As the world ushered in the year 2022, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye dropped prophecies for the year.
Pastor Adeboye dropped the prophetic messages from God during the annual cross over service of the RCCG.
He said on the international scene, “there will be two monstrous storms (one coming from the Atlantic and one from the Pacific)” and that “unless they are weakened, the results will be terrible”.
A storm can mean a violent disturbance of the atmosphere with strong winds and usually rain, thunder, lightning, or snow. A storm can also mean a sudden attack and capture of a building or a place by troops, using means of force.
Should Pastor Adeboye be taken in and out of context, one of his prophecies might be seeing fulfilment before our very eyes with the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe, and on 12 June 2020, the nation joined the enhanced opportunity partner interoperability program of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
However, according to an official NATO statement, the new status “does not prejudge any decisions on NATO membership”.
Meanwhile, relations between Ukraine and NATO started in 1992. Ukraine applied to begin a NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP) in 2008.
Plans for NATO membership were shelved by Ukraine following the 2010 presidential election in which Viktor Yanukovych, who preferred to keep the country non-aligned, was elected President.
However, following the Russian military invasion in Ukraine and parliamentary elections in October 2014, the new government made joining NATO a priority.
On 21 February 2019, the Constitution of Ukraine was amended, the norms on the strategic course of Ukraine for membership in the European Union and NATO are enshrined in the preamble of the Basic Law, three articles and transitional provisions.
However, Russia has been a strong opposition to Ukraine joining NATO, opposed to any eastward expansion of NATO.
On February 12, 2008, (then) Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia may target its missiles at Ukraine if its neighbour joins NATO and accepts the deployment of a US missile defence shield.
Of course, Russia has blamed Ukraine for the recent escalation in the conflict between the two neighbours.
“The root of today’s crisis around Ukraine is the actions of Ukraine itself, who for many years were sabotaging its obligations under the Minsk package of measures,” Vassily Nebenzia, Russian UN Ambassador, said.
The Minsk agreements were a series of international agreements which sought to end the war in the Donbas region of Ukraine.
Meanwhile, NATO Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg had stressed that Russia will not be able to veto Ukraine’s accession to NATO, “as we will not return to the era of spheres of interest when large countries decide what smaller ones should do”.
With Russia’s attack on Ukraine, a monstrous storm from NATO might be in the offing. Already, the storm is gathering.