The earth is running a 'fever' - Jehovah Witness Minister

Accra, Dec. 16, GNA -

Mr Daniel Asamoah, a Circuit Overseer of Jehovah's Witness, on Friday described as a running fever the global climate change that was negetively affecting humans, flora and fauna and prayed for an urgent divine solution to redeem creation from the present suffering.

"The earth is running a fever; man cuts trees indiscriminately, there is loss of fertile agricultural land, toxic waste introduced into the environment, global warming, deforestation, oil spillages," he said, and queried: "Do you think God will sit down unconcerned and make creation go waste?".

"One day, very soon God's Kingdom will come and interrupt, solve these problems and give us lasting relief," Mr Asamoah said as he delivered the welcoming address at a three-day District Convention of Jehovah's Witnesses, which began on Friday at the Jehovah's Witnesses Assembly Hall at Baatsonaa near Nungua in Accra.

The convention on the theme: "Let God's Kingdom Come" put together by the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses is part of series of 71 conventions at 26 different locations throughout Ghana.

It is focusing on God's Kingdom, a Government that Jesus urged christians to pray for, as the only solution to the plethora facing mankind as Witnesses believed that human rule has failed to provide adequately for mankind.

Aside Bible discourses, the convention is also featuring symposia, interviews, costumed drama, highlighting God's Kingdom as the only true Government to redeem man from his problems and restore hope in the near future.

Speakers at the convention are using the Holy Bible as the main reference point, with intermittent singing from the witness hymnal "Sing to Jehovah" as delegates beautifully dressed, would rise and chant in praise of God.

The convention venue is clean with lawn beautifully manicured and a variety of natural flowers used to decorate the place; as bins provided for separate kinds of waste material.

Mr Asamoah told the 2,669 delegates that only a complete reform and change under God's Kingdom would restore the earth to its natural state "adding no human government can do this".

Quoting Psalm 145:16, the Christian Minister stressed that only the Messianic Kingdom was going to satisfy every need and desire of every living thing.

He said man's hunger went beyond the physical to the spiritual and God was providing the spiritual food through a group identified as "the faithful and discreet slave class" whom Jehovah had appointed to undertake that assignment in these last days.

Mr Asamoah urged the delegates to continue to worship together, sing joyfully together, receive timely counsel from the Bible, and wait on Jesus Christ whom Jehovah had appointed over his Government.

Mr Sarpei Nunoo, an Elder from Cantoments Congregation, reviewd Revelation Chapter Six and Second Timothy Chapter Three, pointing out prophetic events that marked the present times as the last days, and urged mankind to take refuge in God's Kingdom by constantly applying Bible principles in their lives and making changes where necessary.

With reference from a recent publication in an Accra newspaper, Mr Nunoo predicted that there was bound to be food shortage in the West African Sub-Region if the present unfair climatic conditions continued.

Other problems facing the world currently are spread of the HIV pandemic and its strains, Mr Nunoo noted and called on Christians to pray for the safety of the people in Papua New Guinea, hit recently by an earthquake.

Other speakers spoke about the negatives of internet fraud, get-rich-quick attitude, vulgar language, disobedient to parents indecent dressing that is gaining currency among the youth and urged Christians not to emulate those lifestyles.

They urged people, weighed down by past sins, to come to the father of mercies for a hug advising that Christians are to prepare for persecutions with a hope that God would provide a way out as a witness to his glorious name.