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The armed robber takes your money from you with a gun in his hand: the pastor takes your money by brandishing a bible and gives fake prophecies to them popular Jesus berated the mercenary religious leaders of biblical days. He told them: ��It is written, my house shall be called a house of prayer,� but you have made it a �den of thieves.�� (Matthew 21:13). This word remains pertinent to pastors in the churches of today. They come up with all kinds of schemes designed to squeeze money out of their church-members by giving fake prediction about deaths that that they cannot see, especially using the name of very important personalities to make they popular. They search the scriptures, looking for quotable quotes that can be used to make merchandise of men. Some of their favourites are those scriptures dealing with giving first-fruits to priests. As Ghanaians we should learn to draw the line between our freedom of speech and making statements that suggest that we have foresight on the existence of others. Please Rev Owusu Bempah should come out and tell us about his plot and the plot of religious politics that seems to point direction that the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana is in danger. I have had to restrain myself a bit when it comes to religious issues in the country because I am a devout Christian and as such a member of the Presbyterian church of Ghana and would want to deal precisely with Rev. Isaac Owusu Bempah (Founder and Leader of the Glorious Word Ministry International), who recently has sprung into action with his wishful thinking �Prophecy on the Vice President, Kwesi Amissah Arthur. I belong to an early church whose church properties are not in anybody�s name, the present-day pastors registers the church in their name and acquires properties for the church at the expense of the congregation in their own name and this informs the reason churches are transferred from father to their children or wives in the case of their demise, so such fake prophesies do not tickle people like those of us who believe that we are the children of God. Saying what is likely to happen to Ghana�s Vice President, Kwesi Amissah-Arthur this year will be perilous. �Revelations about the vice-president is dangerous than the president [John Dramani Mahama]. We must pray�. Today, like what Owusu Bempah is doing, however, there a lot of fake pastors who have become a problem to society. In Ghana and elsewhere, the odd character shown by many so-called men of God has put a big question mark on the principles and doctrines of the faith they profess. There are many of such preachers out there, like Owusu Bempah masquerading as angels of light. They are fathers of lies, fathers of hypocrisy, who, according to 1 Timothy chapter 4, have had their conscience seared with hot iron. They are learned. They have sugarcoated tongues. They feign sympathy and fake listening ears in order to milk their unfortunate audience. They bamboozle with supernatural powers obtained from sources other than those stipulated by the holy writ, and use dubious, sometimes pre-arranged miracles to railroad unsuspecting citizens to their mega churches. No wonder he�s a one of the owners of Pentecostal churches in the country that advertise tithing as a condition for enjoying material blessings from God and to back up their claims.�To them, the church is not the stairway to heaven but a super highway to obscene wealth. And no trick is too dirty to ensnare their luckless victims. While many in their congregation cannot afford three decent meals in a day, the evil pastors, who are mostly, located in the new wave Pentecostal movement, ferry collections to their banks in Bullion vans every Sunday. They build churches that compete with the Basilica in Rome, cruise about town in state-of-the-art cars, and spend vacations in the most exotic tourist destinations across the world. Safe for a few, the majority of them would never lift a finger to ameliorate the sufferings of their poor parishioners.� Indeed, rapists, murderers, thieves and sundry criminals desecrate the pulpit and drag the name of God in the mud. The situation is such that prefixing one�s name with the title of pastor in today�s world often attracts immediate suspicion. This sad development is as a result of the glaring and expanding scope of misdemeanouvers of some of them. Indeed, the church has become a house of scandals and controversies in these shores. These ills have become firmly entrenched, taking root like an incurable cancer that is feasting on the afflicted body. Hence despite the number of churches springing up in all nooks and crannies of Ghana, a wave of iniquities is sweeping across the land. What seems to have emerged is a convoluted practice of the religion held under siege from within. From my Sunday school teachings, i thought that by their calling yourself a pastor you ought to be the conscience of society. As God�s representatives on earth, the responsibility of a pastor is to ensure that a healthy moral temperature prevails. Like ancient prophets, they are expected to warn the people about the dangers of disobedience and guide them to the path of righteousness. Indeed, pastors ought to live by example. It is a story that chills the bones and numbs the senses. Even the devil himself may be shocked that one of his agents masquerading as a minister of the gospel could perpetrate an evil of such astounding proportion. A flag bearer of a great political party will die, but was quick to add that some comrades of the flagbearer have consulted him for prayers to prevent the untimely death. �People pretending to love Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo but want his downfall should be very careful. I have seen them all, and I know those burying live cows to destroy Nana Addo�s presidential ambition. Adding that, there are so many things going on, but I will work towards that.� What a joke they did it to late President Mills thinking that when he dies, Nana would win the elections and become the next President of Ghana but the God of Elijah Elisha, Abraham, Isaac, Noah spoke and it came to pass, with all their false prophesies Nana Addo never saw the throne.. Rev Owusa Bempah Should know that by their calling yourself a pastor you ought to be the conscience of society. As God�s representatives on earth, their responsibility is to ensure that a healthy moral temperature prevails. Like ancient prophets, they are expected to warn the people about the dangers of disobedience and guide them to the path of righteousness. Indeed, pastors ought to live by example. To people like Owusu Bempah,the church is not the stairway to heaven but a super highway to obscene wealth. And no trick is too dirty to ensnare their luckless victims. While many in their congregation cannot afford three decent meals in a day, the evil pastors, who are mostly, located in the new wave Pentecostal movement, ferry collections to their banks in Bullion vans every Sunday. They build churches that compete with the Basilica in Rome, cruise about town in state-of-the-art cars, like he�s doing in Odorkor and spend vacations in the most exotic tourist destinations across the world. Safe for a few, the majority of them would never lift a finger to ameliorate the sufferings of their poor parishioners.