According to The Punch:
In a statement posted on the SCOAN’s official Facebook page, TB Joshua warned his critics against accusing him of failing to foresee the disaster that befell his ministry.
“For those who are outside the Lord, 
they would not know. When you are outside God, you will not know what I 
am talking. When you are outside the light, you cannot understand what I
 am talking.
“For the three weeks before the 
incident, if you heard my message and sat down, you would know I was 
giving you a vision and prophetic word on how to handle the situation at
 hand. Trials and tests are for our belief. I go by the directives of 
God,” TB Joshua claimed.
Accusing his critics of being “used by 
Satan,” the televangelist said they were just out to “disturb” the faith
 of his local and international members with “negative words.”
According to him, all the “Satanic 
agents” criticising him over the circumstances surrounding the incident,
 would soon “suffer for it.”
Since none of his critics is unable to 
help him raise the victims from death, TB Joshua argued that they should
 stop rubbishing his ministry or risk paying dearly for it.
Those who could not stop what happened 
(building collapse), he said, should be “careful of their tongues” as 
“anybody can go for it.
“I have been on this journey for 27 
years. Do you think God can close His eyes and rubbish everything here? 
They are asking God to bring more evidence of whether He is the one who 
called me. Warn everyone to be very careful. This issue at hand is a 
delicate issue.
“People are using this to gain money and
 friends. This is a warning. Whatever people want to write let them 
write; they will be the ones to read it. I said our God would get back 
to them. He has started somewhere. He is coming. If your brother is 
involved, unless he can resurrect the people who died, he will join 
them. If you can resurrect the people who died, you can go free.
“The servants, the people who sent them;
 the people who heard the stories all around and those who want to use 
it for themselves and to disturb my spirit, you may likely join them. Be
 careful. To be forewarned is to be forearmed. Let us be very careful 
with our tongues,” he warned.
Urging those questioning his calling not
 to sway his followers, he added that they should extend love and 
affection to the victims and relations of those involved in the tragedy.
The prophet insisted that the 115 
victims were martyrs, adding that their relations would see the 
continuation of the work of God “they died and suffered for.
“Your responsibility is to the victims 
and the relations of the victims and martyrs of faith. If you say you 
are born again, wherever the victims and their relations are, wherever 
the relations of the martyrs of faith are, look for them. Let them know 
you are praying for them. What you eat; let them eat it.
“What you wear; let them wear. What you 
have on your table, let them have it on their tables, too. Share what 
you have with them – your love, prayer, affection and strength. Share it
 with them at this time. This is what we call ‘born again’ – my pain is 
your pain. Your joy is my joy.
“The multitude of people who claim to be
 with T.B. Joshua in prayer – if the same people turn to the families of
 the victims and martyrs of faith, don’t you think life would be better 
for them than before? Join them; look for them, as many other things 
they are doing now,” TB Joshua added.
 
 
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