{"id":197848,"date":"2016-03-10T14:28:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T14:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=197848"},"modified":"2016-03-10T14:28:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T14:28:44","slug":"the-dead-goat-is-cursed-beyond-redemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/03\/the-dead-goat-is-cursed-beyond-redemption\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘Dead Goat’ is cursed beyond redemption [Article]"},"content":{"rendered":"
I am sure many of you, at least the Christians I know, have read these verses (Matthew 25:31-41) many times and have had it preached to you in so many ways.<\/p>\n
I have read it several times too, from my Sunday School days. However, I read it very recently and it made sense to me in a very different way especially in light of the “dead goat” comment made by President Mahama, exactly a year ago.<\/p>\n
The verses spoke to me as if they were alive and not only that, my mind raced and connected other verses in the Bible to those verses and realised that that comment, “dead goat”, had very severe consequences, which I believe Christians in Ghana have ignored or talked very little about.<\/p>\n
Permit me to share the said verses with you before I proceed (and I will try and keep it short). Matthew 25:31-34, 41 NLT states as follows:<\/p>\n
But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit upon his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered in his presence, and he will separate the people as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>He will place the sheep at his right hand and the goats at his left.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>\u201cThen the King will say to those on his right, \u2018Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world.\u00a0Then the King will turn to those on the left and say, \u2018Away with you, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his demons.<\/em><\/p>\n Matthew<\/em> 25:31-34, 41<\/em> NLT<\/em><\/p>\n Separating the sheep from the goats will be the last task of\u00a0Jesus Christ, the Son of Man, on this earth when He returns. He will place the sheep to His right and the goats to His left. The sheep will inherit the Kingdom of Heaven and the goats (who the Bible describes as cursed) will be put into eternal fire with the devil and all the demons.<\/p>\n President Mahama referring to himself as a “dead goat” should not be taken lightly at all. That irresponsible and reckless attribute of himself made it onto BBC’s 2015 Best African Quotes. It was the #6 on BBC’s list and President Mahama was quoted as saying:<\/p>\n\n