SOLA FOLA-ALADE IS THE FIRSTBORN OF SATAN

By Akin Ojumu

If you assume my calling Sola Fola-Alade the firstborn of Satan is me throwing bombastic pejorative mud at a man of God, you are deadly wrong. Labeling him Satan’s firstling is not at all a bluster or an epithet. That term is an accurate description of Fola-Alade. Judging by what he believes, teaches, and espouses, the title, “firstborn of Satan,” is an apt depiction of who he is and what he represents; a malignant cancer in the Body of Christ.

That Sola Fola-Alade is an enemy of God is evident in the claims you’d hear him make in this video clip. According to him:

“It is important to know and understand before you call anybody a false prophet – and it is our duty to discern false from true – but before you call anybody a false prophet…please, are you hearing what I’m saying…yeah…that it is important to know and understand that a true prophet can give a false prophecy. Or you don't know that? Should I show you? Samuel, didn’t he give a false prophecy, or you don't remember? Oh, you don’t. Even I was confused when the Bible says in 1 Samuel chapter 3 verse…uh…19, I believe, where it says the Lord did not allow any word of Samuel to...it was like he had 100% accuracy. I would say it was probably 99 something… but that was phenomenal. Where did a true prophet like Samuel…remember when he was going to anoint king? Surely this is the Lord's anointed. And the Lord said, “No, I don’t judge like you judge.” So, anybody who says that they never get it wrong, they’ve already gotten it wrong. And that is why we have to handle, you know…[laughter]…what we do with a lot of humility, you know, but we must correct and we must we must speak…a…why? Because we need to save people from drinking bad water. Again, listen to this very carefully. What did I say? A true prophet can do what? Give false prophecy. The second thing I will say is a false prophet can give true prophecy. Oh, you don’t believe. Acts 16, the girl who prophesied by the spirit of what? Divination. Wrong spirit, lying spirit, but true word. So the truth from the mouth of a prophet doesn’t verify the prophet. I don’t think you heard what I said. Okay, let me let me take it further for you. Even the devil tells the truth sometimes. You may well say the devil is a liar. No, not always. Well, his nature is liar. But when he was to deceive, didn’t he quote the Scripture right when he was trying to tempt Jesus. So, a portion of it was true. But there must always be an error enough angulated to cause you to miss your alignment. Look at your neighbor say you need to be discerning.”

The danger in what you’ve just heard – or read – is the fact that it is mendacity coated with a veneer of truth. Like his father, the Devil, what Sola Fola is doing here is obfuscation, not revelation. He is intentionally twisting and distorting the Word of God for the purposes of deceiving the audience.

To begin with, Fola-Alade used Samuel as an example of a true prophet who gave, at least, one false prophecy. He quoted 1 Samuel 3 where the Bible says God did not allow any of Samuel’s words fall to the ground.

1 Samuel 3:9

“And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.”

You’d think this text was sufficient to stop Sola Fola-Alade from promulgating lies. Oh no! Even a clear Bible passage like 1 Samuel 3:9 would not prevent him from pushing his false ideology. 

With no fear or reverence for God and His Word, Fola-Alade dismissed what 1 Samuel 3:9 is saying. He implied that God must be lying. According to him, Samuel was only 99% accurate in his prophecies. Meaning, God did allow 1% of Samuel’s words to fall to the ground, which is a total contradiction of what the Bible clearly says.

Sola Fola-Alade did not stop there; he went even further. He referenced the story of when God sent Samuel to the house of Jesse to anoint one of his sons king of Israel. When Eliab, Jesse’s firstborn walked into the room, we read in Scripture that Samuel looked at him and immediately thought this must surely be the one he was to anoint king.

1 Samuel 16:6-7

“When they came, he looked on Eliab and thought, “Surely the Lord’s anointed is before him.” But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Contrary to the erroneous claims of Sola Fola-Alade, Samuel did not give a wrong prophecy in 1 Samuel 16:6. He never spoke a false word on behalf of God. What this text says is that Samuel “looked at him and thought” and not that Samuel “looked at him and spoke.” He simply made an initial, internal assumption based on Eliab’s outward appearance. 

Samuel was thinking it was Eliab. He was not delivering a public declaration or “thus saith the Lord” prophecy to the family. Eliab was tall and handsome, heavily resembling King Saul. Samuel fell into the natural human trap of assuming God’s next leader would fit the same physical mold. 

Before Samuel could act on his assumption or speak out loud, however, God immediately intervened and corrected his perspective. In the very next verse, God explicitly tells Samuel: 

1 Samuel 16:7a

“Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him.”

