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Samuel Biléou Joseph OSHOFFA Pastor Founder of CELESTIAL CHURCH OF CHRIST 1909-1985 |
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THE STAGES OF A LIFE " The Lord led to the renunciation
most complete certain people worldwide, the fascinating for the
good and the service of their fellow men. Regretted Pastor OSCHOFFA is of those
In May 22, 1947: Eclipse of the sun - different visions in a forest of Agongue's region and hearing of the word < < Luli > > meaning < < Grace(favour) > > In September 29, 1947: Birth of the Christianity Céleste: the name < < Church of the Christianity Céleste > > was spiritually revealed during ' a session of prayer. In October 5, 1965 and November 1-st, 1965: The Church is recognized by the state of the Dahomey (the former(ancient) name of Benin) and authorized by decision n ° on 2252 A.P.A of October 5, 1965 registered on the J.O.D. under him(it,her) n°28 of November 1-st, 1965 In February 15, 1975: Synod in Porto Novo where regretted Minister Founder augured on the reorganization of the Church by the state and on its own death. 1947 - On 1976: intense Life to dedicate in Benin its native earth(ground) 1976 - On 1985: Mission of évangélisation in Nigeria In August 23, 1985: It(he) announces in an intimate conversation(maintenance), the imminent death to the superior B. AGBAOSSI In August 26, 1985: Conversation(maintenance) with certain believers(regular customers) of whom the sister Honorine to whom it revealed that its mission is ended and that he joins very soon the Lord In September 1-st, 1985: On Ibadan's road: engrave accident of which it takes out it supernaturally holy and safe In September 10, 1985: The Seer Minister OSCHOFFA fell asleep in the Lord to Kétu ( Lagos) in his(its,her) 77-th year In October 19, 1985: Burial of the Reverend
OSCHOFFA to Imeko ( Nigeria) is in hiding of origin of his(her)
mother and near the grave of this one |
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INTRODUCTION Has THE BIOGRAPHY OF the FOUNDER Is not - it not there Samuel OSCHOFFA's aberration proclaiming itself Seer? Where from come to him(her) these ideas? Will one ever speak about Seer in Africa? Ever can one find good things in the Dahomey? Here is so much comment, moreover justifiable of quite persons wishing sincerely religious unity and rebelling against any new sect. However, fact is there, tangible, inevitable and irreversible. Indeed, Christianity Céleste did not go out of any religion mother or of any some sect. It(he) pleased God, in front of the multitudes of more or less sectarian religions introduced on the African ground, to give in Africa this primitive Church, tinged with the blood of the martyrs, this spotless Church or wrinkle, Wife of JESUS CHRIST: The star of the "CROSSDOG", the Lamb of God, the Cliff of our safety, the Big Doctor, the unique(only) son of God, the one Only that can save us from our sins. Naturally, world is mistaken the truth, it laughs at sick efforts, as it laughed formerly at the jaw of ass in the hand of SAMSON and David's sling in front of a Goliath. Indeed, there is disproportion between forces in presence, but is the weakest really the one that one believes? We are invincible, because our present and our future are in the hands of the one that of a single grain(bead) can appear an ear of thirty, sixty or hundred grains(beads). We invite so all what look for simplicity and for humility in the Christian cult, and same all what are already anchored profoundly in a conviction and " which are will ever change > > to make without prejudices and without prejudices a critical and objective exam of the Christianity Céleste, of the doctrine of the safety, its cult and its organization in the light of the Bible, God's word. Christianity Céleste is a primitive
Christian Church, it is the Church of the Christ. All the believers(regular
customers) carry(wear) the name of Chrétien. Christianity Céleste is a Christian religion recognized by the State and officially authorized by decision n ° 2252 / A.P.A. of 5/10/1956. The seat is in Porto Novo (Dahomey, the former(ancient) name of Benin), district Kandévié, near the Toffa-1er , B.p secondary school. 180. She(it) is inspired by God by the demonstration of the Holy Spirit in the middle of the believers(regular customers). The doctrinal education is and remains based on the Holy Bible, the only book of the truth, the progress and the safety for the people. The Church of the Christianity Céleste has the vocation to make to God the cult which is due to him(her) under a shape humble and full of devotion excluding any practices or satanic, superstitious or animistic faiths. Worships dedicated in quite other that to God are opposite in the basic principles. She asserts her will to cooperate in the peace, the friendship and the brotherhood with all the churches which refer to the Christ, which share her ideal of freedom of cult, social justice, human solidarity on the basis of the principles of equality, mutual interest and the mutual respect of the autonomy of every religion. THE FOUNDER OF the CELESTIAL CHURCH OF CHRIST My name is Samuel Biléou Joseph OSCHOFFA. I was born in 1909 in Porto Novo. My father
