWild, His Eminence, Most Revered, Dr. Jonathan Arhwairien, who said that Jehovah’s Witnesses were foundation members of Sabbath keepers in the world, “claiming that they don’t have a day of worship, they receive their lectures everyday.”
Bishop Timothy Eluaka admonished Christains to always have it in mind that “this is the last day as stated in the Bible, just as he urged them to focus on God.
He recapitulated that Dr. Arhwairien stated that the Gaza war was a good example of the end time, disclosing that it was prophesied in the Bible: Amos 2:1.
“Arhwairien also said that after the war, there was rain in Gaza which revealed the tunnel of the Hamas and rain had never fallen in Gaza, but after that destruction, the rain fell.”
The Bishop appreciated Prince Ike Onyekonweyan, Founder of YAHWEH Mission in Asaba.
