Pool of bethesda in Nigeria. Photo credit: Facebook
There’s no doubt about the fact that most of the members of a certain page on Facebook may not get to heaven if they refuse to stop their Thomasian unbelief!
I was gently browsing through Facebook posts when I saw the post by someone on that page about a pool of Bethesda that exists in Abuja. The proprietor of the pool is a pastor Bigtree, a controversial man.
I understand going to the pool costs a trifling fifty thousand Nigerian Naira. The proprietor is even considerate, for those who do not have so much, they can get water from the pool at the rate of ten thousand Nigerian Naira per bottle.
I understand once one baths in the pool he would be cured of various diseases like being barren, HIV/AIDS, unemployment, lack of business, poverty, and so on.
Remember the lame man by the side of the pool at Bethesda? He was healed by Jesus free of charge.
But then, shouldn’t we praise the ingenuity of this Nigerian pastor who being fully aware that the times are tough for so many of his country men has decided to Nigerianise the pool based in far away Jerusalem?
And to even think the pool is for every ailment under the sun!
Let’s think of the zillions of dollars the pastor’s gracious act will bring to an already broke Nigeria. Let’s think of the boost to our tourism industry. Let’s think of our internal revenue.
I think the man deserves not just a local national award, but the Nobel!
Verily, verily I say unto you, no Nigerian will go to hell. They are already researching the possibility of bribing the angels!
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