is Protestant and names Joseph OSCHOFFA. It(he) exercised the profession
of carpenter. My father had lost several very young children. IT(HE) survived only a girl, my big sister, named Elisabeth. However, my father did not lose confidence. It(he) sent piously to God; the supplicant to grant(tune) him(her) a boy whom he would put in the service of the Eternal if he survived. When it(he) was fulfillled, he gave me Samuel's name and added in aid of the assistance(audience) a name Yoruba < < Biléou > > what means < < please remaining here low, stays. Should the opposite occur, turn(return) to the Lord. As for I had dedicated you to the Eternal before even your birth > >. In 1916, when I had seven years, my father held his promise and confided me to a Protestant catechist, Mr. Moses GNANSOUNOU (district Zèbou), father of the fire Nathaniel A. GNANSOUNOU, to assume my education. But I was too young and it was obliged still to keep(guard) me until the age of 13 years. Then, it(he) put back(handed) me in 1928 to the Minister David Hodonou Loko to whom it(he) let know the promise made for God to leave me in the service of the Eternal. Pupil at the Protestant school (district Houèzoumè), I was internal at the Minister's Loko's. We were several classmates of whom the eminent evangelist GNANSOUNOU Nathaniel known well in the Church of the heavenly Christianity. During six years, I made my primary studies until the average class(course) 2ém year. Our education was rough. I had no physical force which it was necessary to continue and escaped me to join my father. Any attempts of this last one to put back(hand) me to my boss failed. Exceeded(irritated) and discouraged, it(he) had to leave me with the studio. Indeed my father was a carpenter. I had so avoided(fled) force for the force.
But I resigned myself and obtained my liberation after four years
from learning. Then I continued to exercise profession in the same
studio as my father. But on June 15, 1939, my father died. It is
then that I got rid of the exhausting work by abandoning the joiner's
workshop one YEAR LATER A bit further, I noticed that this trumpeter's situation was very precarious and I me resolved to be engaged in the business of the ebony. And so has to leave of November, 1946, I began to cross(go through) the villages of the valley of the river ouémé. They are villages buried in big wildernesses and very remote from big centres. But one discovered to it a lot of ebony. I had got used to going everywhere with my Bible and I made regularly my prayers. BIRTH OF the CELESTIAL CHURCH OF CHRIST One day (it was in May, 1947), I was in the forest having crossed the river Ouémé. My piroguier took itself of violent stomach pains. We had no help. Confident in the Eternal, I took my Bible, prayed, imposed my hand on the womb of the patient. Some minutes later, it(he) felt relieved. Stricken with fear, it(he) confessed me that it(he) had for the lunch drawn deliberately from the frying which I had taken in my tours. He added that I have to be a bizarre man, reason for which the penalty of the obnoxious act had not be waited. Then it(he) saved himself leaving me alone between the water and the forest. I did not know how to either swim, or lead(drive) a dugout. Willy-nilly, I was inexorably condemned to live(remain) on the spot until a possible help. Nevertheless, I was not afraid. At night, I lit a fire to warm itself and I prayed ardently. The third day of this desperate situation, exactly on MAY 22, 1947, it(he) had eclipse of the sun. Since my birth, same event had occurred in the Dahomey. I was alone in the forest. I became afraid and threw(cast) myself in knees, closed eyes to pray. In necks of my prayer, I heard(understood) clearly a voice(vote) who said to me: " Luli, Luli, " and the explanation which followed: " Grace(favour) ". When I opened eyes, I lived in front of me, in my big bewilderment: a winged white monkey sat(based) on its séant. It(he) had two teeth in the upper jaw and two others in the lower jaw. (One would say that it is he which(who) had pronounced words Luli and grace(favour)). In my right-hand side and ready to bite itself, I saw a small brown snake. It(he) had the very swollen neck surmounted with a small head. (One would