adminprecise, told me he was a regular viewer of a Christian channel called Miracle TV.
Previously, there had been calls from readers asking me to look at the same channel with the host none other than Prophet Uebert Angel.
Not sure where and how to tune in to the channel I then looked for free-to-air decoder and guess what? I found the channel presented by Tich Mataz.
Since televangelism has become a big deal these days, I was keen to understand what it was that people wanted me to see. Usually I had said that I should leave such channels to those who love to watch televangelism but then to check whether I was missing something I tuned in.
The programme is shot and packaged here in Zimbabwe and then sent to the UK for screening on Miracle TV. In some sermons I could see familiar faces.
Remember, I once wrote on “bizarre healings” and stuff, which readers again reacted angrily but then I decided to close the chapter because people always have a right to choose what they want.
But from what I picked on the channel I noticed “gospel of prosperity” has gone over the top with the preachers becoming younger and younger.
So this flamboyant Prophet Angel, I am not sure whether its his real surname because the bloke sounds like he is from Masvingo, I am told from “Zaka Rinopisa”.
And, surprisingly, the prophetess who I suppose is the wife called Beverly, a youthful, well-groomed woman who usually comes in when the “Major Prophet” takes his breather is equally as good as her husband.
For some obscure reason, Prophet Angel is lovingly called “Major” by his legion of followers, a term which is derived from his teachings and “prophecies”.
So popular is the channel that some people who emailed me claimed watching the television channel healed them.
I watched two sermons one called “Ndinotsvaga Hure Part One” and “Jehovah Chikopokopo”. One thing you can’t take away from “Major” it’s the “swag”, eloquence and style. He says things and everything you want to hear.
Even though he was preaching in Shona he would use such words as “hure” to make his point which I found strange. Quite honestly, what was all the more absurd was the prophecy time.
A couple had separated for close to five years and after prayers from “Major” the couple reunited.
Oh my Lord! I said to myself what if the man watches his wife’s testimony will there be anything blissful after that?
Quite honestly, how would you feel to know that your wife has been going to prophets to win your love back?
These are the sort of things that I think “Major” fouls up and since he is good at the word why doesn’t he stick to that. The hullabaloo of prophesying people’s ID numbers or names isn’t a big deal!
Yes, people are burdened and they need solutions to their problems but to throw names and date of births at random will come to naught.
In future editions I hope to have a no-holds-barred interview with “Major” who I believe is on the rise.
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