‘what I saw in heaven and hell ’

This carpenter –turned pastor who claims he has been to hell and heaven reveals what he saw in the two places. Now, anytime he narrates what he saw in hell , he would be feeling the physical burning of the heat in hell. He experienced the hell fire again last week at an open field in Aboru-Ipaja. Taiwo Abiodun writes

Anytime he opens his mouth and reveals what he saw and experienced in hell he feels the burning sensation on his body emitted by the hell fire and then keeps on screaming on top of his voice while about 30 already stand by drums of water would be poured on him to cool him down .He foams from the mouth and become unconscious for 12 to 13 hours before he could regain his strength again. He had been experiencing this since 2001.

Welcome to the life of Pastor Moses Ezekiel of The Heavenly Vision World Evangelical Ministry who claimed he was in trance in 1987 and visited hell and heaven .’’I was alone in my room in 1987 when I was in trance and visited heaven and hell .In hell I felt the heat , its like when you are in Lagos here but feeling the heat from Abuja. I saw a lot of people from different races , black and white burning and crying .I heard the voice of a woman crying and begging and pleading to come back to the world receive Christ Jesus, she said her husband made her to be where she was now –hell.

‘’Another , a youth cried that it was his friend who said they should enjoy the world a little while a man was crying and begging for water but there was no water for him to drink ‘’said the 44year-old pastor , who had preached in about 216 places.

According to Ezekiel, paradise is full of gold , the road , houses and everything is gold , ‘’I saw mamy people in white garment in paradise while some had crowns , stars on their heads others wore only white garments praising God. I saw Jesus Christ, he is handsome , huge and beautiful .He is a tall man .It is not the picture that we frame on the walls in our parlours that we call Jesus, he is different entirely.

Jesus drew the cloud aside and we were looking at the earth and the world .He said’’ see those who claim they are holy , who said their names are in the book of life .Men are wearing knickers bucker and wearing punk to church .Women are putting on wrong things, burning their head to my house while pastors quarrel over money and positions . Tell them to change from their ways, go and preach the salvation’’

On when and how the heat started from his body, the pastor said ‘’anytime I am revealing what I saw in hell I will be feeling the heat from my tummy and it started from cooling it with sachet of water then the heat spread to my body while vapour would be coming from my head while buckets of water would be poured on me from buckets of water to drums of water until it went up to 20 , 30drums of water. If they don’t pour it on me I will faint as my blood would get dried and my eyes would be turning.

‘’After that I could be in coma for 12 to 13 hours. In order to regain my strength again I would need to shout 100 halleluyah, jump up and regain my strength , then fresh anointing would come and I will become whole again.’’

Asked whether other men of God accept his claims, he responded ‘’many believed while many did not , but I thank God that I have won many souls to God to gain paradise’’

Pastor Joseph Adegboye Adeniyi of Strong Tower Pentecostal Missionary Church, Aboru-Ipaja said ‘’I invited the pastor for a crusade last week and it happened again at the open field here. I am convinced that God is using him to warn the world that there is hell.’’

Mr Julius Adegunna the publisher of PTL News Christian magazine described the experience as shocking , he said ‘’ through out my life I have never seen such thing .I have never witnessed such . The pastor was screaming on top of his voice that he was feeling burning sensation and of hell and drums of water were being poured on him , he was rolling on the ground .It was too much until he was bundled and driven off in a Bus .

While some argued that he could be faking, others said it could be hallucination while some said he might need medical experts to diagnose the burning sensation for it is unbelievable.

Owo- Young Wizard the magician

‘I am now a Born Again Christian’

Pa Kehinde Ilesile practised magic for over 40 years .He is now a Born Again Christian .He says he does not want any of his children to practise magic for it is evil. Taiwo Abiodun met him .

For those whose ages are between 40 and above , the magician called Young Wizard will easily come to mind especially in the old Western State, Northern Nigeria and in some African neighbouring countries where he practised the magical art. He had preformed magic in various schools both in primary and secondary schools, and in tertiary institutions between 1950s and 1990s . But today Young Wizard had stopped the practise and says it is unchristian.