say a rattlesnake). Without fear to be bitten, I seize him(it) by the snare, caressed(cherished) him(it) and loosened him(it) quietly. Then, a little aside, I saw a very beautiful bird. It(he) had the sharp wings and the colored feathers. Its pastas and the beak are of yellow one given(given) lustre. It(he) made the wheel and a lot looked like a peacock. One moment after these animals disappeared under my eyes. Nevertheless, my odyssey had to last three months. I did not more have anything to me to put under the tooth. I saw henceforth only water and some honey which I harvested by burning the hives of bees. I was transformed, and lived from now on without fear in the prayer and the reading of my Bible. But a fateful day, the stream put itself in flood and almost took my frail boat. I resolved to throw(cast) myself into the dugout confiding in the Eternal. Of roulis in roulis, banging in the hillocks of brambles and boughs which appeared some water, my dugout failed the second day near the village called " AGONGUE " in ADJOHON's sub-prefecture. In my descent, the first man whom I met was a fellow countryman named YESSOUFOU. It(he) became afraid. Indeed, noise had run(roamed) that I was lost for more than three months and that certainly, I had died. As I went into the village, one named KOULIHO, near the house where I lived was dying, seriously ill and quite swelled. I went to the house, I prayed with force and confidence, by imposing him(her) hands in the name of Jesus Christ. To my big satisfaction and to the big surprise of everybody, the dying sneezed, shook its members and sat down. Named Kouliho, due to God, lives even today. My fellow countryman YESSOUFOU ran(roamed) to announce in Porto Novo where he had seen me, similar to a madman, the ruffled hair, the chin embroussaillé, a madman who, curious thing(matter), resuscitates the deaths. When later, I arrived at Porto Novo, I had become a curiosity, and crowd followed me everywhere where I passed. One day my big sister, Madam GOUTON Elisabeth,
been born OSHOFFA, came to see me. She(it) cried: His(her) son Mawugnon
Emmanuel was a patient and any hope was lost. Already, a lot of
quacks had tried their power and had Finally, on SEPTEMBER 29, 1947, I visited
my friend, Sir We returned at home and we put in knees. I had been born Protestant and was in the habit of closing eyes to pray. On my invitation, the others made it also. In the heart of the prayer, I saw in front of me a big light similar to a lighthouse of automobile. I was dazzled but continued to look. Behind this big light which decreased in intensity, I lived, similar to a human being, a glittering being whose sharp eyes sparkled and with whom feet not resting(basing) on the ground shone of a particular brightness. I was afraid and trembled with all my being. But the man says to me: " are not afraid, the Lord of all the creation wants to load(charge) you with a mission. Of any time, the people liked me, but all did not enter my realm because in tests (disease, anxieties, confusions, difficulties variously, etc.) they resorted to satanic works (idols, magic, gri-grey, quacks, soothsayers, etc. …) and when they died, I did not receive them any more because they had as well drunk in the cup(cutting) of Almighty God as in that of Satan. It makes pity, but to avoid now on same lot(fate) to my admirers, I load(charge) you, you Samuel OSCHOFFA to base a religion members of which will like only God. " World will not believe that the Lord showed himself to you but I shall be with you and my angels also and I shall accompany your works of miracles, signs, miracles so that he believes: oh son(thread) of man, be confident, do not be afraid of anything, know that we are in the last days. This church will be the last boat to bring the people to the safety. Because I return soon. " When I opened eyes, Madam ZEVOUNOU Marie was stunned. She(it) also, during our prayer had had a terrifying vision. " I saw, she(it) said, a big wood in shape of cross. On this cross, I saw a man who carried(wore) a crown of thorns; of the hands and feet as well as from his part left(awkward) oozed from some blood. And strange thing(matter) still, it(he) came down(fell) some wood, took you by the hand and led(drove) you in a beautiful and magnificent room(chamber) which I could not describe, dressed(took on) you in a white dress strewed with twinkling stars. Your eyes shone so that one would say the sun to the top. But when I opened eyes, I still see you here, in the same place. Why it? " We are all amazed at our respective visions. We parted silently, mutes and without any reaction. But at night, I may close the eye. The angels came down(fell) to dictated to me orders, revealed me things which I wrote.