God provides one of the most famous principles in Scripture here: 

1 Samuel 16:7b

“For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

This would have been false prophecy if Samuel had actually publicly declared something in the name of God that does not come to pass. Samuel never told Eliab he was king. He never announced to the people gathered that Eliab was king. All he did was make an internal assumption in his mind, based simply on physical appearance, that Eliab must be the one the LORD had anointed as king. He did not share that thought with anyone. 

The reason we know that Samuel did not actually make an audible and public pronouncement that Eliab was the one chosen by God to be king is the fact that the text never said Samuel proceeded to pour oil on Eliab’s head which is the sign that he was declaring Eliab the king. What we read in 1 Samuel 16 tells is that Samuel kept the oil in his horn until God explicitly gave the command for David. 

Sola Fola-Alade completely ignored all these details. Instead, he co-opted Scripture to push his preconceived idea and false narrative that it’s possible for a true prophet to give false prophecies thereby setting the stage for a permission structure that would allow false prophets and false prophecies to flourish in the Body of Christ. 

The overarching purpose of prophecy is to reveal the divine will, provide spiritual direction, and communicate a message of truth. If, as Sola Fola-Alade claims, a true prophet could actually give a false prophecy, this calls into question Gods integrity and it oppugns on His character. Such a possibility makes it impossible to trust God and His Word. If we cannot rely on the trustworthiness of a prophet, we will never be able to know the will of God, trust the direction He is leading us, or know His truth.

By distorting the Word of God and by lowering the benchmark for judging prophets and prophecies, Fola-Alade brainwashes his followers. He indoctrinates them to accept, accommodate, and tolerate charlatans and scoundrels who come to them with, “Thus saith the LORD.” 

God’s standard is pretty clear. It takes just one false prophecy to know that a self-proclaimed prophet is a false prophet. No one speaking in the name of God ever gets it wrong. True prophecies from God always come to pass. Those to whom God gives a prophecy are right all the time.

How exactly do I know this, you may ask?

The answer is right there in the Bible gathering dust in your bookshelf. If only you’d care enough to diligently study the Book instead of going about chasing after the latest “word from God” spoken by false prophets. 

Isaiah 55:10-11

“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.” 

Furthermore, there are clear instructions given to us in the Bible on how to tell a true prophet of God from charlatans masquerading as God’s prophets. The LORD Himself has set the criteria by which we judge prophecies. 

Deuteronomy 18:18-22

“I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him. But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’ And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’— when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.” 

Sola Fola-Alade gets one thing right in his nonsensical vituperation. It is the tiny truth buried under his mountain of lies. He is certainly saying the truth when he said that giving an accurate prophecy alone does not validate a prophet as a true prophet.

The legitimacy of a prophet does not lie in the fact that he gives prophecies that do come to pass. Charlatans and impostors are quite capable of giving accurate prophecies under the inspiration of Satan. A case in point, which is also an example Fola-Alade cited, is the slave girl at Phillipi who was possessed by the spirit {pneuma} of divination {Python}, who earned a large income for her masters {kyriois} by fortune-telling. 

Acts 16:16-18

“As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling. She followed Paul and us, crying out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation.” And this she kept doing for many days. Paul, having become greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And it came out that very hour.” 

Not only must a prophet give an accuracy prophecy to be considered a true prophet, which is the veracity test, but he must also pass a doctrinal test to be called a true prophet of God. 

Deuteronomy 13:1-5

“If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him. But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.” 

Prophets must be judged both on the accuracy of their prophecies and also on the fidelity of their doctrine. A false teacher, who twists Scripture, is still a false prophet regardless of whether or not his prophecies come to pass. Those who distort the Word of God lead their listeners away from worshiping the true God into bowing down to idols of their own imagination.

Ezekiel 13:9

“My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will not belong to the council of my people or be listed in the records of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.” 

Giving false prophecies is a dangerous thing. It’s a pretty risky business to ascribe to God proclamations that He hasn’t made. Those who speak words in the name of God that God has not spoken run the risk of eternal damnation.

Jeremiah 14:14-16

“The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds. Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name although I did not send them, and who say, ‘Sword and famine shall not come upon this land’: By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed. And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword, with none to bury them – them, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out their evil upon them.”

Because of the contempt people like Sola Fola-Alade have for God, they do not know that it is a sacrilegious thing to ascribe to God words that God has not spoken. They fail to understand that those who do so take the Name of God in vain, a violation of the third commandment. The fact is lost on these people that to take the Name of God in vain is to impugn on His character, and to malign the character of God is to commit an abominable sin.

Exodus 20:7

“Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.”

For goodness’ sake, stop allowing yourself to be deceived by false prophets and false teachers like Sola Fola-Alade. If you care at all about your soul, you’ll flee from these charlatans.