You can’t confine omni-present nature of God to Jerusalem – Cleric speaks on pilgrimage

Founder, Solid Rock Kingdom Church in Akwa Ibom State, Apostle John Okoriko has advised Nigerians and people from other parts of the world who scramble to Jerusalem for pilgrimage for healing or to encounter Jesus Christ to note that Christ is everywhere and does not live in Jerusalem.

He said those who go to Jerusalem to have a glimpse of Solomon’s Temple built many years ago are doing so for religious tourism because neither God nor Christ lives there.

Okoriko stated this in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital on Sunday, during the monthly Interactive Service in the new year on the theme, “The Temple of His Body”.

Responding to questions from online callers on the topic, the Cleric stated that the body of Christ is the temple that accommodates everybody on earth who believes in Him.

He also chided those who travel to Jerusalem and return with items such as mud sand from the sea, olive oil and other materials for the purpose of healing, saying one does not necessarily need to travel that far or anywhere before he receives healing from God as He is Omnipresent and can answer prayers from anywhere.

His words, ” The fight between Moslems and Jews over the control /ownership of the Temple in Jerusalem is futile, null and avoid because God does not live in the temple built by man

“Those who visit Jerusalem are only embarking on religious tourism, for those who travel to Jerusalem and return with mud sand from dead sea and items including holy water, Olive Oil, sands for healing, all amount to nothing but empty faith as God doesn’t pass through them to heal his people.

” Why are they confining the God of the whole world who is Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent and has a body known as ‘Omnibody” to a small place in Jerusalem? He is the God of the entire world not living in Jerusalem but present everywhere in the earth.

” If you believe that mud sand from a river in Israel can cure sickness, what makes you think that the sand from my village stream cannot also cure sickness?”

He said Jesus expanded the temple of his body after resurrection and assured his disciples that there are many mansions there where believers can occupy for their peace, comfort and escape from any harm.

Okoriko revealed that the coming back of Jesus to the world is not for non believers, contrary to religious beliefs that Jesus would ride on the cloud and all eyes will see him in the second coming.

” What Jesus would do after his resurrection and ascension has to do with his church and not the world, contrary to what many people are speculating that Jesus would come from the sky and every eye shall see him.

He added, “All the wars in Russia, Ukraine, Syria, Israel and Hamas as well as the fight against terrorism in Nigeria are activities that will bring to an end all forms of human government to pave way for the emergence of the kingdom of God on earth which Christ will establish through the temple of his body.”