How I wish He had repented to avoid diving into HELL: Occultist Pastor Augustine Yiga of Revival Church in Kawala finally passes away after a long illness

Pastor Solomon Male, the Executive Director of Arising For Christ has blamed Pastor Augustine Yiga’s ‘shameless’ misconduct to lack of school knowledge.

According to Male, people who attend school to a certain level, attain some knowledge and lifestyle that makes them feel shame before doing something absurd, which is not the case with ‘uneducated’ ones like the Revival Church Pastor, Yiga.

“One of the problems with Yiga is that he is a school dropout and very uneducated, people who have gone to school and reached a certain level sometime feel shame, and can’t do some things that Yiga does. But Yiga is a shameless conman and thief,” Male said during an interview with ntv’s Live wire on Tuesday.

Following Yiga’s pictures that trended on social media, as he was seen  styled in a ‘swaggerific’ dress code during Alex Muhangi’s Comedy Store show last Thursday, Male claimed that for a pastor, dressing in chains, stylish shoes and a cap were uncalled for.

Male claimed that everyone is free to dress in a way they want, but as a leader, it’s always good to mind the dress code especially when making public appearances.

“Everybody is free to dress in the way they like, but as a leader, you have to be critical about your dress code, but Yiga cannot know that because he lacks discipline, he is a conman, I would only advise him to change his church into club, and stop stealing people in the name of God,” he said.

Male also claimed that Yiga always parades fake testimony to deceive people that he is a real ‘man of God’, uses his ‘club’ to spread false gospel about God, and also parades fake miracles to steal from desperate people.

However, recently during an interview, Yiga claimed that there are some pastors who are fighting so hard to destroy his Ministry by pinning him for a false prophet.

“There is are certain Pastors, I don’t want to say their names on air but one has a church ‘Ku Satu (Mile Three) but he always tries everything possible to bring me down and tarnishing my reputation,” Yiga said.

 Luciferian Yiga's biography

http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/120/525/538279/Augustine%20Yiga

AM Pastor Augustine Yiga of Revival Christian Church Kawaala. I grew up in a strong Catholic family in Bukomansimbi, Masaka. I didn’t go far in school; I stopped in P4 because I was so unruly.

After being idle at home for several years, I decided to join a group of musicians who came to perform in our village in 1995. Livingstone Kasozi was head of the then Lukwata Guitar Singers.

Since I was too young to compose my own songs, I worked as a houseboy for the group. We would travel to different parts of the country and I was responsible for cooking and washing their clothes. Though it was fun being on board, it was also very tiring and not worth the little money I was paid.
During their free time I would learn to play several musical instruments.

In 1997, Kasozi was bedridden. By then I knew how to play the guitar so I played with the rest. However, they were no longer making money because their leader was down, so I soon left to try and survive on my own in the city.
It wasn’t easy. That’s why I ended up joining witchcraft. I practiced witchcraft for two years. I bought calabashes, spears, coffee and barkcloth and set up a shrine in my room.

Anyone who came into my room was convinced I was a witchdoctor, yet I was simply gambling.

I would change my voice whenever a client came in, pretending that the gods were really with me.

Though I made a lot of money, practicing witchcraft was a very shameful thing. I used the money I made as capital when I joined a group of con men (abafere) dealing in counterfeit notes. A friend connected me to these people.

On account of our activities, I was arrested several times and remanded in Luzira Prison. I was once arrested by Kalangala Action Plan and taken to Mbuya Barracks. There, I was harassed and on leaving I decided to become a born-again Christian.

I went straight to Pastor Fred Sserugo of Revival Christian Church Kazo and confessed my sins.

Without money, life became difficult once again. But I would pray and sometimes talk to the pastor. God’s love is forever and I am now a senior pastor.
I fasted for several days requesting God to give me the powers to cast out demons and perform miracles and now I do.

The con men and witchdoctors from my past were not happy with my transformation, saying I was going to disclose their secrets. They opened a war against me, but I simply prayed to God. Some of them are now wondering about my success.

My mother got saved but my father is still a strong Catholic though he has no problem with my getting born-again. In fact he gave me a go-ahead, saying this is better than witchcraft.

As told to Aidah Nanyonjo

COVID-19 pandemic exposes church fraudsters- Pastor Male

  https://www.independent.co.ug/covid-19-pandemic-exposes-church-fraudsters-pastor-male/

Wakiso, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Pastor Moses Solomon Male, the head of Arising for Christ Ministries and outspoken critic of the prosperity gospel in Pentecostal churches is chest thumping; saying the Covid19 pandemic has exposed all fraudsters who have been preaching “the gospel of extortion”.

Male, who is living a simple life at his home in Kawempe, says he has for some time been trying to expose fraudulent preachers who claim to have supernatural powers to offer financial blessings, physical well-being and healing among their flock in exchange for material benefits in vain. 

He insists that most of the supposed miracles performed in churches are stage managed and goes on to challenge any pastor or prophet claiming to be with healing powers to pitch camp at Entebbe General Hospital and health the COVID19 victims and save the country from the pandemic.

Pastor Male, who has been struggling to restore the sanctity of Christ and to rid the Church of fake and selfish people, says COVID19 is the real litmus paper and eye-opener to Christian faithfuls to reflect on how some people have been stealing from them in the name of God.

The coronavirus pandemic that has spread to several countries across the world has had far reaching implications on religious practices in several countries including a total ban on congregational prayers to stop the spread of the virus.

Currently, Christian faithfuls ‘pray together but apart’ through virtual means. According to Pastor Male, this is a positive development, saying if it becomes the new normal, forever the faithfuls will overcome a number of challenges they face when they meet their pastors physically.

He says that with manipulation, many pastors have diverted people from instructions issued by Health experts and ended up facing miserable deaths. Pastor Male’s statement comes at a time pastor Augustine Yiga alias Abizaayo; the head of Revival Christian Church in Kawala is locked up for claiming on Television that there is no corona virus in Uganda and Africa in general.

Prior to Yiga’s statements Elvis Mbonye, the head of Zoe Ministries had also prophesied that COVID10 wouldn’t spread to Uganda. He also claimed to have powers to heal COVID19 and asked people in the affected areas to come and kneel before him to heal them.

Pastor Male also takes a swipe at pastors and religious leaders of various denominations who are asking their flock to send their offering sand tithe through mobile money and internet banking. According to Pastor Male, argues that it is high time ministers also do charity and gave back to Christians who currently can’t fend for themselves because of the lock down.

He cited several biblical teachings where David opened up the temple and handed over all he had collected to the children of Israel in times of need.

Pastor Male says whoever will be tempted to give out the little they have to support their families in offerings and later regrets or dies out of hunger will have committed suicide.

To a larger extent, Bishop Joshua Lwere, the General Overseer of the National Fellowship of Born Again Pentecostal Churches of Uganda-NFBPC agrees with Pastor Male, arguing that there are church ministers who have diverted from the true gospel of Jesus Christ.

“Some of those ministers lost track. You might see someone misleading people on issues of COVID19. We alert the general population to stick to the guidelines of Health experts,” Bishop Lwere. He says the current situation was brought by the Lord to show his supremacy and called upon all believers to pray and repent more so in this Easter season.

Uganda has registered 44 confirmed COVID19 cases in the last two weeks.

Several suspected cases are under institutional and self-isolation for the mandatory 14 in various facilities and their homes. COVID19 is spread through contact with the droplets of an infected person such as saliva on surfaces, in the air or handshaking. Health experts have recommended regular hand washing with soap and water or alcohol based sanitisers to prevent infection.

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