30th December, 2014
Prophet T.B. Joshua has released a video via his YouTube channel Emmanuel TV showing a prophecy he gave regarding the disappearance of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 in Indonesia on Sunday morning.
“I have a message for the nation, Indonesia. When it comes to this disaster issue, I don’t want to mention it. it looks so nasty to me to mention – a situation where it will cost a lot of lives, suddenly,” he said, adding “this is a crash. Why should this continue to happen there?”
Joshua goes on to point to a problem in the “geographical atmosphere”, calling on the relevant authorities to “look into it”.
Early in the morning on Sunday, 28 December 2014, an AirAsia passenger jet carrying 162 people lost contact with Indonesian air traffic control. The plane went missing after pilots asked to change course to avoid bad weather during a flight from Indonesia’s Surabaya city to Singapore. On board were 155 Indonesians, three South Koreans and one each from Singapore, Malaysia and Britain, plus a French pilot.
At the end of the YouTube clip, he wrote: “We pray that God would strengthen the friends and family members of all those involved in this tragic incident.”
T.B. Joshua is alleged to have prophesied two other major plane-related incidents this year, namely the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 and the shooting down of Flight MH17 on the border of Ukraine and Russia.
However, social media activists have attacked Joshua over the tragic prophecy.
The British High Commissioner to Ghana, Jon Benjamin, lambasted T.B. Joshua on twitter over the prophecy.
He asked the public to ignore the prophecy, asking Joshua why he was unable to predict the collapse of the guest house in his church on 12 September this year.
Other social media commentators also criticised Joshua, with one of them asking why he made the so-called prediction a day after the plane went missing on Saturday (Eastern time).
T.B. Joshua is alleged to have prophesied two other major plane-related incidents this year, namely the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 and the shooting down of Flight MH17 on the border of Ukraine and Russia.