The fourteenth day, I resolved to get rid of this world which had assailed my house. I sent my friend Dominique ADANDE with Mister GUENE then Commanding(ordering) of the Circle of Porto Novo to ask this last one to send nurses of circle to evacuate my house. After the report of my messenger, the Commander(major) of circle asked to see me to know if it was really about Samuel OSCHOFFA, the trumpeter of the municipal brass band which he knew very well. I appeared at the Commander(major) together with four of my friends. I told him(her) everything, in the supplicant to help me: " Here is no more than a week when people are in my house. Some tell mysterious things, the others sing, the rest prays. It(he) are more two hundred. Add to it the crowd of the curious onlookers and the curious. I lost sleep, I do not eat any more, help me. " The Commander(major) of circle answered: " I can not reach your demand. I find you quite transformed. In your sight myself I am afraid. One would say that a supernatural force emanates from you. I am not up to intervene in this affair(business). On the contrary, I advise you rather to invite people by circular to come to listen to your visions. What I made and the eighth day a large crowd was collected. I was afraid at first , but the man whom I had seen during my vision says to me: " are not afraid, prepare a table, on the refreshed table a cross with the image of the crucified Christ. In front of the crucifix, light three candles. In your right-hand side, places a dreamer, to your left another dreamer. " (It(he) must be chosen among those that had fallen in ecstasy to me and that did not leave me any more.) The man added: all that you are going to say will will be inspired in you and even answers to questions. ". I answered: " I shall put one believe
of simple wood without image of the Christ because I am Protestant.
" He says to me: " Not, I want whether it is a real cross
with the crowned Christ, the leaky side, and the Hebraic registration
because a simple cross can be confused(merged) with that of the
crucified swindlers at the same time as Jesus or with imports only
she(it) the other cross because one crucified before Jesus. A recognizable
cross by the statue of Jesus is needed. It is a distinguishing feature
to show how the Man I made exactly as it(he) was recommended to me. After a sort of preaching in which I told all that I had lived up to there, we passed in question. While the first person interrogated me, I heard(understood) him(it) very well, but of a single ear because second was narrow-minded and buzzed. Then it opened suddenly and I heard(understood) the voice(vote) which dictates me answer. It is in this way that I answered any each from the beginning to the end. After this conference, it(he) had a big tumult in the complete city. First Sunday of October, 1947, as I prayed with a group of people, a woman(wife) fell in ecstasy and began singing a chant in dialect Goun of which here is about meaning: " religious Brothers, raise height the head etc. ". It was from this day that Holy Spirit recommended to sing in our church that songs given spontaneously and sung by the dreamers. Here we are, my brothers, faithfully told, origin and foundation of this Religion. It is not so the work of a person in evil of overbid, or a group of people going against such or such confession. No no my brothers, it is a divine desire, it is supernatural. That is why, we have no right to criticize such or such religion referring to the Christ because we are every servants of God. Our sessions of prayers take place three times a week: on Wednesday, on Friday, on Sunday. One Wednesday so, always in October 1947,
Marie Zevounou was not for the prayer. She(it) sold to the market.
Suddenly, she(it) fell in ecstasy and was led(driven) by the Spirit
until our place of meeting. We were all lengthened(stretched out)
on the ground, the face against the ground. In front of us was a
crucifix and a lit candle. We were in full prayer when Marie Zevounou
entered. She(it) stuck the head against the wall and made us back.