Young Wizard met God in the church during a Sunday service. After listening to a sermon about the ills of magic practise he then had a change of mind and later discarded all the abracadabra he had practised for over 40years.

He gave his reason :’’ A pastor preached in the church that magical art is not good and that it is unchristian .The sermon touched me . When I heard this I repented .I am now a Born Again Christian .I have learnt my lesson that magical art does not pay’’, he said in a croaked voice and then sank into the dirty and torn sofa chair in the living room. The old man now lives at Omi Adiye , in Owo , Ondo state.

Young Wizard has become a shadow of himself. He is no longer bubbling .His chubby face has disappeared while his body is now wrinkled .He looked sick and weak courtesy of old age.

Probed further on what he has gained from the magic business so far in terms of wealth , in response the old man declared’’ I have no money . I was only popular then . I only had fame but I was not rich. Now ,I am living in my father’s house .I have no house of my own but I still believe that it is not too late to build a house .

I am now over 70, there is nothing God cannot do’’, he told The Nation.

That is the life story of the septuagenarian magician , Kehinde Ilesile popularly known as Young Wizard. The nickname was given to him by some Britons who watched his performance and were amazed at Sabo Hotel , Ita Balogun in Lagos in 1958.’’When the Britons or colonial masters who were in Nigeria then saw my magical feat at Ita Balogun they were shocked seeing a young man like me performing in magic in big way . It was there they gave me the nick name and called me Young Wizard. Since then it stuck on me and only few knew my real name’’ .

On the type of magic he performed that earn him the nick name Young Wizard , he said ‘’ I was drinking drink beer from the bottom of the bottle without removing the cork ,and the spectators were amazed that was where they started calling me Young Wizard.

At over 70 , Young Wizard has grown old and the energy in him has gone .He looked pale and sick. He said ‘’ I am now sick and I am old . I no longer practise magic again. It does not pay’’.

He told of his experience when he met the Lord, he said ‘’ I have accepted Christ into my life. God is beyond everybody .I now believe there is power that is above all these things called magic .I will not practise it again and now I have abandoned it

.I now go to church. I attend Christ Apostolic Church . I now go to the house of the Lord to pray .I have accepted Christ into my life .God is beyond everybody. Man is wicked . I have seen a lot’’, he declared with emotion and betrayed self pity as he turned into a preacher .

Ilesile did not attend any school of magic to study it, as he told The Nation ‘’I did not have any formal education .I did not learn the art of Magic. I did not go to any school of magic like those ones the late Professor Peller went .I did not have any formal education, . My parents did not send me to any school, ’’.

At the age of seven, Kehinde Ilesile was taken away by the whirlwind where he spent three years in the thick forest , it was there he learnt the art of magic. When he returned he began to perform magic.

He said ‘’I remember that if I stretch out my hand and demand for any object , it will appear. If I ask it to disappear it will disappear. I can call a stone to appear or disappear and it will be so. I only need to say the word or command it . That was all. I don’t know where they come from and I don’t know where those things disappear to. I don’t conjure any spirit , I did not go to school to learn the art .I am unlike those who went to school of Magic that would have to say one thing and followed it to the letter.’’.

Asked whether he knew the late Professor Peller the popular Magician , he answered to the affirmative and said :’’Yes, the late Professor Peller went to School of Magic but I did not . I am an illiterate. I cannot speak English . That is the difference between us . I also remember Oladokun of Ikirun and Alimi Ibarapa who were also magicians along with me then, they were my senior in the profession and did not go to school to learn it like me too.’’

He boasted that he did not perform ‘box match magic ‘ or carried instruments about like other magicians but used bare hands to demand for things that would appear and disappear ‘’

According to him he had performed in many states and towns in Nigeria like Lagos , Ibadan, Oyo, Owo, Akure , Oshogbo Kaduna, Kano and in the West African neighbouring countries such as Ghana , Benin Republic, etc. His words ‘’ I have performed in many places .I used to go to schools both the secondary and primary to perform. I used to drink beer from the bottom of the bottle instead of removing the cork ,and that was where they started calling me Young Wizard.

