Bling!

July 30th, 2022| Topic: RaMbLeS | 0

The other Sunday a strange thing happened. A pastor was robbed at gunpoint during a live-streamed service, as he was preaching.

Now I’ve always suspected that preaching was dangerous business, but I had not realized it was that fraught with peril.

But the strange thing was this: thieves reportedly nabbed over US$1 million in jewelry just from him and his wife! Now that.is.STRANGE!

Lamor Miller-Whitehead, 44, founder and pastor of Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries in Brooklyn, New York—who calls himself Chief Apostle Bishop—was preaching in the Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministry, when, at 11:15 am, three masked men entered the sanctuary brandishing firearms.

Said Whitehead, later, in a Facebook Live video:

I didn’t know if they wanted to shoot the church up, or if they were just coming for a robbery.”

Turns out they were “just coming for a robbery,” with the object of the robbery being the good reverend and his wife. And no one else. The thieves removed the minister’s jewelry including a Rolex watch, multiple chains, a Bishop’s ring, wedding band, and gold cross necklace. All the while holding a gun to their eight-month-old daughters head.

Horrible, to have one’s daughter held hostage like that.

The three robbers—whom Whitehead later identified as black men—fled the scene and none has been arrested by the New York Police Department (NYPD) so far.

One.million.dollars worth of jewelry. That he and his wife had been wearing.

Rev. Whitehead is offering US$50,000 for any information leading to the arrest of the malefactors.

Media reports note Whitehead has been seen driving in his Rolls-Royce to meet with mayor Eric Adams. Oh, yes. Whitehead drives a Rolls.

This Brooklyn man of the cloth is well-known for conspicuously sporting bling, ornaments, and jewelry upon himself (and I guess his wife, upon herself). Reporting on the crime, on that Facebook video, he does address his flaunting of wealth.

It’s not about me being flashy, but it’s about me purchasing what I want to purchase. It’s my prerogative to purchase what I want to purchase.”

OK.

And later:

The Lord has blessed me to be into real-estate, to be into entrepreneurship, where the Lord has blessed me financially. I’m not on payroll of my church. … So why can’t I buy what I want to buy? Why can’t I wear what I want to wear? … I don’t see it as throwing it in people’s faces. I see it as the favor of the Lord. Why do we, men and women of Christ—why do we have to look poor? If our God, the Lord Jesus Christ, who owns everything, is not poor, why do we have to live poor? Why can’t I drive what I want to drive? … The problem is not with me. The problem is with how you think.”

OK.

Then talking about the gang that robbed him, he adds:

In Psalm 105:15, it says, ‘Touch not My anointed, and do My prophets no harm.’ … I need y’all to understand who I am in the body of Christ. … When you are anointed by God, when you are appointed by God, God will avenge—I don’t have to do anything—God will avenge.”

OK.

All I can say is, I’m glad no one was hurt. And I’ll add this, too:

The overseer, then, must be irreproachable, a one-woman man,
temperate, self-controlled, honorable, hospitable, able to teach,
not addicted to wine, not pugnacious, but gentle, not quarrelsome,
free from the love of money.
1 Timothy 3:2–3

SOURCE:
Fox5NY; The Roys Report; FaceBook