Then always in ecstasy, she declared: " This day is a sacred
day says the Eternal, I shall show you just(right now) a sign. Always
ask and to fix your glances to the lit candle ". A moment later,
an ant approached the candle, began to turn quite all around. Marie
Zevounou declared, always making us back: " Here is my first
sign says the Eternal, well observe this insect ". Then the
ant always continues to turn. As soon as we had finished our prayer,
the ant jumped into the flame of the candle and died. Then the other
one came, turned even for a long time and jumped in sound everything
into the flame. Marie Zevounou declared then: " Here is the
explanation of the spectacle that " To show you that it is I the Eternal
who spoke, tomorrow there will be KPE WE I at the MIDDLE ME the PÔ DONA DONA OKLUNON The next day indeed, we sent Mister HOUKANRIN Anatole to Sèmè-plage. It(he) meant saying to us that really the sea was not stormy any more. One would say that she(it) rested(based) in the heart of the washbasin. But the most scheming(intriguing) said Anatole, it is that before to find me on the coast, I crossed a river and was obliged to take my cycle on shoulders while in my return, some moments later, the river had completely dried out in the point that I crossed very easily and normally the same place with cycle. Today, according to the revelations which were made, one can count more than a miracle which our Lord Jesus Christ carried out by my intermediary. So in the name of Jesus Christ, I had to resuscitate more than twelve deaths who, living even at present, can give evidence of their own mouth. Let us hold(retain) in this particular case some names and the circumstances in which miracle had taken place: [ZQYW1PÚ] In Porto Novo, named TINAVIE, wife of Mister AVOCE de Gbeloko son(thread) of Mister KOUAKANON (district Zébouaga), had died in the hospital. The lady Tinavie was the sister-in-law of Madam MAHULWE, been born AVOGNON then member of our Church of which she was a dreamer. MAHULAWE entered then ecstasy and asked to take the body to me. And so, instead of putting down(depositing) the dead woman in the morgue, one had transported her(it) on a stretcher of the hospital until my place of residence. I was bewildered in the sight of a spectacle, but in dreamer, Madam MAHULWE to exclaim: " are not afraid, the Eternal dressed(took on) you in a force capable of resuscitating the deaths. Impose him(her) hands and ask the Eternal to resuscitate her(it). " What I made and the dead woman resuscitated in the name of Jesus Christ. [ZQYW1PÚ] Miss Léontine ZEVOUNOU, girl of Joseph ZEVOUNOU: she(it) had died at home. The resurrection of this girl pulled(entailed) conversion in the Christianity Céleste of several members of its family. [ZQYW1PÚ] Mr. Moses AFFOGNON. - We had imposed him(her) the hand and it(he) resuscitated in the name of Jesus Christ. Always living in Porto Novo, it(he) had five children after this supernatural event. [ZQYW1PÚ] Mr. Moses GOUGBE. - Chanwè's village in Abomey-Calavi's sub-prefecture. We resuscitated him(it) in the name of Jesus Christ. He lives still in this village where his father is Senior Leader of our Chanwè's church. [ZQYW1PÚ] Madam OLUCHOLA and Melle. Thérèse of MACOCO. - The resurrection of these two women in Lagos ( Nigéria) is at the origin of the free purchase of the ground on which is built our Church in this city. Named Thérèse is at present in Porto Novo, fiancée to young Chrétien Céleste. [ZQYW1PÚ] The case of a 6 year old young man resuscitated to Abéokouta ( Nigéria) in the name of Jesus Christ in aroused a whole crowd of membership in our Church. [ZQYW1PÚ] The most recent case is that of Melle. TINE BEHANZIN in Porto Novo. [ZQYW1PÚ] Resurrection took place in the presence of honorable witnesses as the father of the eminent doctor Doctor WALCKOFF and Authorities of Police. Let us turn the page of supernatural resurrections to approach that of miracles. Was there miracles? Certainly and cases are
there multiple. Let us quote among others that of Dékamè
in Abomey-Calavi's sub-prefecture: Indeed, we were in this village
when in broad daylight an owl came to glide over the head of a young
man who returned from the peach(fishing) with its reserve of fishes.
The rapacious bird suddenly seized one of the fishes and went to
perch on a cheese maker. Returned at the house, the boy was taken
by the sudden evil and died immediately. It is then that we learnt(taught) From then on, I approached the tree, lit four candles that I placed everything around the first-rate cheese maker who frightened all the villagers and asked God to destroy(annul) him(it) for ever. The Eternal fulfillled my prayers and in the big surprise of all a mysterious fire burst at the top of the cheese maker and fired him(her,it) of the top in roots. The fire burned during seven days and seven nights and consumed completely the tree idol. [ZQYW1PÚ] One can quote following the history of the cheese maker of Dékamè, the pathetic history of the idol of Passè to Dékin-Hounhuê, the numerous cases of blind persons or disabled persons who recovered the custom(usage) of their senses(directions), etc. … But the list of miracles is not exhaustive, one would not know how to exhaust him(it) in this particular case, because force is us to choose to limit itself. Let us evoke so to close this chapter,
the case of the born lame which cured of the infirmity in the name
of Jesus Christ, skips today of enjoyment in our Church from Yénawa
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