He told The Nation one of his close shave with death :’’ I was once swept away by the Atlantic ocean’s sea waves in Lagos. The waves took me to the middle of the ocean but God is so wonderful that I was washed ashore again. I thought it had finished but God rescued me . ‘’He confessed that “ There is no magic one can perform on the sea , it is a different terrain entirely. God used to send His angels to keep watch over us all the time .He has angels guarding our noses, head and other parts of our body , that is it’’ he said, trembling. .

However, in spite his magical feat he said the side effect of magic is bad for God did not support it. He argued that “ God did not support magic, that is why one cannot be successful in it .There is no money in the profession in Nigeria for it is not regarded as a serious business . They did not appreciate it as they do in overseas countries . Here, if you claim that you are a magician they will accuse you want of trying to dupe them. They will call you a liar. They forgot it is part of entertainment. It is a profession in the civilized world. But here people will hate you if call yourself a magician’’

He said whatever materials he used magical power to attract or collect he does not use them but gives them out to people, ’’Ha! We don’t use the materials or objects or spend the money we used abracadabra to get. It is forbidden, we must not do it’’, he said with a frowned face.

He believes that witches and wizards do exist but says they put people into trouble. He said he did not practise any of these and refuted the claim that he is a wizard ‘’I am just like ordinary person like you and calling me Young Wizard is just a nickname .I sleep and wake up like any other person , there is nothing extra ordinary in me .I am a human being like any other person’’.

Where is the power now? The Nation asked while he too responded ‘’I don’t have to do it again I have stopped . Since I had been going to church and listening to sermon.

I was into star gazing, Ifa oracle and divination and many other things but in the end I stopped it. There is nothing in it, it is all evil.’

However, Young Wizard did not pray to pass the profession on to his children as he screamed’’ No! . God forbid. I don’t pray to pass it on to my children. Do you think Magic is a good thing ?. It is not a good thing my brother .It is not a good thing . I reject it .None of my children should do it. Never and Never!’’ he swore

one chance business foiled in Lagos

For a lady Cashier, Amarachi working with Shoprite , at Alausa , Ikeja it was a lucky for her for she could have been kidnapped or duped by suspected Get Rich Quick people.
Two men and two women were in a Mazda car with registration number CX 487-FST were caught last Friday by the the Police at Alausa , the Lagos seat of Lagos government last Friday around 10am when a lady called Amarachi was sandwichched and was almost kidnapped when the law enforcement agent caught the dare devil men of the underworld.
Amarachi , a cashier with Shoprite supermarket, an international supermarket located at Alausa who was abducted narrated how she was almost hood winked and kidnapped.'' when I waited endlessly for cab and did not find any , i decided to join the cab called kabukabu not knowing that i was in a wrong vehicle.Few minutes after joining the cab , the driver started the conversation and asked one of the ladies what she kept in her bag in the boot, the woman replied and said she kept pampers , again the driver said if the policeman found any strange thing in his boot he should not be held responsible .And the woman and the other woman started begging and declared they are prostitute and then begged Amarachi to help them beg the driver, later the two women said they had dollars in their bags and claimed they are prostitutes.I was afraid and I asked them to drop me but they refused , they asked me to bring out all my things.
''Later , I struggled to get out of the cab at Ministry of Environment , Alausa.I made effort to unlock the door while they too pushed me out and I started screaming , and screaming .They pushed me and i fell into a gutter while the policemen and other Mobile Police officers came to rescue me.I was taken to the Mobile Clinic and was treated of my bruises .I thank God for rescuing me from these kidnappers ''.
When this reporter met them at the scene , the suspects had already been mercilessly beaten and were half naked , if not the timely intervention of the police and Mobile Policemen the suspects could have been lynched'.
When this reporter got to Shorprite, many did not know what had befallen Amarachi, their staff.While some who heard about her misadventure came to sympathize with her.The suspects are now cooling their legs in the police custody.