The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, berated the Western nations for projecting that Africans, including Nigerians, would be ravaged by the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.

Adeboye made the statement at the church’s annual Holy Ghost Congress programme, which held at the Redemption camp along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

The preacher who declared that God reassured him that the virus would not kill Nigerians, it was only those whose time has come that died.

According to him, the developed nations left out one parameter, the GOD factor, when they were doing the permutation.

“Whether you believe it or not, failure to pray is a sign of pride. The highly developed nations of the world believe that they have all the technologies and resources, and they can take care of themselves. Then an enemy showed up. An enemy they cannot see.

“And they looked at Africa without money and resources and predicted that we will be dying like chicken. But they left out one parameter, and that is God. They left out that there is still a group of people who in their helpless estate still lift up their eyes to God and say ‘God help us’.

“I said it in January 1 this year, I was telling them the government has done very well in fighting coronavirus, an enemy we can’t see. I said don’t be careless but don’t be afraid because there is a God who can see the invisible.

“When this coronavirus broke, I cried to God and Daddy answered me. God spoke to me specifically and said, ‘Son, I have heard your cry. Only those whose time has come will die’.

“I heard the number of people who die by snakebite every year is about 2000. That means in two years averagely 4000 people die by snake bites. coronavirus has been around nearly two years now. By the grace of God, it hasn’t killed 4000 yet. Take my word for it; don’t be afraid. You won’t die until your time comes.

“But when pride comes and the moment you think you can do things on your own, God will leave everything to you. God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble,” he said.